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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 · VOL. CXXXVI, NO. 13 · yaledailynews.com

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CROSS CAMPUS

IMMIGRATION UNDOCUMENTED AT YALE

LITERATURE PRIZES

STATE STREET

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Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell award winners come to campus

NEW STATION TO LINK NEW HAVEN WITH HARTFORD

Elis head to Pentagon to take on Stanford for the first time since 2007

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New cafe on Broadway

Watch your back. Today is Friday the 13th, so according to popular lore, any number of unlucky things may befall you.

Be careful. You never know what’s waiting around the corner.

AFTER JOINING MOOC PLATFORM, ADMINS WEIGH OTHER OPTIONS

Around the world. Scores of Yalies descended upon the Greenberg Center on Thursday night to meet the 18 members of the 2013 class of World Fellows, midcareer professionals who will be on campus this semester and hail from around the globe.

This year’s fellows include a human rights lawyer from Israel, a managing editor of The Economist Group, an Egyptian diplomat to the Syrian opposition and the vice president of a Chinese nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting poverty, among many others.

BY JANE DARBY MENTON AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER

the next couple of weeks. The restaurant is vying to be a replacement for Au Bon Pain, the cafe that used to occupy the spot at 1 Broadway, but it remains unclear whether students will adopt Maison Mathis as a sub-

With enrollment now open for Yale’s first four courses on Coursera — a platform for massive online open courses, or MOOCs — faculty are leading efforts to expand different forms of online education, funded by two major donations on the horizon.

University President Peter Salovey said the Committee on Online Education, a group of 14 faculty members, will look into and experiment with other forms of online education and the Coursera courses using the donations to find the form best for Yale. The University’s effort to expand its programs in online education will be faculty-driven, rather than mandated by administrators. Though Salovey said the University does not currently have plans to develop its own online course platform, he added that the faculty could opt to appropriate funds in that direction.

“External funding is going to remain important,” Salovey said. “Visionary leadership is going to remain important.”

Salovey said he has spoken with two potential donors in the past three weeks who are both willing to make large gifts to University

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Election news, continued.

Two days after accepting that he will not be the next mayor of New Haven, Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina is preparing to endorse one of the two remaining candidates from Tuesday’s primary: Toni Harp ARC ’78 or Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10. Carolina won 8.1 percent of the vote on Tuesday.

No scruff September? “True

Blood” star Joe Manganiello shaved his signature beard last week in preparation for his upcoming role in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which begins previews at the Yale Repertory Theatre on Sept. 20. The production runs through Oct. 20, so you have about one month to spot him around campus and catch a glimpse of his smooth face yourself. Just try not to faint.

Discounts galore. Textbook shopping have you running low on money? The annual “College Night on Broadway” event will take place tonight along the shopping strip on Broadway. There will be free giveaways, T-shirts, a photo booth, palm readings and fortune-telling.

Evaluating HBS. A recent New York Times article examined the effects of targeted “gender makeover” efforts at Harvard Business School to promote female success and attract women professors, including attempts to “close the grade gap” — the grade differences between male and female students.

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1946 Today marks the first day that University maids will no longer make students’ dormitory beds in the morning. According to a Yale official, the “crisis” started after the University installed new bunk beds that were too high for the maids to reach.

Still, maids will continue to dust and clean students’ rooms every day.

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A new Belgian-themed eatery on Elm Street between Park and York is set to unveil its full menu within the next few weeks.

BY MONICA DISARE AND RYAN MANUCHA STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Broadway district acquired another cafe this week, with the partial opening of Maison Mathis.

On Monday, the Belgian-themed

restaurant, located on Elm Street between Park and York, had a soft opening, serving a limited menu and remaining open for fewer hours than will soon become usual. The partial opening is preparation for the full opening, said general manager Kelly Festo, which will likely take place in

New Haven GOP readies election slate

City breaks ground on Winchester

BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER With the Democratic primary election over, city Republicans are gearing up to run a slate of candidates for the Board of Aldermen.

Two years ago, no Republicans ran for spots on the board, but this November, there are four Republican candidates hoping to break up the current board’s single-party rule. Among that number is Paul Chandler ’14, who is challenging incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12 in Yale’s Ward 1 and is the first Republican to run for the position in 20 years.

Being conservative and making people accountable for their actions is what a Republican stands for.

WILLIAM WYNN Candidate, Ward 10 aldermanic race “People are surprised at the increased influence of outside groups on the Board of Aldermen. Regardless of where you stand on the UNITE Here, Locals 34 and 35 unions, they have made themselves a very effective lobbying block,” said Richter Elser ’81, the Republican Town Committee chair. “The result is some people putting their hands up and saying, ‘I know enough about my community and my neighborhood that I’m willing to run for the Board of Aldermen,’ and that back-and-forth is what gets you a better Board of Aldermen.”

Chandler said that while Republican candidates traditionally do not run because it is “hard to get elected,” he believes that there will be increasing Republican involvement in the coming years as people get more interested in becoming involved in local government.

In addition to Chandler, Republican Frank SEE REPUBLICANS PAGE 4

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The renovation transforming Winchester Repeating Arms factory into Winchester Lofts will be completed in 2014.

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS AND LORENZO LIGATO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER The former home of a historic firearms manufacturer is on its way to being redeveloped as a mixedincome residential complex.

Armed with shovels in their hands, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy joined a group of state and city officials Tues-

day afternoon for a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the nowclosed Winchester Repeating Arms Company, a former rifle factory that lies at the corner of Winchester and Munson streets. After remaining vacant for almost 10 years, the 700,000-square-foot site just a few blocks away from Science Hill will be entirely renovated as part of a $59.26 million redevelopment project that will create new housing units and

spur further economic growth in the neighborhood, according to Malloy.

“The Winchester Lofts project is transforming a vacant but historic factory building into affordable, safe housing that will yield a tenfold return in private investment and economic development and attract talented workers to the area,” Malloy said.

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'MC13' ON 'DON'T BE AFRAID OF BEING SMALL'

The price tag An election comes to RH of prestige GUE ST COLUMNIST NINA RUSSELL

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reshman year, when I walked into the nave of Sterling Memorial Library, I thought of Europe’s great cathedrals, of Voltaire cultivating his garden, of whether or not I might have time left over for Woad’s.

Now, passing through the gleaming white rat tunnel, I think of tuition money.

Walking around campus, it’s hard to find a spot that isn’t within view of some kind of scaffolding. Sterling Library, Sterling Chemistry Lab and Au Bon Pain most recently (it’s Yale property), the towering Walter Camp Memorial Gateway at the Yale athletics complex, and of course, Payne Whitney, which has been under cosmetic surgery since 2002.

And when I think about the next time I’ll see the nave, I’m forced to step back and evaluate whether four years of tuition money has rendered me employable.

This self-evaluation took on a sober earnestness when my dad brought to my attention recent shifts in tuition costs. Over my time at Yale, the annual cost of attendance (tuition, room and board) has increased from $49,800 in 2010 to $57,500 in 2013. (In 2005, it would have been $41,000.)

“I didn’t sign up for this,” my father’s tone seemed to say.

“Wow, I don’t think my continued lack of coding abilities justifies those exorbitant fees,” my silence responded.

My family is not what I’d term wealthy (we switched out of dial-up Internet last year), but we don’t qualify for aid. This is mainly because my parents have been saving and investing for my college fund since I was a fetus. But if school fees for private colleges continue to escalate at the current rate with no sign of abating, then I should probably start saving for my future Bulldogs now.

But by constantly raising college fees, Wick Sloane SOM ’84, asked in a 2008 News article (“Can Yale be tuitionfree?” Oct. 10, 2008) whether these schools are “creating an expanding resource for more people, or are they spraypainting gold leaf onto luxury goods?”

At Yale, we have the latest 3-D printers and a nationally ranked art museum. We have masters, deans, FroCos, advisers, peer liaisons, big sibs, CCEs and personal librarians. Student jobs reap $12 an hour and frequently involve eating dinner or doing homework. But not all luxury goods are tangible. There are many who will speak to the benefits of prestige and pedigree gained from an Ivy League education. In a 2011 Forbes article, Jonathan Robe called this upward tuition trend the “prestige effect,” or “race for prestige.” This race of the

elite educators is fueled further by national rankings like those published Tuesday by U.S. News TAO TAO & World HOLMES Report, w h i c h Taoisms r e w a r d schools based on factors like academic reputation, faculty resources and financial resources. To maintain their prestige, colleges compete for Nobel Prize winners and Zagat-rated vegan options.

But the price of prestige costs students more than money. It prevents us from taking risks when we leave. In a column for the News six years ago (“Nation can’t afford higher tuition,” Jan. 18, 2007), two baby boomers, Neil Howe GRD ’84 and William Strauss, wrote that regardless of family circumstances, low college fees in the ’60s and ’70s allowed them and their classmates to “follow the calling of our choice or the vocation of our conscience.” Now, to justify the cost of college to both self and parent or pay off debt, students “have no choice but to rivet their ambitions, their careers and their very lives to the pursuit of the highest money return.” This means fewer and fewer young people engage in what they describe as “the vibrant and vital work required of every rising generation to advance civilization.”

They called on Yale to consider its role as a price leader, and recommended the University freeze its tuition and fees at 2006 levels. To my father’s chagrin, this did not happen.

At the end of all this, I’m left with a nagging question: Do we, as current students, reinforce the college race for prestige? When we boast on campus tours about this basement amenity or that Master’s Tea guest, free trips to bowling alleys, to pick berries, to Broadway, are we inadvertently causing other colleges to drop bigger wads of dough to compete? When I ask how we don’t have a climbing wall yet, whine about the brutal inefficiency of Durfee’s or complain about an uninspiring dinner in the dining hall, am I, as an individual, asking for gold leaf on luxury goods?

If we don’t put a check on our school’s attachment to purchased prestige, we’ll be paying for it down the road. I only hope that the scaffolding on Payne Whitney is gone when Sherlock Holmes, class of 2040, first walks through Phelps Gate.

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Wednesday article about the Ward 7 aldermanic race (“Hausladen fends off Ward 7 challenger,” Sept.

10) did not fully address the effects of Wood’s aggressive campaign tactics on the residents of Rosenfeld Hall, which houses Timothy Dwight juniors.

The article presented Mary Jo Medina ’15, a student turned off

by Wood’s outreach, as a unique case. But she was far from alone.

This past week, I returned home nightly to grumpy suitemates and frustrated hallmates hiding behind hanger-less doors.

One friend was particularly irate his four hours of sleep were cut short by a sixth round of Wood canvassers.

These tactics, however, were not new to me. This summer, I had my first encounter with the intense outreach techniques employed by UNITE HERE affiliates when an acquaintance interning for the unions tried to “organize” me for New Haven Rising. After a few weeks of regular phone calls and even one uninvited appearance in my room, he finally took “no” for an answer.

But then I ran into him outside my new room in RH. I walked in

to find my suitemate frustrated — she had spent 15 minutes on her way to the shower convincing him that she did not want to switch her registration from Vermont to Connecticut.

ELLA WOOD'S CAMPAIGN WENT TOO FAR Commiseration about the daily canvassers became a regular part of RH conversation.

“If I left my room, they would accost me,” said Kristin Dowling ’15. “Literally, I was going to go to the gym, but I heard them knocking, and so I was like, I’ll just wait an hour.”

