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CROSS CAMPUS Disaster in action. During Friday’s session of G&G 100 “Natural Disasters,” students arrived to see that cans of Red Bull had been placed under each seat in SSS 114 with a note reading “Crack this can at 11:50 a.m. SHARP.” And, just as Professor Maureen Long launched into a discussion about earthquakes, the class erupted with cracks as the nearly 350 students enrolled opened their cans exactly at the same time. Science in action, indeed.

Billions on billions. A recruitment email from the Yale Investments Office suggested that the value of the University’s endowment may have reached $21 billion.

While Yale has yet to release its endowment return for the 2013 fiscal year, an Investments Office financial analyst encouraged seniors in an email to attend an informational session and “meet the team that manages Yale’s $21 billion endowment.” As of June 30, 2012, the Yale endowment was valued at roughly $19.3 billion.

Another one. Nearly two weeks

after clinching the Democratic nomination to be New Haven’s next mayor, Toni Harp ARC ’78 will receive yet another major endorsement: this time, from Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro. DeLauro, who withheld public support for any candidate during the fourway primary, is expected to endorse Harp during a rally in Wooster Square this afternoon.

Thank the chicken tenders.

Yale was ranked 10th in a list released Thursday and compiled by the “Daily Meal” — a website that discusses culinary creations and restaurants — of the top 60 best colleges in the country for food. Colleges were judged on healthy food options, access to food, student feedback and an “X factor,” a unique twist that distinguishes the dining experience from that of other campuses. The jury’s still out on whether tofu apple crisp was the distinguishing factor that put Yale in the top 10.

Creating a startup culture. In a Sunday email to the student body, HackYale announced that it will start posting job offerings for technology startups in New York, Boston, Silicon Valley and New Haven.

Because these small startups lack the manpower to recruit through Undergraduate Career Services, the HackYale team wrote that they wanted to spread word of these tech opportunities to Yalies and encourage them to apply to jobs outside of finance or consulting.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1947 The University receives an unexpected gift to add to its library: the first book ever published in the American colonies. The “Bay Psalm Book,” which is valued at $151,000 and highly prized

by University librarians, is temporarily housed in Sterling Memorial Library.

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YA L E A N D S L AV E R Y

In Pierson’s Lower Court, a tainted history

Yale faces barrage of cyberattacks

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER

Slave, to ads for a “plantation party” in the 1950s and a “bring a slave” party in 1980.

Following protests by the Black Student Alliance at Yale, the nickname was abruptly dropped in 1980.

Students, faculty and University officials interviewed at the time said they found the term offensive and embarrassing, and the “slave quarters” was renamed “Lower Court.” Today, hardly anyone, including Pierson’s new master, is aware of the courtyard’s awkward past.

While it is not surprising that this nugget of Eli lore is not one that campus tours and admissions brochures choose to mention, faculty members

The University has faced a growing number of cyberattacks in recent months, according to Chief Information Security Officer Richard Mikelinich.

Yale Information Technology Services has detected several million hostile attacks over the past few months, as hackers use more innovative methods than ever before to probe Yale’s systems, Mikelinich said.

Though he declined to comment specifically on strategies for keeping hackers at bay, he said ITS is committed to protecting the University’s networks. Still, computer science professors interviewed said that technology has not yet progressed to the point where a network can be completely secure.

“It’s hard to say who is behind all of this activity, but we believe it includes identity thieves, people or organizations seeking Yale’s intellectual property and spammers or pirates who want to use Yale computers to distribute or store their data,” Mikelinich said. “We are doing everything we can to protect Yale’s network while ensuring that legitimate information continues to flow freely, but I can’t be more specific without compromising Yale’s security efforts.”

Information security is a serious issue for all research universities, he said, because a great deal of valuable intellectual and personal information is housed on universities’ networks.

Criminal organizations may be behind some of the attacks because criminals can profit from selling access to compromised computers on the black market, said computer science professor Michael Fischer.

Other probes may come from domestic and foreign spy agencies that seek to monitor Yale’s online communications, he said.

Mikelinich said the most common form of hostile behavior is scanning the Yale

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From 1933 to 1980, Pierson’s southeastern courtyard was referred to as the “slave quarters” by students and faculty.

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or more than 50 years, Pierson’s Lower Court was known by students and faculty alike as the “slave quarters.” The college officially shed the nickname in 1980, but traces of its history remain in books and memories. How can Yale address the tarnished chapters of its past? SARAH MASLIN reports.

Tucked in the southeastern corner of Pierson College, at the end of a winding stone path, sits a small, shady courtyard once called the “slave quarters.”

Students bestowed the nickname in 1933, shortly after Pierson was built, because of the courtyard’s humble appearance compared with

the rest of the Georgian-brick college’s grounds. The term lasted until the 1980s.

A search through Yale archives unearthed dozens of references to the “Pierson slave quarters,” in newspapers, guides and books, from a caricature of a dark-skinned man in the college’s newsletter, The Pierson

Eidelson kicks off re-election campaign

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidelson ’12 kicked off her reelection campaign on Saturday with an open house gathering at her High Street apartment designed to reignite the energy that propelled her to victory in 2011.

Over coffee and fresh-baked cookies, nearly 40 supporters crowded into the candidate’s third-floor apartment to share their reasons for backing the incumbent in a Nov. 5 general election. Before her most ardent supporters praised her achievements on the Board of Aldermen and commended her vision for New Haven, Eidelson addressed the crowd, detailing the city’s principal problems and the work that faces the Ward 1 representative.

“The commitment that I made to you two years ago was that I was going to look the city’s most serious challenges in the eye and actually work with the other alders and work with you to really try to make change on them,” she said.

Eidelson made no mention of her challenger, Paul Chandler ’14, who is the first Republican to seek the Ward 1 seat in 20 years. The only Democrat in the race, Eidelson faced an uncontested primary election.

At the forefront of her work on the Board, Eidelson said, have been youth issues: streamlining existing services and working to create new, recreational spaces for young people.

As the chair of the youth committee, Eidelson has worked to articulate a “comprehensive youth agenda,” she said, a response to the sobering realization that “we were not giving young people in New Haven what they actually deserved.” As part of that effort, Eidelson has helped lead efforts to transform the long-shuttered Goffe Street Armory into a youth space and to reopen the Dixwell Community “Q” House, which longserved as a hub for youth activities.

Eidelson listed crime, government transparency and economic development as other high-priority issues.

Reflections on her 2011 campaign colored Eidelson’s pitch, as she recalled her initial motivations for running.

“It was being in rooms like this that made me decide to run to represent you all in the first place,” she said. “Like most Yale students, I did not come to Yale because I was extremely excited to live in New Haven. But I quickly fell in love with it, and I ran in 2011 because I believed SEE EIDELSON PAGE 6

LGBT alumni celebrate at rescheduled reunion

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Though the original LGBT Alumni Reunion was postponed due to a February blizzard, over 250 attended this weekend’s event, organized by Yale GALA and the Association of Yale Alumni.

BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER A concert featuring Cynthia Nixon, a speech on Yale as the “Gay Ivy” and a party at Partners Cafe all took place this weekend as part of the second LGBT Alumni Reunion.

Over 250 alumni, students and guests attended the events organized from Thursday to Sunday by Yale GALA — the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender

Alumni Association — in conjunction with the Association of Yale Alumni. While the reunion was originally set to take place in February and canceled at the last minute due to a massive blizzard, all the original honorees and speakers were able to attend the rescheduled event, said reunion co-chair Gabriel Seidman ’11.

The theme of the reunion, “Remembering SEE GALA PAGE 6

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n oversimplification of Kant’s discourse on why we should not break promises goes something like this: to break a promise, or to make one with no intention of keeping it, renders meaningless the very act of promising itself. It’s a simple point made in the broader argument for his categorical imperative, which has been the subject of must philosophical debate. But it seems pretty clear that anyone with a reputation of not following through on their word loses authority and respect.

The promise — along with the very concepts of responsibility and sincerity themselves — are always under attack in public political discourse, since politics reflects man’s sinful and self-interested nature. No surprise there. And while there is definitely nothing new under the sun, every once in a while an instance of dirty politics reminds us how hypocritical we are.

