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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 · VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 13 · yaledailynews.com

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WEEKEND

RENAISSANCE MAN THE ARTS UNDER THE LEVINS

ELECTION DRAMA

ARTISTIC AIRLIFT

FOOTBALL

GOP contests design of state’s ballot, arguing it should have top spot

CRANES BRING NEW SCULPTURES TO YUAG GARDEN

Yale kicks off season with new coach at Georgetown

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Inaugural Yale-NUS faculty unveiled

CROSS CAMPUS Get out the resume.

Undergraduate Career Services will host the career fair today in Payne Whitney’s Lanman Center from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Expect suits and small talk.

And get in line. Shake Shack is now open for business on Chapel Street, but lines out the door means the faint of heart can’t get burgers just yet.

Before the restaurant opened Thursday morning, the line stretched to the corner of Chapel and College streets.

We’re number 2 … 1! After an exhaustive, summerlong examination of culinary departments at all America’s four-year colleges — more than 2,000 in all — food website The Daily Meal ranked Yale Dining as the 21st best college dining experience in the nation. “The dining program at Yale can be summed up in three words: organic, sustainable, local,” the author writes. “Want to see where the chicken you just ate was raised? Done.

Students can view the exact farm on Google Earth with a production code provided by the dining hall manager.” Has anyone ever done that?

YouTube famous. Ariane Abela MUS ’10 and Colin Britt MUS ’10 are getting attention on YouTube not for their prowess with Schubert or Schumann, but for a cover of a modern classic: Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.” The cover version they co-arranged, performed by the 3Penny Chorus and Orchestra, has racked up 80,000 views since it was posted on Tuesday.

More “Call Me Maybe”? In further proof that a little gnome is following you around, playing this song on a boombox on his shoulder, the Duke’s Men are recording a remix of “Call Me Maybe” called “Like Us Maybe” to benefit YHHAP. The prophet speaks. Yale economics professor Robert Shiller, who famously predicted the dotcom and housing bubbles, appeared in a new interview this week with NPR’s Neal Conan, saying we’re not quite out of the woods on housing prices yet. “Once you have a year of solid price increases, you are probably off to the races for some years… but we’re not into it that long yet,” Shiller said in the interview.

Under fire. Dr. Richard Keller ’78, the former medical director of Phillips Academy Andover who worked at the boarding school for 19 years, has been charged with receiving child pornography after at least 60 DVDs and 500 illegal photographs were found in his home, the Boston Globe reported.

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BY GAVAN GIDEON AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS On Thursday night, Yale-NUS administrators officially announced the school’s inaugural faculty — a group of 38 professors from across the globe who say they are eager to introduce the liberal arts to Singapore.

Seven faculty members of the new college, a joint venture between Yale and the National University of Singapore, have previously worked at NUS, and three have served as Yale faculty. Roughly half of the professors are American, just under a quarter are Singaporean or maintain permanent residence in the country, and the rest hail from other parts of the world.

“This is a group of people with very interesting cross-cultural experiences,” Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn said. “They’re a group of people who also have demonstrated an ability to work across disciplines.”

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The post office at 206 Elm St. is struggling to keep up with an influx of packages, causing delays — and academic headaches — for many students waiting to pick up their textbooks.

Post office struggles to keep up

BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER A delay in sorting mail at the Yale Station post office could leave many students without their packages — and, more importantly, their textbooks — for at least a few more days.

Due to a hefty influx of incoming mail and parcels, the post office at 206 Elm St. has fallen behind schedule on processing deliver-

ies for students. After a United States Postal Service spokesperson was informed of the backlog by the News on Wednesday, several USPS employees from other local post offices were temporarily transferred to the Elm Street location to help sort and distribute packages.

But the delay has already sparked discontent among many Yalies who have yet to receive textbooks and other items, and Campus Mail Services Director Don Relihan said the

post office is currently unable to provide a timeline for when service will resume its normal pace.

USPS spokesperson Christine Dugas said Thursday that the Yale Station post office is only “one or two days” behind on sorting operations. She said delays like these can occur because packages for Yale students are first delivered to the main New Haven post office

Yale-NUS professors said they are excited to be at the forefront of the liberal arts in a country where undergraduate education has traditionally focused on professional, specialized degrees.

Andrew Hui, who was appointed as an assistant professor of humanities at Yale-

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YCC to seek greater role in admin decisions

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND MADELINE MCMAHON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER As the 2012-’13 Yale College Council executive board ends the first month of its tenure on campus, it aims to increase communication between the council and students as well as between students and administrators.

Members of the YCC executive board said they hope to enhance student participation and input in administrative decisions, beginning with the enforcement of the new off-campus party registration policy and the search for University President Richard Levin’s successor.

YCC President John Gonzalez ’14, who was elected last April in a runoff election, said he intends to change the structure of YCC to accommodate more input from the rest of the student body.

“If we have a conversation between students and the administration and then they decide to implement policy, that’s fine,” he said. “But we see a big problem with the YCC finding out the policies at the same time as everyone else.”

In response to concerns that administrators did not solicit enough student input while crafting the off-campus party registration rule — which requires students holding an off-campus party with over 50 attendees to register it with the Yale College Dean’s Office — the YCC

It’s not every century that Yale decides to start a college … this will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build something from the ground up.

plans to form a committee on offcampus life, Gonzalez said. He added that he envisions not just YCC members participating, but also leaders of student organizations, members of the Yale Police Department and representatives from the Dean’s Office such as Marichal Gentry, dean of student affairs, and John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources.

We see a big problem with the YCC finding out the policies at the same time as everyone else.

JOHN GONZALEZ ’14 President, Yale College Council Gonzalez said he has been working with members of the President’s Office to organize an open town hall meeting to facilitate a discussion between Levin and undergraduates.

In addition, he said, the YCC would like to work with former YCC President Brandon Levin ’14, student counselor to the Yale Presidential Search Committee, to incorporate more student opinion into the presidential search, because he thinks Brandon Levin’s office hours may not be an “effective” platform.

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ANDREW HUI Assistant professor of humanities, Yale-NUS College

Bio changes cause enrollment spike

BY ZACHARY PLYAM AND CLINTON WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER After reformatting introductorylevel biology courses this fall, the University has seen substantial growth in the enrollment of those classes.

Introductory biology courses faced logistical challenges throughout shopping period as demand repeatedly exceeded the capacity of the lecture halls assigned to those courses.

The spike in enrollment was largely caused by new prerequisites for the molecular, cellular and developmental biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, and molecular biophysics and biochemistry majors and an influx of students who did not pass the biology placement exam introduced this fall. While MCDB Director of Undergraduate Studies Douglas Kankel said the department expected a large number of students not to pass the placement test, he said he was surprised by how many freshmen choose to enroll in introductory courses rather than waiting to take them during sophomore year.

“From our perspective, the students going through this intro sequence are going to be better trained,” Kankel said. “But we were surprised by the size of the introductory course.”

Both of this semester’s introductory biology courses — “Biochemistry and Biophysics” and “Cell Biology and Membrane Physiology” — were origi-

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High enrollment in the new introductory biology sequence has put pressure on departments to find classroom space. nally scheduled to meet in Osborne Memorial Laboratories, but many students were forced to wait outside when hundreds showed up on the first day. The classes were moved to Battell Chapel for their second meeting and then transferred to the Law School SEE BIOLOGY PAGE 6

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GUE ST COLUMNIST PERICLE S LEWIS

Why I am going to Singapore

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A rebuilding year for football

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fter a string of scandals, the football team can redeem itself.

When the Yale football team starts its season tomorrow at Georgetown, the game will not just mark the start of a new season and coaching tenure. It will be a chance for the team to shake off a series of scandals and begin a long rebuilding process.

Ours is one of the nation’s most storied football teams, with a history as old as football itself. It remains the crown jewel of a Yale Athletics program that prides itself on molding scholar-athletes.

But the past few years have left the team’s mandate in question.

In 2008, members of the Zeta Psi fraternity were photographed outside the Women’s Center holding a sign that read “We Love Yale Sluts.” In 2010, members of DKE horrified campus with their chants on Old Campus.

Both fraternities are closely tied to the football team.

Last December, former head coach Tom Williams resigned after he was caught lying about having been a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. In January, The New York Times published an article suggesting that quarterback Patrick Witt had withdrawn his candidacy for the Rhodes because of a sexual misconduct complaint against him — not because the interview was scheduled for the same day as The Game.

A young head coach was hired. A new captain was elected. Spring practice should have been the time for the team to start moving past the scandals. Then Will McHale ’13 had his captaincy suspended this summer after he allegedly punched another student in the face.

Football can be a force for good. It can teach leadership, character and disciplined teamwork. But due to several

very visible failings, the team has appeared to stray from that mission. It has become something most students see as only a source of an annual tailgate and a stream of scandals.

Yale might not be a football factory, but the team has a privileged place in the pecking order of varsity sports.

While other teams struggle to fill rosters, relatively pampered football brings in 30 recruits a year and plays before tens of thousands.

That position within the Athletics Department comes with responsibilities; football must prove itself up to the same lofty standards lesserknown Yale teams face.

There is a great deal of unwarranted antipathy toward football players in the general student population. The recent string of scandals, even though they represent the actions of a minority of the football community, will only worsen negative perceptions of athletes.

Yale Athletics is not making matters better. Athletics Director Tom Beckett has failed to address any of the issues that have plagued the team in recent years, hiding behind terse press releases from his office instead of speaking out.

Now a new season begins.

The members of the football team and new coach Tony Reno will face more than just the pressure to win and make up for a decade of embarrassment against Harvard. The reputation of their program has sunk, and it is up to the team as a whole to remind a school prepared to count them out what good football can do. They have no captain this year, and maybe that is fitting; each and every player shares the burden of reminding Yale what a noble thing a football team can be.

wo years ago, when plans were first outlined for a college to be jointly founded by Yale and the National University of Singapore, I volunteered to be involved in planning the humanities curriculum and hiring the initial faculty. What could be more exciting than building an entirely new residential undergraduate program in liberal arts from the ground up?

A friend of mine joked that I must feel like Walter de Merton, who founded one of the oldest colleges at Oxford in the 13th century.

Back in the late 20th century, I was very fortunate, upon completing my PhD in comparative literature, to get the best job I could hope for, as an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Yale. Like the Egyptians who experienced seven years of feast and seven years of famine (but in reverse order), I spent seven years on the tenure track and seven more years as a tenured professor.

In those 14 years, I learned a great deal from my colleagues and students. The spirit of inquiry and sense of community at Yale set it apart from any educational institution I have ever been associated with. Yale undergraduates care intensely about the life

of the mind, and they also care about the world around them.

Nowhere else have I seen what Hannah Arendt describes as the “vita contemplativa” and the “vita activa” so harmoniously blended.

But now, as president of YaleNUS College, I have been granted the opportunity to take what I have learned at Yale and use it to build a new institution. My wife Sheila and I visited Singapore in 1994 and admired the multicultural variety of Little India, Chinatown and Arab Street.