“I was really uncomfortable just walking around RH,” Jenny Huber ’15 said. “It was as though they weren’t even listening to what I was saying,” added Jeffrey March ’15.

Huber, March and Maddie Klugman ’15 registered to vote when approached by the canvassers, but did not share their phone numbers with the cam-

paign. Nevertheless, they were all texted by around seven people on Election Day. “They must have gotten my number from the voter registration form I gave them,” said Klugman, who ended up using the campaign’s “free shuttle service” to cast a vote for the other candidate. She didn’t tell them that, though — “Otherwise they might have refused me that shuttle.” Other undergraduates in RH describe similar experiences.

Further tension resulted from the questionable appropriateness of a campaign by out-oftowners for a temporary resident candidate. Multiple RH residents said they felt unqualified to vote in an election that would affect other Ward 7 residents far more than it would them.

Yale’s Undergraduate Regulations articulate “a philosophy of mutual tolerance and respect.”

When a Yale student knocks on the door to RH, you open it, because you think it’s probably the friend of a friend there to work on a p-set. When a student knocks on the door to your room, you open it, because you expect to see someone who will listen to what you say and have

something interesting to offer in return — not someone dedicated to pushing an agenda beyond the boundary of constructive discussion. It’s tricky enough to navigate the college social world without exploitation of trust for political purposes.

I have canvassed for political campaigns since seventh grade, and will be leading New Haven Action canvassers with the ROOF project this Saturday.

Canvassing can indeed be a key part of political work, but Yale’s academic-residential environment demands a unique etiquette. In the context of a Yale residential hall, Wood’s campaign strategies were especially inappropriate. “I know canvassing’s hard, but there are tactful ways to do it, and they just weren’t tactful,” said Dowling.

Were these techniques effective? In the end, only 16 RH residents voted — and at least a few voted for Hausladen in protest against Wood’s campaign tactics.

NINA RUSSELL is a junior in Timothy Dwight College and the P resident of New Haven Action.

Contact her at nina.russell@yale.edu.

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

Service for all days O

ur student body is a mosaic of trips to Africa, campaigns in inner cities and hours spent tutoring the needy. As much as cynics may consider Yale’s social conscience to be a reaction to privilege rather than a sign of philanthropy, that’s neither entirely fair nor accurate. While there is certainly a share of disingenuous people within our ranks, the students who become involved in Dwight Hall or other service organizations more often see their commitments as ends in themselves. Because no one forces us to join service groups, the college application-induced pressures to volunteer are no longer part of the equation.

However, while our motivation may be good, the process of navigating the many opportunities it leads us to can raise a few interesting questions.

On Saturday, Sept. 7, freshmen got their first taste of oncampus altruism in the annual Freshman Day of Service, which is organized by Dwight Hall.

Over the course of the day, students were promised they could “work side-by-side with other service-minded freshmen” and “make a difference in the New Haven community.”

Although many of the projects sounded good on paper, in practice a substantial number of freshmen left the day feeling uninspired by their work. One student explained that his proposed activity — putting on a theater show for children from New Haven — ultimately dissolved into a leisurely brunch and acting games when no kids actually showed up for the performance. Another student was told she would work directly with New Haven families when in actuality she spent the day mowing lawns. While these might have satisfied our high school selves, eager to appear well-rounded to colleges, this type of manufactured aid no longer appeals to those who want to create tangible change.

Students who volunteer are not content to settle for something that appears earnest, but in reality is a just a glorified day in the park.

Beyond the organizational problems of this year’s Day of Service, the very concept of these types of events is objectionable. In essence, the underlying philosophy behind the Day of Service sends the message to New Haven residents that the issues facing their commu-

nity are presented to Yale students like samplings on a charity buffet, becoming merely an opportunity for freshmen to select which entrée looks most appetizing to them. Yet the reality is that true need cannot be reflected on a calendar or wrapped up neatly with a packed lunch included. It allows students to believe that their civic engagement can be checked off like a to-do list, something that is so distant from their daily lives that it warrants its own holiday of sorts. If the Day of Service is intended to be a way to introduce freshmen to local organizations at Yale, then we should simply have a club fair and leave it at that. Otherwise, we are no better than humanitarian role-players, who strap on caps of social consciences for the morning, take out our helping shovels and insist on doing good. This mindset is neither helpful for the community nor authentic to actual service.

While a Day of Service may not be constructive, this is in no way a challenge to the essential role Dwight Hall plays on campus. After speaking to upperclassmen and some faculty, I have received great advice about causes under its umbrella that

are extremely worthwhile. Perhaps this is how students should be integrated into service. Not with the pomp and circumstance of a ceremonial day, but rather introduced through the informal suggestions of individuals who have been part of positive change themselves.

THE FRESHMAN DAY OF SERVICE MISSES THE MARK Although resources are finite for many things in New Haven, we are lucky in that wellintended students are one of them. No matter what organizations we signed up for, acting as responsible activists requires we stay in touch with why we became involved in the first place. Whether we do service “for God” or “for country,” it is most important that we don’t simply do it “for Yale.”

LARRY MILSTEIN is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College.

Contact him at larry.milstein@yale.edu.

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

GUEST COLUMNIST RUSSELL COHEN

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Finding sweet in the unexpected “S

hana tova, may you be inscribed for a sweet year!”

I still vividly remember exchanging these words with friends and family at our synagogue in Cleveland last year as we celebrated the start of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I had a big year ahead of me, and I knew exactly what I wanted from my own sweet year: health for my family, success in my classes, a wonderful senior prom and to spend the next Rosh Hashanah at the college of my dreams — Harvard University.

We all enter the new year — be it the Jewish year or just another year of school — with our own conception of what will make it sweet. We all have hopes, plans and dreams, and we figure that these have to become realities in order for the next 12 months to be fun and fulfilling. So many of us are dead-set on getting exactly what we want, and the thought of events going in any way other than this perfect plan makes us shudder. We cast aside

any notion of taking risks and trying new things in order to avoid losing our idealized vision of the year. By doing so, we risk missing out on the new adventures and experiences that might actually make the year special.

Here at Yale, a new haven for many of the super motivated overachievers of the world, we can especially get caught up in the details of what exactly we want. As a freshman, we know we want to take seminar X, join a cappella group Y and get impressive internship Z. We plan on joining these three clubs, starting on our athletic team, acing our classes and fitting in a hookup at Toad’s while we’re at it. But by detailing our existence so perfectly, we potentially lose the sweetest part of each year: the surprises, the fresh starts, the unanticipated pleasures that turn up on our doorstep.

This makes Yale a place to take advantage of the unexpected.

Service groups, performance groups, and chances to see and do and meet and try new things surround us. Now could be our

chance to join all of them. But we need to remember to also join the groups we didn’t know existed, or never planned on joining. Our lives will be sweeter when we look for the Master’s Tea with someone we’ve never heard of, or the leader in a field we know virtually nothing about.

SOMETIMES THE SWEETEST OUTCOMES ARE UNFORSEEN Now, I’m not advocating that we abandon our dreams. We all should have something to strive toward and prepare for; it can give us focus and purpose. But we should not become so obsessed with our desires, so convinced that there’s only one way to have a “sweet year,” that we shut out all possibility for re-evaluation and reinvention. A year can veer

away from the “plan” and still be the best one yet; in fact, it is the cases of the unexpected that make years truly memorable.

As I look back at the past year, it’s amazing to think about how different it was than what I initially planned. Success in my classes came with a lot more struggle than I had thought.

I went to prom with someone who I didn’t even know at the start of the year. And my dream college? Sometimes we dream about attaining one goal and then are lucky enough to end up with something even better.

Like so many of you, I’m here at the school that’s just right for me. Life honestly couldn’t be sweeter.

So shana tova, everyone, have a sweet, exciting, outstanding 5774. I hope many of your wishes come true. And the ones that don’t? I hope you find something even better instead.

RUSSELL COHEN is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at russell.cohen@yale.edu .

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE “If music be the food of love, play on.”

YALE TALKS MUSIC Never enough music I

’ll admit that I was a bit greedy for music as a freshman. It was a great perk of going to a firstrate university to be able to see the greatest musicians in the world for free. I could take a study break and walk two blocks from Old Campus to Sprague or Woolsey halls.

And if I was just 10 minutes early, I could sit in the front row and see the hunched but boundlessly energetic Masaaki Suzuki (one of the world’s greatest baroque performers) conduct the Yale Schola Cantorum (one of its finest chamber choirs) in some of the best music ever written.

It took a little while before it began to strike me as odd how many seats always seemed to go empty during these fabulous events.

There was the occasional graduate student or elderly retired-looking professor. But my amazing frontrow seat meant that many of my classmates were neither aware of nor experiencing the privilege I experienced just by walking two blocks.

Many of us attend our friends’ concerts for a cappella groups, the Yale Symphony or Glee Club once in a blue moon. Yale does have, without a doubt, one of the world’s most vibrant undergrad music cultures — where else could a studentled group put together a baroque opera, never before performed in America, complete with orches-

tra and ballet, like the Opera Theatre of Yale College did last year? Our undergraduate music community deserves more of our attention, JOHN and we also have MASKO the Yale School of Music a block The away. It is chief Unmasked heir to one of Yale’s richest art Truth traditions — a school that has provided musical accompaniment to a tumultuously changing Yale culture since its founding in 1894.

But how many non-music nerd undergrads have been to see the Yale Philharmonia? Or a graduate student guitar recital? The Yale Camerata? The world-class guest organists that the Institute of Sacred Music (the Yale program with the highest per capita endowment) brings to play on campus?

I’m not sure I know any who have.

And yet these opportunities are readily available to all of us and almost all are free.

This coming weekend, the Yale School of Music will start its musical programs for the year. I write particularly to Yale freshmen and underclassmen to take advantage of the incredible artistic resources

Yale’s commitment to graduate and professional music gives us. Go hear a piano recital, a song cycle or a choral concert. Go hear a concert given by someone you’ve never met, and may never meet. Go because after Yale, as far as affordable access to world-class music is concerned, we’ll never have it so good again.

I do not intend to persuade you to go as overboard as I did my freshman year (there were more than 50 concert programs in a pile on my dresser at the end of the year). But don’t consign attending a graduate or professional musical event at Yale to your senior year bucket list, along with such delights as breaking into the Saybrook roof, eating a Louie’s Lunch burger or attending a naked party.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YALE'S MANY HIDDEN TREASURES I write this as a music major who has spent way too much of my time at Yale memorizing factoids about hexatonicism or Teodor Adorno’s interpretation of Mahler symphonies. But I also write as someone who has been profoundly affected

by many musical performances here at Yale, and rarely on an intellectual level. I know from friends who’ve had the same experience that the great art shared here at Yale is not something you need to be a music specialist to appreciate.

While I can’t guarantee that your life will be deeply affected by the first concert you go to, sooner or later, if you choose your musical events well, it will. You will have the experience of feeling like what you just heard was written, centuries ago, with you in mind — your problems, your anxieties, your loves and longings. At the end of the concert, particularly one that ends with a whimper or hushed affirmation rather than a bang, there will be a closing moment that seems to last an eternity. This happens particularly in Woolsey Hall, for example when the sonorous “n” at the end of the Glee Club’s performance of Frank Martin’s “Kyrie Eleison” from his Mass echoes back and forth between the walls of the hall before gracefully fading to silence. And in that suspended moment (which unfortunately happened two years ago, so you’re too late!) you’ll be converted.