Calls for more civility in politics abound from the left and right, as we are constantly besieged with cable news headlines that carry on pointless (and often hurtful) semantic battles between one talk host and another. The organized response to such brinksmanship has taken on forms like the non-profit group “No Labels,” which has proposed some good, but unimplemented, structural changes to the executive and legislative branches. Most of these proposals have gotten little media coverage, taking a backseat to flamethrowers whose relentless political maneuvering (most recently over an impending government shutdown) is much better material for keeping the few people watching still tuned in.

Enter, briefly, the world of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has repeatedly called for an “increase in civility” in politics. A few days ago, she branded her party’s fiercest opponents in the latest government budget battle “legislative arsonists.” Within the past week, she has also called President Obama “a nonpartisan president,” and accused Republicans of wanting to “take down” his presidency because his nonpartisanship is “very hard for them to cope with.”

Speaker Pelosi is not a media host — she is not Bill Maher or Glenn Beck, whose careers were built largely on draining the reserve of public decency by taking cheap partisan shots at their opponents. Pelosi’s comments are thus inexplicable. No constituent, interest group or lobbyist could have demanded that she voice this opinion of her political opposition. And if anger is to

blame, politicians have a responsibility to save most of their personal frustration for private conversaJOHN TakAROUTIOU- tion. ing every thought to NIAN the public discredJohnny politiCome Lately its cal authority, since we have a lot of thoughts, even the leaders among us, that aren’t worth sharing out loud.

Politics is personal, but get too personal and you begin to lose virtue and professionalism. You appear insincere and inconsiderate, engaged in the same old game that everyone hates.

It’s pretty intuitive that as the fourth estate of American politics has made content readily accessible and constant for the information consumer, the quality of their product has gone down. But while the news itself is an information product, its quality affects the quality of what it’s delivering to the consumer: a politician’s speech, for instance, or a televised debate. The media cycle encourages newsmakers to share the basest thoughts that come to mind. But for what?

For whom? The only plausible answer is for itself. Calling your opponents “arsonists” neither helps your side nor the political processes. It merely helps a struggling cable channel retain a small portion of the viewers who are leaving in the mass exodus from content drained of real political significance.

We have a responsibility to restore sincerity, virtue and — perhaps most importantly — meaning into most of what passes as political discourse on television and in print. As citizens, we have a duty to boycott media that refuses to respect the process it works under. As Yalies, we have a responsibility to make sure that our discourse about issues we care about doesn’t become self-defeating by becoming too emotional, flippant or self-righteous. In short, we have a responsibility to teach ourselves to become good citizens, and to check ourselves when we realize we fail. A more humble, sincere approach to politics is better for its own sake, but it also produces better results — an effect we should all be able to get behind.

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learned as a child slipped away when my grandparents left our house for my uncle’s, and unlike the few other Indian kids at my school, I didn’t take classical dance lessons or know the Hindu deities.

This awkward state of cultural limbo bothered me sometimes, but at the end of the day it didn’t matter because I could still identify as American. It’s what I was, and what I always will be.

I’m that girl who takes the Olympics way too seriously, checking every night to make sure we’re number one in the medal count. I’m that person in the crowd who can’t listen to the national anthem without singing along, that overzealous fan who brought her own flag to Buffalo Wild Wings for the women’s World Cup final. The Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays, and while I adore my parents’ cooking, I’m often just as happy with a plain old burger.

I shouldn’t even have to mention these things to prove I’m an American; the fact that I’ve lived every year of my life in this country should say that on its own.

And yet, somehow what I say will never be enough because to a handful of people, all that will ever matter is my dark hair, brown skin and unfamiliar last name.

Until recently, I thought I’d never experienced racism — after all, I’ve never walked into a football stadium to see a giant banner reading, “Go home Iranian,” as my mom did when she was in college. What I’ve dealt with, rather, is the racism embedded into our culture — racism that the recent criticisms of the newly crowned Miss America, an Indian-American like myself, have brought to center stage this past week.

I’ve grown up in a society that sees immigrants like my parents as taking jobs from “real” Americans, and that sees me as taking college spots from those Americans’ children. I’ve grown up where the standards of beauty don’t include women who look like me, and where when it finally seems like they do, people get outraged and resort to racist slander. I’ve grown up feeling like I have to prove to my compatriots that I’m just as Ameri-

can as they are — like I owe it to people to make myself seem less “ethnic” so it’s easier for them to like me.

The worst part is, I didn’t used to think this was a problem. As a child, I never questioned this ongoing pressure, since after all, I’ve never lived without it.

Thankfully, starting college has finally made me realize an important thing about my mixed up self-identities: I’m not sorry.

My parents come from two beautiful cultures that I’m proud to represent, and I am not sorry if you think those countries are breeding grounds for terrorists. It is not my responsibility to sugarcoat my background to make it more palatable; it is your responsibility to look past your prejudices and get over it.

Most of all, it is not my, nor anyone else’s, job to prove to you I am “American enough” to belong here. I do. And so does every other American who’s ever felt unloved by their country.

NIKITA DUTTA is a sophomore in Saybrook College. Contact her at nikita.dutta@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST SHIRA TELUSHKIN

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can’t remember the last time I received an email from a professor that was signed Professor [Last Name]. Searching my inbox has turned up nothing.

Instead, emails both personal and general come signed with first names, nicknames and sometimes only initials.

This can be very confusing.

How many times must a professor sign his or her email “Jordan” until it is awkward to keep replying “Dear Professor Hunter?”

What if you've never met them?

And what is so wrong with being called professor anyway?

We live in times of ambiguous social etiquette. Nobody knows what business casual means for women, or when it is polite to open a door and when it’s offensive. The more you think about the possible issues around what to call friends’ parents, the more daunting a task it becomes. There are few right answers today. Such etiquette calls must be made in the moment, using only good judgment and vague guidance from the past.

But there is no reason for this ambiguity to invade our University. The just-call-me-Joe reflex of so many Yale professors gestures toward a student and pro-

JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a junior in Johnathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu .

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n 2001, I stopped telling people where my mother was from. I was only a kid then, hardly old enough to really understand racism, but even then I’d picked up on the fact that people weren’t too keen on my half-Iranian heritage. I learned to say “Persian” instead; it cut the tension so nicely.

Now that I’m older, I’ve tried to stop making this switch. Iran may not have gained good favor in American eyes, but I’ve at least begun to realize that that shouldn’t shape how I see myself and my cultural identity. And yet, even today, the habit is hard to break.

Of course, I’m not fully Iranian — my constant identity crisis would be far too minor were that the case. My dad emigrated from India and met my mother in college. That’s how my sisters and I came to be — multiethnic, firstgeneration Americans, born and raised in Michigan and now happily settled in central Illinois.

I never felt like an outsider growing up; if anything, I was out-of-touch with my background. What little Farsi I

fessor dynamic that does not truly exist. We are not friends, and we are not equals. There are boundaries between us for good reasons. Professors have written a doctorate, published, constructed a syllabus. They’ve done something difficult enough to be in the classroom, and I hope they have some authority over me because they are teaching our courses.

The title of professor should denote respect. Knowledge is not easily won. Our professors have worked incredibly hard for the knowledge they possess, and as a result the professor and the student have different roles in the classroom. Unless a professor has a radical educational philosophy, and does in fact want to overturn a dynamic she believes hinders education, the first-name invitation rings a bit hollow. Nothing really changes in most classrooms. My sense from talking to professors is that most simply feel uncomfortable with the authority that comes from the title and are more at ease being called by their first name. That is an impulse that makes sense, but should be overcome.

It is important not to mistake informality for an educational

break from the past. As a professor, one does have unique authority and obligations that must be recognized. And maintaining titles can ensure that boundaries are recognized even as students and professors develop relationships outside the classroom.

LET'S KEEP THE TITLE 'PROFESSOR' BEFORE WRITING THAT LAST NAME Students and professors can and should interact socially — that’s the relationship that actually enhances campus life. I’ve had many professors who have invited their classes over for dinner, taken students to froyo and stayed up late at night to clarify or debate an idea. These meetings have been an integral part of my Yale experience; learning doesn’t just happen in a seminar. Our Yale education should be about us growing as thinkers, leaders and people of character.

After-hours conversations with

those much sought after mentors might actually help us more than the readings they assign. But professors don’t have to sign their emails “J” for that to happen.

The desire for these more personal interactions is all the more reason for us not to forget the inherent inequality in these relationships.