One afternoon, I communed with the spirit of Joseph Conrad at the bar of the Raffles Hotel, where he first conceived the idea for “Lord Jim,” his brilliant critique of the imperialist spirit.

Even 18 years ago, we recognized Singapore as a society in rapid transition.

I did not visit Singapore again until last year, but I was hooked.

Friends who have taught in Singapore have emphasized both the rapid growth of the university system and some of the challenges it faces. NUS has evolved over the last half-century into one of the top universities in Asia, in large part because of the strong financial support of the government of Singapore and Singapore’s decision to make

the university formally autonomous about a decade ago. Over the years, NUS has expanded its breadth, flexibility and global education opportunities. Yet the university is seeking to do even more.

I have spent two invigorating years working with colleagues at both NUS and Yale to hire the initial faculty and prepare the outlines of a broad-ranging curriculum for Yale-NUS. I appreciate the concerns of those on the faculty who worry about how Yale’s values will be upheld in a culture with very different laws and norms. My interaction with colleagues who already teach at NUS has confirmed for me, however, that this is a great opportunity to develop a new model of liberal arts education, true to the traditions of Yale but adapted to the needs of the 21st century and incorporating study of a variety of Asian cultures.

Singapore continues to evolve.

Conversations are deepening on issues concerning homosexuality, journalistic practices and multi-party elections. Yale’s agreement with NUS and the evolving norms within Singapore create the basis for making liberal education a reality. It will be my job to make sure the culture of liberal education flourishes in

the new college, and I invite my colleagues at Yale to participate in developing that culture. After spending a third of my life in New Haven, it is hard to leave behind friends and colleagues, but I hope I will be taking a little bit of New Haven with me to Singapore — and I expect visitors!

In his “Principles of Political Economy” of 1848, John Stuart Mill wrote, “It is hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present low state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar …

Such communication has always been, and is peculiarly in the present age, one of the primary sources of progress.”

These words are equally true in our age. When value systems do come into conflict, the best hope for the future leadership of a rapidly changing world lies not in isolation or withdrawal from that conflict but in the continued exchange of ideas and knowledge, which is the essence of a liberal education. And it is to further the goals of liberal education that I am going to Singapore.

PERICLES LEWIS is president of Yale-NUS College.

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T M I C H E L L E TAY L O R

To thine own reading be true I

would like to begin with an apology to the members of my Thursday afternoon Shakespeare seminar, who, yesterday, undeservingly suffered the loudest, squeakiest, and most impassioned conniption fit I’ve had in at least three days.

I try not to make a habit of yelling and gesticulating wildly at innocents, especially while being watched by the people who grade my papers. But I sort of couldn’t help it. I felt that they, my classmates, were threatening someone I loved — a role model, even.

I mean, they weren’t really threatening her, since she’s not real. But even if Portia may not exist, I have come to love her in the course of reading “The Merchant of Venice,” and I guess I don’t like it when people question the things she never actually did because she isn’t a real person, even when those people are doing it well, and under the instruction and leadership of the person who grades my papers. Again, I’m really sorry, and I’ll try to keep it from happening again.

By nature, I am a passive reader. I’ve always thought of this as unusual — and unfortunate — as my major, English, is predicated on the active penetration of literary texts. I think my way of reading — in which the mind is just a piece of bread being dipped into a bowl of delicious soup — is the way most of us read, at least at first. I like to wallow in the poems or stories I’m assigned, and I often have to do a good bit of rousing myself from floating languidly over a text before I do the necessary mental exercise of actually thinking while I’m reading.

I’m both a runner and a lazy person, so this exercise metaphor works for me: It’s hard and I’m usually loathe to get started, but at the end of the day I’m much better off for having exerted myself over a play or a speed workout. There are a lot of people, though, who don’t like exercise or active reading, and to them I want to say: It’s okay. Please read anyway.

A lot of us come to Yale and realize that maybe we’re not cut out to do all the things we love.

How many art history majors here loved calculus in high school? But linear algebra wasn’t for them.

And how many chemists loved their high school English classes?

I know of at least several.

But it can be upsetting if you’ve spent your whole life taking “Romeo and Juliet” at face value (“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,” you told your prom date, “my love as deep.”) only to have someone undermine what you had taken to be a perfect love. Now, suddenly, you’re bothered that Juliet was only 14; you’re bothered that, just yesterday, Romeo was lovesick over Rosaline.

But if you didn’t care when you read it in high school, you don’t have to start caring about it now.

Your feelings are as real as anyone’s — realer than those of the characters on the page. If your heart broke to read Juliet plunging Romeo’s dagger into her breast — if you think the balcony scene is the most beautiful love exchange ever written — if when you read these things you are glad for

their beauty and the feeling they evoke, cling to that. Don’t change because you think an opinion or a paper has invalidated it.

Don’t give up on reading the classics because you don’t think you’re doing it right. Don’t put “Ulysses” on the shelf for another year because there isn’t a class on it. If you want to read something, read it. And if all you make of it is a string of pretty words — well, aren’t you happier to have read such a lovely line?

All that matters is that you like it, or that you feel it — and if you misunderstand it in a way that makes it more meaningful to you, be glad of it. Let it mean what it will mean to you. That’s a valid way of reading — and perhaps, in the end, the most important one.

As long as you don’t go yelling at people about it. Trust me, it’s pretty awkward.

MICHELLE TAYLOR is a senior in Davenport College. Contact her at michelle.taylor@yale.edu .

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do not see what the big deal about chicken tenders is. When I first tried them last week, they tasted mostly like nothing — nothing edible, that is. So after being goaded on by a bunch of wide-eyed upperclassmen to take a plateful, I went to dump it in the trash. While I was not immediately struck by pangs of guilt or visions of hungry, starving children, I did see something close enough. Heaps of salads, piles of sandwiches and stacks of pancakes were lying there rotting, all sacrificed at the altar of all-youcan-eat college dining.

This is a problem that schools across the country have been trying to deal with through various methods, not least by experimenting with trayless dining and composting. The Yale Office of Sustainability’s goal of reducing solid waste from dining halls to 30 percent below 2009 levels by the end of this academic year is indeed commendable. However, the amount they can salvage is constricted by the sheer magnitude of waste coming out of the dining halls. What we don’t understand, though, is how intimately problems of food wast-

age in the Yale bubble are linked to pressing global issues the world over.

Two centuries ago, Thomas Robert Malthus postulated something pretty incredible. Human beings, he said, must copulate and multiply. Land, on the other hand, is finite and all we have to live on.

Therefore mankind must either disappear into the darkness of extinction or die faster by means of epidemics and wars.

It may seem ridiculous today to think that socioeconomic and technological progress will plateau simply because of burgeoning numbers. After all, in today’s interconnected world, nations have a chance to grow out of the restrictions placed on them by geography and topography. Economic growth has outpaced population growth, and countries like Brazil and Australia produce phenomenally more food than they did when Malthus was around.

Even the rate of population growth has fallen globally, from 2 percent in the 1960s to 1.2 percent four decades later.

Try as we might, however, we cannot wish away the fact that, in the world we live in today, 1 bil-

lion overweight people coexist with 850 million people who have barely enough to survive. Neither can we forget the mobs rioting in the streets of Cairo a few years ago for bread, nor the current rise in prices of food worldwide, even in the heart of firstworld suburbia. The rising affluence of the erstwhile third world countries poses a problem, too — their growing consumption of high-end and processed food raises doubts about whether the world will be able to support the projected global population of 9.5 billion by 2050.

While new agricultural technologies and research on genetically modified crops is of course a major part of the solution, we must not forget the role individuals and groups can play as catalysts. The problem of food waste is as grave and noteworthy as that of less production. The Natural Resources Defense Council estimates that 40 percent of food in America goes uneaten. This food waste costs $165 billion a year and sucks up 25 percent of the country’s freshwater. And, to add to this barrage of statistics, here’s one more: One in six Americans

still goes hungry.

This is the sad truth that must be addressed by us all. After all, isn’t the very first Millennium Development Goal to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger? The discourse on food security is central to the discourse on the nature of human dignity today.

We at Yale care immensely about the world around us. It shows in the University’s engagement with New Haven, the social service projects undertaken by students the world over and the ideation here that drives change everywhere. The food we waste is never fully recovered or as useful as the food that remains untouched in the dining hall service stations. It would be in keeping with Yale’s innate character and its spirit as a global university helping to tackle global issues if we could take only as much food as we need and waste no more. It is only then that we can consign Malthus’s ideas to the dustbin of history where they belong.

DHRUV AGGARWAL is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at dhruv.aggarwal@yale.edu .

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DOUGLAS ADAMS “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”

GUEST COLUMNIST MILLICENT MARCUS

‘Better off’ depends on grammar A

s a Romance language teacher, I realize that I have developed a somewhat eccentric way of listening to my native tongue. Because the English “you,” for example, translates both the singular and the plural second-person forms of address, I make assumptions about the grammatical number of that pronoun when it is not indicated by context.

Hence my surprise when the answers elicited by the question, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” usually concern only the conditions of the individual respondents. To my Romance language-attuned ears, the “you” of the question is plural, and the addressee is the citizenry at large. Given the

economic crisis into which our country was plunged in 2008 as financial institutions teetered on the brink of collapse, the auto industry failed, the stock market went into free fall and unemployment exploded, my reflexive answer to the “better off” question is an unequivocal “Yes we are!”

The refrains of “We’re all in this together” and “I built this myself” that emerged from the political conventions of the last few weeks brought to mind another of my ongoing rhetorical interests: the metaphor of the body politic, the notion that the polis is an organic unit, all parts of which are necessary to the healthy functioning of the whole.

In my research, I found the first fully articulated use of the metaphor by Menenius Agrippa, the consul of Rome, to quell an uprising among the Roman plebeians. He argued that the rebels should not resent the task of providing “everything for the belly” — Rome’s patrician elite — since the belly, in turn, nourished the entire social organism.

While his corporeal analogy for the workings of the state opens itself up to a vast gamut of ideological possibilities (Agrippa’s parable being clearly conservative and marking perhaps the first articulation of supplyside economics), it is the insistence on the vital interdependence of parts for the proper workings of the whole which I

find most compelling as I contemplate the singular or plural meanings of “you” in today’s “better off” question.

“YOU” CAN BE EITHER PLURAL OR SINGULAR I cannot help but see the literal manifestation of the body politic metaphor in the Affordable Care Act. The act depends on large numbers of healthy people paying into the system to help defray the costs of the catastrophically or chronically ill, in

recognition of the fact that the well-being of our social organism requires a collective responsibility for the sick and weak among us.

Last week, NPR’s Marketplace presented a sampling of reactions to the “better off” query, and one of them contained a stinging rebuke of the question itself. The respondent railed against the self-interested materialism of the most frequently cited measures of well-being — employment status, salary and job mobility among them. Whatever happened to the Kennedy-esque plea for civic responsibility and commitment to the common good? he asked.