JOHN MASKO is a senior in Saybrook College. He is a staff blogger for the News. Contact him at john.masko@yale.edu .

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Setting the record straight on ABP In a recent article (“With election, towngown relations at key juncture,” Sept. 9) on the relationship between New Haven and Yale, the Yale Daily News reported that: “Yale chose not to renew the lease of Au Bon Pain at 1 Broadway. Yale gave 25 employees only four days notice that they would lose their jobs. ‘It’s out of the blue,’ said Richard Gattison, a shift manager who had worked at Au Bon Pain for nine years told the News, ‘It’s a lot of people who are just going to be collecting unemployment for a while, including myself.’ He added that he was not given any explanation for the store’s closure.”

Au Bon Pain, which is headquartered in Boston, Mass., originally leased the Broadway location in 1994. Because University Properties’ mission is to continually improve downtown retail in order to draw more people into downtown and thus build the city’s tax base, UP has long planned to upgrade the building and enhance the tenant mix at 1 Broadway, one of the most prominent retail corners in the city. Thus the renewal lease that Yale signed with Au Bon Pain in 2009 made specific provision for the possible redevelopment of the building and provided that in the event Yale chose to redevelop it,

Au Bon Pain would vacate provided they received six months’ prior written notice. University Properties’ decision to go forward with the redevelopment of the building was no surprise to Au Bon Pain. Yale duly notified Au Bon Pain in writing in December 2012 that the property would be redeveloped and asked them to vacate by June 2013.

We agree that it is regrettable that the employees had such short notice from Au Bon Pain, but the relationship of Yale to Au Bon Pain was that of landlord to tenant. No landlord would have any way of knowing what Au Bon Pain chose to tell or not to tell its employees, nor would any landlord be permitted by Au Bon Pain to step between employer and employee to manage those communications. Thus the notion that Yale failed to give the employees adequate notice is incorrect and unfair.

ABIGAIL RIDER Sept. 12 The author is Associate Vice President and Director of University Properties for Yale.

Ending animal experiments The article (“Protein receptor signals Alzheimer’s breakthrough,” Sept. 10) on medical research at Yale University once again cites another new “finding” in a rodent, this time for Alzheimer’s disease. For decades, thousands of these predictive types of “hopeful” animal studies at universities across the nation have not translated therapeutically to the human clinical setting, amounting to the wasting of billions of our tax dollars. Much like the bully in the schoolyard who uses his stronger muscles to physically intimidate his classmates, Yale’s animal researchers and their administrators operate in similar fashion, utilizing their advanced academic degrees to grossly mislead an uneducated public and media with their continued misuse of the animal model. This publicly funded research is valuable in perpetuating their careers while increasing their employer’s endowment along with cre-

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Learning to love country I

don’t listen to country music. I don’t drive a pickup, cold beer at a tailgate is only mildly exciting and the sight of a waving flag doesn’t stir some deep patriotic passion in me. I love my family, my dogs, the troops and a warm fire, but songs about any of those classic American staples just have never cut it for me. When friends ask me why, I brush off their questions and blame my dislike for country music on the fact that I haven’t ever been able to relate to that vision of American culture they seem to be singing about. Unlike my friends from Texas or rural Jersey, Virginia or Minnesota, I’ve never been to a real tailgate or a real football game. I’ve never cruised down a highway with the windows down blasting a country hit.

All that said, I told myself that this year, my third and penultimate at Yale, I’d force myself to have a more open mind. So when a friend offered me her extra ticket to Toby Keith a few weeks ago, I gratefully took it and skeptically headed to Hartford.

It now seems ridiculous to assume that my friends accepted my explanation for not listening to country music. I wonder if they ever thought about the real reason I didn’t really like it, a reason that I hid in an attempt to not be a grouchy Yankee. When I stopped fretting about what my friends might say, I realized that I believed, as a northern Democrat, that country music was the sound of the South. It was the anthem of conservatism and of the GOP. Liberals can’t listen to songs about having a family, or troops, or the country, or pickup trucks, because those are things only conservatives can love. And I can’t love them as Democrat from New York.

But something about that night made me leave those prejudices behind. Maybe it was the beer, maybe it was the smell of a barbecue going and the big hugs from friends. But we got on the bus, and the country music came on, none of my typical associations and apprehensions came to mind. I saw everyone having a good time, singing, dancing, stomping their cowboy boots, and slowly the songs became less about those tenants of conservatism that I found so foreign — they just became songs.

When we got off the bus and hiked up to the general admission lawn, I didn’t see just one kind of person there. I didn’t see the one stereotype that I had always expected of “the country music fan,” some redneck who drives a monster truck and watches NASCAR. We were all just people and the songs were just music and the divisions of politics didn’t exist.

It’s embarrassing, now, that I ever gave into that politicization. I hate that I let politics seep into every corner of my life and that I could have let my judgment be tainted by my petty presumptions about conservatism. I did it unknowingly, just by habit. It’s so easy nowadays to assign political beliefs to everything, even something as basic and as elemental as music. Beyond that, how has it come to be that all of the everyday things in our lives — our cars, sporting events, foods, breeds of dogs, even our names — all carry political messages and subtle suggestions about what we believe and how we vote?

I am, and in all likelihood will remain, a diehard liberal. I will vote for a Democrat in 2016.

But in the meantime, I will listen to “American Soldier.” I will learn all the words. And when it comes on my iPhone shuffle, on the radio or at my next country concert, I will sing along.

TESS McCANN is a junior in Saybrook College.

Contact her at tess.mccann@yale.edu .

ating valuable budget surpluses.

The fiscal federal formula in disbursing competitive research grants is to award 30–50 percent of the grant as net profit to the University for which they can use for any purpose. At Yale, this revenue amounts to tens of millions annually.

Alas, irrefutable evidence exists that has exposed this scientifically invalid research method. This lifesaving evidence can be found on the website of Americans For Medical Advancement, whose data is logically analogous in predictive value to the way a mathematician flawlessly proves a valid theorem.

Since Yale has yet to evolve in this area of research, the most hopeful solution in helping suffering medical patients is to form a legislative patient advocacy coalition to meet with our wonderful local U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro. She can begin the process of sponsoring a modernization bill that defunds useless animal experiments while shifting these wasted billions to research that is actually

rooted in science, not fiction.

This is clearly and easily achievable only when public demand asserts itself accordingly.

In addition, Yale students can accelerate the process by organizing a much-needed academic debate in inviting the world’s foremost expert, AFMA’s Dr. Ray Greek, to logically present the scientific invalidity of animal experimentation. Our scarce tax dollars have a simple right to be validated by those who are still spending valuable resources on this invalid research paradigm. Unfortunately, history has shown that this type of animal researcher rarely avail themselves to such debates.

GERALD ARDIGLIANO Sept. 10 The Author is a Coordinator at Medical Progress Through Awareness

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FROM THE FRONT Four Yale classes on Coursera COURSERA FROM PAGE 1 online education efforts. He added that he cannot disclose more information about the donors or the size of the donations because the gifts are still under discussion. The two donors approached the University about specific gifts toward online education programs, he said, showing a demand for growth in the University’s offerings.

In May 2013, Provost Benjamin Polak announced Yale’s partnership with Coursera, the MOOC platform used by over 80 schools including Princeton, Columbia and Stanford. Currently, Yale plans to offer four courses on the platform that will begin next semester, taught by history of art professor Diana Kleiner, political science professor Akhil Amar, psychology professor Paul Bloom and economics professor Robert Shiller.

But Salovey said his “personal interest” does not lie in investing in MOOCs in the coming years.

After mapping out his goals for online education over the summer, he said his first priority is to utilize technology to improve teaching in Yale’s classrooms.

“There is an audience in online courses,” Salovey said. “But my interest is much more focused on how online tools and how digitally based education can be used to improve actual classroom experience on campus.”

Vice President for Global and Strategic Initiatives Linda Lorimer said the MOOC format on Coursera is much like Open Yale Courses — a program the University rolled out in 2007 that allows anyone to watch videos of Yale lectures online — though the new format allows for direct interaction with the course material and other students through online quizzes and discussion forums.

Kleiner, who leads Open Yale Courses, said her past involvement with Yale’s online education ventures makes teaching a MOOC course a natural next step for her.

“Because I led [Open Yale Courses], I’m just intrigued with the whole concept of MOOCs and what it’s going to mean to add more interaction here than we did in

“A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.”

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Open Yale Courses,” Kleiner said.

“It’s hard to know how it’s going to go, what it’s going to be like having thousands of people instead of 80 to 100 people talking.”

Kleiner said she is still finalizing details about progress quizzes and discussion moderators before the course goes live in January.

Coursera was founded at Stanford in 2011.

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

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

TIMELINE ONLINE EDUCATION 2000 Yale forms the Alliance for Lifelong Learning (AllLearn) with Stanford University and the University of Oxford, but the program closes in 2006 due to financial difficulty.

2007 Yale launches Open Yale Courses.

2012 Stanford launches Coursera in April, and Harvard and MIT launch their MOOC platform, edX, in the fall.

DECEMBER 2012 The Ad Hoc Committee on Online Education recommends Yale implement online for-credit courses to undergraduates and the public during the academic year, and that faculty members experiment with MOOC platforms.

MAY 2013 Yale announces it will start offering MOOCs on Coursera during the 2014 spring semester, as well as the creation of a new standing committee on online education.

JANUARY 2014 Three of Yale’s first four MOOCs on Coursera begin, with the fourth class starting in February.

GOP to contest Board of Aldermen

The former site of Winchester Repeating Arms Company is being converted into a housing complex with apartments and studios.

REPUBLICANS FROM PAGE 1 Lobo MED ’92 is running in Ward 6 against union-backed incumbent Dolores Colon, Republican Andy Ross in Ward 8 will compete against union-backed Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 and Republican William Wynn is facing Anna Festa in a race for the Ward 10 seat currently held by Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, one of two candidates running for mayor.

Lobo said that having a Republican on the board would prevent discussions from being fully behind the doors of Democratic caucus meetings. He argued that, on a municipal level, many issues are not inherently Democratic or Republican but rather affect the city as a whole. One of those issues, he said, is the “fiscal urgency” the city faces due to both bond debt and their pension obligations.

“There’s a notion that there is a fiscal crisis, and what we enjoy and love about New Haven might be in danger,” Lobo said. “This year the problem is more prominent and more pronounced than it was two years ago, and it motivated all four Republican aldermanic candidates: There’s a sense that we are living on a credit card we are not able to afford and passing onto future generations of New Haveners.”

Wynn said he is running because he feels the entirety of his ward has not received sufficient attention and that one of his priorities is making sure everyone in his ward is accounted for. Like some Democrats, Wynn expressed his feeling that New Haven’s politics have been stagnant and need change.

“Everything has been status quo here in New Haven. There is definitely a time for change for the better, and I think the Republi-

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Paul Chandler ’14 is the first Republican to run for Ward 1 alderman in 20 years. can Party has what it takes: Being conservative and making people accountable for their actions is what a Republican stands for,” Wynn said. “I think change is here now: It’s a new day. Out with the old, and in with the new.”

