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CROSS CAMPUS The scarlet letter. In a move reminiscent of the email spam that takes place every year, an anonymous email from “Belle Bells” — and sent from an email address titled “ihateharknessbells” with the subject line “Stop the Harkness Bells” — reached out to a number of Yalies on Thursday evening with one message: “Reply all ‘m’ to mute the bells.” In response, a number of Yalies typed the letter “m” into their message box and replied to all recipients, expanding the chain and upsetting many students in the process.

CRAZY HOW WORDS SHAPE MENTAL HEALTH

AUDOBON GALLERY

‘WHAT MATTERS’

MEN’S SOCCER

Exhibit aims to ‘disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed’

BRENZEL FOCUSES ON THE VALUE OF SELF-VALIDATION

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ticularly pleased to see this, given the smaller percentage of students we admitted through the early action process, and our continued admission of a larger proportion of high-achieving STEM candidates and a larger proportion of minority students,” Quinlan said in an email.

Yale’s recent yields mark a more consistent trend, as the University had previously been in a five-year decline.

As for Yale’s peer schools, Harvard witnessed a record-breaking yield rate of 82 percent this year and Stanford

The classes with highest enrollment for the fall semester have expanded beyond typical introductory lectures to include course offerings such as science classes for nonscience majors.

Two of the most popular introductory courses, “Introduction to Psychology” and “Introduction to Microeconomics,” are scheduled at the same time this semester, and Christopher Udry, who teaches the microeconomics course, said he thinks the scheduling conflict caused a slight decline in enrollment for his class. But he said the variation was not significant and that his class consistently attracts a number of students slightly under 400.

“There’s many reasons people take [the course] and they vary across individuals, but for many students the course content is very fascinating,” Udry said. “It’s a really powerful set of tools.”

Milette Gaifman, who teaches “Introduction to the History of Art,” said in a Tuesday email that more sections were needed than she expected, and some students possibly dropped her class because of section confusion.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said introductory courses are often large lectures because they attract many students who are inexperienced in a field and are curious to find out more about it. “[The students] have never studied it, so

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For the record, typing in “m”

into an email message box and sending it out does nothing.

Doing this just sends an email with “m” in the body of the message to all recipients.

Instead, students who wish to mute email threads must click “m” when reading the message — not email the letter “m” itself out. This is just one of several handy keyboard shortcuts that Gmail offers its users, but those wishing to take advantage of this function should go to their Gmail settings and elect to turn “keyboard shortcuts on.”

Game theory. Mathematics professor Nathan Kaplan appeared on “Million Second Quiz” — a trivia-based game show — on Sept. 13, correctly answering questions about NFL teams, literature, pop songs and common baby names. Though Kaplan put up a good fight, he did not answer a question about Iowa’s postal service abbreviation quickly enough during the “sudden death” round.

A new generation. Georgetown

University will now see its decades-long ambition of creating a school of public policy come to fruition after a $100 million donation from Frank H. McCourt Jr., a former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.

Named the McCourt School of Public Policy, the school will emphasize the use of modern technology to address public policy challenges. In particular, the McCourt School will include a “Massive Data Institute,” which is designed to bolster research efforts that rely on “big data” sets to tackle policy issues.

Calculating the cost of college. A new calculator

unveiled this week by Wellesley College aims to give students a better sense of the real cost of tuition, taking into account available scholarships rather than just the sticker prices. Called “My inTuition,” the calculator technically applies only to Wellesley, but analysts argue the financial aid policies are similar enough across top universities that the estimates could apply to multiple schools.

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BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER Out of a pool of nearly 30,000 applicants to Yale, 2,031 were accepted and 1,360 chose to come to campus this fall — making for a yield rate that is almost exactly the same as last year’s.

Although the Admissions Office admitted the lowest percentage of applicants in Yale history to the class of 2017, the final yield rate — the percent of accepted students who choose to enroll immediately — came in at 68.3 percent, compared to the 68.4 percent yield in 2012, when four fewer students

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chose to accept their offers of admission. In addition to the 1,360 students who arrived as freshmen this year, 39 students chose to postpone their offers of admission until next fall and are not included in yield calculations.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan cautioned against attributing “much significance to annual fluctuations in yield,” as yield rates can be influenced by a number of factors, including manipulation by schools themselves by accepting students they perceive as likely to enroll.

“Our yield rate was just as high this year as it was last year — I was par-

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With fifth store, froyo war grows

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Mayoral hopeful and Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 led a committee meeting of the Board of Aldermen to approve new measures to improve the city’s environmental practices.

The Board of Aldermen’s City Services and Environmental Policy Committee, which Elicker chairs, met Thursday night to discuss environmental policy affecting the Elm City. The committee moved forward with two environmentally friendly items while voting to table a measure regarding a cell tower constructed in a city park.

On its agenda was an agreement with the Connecticut Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority to participate in The Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy program — which would encourage local businesses to implement clean energy policies — as well as an amendment to the lease agreement between the city and The New Haven Ecology Project to extend the lease term by 10 years, both of which the committee approved.

“Both are positive improvements for the city on an environmental front,” Elicker said. “It was a good night for the environment.”

CEFIA representatives spoke with the committee Thursday night, answering questions from a previous meeting.

Among these representatives was Ben Healey ’04, the current senior manager of Clean Energy Finance and former Ward 1 alderman, who said he was looking forward to working with the city to impleSEE ELICKER PAGE 4

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Frozen yogurt competition will grow fierce in New Haven, as Pinkberry opens around the corner from Froyo World.

BY PATRICK CASEY STAFF REPORTER For New Haven’s frozen yogurt stores, the competition is heating up.

While no definite date has been set, Pinkberry plans to open a store at 1064 Chapel St. sometime in mid-to-late October, according to landlord John Wareck, who owns the property located between Starbucks and Panera and less than half a block from Froyo World. It will be the fifth frozen yogurt joint in downtown New Haven, joining Froyo World, Go Greeley, Polar Delight and Flavors in a competition for the Elm City’s frozen yogurt fans.

Since Froyo World opened at the corner of Chapel and High streets

in August 2010, New Haven’s frozen yogurt scene has exploded. Flavors opened on York Street in fall 2011, and May 2013 saw the opening of Go Greenly at 48 Whitney Ave. Polar Delight followed suit in July, opening a location at 940 Chapel St. across the from the New Haven Green.

But whether downtown New Haven can sustain five frozen yogurt establishments remains to be seen, and at least some in the business anticipate fierce competition for market share.

“What I think is going to happen is that the lesser yogurt places are not going to do well. They may go out of business, but we have a loyal following, so I’m not really worried,” said Thienson Nguyen, a manager at Froyo World.

“It might be a battle between us and Pinkberry.”

He added that, when other frozen yogurt places have opened in the past, Froyo World has not experienced any business difficulties. He does not expect the opening of Pinkberry only half a block away to change that fact.

“I think we’ll beat Pinkberry,” Nguyen added.

A manager of Polar Delight declined to comment.

Edlyz Ojeda, a shift leader at Go Greenly, said that although she thinks the downtown area can “probably not” support so many frozen yogurt stores, she is not worried about the future of SEE FROZEN YOGURT PAGE 6

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his past summer, I often found myself talking to animals. They never talked back. It started with a Dall sheep that I encountered while hiking back to my campsite in Denali National Park. I had seen a few of the sheep dotting the landscape, but when I walked over a knoll, I saw that there were seven of them grazing around me. The apparent patriarch, horns arched like crescent moons, saw me bursting into this feeding scene and didn’t seem to like it. He walked toward me, and I backed up and continued toward my campsite.

He kept following me — trotting, then stopping and walking, then running toward me again. After a while of this, I turned to him and asked him why he was following me. I said that I had come in peace. He stared, followed a few more times and eventually lost interest.

“I come in peace.” It’s a tough thing to communicate convincingly.

My experiments in interspecies communication continued throughout the summer. I sang to grizzlies as I waded through brush and trilled at three shorteared owls soaring above my tent below a yellow moon. Some animals communicated back inadvertently — leaving signs of where they had walked and slept, where they had scratched the bark off of birch trees, where they had died.

One day during a backpacking trip, I turned around and saw that I was sharing my campsite with a caribou. He rushed toward me, then paused, then ran parallel to where I began walking, then paused again, then ran toward me once more. I was nervous, tired and cold — on day five of a weeklong solo trip. I yelled, “I’m just walking here, like you. I’ll leave soon.” He came at me again.

By this time, he was about 15 feet away. I grabbed my only defense (bear spray), pointed it his way and yelled, “I come in peace!”

I am not sure I have ever been a more ridiculous sight. Did I really expect him to believe that?

Animals seem to sense something other than words. Indeed, words don’t accomplish much, as tempted as I might be to yell, “I’m a vegetarian!” “I go to Yale!” in a kind of plea for mercy.

Once, I was watching a red squirrel perched in a black spruce near my cabin. I had been standing a few feet away from the tree trunk for some time watching him.

Then I pointed the fellow out to a friend. As soon as I pointed, the squirrel looked down, saw us and erupted into a frenzy of fear.

In another ridiculous gesture, I knelt in the moss and apologized, but the words were of no use. He squeaked and screamed and eventually skittered off.

I’ve wondered about this dilemma of communicating that I come in peace with humans, as well. Through journalism and

hitchhiking, in particular, I have found myself in the homes and cars of s t ra n g e r s , often asking quite perDIANA sonal quesSAVERIN tions soon after shaking Savoring their hands.

I’ve wonSight dered what I can do or say that will tell them that I mean no harm. How can I make them feel at ease and be their most honest and real selves?

The answer is a work in progress, an ever-unfolding series of experiments. We already know the basics: Look people in the eye, smile, pay attention. Ask questions and follow-up questions. Notice what they say and don’t say. Care.

Talking to animals has helped me talk to humans. It has taught me to be less afraid and defensive when something wild looks me in the eye.

Once, a friend and I listened to a radio program about the limitations of language and how difficult it is to communicate with anyone. I was frustrated by the pessimistic remarks about all of this distance between people. I was eager to bridge it. My friend and I sat cross-legged on the floor, staring at each other.