In the '60s, students smoked weed with their professors but also wore sports jackets to eat in Commons. In many ways, society is becoming more casual, and sometimes we prize that casualness as signals of a more authentic mode of interaction. This can be dangerous, especially if the nod is all surface and little progress. We’ve lost something real in all the gesturing. We've lost a small sign of respect for knowledge, and an even more important acknowledgment of a true distinction between professor and student that allows for those meaningful exchanges. I know very well that a title is not the only way to show respect, but I see no reason to ditch it.

SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a senior in Pierson College. Contact her at shira.telushkin@yale.edu.

GUEST COLUMNIST STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE

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[Name] posted in Overheard at Yale.” For 3,127 members of the Yale community, this is a notification we receive multiple times a day.

The Facebook group allows all of us on campus to report some of the musings we have heard.

Through the page, we have had a virtual seat in Professor Chun’s ‘Introduction to Psychology’ course, sympathized with Californians unaccustomed to wearing numerous sweaters and shared our frustrations about the everlasting lines of our Post Office.

We also get to hear the things that were almost certainly absent from any information session, interview or college application. The perfect example was posted on Friday night: "Four years of taking APs and SATs from the College Board, and all I really learned was that Chicago is a city."

Religiously, we flock to the page to mock our peers and the ridiculous things they have said. We laugh because we can’t believe that someone at Yale would be stupid enough to say some of these things. We cringe when they’re so offensive to us that they’re no longer funny at all. Yet scrolling through this page, it dawns on me

that these are all Yale students, and I’ve always thought Yale students were the reason that this school remains so distinguished.

IT'S NICE TO KNOW WE ALL SAY SILLY THINGS And that’s true. But, there’s another reason why we’re addicted to this virtual group. It reminds us that we’re not alone when we lapse into moments of sheer stupidity. Personally, I know that I ask stupid questions and push the doors you’re meant to pull. An unfortunately large number of people saw me slip in the Trumbull dining hall on Thursday night. Normally, I would laugh. I’ve always been clumsy.

But, this is Yale. Surely, we are made to believe, all our imperfections must be squeezed out so we can graduate from Yale as accomplished young men and women.

And, I’m sure I’m not the only one who was jokingly asked at numerous points in the last few months

of high school, “How did you get into Yale?”

At first, it was funny. But, when I do and say these things now, I have to stop myself and remind myself that I’m at Yale. I was part of Yale’s under seven percent admissions rate.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who struggled to come up with a “fun and interesting fact” about myself for my first FroCo meeting or freshman seminar. When sitting amongst people who are international athletes or who have performed at Carnegie Hall, Yale can be a little intimidating. “What’s special about me?” was surely the cry of everyone at some point during our first weeks.

And now, every time I say something so mind-numbingly obvious or downright ridiculous, I find myself wondering why the Admissions Office thought it was a good idea to admit me.

But, they did.

They also admitted the freshman who believes he’s Bond James, the person who skips class on Tuesday in order to do IMs and every single student who opened a can of Red Bull at 11:50am in Natural Disasters on Friday.

Sometimes, we will encounter

people who do and say things that we find amusing. It doesn’t make them stupid, or inferior to anyone else. It makes them a little bit more human.

It can be easy to forget that Yale is my new home. Tourists and prospective students gawk at our supposed superiority and take pictures of our statues and us.

College Confidential addicts ask if we’re robots or genetic mutations. It might be our best-kept secret, but I think “Overheard at Yale” is proof that students at Yale are, in some ways, normal.

So, every time I visit the page, I am reminded that I am not alone.

There is someone else who needs a Fahrenheit to Celsius cheat sheet, and someone else who didn’t know what a possum was.

I can be assured that for every ridiculous comment I make, there is numerous other students making equally ridiculous claims. So, next time you see me fall down and laugh, remember that I got into Yale too. We all did.

STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu.

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“There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you’ve got it, you’ve got it. When you haven’t, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.” ÉDOUARD MANET FRENCH PAINTER

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‘Olympiad’ celebrates Manet

YCC debuts project list

BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER Students who demand more transparency from the Yale College Council will now be able to see a list of the projects on which they are working their website.

The Yale College Council has redone the “projects” page on its website to display a list of the organization’s over 40 projects, the status of each project and the students in charge of those projects. The process for completing initiatives was restructured over the summer so that each project will be managed primarily by one representative instead of a committee to increase effectiveness and accountability, said YCC President Danny Avraham ’15.

The organization also created a management board that consists of three students to oversee projects in three broad areas — student life, University services and academics.

“In the past, we got the sense that students don’t really know what YCC was doing,” Avraham said. “Students should know [YCC representatives] are working hard on these issues and we hope the next step will be announcing positive change.”

Re p re se n ta t ive s we re assigned their projects this weekend and will be expected to update the page regularly with progress information, such as whether they have met with administrators, Avraham said. The list includes projects that have been in the works for months as well as fresh ideas from the newly-elected representatives, he added.

Projects listed on the site include plans to review cam-

pus wheelchair accessibility, implement credit card payment for buttery swipes and mandate that final exams cannot count for more than 50 percent of a course grade.

Before a project is completed, the individual in charge of the initiative must present it to the YCC, Avraham said. If a project cannot be completed, an individual cannot drop the project without a vote from the Council allowing it to be removed, he added.

Nnamdi Udeh ’14 said the initiative is similar to the “What has YCC Done?” webpage that lists the organization’s accomplishments and was created in response to student criticism that the YCC is not an effective organization. “[The new website] keeps them accountable and students are informed,” Udeh said.

Eight out of 10 students interviewed said they are optimistic that the new page will help improve the YCC’s effectiveness.

Placing all the projects in one place creates an organized system and listing project leaders will allow students to reach out and offer input, said Daniel Dangaran ’15.

Justin Schuster ’15 said the success of the effort will depend on how much the YCC publicizes the new page.

“If there is no impetus to drive me to the website, it won’t make a difference,” Schuster said.

The newly-elected YCC residential college representatives for the 2013-’14 school year were announced on Sept. 16.

Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .

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YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 is working to answer students’ demands for more YCC transperancy.

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Last weekend’s “Olympiad” conference celebrated the 150th anniversary of Édouard Manet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe,” left, and “Olympia,” right.

BY SARA JONES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last weekend, Yale played host to a veritable “Manet mania,” as the history of art department’s “Olympiad” conference was aptly dubbed by Art News, a global art magazine.

The department, along with the School of Art and French department, hosted an array of panels and presentations, which took place on Saturday and Sunday, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” (1863) and “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (1863). An accompanying exhibition of contemporary work, “Lunch with Olympia,” opened Friday night at the art school’s 32 Edgewood gallery. Through a collection of 34 paintings and four video installations, this exhibit pays tribute to both “Olympia” and the “Déjeuner,” works many scholars agree helped define the modernist avant-garde.

The show includes a Wild West-themed iteration of “Déjeuner,” complete with sombreros, gun-belts and flaming red cowboy boots, as well as an “Olympia” from the outback, whose 10-year-old sitter — the artist’s daughter, who just so happens to be named Olympia — sports weathered Keds and a bright pink gingham dress in lieu of the original’s nudity. There are works by household names (Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne), as well as contemporary painters (Manon Elder; Agnès Thurnaeur) alike. Throughout all, however, the breadth and depth of Manet’s influence is evident, which seems only fitting for an artist described by history of art professor Carol Armstrong, the exhibit’s cura-

tor, as “one of the all-around best painters in the world.”

Still, it was not merely painting skill that inspired “Lunch with Olympia” — the exhibit was born from a series of conversations between the School of Art and the French and history of art departments, along with professors’ perceived need for a revival of interest in 19th century French painting, Armstrong said.

“People have begun to say that French 19th-century painting is old hat, that’s it’s not really relevant anymore, that there’s nothing left to say about it that hasn’t already been said,” Armstrong explained.

She added that she hopes “Lunch with Olympia” will prove otherwise by displaying the vast body of work inspired by “Olympia” and “Déjeuner.” School of Art Dean Robert Storr agreed, citing the “living works” on display as proof that the pair of paintings is still current, a representation of the “dialogue” occurring between artists that, in Storr’s mind, is not often acknowledged.

Among this compilation of visual proof is Thurnauer’s “Olympia #2” (2012), which depicts a representation of Manet’s painting overlaid with a series of French terms of endearment — for instance, “mon amour,” “ma chérie,” “ma toute” (my love, my dear, my everything). Thurnaeur, who was present at the opening, explained how painting escapes all constraints, including time and place, and that her desire was to represent Olympia in the same way, as someone who escapes all definitions placed upon her — in this representation, literally.