In addition to running four candidates for the Board of Aldermen, Republicans are also receiving more attention as New Haven moves towards the November election because of their importance as a voting block in the mayoral election. Elicker noted in a speech after Tuesday’s primary that with support from the city’s Republican, independent and unaffiliated voters, he could potentially close the gap between him and his opponent State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78.

The general election will be held on Nov. 6.

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

The renovation project is the result of what Malloy called “an effective public-private partnership” between the city of New Haven, the state and Forest City Enterprises, a Cleveland-based development firm specialized in mixed-income real estate that was selected in 2008 to turn six buildings at the site into a mix of 158 studios and oneand two-bedroom apartments.

“We think we’re going to deliver a first-class project that is going to be a great addition to the New Haven housing market,” said Abe Naparstek, who serves as vice president for East Coast development at Forest City.

Naparstek said that the renovation project will attempt to “pay homage to the historic character” of the former rifle factory.

The building, which once housed one of the first producers of repeating firearms in the nation, had sat vacant since the New Haven factory

was permanently shut down in 2006, said New Haven Economic Development administrator Kelly Murphy.

She added that, because of the site’s previous function, the building had been left contaminated with metals, bullets, asbestos, lead and other toxic materials that will require expensive wasteclearing operations.

Allocating funding for quality, mixed-income housing is a smart investment for the state.

DANNEL MALLOY Governor, Connecticut In addition to $500,000 from a “Brownfields” fund to clean up environmental and health hazards in abandoned city plots, the project will be financed through a $4 million state grant and $55 million from private investors,

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according to City Hall spokeswoman Anna Mariotti.

“Allocating funding for quality, mixed-income housing is a smart investment for the state — we have already seen that it creates immediate construction jobs and industry-related activity while, over time, fueling local and regional economic growth and fostering a sense of community,” Malloy said.

Naparstek said that when the redevelopment project will be completed in the summer of 2014, 80 percent of the 158 apartments will sell at market rate, while 10 percent are reserved for people who make 100 percent of area median income, or AMI. The remaining 10 percent are reserved for families who make 60 percent of AMI. Forest City Enterprises has also signed onto two programs through the City’s Office of Economic Development to encourage women, minorities and New Haven residents to work on the project, Naparstek said. He added that roughly 25 percent of the con-

struction workers on site will be minorities, 25 percent will be Elm City residents and 7 percent women.

With a 5 percent population increase in 2012, New Haven is experiencing “one of the fastest urban population growth rates in New England,” Murphy said, adding that projects like the renovation of the former Winchester Repeating Arms Company will stimulate economic and social development.

“New Haven is becoming more attractive to developers,” Murphy said. “[Projects like this] really speak to the strength of New Haven as place where people want to work, live and invest.”

Since taking office in January 2011, Malloy has committed more than $360 million to affordable housing projects for seniors, young professionals, working families and other residents.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .

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“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.” VLADIMIR NABOKOV RUSSIAN AUTHOR OF WORKS SUCH AS “LOLITA” AND “PALE FIRE”

Literature prizewinners descend on campus

BY WESLEY YIIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Literary talent overtook the campus on Tuesday as the inaugural festival celebrating the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes, which awarded $150,000 each to nine writers, commenced.

In March, the University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library gave the first-ever round of an annual set of prizes to a group of nine writers in three different areas of literature — in drama, Naomi Wallace, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Stephen Adly Guirgis; in nonfiction, Jonny Steinberg, Jeremy Scahill and Adina Hoffman; and in fiction, Zoë Wicomb, James Salter and Tom McCarthy. This week, the authors arrived on campus to offer workshops, give readings, teach master classes and speak at Master’s Teas.

On Tuesday, University President Peter Salovey led a ceremony in Sprague Hall honoring the authors, calling it “one of the most exciting moments so far” in his term as president of Yale College.

“Yale is a place that hopes to recognize, inspire and nurture excellence in every field,” he said. “It is our hope that these prizes will help [the writers] continue to pursue excellence in their writing, so that we may benefit from what they produce.”

Program Director Michael Kelleher said he hoped the festival would have an impact on Yale students and give them an opportunity to learn from the accomplished authors.

“We chose this time of year because [the festival] seemed like a great way to usher in the school year,” he said. “It gets them excited about things that are happening on campus and about literature.”

Kelleher said he thinks the award will positively affect the writers’ careers by giving them more resources and publicity.

The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which rank in the top five largest English-language literary prizes, are unique because they honor the writer rather than an individual work, he said.

At a Thursday Master’s Tea, Hoffman discussed her experience living in Jerusalem and ways that Israel features in her writing. She said she considered becoming a fiction writer, but ultimately settled on nonfiction because she found reality to be equally compelling subject matter.

“Much of what I’ve been told about writing and imagination was just not true,” Hoffman said. “I could write a literary work that’s also a documentary work.”

McCraney, one of the winners, said the festival was “beautiful” and that he was honored to share the award with renowned writers such as Wallace and Guirgis.

Paola Lázaro Muñoz, a Columbia graduate student and friend of award winner Guirgis, said prizes that are as generous as the Windham Prize are rare in the field of literature.

Andrew de Luna ’16, who attended the awards ceremony, said he was in “awe” of the writers and their significant accomplishments.

“It was very moving and surreal to see nine writers this big on the same stage,” he said.

The prizes were established when novelist Donald Windham left the bulk of his estate to Yale following his death in 2010.

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This week, the nine winners of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature prizes offered workshops, talks and classes on campus.

Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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Yale sees increase in transfer students

BY MAIA HIRSCHLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the past few weeks, the 1,360 members of the class of 2017 have been transitioning into life at Yale. But a smaller group is experiencing a different kind of transition to the University — this year’s group of transfer students.

Twenty-six transfer students enrolled at Yale this fall, an increase from 21 last year and 22 in the 2011–’12 academic year. The TroCo program, which pairs new transfer students with returning ones, has expanded this year to include a two-day orientation program during Camp Yale.

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New Haven residents and Yale students protest Gourmet Heaven’s alleged wage theft in front of the store’s Broadway location.

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPROTER “There is a student labor movement in this town!” yells Gregory Williams DIV ’15 into a megaphone to a group of students in front of Gourmet Heaven. “We’ve made our choice to be on the side of justice.”

Williams, a member of the graduate student group Seminarians for a Democratic Society, is one of the main organizers of a weekly protest outside the Broadway convenience store. A number of Yale students and New Haven residents have led a boycott on the business since the Department of Labor found in early August that franchise owner Chung Cho had been paying several workers less than the state minimum wage, has withheld overtime pay and has failed to keep proper payroll records.

Local and national labor and immigrant advocacy organizations have publicized one former worker’s allegations of Gourmet Heaven’s illegal wage practices. Evelyn Nunez ’15 — the community action chair for MEChA, a U.S. Latino social justice student organization — said that workers have been mistreated on the job, forced to work 12-hour shifts without rest. The worker who filed the official complaint to the DOL further alleged that Cho has been intimidating workers within the store and in his role as landlord of a property in which several employees live.

Gary Pechie, director of the DOL’s Wage and Workplace Standards Division, said he is certain that the workers were underpaid and that Cho will have to reimburse them fully through the department’s wage recovery program. He added that he hopes to finish the investigation in a month.

“At this point it’s a matter of deciding how much they need to be paid back,” he said.

Williams said he calculated that the unpaid wages for the one employee who

came forward amounted to $10,730.24. In addition to back pay, Cho will also have to pay several enforcement fines to the DOL. Pechie, who is meeting with the employees and Cho’s attorneys this week, said that Gourmet Heaven will be fined $300 per person not on payroll records.

“Every cent needs to come back,” he said.

Wage theft is a perennial issue for the state, Pechie said. This year alone, the DOL recovered $6.5 million in unpaid wages for 3,700 Connecticut workers according to a release from Gov. Daniel Malloy. The Wage and Workplace Standards Division still has 1,300 more complaints on their plate.

“If we had more staff, we could have recovered a lot more,” Pechie said.

Though wage theft is a felony, Pechie said most offending employers are not prosecuted unless they completely refuse to cooperate with authorities on investigations and settlements. Local labor activists allege that wage theft can still be profitable for businesses.

Megan Fountain ’07 — a volunteer for the New Haven Workers’ Association, the organization leading the movement against wage theft in New Haven — said a municipal ordinance making wage theft illegal at the city level would help alleviate the problem, as the New Haven Police Department could then prosecute employers who underpay workers.

“Wage theft continues because employers see Department of Labor sanctions as a slap on the wrist,” she said.

Fountain added that the issue is “much more widespread than people think.”

According to a 2009 study conducted by the National Employment Law Project, 26 percent of workers in low-wage jobs surveyed were paid under the minimum wage in the preceding week. The study also reported that foreign-born Latino workers had the highest rate of wage violation.

Labor activists said the boycott on Gourmet Heaven intends to punish the store financially in a way that they fear the Department of Labor will not.

Williams said the weekly protests — every Friday at 5:30 p.m. — not only serve to discourage customers from buying food at Gourmet Heaven, but also “send a message to the city government that we need to punish wage theft.”

But outside of the labor activist community, the boycott is far from unanimously supported.

Andre Presse, a visiting scholar from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology studying progressive labor policy, was on his way to buy a snack at the market when he saw the picket. After talking briefly to a protester about the issue, he entered Gourmet Heaven and bought his food.

“It doesn’t help them systematically if no one goes — they’ll lose their job and the small amount of income they make,” he said.

Murat Tetik, a cook at the A-One Pizzeria neighboring Gourmet Heaven on Broadway, also opposes the boycott. He said that while “it’s not right to withhold wages,” he does not know why workers would accept pay that low to begin with.

He also mentioned that a former employee at his restaurant worked for more than minimum wage at A-One and left for Gourmet Heaven since they offered him better pay.

Harron Gaston, a Divinity School student representing the Gaston Justice Coalition Group, said that his faith has inspired him to stand on the side of the “poor and dispossessed.”

“Plan to stay there as long as it takes until a decision comes down that we can live with,” he said.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

When you’re a transfer student … you know how to do college, but you don’t know how to do college here.

LINDSAY FALKENBERG ’15 Transfer student from Emory University “When I transferred here, we did have transfer counselors, but we didn’t have any sort of orientation, kind of just a free-for-all, so it was pretty difficult to figure out how to register for classes,” said Chelsea Messinger ’15, a cohead of the TroCo program.

The TroCos, who helped organize the new orientation, decided to expand the resources offered to new transfer students by building from their own experiences coming to Yale after having already attended a different college, Messinger said. She said she and fellow students felt as though they wanted more struc-

tured guidance upon arriving on campus.

The transfer student admission rate for the 2012–’13 academic year was 2.7 percent, with 970 applicants.

The orientation program included a scavenger hunt, a session on class registration, a workshop on science requirements and meetings with various deans.

Lindsay Falkenberg ’15, a new transfer from Emory University, said the orientation was helpful because adjusting to aspects of life specific to Yale, such as shopping period, was “tricky.”

“It’s interesting when you’re a transfer student because you’re not a freshman,” she said. “You know how to do college, but you don’t know how to do college here.”

TroCo Cory Myers ’15 said immediately bonding with a group of students in a similar situation as him helped make adjusting to the University easier.