At first, we blurted out ugly facts about ourselves, grueling confessions, as if these would somehow make us closer. Eventually, we stopped talking. We sat there for what we later estimated was between five minutes and three hours, looking at each other until shadows coated half of our faces.

Our minds eventually emptied — drained of distraction, freed from fear or defense — as if repeating to one another in truth and understanding, “I come in peace.”

We must work to quiet the chatter of our own minds. If you are talking to someone while there’s a phone buzzing in your pocket, some place you’re about to run to (and might already be late!), some task you’re stressed about completing or forgetting, even some clever remark you are preparing as a reply, you can say calming remarks about your vegetarianism or elite education or claim to peace, but what you will communicate, more than anything else, is that there is something more important than the thing this someone is saying.

Asking a question or claiming to care with such a mind is like yelling that you come in peace while pointing ultra-powerful pepper spray at a nonviolent creature.

No one’s buying it.

he past weeks have been filled with intense competition to join extracurricular activities. A cappella groups, improv troupes, the Yale Symphony Orchestra and countless other groups held weeks of tough auditions to select new members. Simultaneously, a slightly less glamorous part of campus life has been incredibly selective in its admissions: term-time jobs.

Around half of Yale undergrads are on financial aid, meaning that they’re expected to earn $3,300 a year through student employment ($2,800 for freshmen). The generous campus minimum wage of $12 an hour means that most students should have to work no more than 10 hours per week in order to meet this goal. In fact, Yale prohibits students from working more than 19 hours. I remember my tour guide raving about the jobs Yale offers. His job was to distribute toilet paper to suites, and he loved it. It was easy, he could study in his downtime, and he was rolling in the cash.

But there’s a small problem.

Securing a job on campus this semester seems to have become almost as hard as getting into the Whiffenpoofs. The Yale Student Employment Office lists hundreds of jobs online along with quick applications. Since all the applications ask you to list your availability, I held off (as many students did) until my course schedule was finalized at the end of shopping

period. I then sent in around 10 applications and expected to hear back within the next week. When nothing happened, I sent DIANA in 10 more.

ROSEN Then 20 more.

Eventually I Looking Left had applied for close to 50 jobs and had heard nothing back. I wasn’t even getting rejected; I was simply refreshing a jobless email inbox each morning.

This didn’t make sense to me.

The “Financing Your Yale Education” booklet says: “All students on financial aid are given the opportunity to meet a portion of their student costs through termtime employment.” But I was a student on financial aid, and I wasn’t being given that opportunity. Students across campus had applied to dozens of jobs online and either never heard back or received automatic reply rejections saying that the job was already filled. One lucky friend of mine was actually offered an interview for a library job. He showed up only to be told that he was one of dozens of students interviewing. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t get the job.

After receiving a call from home and being told that money was getting tight, I began to get

desperate. I called the Student Employment Office to ask for advice. I was told that there was nothing the employment office could do for me, as employment decisions were entirely up to the employers. They recommended that I continue applying to jobs online, but also added that it was possible that the system was getting overloaded with applications.

I also asked if I received preference for jobs as a financial aid student.

They responded that Yale recommends that employers give preference to financial aid recipients for the first two weeks of classes, but does not enforce this policy in any way.

YALIES DESERVE ACCESS TO STUDENT JOBS Either there aren’t enough jobs to go around right now, or there is some major bureaucratic problem in the way that job applications are being submitted to employers.

As the weeks pass by, the number of hours per week students will need to work increases steadily.

And with no policy to enforce that financial aid recipients get preference for jobs, it is possible that some students will be unable to find employment and instead be

forced to rely on loans or place an additional financial burden on their parents.

It is unlikely that much can be done to remedy this situation immediately, but there are steps Yale can — and should — take in the future. First, a policy should be enforced for the first month of classes that gives preference to financial aid recipients searching for jobs. Second, employers should be required to respond to all applicants within a certain amount of time. Third, complete listings of the numbers of jobs on campus should be provided to ensure that there are actually enough jobs for every financial aid student.

I got a job last week, but not through the Student Employment website. A friend leaving her job from last semester recommended me to her manager. When I went to speak with him, he told me that he hadn’t even received my application through the online system. Most stories of successful job searches at Yale sound like this one, and that needs to change.

If Yale intends to continue including a term-time job as a part of every financial aid package (and increasing the amount of earnings required every year), then reforming the job search system must be a priority.

DIANA ROSEN is a sophomore in Pierson College and is a staff blogger for the News. Contact her at diana. rosen@yale.edu .

DIANA SAVERIN is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact her at diana.saverin@yale.edu .

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How’s the weather?

used to think that talking about the weather was a joke.

When you break the silence with a comment like “It’s been so hot recently,” you’re performing some meta-commentary on the awkwardness of the conversation itself. And on the scale of fake conversation topics, the weather is a half step below asking someone to have a meal sometime.

We have better things to discuss — our summers, our plans for junior year — but for whatever reason, my friends and I seem to have forgotten them recently. During Camp Yale, when we should have caught up with one another, we instead complained about the humidity and debated the best brand of box fan. When classes began, it was still easier to think of the weather. My suitemate stumbled into our common room one day during shopping period. She had been to five classes. “It’s too hot to think,” she said. “Way too hot,” I agreed.

I had hoped that this obsession

with the weather would subside once we, as a campus, recovered from our collective heat stroke, but it hasn’t. If anything, the arrival of the New England fall has only lead to more fretting. Wasn’t it beautiful, I told a friend, when the mugginess broke into thundering last Friday? Isn’t it refreshing to walk through crisp, non-smothering air to morning classes? “Yeah,” he said. “But then it’ll be winter, and that just sucks.”

That’s the thing to remember when you bring up the weather: be pessimistic. It might be the most stunning fall on record, the kind that makes you want to lie on your back in Branford courtyard or wander into the Robert Frost poem that is East Rock Park. You would still hear grumblings about the frigid air. In spring, the most popular season, people complain about allergies, or even the end of the school year. We learned too much in freshman English. We always qualify our points.

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ous about this kind of conversation, inane as it seems. A parade of petty comments only adds up to lump-sum pessimism. Give me a beautiful day, and soon I’ll be convinced that it was only an almost-beautiful day — if the morning was warmer, if it was less windy, if I hadn’t stepped in a puddle on the way out of Bass.

THESE CAN'T BE THE BEST DAYS AHEAD I’ve heard these weatherrelated conversations more often this year, or maybe I’ve noticed more of them. I grew up in California; I first experienced winter my freshman year. If I move home after graduation, I only have two years left of fall colors.

Even if I stay on the East Coast, it won’t be the same. Snows only falls for a handful of days each

year. I have 10 days, maybe 20, left to walk through the Silliman courtyard, silenced by a storm.

Criticism, as my professor once told me, provides distance. Instead of engaging with an experience, you draw yourself away from it. You don’t embrace it fully. We have many more seasons to live through — this can’t be the best weather. We have many more years — these can’t be the best days. But if you call the present a high point, does that mean the future can only get worse?

Now imagine a perfect fall day.

The leaves are about to change.

There is a light breeze, and you have a 10-minute gap between classes. Tonight you have tons of homework and club meetings.

You have a missed call from your parents. Soon, the snow will set in, and the cold will seep into your bones. But look around; this day can still be beautiful.

JACKSON MCHENRY is a junior in Silliman College. Contact him at jackson.mchenry@yale.edu .

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ALBERT EINSTEIN “Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe.”

GUEST COLUMNIST ANDREA VILLENA

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’m not taking Sebastian Zeidler’s “Early Twentieth Century Art” course. I’m already taking five courses, and I have a seminar that meets on Wednesday at the same time. But I have no conflicts with the Monday lecture, and so I attended those classes during shopping period, each time finding myself completely enthralled. When it came time to finalize schedules, I actually felt a small pang of sadness as I deleted the class from my course list.

Yet somehow, the next Monday evening, I found myself sitting in that same lecture hall listening to Professor Zeidler speak. I don’t quite know why I did it, what drew me there.

My name wasn’t on the class list, and I wasn’t in a section, so by any logical thought I had no right to be there. But then again, there was no rule saying I couldn’t be there. So I went — and just kept going. It’s nearly a month into the school year, and I haven’t missed a single Monday lecture. I take diligent notes and do as much of the online reading as I’m able. I’m learning so much — and I love it.

At first, when I decided to commit myself to this course,

I felt uneasy, as if I were doing something wrong. I was doing work that nobody would ever know about and would never be seen on my transcript or resume.

Choosing to do something for no reason other than my own intellectual growth somehow seemed to go against the way that things are done here.

THERE'S NO REASON NOT TO SIT IN But how could the pure desire to learn, especially at an institution like this one, be wrong?

The true flaw, I realized, was not in my own thinking but rather within the collective mentality of Yale. We’re too focused on tangible results, on the grade and the resume and the bragging point, and not on the pursuit of knowledge simply for its own worth. And for members of a university, particularly an institution that more than any other should be dedicated to intellectual growth, this is a very prob-

lematic worldview.

There is little information available about auditing courses.

It sometimes seems more like a secret, a “cheat,” rarely mentioned as an option by advisers even during shopping period.

But Yale should encourage students to take advantage of the wealth of classes open for them to explore. We only have the ability to freely walk into any random Yale lecture for four years; then it will be lost forever.

Here, we are surrounded by world-class professors who chose to impart their knowledge on anyone who comes to listen each week. If our years at college are meant to be about accumulating as much knowledge as possible, then it is almost wasteful to simply choose four or five courses to attend. We could learn so much more by taking simply an hour out of every day to sit in on a few extra classes, even if we’re just trying an unknown subject for just one time. We still may graduate with just 36 credits, but we will have accumulated knowledge from nearly twice that many courses — knowledge that could certainly help us in our future careers but that will also help us become more well-

rounded and thoughtful human beings.