The respondent, like me,

rejected the single household as the unit of measurement and understood that being “better off” required communal endeavors to improve the lives of us all. By invoking a very different philosophical premise from the one that originally gave rise to the question in Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign, the respondent unmasked the individualist bias of its formulation and offered a vision of genuine human and social connectedness as the answer to what makes a nation better off.

In other words, it all boils down to a question of grammar: Is the “you” singular or plural?

MILLICENT MARCUS is a professor of Italian.

A modern president

S TA F F I L L U S T R AT O R K A R E N T I A N

Carol of the bells F

or the majority of its existence, Yale did not count most minorities — or women, for that matter — among its students.

Yale’s name was practically synonymous with lily-white, WASPish, moneyed roots. But we are now living in the 21st century. It is time to show the world — and prospective applicants — that Yale is a changed place. It is time for Yale to appoint a woman, a gay person or a minority as its next president.

There are those who will loudly demand (or have already demanded) that the next president must be the absolute best possible candidate, no matter his or her gender, ethnicity or sexuality. The assumption here is that race, gender and sexuality contribute nothing to a candidate; degrees, job experience and vision are all that matter.

This logic is predicated on a faulty assumption. Those who follow it do not understand that life experiences are as important a qualification as one’s alma mater or previous employer. Minorities, women and gay people are not solely defined by their race, gender or sexual orientation, but each of those things is an important part of who they are. And the adversity they may have experienced — or the broader worldview they possess — can enrich an institution looking to the future. When it comes to choosing Yale’s next president, I am in favor of a strict meritocracy, but merit is not limited to what is on a résumé.

Universities should not seek diversity for diversity’s sake — as a mere bragging right — but for the varied perspectives it brings to a campus. To Brown, in 2001, a president unlike her predecessors brought a unique sense of empathy that demystified Brown for poor kids.

Ruth Simmons, the daughter of a sharecropper and the product of segregated schools, became the institution’s first minority president.

Simmons grew up in the desperately poor, staunchly racist world of Houston’s Fifth Ward.

A black woman in the Jim Crow South, she was not expected to attend college. After spending a semester at the prestigious, primarily white Wellesley College, Simmons realized she could compete intellectually with wealthy whites.

“Now I knew the truth, and an electric bolt went through me,” she recalled in an interview years later. She had always been told she was inherently inferior, yet she overcame the institutionalized and socialized bigotry.

As president of Brown, Simmons was instrumental in securing a $100 million donation to eliminate loans for Brown students. Would a president from a more privileged upbringing

have understood the need to lessen the load for poor students?

Mere months into Simmons’s tenure, she gave a major address following the 9/11 terrorist attacks; surrounded by fear and rage, Simmons spoke pasSCOTT sionately about combating STERN prejudice and embracing tolerance. Would a presiA Stern dent who did not viscerPerspective ally understand bigotry and hate have understood the complex emotions after a national tragedy in such a nuanced way?

Simmons also brought something more important to Brown: the appearance that the school was a modern and accepting place. That Brown — a member of the historically notoriously white Ivy League — would choose a black woman as its president proved how far the institution had come. It admitted the university’s less-than-accepting past, acknowledged the unique challenges minorities and women seeking to succeed in higher education face, and accepted a world that is changing.

For every $100 white men earn, white women earn $80.50, black men earn $74.50 and black women earn $69.60. African-Americans and Hispanics were stopped roughly nine times as often as whites under New York’s stop-andfrisk law, and black men are in prison at rates six times those of white men. Even ignoring the issue of gay marriage, gay people have trouble obtaining all manner of benefits from the government, and homosexual sodomy laws were still on the books until 2003.

Bigotry is real and pervasive. The challenges women and minorities and gay people face should not be ignored; rather, we should use the wisdom they can glean from those unique challenges.

Appointing a female or a minority or a gay president would not be affirmative action; it would be Yale acting in its own self-interest.

We could all benefit from a president with a more nuanced worldview and a true understanding of adversity. We could all benefit from the appearance — and, more important, the reality — that Yale is an accepting and wholly modern place.

SCOTT STERN is a sophomore in Branford College.

Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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here comes a time every few years when teachers’ unions and school districts perform an elaborate waltz for favorable contract terms.

We are witnessing this in Chicago — with the fates of thousands of students in the balance.

Issues of teacher-school district relations are personal for me, as they should be for the roughly 57 percent of Yale undergraduates who are also graduates of public schools.

In these negotiations, it is perfectly understandable for each side to fight for its own interests.

Unions seek to ensure job security and higher wages for their members, and school districts try to ensure quality and rea-

sonable costs for their schools to function. However, in both parties’ self-interested jockeying for higher benefits and lower expenses, they neglect to focus on one thing: the success of their students. It’s time that teachers and school districts put aside the bottom line and discuss policies designed to benefit students.

First, teachers should not be exempt from being judged by their performance. While evaluation methods like test scores have their flaws, this shouldn’t excuse teachers from joining the discussion about developing better ones. Given the importance of their jobs due to the direct impact they have on the lives of millions of children

and the future workforce of the United States, there is no reason our teachers shouldn’t be subject to the standards to which we hold our public servants.

Second, teachers’ average salaries should be higher, but only if there is a system in place to ensure the quality of their work matches their payment. This argument may not appeal to Chicago’s striking teachers, whose average salary of $75,000 is far above the national average. But in a just society, people who do well should be rewarded. More stringent pay-for-performance parameters would be a step in the right direction. In fact, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed raises for improvement in

student performance.

Third, to ensure better quality from the start, the U.S. should make teaching more competitive by increasing the educational requirements to become a teacher. In Finland, for example, all primary school teachers are required to have a master’s degree, and the application process for education school is more rigorous than medical and law schools. According to the 2009 results of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Finland ranked in second in reading, first in science and first in math, while the United States ranked 15th, 23rd and 31st

in those respective fields. While these tests are not perfect indicators of aptitude and immeasurable skills such as innovation, they are the best we have.

It is imperative to get rid of teachers who are not working for their students. However, extensive bureaucratic measures usually make it very difficult to get rid of teachers performing poorly. One study found that while one in 57 doctors loses his or her medical license and one in 97 attorneys is disbarred, only one in 2,500 teachers eventually loses his or her teaching licenses.

Unions are in the right for protecting a teacher’s right to teach, but if the teacher is incompetent and not living up to the task

he or she is paid to do, then, as in every job, the teacher should be relieved of his or her duties, period.

I am not in the business of demonizing teachers, but if we are to solve a growing education problem in the United States, we must be honest with ourselves and make the necessary changes to benefit our students. It was a lack of focus on students and a lack of compromise that led to the Chicago teachers’ strike; if we are to solve the problems of our educational system, those two things will be sorely needed.

MORKEH BLAY-TOFEY is a senior in Trumbull College. Contact him at morkeh.blaytofey@yale.edu .

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS CHARLES BAILYN ’81 Bailyn, the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics, was selected as Yale-NUS College’s inaugural dean of faculty when the college was announced in 2010. He was considered to be a top contender for the position of Yale College dean in 2008.

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“It’s not every century that Yale decides to start a college, and for me this will be a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity to build something from the ground up,” Hui said.

But for Andrew Bailey, assistant professor of humanities, concerns over freedom of expression in Singapore did initially deter him from joining Yale-NUS, “though obviously not with any finality.” Since the college was announced in September 2010, some students and faculty in New Haven have criticized Yale-NUS due to concerns over an alleged lack of political freedoms in Singapore. Yale-NUS professors said they do not think these claims reflect realities in the country, and discussions with administrators at Yale and Yale-NUS as well as with their colleagues have made them confident that all members of the college’s community will have academic freedoms.

“One thing that helped assuage my worries was actually visiting Singapore and talking with local students and faculty about the academic climate there,” Bailey said in a Thursday email.

“It’s much more free and open than the critics will admit.”

Social science professor George Bishop GRD ’76, who has taught at NUS for 21 years and will maintain a concurrent appointment there, said he finds the criticisms leveled at Yale-NUS “somewhat overblown.” While political freedoms have been restricted in the past, Singapore is “changing rapidly,” Bishop said, adding that he as well as his guest speakers have been able to criticize government policies.

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CHARLES BAILYN Dean of Faculty, Yale-NUS Bailyn said the new faculty attended a twoweek intensive workshop in New Haven during July and another in Singapore during August to discuss plans for the new college and develop its core interdisciplinary curriculum, which will incorporate both Western and Asian traditions.

Though Yale-NUS will offer about 16 majors, Bailyn said faculty members at the college do not belong to traditional academic departments but are rather divided between three divisions: the sciences, social sciences and humanities. He said the structure is intended to “encourage interdisciplinary thinking” and to avoid “departmental turf wars.”

Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said the administration will release a general outline of the curriculum next month.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

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The Yale-NUS faculty visited New Haven for two weeks in July to plan the school’s curriculum. University President Richard Levin, above left, joined in on the discussions.

YCC board to focus on communication YCC FROM PAGE 1 Other initiatives that the YCC hopes to tackle include extending dining hall open hours for studying and creating a new website, crosscampus.org, which would feature a regularly updated events calendar and a central portal for student created websites, said YCC Secretary Leandro Leviste ’15. He added that this year’s YCC will also build on projects first initiated by last year’s YCC, such as the incorporation of mental health fellows into each residential college and the ongoing effort to extend the Credit/D/ Fail deadline by three weeks.

Several students interviewed said they were unclear about the YCC’s objectives this year and the degree to which it can influence administrative policy, adding that their confusion limits their ability to know which ideas or concerns are appropriate to bring to the Council.

Reba Watsky ’14 said she would appreciate an effort by the Council to increase its transparency and make students aware of its purview.

“Frankly, I don’t have a really great sense of what the role of the YCC is in relation to the administration,” she said. “So maybe I’d like them to make that more transparent, or maybe I

should just do a better job of looking into that.”

Six of eight students interviewed said they thought the YCC should focus less heavily on the off-campus party registration. The two other students who said they were happy that the YCC was addressing the offcampus party registration rule still expressed skepticism that the Council can affect the policy.

Aviva Musicus ’13, who said she supported YCC’s attempts to help shape the registration rule, said she hopes the YCC will also engage administrators in a conversation to further explain the reasoning behind the fall rush ban for Greek organizations

— a policy announced by administrators last spring.

“There are many organizations at Yale that have a fall rush, besides fraternities and sororities,” she said. “I think to limit it [the new policy] to fraternities and sororities is kind of discriminatory.”

Elections for the YCC’s 24 representative slots — two from each residential college — opened Thursday at 9 a.m. and close Friday at 9 p.m.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu .

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The Yale College Council, under the leadership of John Gonzalez ’14, is aiming to increase student participation in administrative decisions.