Manon Elder, another featured

artist in attendance, discussed her “Olympio” (2013), a precisely to-scale reproduction of “Olympia” — with one critical distinction. In place of Manet’s sensual female nude, Elder has painted a male figure that retains Olympia’s trademark gaze of blasé disinterest.

“Gender has always been important in my painting,” Elder noted, explaining that the piece was an artistic experiment of sorts, to see whether or not viewers would find the replacement of female with male shocking.

The result? “No, we, [as viewers], don’t really,” Elder said. “And I think it’s because [Olympia’s] expression is one we’re so used to seeing in representations of men.”

People have begun to say that French 19th-century painting is old hat, that it’s not really relevant.

CAROL ARMSTRONG Professor, History of Art Viewers’ reactions to works such as these jibed well with Armstrong’s desire to revive 19th century painting’s relevance to a contemporary audience. Noa Battu, a high school student who dropped by the exhibit, appreciated the opportunity the show afforded “to see ‘textbook’ work reborn in a more modern context.” Other spectators, such as Jo Kremer, said they hoped the works at 32 Edgewood would further their appreciation of the symposium’s other events.

Those offerings included a variety of speakers drawn from across the globe. Saturday morning began with Armstrong delivering the conference’s opening address — “Ceci n’est pas une prostituée” (“This is not a prostitute”) — which emphasized the fallibility of the historical rumors circulating about Olympia’s streetwalker status. The talk was followed by Musée d’Orsay curator Isolde Pludermacher’s exploration of the links between Titian and Manet, Yale history of art student Izabel Gass’ GRD ’15 examination of the critical writings of Théophile Thoré, a lesser known contemporary of such 19th century luminaries as Charles Baudelaire and Émile Zola — particularly as they pertained to his evaluation of Manet — and the Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre/École du Louvre’s Baptiste Brun’s presentation of Jean Dubuffet’s 1950 rendition of “Olympia.”

The afternoon saw a keynote address by Anne McCauley of Princeton considering the significance of “Olympia” in an age of comparative anatomy and a panel dealing with issues of sex and gender in such paintings.

The Manet marathon continued on Sunday with Elder and Thurnauer speaking about their featured works and a second keynote address by Segolène Le Men of the Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre, lasting well into the afternoon with a series of panels focusing on the contemporary resonance of Manet’s work.

“Lunch with Olympia” will be on display at 32 Edgewood Avenue through Nov. 21.

Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu.

Urban advocates give parking new meaning

BY POOJA SALHOTRA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Metered parking spots in downtown New Haven were transformed into spaces for eating cupcakes, playing games and sharing ideas on Friday as part of a global event called Park(ing) Day. The Park(ing) Day project — an annual worldwide event when citizens, artists and organizations collaborate to advocate for better use of urban spaces — began in 2005, when Reba, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a metered parking spot into a temporary public park. Since 2005, over 160 cities in 35 countries around the world have adapted the project to address their cit-

ies’ urban problems and point out the need for increased open space.

New Haven has participated in the event since 2008.

“The goal of Park(ing) Day is to show that streets are for more than just cars,” said Deputy Director and Manager of Parking Enforcement Mike Mohler, who organized New Haven’s Park(ing) Day this year. “This is just a really creative way of demonstrating that the space can be used for things besides cars.”

This year, New Haven witnessed its largest cohort of urban advocates, with 10 local organizations sponsoring parks. The city provided the parking spaces free of charge and actively publicized the event. Organizations

were allowed to use their parking space however they wanted, Mohler said.

Yale Transportation Options — a University program founded in 2007 to develop sustainable transit solutions for the Yale community — converted a parking space in front of Urban Outfitters on Broadway into a birthday-themed booth with free Sweet Mary’s cupcakes, cider and coffee as well as a chance to play “Pin the Tailpipe on the Car.” Yale’s Director of Sustainable Transportation Holly Parker said she participated in the event to show people how parking spaces could be used differently.

“If you are thinking about an urban environment with con-

strained spaces, storing cars just doesn’t seem like the best way to use space,” Parker said.

The Yale Entrepreneurial Institute created an “idea park” on College street where pedestrians could share community problems and brainstorm solutions while munching on candy. The group set up a large “idea board” on which students wrote down issues like “beating Harvard,” and others bullet-pointed solutions including “bringing back tailgates.”

Margaret Lee ’15, a student intern at YEI, said that the team had a two-part mission in setting up their idea park: to stay true to the philosophy of Park(ing) Day by creating a green area for community interaction and to garner stu-

dent interest in YEI. “I think we have been pretty successful because we have lots of ideas going and people have been asking what we are about,” Lee said.

Also stationed on College street was Yale’s Urban Collective. The student organization dedicated to urban studies spent the afternoon lounging on lawn chairs and offering glasses of Arnold Palmer to pedestrians. Urban Collective co-president Josh Isackson ’15 said that he hopes Park(ing) Day encourages people to rethink the way downtown space is used.

“If you look at downtown New Haven as a whole, parking is a huge problem,” Isackson said.

“There are way too many parking

spots, and that encourages people to have cars, which is inefficient and takes up a lot of space.

Park(ing) day can hopefully bring attention to that.”

Among the other New Haven parks was an old bike display sponsored by Devil’s Gear Bikes, an outdoor lounge area sponsored

by New Haven Arts Council, a Bean Bag Toss run by the city’s Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department and an Art Walk featuring sculptures by students from Co-op High School.

Parking Day is held annually on the third Friday in September.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhorta@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 16TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Yale’s past ties to slavery examined TIMELINE HISTORY OF THE PIERSON ‘SLAVE QUARTERS’ 1954

1933

A new nameplate is designed for the tabloid, featuring a caricature of a runaway slave.

Pierson College is built in the Georgian Revival Style.

Students start calling the southeastern courtyard the “slave quarters.”

1930

1937

1940

1950

The first edition of the Weekly Slave, a tabloid with sports news and gossip about Pierson College residents, is published.

SLAVES FROM PAGE 1 and students interviewed wonder if the Yale community should be aware of Lower Court’s old nickname and its 50-year history.

In the past, when revelations about Yale’s ties to slavery have sparked dialogue about how to deal with “tainted” histories, the University’s response has often been characterized by “embarrassment, disinterest or refusal to acknowledge them,” said Jonathan Holloway GRD ’95, a specialist in post-emancipation American history and the second black master of Calhoun College.

When Pierson Master Stephen Davis GRD ’98 found out about the “slave quarters” nickname in an interview with the News, he said that campus dialogue about it would be important and beneficial.

As Yale looks forward to naming two new residential colleges, students like Patricia Okonta ’15, the current president of BSAY, hope the administration will carefully examine both the good and the bad of Yale’s past.

“Knowledge is power,” she said.

“All histories should be known.”

PIERSONITES AS ‘THE SLAVES’

Pierson’s main courtyard is green and vast, with towering residence halls that channel southern grandeur. Meanwhile, the corner courtyard has a simple stone floor, low-sloping roofs, whitewashed walls and buildings of only one or two stories.

“They actually look like slave quarters,” Holloway said. “Nice ones, but still, there’s definitely a visual resonance.”

When the first Pierson students began referring to the courtyard as “the slave quarters,” the nickname caught on fast.

In 1934, the News assigned mascots to each residential college. The “slave quarters” nickname had already become commonplace, so the logical choice for Pierson was “the Slaves.” Pierson’s weekly newsletter, founded in 1937, was deemed the Pierson Slave. It featured headlines like,

1941

“Slaves Third in Baseball, Softball; Golfers Behind,” and, following a co-ed College Weekend in 1954, “Slaves Entertain 100 Girls.” The founder of Yale’s graphic design program, Alvin Eisenman, created a new nameplate for the tabloid in 1954: a bold font with prison bars through each letter and a pen-and-ink caricature of a darkskinned man holding a stick.

Yale historian Gaddis Smith ’54 GRD ’61, who was an undergraduate in the 1950s, said that thenMaster Sidney Lovett did not like the slave nomenclature and “urged that it be cooled down.” As a result, the slave mascot ceased to appear in the News after 1960.

Old issues of the Pierson Slave in Sterling Memorial Library’s Manuscripts and Archives stop in the year 1956.