Now I realize that large numbers of students beginning to “unofficially” audit classes could cause real problems, filling lecture halls and crowding out students who are taking the course for credit. The regulations about auditing an entire course are there for a reason, and it’s good to speak with the professor beforehand if you plan on sincerely attending every class.

However, I see no harm in an interested student simply sitting in on a single lecture, unknown and unnoticed.

So, if you find you have a free afternoon, take a browse through the Blue Book. Find a course you’re curious about, a field that you’ve never explored, a professor whom you’ve heard is excellent. And then head to class proudly, like the true Yalie that you are — a scholar ready to learn and discover something new. And if it’s a Monday evening, come by Loria and drop in on Professor Zeidler’s lecture.

I’ll be there.

EMMA FALLONE is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at emma.fallone@yale.edu .

Rethinking CCEs A

s September nears its end, so too does the barrage of workshops and introductions and clinics that freshmen and sophomores must attend to learn how to navigate Yale’s hazy sexual culture. The Yale Communication and Consent Educators (CCEs) — an application-only group of 40 undergraduates directed by Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd ’90 — lead many of these meetings, attempting to improve Yale’s campus climate by creating a safe space for open and honest conversation about sexuality. The CCEs have done a lot of great work, but I worry that, at least to some extent, the program is merely an extension of an ineffective University policy toward sexual assault, which does little to change sexual climate and denies the University’s past mistakes.

Back in early August, when Yale made the national news (again) about its policies regarding “nonconsensual sex,” the University emphasized the CCE program as one of the ways it was taking action to improve our campus climate. Prevention is a better tactic than punishment, but in that moment, the University was using the CCE program as just a layer of supposed action to hide behind. In his Aug. 5 “Message from President Salovey Regarding Recent Sexual Misconduct Report,” Salovey emphasized the role of University programs like CCE in maintaining a positive campus climate, even though these very programs were often the subjects of that summer’s criticism.

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Another issue with the CCE program is that many of their workshops fail to directly tackle the issues of sexual consent and communication. By discussing issues of assault using hypothetical scenarios involving froyo, the former issue is trivialized and turned into a joke. If the intent of the CCE program is to create a safe space for discussion, then students should tackle the issue of sexual consent in direct and explicit terms.

The CCE program creates an important opening for free discussion, but the actual discussion that results becomes buried under confusing metaphors and silly situations.

The CCE program also lacks the staying power that would allow it to create institutional change on campus. Freshmen,

already overwhelmed by the amount of introductory meetings first semester, can’t tell me the difference between CCE and the Community Health Educators program. Sophomores I’ve talked to were almost all hungover for their workshops, and don’t remember much of them.

The grand objective of the program is good, but it fails at the microlevel because of this lack of engagement. Very few students buy into the CCE model, and those that don’t aren’t likely to change their minds after attending a workshop either.

As one freshman put it, “It was a good experience, but it’s not something that kept me up at night thinking about it.”

Many of the CCEs are close friends of mine; we work on extracurriculars together, we eat together and we drink together.

Few groups at Yale bring in this kind of diversity in social circles, sexual orientation, race, hobbies or majors. But that carefully constructed diversity comes at a cost. The application-only model of the program creates an unnerving situation by conveying the message that CCEs, by virtue of their selection into the program, are authority figures on issues of consent. In teaching Yale students about how to consent and communicate, they’ve turned into a kind of moral police existing on an untouchable moral high ground impervious to criticism.

Worst is what I like to call the CCE Facebook Mafia, a group of individuals who have taken it upon themselves to respond to every shared Jezebel link and Facebook status critical of mandatory bystander intervention training with a laundry list of reasons as to why the University’s approach is correct, why each case is different and why confidentiality is important.

By the end, I’ve stopped caring, and this forceful approach can be off-putting to many students. Hamilton Nolan’s recent Gawker piece, which (rightly) made fun of the gender-neutral scenarios created by the University-Wide Committee was met with so much CCE outrage that I worried no one could take a joke.

Nolan’s article was poorly written, but it would have been nice if at least one CCE had acknowledged that those mock scenarios were kind of ridiculous.

Obviously, the CCEs are a University program. But by turning over the program to students to whatever extent the program can be run and designed by them, we could have a more engaging CCE presence on campus. Ultimately, students will only invest in a program made by their peers, not an extension of University policy.

ANDREA VILLENA is a junior in Trumbull College. Contact her at andrea.villena@yale.edu .

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Sharing Sochi background O

n Sept. 5 Aleksey Zhuravlev, a member of the Russian State Duma, proposed an amendment to the Family Code of Russia that would deprive those “practicing non-traditional sexual relations” of their parental rights. Though the Russian government recently voted to prevent same-sex couples from adopting, this amendment goes far beyond that. Termination of parental rights is usually restricted to situations involving drug and alcohol problems, violence or abuse.

This is just another step on a long road of human rights violations being paved by the Russian government. Many people are condensing this history as they discuss the upcoming Sochi Olympics and whether the political situation in Russia warrants a boycott. I would like to start,

however, by providing a summary of the legislative history of gay rights in Russia as essential background to this discussion.

A BOYCOTT WOULD NOT BE EFFECTIVE In March 2012, a regional legislative assembly submitted a bill to the Duma proposing to amend Russian law to protect minors from homosexual “propaganda.”

The bill, however, provides no explanation of what exactly propaganda constitutes, defining it merely as “the purposeful activity and spread of information that

could harm the health, moral and spiritual development [of children] … forming misconceptions about social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations.” In January of 2013, the Duma passed these amendments.

That February, Elena Mizulina, head of the State Duma’s Committee on Family, Women and Children, proposed amendments to the bill. Among other things, she proposed blocking websites containing “homosexual propaganda” from the Internet and defined homosexual propaganda as information showing minors the “attractiveness of non-traditional relationships” or a “distorted view of the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional relationships.” In June, that amendment was passed unanimously. Only one member

of the Duma abstained.

International human rights groups have called the current situation in Russia one of the worst abuses of human rights of the post-Soviet era. And after analyzing this statement, many truths are clear.

First, the unclear legal writing of Russian law gives authorities, whether law enforcement agencies or courts, the opportunity to interpret the law in any way they want.

Second, the fact that homosexual “propaganda” is banned but so-called heterosexual propaganda is not is a direct violation of the Constitution of Russia, the European Convention on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Because of these human rights

abuses, many people — from writer Stephen Fry and Human Rights Watch to Sen. Lindsay Graham — are calling for countries and athletes to boycott the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. They believe this boycott would incentivize the Russian government to grant gay and lesbians the equality of the law and freedom from infringements on their rights.

In response, Russian officials like Vladimir Putin are assuring the international community that no lives will actually be impacted by the laws the Duma has passed. They say no citizens will by affected by the law so long as they do not openly promote homosexual relationships to minors. But here’s the catch — any words about homosexuality can be interpreted as this propaganda.

Despite all of this, I honestly believe that boycotting the Olympics would be the wrong thing to do. The boycott of the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics did not in any way encourage the Soviet Union to take its troops out of Afghanistan.

And it is especially important to remember that athletes, who train during their entire lives for this moment, deserve a chance to compete. For an athlete from any country of the world who believes in equal rights, to win in these Games will be a much more important victory and statement to the whole world.

ASHKHEN KAZARYAN is a 2013 –’14 Fox international fellow in residence at the MacMillan Center.

Contact her at ashkhen.kazaryan@yale.edu.

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“Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.”

JIM WALLIS CHRISTIAN WRITER AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST

Environmental committee tables tower measure ELICKER FROM PAGE 1 ment the program.

“It’s a great opportunity to collaborate with New Haven by bringing a clean energy project to the city and hopefully working to help building owners improve their property and work with locally sourced labor,” Healey said.

Most of the committee’s concerns focused on possible foreclosures on the properties where CEFIA would like to work. The aldermen were assured by CEFIA representatives during the meeting that if the city takes control of any property through foreclosure, past debts would be wiped away.

Next, the committee considered extending a lease term with The New Haven Ecology Project, the nonprofit organization that manages Common Ground, an environmentally themed public charter school, where a storm water diversion project is almost ready for construction work. Common Ground was able to receive state funding due to its educational status, but its lease term needs to be extended to 20 years in order to continue accessing state funding.

It’s a great opportunity to collaborate with New Haven by bringing a clean energy project to the city.

BEN HEALEY ’04 Senior manager, Clean Energy Finance Ward 25 Alderman Adam Marchand, who sits on the City Plan Commission, said “good care” went into the storm water diversion project’s site plan. As a parent who sent his kids to programs at Common Grounds, Marchand said that the project would not only increase access during storms but also make Common Ground safer. All committee members were in favor of the lease extension.

The third and final item on the committee’s agenda — a lease agreement with T-Mobile for a plot of land in Fairmont Park where the company would like to construct a cell tower — did not receive approval Thursday night. The board heard from three residents of Ward 13, where the park is located, who raised questions about the effect the proposed cell phone tower could have on property values and the character of the park, as well as the lack of community involvement in the process.

The issue most emphasized in the residents’ testimonies was what would become of T-Mobile’s profit. The current plan dictates a $2,000 monthly contribution from the phone corporation to the city, an amount residents said seemed low. Following the testimony, the committee voted to hold more discussion on the matter at a later meeting.

Elicker will face State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78 in November’s election.

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The Board of Aldermen’s City Services and Environmental Policy Committee, chaired by Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, approved several measures in its Thursday night meeting.

Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu .

‘Natural Disasters’ doubles enrollment from 2011 ENROLLMENT FROM PAGE 1 they’re eager to find out more about what it means,” she said.

Geology and geophysics professor David Bercovici said that the number of students enrolled in his science course for nonscience majors, “Natural Disasters,” has increased significantly from 2011 — the last time the course was offered — jumping from about 170 to roughly 350.

He said he expected enrollment to increase because of the posi-

tive evaluations he received two years ago, adding that he thinks students were satisfied with the average workload.

Bercovici said he thinks teaching style is important to a course’s success and that he tries to “move around” during lectures, as well as engage his students through demos and activities.

“I get off the stage so that they don’t fall asleep,” said Bercovici.