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The 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial race was extremely close, with Democrat Dannel Malloy’s final margin of victory totaling only 6,404 votes out of more than a million ballots cast.

New sculptures land in Art Gallery garden

BY EMMA GOLDBERG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Beverages are not permitted in the Yale University Art Gallery, but on Wednesday morning the security team made an exception for YUAG Director Jock Reynolds’ coffee. The staff of the gallery had arrived unusually early in the morning to watch a crane lift three new sculptures into the museum’s rooftop garden.

Though the gallery’s grand reopening will take place Dec. 12, the installation of new works throughout the gallery is staggered so that pieces such as the three new sculptures will be open to the public earlier. Curator Cathleen Chaffee selected the works not for each one’s thematic content, but rather to display the breadth of the gallery’s modernist sculpture collection, which includes about 700 pieces. She said she hopes the new sculptures, which were installed starting on Wednesday, will generate enthusiasm in advance of the December unveiling of the Art Gallery’s 14-year renovation.

“With so many people coming through the gallery in December, we wanted to make sure the variety of our collection was on view,” Chaffee said. “We chose works that visitors will be excited to see when they come for the reopening.”

The sculpture garden’s new features include works by the artists George Rickey, Jim Dine and Erin Shirreff ART ’05, whose video installations will also be on view in an exhibit called “Once Removed,” opening this December in the Khan Building.

The George Rickey piece —

a tall structure, part of which turns in the wind — was given to the Art Gallery in 1970 and displayed until recently in the Pierson College courtyard, but the Shirreff sculpture is one of the Art Gallery’s most recent purchases, Chaffee said. She added that Shirreff’s work is expected to generate particular excitement because the artist is a Yale alumna.

“Part of our mandate at the gallery is being responsive to the work made by Yale grads,” Chaffee said. “Shirreff’s sculpture is fantastic notwithstanding the fact that she attended Yale, but it’s a nice bonus that graduate students can see the work of one of their peers installed in a beautiful context.”

Shirreff visited the Art Gallery on Wednesday to oversee the installation of her video works and sculpture.

The curatorial team began planning this week’s sculptural installation in March of last year, choosing to display only three works in the garden so as to prevent crowding.

“We wanted to make sure there was a harmony and rhythm amongst the works on view,” Chaffee said.

Clark Crolius, the Art Gallery’s exhibitions production manager, said he worked with engineer Dan Morrissey to ensure that the works could be installed while maintaining a secure weight distribution on the Art Gallery’s roof. Crolius added that his team mapped out a plan for the sculptures’ placement that would not disturb the roots of the elm trees in the garden.

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The Yale University Art Gallery concludes its installation of three new sculptures in its garden today as a crane delivered them to their new home. sculpture to be displayed in the Art Gallery’s rooftop garden while brand new; generally, the Art Gallery elects to install older works in the outdoor space, Crolius said.

Reynolds said he hopes that the new sculptures will build enthusiasm for the reopening, adding that the renovations emphasize the gallery’s natural lighting and its view of New

Tech CEO tells students to be ‘creative,’ ‘tough’

Haven’s cityscape.

“When we unveil in December, you’re going to have your mind blown,” Reynolds said. “It’s going to be a great place to hang out with fun hideaway spaces.”

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BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER He may have nearly been fired from his own startup, worked as a bicycle messenger, and been told to “get a job” while writing a novel, but Glenn Kelman’s experimentation eventually led to his appointment as a technology company’s CEO, he told a crowd of more than 50 at a Morse College Master’s Tea on Thursday.

In a talk titled “From English Major to Tech CEO,” Kelman discussed topics ranging from his upbringing to tips for anyone looking to start a company. Kelman, who earned his degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, used anecdotes from his time as a CEO of the technology startup Redfin, an online real estate firm, to emphasize the importance of being genuine with other people, taking risks and being “tough.”

“I’m not a genius, so all I can be is tough,” Kelman said.

Moving around the room energetically, Kelman recounted the unconventional path of his career. After college, he spent a year attempting

to write a novel before taking a job as a bike messenger. A bad crash, however, caused him to hang up the bike and interview with investment banks, consulting firms and a small tech start-up called Stanford Technology Group. Although larger firms offered him higher pay, Kelman decided to join the startup, quipping that “on the brink of selling out [he] had one more chance to twist the knife.”

Kelman encouraged the seniors in the room to pursue “creative” professions where they can build something new, rather than analytical ones, adding that they should find a job in which they will “lose all sense of time.”

After a few years at Stanford Technology Group, Kelman created his own Internet startup, Plumtree Software, which was “one of the first innovators in the portal market,” according to Morse College Master Amy Hungerford. After leaving Plumtree to take care of his sick older brother, Kelman nearly chose to go to medical school, citing how inspired he was by doctors who refused to give up on his brother. After deliberating for months, however, he elected to

take his current job at Redfin.

Kelman said his experiences have shown him the necessity of pursuing only good ideas and recognizing weaknesses in oneself.

“I never fake knowing something,” he said. “Figure out what your bad thing is and go after it.”

Kelman’s “harrowing” upbringing gave him confidence and resilience on which he would later draw, he added, citing time spent as the only Jew at an Evangelical Christian summer camp and the conviction of his older brother for a violent felony. He stated that he hoped his talk would give students “the confidence to do [their] own thing.”

Two students in attendance interviewed said they found Kelman’s advice helpful.

“I came here because I wanted to find out the kind of characters behind really amazing people,” Alex Meeks ’14 said. “And I got that.”

Redfin officially launched in 2006, one year after Kelman joined the firm.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

Contact EMMA GOLDBERG at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .

Ballot order challenged in CT Supreme Court

BY EDDIE ORTIZ NIEVES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Glenn Kelman, the CEO of an online real estate firm, told students at a Morse College Master’s Tea Wednesday that they should pursue creative careers and emphasized the importance of being “tough.”

Renovations on the Art Gallery began in 1998 when Reynolds arrived as director.

With Election Day approaching, Connecticut finds itself in the midst of a lawsuit that will determine what its ballot looks like in November.

Representatives for the two parties in the case, the Connecticut Republican Party and Secretary of the State Denise Merrill, presented oral arguments to the Connecticut Supreme Court on Wednesday, a month after the GOP filed the appeal with the court on Aug. 14. The GOP claims that Merrill’s decision to list Democratic candidates first on the state’s ballots violates state law because it ignores the fact that the Republican Party received more votes than any other party in the last gubernatorial election. But Solicitor General Gregory D’Auria, representing Merrill, argued the GOP has interpreted the law incorrectly.

The law in question, General Statute §9-249a, states that “the party whose candidate for Governor polled the highest number of votes in the lastpreceding election” shall be listed first in all ballots until the following gubernatorial election. The controversy stems from the 2010 gubernatorial election, in which Gov. Dannel Malloy was listed as both the Democratic and Working Families Party candidate on the ballot since both parties endorsed him. Malloy’s extremely narrow victory was the result of both party’s votes: he received 540,970 votes as the Democratic candidate and 26,308 votes as the Working Families candidate, while Tom Foley, the Republican candidate, received 560,874 votes.

In a brief filed by attorney Proloy Das, who represents the Connecticut Republican Party, he argued that Merrill has ignored the statute’s clear instruction to put Republicans at the top of the ballot. Das’ argument centers around the claim that the statute’s wording is intended to refer to parties rather than individuals, and therefore the name on top should correspond to the party that received the most votes in the previous election.

D’Auria countered with the argument that the court should not even consider the lawsuit due to sovereign immunity, a legal precept dictating that state governments cannot be sued without their consent. D’Auria also claimed in his brief, Merrill’s decision to assign the first line to the Democratic Party should be final.

“We are not interpreting the law in any way,” said Av Harris, a spokesman for Merrill. “The statutes state very

clearly who should be put first.”

But sovereign immunity does not apply in this instance, Das argued, because the GOP is seeking a declaratory injunction — a judgment that would clarify the law, rather than require a specific action.

Connecticut law requires the state to inform all towns and cities of the ballot’s design by Sept. 15. However, Harris said, the court is scheduled to accept additional briefs on Monday, Sept. 17, indicating that the case may not conclude before this deadline.

This is not the first time in Connecticut’s history that ballot order has generated controversy. In the 1938 gubernatorial election, Raymond Baldwin was declared the winner thanks to votes he received as the candidate endorsed by both the Republican and Union parties. Nevertheless, Democrats were given the top spot on the ballot in following elections because they received the most votes of any single party.

Though Das cited this decision as historical precedent in favor of the GOP’s claim, the state argues that the statute’s language in 1938 was significantly different from its current text both in wording and meaning, rendering it irrelevant.

Ballot order could have a significant effect on the election results come November. According to Kelly Rader, a Yale political science professor, research has shown that candidates who are listed first on ballots tend to win “a few more percentage points” than they otherwise would have. She added that this effect is more pronounced in local elections, nonpartisan elections and for third party or lesser-known candidates.

“You can imagine why this is true — absent the usual partisan cues or knowledge of the candidates, voters just pick the first name,” Rader said.

“So while ballot effects might not be at play in the upcoming Connecticut gubernatorial election, the safest bet is still to get on the top of the ballot.”

If the court rules in favor of the Republican Party, Malloy will have to decide if he will remain cross-registered with the Working Families Party in the 2014 gubernatorial election.

If he does remain cross-registered, he could risk the Democratic Party’s position at the top of the ballot again.

Federal law requires states to send finalized ballots to overseas voters by Sept. 21, including those in the military.

Contact EDDIE ORTIZ NIEVES at eddie.ortiznieves@yale.edu .

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Yale Station fails to keep up with packages POST OFFICE FROM PAGE 1 facility at 50 Brewery St., and then transferred to Yale Station in limited quanties due to the post office’s lack of storage space. “It is not unusual for the USPS to be backed up with packages at the beginning of the academic year, because of the increase of the volume of mail,� Dugas said. “But we are working to speed up the process.�

This volume of incoming mail to Yale Station reached an alltime peak of 10,000 parcels during the week of Sept. 9 to Sept.

15, said Andrea Dallas, postmaster of the central New Haven post office. That figure was nearly double the 5,400 pieces of USPS mail the post office handled during the second week of fall classes in the 2011-’12 academic year.

This week, Dallas said, five extra USPS employees are working at Yale Station, in addition to the eight staff members that regularly handle mail during the semester. The USPS staff will be working longer shifts, as well as during weekends and holidays, to keep up with the spike in mail, she said. “Some of the staff members here have worked till midnight this week, sorting out packages,�

Dallas said. “That, most students probably don’t know.�

While 17 of 18 students interviewed acknowledged the efforts of the USPS staff in handling the unprecendented volume of incoming parcels, all the students called the delay unacceptable and said the post office should have taken steps to prevent it. Five students said they are still waiting to pick up packages that arrived nearly a week ago, according to online tracking information for their orders, and all 18 said they have experienced some sort of delay.