Ezriel Gelbfish ’16, who transferred to Yale this fall from Yeshiva University, said he has found Yale students to be welcoming, though transfer students from last year told him integrating into life at Yale can be difficult. He added that the structures in place, such as the orientation, TroCos and the residential college system, have made the transition easy.

The transfer students also have an opportunity to attend FOCUS, a community service preorientation program for sophomores and transfer students that pairs small groups of students with local nonprofit organizations.

Of the 26 transfer students, 20 are male and six are female.

Contact MAIA HIRSCHLER at maia.hirschler@yale.edu .

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“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AUTHOR OF “TREASURE ISLAND” AND “THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE”

Health insurance costs under ACA up for debate

BY GEORGE SAUSSY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation released earlier this month found that the costs of private health insurance in Connecticut will be lower than previously expected after the Affordable Care Act goes into effect on Oct. 1. However, the merits of the new insurance policies — which will standardize health care plans — continue to be under debate.

Next month, Connecticut will open a health insurance exchange called Access Health CT, which is an online marketplace where individuals can choose from a range of health plans organized into tiers.

The tiers range from bronze plans with a 40 percent copay to platinum plans with a 10 percent copay.

Access Health CT expects to sell coverage to between 80,000 and 100,000 state residents.

The Kaiser Family Foundation — a nonprofit focusing on major health care issues nationwide — compiled data from the largest cities in 13 states, including Connecticut, California and Indiana, and found that while the face value price for a plan varied by state, these differences were mitigated by the addition of federal tax subsidies offered to enrollees with relatively low incomes. In Connecticut, the Foundation anticipated that a 60-year-old couple living at twice the federal poverty level would pay nothing for a bronze plan.

“You can get a plan now for $60 in some places,” said Gary Claxton, one of the KFF study’s co-authors.

“They may not be very good plans but … these rates look pretty good compared to what we see in the group market for comparable coverage.”

The Affordable Care Act will also implement a form of community rating to reduce discrepancies in health premiums based on demographic factors. Because premiums cannot vary by more than a factor of three for all ages, sticker prices are expected to rise for young adults.

Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute, who conducted a separate analysis of health plan premiums in Connecticut and other states, warned that this provision forces young adults to bear greater costs of health care for the benefit of the elderly, and these young adults may not be able to shoulder the burden when working part-time or entrylevel jobs.

Still, the Kaiser Foundation found that many young people will qualify for a tax subsidy, so the price difference should be negligible to the consumer. The study also pointed out that a 25-yearold in Connecticut could purchase a bronze plan for a monthly premium of $67 each month after subsidies. In addition, inexpensive but high-deductible “catastrophic” plans are available to adults under the age of 30.

Since gender differentiation of prices has also been prohibited, premiums are expected to rise for men, who tend to have fewer health-related costs, according to KFF data.

Roy, though, projects that once the ACA is implemented, health plan premiums will be an average of 59 percent higher than pre-ACA levels.

After tax subsidies, 27-year-old male Connecticut residents will see their premiums increase from $120 to $238, while 60-year-old males will see their premiums rise from $531 to $683 even after tax subsidies, according to the KFF study. The Congressional Budget Office previously predicted that the average premiums in 2016 would amount to $483 a month before the subsidy, but the KFF estimates that they would cost even less.

Subsidies are available for Connecticut residents earning less than $45,960 or families earning less than $94,200.

Clinton Wang contributed reporting.

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A new rail line that will connect New Haven, Hartford and Springfield, Mass., is expected to multiply scheduling options and reduce fares for Yalies and New Haven residents traveling by train.

The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded New Haven a $10 million federal grant last week to build a second platform at State Street Station.

The platform will play a key role in developing the New HavenHartford-Springfield line, which will begin in New Haven and is expected to begin service in late 2016.

“This is a critical project to get the whole New Haven-Hartford-Springfield line off the ground,” said Judd Everhart, Connecticut Department of Transportation director of communications.

The new platform is also expected to minimize delays and congestion throughout New Haven railways by eliminating the need for commuter trains to cross over Northeast Corridor main-line tracks.

New Haven officials such as Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 have high hopes that the new line will stimulate economic growth in the city. Hausladen praised the walkability of New Haven, its many options for both work and recreation and the plethora of recent civic improvements in the city. He said he hopes that higher efficiency transit between the city and the suburbs will provide incentive for more people to reap the benefits of living and working in the rapidly developing Elm City.

“We have a lot of capacity in

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New Haven for more residential growth and job growth,” he said. “So we need to work on our commute times into the city and our transportation control methods.”

In a press release last week, Conn. Gov. Dannel Malloy said that he believes the expansion of the State Street Station will be particularly beneficial because the station is within walking distance from many of New Haven’s major employers, particularly those in the growing bioscience sector.

Expanding the train system here … is something that a lot of residents think would be helpful in terms of their morning commute.

NICOLE HOBBS ’14 Resident, Branford In addition, increased options for commuting into and out of New Haven by rail are expected to alleviate traffic in the state highway system. Jim Travers, director of transportation, traffic and parking for the city of New Haven, said that high volumes of drivers cripple the highway system, making mass movements of people by rail a more efficient option.

A Branford native Nicole Hobbs ’14 observed that many of her neighbors and close relatives traveled into New Haven for work each day.

“I think that expanding the train system here in Connecticut is something that a lot of residents think would be helpful

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in terms of their morning commute,” she said.

Regan Considine ’16, who hails from Hartford, said that she is excited about the prospect of a new rail option for travelling to and from home. Calling the current Amtrak train that provides service between New Haven and Hartford “slow and annoying,” Considine said she currently drives to and from school because of the lack of a reliable and reasonably priced rail option.

“If they’re smart and they think about what the problems are and run it like they do Metro-North, it would be great,” she said. “It’s so easy to get to New York from here and it’s so much farther [than Hartford]. It should not be that difficult to get to Hartford.”

Considine noted that many students fly into New York City’s LaGuardia Airport at the start of term rather than into Hartford’s Bradley International Airport because, despite Bradley’s proximity to campus, they opt for the cheaper and more predictable rail transit out of New York City. She said she hopes the new line connecting Hartford to New Haven could change this phenomenon.

The recently approved funding for the additional platform at State Street Station will be provided by a federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant. The remaining $7 million necessary to complete the project will come from Connecticut state bonds. Everhart said that the state Bond Commission is expected to approve the funding with “no difficulty.”

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

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BY CAROL LEE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A state ankle-monitoring system for domestic violence offenders is facing challenges in the form of a tight budget and questions about civil liberties.

In 2010, Connecticut State Sen. Mae Flexer, chair of the Speaker’s Task Force on Domestic Violence, first helped to pass legislation for a pilot program that tracks domestic violence offenders with GPS ankle monitors. While the program has been hailed as a success by proponents, it must grapple with declining federal funds and potential civil liberty and privacy infringement.

In the cities of Hartford, Bridgeport and Danielson — the three participants in the pilot program — a total of 168 domestic violence offenders have been installed with a GPS anklet monitor. Those installed with the device are usually high-risk offenders.

The device notifies a victim when an offender is within 5,000 feet — at 2,500 feet, the victim is alerted and local police are called to the location.

So far, proponents have described the program as a success, boasting no injuries or deaths since it began three years ago.

“In high-risk cases, it is very effective in keeping victims safe,” said Karen Jarmoc, executive director of the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Often, restraining orders placed on domestic violence offenders are ignored and victims end up being hurt or killed. With the GPS device, Jarmoc said, “offenders know that there will be consequences” and that they will have to “go back to court,” among other things.

In 2010, a federal grant helped fund one year of the pilot program, which costs about $500,000 annually, with a projected $1.9 million budget should the project expand statewide.

“It’s a very expensive but successful [program],” said Jarmoc. “In a time of limited resources, we have to be careful in putting our resources in the right places.”

Other places like Staten Island that have

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However, the price of $22 a day was often more than offenders could afford. Since federal funds ran out, the program has been kept alive by the Connecticut Judiciary Department’s budget.

We feel strongly that the court should issue a warrant before putting a GPS on anyone.

JEANNE LEBLANC Spokeswoman, American Civil Liberties Union Despite the program’s success, there have been concerns over the legality of placing GPS tracking devices on people.

“We feel strongly that the court should issue a warrant before putting a GPS on anyone,” American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut spokeswoman Jeanne Leblanc said. A judge in a participating Connecticut city must issue an order for an offender to be put into a GPS ankle monitor.

Jarmoc said that those fitted with GPS devices are “individuals who have been arrested for domestic violence, which is a felony in the state of Connecticut” who have “demonstrated that they are a threat.” As a result, the program does not violate civil liberties, he said.

Legislators who support the program, such as State Sen. John A. Kissel, are working to expand the program beyond the three participating cities and into all of Connecticut.

On average, Connecticut sees 40,000 complaints of violence annually, with onethird of those cases related to domestic violence and 15 of the domestic violence cases resulting in death.

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Sponsored by the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes. Free and open to the general public. Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel St.).

7:30 PM Yale Anime Society Presents “Cowboy Bebop” “Cowboy Bebop” follows the escapades of three bounty hunters (and a little girl who happens to be an expert computer hacker) aboard the spaceship Bebop in the year 2071. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Room 119

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“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun.”

GEORGE ORWELL AUTHOR OF “NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR” AND “ANIMAL FARM”

Maison Mathis to offer full menu within weeks MAISON MATHIS FROM PAGE 1 stitute for the previous Broadway district cafe.

“The concept is inspired by the heart of Europe — Belgium,” Festo said. “Many of our ingredients are imported, such as the flour for our bread.”

The restaurant has been open this week from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. From Friday to Sunday, Maison Mathis will be open from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., and on Monday the cafe will be open for its regular hours, which are 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. Though the restaurant will operate on its full-time schedule on Monday, it will not serve a complete menu, said the restaurant coowner, Omer Ipek.

Inspired by the cafes of the Old World, Maison Mathis serves breakfast, lunch, brunch and dinner. Breads and pastries are baked in-house daily, and five Belgian beers, like Stella Artois and Chimay, sit on tap.

Adjacent to the cash register is a made-to-order waffle bar with a specialist always on hand to receive waffle requests.

“The waffle is the first thing you should definitely get,” Festo said. “People are going crazy for it.”

The waffles are topped with in-store crafted whipped cream and a drizzle of chocolate sauce, while the brioche sandwich, another of Festo’s favorites, is a chilled cheese and onion sandwich with a raisin brioche envelope.

With the departure of Au Bon Pain, students have lamented the absence of a relaxed study space with sandwiches and coffee.

“There is definitely demand for a place to do work in the Broadway area,” Joey Yagoda ’14 said.

But Yale students have not yet decided if they will embrace the

new cafe. Kadeem Yearwood ’15 said that while Maison Mathis felt “accommodating,” the food was a bit “pricey” and he is unsure if he will eat there regularly.

On display in the glass case are selections of sandwiches and salads that run for $8 each.

The drip coffee offered is organic Counter Culture coffee that sells for $2.75 per small cup. The waffles range from $6 to $8, and the beer ranges from $5 to $11.50.

Sam Dealy ’15 agreed that the price may drive students away, and suggested that visitors to campus, as opposed to students, may become the cafe’s main patrons.