But Bercovici said “Natural Disasters” is not a “gut class”

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He said he thinks students find the material challenging, given that the optional discussions sections are always full.

But Frederick van Hasselt ’16 said “Natural Disasters” is notoriously easier than other classes and that the large lecture format provides a feeling of anonymity for students who may be out of their comfort zone.

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so I prefer that anonymity that a large lecture has,” Van Hasselt said. “It is refreshing to find 400 Yalies who will admit that they are not good at something, which is what you are doing if you enroll in [Natural Disasters].”

All professors interviewed said they understand the necessity of having a sufficient number of discussion sections and quality teaching assistants. Udry said he thinks sections are fundamental for student learning.

“I spend a lot of time with teaching fellows, and we try to make sure people do not get lost,” said Udry.

Five students interviewed also agreed that the quality of teaching assistants in such large lectures is important. Andrea Barragan ’16 said the section dynamic can determine whether she chooses to take a large lecture.

Simone Paci ’17 agreed that the large lecture format can be advantageous. He said he was

worried that “Introduction to Microeconomics” would be “too impersonal,” but he has enjoyed the course because the instructor encourages interaction and allows questions during class time.

Oct. 18 is the last day to withdraw from a fall-term course without it appearing on a student’s transcript.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .

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“I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.”

MANNY PACQUIAO FILIPINO PROFESSIONAL BOXER AND POLITICIAN

Cusia praises Philippine growth Economy may not

rely on state policy

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Jose Cuisia, the Philippine ambassador to the United States, spoke to students about the country’s aims for transparency and accountability.

BY CAROLINE WRAY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Cuisia said in a lecture Thursday evening that the present-day relationship between the two nations is positive and that the countries currently “work together to advance democracy, peace and good governance.”

At the talk, Cuisia made a case for his nation’s success, focusing on the Philippines’ status as a “tiger cub economy,” or an export-driven, growing economy. Cuisia, a former businessman who attended Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, said United States-Philippines relations are at a new high and the Philippines has become a rising power in Southeast Asia.

“We are poised to make these achievements sustainable and real in the eyes of the interna-

tional community, and more importantly our own people,” he said.

In the first quarter of this year, the Philippines’ gross domestic product grew 7.8 percent — exceeding the growth rate of China. Investment bank Goldman Sachs predicted that the Philippines will be the 14thlargest economy in the world by 2050, Cuisia said.

He said it is important that his country transition from agricultural to market growth, though the agricultural sector has been a significant contributor to the country’s economic prosperity for the past several decades.

Currently, the Philippines is in the midst of a dispute with China about the ownership of territory in the South China Sea, a conflict which some think may have hurt the economic relationship between the two nations. Cuisia said he

thinks that the Philippines are not dependent on their trading relationship with China, and he aims to expand trade with the United States.

During the speech, Cuisia emphasized the government’s efforts for transparency. The nation has had difficulty with corruption and public officials in recent years, but he said the corrupt politicians “are the minority.” For the first time in history, he added, the government is pressing charges against high-up officials who take part in illegal activity.

“This government wants to hold senior government officials accountable,” he said.

The current president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino, aims to run his office under a stamp of “transparency and accountability,” Cuisia said.

Students interviewed had mixed reactions to Cuisia’s lecture.

Lina X ing ’17 said she thought Cuisia’s optimistic outlook had a degree of “fluffiness” that downplayed the nation’s corruption and issues with economic disparity.

“Overall, there was nothing that was unsurprising,” she said. “The ambassador gave a very cookie-cutter speech. It was informative, in a sense, to see what the perspective of the Philippine government was.

I don’t think, however, it was very informative as to the perspective of the people of the Philippines.”

Chris Dee ’15 said the ambassador made him “very inspired to serve my country” and that he found the talk imformative.

Cuisia has served as ambassador to the United States for three years.

Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .

New exhibit disturbs the comfortable

BY SARAH HOLDER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This Thursday at the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. gallery on Audobon street, photographer Hayward Gatling introduced “Disturbing the Comfortable,” a new exhibit featuring the works of more than 25 artists whose projects blur the lines between the visually appealing and emotionally disturbing.

The collection of 52 pieces on display features a mélange of photographs, paintings, sketches, performance art and wood sculpture, but is tied together by a clear underlying vision. Inspired by revolutionary graffiti artist Banksy’s quote, “Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed,” Gatling said in a press release that he very consciously curated a show meant to unsettle its audience.

Debbie Hesse, artistic services and programs director at

the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, said she approached Gatling last month to discuss putting together the exhibition.

An abstract nature photographer, Gatling is a member of the Visual Arts Advisory Group and has been involved with New Haven arts programming in the past, though “Disturbing the Comfortable” marks his first foray into curating.

Of the three galleries associated with the Arts Council, the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. gallery “gives people an opportunity to be more experimental,” Hesse said, and shows work that “might not be shown somewhere else.”

Feeding off this encouragement to experiment, Gatling contacted his wide network of artist friends in the Connecticut and New York area. Gatling chose some artists’ works over the course of 14 studio visits, while others created pieces specifically for the exhibition.

“Most of these people really live art,” Gatling said of contributors, many of whom he met through his Facebook page, Gatling Fine Arts.

Damian Paglia, a New Haven resident, said that it was Gatling’s vision that pushed him to create the most provocative installation of his career. His piece, a shrine to Trayvon Martin, is on display right upon exiting the elevator onto the gallery floor. Votive candles surround a pop art rendition of Martin’s hooded face, and the words “You Look Suspicious” are painted across the canvass.

Complementing the painting is a performance artwork featuring a cross-legged member of the Yale Buddhist meditation group sitting on a pillow with his eyes closed, with a bouquet of flowers lying at his feet. Paglia explained that this union of painting and performance art is not only a shrine to Martin, but to other victims of violence in the New

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The exhibit at the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. gallery features a shrine to Trayvon Martin created by Damian Paglia.

Haven community.

Mike Franzman pays further homage to New Haven’s fallen innocents with a striking black and white photo dedicated to Mitch Dubey, a 23-yearold community member who was killed in 2011 by an armed robber.

Franzman’s photograph, captured at Dubey’s memorial service, hauntingly depicts a pair of hands holding buttons inscribed with the name “Mitch,” commemorating his life and recalling his tragic death.

Farther into the gallery, the power of the paintings lies in their contradictions. Charles Edward Dorris’ colorful portrait of a smiling gay couple provides a glimpse into the lives of two people in love, but its title “The Fallen” is a sobering reminder of their subsequent death from AIDS. An abstract rendition of Jackie Robinson’s famous gaze recalls not only his triumphs on the field, but the decades of discrimination he has come to represent.

“People were comfortable with baseball being all white,” said Katro Storm, the artist behind the piece. “Jackie Robinson disturbed that comfort.”

Other artists featured are Alan Neider, whose “Ad and Jewelry — 3” speaks to the perversity of the fashion industry; Mike Ross, whose portrayal of a seemingly innocuous ice cream truck is tainted by the sight of its lecherous driver; and Heidi Richard, who uses a photograph of a toilet brush washed up on the beach to comment on the disturbing state of our environment.

“Disturbing the Comfortable” is on display weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until Nov. 1, and can be found on the second floor of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.

Contact SARAH HOLDER at sarah.holder@yale.edu.

New research from the University of Connecticut indicates the economic health of the Nutmeg State may depend less on the actions of state politicians than previously thought.

The study, published in September and conducted by economics professor Steven Lanza, used advanced statistical techniques to determine the extent to which Connecticut’s unemployment problem is caused by unemployment shocks to the nation as a whole. Lanza modeled the Connecticut economy as requiring six financial quarters to react to shocks originating outside the state, arguing that although technically a longer time period would encompass more data, the model would be too complex to be useful.

He found that if economic shocks occurred at the state and national level, 75 percent of the change in unemployment that would result in Connecticut after two financial quarters could be attributed to local factors. However, after four quarters, state factors would only explain 25 percent of the change in unemployment within the state — the other 75 percent would be attributable to national economic conditions.

Thus, Lanza’s study concluded that in the long run, Connecticut lawmakers have little to do with the health of the state economy.

“We can’t expect miracles, but even small changes, added up over many years, might have a considerable effect,” Lanza said in his study. “When power is limited it’s all the more important to use that influence to certain effect which, in turn, raises the stakes on getting the policy right.”

Despite Lanza’s conclusion that state politicians have a negligible effect on state economic health, Mark Abraham of DataHaven said that this analysis does not adequately take into account variation within the local economy.

“Within New Haven, just to give an example, the official unemployment rates are 4 percent in high-income neighbor-

hoods like East Rock and Westville, but are 18 percent in the city’s low-income neighborhoods,” Abraham said. “If unemployment drops from 9 percent to 8 percent in our region, but these disparities continue to grow or even become worse, are we really better off?”

Abraham said that using growth as an indicator of the general health of the economy can hide other factors that contribute to wellbeing and that “in the long run … local and state governments have an equal amount of control over comprehensive community development, through policies like zoning and taxation — and national policies can change to meet local needs.”

[If] these disparities continue to grow or become even worse, are we really better off?

MARK ABRAHAM Executive director, DataHaven Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said that as a local policymaker himself, the conclusion of the study is not relevant to his responsiblities. Hausladen said that the goal of local policy makers is not necessarily to maximize employment.

“I want policy to be a platform for where any company can grow here,” he said. “I also think we should focus on health, community and wellbeing.”

Hausladen cited bike infrastructure as an example of this phenomenon. While providing adequate bike infrastructure will not necessarily boost employment in New Haven, such investment benefits the health and wellbeing of locals residents on a day-to-day basis.

The Connecticut economy has grown at a lower rate than the national average since the conclusion of World War II. Contact GEORGE SAUSSY at george.saussy@yale.edu .

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“You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It’s like a sauce!” CHRIS PRATT AMERICAN ACTOR

Yield rates still below those of Harvard, Stanford YIELD RATES FROM PAGE 1 saw a record-high of 76.7 percent.

Dartmouth, the Ivy League school with the lowest yield, posted a 48.5 percent rate.