Mariona Badenas ’16 said she placed an order for textbooks on Amazon.com at the beginning of shopping period and received a notification last week that her packages had arrived in New Haven. She has not yet been able to get her shipment at the post office. “I’ve been going every day to the post office, but I still haven’t found any yellow [slip],� Badenas said. “I understand the fact that they have a huge amount of work these days, but I really need my books for my classes. Without

them, I can’t do any homework or study for any possible quiz.�

Connor Wiik ’15 called the delay “ridiculous,� noting that he has been unable to retrieve packages that online tracking information showed as arriving on Monday.

Olivia Valdes ’16, who had a package shipped on Sept. 6, said the package was delivered two days later, but that she didn’t receive a slip until Sept.

12. Valdes added that the current backup is not the first time she has experienced delays at Yale Station in the past month.

Some of the staff members here have worked until midnight this week ‌ That, most students probably don’t know.

ANDREA DALLAS Postmaster, Central New Haven Post Office “Having to worry about whether your textbook will emerge from the post office’s back room in time for you to study for a test or complete your homework is crazy,� she said. “Everyone who works at Yale Station has been helpful and accommodating, but there’s only so much they can do when thousands of packages are coming in at once and they’re still sorting a prior day’s shipment.�

Dugas said students who believe they have packages that arrived more than two days ago, according to tracking information, should contact Yale Station supervisor Mike Madera.

She also encouraged students to check their P.O. boxes frequently and retrieve their parcels as soon as possible, since Yale Station has limited space to store incoming packages.

Dallas said she hopes to work with the University to create “a better process to get the packages to students at a faster pace next year.�

Yale is one of the few universities in Connecticut that require students to activate a P.O. box to receive mail on campus.

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

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A backup of unsorted mail at the Yale Station post office has frustrated students waiting for course books ordered online to arrive.

New biology placement exam proves challenging BIOLOGY FROM PAGE 1 auditorium, where they have remained since.

Kankel said around 75 percent of students who scored a five on the Advanced Placement biology exam did not pass Yale’s placement test. But he said that filtering students into the introductory courses will help them develop a common foundation in biology, allowing professors

of 200-level biology courses to teach more in-depth material.

Angela Chen ’16, who did not pass the exam, said it was difficult because it tested her on applying concepts to specific experiments, rather than on remembering general facts, as the AP exam did. “I’m very mixed about the system,� Chen said. “I think it’s good [that] everyone starts on the same slate. However, I think I’d rather take courses on biology

that I don’t already know. A lot of what we’re learning now I already knew from AP biology.�

Kankel and EEB Director of Undergraduate Studies Thomas Near both said their departments have not encountered any room scheduling problems this fall aside from the issues with introductory classes. Still, Kankel added that he feels there is mounting pressure to expand Yale’s science teaching facilities

— especially in terms of laboratory space. “All of us are enthusiastic in seeing an expansion in enrollment, but that is going to increase the pressures on teaching facilities,� Kankel said. “The space either has to be created by substantial renovations to existing facilities or by building new facilities, and both are costly.�

The University began planning to construct the Yale Biol-

ogy Building to provide new research space for the biology departments more than 10 years ago, but the project was put on hold when the recession hit in 2008. Associate Provost for Science and Technology Timothy O’Connor said the building remains a top priority, though the timeline for its construction remains unknown because of insufficient financing. The classrooms in Osborne Memorial Lab-

oratories are scheduled to be renovated next summer.

The new guidelines for all three biology majors require students beginning with the class of 2016 to complete all four introductory courses if they do not pass the placement exam.

Contact ZACHARY PLYAM at zachary.plyam@yale.edu and CLINTON WANG at clinton.wang@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 12:00 PM “Climate Change and Biodiversity of the Southern Ocean.” Thomas Near, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will give this Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies seminar. A light lunch will be provided. Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center (21 Sachem St.), room 110.

12:15 PM “The International Criminal Court and the Future of International Law in Africa.” Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh Law School, Ademola Abass of the United Nations University and Institute for Comparative Regional Integration Studies, and Dire Tladi, member of the International Law Commission and the permanent mission of South Africa to the United Nations, will deliver papers. Opening remarks by Yale professors Kamari Clarke and Jim Silk. Sterling Law Buildings

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

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 7:30 PM Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective jam session.

Instrumentalists and vocalists of all abilities are welcome.

Sessions held weekly. Morse College (302-304 York St.), basement music practice room.

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Fed unveils bold steps to aid economy

BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Alarmed by the chronically weak U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve launched an aggressive new effort Thursday to boost the stock market and make borrowing cheaper for years to come.

And it made clear it won’t stop there and is ready to try other stimulative measures if hiring doesn’t pick up.

Stock prices rocketed up in approval. But economists said the Fed’s plans to buy mortgage bonds for as long as it deems necessary and to keep interest rates at record lows until mid2015 — six months longer than previously planned — might provide little benefit to the economy.

Chairman Ben Bernanke himself cautioned that the Fed’s actions are no panacea for slow growth and high unemployment, and said the economy will probably need help even after the recovery strengthens.

“The idea is to quicken the recovery,” Bernanke said at a news conference after the Fed lowered its outlook for growth this year.

As part of its bold and openended plan, the Fed said it would spend $40 billion a month to buy mortgage bonds to make home buying more affordable. That will be the third round of bondbuying in an effort to spur the economy, and the Fed left open

the possibility of taking other steps to encourage borrowing and financial risk-taking.

Stock prices rose steadily after the Fed’s announcement at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up more than 200 points, coming within 625 points — or 4.6 percent — of its all-time high. Other stock averages also surged.

The Fed’s policy committee announced the actions after its monthly two-day meeting. The moves pointed to how sluggish the U.S. and global economies remain more than three years after the Great Recession ended.

Thursday’s announcement marked the Fed’s latest dramatic intervention since the financial crisis erupted in 2008 and the recession sent unemployment into double digits. The Fed cut its benchmark short-term rate to near zero and has kept it there for nearly four years. And it’s bought more than $2 trillion in Treasurys and mortgage bonds to try to drive down long-term rates.

Yet for all that, the U.S. economy is still struggling. The unemployment rate is 8.1 percent. And the Fed estimated Thursday that the rate will fall no lower than 7.6 percent in 2013.

The Fed’s latest actions came a week after the European Central Bank announced its most ambitious plan yet to ease Europe’s financial crisis by buying unlimited amounts of government bonds to help countries manage

their debts.

With less than eight weeks until Election Day, the economy remains the top issue on most voters’ minds. Many Republicans have been critical of the Fed’s continued efforts to drive interest rates lower, saying they fear it could ignite inflation.

Asked at his news conference whether the Fed considered the impact of its actions on the presidential election, Bernanke said: “We make our decisions based entirely on the state of the economy … We just don’t take those factors into account.”

The Fed also lowered its outlook for economic growth this year, though it was more optimistic about the next two years.

It said it expects growth to be no stronger than 2 percent this year, down from its forecast of 2.4 percent in June.

It said it expected the unemployment rate to be no lower than 6.7 percent in 2014, with inflation remaining at or below 2 percent for three more years.

Bernanke made clear that higher stock prices are among the Fed’s goals in buying bonds.

Stock gains increase Americans’ wealth, he noted, and typically lead individuals and businesses to spend and invest more.

But some economists said they thought the benefit to the economy would be slight.

“We doubt it will be enough to get the economy on the right track,” said Paul Ashworth, an

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“It’s only a matter of time before speculation begins as to when the Fed will raise its purchases from $40 billion a month.”

The Fed’s ability to increase home buying might be limited even if its bond purchases help lower mortgage rates. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is 3.55 percent. That’s barely above the record low of 3.49 percent set in July.

NYC bans big, sugary drinks at restaurants

BY JENNIFER PELTZ AND DAVID CARUSO ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — New York City cracked down on the sale of supersized sodas and other sugary drinks Thursday in what was celebrated by some as a groundbreaking attempt to curb obesity but condemned by others as a blatant intrusion into people’s lives by a busybody mayor.

Public health experts around the nation — and the restaurant and softdrink industry — will be watching closely to see how it goes over among New Yorkers, a famously disputatious bunch. Barring any court action, the measure will take effect in March.

The regulations, approved easily by the city Board of Health, apply to any establishment with a food-service license, including fast-food places, delis, movie and Broadway theaters, the concession stands at Yankee Stadium and the pizzerias of Little Italy.

They will be barred from serving sugary beverages in cups or bottles larger than 16 ounces.

No other U.S. city has gone so far as to restrict portion sizes at restaurants to fight weight gain.

“We cannot continue to have our kids come down with diabetes at age 6,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The mayor rejected suggestions that the rule constitutes an assault on

personal liberty. “Nobody is banning anything,” he said, noting that restaurant customers can still buy as much soda as they want, as long as they are willing to carry it in multiple containers.

He said the inconvenience is well worth the potential public health benefit, and likened the city’s actions to measures taken decades ago to phase out lead in household paint.

Others, though, likened the ban to Prohibition. A New York Times poll last month showed that six in 10 New Yorkers opposed the restrictions.

“It’s a slippery slope. When does it stop? What comes next?” said Sebastian Lopez, a college student from Queens. He added: “This is my life. I should be able to do what I want.”

The restrictions do not apply to supermarkets or most convenience stores, because such establishments are not subject to Board of Health regulation. And there are exceptions for beverages made mostly of milk or unsweetened fruit juice.

(Because convenience stores are exempt, the rules don’t even apply to 7-Eleven’s Big Gulp, even though the belly-busting serving of soda has become Exhibit A in the debate over Americans’ eating habits.)

Some health experts said it isn’t clear whether the ban will have any effect on obesity. But they said it

might help usher in a change in attitude toward overeating, in the same way that many Americans have come to regard smoking as inconsiderate.

The regulations follow other ambitious health moves on Bloomberg’s watch, many of which were attacked as a push toward a “nanny state.”

Yet some have proved to be national trendsetters, such as making chain restaurants post calories on their menus. The city has also barred artificial trans fats in french fries and other restaurant food, cracked down on smoking and promoted breast-feeding over formula.

The Board of Health approved the big-soda ban 8–0, with one member, Dr. Sixto R. Caro, abstaining. Caro, a doctor of internal medicine, said the plan wasn’t comprehensive enough.

Others spoke forcefully of the need for action to deal with an obesity crisis.

“I feel to not act would really be criminal,” said board member Susan Klitzman, director of the Urban Public Health Program at Hunter College. City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley called the rule “a historic step to address a major health problem of our time.”

The restaurant and beverage industries complained that the city is exaggerating the role sugary beverages have played in making Americans fat.

While the U.S. housing market has improved, it has a long way to go to reach a full recovery. Some economists forecast that sales of previously occupied homes will reach about 4.6 million this year.

That’s well below the 5.5 million annual sales pace considered healthy.

Bernanke sought to lower expectations about how much the Fed’s intervention might help the economy.