But Jay Gitlin ’71, a history professor who teaches the seminar “Yale and America,” said that when he was a Yale undergraduate in the early 1970s, students still called the courtyard the “slave quarters.” A Nov. 16, 1973 edition of the News with a notice for a “Pierson Bladderball Victory Party in Slave Quarters” confirms Gitlin’s memory.

Smith said that while giving a tour to a group of visiting clergymen that included a black minister in the 1950s, Lovett accidentally used the nickname “slave quarters,” to his profound embarrassment. The story, said Smith, demonstrates that the term was so embedded in undergraduate culture that students and faculty members alike no longer thought about its significance.

BSAY PROTESTS ‘SLAVE QUARTERS’

Holloway was surprised to learn that the slave nickname persisted through the civil rights movement. In the 1960s and 1970s, African American enrollment increased substantially. Black students began to claim a stronger presence on campus, pushing for the creation of the African American Studies Department and the Afro-American Cultural Center — a cultural house that today sits just

1956

Old issues of the Pierson Slave in Sterling Memorial Library’s Manuscripts and Archives stop in this year.

a stone’s throw away from the former Pierson “slave quarters.”

In 1970, Yale students and faculty members displayed overwhelming support for the May Day Riots. When tens of thousands arrived in New Haven to protest the trials of Black Panther Party members, Yale University President Kingman Brewster ’41 opened campus gates to the protesters.

The Pierson “slave quarters” lasted through all of this.

In 1980, Pierson residents plastered campus boards with posters advertising a “Bring a Slave” party.

The word “slave” was crossed out and replaced by “friend.”

Members of the Black Student Alliance at Yale protested the “racist” language of the posters, and Smith, who served as master of Pierson from 1972 to 1981, called a meeting of the Pierson College Council. It was decided that the term “slave quarters” would be officially abolished and the southeastern courtyard would be renamed “Lower Court.”

“I want to emphasize that no one in Pierson ever used the nickname with intent to cause ill feeling,” Smith was quoted saying in an Oct. 9, 1980 News article.

At the time, BSAY representative Paul Butler said the “Bring a Slave” posters demonstrated “a severe lack of sensitivity,” breaking a promise from Yale’s social committees “to avoid throwing parties with themes that could potentially be construed as racist.”

But other Pierson students dismissed BSAY’s anger: “This epitomizes the oversensitivity of black groups,” one student said.

“I’m always going to call it the slave quarters,” said another. “My parents called it that.”

Most students, the News reported, “seemed to view the change with indifference.”

DEALING WITH ‘TAINTED HISTORIES’

1960

The last reference to the slave mascot in the Yale Daily News digital archives appears in an Oct. 19 sports article.

The official name for the “slave quarters” is now “Rosenkranz Court.” The Pierson Slave is no longer in print. Pierson students compete as the “Pirates,” though

1966

1970

Students establish the Black Student Alliance at Yale.

1960

1964

Fourteen black male students matriculate to Yale, a record number.

no one really knows how the mascot came about. Nearly all the other college mascots are animals.

Though there are numerous references to the “slave quarters” in history books, Davis, the current Pierson master, had never heard of the nickname when he began his term last month.

“If it’s true, it’s appalling,” he said when he found out, seated in an armchair in the Pierson Master’s Office, his belongings still in boxes around the room. A blackand-white photograph of Abraham Lincoln rested against the fireplace, ready to be hung above the mantel.

Davis was surprised that the history of the “slave quarters” is so scarcely known. He wondered how to “unmask it” and relate it to a larger dialogue that would perhaps include other lesser-known Yale histories.

The issue of institutional memory is by no means simple, especially when it comes to so-called tainted histories. If it is generally agreed that universities like Yale should not erase chapters of their histories — even those that do not fit with current notions of political correctness and enlightened education ideals — then how should they acknowledge such histories?

Yale is not the only university with skeletons in the closet.

In 2003, Brown’s president appointed a commission to investigate the college’s ties to slavery.

The three-year process included “a revision of [the university’s] official history so that it presents a more complete picture of the origins of Brown,” and resulted in a 106-page report.

Brown’s official response attempted to address current social injustices along with past historical gaps. In 2007, the Brown Corporation endorsed a set of initiatives including the creation of a doctoral program in Africana Studies, a pledge to raise $10 million for Providence’s public schools and the formation of a Public Art committee to develop ideas for how the history of the Rhode Island slave trade “may gain its appropriate and perma-

1949

Faced with riots leading up to the New Haven Black Panther trials, University President Kingman Brewster open the gates to the May Day protesters.

1980 1980

1970 1969

The African American Studies Department and the Afro-American Cultural Center are founded.

Posters appear on campus for a “Bring a Slave Party” in the “slave quarters.” Students protest the nickname and the Pierson courtyard is renamed “Lower Court.”

nent place in the public historical record.”

At Yale, a similar report was published in 2001, entitled “Yale, Slavery and Abolition.” It was written not by an official University committee but by three graduate students. The report alleged that the University had failed “to tell the full story of Yale’s relationship to slavery” and unearthed provocative information about various pro-slavery affiliates honored by Yale — including John C. Calhoun, the vocal advocate of slavery for whom Calhoun College is named. The report did not discuss the Pierson College “slave quarters” nickname.

The controversial report prompted the University to host a conference titled “Yale, New Haven and American Slavery” in September 2002.

Responses to the conference were mixed.

“It made for a wonderful discussion that lasted for all too short a time,” said R. Owen Williams LAW ’07 GRD ’09, a conference attendee, in a 2012 News article.

Williams saw the conference as Yale’s way of “making the report go away” without ever intending to continue the dialogue.

Likewise, Holloway saw the conference as a “missed opportunity” to establish an ongoing public conversation about darker aspects of Yale’s history. When Holloway first heard about Pierson’s “slave quarters” in 2007 during committee meetings to discuss the naming of the two new residential colleges, the discussion occurred behind closed doors.

SPARKING AND SUSTAINING CONVERSATION

In recent years, dialogue about Yale and slavery has waxed and waned. At various moments over the past two decades, students have protested the namesakes of Yale’s residential colleges, eight of whom were slave owners. An anonymous campaign in 2009 posted fliers proposing new names for each college and chalked walkways with the phrase “Emancipate Yale.”

More recent discussion has focused on several stained-glass windows in various campus buildings that depict scenes of slavery: Should Yale remove them for their stereotypical qualities or preserve them as historical evidence of a bygone era in which racist artwork was socially acceptable?

Regarding the history of Pierson’s “slave quarters,” Smith said he was glad that Davis was ignorant of the nickname.

“It means the term has been suppressed,” he said.

Holloway said the only way to avoid amnesia about Yale’s ties to slavery is to “do it in a way that’s not fleeting.” He mentioned long-lasting initiatives like campus monuments or an endowed professorship as potential ways to construct a collective memory about this particular aspect of Yale’s history.

But for some students, this collective memory has always existed.

Many members of BSAY and other resident groups of the Af-Am House have known about the “slave quarters” since they came to Yale.

“It’s not news to anyone here,” said Okonta, the current BSAY president.

As Yale moves forward with long-lasting decisions, like the naming of the new residential colleges, Okonta hopes the University will make sure to look back at its past.

Pierson’s Master Davis considers dialogue about uncomfortable aspects of history like the “slave quarters” essential for understanding the problems society faces at present.

“Racism is not simply a matter of individual attitudes and actions: It also comes to expression through systemic abuses of power and destructive patterns of language usage,” he said in an email. “This is why remembering the past is so important even and especially when that past is not pretty.”

Contact SARAH MASLIN at sarah.maslin@yale.edu .

1954

MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES, YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

The Weekly Slave, Pierson College’s former tabloid, was published from 1937 to 1956. Its slogan: “If it’s news, and it’s about Pierson, we’ll print it.”

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NEWS

“You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’” TOMMY COOPER WELSH COMEDIAN

Police academy begins seventh year

BY LORENZO LIGATO AND SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTERS The Yale Police Department announced earlier this month that its annual police academy program will officially kick off on Oct. 12.

The Yale Citizen’s Police Academy, which is now in its seventh year, will run every Tuesday evening for six consecutive weeks at the YPD’s 101 Ashmun St. headquarters. As an extension of the YPD’s community-oriented policing strategy, the program is designed to offer members of the Yale and New Haven community insight into the department’s operations, history and responsibilities.

“The goal of the program is to raise awareness and promote an understanding of the types of service the police department provides at Yale, as well as to foster partnerships between the YPD and the community,” said Lieutenant Von Narcisse, who oversees hiring and training for the University’s police force.