“Prestige is a big chunk of it — the panache of the name,” said David Petersam, president of Virginia-based higher education consulting group AdmissionsConsultants.

Historically, yield rates for Harvard and Stanford have almost always been higher than those of Yale. For Petersam, this can be attributed to students from within the United States and other countries naturally gravitating towards the “brand-name [school]” on each coast — a trend

that is unlikely to change, he added.

Perhaps it speaks to the power of what some call the ‘H-bomb.’

SAMMY BENSINGER ’17 Members of the class of 2017 who recently chose Yale over its peer institutions agreed with Petersam’s assessment that more well known schools tend to have higher yields. Salaar Shaikh ’17, an international student from Pakistan, said that outside the United

States, the “Harvard name is still much larger than the Yale name.”

“Perhaps it speaks to the power of what some call the ‘H-bomb,’” Sammy Bensinger ’17 said.

Because the Harvard admitted students program was canceled this year, many students could have made their decisions from the school’s reputation, rather than personal encounters with it, she added.

Michaela Johnson ’17 and Rebecca Dendy ’17 both said they chose Yale over similar schools after attending Bulldog Days and seeing the University’s offerings in person. For the majority of cross-admitted students interviewed, Yale’s student atmosphere and community were

major factors in their choices.

After application counts and acceptance rates, yield rates are seen as the most significant number in the realm of college admissions because they are often percieved as indicators of a university’s desirability. But college counselors and college admissions experts warned against linking yield rates to prestige, due to the extreme variance in admissions policies at different universities.

Though the most selective universities typically do not intentionally manipulate their yield, Jerome Lucido, director of the USC Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice, said he has seen some schools

attempt to optimize their yield by favoring many students who are highly likely to enroll — such as legacies or recruited athletes — over students from the rest of the pool.

“Quite frankly, yield is also a reflection of what policies you have and how widely you cast the net,” Lucido said. “Those who cast the net widely will have somewhat lower yield rates, because they’ve reached out to students who may not be as likely to come.”

Lucido added that a combination of recruitment practices and financial aid policies can also be major factors in enticing students to matriculate.

For the first time this year,

applicants to Yale were able to select an option on their applicants to share their information with the Yale-NUS Admissions Office. Although Yale does not collect information on crossadmission to other institutions, Quinlan said he did see a “handful of students” admitted to both Yale and Yale-NUS, with a number of students choosing YaleNUS over Yale.

In general, Yale’s peer institutions saw rises in their yields this year. Princeton, MIT and Brown reported higher rates of 68.7 percent, 73 percent and 60 percent, respectively.

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

Frozen yogurt battle brewing in downtown New Haven

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Frozen yogurt stores Flavors, top left, and Froyo World will compete against the soon-to-open Pinkberry chain.

FROZEN YOGURT FROM PAGE 1 Go Greenly, which is the farthest from the other businesses in its location in the Audubon Arts District across from the Undergraduate Career Services building. Ojeda emphasized Go Greenly’s loyalty card program and the fact that all of its yogurt is gluten free and comes from an organic base as aspects of the business that set it apart from its competitors.

“It’s a healthier alternative than a lot of the other places. We don’t use any sugar,” Ojeda said.

Although Ojeda and Thienson were

quick to point out what differentiates their stores from the competition, at least some frozen yogurt customers seemed to disagree.

Every single Froyo place I’ve been to is the same thing.

CRAIG BORKENHAGEN New Haven frozen yogurt patron

hagen, an employee at the architecture firm Pelli Clark Pelli who sometimes eats at Froyo World.

Borkenhagen’s coworker, Amrit Pilo, was quick to agree.

“I don’t care where I go to take a break as long as I get to take a break. If it were Pinkberry or [Froyo World], it’s the same thing,” he said.

Froyo World was founded by graduates of the University of Connecticut in 2010.

“Every single Froyo place I’ve been to is the same thing,” said Craig Borken-

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Brenzel tells students to value self-validation

BY SAISNEHA KOPPAKA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Former Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffery Brenzel, the man who admitted all current undergraduates, urged individuals to be wary of the mindset that high-achieving students bring to institutions such as Yale.

Brenzel, who spoke as part of the “What Matters to Me and Why” speaker series on Thursday evening, said people need to free themselves from external validations and place a greater value on self-validation. Only by acknowledging the distinction between external and internal validation can someone live fully, he said.

“What we have become is a system that teaches students to do the trick that gets the biscuit,” said Brenzel, who serves as master of Timothy Dwight College.

Brenzel discussed the ways in which the University has evolved from a institution of exclusion to one of inclusion. Even though the student body currently embodies diverse characteristics, the mindsets of students in the University’s applicant pool — and that at other high-achieving institutions — is more homogeneous than ever, he said.

Education has become a way to arm a student with a resume, Brenzel said, adding that he advises people to take chances by stepping out of a fixed path and making themselves vulnerable to failures.

“We have met the enemy, and he is us,” he said.

Acknowledging that “your education is not your credential” is the first step to freeing oneself from such external pressures, Brenzel said.

Brenzel said he recognized that those who are personally successful are people who understand that their credentials do not define them.

A person can distinguish between internal and external validations through years of experience, Brenzel said, but separating the two starts with acknowledging their differences.

The “What Matters to Me and Why” speaker series originated at Stanford University in 1994 and is based on the need to encourage reflection within a community. Gregor Hintler FES ’14, who coordinates the series at Yale, said the goal of the program is to help community members understand what drives officials who help shape the University. By emphasizing advice from speakers, the program — which debuted on campus last spring — hopes to help students reflect on their own values and connect them with values of accomplished individuals.

Brenzel stepped down as dean of undergraduate admissions in fall 2012.

Contact SAISNEHA KOPPAKA at saisneha.koppaka@yale.edu .

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Jeffrey Brenzel, Timothy Dwight College master and former dean of undergraduate admissions, spoke as part of the “What Matters to Me and Why” speaker series on Thursday.

HAROLD KOH SHARES INSIGHTS ON SYRIA

Sandy aid for CT residents faces delays

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FORMER STATE DEPT. LEGAL ADVISER A POPULAR ATTRACTION Harold Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law, spoke in a crowded Branford Master’s House Thursday afternoon about Syria and shared stories from his time as legal adviser of the State Department. He told students to find out what they value most in their undergraduate years — and pursue careers where they feel they can make the world a better place.

New Haven residents will have a bit longer to wait to receive aid for damage wrought by last year’s Hurricane Sandy.

L a s t we e k , t h e s ta te announced that individuals can apply for a part of the $72 million fund that Connecticut received from the U.S. Housing and Development Agency. But due to unspecified delays, those affected by last year’s hurricane are still unable to receive those funds, though nonprofit organizations can receive part of a separate $10.5 million fund announced by Gov. Dannel Malloy last week.

“Getting this funding into the hands of those nonprofits in the region to assist in the continuing recovery after Superstorm Sandy is important,” Department of Social Services Commissioner Roderick L. Bremby said in a press release accompanying the announcement. “This particular block of funding will deliver a wide array of services for some of our most vulnerable populations.”

While the hurricane struck almost a year ago, New Haven homeowners have only recently been able to apply for federal aid to help repair damage left by Sandy. But even now state officials are uncertain as to precisely how and when residents will receive funds.

Although the website where homeowners can apply for funds looks complete, the system actually prevents submitting an application for federal aid. Residents can upload their financial information, fill in online surveys, explain their appeal and simply save what they have processed — without actually being able to send in

the application.

The funds for nonprofits, however, are available now.

“These disaster recovery funds will play a large role in helping those most impacted by the storm rebuild and regain services in the hardest-hit areas,” Malloy said.

Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall in New Jersey last October, affected 24 states, with most of its damage in New England. Yale closed its doors — which it has rarely done in its centuries-long history — out of concern for the safety of those on campus, as well as those who must commute to the University, and most of the city shut down as well. Kenneth Jackson ’17, who hails from nearby Woodbridge, Conn., praised the immediate response in the area.

“There were officials and preparations on the ground before Sandy hit, and although it took a while to restore power to my house, I have heard very positive things about FEMA and general response to the storm,” Jackson said.

The Robin Hood Foundation, the organization that presented a Sandy Relief concert in New York City, states on its website that it dispersed over $70 million in grant money to more than 400 smaller organizations in the tristate area. According to the Foundation, over $1 million of its funds went to organizations in Connecticut — a small amount compared to the $72 million set aside for homeowners and $10.5 million for nonprofits.

Hurricane Sandy directly caused 148 deaths.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

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U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., announces the American Health Care Reform Act, legislation to replace Obama’s Affordable Care Act. EE4BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans struggled to tamp down a family feud Thursday as they approached a politically charged showdown with the White House that combines the threat of a government shutdown, a possible firstever federal default and the GOP’s bid to repeal the nation’s three-year-old health care law.

One day after conceding that the Democratic-controlled Senate probably would prevail on the last part, Sen. Ted Cruz still vowed to do “everything and anything possible to defund Obamacare.”

That includes a possible filibuster of legislation to prevent a partial government shutdown, added the Texas Republican.

That was a step further than Sen. Mike Lee of Utah — Cruz’s partner in a summertime run of “Defund Obamacare” television commercials — was willing to go. President Barack Obama’s health care law “is not worth causing a shutdown over,” he said.

The two men spoke at a news conference with several House Republicans where lawmakers stressed they were unified and thanked Speaker John Boehner for agreeing to tie the anti-shutdown and anti-Obamacare provisions into one bill.

That bill is on track for House passage on Friday, with a Senate showdown to follow.

The House intends to move quickly next week with a separate bill to put the health care law on ice, this one a measure that also would allow the Treasury to avoid a default that could destabilize the economy.

Boehner himself sought to redirect the political fire at Obama, accusing him of being ready to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Syria but not engage with Republicans on rais-

ing the nation’s debt limit, an issue that could lead to national default.

But he also got in a subtle jab at Cruz and Senate conservatives who have been clamoring for weeks for a showdown on the health care law.