“We’re just trying to get the economy moving in the right direction, to make sure that we don’t stagnate at high levels of unemployment,” he said. “All that being said, monetary policy, as I’ve said many times, is not a panacea.”

The Fed’s statement was approved 11–1. The lone dissenter was Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker, who worried about igniting inflation.

Romney back to jabbing Obama on economy

BY DAVID ESPO AND BEN FELLER ASSOCIATED PRESS FAIRFAX, Va. — Republican Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of “failing American workers” by ignoring Chinese trade violations, and seized on new Federal Reserve attempts to boost the economy as proof the administration’s policies are not working.

Obama campaigned as commander in chief after the violent deaths of four U.S. officials at a diplomatic post in Libya. “No act of terror will go unpunished … no act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America,” he said.

The president spoke in Colorado and Romney in Virginia with less than eight weeks remaining in a close campaign for the White House in tough economic times. The two states are among a handful likely to settle the race, and most polls rate Obama a shaky favorite.

With campaign costs mounting, Romney and Obama competed for the most innovative fundraising appeal.

The Republican challenger’s campaign urged people in an email to make a $15 donation for a chance to join “Mitt

on board the campaign plane for an exciting day on the campaign trail — at 30,000 feet!”

Singer and actress Beyonce Knowles and hip-hop-artist-hubby Jay Z countered for the president. “Jay and I will be meeting up with President Obama for an evening in NYC sometime soon,” she wrote. “And we want you to be there.” As with a day aboard Romney’s chartered jet, a donation was requested for a chance to win.

Only the fine print of both fundraising appeals made clear that no contribution was necessary to win.

Romney’s focus on the economy followed a one-day campaign detour into a foreign-policy thicket that left him bruised and his quarry largely unscathed. He made little mention during the day of the events in Egypt and Libya that he had cited Tuesday as evidence of national security weakness on the president’s part.

The issue intruded, though, when a heckler at Romney’s rally yelled out, “Why are you politicizing Libya?” The crowd responded with chants of “U-SA” and supporters tried to place a Romney/Ryan placard in front of the heckler’s face.

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U.S. braces for more violence

Libya attack called twin operation

BY OSAMA ALFITORY AND HAMZA HENDAWI ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Egyptian protesters chant anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration Wednesday in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

BY MATTHEW LEE AND KIMBERLY DOZIER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Obama administration was caught by surprise by the ferocity of the Sept. 11 attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the ambassador and three other Americans. Now it is bracing for another potential eruption of violent demonstrations in parts of the Muslim world after Friday’s weekly prayers - traditionally a time of protest in the Middle East and North Africa.

Angry demonstrations over an antiIslam video already have occurred in Egypt and Yemen, and officials theorize that well-armed Libyan extremists hijacked a similar protest in Benghazi, where several Libyan security guards also were killed.

The U.S. put all of its diplomatic missions overseas on high alert, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered an explicit denunciation of the video as the administration sought to pre-empt further turmoil at its embassies and consulates.

“The United States government had absolutely nothing to do with this video,” she said before a meeting with the foreign minister of Morocco at the State Department. “We absolutely reject its content and message.”

“To us, to me personally, this video is disgusting and reprehensible,” Clinton

said. “It appears to have a deeply cynical purpose: to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage.”

U.S. officials said they suspect that the attack at the Benghazi consulate, which had also been the target of an unsuccessful attack in June, may have been only tangentially related to the film.

They also stressed there had been no advance warning or intelligence to suggest a threat in Libya that would warrant boosting security, even on the 11th anniversary of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“As we did with all of our missions overseas, in advance of the September 11 anniversary and as we do every year, we did evaluate the threat stream and we determined that the security at Benghazi was appropriate for what we knew,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

The intelligence leading up to the attacks will be examined to “see if there was any way of forecasting this violence,” as in any violent incident, House Intelligence Committee member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said in an interview Thursday.

But he said the focus now “has to be on finding out who is responsible and bringing them to justice.”

President Barack Obama, speaking a campaign event in Golden, Colo., also vowed that the perpetrators would be punished.

“I want people around the world to hear

me,” he said. “To all those who would do us harm: No act of terror will go unpunished.

I will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world.

No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.”

As of Thursday morning, there was no intelligence indicating that what happened in Benghazi was planned, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the investigation into the attack. Intelligence officials said they believe it’s more likely that the attack was “opportunistic or spontaneous,” with militants taking advantage of the demonstration to launch the assault.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation publicly.

There is also no evidence that the attack was tied to 9/11, one of the officials said. But the Libyan-based militant group Ansar al Sharia is the leading suspect for carrying out the violence, possibly with help from al-Qaida’s main Africanbased offshoot, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. The officials said it may be hard to determine definitively which group was responsible, because many militants are members of both.

Libyan officials arrested an unspecified number of militants suspected of taking part in the attack and they were closely monitoring others to see whether they are linked to a group.

BENGHAZI, Libya — Heavily armed militants used a protest of an anti-Islam film as a cover and may have had help from inside Libyan security in their deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate, a senior Libyan official said Thursday.

As Libya announced the first four arrests, the clearest picture yet emerged of a two-pronged assault with militants screaming “God is great!” as they scaled the consulate’s outer walls and descended on the compound’s main building.

The rampage killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

Eastern Libya’s deputy interior minister, Wanis el-Sharef, said a mob first stormed the consulate Tuesday night and then, hours later, raided a safe house in the compound just as U.S. and Libyan security arrived to evacuate the staff. That suggested, el-Sharef said, that infiltrators within the security forces may have tipped off the militants to the safe house’s location.

The attacks were suspected to have been timed to coincide with the 11th anniversary of the Sept.

11, 2001, terrorist strike in the United States, el-Sharef added, with the militants using the film protest by Libyan civilians to mask their action.

Killed in the attack were U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith, private security guard Glen Doherty and one other American who has yet to be identified.

El-Sharef said four people were arrested at their homes Thursday, but he refused to give any further details. He said it was too early to say if the suspects belonged to a particular group or what their motive was. Libya’s new prime minister, Mustafa Abu-Shakour, said authorities were looking for more suspects.

One of five private security guards at the consulate said the surprise attack began around

9:30 p.m. when several grenades that were lobbed over the outer wall exploded in the compound and bullets rained down.

The guard was wounded in the left leg from shrapnel. He said he was lying on the ground, bleeding and in excruciating pain when a bearded gunman came down the wall and shot him twice in the right leg, screaming: “You infidel, you are defending infidels!”

“Later, someone asked me who I was. I said I was the gardener and then I passed out. I woke up in hospital,” said the guard, who spoke to The Associated Press from his bed at a Benghazi hospital. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared reprisals and reprimands from his employers.

The witness account came as protests of the obscure film, “Innocence of Muslims,” continued in the Middle East.

An angry throng broke into the U.S. Embassy in Yemen, and clashes between security forces and demonstrators near the fortress-like embassy compound in the heart of Cairo left nearly 200 people injured and two police trucks burned.

Speaking at his Benghazi office, el-Sharef, who was running the Interior Ministry’s operations room commanding security forces in the city during the attack, gave the most detailed account to date to come out of Libya of what happened the night of the attack. His version, however, leaves some questions unanswered and does not provide a definitive explanation on the motives behind the attack and the identity of the perpetrators.

Killed in the attack were U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith, private security guard Glen Doherty and one other American who has yet to be identified.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Some Libyan officials have pointed the finger at a hardline Islamist militia, the Ansar al-Shariah Brigades, one of multiple Libyan militias operating in the city.

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A Libyan man holds a placard in English during a demonstration against the attack on the U.S. consulate that killed four Americans.

United States identifies anti-Muslim filmmaker

BY STEPHEN BRAUN AND EILEEN SULLIVAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Federal authorities identified a Southern California man who is on federal probation for financial crimes as the key figure behind an antiMuslim film that has spawned mob violence against American embassies across the Mideast, a U.S. law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday.

There was no sign of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, at his family’s home Thursday in Cerritos outside Los Angeles, as details slowly began to emerge about his checkered past, his connections among southern California’s right-wing Christian organizations and his central role in the production of the film.

Excerpts from the movie, which the filmmaker said was called “Innocence of Muslims,” enraged Islamic protesters in Egypt, Libya

and Yemen over its portrayal of the prophet Muhammad.

Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed Thursday that the Justice Department had opened a criminal investigation into the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other diplomats killed during an attack on the American mission in Benghazi. It was not immediately clear whether authorities were focusing on Nakoula as part of that probe.

Much about the film remains a mystery, including who financed it. Several actors have come forward and claimed they were duped about their roles, and that incendiary language was dubbed over their lines.

The permit to shoot the film, normally a public document, is being withheld at the “request of federal authorities, who have cited public safety concerns,” according to Ryan Alsop, assistant chief executive office for Los Angeles County. He did not elaborate.

Such permits normally contain

little more than logistical information.

Questions remained about whether Nakoula’s filmmaking and Internet distribution activities might have violated his federal probation and send him back to prison.

The producers of this movie should be responsible for their actions.

BISHOP SERAPION Bishop, Coptic Orthodox Church of Los Angeles Nakoula pleaded no contest in 2010 to federal bank fraud charges in California and was ordered to pay more than $790,000 in restitution. He was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and

ordered not to use computers, the Internet or online user or screen names for five years without approval from his probation officer. He is still on probation, according to court records.

The YouTube account under the username “Sam Bacile,” which was used to publish excerpts of the provocative movie in July, was used again as recently as this week.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Administrative Office of the Courts, which oversees federal probation offices, and a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles, which prosecuted Nakoula, declined Thursday to discuss his case. Under court rules, the government can ask a judge to send a convict back to prison if there is probable cause to show that probation conditions were violated.

“You don’t have the same First Amendment or Fourth Amendment rights than when you’re not on probation,” said Jenni-

fer Granick, a criminal defense lawyer who specializes in online crimes. “Until you’re done with supervision, you don’t have full rights. They can search you without a warrant.”

The law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because this official was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation, confirmed the AP’s earlier reporting that Nakoula was connected to the persona of Sam Bacile, a figure who initially claimed to be the writer and director of the film. Bacile turned out to be a false identity, and the AP tracked a cellphone number used by Bacile to a home in Cerritos where it found Nakoula.

Sheriff’s deputies were called to Nakoula’s property overnight, though Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Nakoula was not in protective custody. He said county authorities were present because roughly two dozen reporters and film

crews were waiting to interview Nakoula.

Nakoula told the AP that he is Coptic Christian.

An official of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Los Angeles said in a statement Thursday that the church’s adherents had no involvement in the “inflammatory movie about the prophet of Islam.” The official, identified as Bishop Serapion of the Coptic Orthodox of Los Angeles, said that “the producers of this movie should be responsible for their actions. The name of our blessed parishioners should not be associated with the efforts of individuals who have ulterior motives.”

Egypt’s Christian Coptic populace has long decried what they describe as a history of discrimination and occasional violence from the country’s Muslim majority.