“On account of the cost here, I don’t think it’ll work its way into the student culture,” Dealy said.

But Dealy added that he liked the restaurant and said that it made the space around New Haven more “cosmopolitan.”

Inside, the aesthetics are a fusion of cafe and bar, with traditional seats, tables and bench accommodation resting alongside elevated tables and bar stools. The interior makes use of natural lighting, accentuated by a heavy use of white shading throughout.

And Belgian culture permeates the entire experience. Since her arrival to the Maison Mathis team, Festo has discovered Belgian culture through food and learned a great deal about the nation and its people through her weekly Skype sessions with the Belgian designers.

“It’s like Rudy’s for the day,” Jimmy Murphy ’13 SPH ’14 said.

Maison Mathis co-owner Ipek also owns Rudy’s.

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

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Maison Mathis will feature a selection of Belgian waffles and beers.

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BY ANDREW TAYLOR ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — GOP leaders eager to avoid blame for a possible government shutdown next month appear confounded by conservatives’ passion for using fast-approaching deadlines to derail the implementation of President Barack Obama’s health care law.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, conceded Thursday his plan was all but dead for quickly passing a temporary spending bill that also defunds Obamacare, make the Senate vote on each idea separately and then send only the portion for keeping the government open to the White House for the president’s signature.

Meanwhile, new freelance effort by rank-and-file Republicans to condition keeping the government open or preventing a debt ceiling default on delaying Obamacare for a year hit a brick wall of opposition from Democrats vowing to never let the health care law be delayed or unraveled.

Nonetheless, some Republicans floated the idea of postponing all of the unimplemented portions of the new law for a year — including a requirement that virtually everyone buys health insurance and with new tax subsidies to help many people pay for it — in exchange for raising the government’s borrowing cap and easing tens of billions of dollars in broad, automatic spending cuts.

“Let’s give them something and then we get something in exchange,” Rep. John Fleming, R-La., said. “We give the administration the debt ceiling increase they want. We give them maybe some sequestration dollars that they would like to have. And in exchange we delay Obamacare, which I think the

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., walks to a Republican strategy session at the Capitol. president should want. … He’s already delayed big chunks of it.

It’s not ready for implementation.”

The administration has delayed a provision of the health care law requiring larger employers to provide health insurance to their workers. State exchanges through which people can purchase health insurance are set to begin operation Oct. 1.

Washington faces two key deadlines in coming weeks. The first is Oct. 1, when a stopgap spending measure will be needed to fund federal agency operations such as employee salaries, equipment and other costs.

Without new spending authority, non-essential government operations would shut down for the first time since 1996. Even if the government shuts down, however, Social Security, Medicare and other so-called mandatory programs would continue to operate on autopilot.

The other, far more important

must-pass measure looms later in October and would increase the government’s borrowing limit so it can pay all of its bills, including Social Security benefits, interest payments on government debt, and payments to local governments and government contractors. Defaulting of those obligations would have far greater consequences for both the economy and the political fortunes of the politicians that bear the blame from voters.

The White House vowed again Thursday that it will do everything in its power to protect and defend Obama’s health care law, his most significant accomplishment in office.

“We will not accept anything that delays or defunds Obamacare,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.

“It’s not going to happen.

It’s the law of the land. It’s been upheld by the Supreme Court,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. “So anybody who ties

the operations of the government or the debt ceiling to trying to defeat Obamacare is really in favor of shutting down the government and having us default on our debt.”

The chaos on Capitol Hill forced House leaders to tell lawmakers they’ll likely have to scrap a vacation set for the week of Sept. 23 so they can be available to work out a short-term spending bill to keep the government running past the Oct. 1 start of the new budget year.

On Tuesday, GOP leaders proposed a plan to advance the measure through the House coupled with a provision to derail implementation of the new health care law but allow the Democratic Senate to send it on to the White House shorn of the “defund ‘Obamacare’” provision as long as there was a vote on it. That got poor reviews from some conservatives who don’t see it as fighting hard enough to block Obamacare.

WATERBURY, Conn. — A slave who died more than 200 years ago in Connecticut but was never buried was given an extraordinary funeral Thursday that included lying in state at the Capitol and calls for learning from his painful life.

The enslaved man known as Mr. Fortune was buried in a cemetery filled with prominent citizens after a service at the Waterbury church where he had been baptized. Earlier in the day, his remains lay in state in the Capitol rotunda in Hartford.

“Our brother Mr. Fortune has been remembered, and it is with restored dignity his bones shall be buried,” the Rev. Amy D. Welin of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Waterbury told hundreds gathered for the service. “We bury Mr. Fortune not as a slave, but as a child of God who is blessed.”

Fortune “teaches us today about the long and convoluted path to justice and reconciliation,” Welin said, adding later that “this story from Waterbury’s

past calls us to remember and to continue our commitment to justice.”

The service was marked by thunderous singing that shook the old church at times, occasional clapping, applause and cries of “Amen” as a coffin containing Fortune’s bones was placed in front of the altar, amid scripture readings that included Paul’s declaration that “there is no longer slave or free.”

Welin said they had gathered for a man they never knew whose life was marked by paradox. Fortune was a slave who owned a house, had a wife and four children but had no control over the disposition of his body when he died and was never given a dignified burial despite being baptized as an Episcopalian, she said.

Fortune was owned by Dr. Preserved Porter on a farm in Waterbury. When Fortune died in 1798, Porter, a bone surgeon, preserved his skeleton by having the bones boiled to study anatomy at a time when cadavers for medical study were disproportionately taken from slaves, servants and prisoners.

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A casket cover rests near the grave for an enslaved man known as Mr. Fortune at Riverside Cemetery in Waterbury, Conn.

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“Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest importance, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.” ELIOT ENGEL U.S. REPRESENTATIVE FOR NEW YORK’S 16TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

Assad: Syria to offer chemical weapons data

BY BASSEM MROUE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad publicly agreed Thursday to a Russian plan to secure and destroy his chemical weapons, but said the proposal would work only if the U.S. halts threats of military action.

Assad also said his government will start submitting data on its chemical weapons stockpile a month after signing the convention banning such weapons.

Syria’s U.N. ambassador

Bashar Ja’afari told reporters Thursday that he presented Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with “the instrument of accession” to the Chemical Weapons Convention making his country a full member of the treaty banning the use of chemical weapons.

The treaty states that a nation becomes a party 30 days after such a letter is submitted.

U.N. associate spokesman Farhan Haq said the secretarygeneral welcomes the development.

“Given recent events, he hopes

that the current talks in Geneva will lead to speedy agreement on a way forward which will be endorsed and assisted by the international community,” Haq said.

But American officials, meeting with their Russian counterparts in Geneva, insisted on a speedier Syrian accounting of their stockpiles.

Assad’s remarks to Russia’s state Rossiya 24 news channel were his first since the Russian plan was announced Monday as a way to avert a potential U.S. military strike in response

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A Syrian government soldier aims his weapon during clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters.

to the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds near Damascus.

He said that Syria is relinquishing control over its chemical weapons because of Russia.

“We agreed to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international supervision in response to Russia’s request and not because of American threats,” Assad said.

“In my view, the agreement will begin to take effect a month after its signing, and Syria will begin turning over to international organizations data about its chemical weapons,” Assad added. He said this is “standard procedure” and that Syria will stick to it.

“There is nothing standard about this process,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry retorted in Geneva, because Assad has used his chemical weapons.

“The words of the Syrian regime in our judgment are simply not enough.”

Syria had long rejected joining the Chemical Weapons Convention, which requires all parties to the treaty to declare and destroy whatever chemical weapons they may possess.

Assad said the Russian deal was a two-sided process. “We are counting, first of all, on the United States stop conducting the policy of threats regarding Syria,” he said.

Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil also suggested on Thursday that the Russian proposal will succeed only if the United States and its allies pledge

American jihadi slain in Somalia

BY ABDI GULED AND JASON STRAZIUSO ASSOCIATED PRESS MOGADISHU, Somalia — An American who became one of Somalia’s most visible Islamic rebels and was on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list with a $5 million bounty on his head was killed Thursday by rivals in the al-Qaidalinked extremist group alShabab, militants said.

The killing of Omar Hammami, an Alabama native known for his rap-filled propaganda videos, may discourage other would-be jihadis from the U.S. and elsewhere from traveling to Somalia, terrorism experts said.

Hammami, whose nom de guerre was Abu Mansoor AlAmriki, or “the American,” was killed in an ambush in southern Somalia following months on the run after falling out with al-Shabab’s top leader, the militants said.

Reports of Hammami’s death have cropped up every few months in Somalia, only for him to resurface. But J.M. Berger, a U.S. terrorism expert who closely follows the inner workings of al-Shabab, said he thinks the current reports are accurate.

The rebels did not immedi-

ately present proof of Hammami’s death.

Hammami was highly critical of al-Shabab’s leadership over the past year and freely shared his views in Internet videos and on Twitter, making him a marked man.

Somalia has long been an attractive destination for foreign fighters, and al-Shabab counts several hundred foreign fighters among its ranks, including about two dozen Somali-Americans from Minneapolis recruited over the past several years.

Hammami’s death will hurt the group’s recruitment efforts, said Abdirizak Bihi, an advocate for the Somali community in Minnesota and the uncle of a young man killed in Somalia in 2008.

“We always knew the Somalis inside Somalia knew that al-Shabab was bad,” Bihi said. “We were concerned about the Somalis in the diaspora … who never really knew the facts on the ground and were always manipulated and misled.”

“So that’s why it’s a victory.

They now know exactly what al-Shabab is, as much as the Somalis inside.”

Terrorism expert Clint Watts wrote on his blog, Selectedwisdom.com, that

not to attack Syria in the future.

“We want a pledge that neither it (the U.S.) nor anyone else will launch an aggression against Syria,” Jamil told The Associated Press in Damascus.

But Kerry cautioned that a U.S. military strike could occur if Assad doesn’t agree to dismantle his chemical arsenal properly.

“There ought to be consequences if it doesn’t take place,” he said.

The words of the Syrian regime in our judgment are simply not enough.

JOHN KERRY Secretary of state, United States Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, however, said the dismantling “will make unnecessary any strike against the Syrian Arab Republic.”

Syria’s top rebel commander, meanwhile, slammed the Russian proposal, calling for Assad to be put on trial for allegedly ordering the Aug. 21 attack.

Many rebels had held out hopes that U.S.-led punitive strikes on Assad’s forces would help tip the scales in their favor in Syria’s civil war, which has claimed over 100,000 lives so far.

Gen. Salim Idris’ statement was broadcast on pan-Arab satellite channels hours before talks in Geneva between Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Oslo Accords promise rings hollow

BY KARIN LAUB ASSOCIATED PRESS

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American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami, right, sits under a banner which reads “Allah is Great” during a news conference.

Hammami’s plight “probably soured recruitment pipelines from the West into Somalia.”

Along with Adam Gadahn in Pakistan — a former Osama bin Laden spokesman — the 29-year-old Hammami was one of the two most notorious Americans in jihadi groups.

He grew up in Daphne, Alabama, a community of 20,000 outside Mobile, the son of a Christian mother and a Syrian-born Muslim father.