“I expect my Senate colleagues to be up for the battle,” he said.

The prospect is for a 10-day period of intense uncertainty, with Boehner pledging to avoid a shutdown yet also hoping to come away with a bite out of the health care law, even if less than complete defunding.

Congressional aides pointed out during the day, for example, that if the Senate rewrites the House-passed bill to leave the health care law in place, Boehner and the rest of the House leadership could still seek further changes before passing it a second time.

People don’t want a government shutdown. And they’ll blame Congress. They did before.

JOHN MCCAIN U.S. senator, Arizona For their part, the White House and majority Democrats in the Senate will be trying to protect the health care law that stands as Obama’s signature domestic accomplishment — without complicating the re-election chances of senators on the 2014 ballot in swing states.

The White House intruded briefly on the Republican feud, pledging that Obama would veto any legislation that blocks the health care law from taking full effect. The defunding drive “advances a narrow ideological agenda that threatens our economy and the interests of the

middle class” and would deny “millions of hard-working, middle-class families the security of affordable health coverage,” it said.

The effort seeking virtual repeal of the law as part of a government funding bill gained powerful momentum over the summer when the Senate Conservatives Fund, Heritage Action and other groups with tea party ties launched a nationwide campaign.

Cruz and Lee played prominent roles, each appearing in television ads aimed at pressuring Republican lawmakers not to yield. “Republicans in Congress can stop Obamacare if they simply refuse to fund it,” Lee says in one SCF-funded commercial.

On the other hand, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has urged Republicans to fund the government and prevent a default, then double back and try and work out changes to the health care law later.

In a tea party age, it is unclear how much political clout establishment groups carry with individual GOP lawmakers.

At the same time, many Republicans fear a replay of twin government shutdowns nearly two decades ago that inflicted significant damage on their party and helped resurrect then-President Bill Clinton’s political fortunes.

“When it comes to shutting the government down, that is not going to succeed because people don’t want a government shutdown. And they’ll blame Congress. They did before,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

Another Republican, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, agreed. “I’m one who doesn’t believe that a shutdown does anything except divert attention from a president and his policies, which are rightfully unpopular, to congressional incompetence,” he said.

WASHINGTON — Some employees returning to work at the Washington Navy Yard Thursday said they felt it was too early to talk about the massacre earlier this week while others said it will take a while to put what happened behind them.

“I’d rather not be here today,” said Judy Farmer, a scheduler from Manassas, Va., one of those who returned to the red bricks of the Navy Yard for the first time since 12 people were gunned down Monday by a shooter who was killed by law enforcement.

T h e Nav y i n s ta l l a t i o n reopened at 6 a.m. for normal operations except the building where the shooting took place.

Bob Flynn, who hid in an office in Building 197 with four colleagues during the shooting, said it helped to be at work with them.

“I feel good because I got to see my co-workers that I went through this with,” Flynn said. “I get to hug people, and everybody gets the hugs and we get to talk about it and I think it’s going to be helpful.”

Flynn said Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus met with them Thursday morning.

“He said, ‘If anybody has a problem, you call me,’ and he means it, and it’s just one big family and that’s why we’re going to be able to make it,” Flynn said.

Flynn recalled hiding with the lights out in a third-floor office, where one colleague called 911, another used a smart phone from under a desk so the light wouldn’t be visible and another put chairs against the door as 34-year-old Aaron Alexis fired in the building. Authorities say he was the lone shooter.

“It seemed like it lasted forever as we were hearing gunshots and not knowing what was going on,” Flynn said. “When they finally rescued us later, I had to walk over the body of a very dear friend of mine and, you know, that’s hard to get out of my head.”

Brooke Roberts, an engineer who works across the street from the building where the shooting happened, said returning was a bit surreal.

“You don’t think this sort of thing can happen to you at your workplace, so you’re just not prepared for it, regardless,” he said of the shooting as he walked by a blocked off gate he is accustomed to using to enter the Navy Yard. He described himself as feeling “still unsettled,” noting the blocked off entrance.

“It’s still not quite normal, and it probably won’t be for some time,” Roberts said.

Navy spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr.

Sarah Flaherty said Thursday will be a regular work day, except for Building 197, and the base gym, which is a staging area for the FBI to investigate the rampage carried out by the Navy reservist.

Barbara Smith said she was feeling apprehensive, walking toward the entrance.

“But, you know, I have to work, and I’m trusting that they’re taking care of what needs to be taken care of,” she said.

Law enforcement officials are still trying to determine a motive for the shooting. Officials have said Alexis was grappling with paranoia, hearing voices and convinced he was being followed.

A month before the shootings, he complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings of his hotel room and sending microwave vibrations into his body to deprive him of sleep.

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Navy Yard shooting victim Vishnu Pandit is assisted while awaiting the arrival of emergency medical personnel. Pandit later died of his injuries.

House votes to cut $4B from food stamps

BY MARY CLARE JALONICK ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The House has voted to cut nearly $4 billion a year from food stamps, a 5 percent reduction to the nation’s main feeding program used by more than 1 in 7 Americans.

The 217–210 vote was a win for conservatives after Democrats united in opposition and some GOP moderates said the cut was too high. Fifteen Republicans voted against the measure.

The bill’s savings would be achieved by allowing states to put broad new work requirements in place for many food stamp recipients and to test applicants for drugs. The bill also would end government waivers that have allowed able-bodied adults without dependents to receive food stamps indefinitely.

House conservatives, led

by Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., have said the almost $80 billion-a-year program has become bloated. More than 47 million Americans are now on food stamps, and the program’s cost more than doubled in the last five years as the economy struggled through the Great Recession. Democrats said the rise in the rolls during tough economic times showed the program was doing its job.

Finding a compromise — and the votes — to scale back the feeding program has been difficult. The conservatives have

insisted on larger cuts, Democrats opposed any cuts and some moderate Republicans from areas with high food stamp usage have been wary of efforts to slim the program. The White House has threatened to veto the bill.

House leaders were still shoring up votes on the bill just hours before the vote. To make their case, the Republican leaders emphasized that the bill targets able-bodied adults who don’t have dependents. And they say the broader work requirements in the bill are similar to the 1996 welfare law that led to a decline in people receiving that government assistance.

Most people don’t choose to be on food stamps. Most people want a job. … They want what we want.

ERIC CANTOR Majority leader, House of Representatives “This bill is designed to give people a hand when they need it most,” Cantor said on the floor just before the bill passed. “And most people don’t choose to be on food stamps. Most people want a job. … They want what we want.”

The new work requirements proposed in the bill would allow

states to require 20 hours of work activities per week from any able-bodied adult with a child over age 1 if that person has child care available. The requirements would be applicable to all parents whose children are over age 6 and attending school.

The legislation is the House’s effort to finish work on a wideranging farm bill, which has historically included both farm programs and food stamps. The House Agriculture Committee approved a combined bill earlier this year, but it was defeated on the floor in June after conservatives revolted, saying the cuts to food stamps weren’t high enough. That bill included around $2 billion in cuts annually.

After the farm bill defeat, Republican leaders split the legislation in two and passed a bill in July that included only farm programs. They promised the food stamp bill would come later, with deeper cuts.

In order to negotiate the bill with the Senate, Republicans said Thursday that one more step is needed — the House will have to hold a procedural vote to allow both the farm and food stamp bills to go to a HouseSenate conference together. It is unclear whether Republicans who pushed to split the two bills will oppose that effort.

Once the bills get to that conference, negotiations with the Senate will not be an easy task.

A Senate farm bill passed in June would only make a tenth of the cuts to food stamps, or $400 million, and the White House has issued a veto threat against the House bill. The two chambers will also have to agree on policy for farm subsidies amid disputes between different crops.

Every Democrat voting on Thursday opposed the bill. Many took to the floor with emotional appeals.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the bill is a “full assault on the health and economic security of millions of families.” Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett called it the “let them starve” bill.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday that House Republicans are attempting to “literally take food out of the mouths of hungry Americans in order to, again, achieve some ideological goal.”

The Congressional Budget Office says that if the bill were enacted, as many as 3.8 million people could lose their benefits in 2014.

Around 1.7 million of those would be the able-bodied adults who would be subject to work requirements after three months of receiving food stamps. The 1996 welfare law put that limit into law, but most every state has been allowed to waive that requirement since the Great Recession began in 2008.

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“The arc of moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. LEADER IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Pope signals shift of tone on abortion, gays

Khamenei opens way for outreach

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at a meeting of Revolutionary Guard commanders.

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Pope Francis exchanges gifts with Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevicius during a private audience at the Vatican.

BY NICOLE WINFIELD AND RACHEL ZOLL ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Signaling a dramatic shift in Vatican tone, Pope Francis said the Catholic Church had become obsessed by “small-minded rules” about how to be faithful and that pastors should instead emphasize compassion over condemnation when discussing divisive social issues of abortion, gays and contraception.

The pope’s remarkably blunt message six months into his papacy was sure to reverberate in the U.S. and around the globe as bishops who have focused much of their preaching on such hotbutton issues are asked to act more as pastors of wounded souls.

In interviews published Thursday in Jesuit journals in 16 countries, Francis said he had been “reprimanded” for not pressing church opposition to abortion in his papacy. But he said “it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.”

The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules.

POPE FRANCIS “The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently,” Francis said.

“We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel,” the pope said in the 12,000-word article, based on interviews conducted by a fellow Jesuit, the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civilta Cattolica, a Rome journal for the religious order.

“The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in smallminded rules,” Francis said. “The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you. And the ministers of the church must be ministers of mercy above all.”

The comments contained no change in church teaching, and the pope said reform should not happen quickly. Still, it was the pope’s clearest declaration yet of a break in tone and style from his immediate predecessors.

John Paul II and Benedict XVI were both intellectuals for whom doctrine was paramount, an orientation that guided the selection of a generation of bishops and cardinals who now face

making a dramatic turnabout in how they preach.

The interviews were conducted by Spadaro over three days in August at the Vatican hotel where Francis has chosen to live rather than in the papal apartments. The Vatican vets all content in Civilta Cattolica, and the pope approved the Italian version of the article, which America magazine, the Jesuit journal in the U.S., translated into English.