Coptic Christians belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the largest Christian church in Egypt.

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“I went to Cornell. … I graduated in four years, I never studied once, I was drunk the whole time, and I sang in the a capella group, ‘Here Comes Treble.’” ANDY BERNARD, “THE OFFICE”

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Provost approves divisive calendar

8:40 a.m. classes help combat classroom space crunch

BY JOSEPH NICZKY STAFF WRITER After months of debate and strong condemnation by student representatives, Provost Kent Fuchs has approved the final version of a new academic calendar with three modifications, he announced at a meeting of the Faculty Senate Wednesday. The new calendar will go into effect in Spring 2014.

The calendar changes, which were approved by the Faculty Senate in May, include a new two-day break in Februrary and, most contentiously, shortening study week, exam week and Senior Week.

One of the Provost’s modifications — not part of the calendar approved by the Faculty Senate — is “a new University holiday ... for all employees” on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, Cornell said in a statement.

Additionally, for four out of every six years, fall semester classes will begin one week later than they currently do, allowing the University to hold its fall graduation ceremony one week later.

However, in the Faculty Senate’s proposal, the ceremony would have landed as late as Dec. 22 or 23 every few years. Fuchs said under his changes, graduation will not fall this close to the holidays.

“There are a number of international students who would not have gotten home in time for the holidays,” Fuchs said. “I think [the fall graduation ceremony] is too close to the holidays.”

Fuchs’ third modification to the Faculty Senate’s plan calls for the University to create a committee to finalize the details of the final exam schedule.

Fuchs said that he will work

with the committee, which will be comprised of members of the University staff, CORNELL p ro fe sso rs and student leaders, to determine an algorithm designed to prevent exam scheduling conflicts.

“What feeds into that algorithm is yet to be determined. For example, you can tell [the software program] to minimize conflicts, or minimize back to back exams,” Fuchs said, adding that one proposed algorithm involves not scheduling final exams on Sundays.

Geoffrey Block ’14, at-large representative for the Student Assembly, said the committee must ensure that the algorithm avoids conflicts that will increase student stress levels.

The only thing the committee should be looking for in the algorithm is how to maximize student mental health.

GEOFFREY BLOCK ’14 At-large representative, Cornell Student Assembly “The only thing the committee should be looking for in the algorithm is how to maximize student mental health, and that should be their only goal. The way you do that is by reducing back-to-back exams [or] having two exams in the same day,” Block said.

Block also expressed concern that the scheduling algorithm

will not take into account final paper deadlines during finals week.

“The algorithm is brought up as a solution to a lot of problems.

It’s brought up as a way to reduce the stress that students have,” Block said. “The problem is that the algorithm doesn’t take into account things like papers and projects where you’re not in the system, and that’s a serious concern.”

Members of the Faculty Senate touted the changes, saying they would reduce student stress and improve mental health by adding additional days off.

The proposed changes, which Fuchs announced his approval of on Wednesday, include adding two vacation days in February; condensing the exam study period from seven days to five and exam week to eight days; shortening Senior Week from seven days to between two and four; and changing the Wednesday before Thanksgiving from a half day to a full day off, according to a plan approved by the Faculty Senate in May. However, many students voiced strong opposition to the changes, arguing that the proposal to shorten exam week and study week would increase stress rather than reduce it.

In April, the S.A. unanimously passed a resolution condemning the changes and a lack of student input in crafting the proposal. Additionally, a Change. org petition urgingFuchs to veto the changes collected more than 2,000 signatures.

Fuchs said he took student complaints into consideration when deciding whether to approve the proposal, particularly when deciding to modify the final plan. He said he believes that if the algorithm is well-designed, concern about the shortened

BY CECILIA REYES STAFF WRITER Andrew Ghazi ’13, doesn’t consider himself a morning person. But that didn’t stop him from enrolling in Applied Data Mining, one of the 8:40 a.m. classes being offered for the first time this semester.

“I didn’t have any other choice,” Ghazi said.

“It was the only one that fit into my schedule.”

Before this semester, the earliest start time for lecture classes was 9:10 a.m. But as the University’s student body has grown over the last decade — there were about 61,000 course enrollments in 2011, up from 41,000 in 2001.

Classroom space on the already-crowded Morningside Heights campus has become scarcer, leading administrators to look for ways to distribute it more effectively.

In early 2011, a committee charged with examining the classroom space crunch recommended starting classes at 8:40 a.m., so as to allow for the creation of an additional morning lecture period. The committee also recommended creating a new lecture period at 7:40 p.m., adding a seminar period at 8:10 p.m., and scheduling more Friday classes.

University Registrar Barry Kane announced in March that those changes would be implemented this semester, garnering mixed reactions from the student body.

Still, some students who chose to enroll in 8:40 a.m. classes have taken the early start time in stride. Ellie Kirk ’16, said that she prefers to have earlier classes, because they enable her to use her day more efficiently.

“I know that if I took a later class I would sleep later and just laze around my dorm,” said Kirk, who is enrolled in an 8:40 a.m. class. “I think it’s important to get started with the day.

Hopefully, this will motivate me to not go to bed too late during the week.”

Sarah Thompson ’16, switched from Frontiers of Science into an 8:40 a.m. University Writing section. She said she was not excited about waking up early, calling it a “necessary evil” but adding that she wasn’t against Columbia offering classes that early.

“If people are willing to take a class earlier, they should be allowed to,” Thompson said.

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Math professor Alexander Drewitz is teaching two sections of Calculus II, one at 8:40 a.m. and one at 10:10 a.m. He said he was surprised that more students signed up for the earlier class than for the

later class.

“There were a bit more than 90, though I don’t know the details of what the previous schedule was like,” he said. “I mean, I’m hoping I’m not making myself unpopular here, but I think 8:40 is OK.” Barnard French professor Isabelle Jouanneau-Fertig, who teaches Review of French Fundamentals at 8:40 a.m., expressed enthusiasm about students having more scheduling choices this semester.

“The more choices for students and the more choices for teachers, the better,” she said. “Students know what they’re getting into. Not once have I had a complaint about early classes.”

Kane, too, said that he hasn’t heard any complaints about earlier classes, noting that “the new schedule is all about creating more options, not requiring any particular scenarios.”

“Adding more official time slots to the academic day, regardless of when these are scheduled, is an action meant to spread existing courses over more times, thereby creating more favorable options for students,” he said in an email.

Still, Thompson said that continuing to expand the academic day — it now lasts from 8:40 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. — does not seem like a viable solution to the space crunch on campus.

“It’s not uncommon for universities to start at 8:00, so I can see it coming down to that,” Thompson said. “But I wouldn’t take that class.”

Ghazi agreed, noting that some students are still upset with the changes to the schedule.

“This is already making people mad,” he said.

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Notre Dame joins ACC in all sports except football and hockey Notre Dame announced on Wednesday that it will leave the Big East and join the ACC in all sports except football and hockey. Its football team will, however, play five games each season against ACC foes. The move to the ACC, which now is home to 15 schools, will be complete by 2015 at the latest.

Elis open season

Keys to the Game

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER

ESTABLISH THE RUN

Running against Georgetown (2–0, 0–0 Patriot League) has been like trying to bust through a stone wall so far this year, but that is exactly what the Elis will have to do tomorrow. The Hoyas have conceded a total of 76 rushing yards in two games so far, including -18 yards against Davidson in their season opener. Yale will need to make sure that rookie quarterback Eric Williams ’16 is comfortable in the passing game, and that is much easier to do if he isn’t forced into long yardage situations that will allow the Hoyas to apply pressure. If running backs Mordecai Cargill ’13 and Tyler Varga ’16 can put pressure on the defense, that will pull the Hoyas into the box and create favorable matchups for the Bulldogs in the passing game. This would give Williams a few easy throws to get his confidence up and the offense rolling.

CONTAIN THE QUARTERBACK

Last year the Bulldogs faced a Hoya attack that threw on 51 of its 79 offensive plays, but Georgetown will not look the same on offense this year. Despite returning quarterback Isaiah Kempf, who threw for 1,268 yards and 10 scores last year, the Hoyas opted to give the reins to dual-threat

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Eric Williams ’16 will play quarterback tomorrow for the Bulldogs. Patrick Witt ’12 (pictured) was quarterback last season.

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 Opponents are averaging a miserly 1.4 yards per carry.

In order to pave the way for the Bulldogs’ rushing attack, the offensive line will have to win the battle in the trenches.

Running back Mordecai Cargill ’13 expressed confidence that the O-line is ready for the challenge.

“I don’t want to offend any of the linemen I’ve had in the past,” Cargill said. “I feel like this is the best line that I’ve run behind in my time here. Coach [Joe] Conlin has done a great job with the guys, get-

ting them prepared for basically anything that they may come across in games.

They’ve responded well to his coaching.”

The game will not get any easier on the other side of the ball for Yale, either.

Georgetown has won both of its games so far this year by pounding away at the opposing defense, averaging 223 rushing yards per game. Nose guard Chris Dooley ’13 said that the Elis’ new 3-4 defense will help them shut down the Hoyas.

“The new defense, I really like it,” Dooley said. “It’s a lot simpler than the old one.”

Dooley added that playing against

Men’s soccer seeks win M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 On Sunday, Yale will host another regional rival, Sacred Heart, to its home turf.

In last season’s clash, both teams took only a point apiece after a very long battle that forced them to go into double overtime.

The Elis failed to maintain the first half lead given by Jacobson and allowed the Pioneers’ Omer Levy to level the scoreboard, which eventually led to an extra 20 minutes of playing time.

“They are a very skillful team,” Thalman said.

Marcello Castro and Mahmoud Kafel are the key players to mark from Sacred Heart.

They each have scored two goals apiece so far this season.

Thlaman said that the exit of Sacred Heart’s goalkeeper, Alex Fait, is a big help to Yale as he

gave a strong performance last year. Yale outdid the Pioneers in shots (14–12) whereas Fait blocked two more shots than Thalman (8–6).

“If we do as well as we do during practices, there is nothing we cannot handle,” Thalman said.

The team will only have a day to rest between the two matches, with a regeneration session in the pool and spin in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium on Saturday.

“We have a long season to go and as we become more experienced, we get more used to the schedule,” Thalman said.

The match against Quinnipiac starts at 4 p.m. today. The Bulldogs will take on the Pioneers on Sunday at 1 p.m. at home.

Yale’s no-huddle offense in practice has helped to condition the defense.

“Our defense is in great shape,” Dooley said. “We fly to the ball. There are eleven guys at every tackle.”

The new defensive style and conditioning was put in place by Reno to improve a defense that lost nine starters from a squad that finished fifth in the Ivy League last year in scoring defense.

Kickoff for the 140th season of Yale football will be at 1 p.m.

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quarterback Aaron Aiken this year. The decision has paid off for sixth-year coach Kevin Kelly, as the team has averaged 360 yards of total offense per game this season. More than 60 percent of that offense has come on the ground, however, with the Hoyas calling plays for Aiken’s legs more often than for his arm. If the Blue and White defense can force Aiken to stay in the pocket and try to make plays through the air, it can pressure him into mistakes.