His YouTube videos that featured him rapping and his presence on Twitter made him one of the most recognizable and studied U.S. foreign

fighters. The FBI put Hammami on its Most Wanted Terrorist list in 2012 and offered a $5 million reward in March for information leading to his capture.

U.S. prosecutors had charged Hammami with providing material support to terrorists.

In Alabama, Husam Omar, vice president of the Islamic Society in Mobile, a mosque Hammami once attended, said he had not heard of the reports of his death.

“I’m shocked,” Omar said, declining further comment.

“We call upon the international community, not only to withdraw the chemical weapons that were the tool of the crime, but to hold accountable those who committed the crime in front of the International Criminal Court,” Idris said.

He added that the Free Syrian Army “categorically rejects the Russian initiative” as falling short of the expectations of rebel fighters.

The U.S. accuses Assad’s government of being behind the attack in the suburb of Ghouta.

The U.S. says the attack killed 1,429 people; other estimates of the deaths are lower.

Assad has denied responsibility and accuses U.S. officials of spreading lies without providing evidence.

In the interview Thursday, he charged that the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack was a “U.S.organized provocation.”

“The threats (of a military strike) are based on a provocation. It was arranged with the use of chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta,” he said.

In Geneva, Kerry and a team of U.S. experts will have at least two days of meetings with their Russian counterparts. The Americans hope to emerge with an outline of how some 1,000 tons of chemical weapons stocks and precursor materials as well as potential delivery systems can be safely inventoried and isolated under international control in an active war zone and then destroyed.

ABU DIS, West Bank — In 1993, the words rang hopeful and historic. Israel and the PLO agreed “it is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict,” live in peaceful co-existence and reach a “just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement.”

Twenty years later, the words that launched Israeli-Palestinian talks on dividing the Holy Land into two states ring hollow to many on both sides. Negotiators say mistakes they made then are causing damage to this day.

Palestinians seem no closer now than they were 20 years ago to a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, and some argue they are worse off.

The number of Israeli settlers has doubled. East Jerusalem is cut off by an Israeli barrier. Gaza, ruled by the Islamic militant Hamas since 2007, is turning into a distinct enclave.

Many Israelis, scarred by Palestinian suicide bombings and rocket fire from Gaza, are skeptical of the other side’s intentions and believe the politically divided Palestinians cannot carry out a peace deal, even if one is reached.

The Declaration of Princi-

ples, sealed with a handshake on the White House lawn on Sept.

13, 1993, was hailed as a breakthrough in the century-old conflict between Arabs and Jews. It was the first of a series of agreements - known as the Oslo Accords, after the secret talks in Norway that led to them - that created the Palestinian Authority and set up self-rule areas in the Palestinian territories.

It also produced broken promises, bouts of violence and two failed attempts to negotiate a final peace deal.

Former Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia said that if he knew then what he knows now he wouldn’t have agreed to the accords.

“With such kinds of blocs of settlements? No. With the closure of Jerusalem? No. Not at all,” Qureia said in an interview at his office in the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis. Qureia’s Israeli counterpart in those secret talks, former Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin, said it was a mistake to allow for a fiveyear interim period of Palestinian autonomy. This, he said, gave veto powers to hard-liners - Hamas on the Palestinian side, settlers and right-wing politicians on the Israeli side.

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BY STEPHANIE MC FEETERS STAFF WRITER Before bright-eyed freshmen and loyal alumni, Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon will accept the 66-ounce silver Wentworth Bowl on Sept. 20 and be officially installed as the 18th President of Dartmouth. A cookout at noon on Tuck Mall will begin the day’s festivities, followed by the inauguration and convocation ceremony at 3 p.m. on the Green.

“It’s an exciting time to be coming to Dartmouth,” said Mark Davis, president of the Alumni Council, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

Hanlon said he will discuss the College’s mission in a contemporary context and express his pride for how Dartmouth prepares graduates In his inaugural address.

Hanlon said he hopes to build a vision and “areas of impact” that both students and faculty will contribute to.

“I have been struck by the real deep engagement that students have with the problems that the world faces,” he said. “I think Dartmouth students are really ideally suited to go out in the world and change the world for the better. That’s what I expect of them.”

A committee of campus representatives began planning inauguration this spring in conjunction with the advancement division, the Office of Conferences and Events, Hanlon and his wife Gail Gentes.

They hoped to design an event “that speaks to the tradition and history behind the president,” but is also “forward-looking,” said Nariah Broadus, special assistant to the president for initiatives and projects.

During the ceremony, former College President Jim Yong Kim

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Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon will be sworn in as the College’s 18th president at his inauguration.

DARTMOUTH

will hand the Wentworth Bowl to Hanlon as past presidents have done before, symbolizing the Whee-

lock Succession.

Board of Trustees Chair Steve Mandel ’78 will present Hanlon with the original College charter. Student Assembly president Adrian Ferrari ’14 and University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman will give addresses, and there will be performances from the Harlem Quartet, the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble, the Glee Club and the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir.

Beyond welcoming a new leader, the inauguration ceremony offers the community a chance to celebrate the College’s culture and history, Alumni Association pres-

ident John Daukas ’84 said.

“Dartmouth has such a long, prestigious history and an amazing tradition of leaders who have been asked to be president of the College,” Davis said. “Nothing would make me happier than for Hanlon to have a long and successful tenure.”

Hanlon boasts experience in higher education, having served as provost at Michigan, as well as a deep understanding of the institution. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1977.

“Being an alumnus gives someone a huge leg up,” Daukas said.

Nine alumni have previously served as College president, most recently David McLaughlin ’54 Tu’55, whose tenure spanned from 1981 to 1987.

“We could not be in a better position,” vice president for alumni relations Martha Beattie said in an email. “His passion for Dartmouth and his deep under-

standing of the strengths of our College will set a great course as we navigate through this time of challenge and opportunity.”

Hanlon takes office amidst nationwide conversations about the cost of higher education and heated campus discussion of student life and sexual assault. After spending the summer speaking with students and alumni, the inauguration ceremony will offer Hanlon a chance to express his vision for the College.

“I’ve been trying to listen, trying to learn about the Dartmouth of today,” he said.

Former College President James Wright, true to his background in history, said in his 1998 address that the inauguration ceremony “affords a rare opportunity to consider the values that, ingrained in Dartmouth’s past, define the institution today, and to ask how that past informs our future.”

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CS and statistics see enrollment increases

BY POOJA PODUGU STAFF WRITER In fall 2009, computer science lecturer David J. Malan welcomed 337 aspiring coders to his introductory computer science course CS50. Four years later, the course’s enrollment has more than doubled, closing in on — but just failing to surpass — the introductory economics course Ec 10a as Harvard’s most popular class.

CS50 enrolled 759 students this term, according to preliminary course enrollment numbers posted on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar’s website. Course enrollment numbers referenced in this story are updated as of early Thursday morning.

“We’re thrilled that so many students have been taking an interest in computer science,” Malan wrote in an email Wednesday night.

While Malan did not venture to speculate why so many students opted to take the course, he wrote that he and his teaching staff have “endeavored to build within CS50 a support structure atop which any student can succeed, irrespec-

tive of background.”

I n another s to ry of d ra m a t i c growth, HARVARD statistics professor Joseph K. Blitzstein’s Statistics 110: “Introduction to Probability,” experienced a 56 percent increase in enrollment from last year, growing from 308 to 482.

Ec 10a, formerly known as Ec 10 prior to a listing change, remained Harvard’s most popular fall course for the third year running.

The General Education course Ethical Reasoning 18: “Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory,” rounded out the top three highest registered classes, drawing 701 enrollees, a 33 percent enrollment increase over last year.

Science of Living Systems 20: “Introduction to Psychology,” enrolled 373, making it this semester’s second-highest enrolled Gen Ed class.

Instructors of high-enrolled classes offered differing explanations for their course’s popularity.

Chinese history professor

Michael J. Puett, who teaches Ethical Reasoning 18, attributed his course’s steadily increasing enrollment to “‘life-changing’” course materials and publicity via word of mouth.

The course’s head teaching fellow, Nuri Kim, had a slightly different take on the course’s popularity, pointing to Puett’s “outstanding” and “effortless” lectures and his growing reputation.

Kim also acknowledged that Michael J. Sandel’s perennially popular course, Ethical Reasoning 22: “Justice,” is not being offered this semester, meaning many students seeking an Ethical Reasoning credit may have turned to “Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory.”

Blitzstein, the Statistics 110 instructor, pointed to the applicability and elegance of his course material as explanations for the course’s high enrollment.

“I think there is an increasing realization, both at Harvard and internationally, that data are everywhere and statistics is needed everywhere there is data!” he wrote in an email. “I think [the

increase in interest] reflects the fact that statistics is both aesthetically beautiful and intensely useful.”

SLS 20 head teaching fellow Roman Feiman attributed the course’s high enrollment to the strong teaching of psychology professor Daniel T. Gilbert, the course’s instructor this fall, as well as that of psychology professor Steven A. Pinker, who often teaches the course in the spring.

Feiman also pointed to both men’s bestselling books, media appearances and general renown outside Harvard, as well as the appeal of the discipline of psychology, as explanations of student interest in the course.

Steady growth seemed to be the trend among many of Harvard’s perennially popular courses. But as computer science and statistics classes become increasingly popular, life sciences has experienced a slow but steady decline. Life Sciences 1a, Harvard’s introductory biology and chemistry course, has experienced a nearly 20 percent decrease in enrollment over the past three years, shrinking from 537 in 2010 to 448 this year.

New Jersey and California together contributed to over 27 percent of the total Class of 2017, while four states — Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and Iowa — contributed no students. International students made up 12.5 percent of the Class of 2017 and came from 54 countries, according to Princeton Residential College Student Facebook.

The University’s Undergraduate Admissions Office dispatches several admissions officers abroad every year to attract applicants from around the world. In visits that average two weeks each, these admissions staff members reached 25 countries over the 2012-2013 academic year and are scheduled to visit 31 countries this coming year, according to the Admissions Office. The pool of international applicants for admission to the University has increased 93.5 percent over the past eight years, according to the Admissions Office.

It wasn’t like from a young age on, you know you have to go to this and this place.

CHERYNE JONAY International student, Princeton ’17 According to Dean of Admissions Janet Rapelye, these numbers do not affect the consideration of applicants the following year; students from states without representation this year do not have an advantage applying the next year.

Rapelye explained that the University misses approximately three states every year and this fact is unavoidable.

Tessa Myren ’17 is the only student in the Class of 2017 from South Dakota and is the only student, according to Myren, to apply to and enroll to Princeton from her high school in three years. She explained that students are encouraged to attend in-state colleges by school counselors, family members and even the governor.

“There was a little bit of a feeling of pariahness, almost, from my classmates when I told them I was going to Princeton,” she said. “I felt like I couldn’t really tell people that I was applying to Princeton because I was afraid of being discouraged and I was a little bit afraid that if I didn’t get in, it would be a total disaster.”

Prior to applying, Myren explained, most of her knowledge about Princeton was obtained through the University website. She was able to visit Princeton once and attend Preview weekend after being accepted through the Early Action admission process.

For many international students, however, their only exposure to the University comes from visiting its web-

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site. For Cheryne Jonay ’17, a student from Sw i t z e r land, and Vincent PRINCETON K a r u r i ’17, a student from Kenya, applying to the Princeton was a personally motivated decision to look outside the obvious choices for higher education that often required independently researching the college.