The admonition will especially resonate in the United States, where some bishops have already publicly voiced dismay that Francis hasn’t hammered home church teaching on abortion, contraception and homosexuality — areas of the culture wars where U.S. bishops often put themselves on the front lines.

U.S. bishops were behind Benedict’s crackdown on American nuns, who were accused of letting doctrine take a backseat to their social justice work caring for the poor — precisely the priority that Francis is endorsing.

“I think what Francis is doing when he’s talking about these hot-button issues, he’s not saying one side is right or the other side is right. He’s saying that arguing over these things gets in the way of the work that Catholics are supposed to be doing,” said David Cloutier, a theologian at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland.

“This suggests a really different vision of what the church should look like in the world. It’s not a defensive vision. He comes out and forthrightly says we don’t have to talk about these issues all the time. I can’t help but see this as a potential rebuke to American leaders who have focused on these issues.”

Just last week, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, R.I., said in an interview with his diocesan newspaper that he was “a little bit disappointed” that Francis hadn’t addressed abortion since being elected. But Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, said Francis’ comments on abortion do not indicate any change in the church’s commitment to the issue.

“Pope Francis is reminding us that when we discuss the issue of abortion, we are not talking about some abstract issue or procedure. Rather, we’re talking about situations that involve mothers and their unborn children, and we must be mindful to help them both — something the right-to-life movement works to do every day,” Tobias said.

Two months ago, Francis caused a sensation during a news conference when he was asked about gay priests.

“Who am I to judge?” about the sexual orientation of priests, as long as they are searching for God and have good will, he responded.

BY NASSER KARIMI AND BRIAN MURPHY ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran — There’s no mistaking the desire of Iran’s new president and his allies to open greater contacts with Washington over nuclear talks and possibly other regional crises such as Syria. The messages that really matter, though, come from the ultimate decisionmaker in Tehran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The immensely powerful Khamenei opened the door a bit six months ago by saying he wouldn’t oppose closer diplomatic exchanges but did not believe the Washington was ready to make meaningful accommodations. Now, it appears Khamenei is giving President Hasan Rouhani critical room — for the moment at least — to explore potentially groundbreaking overtures with Washington.

A series of statements this week from Khamenei — including saying Iran can show “heroic flexibility” in diplomacy — suggest a significant shift could be underway. Khamenei appears to be aligning his views more closely with Rouhani’s initiatives to repair tattered relations with the West and reopen stalled nuclear negotiations with world powers.

Perceived backing from Khamenei would bestow major credibility to the outreach appeals by Rouhani,

who is scheduled to arrive in New York next week for the annual opening of the U.N. General Assembly session. Already, Rouhani’s foreign minister, Mohammad Jadad Zarif, was in New York on Thursday making preparations, and Iran’s only Jewish lawmaker, Siamak Moreh Sedgh, told The Associated Press in Tehran that he will be part of the delegation.

There also is increasing speculation that Rouhani could use the sidelines of the U.N. gathering to seek — directly or indirectly — more dialogue with the White House following the recent exchange of letters with U.S. President Barack Obama.

One possible pathway is a planned meeting in New York between British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Zarif.

While it’s still too early to declare Khamenei clearly in support of Rouhani’s quest for new diplomatic openings, some of his recent comments have closely mirrored Rouhani’s in substance and tone. Rouhani also told NBC News in an interview Wednesday that he has “full power and has complete authority” to negotiate over Iran’s nuclear program — an apparent reference to a unified front with Khamenei and Iran’s ruling clerics.

The last Iranian president to advocate greater outreach to the West, Mohammad Khatami, did not have

full backing from the ruling clerics because of internal battles over reforms.

“Nothing is possible without the supreme leader’s approval,” said Scott Lucas, an Iranian affairs expert at Britain’s Birmingham University and editor of EAWorldView, a foreign policy website. “Khamenei seems interested in giving Rouhani the chance to see where his outreach leads.”

The reasons most likely circle back to the painful Western sanctions, which have slashed Iran’s vital crude oil exports by about half. Khamenei appears ready to re-explore the options of some nuclear concessions — possibly scaling back uranium enrichment — in exchange for easing the economic squeeze. Past negotiations, however, hit dead ends over the same type of scenario.

In the NBC interview, Rouhani repeated Iran’s claim that the West is wrong to think Iran seeks nuclear weapons. But Rouhani also has stood strongly behind Iran’s declarations that it will never relinquish its ability to make nuclear fuel for its energy and medical research reactors — a program the U.S. and allies fear could eventually produce warhead-grade material.

Any deeper diplomatic exchanges between Iran and the U.S. also cannot ignore Syria, where Tehran is a life-

Egypt targets Islamist stronghold

BY AHMED ABDEL FATTAH AND MOHAMMED WAGDY ASSOCIATED PRESS KERDASA, Egypt — Egyptian security forces backed by combat vehicles and helicopters stormed a town near the Pyramids, famed among tourists for its traditional rugs and dresses, aiming to drive out Islamist militants who held sway there for over a month, brandishing their weapons as they roamed its streets.

After troops swept in, many residents of Kerdasa greeted the forces with cheers, women ululating, and others handing them out soft drinks, one witness said. The assault, in which a police general was shot to death by militants, highlighted authorities’ stepped-up resolve to move against strongholds of armed supporters of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the military on July 3.

But Kerdasa residents expressed fear that the security crackdown will only drive out the militants temporarily. They said nearby villages on Cairo’s western outskirts, which are home to some of Egypt’s well-known families with a history of militancy, will continue to provide cover for those who took control of the town.

“I wish this had happened a month ago,” said Youssef Hussein, a resident of Kerdasa, hailing the early morning raid on his hometown. “We have been living in a bubble. We thought we could die every day. Kerdasa has really been wrecked.”

The offensive showcases an Egyptian society still in turmoil over Morsi’s ouster. The new military-backed leadership has been a wide-scale crackdown on his supporters, while the most hard-core elements of Morsi’s Islamist backers have unleashed a campaign of violence ranging from car bombs to attacks on Christians.

No side appears interested in a polit-

ical settlement.

Militants took control of Kerdasa in mid-August, when a mob attacked the local police station, killed 15 policemen and mutilated their bodies, dragging some by cars, scalping at least one and pouring acid on another. It was part of a wave of retaliatory violence after security forces cracked down on the main pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo with heavy assaults that killed hundreds.

Earlier this week, a large armypolice force stormed another town where militants took control after the coup — Dalga, in southern Egypt.

On Thursday, they turned to Kerdasa, with a large force of troops and policemen encircling the town at around 6 a.m.

The police general fell in the first moments. On a highway overpass on Kerdasa’s edge, Gen. Nabil Farrag had just addressed his men to rev them up for the fight, telling them, “Let’s go, men! Go in, toward martyrdom.”

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“Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football.”

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Yale takes on West Coast

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The men’s soccer team boarded a plane and headed west to play a slate of two games this weekend in California.

MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 notoriously tough opponents,” forward Jenner Fox ’14 said in an email.

“We’re just hoping to continue the success that Ivy League teams have had out here, and grow as a team.”

Even in this young season, both California squads have already faced an abundance of nationally ranked talent. UC Santa Barbara has squared off against No. 11 UCLA and No. 16 Northwestern, while Cal Poly has

also taken on UCLA. “We are expecting our opposition to be very technical, physical and have the ability to move the ball quickly,” midfielder Scott Armbrust ’14 said in an email. “This week we spent some time working on our defensive shape in hopes of being able to turn a lot of balls over.“ Last season, the Elis struggled to put the ball in the back of the net, averaging an Ivy League low of 0.53 goals per game. Early this sea-

son, scoring woes continue to haunt the Bulldogs. Other than a 4–1 win against Sacred Heart on Sept. 19 — which featured a hat trick from Peter Jacobson ’14 — the Elis have not managed to score in their other three games. That will need to change if the team hopes to improve on its sixthplace Ancient Eight finish last year.

“We need to work on both creating more chances and finishing the ones that we are able to create,” Alers said.

“To do that, we need to improve the

service that we are giving our attacking players and make quicker and more purposeful decisions.”

Alers added that the team has been working on achieving those goals in practice.

The game at UC Santa Barbara will kick off at 10 p.m. on Friday, while the Bulldogs will face Cal Poly at 4 p.m. on Sunday Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu

Elis look to extend winning streak WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 nie Coxe ’15 added that there has been a lot of focus on individual marking and taking ownership on defense. Coxe highlighted the importance of maintaining control of the ball in the midfield.

“Working on keeping the ball in transition is a big thing,” Coxe said. “If we can move smoothly from defense into the attack, we can get more people into the final third for goal-scoring opportunities, which is exactly what we want.”

This weekend is shaping up to be a prime opportunity for the Bulldogs to fine tune their performance, as they have a history of success against both opponents. Yale has never lost to Sacred Heart (2–5–0, 0–0 NEC) in the duo’s 11 prior meetings.

The Pioneers will be led by captain Kristin Verette, last week’s Northeast Conference Women’s Soccer Player of the Week, who is coming off a strong two-goal performance.

Fairfield (3–3–0, 0–0 MAAC) has not fared much better against Yale in the past, as the Stags have lost their last six matchups against the Bulldogs.

Fairfield is carrying some momentum with them into Sunday’s matchup though, as well as a new piece of hard-

ware. The Stags captured the 2013 Fairfield Women’s Soccer Invitational this past weekend, with wins over American University and Holy Cross University. Fairfield has won three in a row after a three-game losing streak to open the season. The Yale defense will have to make sure someone is marking Fairfield’s forward Ashley Small at all times, as she has scored four of the team’s six goals this season.

With the excitement and anticipation of the Ivy League schedule looming, Meredith is aware that there is a chance the team may overlook its opponents this weekend.

“I’m hoping that we do not, but that could happen,” Meredith acknowledged. “We’ll see what happens.”

Coxe, however, was confident that no such thing would take place.