This year’s police academy will offer an inside look into the YPD, incorporating classroom train-

ing and hands-on activities that range from patrol procedures and investigative services to firearms and state-of-the-art technologies used in modern policing. Participants will also have an opportunity to attend lectures on crime scene processing, interact with a speaker from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and meet Eli, a nineyear-old black Labrador WHO serves as the police department’s bomb detection dog.

[Attendees] left with a better understanding of the commitment the YPD has to providing professional innovative policing services.

VON NARCISSE Lieutenant, Yale Police Department Spearheaded by former YPD Chief James Perrotti, the police academy program started after the

YPD relocated from its old headquarters on 100 Sachem St. to the larger Rose Center in the Dixwell neighborhood seven years ago.

Since its inception in 2006, the police academy has been a crucial component of the YPD’s commitment to building ties with Yale students and New Haven residents and continues to get “rave reviews” from past participants, Narcisse said.

“Upon completion of the program, [attendees] left with a better understanding of the commitment the YPD has to providing professional innovative policing services with primary emphasis on keeping the campus safe,” Narcisse said.

Despite positive feedback from past participants, 10 students interviewed Sunday said they wanted to hear more about the program before issuing a final verdict.

Dash Turner ’15 said that, whereas the police academy’s curriculum seems “pretty thorough,” the length of the program might not fit into students’ crowded schedules.

“I’m not sure it’ll be incredibly popular, because I’m not sure how interested the average Yalie

is in what the YPD is doing, but I can see a good number of Yalies enrolling,” Turner said, adding that a compressed two- to threeweek course might be more popular among students.

Camille Fonesca ’16 said the police academy is “a good way to improve community relations with the Yale Police.” However, she added that the curriculum seems more geared towards community members than Yale students.

“I would consider enrolling if they focused more on student interaction and, specifically, on how YPD officers enforce the university’s alcohol policy and how they deal with sexual harassment complaints,” Fonesca said.

The police academy is free for any members of the Yale or New Haven community who are 18 years of age or older, but enrollment in the program will be capped at 30 participants, Narcisse said.

Interested applicants can register online through the YPD’s website by Oct. 1.

Contact LORENZO LIGATO at lorenzo.ligato@yale.edu . Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

Cycling advocate wins day of recognition

BY POOJA SALHOTRA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With an official proclamation from Mayor John DeStefano Jr., Devil’s Gear Bike Shop owner and cycling advocate Matthew J. Feiner got his very own Friday.

Director of Transportation Jim Travers interrupted Friday morning’s “Bike to Work Breakfast,” a monthly event Feiner started for New Haven cyclists, to proclaim Sept. 20 “Matthew J. Feiner Day” in honor of the shop owner’s dedication to New Haven. On the official declaration, DeStefano called Feiner “a quintessential New Havener” and recognized Feiner’s advocacy for bike safety and support for community-wide events.

“Matthew has shown leadership in the New Haven community by encouraging friends, co-workers, acquaintances, neighbors and strangers to bike to work and school,” the declaration read, adding that Feiner has been “instrumental in raising awareness about bike safety.”

Feiner first entered the New Haven cycling community in 2000, when he opened Devil’s Gear Bike Shop on Orange street.

Feiner had moved to New Haven in 1999 after spending five years living in Austin, Texas, and traveling as an artist to other cities across the country to exhibit his artwork.

Seeing cities with strong biking infrastructures, Feiner said, made him realize what New Haven was missing.

“I saw a lack of biking infrastructure and biking culture in New Haven, so I decided to open up the shop to solve the problem.

I wanted to bring the joy of cycling and commuting to the people of New Haven,” he said.

When Feiner initially opened the shop, advocacy came as a first

priority and business followed second, he said. His main goal was to work with the city to make New Haven more biker-friendly.

To accomplish this goal, Feiner co-founded Elm City Cycling — a nonprofit community-based advocacy group that lobbies local, regional and state governing bodies to improve the city’s biking infrastructure. Since its founding in 2003, the group has grown to include over 300 members and, through a close partnership with New Haven’s Transportation, Traffic and Parking Department, has helped add more bike lanes and bring bike racks to buses and municipal buildings in New Haven.

“New Haven has this incredible cycling community now, and a lot of that is thanks to Matthew,” said Elaine Lewinnek ’95 GRD ’05, who worked with Feiner to expand Elm City Cycling.

Lewinnek said that part of what allowed Elm City Cycling to grow to a larger scale was Feiner’s ability to interact with a wide range of people.

I saw a lack of biking infrastructure in New Haven … so I decided to open up the shop.

MATTHEW J. FEINER Owner, Devil’s Gear Bike Shop “We called him the unofficial mediator of New Haven,” she said.

In 2005, Feiner reached out to the Yale Cycling Team, and his store became an unofficial sponsor of the team — offering discounts on both labor and prod-

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Elm City Cycling has gained over 300 members since its founding in 2003. ucts and bringing in experts to talk to the riders about training and proper nutrition. Until last year, Feiner and Devil’s Gear Bike Shop manager David Khan also traveled with the team to assist with coaching and fixing mechanical problems. Since 2009, the store has been listed on the Yale Cycling team’s website as an official sponsor.

“We have some big national sponsors that service a lot of other teams and have a focus on getting their name out there, so it’s nice to have a local group like Devil’s Gear that can focus on us exclusively,” former Yale cycling captain Ian Forsyth ’14 said.

In addition to supporting Yale cyclists, Feiner interacts with local riders and racers through his

New Haven bicycle club. The shop offers four rides per week with different levels based on speed and type of terrain. Anyone can join the bicycle club and participate in the rides.

“Cycling can be one-sided in that there’s not that many women or people of color involved, but Feiner always says that cycling is for everyone, and I think that makes Devil’s Gear appeal to everyone. He deserves his own day,” said Johnny Brehon, the store’s sales manager.

Devil’s Gear Bike Shop is located in Pitkin Plaza at 151 Orange St. Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhorta@yale.edu .

Unused state bonds stir debate

BY ELEANOR RUNDE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER According to a Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis report released Wednesday, the state has approximately $6 billion tied up in authorized but unissued bonds — funds that could be released to finance a host of government initiatives.

The CCEA report suggests that these funds, if used to finance infrastructure projects, could lead to major economic growth in Connecticut.

Critics of the report, including the secretary of Connecticut’s Office of Policy and Management Benjamin Barnes, argue that immediate implementation of these funds is neither possible nor wise, considering the lack of confidence in Connecticut bonds shown recently by private rating agencies.

The amount of authorized but unissued bonds has risen from $3 billion to $6 billion in recent years. When combined with federal matching funds, the state may have a pool of funds as large as $7 billion to invest in major infrastructure projects, the CCEA reported.

These bonds, once issued, would constitute a significant increase in the general obligations of Connecticut, which as of August 2013 had about $19.3 billion in outstanding debt.

According to the CCEA report, the proceeds from this stockpile of bonds, if used to fund government projects, would add 16,000 to 28,000 new jobs to the Connecticut economy.

“Every dollar spent on infrastructure reaps many times its value in economic growth,” Gian-Carl Casa, undersecretary for legislative affairs at the Office of Policy Management, said in an email Thursday. “The combination of infrastructure investments and strong financial management promotes economic growth while enhancing the state’s fiscal position and long-term stability.”

An investment of $1 billion, Casa explained, can generate as much as $3.4 billion in gross domestic product and $1.1 billion in personal earnings and add approximately 28,500 jobs to the state workforce.

Some state officials said the delayed bond issuance is explained by severely understaffed infrastructure projects due to a substantial loss of senior government workers in 2009.

According to Fr e d Carstensen, one of the coauthors of the CCEA study, former Connecticut governor Jodi Rell adopted new pension plans that gave employees an incentive to retire. Nearly 4,000 engineers and other highly skilled government workers left the workforce, leaving a significant void of institutional knowledge.

“I heard several stories about the teams of professionals disrupted or destroyed by the departures,” Carstensen said.

According to Forbes.com, Connecticut has the single most significant looming skilled labor shortage of any state, with 63.7 percent of its workers over the age of 45 and another 27.3 percent over the age of 55.

Barnes responded to the CCEA report on Friday in an open letter to Carstensen.

“Large capital projects are sometimes delayed for … technical, legal or logistical reasons,” Barnes wrote. “I am not aware of any instance in which the administration has intentionally cancelled or delayed for financial reasons.”