Prior to moving in this fall, Jonay, Karuri and Mary Hui ’17, a student from Hong Kong, did not visit Princeton, which they each said was a challenge in applying as an international student. However, Jonay said she found that the University’s diminished presence in her life as a high school student proved to be an advantage.

“I was a lot more relaxed about it because I didn’t feel pressure from anyone,” Jonay said. She explained that in her school, “it wasn’t like from a young age on, you know you have to go to this and this place and your parents put money aside for you to go to college. It was more like, if we get in, if we get a chance to go, it’s great but it’s not the end of the world if we don’t.”

Jonay, Karuri and Hui also said they all learned about the University through students who had enrolled in the years before them or through their high school college counselors.

During the application process, their connection to the University was primarily established through these means and through an alumni interview.

Undergraduate admissions officers will travel to 31 countries over the course of the upcoming academic year with colleagues from other U.S. colleges like Columbia and Dartmouth, according to Rapelye.

Argentina, India, Swaziland and Turkey are all on the scheduled list of countries.

Rapelye noted that the efforts to expand international representation echoed the University’s unofficial motto “In the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations.”

“Princeton’s mission of being an international university means not just studying international affairs and sending students abroad, but having international students study here,” she said. “We’re a world class university and we want to make sure we’re educating the very best students around the world, which is why we travel widely and try to touch base with as many students as we can in a given year.”

In addition to taking the SAT subject tests and the SAT or ACT, those applying as international students must take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL, if they did not attend an Englishspeaking school.

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The Elis will compete against Stanford for the first time since 2007 this weekend at the Service Academy Challenge.

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER Volleyball season is officially underway as the women’s volleyball team heads to Washington, D.C. this weekend to participate in the second annual Service Academy Challenge. The tournament, which is played within the Pentagon, brings together U.S. service academies with other schools from around the country.

On their first road trip of the season, the Elis (2–1) will be matched up against the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Military Academy and, for the first time since 2007, Stanford.

The Cardinal (3–2), ranked eighth in the nation, posted a 25–4 record last year and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament. They return all six of last year’s starters and are projected to contend for a national title once again this year. With a combination of height and depth — the team’s front line averages 6’ 2” — Stanford runs an offense that averages nearly 15 kills per set to go along with a stifling defense that averages over 17 digs and almost three blocks per set.

Though the Cardinals have dropped two

games already this season, the losses came against powerhouses No. 2 Texas and No. 5 Florida.

The last time Yale faced off against Stanford, in the 2007 Yale Volleyball Classic, the Bulldogs fell in straight sets.

The Elis have already had some experience this season going up against a taller team when they faced Missouri last weekend at the Yale Invitational.

“Going up against them is similar to going up against Missouri,” outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 said. “They’re very big, so we’ll have to be aggressive and take some chances on offense. Passing will also be very important.”

Although the Elis fell 3–1 to the Tigers, they were far from outclassed. Yale took the second set of the match, 25–15, which was the largest margin of victory in any game that Yale played in the tournament.

One thing the Bulldogs are not lacking is confidence. They may be appear to be outmatched against Stanford, but it will not stop them from competing.

“We’re looking forward to playing them and having the opportunity to put our skills to the test,” libero Maddie Rudnick ’15 said.

While Army and Air Force are both

unranked, they have played four and six more matches, respectively, than the Elis have. This extra practice might make them dangerous, but it also provides more opportunities for scouting them, according to Rogers.

Yale and Army last met during the 2011 Yale Classic, when the Elis eked out a 3–2 victory over the Black Knights. The Bulldogs fell behind 0–2, but stormed back to take the next three sets, including a nailbiting 15–13 win in the fifth set. McHaney Carter ’14 led the Elis with 13 kills in the match, while Kendall Polan ’14 recorded an impressive 45 assists. Polan and Rogers also recorded double-doubles in the victory, which completed Yale’s perfect 3–0 tournament record.

Above all, this road trip is another opportunity for the team to grow.

“Playing on the road always presents more adversity than playing at home,” Rudnick said. “This first road trip will hopefully get out some of the kinks that away games present.”

The Elis face Stanford at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

Contact DIONIS JAHJAGA at dionis.jahjaga@yale.edu .

In Hoyas, Elis face tough opponent

BY JAMES BADAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s soccer team will face its toughest test of the season today at Georgetown in its contest against the newly ranked No. 12 Hoyas, followed by a game against Towson on Sunday to round out the weekend of action.

WOMEN’S SOCCER Yale (2–0–0, 0-0 Ivy) will need great performances top-to-bottom when the team matches up with Georgetown (6–0–0, 0-0 Big East). Georgetown is currently on a 15-game home winning streak dating back to 2011 and have outscored opponents this year 19–3.

Yale forward Melissa Gavin ’15 acknowledges that the team is aware of Georgetown’s ranking.

“Everyone is really excited and no one sees [Georgetown] as someone we can’t beat,” Gavin said.

The Hoyas have a talented core, with junior midfielder Daphne Corboz and senior defender Emily Menges leading the way. Both women were among 31 players selected across the nation as

potential candidates for the 2013 Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy, awarded annually as the highest individual award in college soccer. Still, Corboz will only be seeing action for the second time this year as she recovers from a leg injury.

Redshirt goalkeeper Emma Newins further bolsters a strong Georgetown defense, as she was selected as the BIG EAST Preseason Goalkeeper of the Year.

She has met these high expectations so far, and she comes into Friday’s match with a three-game shutout streak.

The game will have added significance for one Eli in particular, as midfielder Eliza Loring ’16, will be making a homecoming of sorts. Loring played in five games for Georgetown last year before making the decision to transfer to Yale, a school she said was her first choice all along.

“If I had not gotten into Yale, I would have stayed at Georgetown,” Loring said.

In returning to play some of her “best friends,” Loring has been prodded for information leading up to Friday’s game.

“People are definitely expecting me to divulge in anything I know about Georgetown,” she said.

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Gavin and Loring said that they are aware of the danger of potentially overlooking Towson (3–2–1) due to the muchanticipated matchup with Georgetown.

But they are confident that the team’s mentality change this year — focusing on making the opposition adjust to Yale rather than vice versa — will diminish the chances of getting caught off-guard.

Another concern for the Bulldogs is the team’s conditioning and fatigue this early in the season.

“We’re a little nervous about being tired from Friday,” Gavin said. “But by no means are we taking Towson lightly.”

Towson forward Emily Barnes will look to lead the Tigers’ attack as she has put together an impressive start to her season. Barnes has six goals in six games thus far and has scored a point in each of her last five games.

Yale is seeking to improve to 4–0–0 for the first time since 2004, when the Elis jumped out of the gates with a five-game win streak.

The kick-off against the Hoyas is slated for today at 3 p.m.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu

EVAN FRONDORF

The IOC plays it safe Last Saturday afternoon, while everyone else was probably doing something social or productive, I was locked in my single watching a YouTube stream of the International Olympic Committee’s announcement of the host city for the 2020 Olympic Games.

The 125th IOC Session last weekend in Buenos Aires was one of the most important in years — a 2020 host city was selected, members voted on adding a sport to the Olympic program, and a new IOC president was elected after the end of Jacques Rogge’s 12-year term.

Yet the results of this climax of activity were anticlimactic at best – frankly, the IOC played it safe in charting its direction for the future. And given recent events in international sport and politics, perhaps this was the best decision.

The biggest news was the choice of Tokyo to host the 2020 Games over the other finalists, Madrid and Istanbul. I’m sure you already have July 24-August 9, 2020 cleared on your calendars. Don’t get me wrong — Tokyo, which also hosted the Olympics in 1964, will put on a fantastic international event and deserves to host the Games.

The city’s plan is sustainable and revolves around updating the 1964 venues for modern-day use. Japan will have the chance to demonstrate its strength and resilience recovering from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

But as I watched the Japanese delegation burst into tears upon the announcement, I couldn’t help but feel like we had been transported back to the 1990s.

For better or worse, the recent trend in hosting international events has been to award the event to rising countries excited to share their culture and growth with the world — see Beijing 2008 (that opening ceremony!), the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa (Waka Waka!), and the upcoming World Cup and Olympics in Brazil (a new continent!). Tokyo suddenly feels boring, established, plain and overly corporate. The Winter Olympics were held in Nagano back in 1998; Pyeongchang, South Korea will host the Winter Games in 2018, putting backto-back Games in East Asia.

I feel bad saying this because there’s clearly some American exceptionalism at work here.

We never complain that the U.S. hosts the Olympics too often, even though we’ve had the Games three times in the last 30 years: Los Angeles 1984, Atlanta 1996 – possibly the weirdest choice of a host city in the modern-day, and Salt Lake City 2002 – where Mitt Romney, of all people, had to be brought in to fix an Olympics that almost didn’t happen. We whined when New York City lost its 2012 bid and when Chicago was eliminated in the first round of voting for 2016. Japan still has the world’s third-largest GDP — it’s really not that weird that they’ll have the Olympics twice in 22 years.

Tokyo might have been the

“boring” choice of the three candidates, but it’s probably also the right choice considering the recent consequences of risky decisions. The upcoming 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia have been plagued by Russia’s disturbing anti-gay legislation and propaganda as well as allegations of corruption. During the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil, ongoing protests in Brazil juxtaposed the country’s enormous spending to prepare for the World Cup and the Olympics with rising public transport fares and cost of living. FIFA head Sepp Blatter finally admitted this week that awarding oil-rich Qatar the 2022 World Cup may have been “a mistake at the time,” after it became clear that the Qatari summers and their 120 ºF days are not exactly condusive to playing soccer.

AFTER SOCHI, RIO AND QATAR, TOKYO WAS EASIER Istanbul, despite its appeal as a growing modern metropolis, faced similar protests this summer that made the city look unfit to host an event on the scale of the Olympics, and Madrid, with its youthful appeal and LGBTQfriendly stance, still suffers from a crippled Spanish economy.

Thus, given the choice, it’s no wonder that the IOC went with the guarantees offered by Tokyo after years of controversy and chaos.

But it’s hard not to notice that our choice of Olympics-ready cities is actually quite slim.

Like Pixar movies, we’re starting to see sequels — Tokyo 1964 and now 2020, London 1948 and 2012. The same countries bid over and over. Even Madrid, which seemed like a somewhat original choice, has to be placed in the context of the Barcelona Summer Games just 21 years ago.

Who’s looking to bid for 2024?

That’s a ways out, but possible bids could come from Paris (see the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville), Toronto (see Vancouver 2010), and a likely bid from a U.S. city to be determined (see numerous examples above).

The lack of diversity shows how little has changed since these countries had the Olympics for the first time — the choices really do reflect the long-standing and disproportionate hierarchy of the world economy. At the least the IOC had the right mind to fix its mistake and vote wrestling back into the Olympic program — that was a “safe” choice, but definitely the right one. Preserving a sport in which 71 different nations competed at the 2012 Games is truer to the Olympic spirit than anything else surrounding the politics of international sport.

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

NUMBER OF HOME GAMES THE GEORGETOWN WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM HAS WON IN A ROW, OUTSCORING ITS OPPONENTS 19–3. The Bulldogs will face the Hoyas in Georgetown for their first of two games this weekend.