“We are taking it one game at a time, focusing on Sacred Heart first and then Fairfield in order to work out the kinks,” Coxe said. “That way, we can be 100 percent by the time we play Princeton.”

Kickoff against Sacred Heart is slated for 7 p.m. tonight.

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The Bulldogs will play against Sacred Heart and Fairfield this weekend before the Ivy season starts.

given a pass on last season. No first-year coach should have to deal with the inconsistency Reno had to manage at the quarterback position — an inconsistency brought on by unavoidable, freak injuries. This is really Reno’s first year with complete control of his team, a healthy roster and active oversight of the recruiting process.

The inevitable judgments of this team’s performance shouldn’t be colored by the bizarre nature of the 2012 campaign.

Now that Reno has guided the direction of the program for over a year, there are promising signs of tangible improvement. At the team’s weekly press conference on Tuesday, Reno said his biggest goal over the past year was to change the culture of the team. Whether or not this ends up being pure coaching boilerplate remains to be seen, but you can’t accuse the staff of not trying to make concrete changes.

Posters announcing this fall’s schedule have blanketed bulletin boards and dorm rooms.

Players are now required to live on-campus through their junior year. During the preseason, the team ate lunch with all of the residential college masters and deans to set expectations for conduct. The team now eats dinner in Saybrook on Tuesday through Thursdays. Captain Beau Palin ’14 is a director of the WarriorScholar Program, which connects veterans to educational opportunities through a two-week workshop that helps military men and women transition to college life. Considering that many issues in Ivy League athletics seem to hinge on the tension between “regular” students and athletes, Reno is at least apt to hone in on culture as a focal point for change.

Speaking of focal points, this year’s squad should hopefully find itself with a starting quarterback that it can count on week in and week out. The starter for Saturday still hasn’t been announced, but the race is down to Henry Furman ’14, Eric Williams ’16 and Clemson transfer Morgan Roberts ’15. It’s possible that this team could have benefited from some earlier closure on the quarterback issue — leaving the decision up to the last minute is understandably worrisome for fans who watched this same weekly indecision and confusion cripple the team last season. But any doubt can be washed away on Saturday with a strong performance from whoever gets the nod at signalcaller.

The addition of Roberts is important not just because of the depth added at quarterback, but also because it serves as a signal that Reno is attracting top-level players to Yale. Roberts’ transfer was reported almost simultaneously with the news that Victor Egu ’17, a California linebacker with interest from coaches at Oregon and UCLA, had made the decision to de-commit from Cal and attend Yale. Clearly, Reno is offering a vision of the future persuasive enough to earn commitments from high-quality players across the country — rare for an Ivy League school where recruiting generally takes place on a regional level.

Yale football is unlikely to win an Ivy League title this year. The team is still young — four freshmen will start on defense on Saturday — and no one claims that the roster’s raw talent level has caught up with Penn and Harvard.

But Yale has ambition and, finally, a positive attitude instead of stagnant complacency. A clearly comfortable Reno said on Tuesday that he would like this team use a up-tempo nohuddle offense to run 90 to 100 plays a game.

This is a lofty, improbable goal, but I prefer that to going through the motions yet again.

Coach Reno has been through it all once; now he’s making this team his own. It feels like the dawn of a new era for the football program, and it should be considered as such. Last year was a bumpy transition with no one to blame — this is Reno’s first chance to show what’s possible when all resources are at his staff’s disposal.

With that in mind, good luck on your first year as head coach, Coach Reno — last year was just an extended scrimmage.

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

Bulldogs prep for toughest challenge of season VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 On Saturday, Yale will match up with the University of Albany (0–9, 0–0 America East), which has yet to win a single set this season. The Elis defeated the Great Danes in straight sets last year in the first victory of a 15-game winning streak. Captain Kendall Polan ’14 produced a 10-kill, 28-assist, 13-dig triple double in that match, while Rogers led the team with 15 digs to go along with her 12 kills.

Fittingly, the Bulldogs will end the tournament going up against No. 1 Penn State. The Nittany Lions (6–1, 0–0 Big 10) were national semifinalists last year and boast one of the most successful programs in NCAA history.

For the Elis, this will be the third

match this year against a team with a serious height advantage, and their second match against a top 10 school. They will rely on experience gained against Missouri and Stanford to combat the prodigious size of Penn State, whose starting lineup averages 6 feet 2 inches.

“We have a sense [now] of how to maneuver a big block and dig big hitters,” outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17 said. “We competed with the bigger teams. We have high expectations for this weekend.”

Steinberg was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after a 15-kill performance against Missouri. The team will rely on Steinberg and Rogers, who leads the team with 65 kills this season, to generate offense against the Penn

State defense.

We’ve seen [Penn State], we’ve read about them.…

But on any given day, anything could happen.

MOLLIE ROGERS ’15 Outside hitter, volleyball The last time the Bulldogs saw the Nittany Lions was in a heated second-round match in the 2008 NCAA tournament. Penn State dispatched the Elis in straight sets before going on to defeat Stanford for the national championship.

The Nittany Lions are coming in with some serious momentum, having won each of their last four matches in straight sets. According to Rogers, the team will look to challenge PSU’s size by serving efficiently to limit passing opportunities and aiming high on hits to neutralize blockers.

The Elis are also excited at the prospect of competing with yet another national powerhouse.

“We’ve seen them, we’ve read about them, and they’ve won before,” Rogers said. “But on any given day, anything could happen.”

The Elis take on Eastern Kentucky today at 4:30 p.m.

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

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When the Elis face Albany this weekend, the Great Danes will be searching for their first win in a set this season.

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“We competed with the bigger teams. We have high expectations for this weekend.”

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Elis head to California

EVAN FRONDORF

MEN’S SOCCER

Yale football, starting over again First-year football head coach Tony Reno was in quite the unenviable position last year.

After taking over a team riddled by scandal, Reno made a strong first impression with a opening win over Georgetown — and then proceeded to watch each one of his quarterbacks go down with injury over the coming weeks. By week seven, star running back Tyler Varga ’15 found himself under center in a single-wing formation against Columbia. The Bulldogs had only 52 passing yards that day, but they still almost came away with the win behind three touchdown runs

by Varga himself. It was a testament to the perseverance of this team, quickly built in the first weeks under Reno. And although Yale lost yet another edition of The Game last year, the final score didn’t tell the whole story. Those who made the trip to Cambridge were rewarded with an extremely competitive Game, one that Yale certainly had the chance to win up until the final moments. The average Yalie was pleasantly surprised by the effort — those who had followed the team all year were absolutely shocked. How was this team capable of that?

The takeaway is that Coach Reno should be SEE COLUMN PAGE 11

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The game at UC Santa Barbara will kick off at 10 p.m. on Friday, and the Elis will face Cal Poly on Sunday.

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER As the first month of classes begins to wind down and fall weather grips campus, many students can only dream of warm California air.

But for some Yalies, that dream has become a reality.

The men’s soccer team boarded

a plane and headed to California to play a slate of two games this weekend. Yale (1–3, 0–0 Ivy) will take on UC Santa Barbara (3–2, 0–0 Big West) today before facing Cal Poly (4–2, Big West 0–0) on Sunday.

“I think the team is hoping to gain two important things from the trip,” defender Nick Alers ’14 said in an email. “First, we are playing against

Another giant to face volleyball team

two very good teams that will really test our soccer ability and mental toughness. Playing tough games now will prepare us for tough games later during the Ivy season. Second, the trip will give us a great chance to continue to build our team chemistry.”

The Elis face teams with impressive pedigrees: Both opponents

received votes in the NCAA Division I men’s soccer rankings this past week, though neither is ranked, and UC Santa Barbara won the national championship in 2006.

“Honestly, I don’t know what to expect because we’ve never played out here, but SB and Cal Poly are SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 11

Opportunity weekend for Bulldogs

BY JAMES BADAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s soccer team has one final weekend of preparation before its Ivy League season begins against Princeton at the end of the month.

WOMEN’S SOCCER This weekend, the Bulldogs will face two non-conference rivals: Yale will host Sacred Heart tonight at Reese stadium, and on Sunday, the team will travel

to Fairfield for a 2 p.m. kickoff.

Despite one major road bump — an 8–0 loss to No. 10 Georgetown — Yale (4–1–0, 0–0 Ivy) has been steadily improving this season.

Defense has been the major concern along the way, but things are looking up after a 2–0 shutout on Wednesday against Hartford. One-on-one defense in particular has been a consistent point of emphasis for head coach Rudy Meredith. Midfielder FranSEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 11

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After taking on Missouri and No. 8 Stanford over its first two weeks of play, the Yale volleyball team now prepares for No. 1 Penn State.

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER In its season opener two weeks ago, Yale volleyball was tested against SEC powerhouse Missouri. Last week, the Bulldogs faced off against the No. 8 Stanford Cardinal. But this weekend, they will face their toughest test all season as they take on No. 1 Penn State.

VOLLEYBALL

After going 2–1 at the Service Academy Challenge at the Pentagon last weekend, the Elis (4–2, 0–0 Ivy) head to Pennsylvania this weekend to take part in the Penn State Classic. In addition to the Nittany Lions, they will be matched up against Eastern Kentucky and Albany.

Yale plays its first match of the tournament today against Eastern Kentucky.

With a matchup looming against a highprofile team like Penn State, it would be easy to overlook the other two teams on this road trip, but the Elis have been well-

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prepared by their coaching staff.

“We always prepare for the first team we play,” outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 said. “We never overlook anyone, no matter who we’re playing.”

Eastern Kentucky (4–6, 0–0 OVC) makes the trip to Penn State having lost their last six matches. Despite the Colonels’ recent futility, the Elis spent the majority of practice this week planning for the game.

SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 11

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The Elis will face in-state rivals Sacred Heart and Fairfield this weekend.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE SEASON-OPENING GAMES WON BY THE FOOTBALL TEAM. The Bulldogs’ last loss to open the season came in 2006 against San Diego. Overall, Yale is 119–18–2 all-time in season openers, including wins in the team’s first 59 opening games.