SCORE IN THE RED ZONE

The Hoyas have been stingy on defense this year, allowing just 24 points in two games so far.

Georgetown has let its opponents into the red zone just three times this season, but all three trips have resulted in touchdowns. If the Bulldogs want to score on the Hoyas, they will have to improve on a red zone offense that scored just 63.4 percent of the time last year, good for seventh in the Ancient Eight. Georgetown has yet to allow a rushing touchdown, so that will put the pressure on Williams and on Yale’s wide receiver corps, which will be without its two top receivers. Chris Smith ’13 is taking the semester off for personal reasons, while Deon Randall ’13 will miss the game with an injury.

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POLL IVY LEAGUE SPORTSWRITERS’ PICKS Rank

School

Points

1

Harvard

124 (13)

2

Penn

106 (1)

3

Cornell

98 (2)

4

Brown

75

5

Yale

65

6

Dartmouth

47

7

Columbia

32

8

Princeton

29

Two sportswriters from each Ivy League student newspaper voted in this preseason poll, which was conducted between August and September.

Yale plays two at home W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 Scoring goals and preventing them have not been the only issues the Elis have faced, however, as they also have contended with injury. Goaltender Adele Jackson-Gibson ’13 tore her anterior cruciate ligament early last week, leaving the Bulldogs without their starting goalkeeper. Illness and injury have further hindered the Bulldogs in establishing roles on the team.

“We want to make sure we are getting better as a team and all try to stay healthy,” Meredith said. “We want to work on the things we have to do against Princeton.”

With injuries among other hindrances, the Bulldogs are still thinking about what players to put in which positions for this weekend as well as for Princeton the following week.

The Bulldogs said they are excited for tough competition this weekend, as it will help prepare them quickly for their upcoming conference games, Meredith said. The Elis have been thinking about scoring, defending and positioning all week.

This weekend will test their skills before Ivy play begins next week.

“This is one of those tough weekends because we’ve got Princeton next weekend,” said Meredith.

The Bulldogs kickoff against the Gaels in Reese Stadium at 7 p.m. on Friday. After a day of rest, they will be back in Reese Stadium, Sunday at 4 p.m., to take on Central Connecticut.

Conference games start for the Bulldogs the following weekend.

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The women’s soccer team is coming off a decisive 8-1 win over

Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .

Volleyball heads west VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12

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The Bulldogs tied Colgate in double overtime one week ago. The team is looking for its first win.

nity that [head coach Erin Appleman] gave me,” Ebner said. “I was grateful for the opportunity to start and get a lot of playing time. I just wanted to have high energy and be a selfless player.”

Ebner’s success on the court is part of a Yale attack that is deeper than last season. In 2011, six different players led the Bulldogs in kills on separate occasions.

This season, four players — Polan, Karlee Fuller ’16, Rogers and Ebner — have already accomplished that feat through the team’s first five matches.

Last Friday’s match against Villanova was the team’s greatest display of

depth so far this season. Five Yale players notched double-digit kills, a number that last year’s team did not reach. Appleman said that a major reason for the even distribution of scoring opportunities has to do with the addition of another setter, Kelly Johnson ’16, on the floor with Polan.

“The system is a little different,” she said. “We are playing a 6–2 instead of a 5–1, which gives Kendall more swings, and she’s a serious hitter. Our setters are connecting well with our middles, which is opening up more opportunities.”

The Elis’ stiffest competition this weekend, and likely of the season thus far, will be San Diego. The Toreros, who enter the contest ranked 16th nationally,

went an impressive 28–5 last season and fell 3–1 in the second round of the NCAA tournament to eventual champion UCLA. The most impressive aspect of the Toreros’ resume this season is a nearwin over current No. 3 USC. San Diego pushed the Trojans all the way to a fifth set in that match and outhit the Trojans .222 to .162.

The action begins on Friday evening at 5 p.m. when the Elis take on UC Santa Barbara. Yale will proceed to play against San Diego and Fresno St on Saturday.

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“Our defense is in great shape. We fly to the ball.

There are eleven guys at every tackle.”

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Football kicks off

M. soccer to clash with local rivals

BY EUGENE JUNG STAFF REPORTER The men’s soccer team have a tough schedule ahead of them this weekend against two local rivals, Quinnipiac and Sacred Heart. The team is looking to end its goal drought and capture its first wins of the season.

“It is not necessarily a matter of what kind of teams we play. It is a matter of how we play,” captain and goalkeeper Bobby Thalman ’13 said.

He added that the team should play both with respect and correct mentality.

In last year’s matchup against the Bobcats, the Bulldogs (0–3–1) took down the visitors 3–2 at Reese Stadium.

“It was a hard-fought game,” Thalman said.

In that game, Yale trailed the visitors and was held scoreless in the first half. However, the Bulldogs came back strong in the second half and reversed the flow of the game. Forwards Jenner Fox ’14, Peter Jacobson ’14 and Charlie Neil ’12 scored a goal apiece. Defensively, Thalman made two important saves.

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Yale will begin the Tony Reno era against Georgetown, which it has beaten in the first game of its past five seasons.

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER For the sixth straight year, Yale will open its football season against Georgetown, and the Elis are hoping that Saturday plays out like the last five matchups.

The Bulldogs (0-0, 0-0 Ivy) have downed the Hoyas (2-0, 0-0 Patriot) five years running, most recently winning 37-27 in the Yale Bowl Sept. 17, 2011, behind a four touchdown-performance from quarterback Patrick Witt ’12.

This year there will be a new Eli behind center, head coach Tony Reno announced Tuesday.

“Eric [Williams ‘16] will

start,” Reno said. “I made a decision over at the weekend.”

Quarterback John Whitelaw ‘14, Georgetown who was the only quarterback on the roster with experience at the college level, sent an email to his teammates Tuesday afternoon informing them that he was leaving the football team.

Reno said that Whitelaw dropped football “to pursue other interests,” and that Derek Russell ’13 and Logan Scott ’16 will become the back-up quarterbacks.

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Russell was listed as a wide receiver, but played quarterback for Newton South High School prior to attending Yale.

“It caught me by surprise a little bit actually,” Russell said of his position change. “I actually played defense last fall. I’ve moved around a lot, [so] I’m ready for whatever.”

Williams will be tested early by the Hoyas, whose stalwart defense on the ground could force the rookie signal caller to show off his arm early on Saturday. Georgetown has given up a total of just 76 rushing yards in two games so far this season.

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“Due to location, Quinnipiac is always a good rivalry,” Thalman said. “They are at a high-energy team, and we have to match with our energy and enthusiasm.”

Despite the absence of Neil and forward Max Quinnipiac Morice ’15, who signed to play for Stade Rennes in Sunday, 1 p.m.

France, the Bulldogs still vs. have strong forwards like Jacobson and Max McKiernan ’14, who recorded crucial attacking points in the Sacred Heart last four matches. On the Bobcats’ side, one player to watch is forward Philip Surprise. He is the lead scorer for his team, with four goals to his credit so far this season. Forward William Daniels is also another player to note, as he closely trails Surprise in the number of goals scored for the Bobcats.

Men’s Soccer Friday, 4 p.m.

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Yale preps for home weekend

BY ASHTON WACKYM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After an 8–1 blowout victory over the St. Peter’s Peacocks on Tuesday, the Yale woman’s soccer team (3–3) is looking to keep winning at home.

Just one week before the start of Ivy League competition, the Elis are taking on the Iona College Gaels (2–3–1) on Friday night and the Central Connecticut State Devils (1–4) on Sunday afternoon.

While the Bulldogs have not recently lined up against the Gaels, they have had a longstanding rivalry with the Devils, head coach Rudy Meredith said. “It’s always a really close game against Central,” Meredith said. “They’re a really well-coached team.”

In anticipating fiercer competition, the Elis have been honing their skills in practice.

The only goal the Bulldogs allowed the

Peacocks to squeeze by them on Tuesday was due to losing a battle for posivs. tion on a corner kick.

“Most of the goals we have let in this year have been from corner Iona kicks,” Meredith said. “We addressed the issue in Sunday, 4 p.m. practice yesterday.” vs.

According to Meredith, the Bulldogs also want to continue to put the ball in the net and create scoring Central Connecti- chances. Earlier in the seacut State son, the Elis had trouble creating scoring opportunities. The Elis are hopeful they can continue their scoring momentum after the St. Peter’s game, Meredith added.

Women’s Soccer Friday, 7 p.m.

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Volleyball heads to California for San Diego Tournament

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER It’s back to the west coast for the volleyball team this weekend.

The Elis will travel to San Diego to take on UC Santa Barbara (6–5), No. 16 San Diego (5–2) and Fresno St. (5–4) as part of the San Diego Tournament.

The Bulldogs (3–2) finished their season in California last year, where they fell 3–0 to USC in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Because seven of the 12 members of the team are California natives, the Bulldogs drew excellent attendance at their NCAA Tournament match in December and expect a strong crowd this weekend.

“Being back in Southern California again is amazing,” outside hitter and San Diego native Mollie Rogers ’15 told the News.

“We get to play some really talented teams and we will gain a lot of experience. We also get to do so in front of friends and fam-

ily. It makes the experiat UC San Diego ence so much Friday, 8 p.m. more fun, vs. almost like you are playing at home.”

The Bulld o gs e n te r UC Santa Barbara this weekend’s matches after Saturday, 3 p.m. an impressive vs. showing over the first five games of the season. Yale has already San Diego taken on three foes from Saturday, 8 p.m. major confervs. ences, including Te x a s A&M from the Big 12, VillaFresno St. nova from the Big East and Northwestern from the Big Ten. The Elis took a set off both Texas A&M and

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Northwestern and managed a 3–1 defeat of Villanova.

Captain and middle blocker Haley Wessels ’13 will be a key part of the Bulldogs’ strategy after being named Ivy League Player of the Week for her performance in the Yale Invitational last weekend. Wessels is the second Bulldog to win the award in the first two weeks of play after setter Kendall Polan ’14 took home the honor two weeks ago.

Yale will also look to Jesse Ebner ’16 to continue her strong play from last weekend. The middle blocker erupted for 28 kills in the tournament after recording just 11 in the season’s first three matches combined.

Her breakout performance both landed her on the Yale Invitational All-Tournament team and earned her a mention on the Ivy League Honor Roll.

“I just really wanted to take advantage of the opportu-

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The volleyball team concluded its season last year in California against USC in the NCCA Tournament.

THE NUMBER OF RUSHING YARDS THE GEORGETOWN HOYAS HAVE GIVEN UP IN THEIR FIRST TWO GAMES. Their opponents have averaged a miserly 1.4 yards per carry against them. The Bulldogs are traveling to Georgetown this weekend to take on the Hoyas in their first game under