In some cases, all state funding needs to be secured long before the state enters into a contract for a project, Barnes added.

“All of the $3.2 billion in un-bonded authorizations for transportation are available to commit to projects, and virtually all of it has been committed to those projects,” Barnes wrote.

Tables included in Barnes’ letter showed that overall capital disbursements have increased by about 50 percent over the past four years and project delivery times have been shortened. However, Barnes wrote, the state could not, and should not, commit all of these bonds to projects all at once.

“There is no magic button that will make all these projects get done right away,” Barnes added.

State Treasurer Denise Nappier said in an August press release that nearly $900 million in bonds were sold over the summer. Borrowing much more all at once could undermine investors’ confidence in Connecticut bonds, Barnes wrote.

Confidence in state bonds has been waning in recent years. In January 2012, Moody’s downgraded Connecticut bond ratings from Aa2 to Aa3 due to Connecticut’s low funding ratios for pension plans and the state’s exceptionally high fixed costs for debt, pension and other post employment benefits relative to the state’s budget. In July 2013, Fitch Ratings changed its outlook on Connecticut’s General Obligation Bonds from “Stable” to “Negative.”

“The Negative Outlook reflects the state’s reduced fiscal flexibility at a time of lingering economic and revenue uncertainty,” according to the Fitch report.

In response to the Fitch Ratings downgrade, State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney said: “The facts speak for themselves. Connecticut bond ratings are worse than they were when Governor Malloy took office, they have not recovered, and they are heading in the wrong direction.”

The Office of Fiscal Analysis projected in August a Connecticut State General Fund deficit of $712 million in the fiscal year of 2016.

Contact ELEANOR RUNDE at eleanor.runde@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Computers are like Old Testament gods: lots of rules and no mercy.”

JOSEPH CAMPBELL AMERICAN MYTHOLOGIST

Eidelson supporters praise first term GALA reunion

talks ‘Gay Ivy’

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Sarah Eidelson ’12 has been endorsed by both Ward 1 co-chairs, Ben Crosby ’14 and Nia Holston ’14.

EIDELSON FROM PAGE 1 that by students and other residents actually coming together, we could make positive change here.”

Chandler spokesperson Amalia Halikias ’15 said their campaign has been off to a promising start, with weekly lunches on Tuesdays in Commons designed to boost Chandler’s name recognition and connect him with potential constituents. The campaign has also been holding voter registration drives every weekend on Old Campus and Cross Campus.

Halikias said an official campaign kickoff is to come.

Eidelson’s event drew together a coalition of progressive students on campus, including a large contingent from the Yale College Democrats — who have officially endorsed Eidelson — and

from the activist group Students Unite Now, which formed out of its members’ campaign work on behalf of Eidelson in 2011.

Dems President Nicole Hobbs ’14 spoke at Saturday’s gathering, saying Eidelson has been “a great friend of the Dems” and praised her for involving students in the charter reform process that will see modifications to New Haven’s organizing document put to voters in November.

Both Ward 1 co-chairs — Ben Crosby ’14 and Nia Holston ’14 — have endorsed Eidelson, and both highlighted her efforts to engage community members in her work on the Board, with Crosby crediting Eidelson for promoting the tweak to the charter that could place two student representatives on the New Haven Board of Education.

Crosby was one of Eidelson’s

core supporters in her 2011 campaign. Holston supported her Democratic opponent, Vinay Nayak ’14.

We’re all Democrats, though, and we all agree that Sarah has done a lot for Ward 1.

RACHEL MILLER ’15 Despite their official backing of Eidelson, the Dems have declined to endorse a mayoral candidate, even after Connecticut State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78 clinched the Democratic Primary.

Even before the Primary, Eidelson and Harp traded endorse-

ments. Yet because the Dems remain neutral, their members have agreed not to stump for one mayoral candidate or another during canvassing for Eidelson, said Rachel Miller ’15, a supporter of Harp’s Independent challenger, Ward 1 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10.

“There are Elicker people involved in the Dems too, and we’ve been assured there aren’t going to be joint canvasses for Harp,” Miller said. “We’re all Democrats, though, and we all agree that Sarah has done a lot for Ward 1.”

After the open house, teams of Eidelson supporters left to canvass students.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Yale ITS looks to fend off cyberattacks CYBERSECURITY FROM PAGE 1 network for vulnerabilities.

Other hacker strategies include using computers outside the University network to steal Yale data, injecting malicious code into Yale websites and databases and phishing — attempting to acquire personal information by posing as a trustworthy party.

“We are watching out for instances in which many computers from around the world suddenly begin connecting to a single Yale computer, which can be an indication of a malware infection or a serious attack on Yale’s network,” he said.

Fischer said some attacks on Yale’s networks have likely succeeded. Potential consequences of successful attacks include identity theft, monetary theft and intellectual property theft, he said.

Joan Feigenbaum, a computer

science professor, said universities must balance the desire to create, use, store and transmit massive amounts of sensitive data with a mandate to keep this data secure. Schools often choose to prioritize information sharing at the expense of maximum security, she said.

We are watching out for instances in which many computers from around the world begin connecting to a single Yale computer.

RICHARD MIKELINICH Chief Information Security Officer, Yale University Though professors inter-

viewed said Yale must invest heavily in information security, Fischer recognized that “eliminating all security bugs from hardware and software is beyond our technological capabilities.”

As computer systems gain more features and become increasingly complex, more opportunities for security flaws emerge, he added.

Byran Ford, a computer science professor, said some of his colleagues are involved in research that aims to use mathematical techniques to make software with no security vulnerabilities.

“Unfortunately, this whole area of technology is years and years from the point where any normal user would be able to run an email or operating system that has been proven secure and free of malware abilities,” he said.

In the meantime, users should

focus on good “security hygiene practices” like avoiding suspicious websites, links and programs, Ford said.

Feigenbaum said the conversation about information security has shifted recently in light of Edward Snowden’s allegations against the National Security Agency.

“Apparently, the U.S. government has deliberately compromised some of the security technology that we rely on to repel cyber attacks — or perhaps I should say ‘relied on’ [in the] past tense,” she said. “It is not clear at this point whether we can actually rely on anything.”

According to ITS policy, no email from ITS will ever request sensitive account information such as a password.

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our Past, Shaping our Future,” emphasized that the weekend’s panels and social events brought together five decades of alumni who share a common past as members of Yale’s LGBTQ community, Seidman said.

“The amazing thing about this kind of reunion is that it brings together people from across generations,” Seidman said. “Going forward, crossgenerational dialogue and work will be crucial to the future of the LGBTQ movement.”

During opening ceremonies on Friday afternoon, University President Peter Salovey was presented with the Yale GALA Allies Award for his years of work as an activist within the LGBTQ community. Salovey gave a short biography of his work with the LGBTQ movement since the 1970s and said his activism has been driven by a desire to do the right thing, rather than to be recognized.

At a banquet dinner held in Commons on Saturday evening, three undergraduate LGBTQ activists — Marija Kamceva ’15, Stefan Palios ’14 and Christopher Logan ’14 — thanked the alumni in attendance for their past activism that has resulted in a more open campus. Though the University now has a reputation as the “Gay Ivy,” it was not always a safe place for the LGBTQ community, Palios said.

“Every single person in this room has our personal thanks,” Palios said. “Welcome back to the campus you helped create.”

Cynthia Nixon received Yale GALA’s first Artist for Equality Award for her outspoken activism for LGBTQ rights and marriage equality on Friday evening.

Nixon sang as part of a benefit

concert that also featured the Whiffenpoofs. In tribute to Nixon’s past acting roles, the a cappella groups in attendance performed renditions of the theme songs of Sex and the City and Law and Order.

“She’s a really good singer, she’s so talented and she’s passionate for gay rights,” said concert attendee Verner Wilson FES ’15. “It was such an honor.”

The Artist for Equality award will be presented annually to artists who demonstrate strong commitment to the LGBTQ community.

Other panels held included discussions on LGBTQ studies in the University’s curriculum, “Modern Families” and LGBTQ parenting as well as the LGBTQ experience in the military.

Matthew Zuckerman ’11 said the panel on LGBTQ policies in the military made him realize the tangible effects that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell had on campus — the repeal of the law in 2010 contributed to the University reinstating the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program in 2012, Zuckerman said.

Lena Vayzman GRD ’95 ’02 said the conference brought together a large cross-section of campus that included alumni from various graduate and professional schools as well as current students.

“It’s a chance for us all to know Yale’s LGBTQ history,” Vayzman said. “It makes me really proud to be a Yale alum that Yale has a history and current leadership in LGBTQ rights.”

The first LGBT reunion was held in 2009.

Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 8:00 PM A Streetcar Named Desire In steamy New Orleans, an electrifying battle of wills ignites between Southern belle Blanche DuBois and her working class brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.

Nerves fraying and beauty fading, Blanche is both repelled and intrigued by Stanley’s primal brutishness — even as he threatens to reveal her darkest secrets and destroy her illusions. A Streetcar Named Desire, is staged by Mark Rucker. University Theatre (222 York St.).

9:15 PM Yale Undergraduate Choral Society (YUCS) Rehearsal The Yale Undergraduate Choral Society (YUCS), Yale’s only non-audition singing group, invites you to sing. Please join them in rehearsal anytime, regardless of your past singing experience. They sing all genres of music and are open to all repertoire suggestions. Their music directors are Stephanie Tubiolo (SM ‘14) and Timothy Lind (JE ‘15). Rehearsals are held every Monday in Hendrie Hall (165 Elm Street) room 201 from 9.15 p.m. to 10.15 p.m. Snacks immediately following every rehearsal.

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Obama eyes three diplomatic openings

BY JULIE PACE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama arrives at the United Nations on Monday with diplomatic openings, the result of help from unexpected partners, on three fronts: Iran, Syria and elusive peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

All three pathways are fraught with potential pitfalls and hinge on cooperation from often unreliable nations. Obama also risks being branded as naive and misguided if the efforts fail, particularly in Syria, where he’s used the prospect of diplomacy to put off a military strike in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack.

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Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks to reporters about the deadline to fund the government and the fight in the House.

BY PHILIP ELLIOTT ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Even before a budget deadline arrives, leaders from both parties are blaming each other — and some Republicans are criticizing their own — for a government shutdown many are treating as inevitable.

The top Democrat in the House says Republicans are “legislative arsonists” who are using their opposition to a sweeping health care overhaul as an excuse to close government’s doors. A leading tea party antagonist in the Senate counters that conservatives should use any tool available to stop the Affordable Care Act from taking hold. President Bill Clinton’s labor secretary says the GOP is willing “to risk the entire system of government to get your way,” while the House speaker who oversaw the last gov-

ernment shutdown urged fellow Republicans to remember “this is not a dictatorship.”

The unyielding political posturing on Sunday comes one week before Congress reaches an Oct. 1 deadline to dodge any interruptions in government services.

While work continues on a temporary spending bill, a potentially more devastating separate deadline looms a few weeks later when the government could run out of money to pay its bills.

“This is totally irresponsible, completely juvenile and, as I called it, legislative arson. It’s just destructive,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said in an interview that aired Sunday.

The Republican-led House on Friday approved legislation designed to wipe out the 3-year-old health care law that President Barack Obama has vowed to preserve. But the House’s move was more a

political win than a measure likely to be implemented.

Across the Capitol, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said he would keep the health law intact despite Republicans’ attempts, in his words, “to take an entire law hostage simply to appease the tea party anarchists.”

One of those tea party agitators, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, showed little sign on Sunday that he cared about the uphill climb to make good on his pledge to derail the health care law over Obama’s guaranteed veto.

“I believe we should stand our ground,” said Cruz, who already was trying to blame Obama and his Democratic allies if the government shuts down.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, said Cruz’s efforts were destructive and self-serving as Cruz eyes a White House campaign.

He said we’d be open to diplomacy, we’d pursue engagement, but that there would be pressure if Iran failed to take that opportunity.

BEN RHODES Deputy national security advisor Still, the recent developments mark a significant shift on a trio of issues that have long proved problematic for Obama at the United Nations. His former Iranian counterpart used the annual U.N. General Assembly meetings, which open Monday, as a venue for fiery, anti-American speeches. Failed Middle East peace talks led the Palestinians to seek statehood recognition at the U.N. despite staunch Amer-

ican objections. And the Obama administration has been stymied on Syria at the U.N. Security Council due to intractable Russian opposition.

But this year, Iran has a new leader who is making friendly overtures toward Obama, raising the prospect of a meeting at the United Nations. U.S.-brokered peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians have resumed — though on an uncertain course.

And Russia has joined with the U.S. on a diplomatic deal to strip Syria of its chemical weapons.

Joel Rubin, a former State Department official who now works at the nonproliferation organization Ploughshares, said the confluence of events underscores an often frustrating aspect of diplomacy.

“You never know when it’s going to break,” said Rubin. He said Obama’s biggest test now is to recognize if opportunities morph into stalling tactics.

Obama’s advisers cast the sudden signs of progress as an outgrowth of the president’s longstanding preference for resolving disputes through diplomacy and, in the case of Iran and Syria, with pressure built up through economic sanctions and the threat of military action.

“He said we’d be open to diplomacy, we’d pursue engagement, but that there would be pressure if Iran failed to take that opportunity,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser. And on Syria, Rhodes said it was the credible threat of a U.S. military strike “that opened the door for this diplomacy.”

Aides say Obama will address developments on Iran, Syria and Middle East peace in his speech to the U.N. on Tuesday.

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‘Most’ hostages rescued in Kenya

Suicide attack kills 78 people

BY RIAZ KHAN AND SEBASTIAN ABBOT ASSOCIATED PRESS PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up amid hundreds of worshippers at a historic church in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 78 people in the deadliest-ever attack against the country’s Christian minority.

A wing of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing, raising new questions about the government’s push to strike a peace deal with the militants to end a decadelong insurgency that has killed thousands of people.

The Jundullah arm of the Taliban said they would continue to target non-Muslims until the United States stopped drone attacks in Pakistan’s remote tribal region. The latest drone strike came Sunday, when missiles hit a pair of compounds in the North Waziristan tribal area, killing six suspected militants.

The attack on the All Saints Church, which wounded 141 people, occurred as worshippers were leaving after services to get a free meal of rice offered on the front lawn, said a top government administrator, Sahibzada Anees.

“There were blasts and there was hell for all of us,” said Nazir John, who was at the church in the city’s Kohati Gate district along with at least 400 other worshippers. “When I got my senses back, I found nothing but smoke, dust, blood and screaming people. I saw severed body parts and blood all around.”

Survivors wailed and hugged one another in the wake of the blasts. The white walls of the church, which first opened in the late 1800s, were pockmarked with holes caused by ball bearings contained in the bombs to cause maximum damage. Blood stained the floor and the walls.

Plates filled with rice were scattered across the ground.

The attack was carried out by two suicide bombers who detonated their explosives almost simultaneously, said police officer Shafqat Malik.

The 78 dead included 34

women and seven children, said Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. Another 37 children were among the 141 wounded, he said.

The number of casualties from the blasts was so high that the hospital ran short of caskets for the dead and beds for the wounded, said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, a former information minister of surrounding Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province who was on the scene.

“This is the deadliest attack against Christians in our country,” said Irfan Jamil, the bishop of the eastern city of Lahore.

Pope Francis led several thousand people in a prayer for the victims while on a visit to Sardinia. Those who carried out the attack, he said, “took the wrong choice, one of hatred and war.”

When I got my senses back, I found nothing but smoke, dust, blood and screaming people.

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Civilians hold their hands in the air as a precautionary measure before being searched by armed police leading them to safety.

BY JASON STRAZIUSO AND TOM ODULA ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya — Helicopters circling overhead, Kenya’s military launched a major operation Sunday at an upscale Nairobi mall and said it had rescued “most” of the hostages being held captive by al-Qaida-linked militants during a two-day standoff that killed at least 68 people and injured 175.

The military assault began shortly before sundown, with one helicopter skimming very close to the roof of the shopping complex as a loud explosion rang out, far larger than any previous grenade blast or gunfire volley.

Kenyan police said on Twitter that security forces had launched a “MAJOR” assault to end the bloody siege.

“This will end tonight. Our forces will prevail. Kenyans are standing firm against aggression, and we will win,” Kenya’s

NAZIR JOHN Witness to the suicide bombing One of the wounded, John Tariq, who lost his father in the attack, demanded of those behind the bombing: “What have we done wrong to these people? Why are we being killed?”

Ahmad Marwat, who identified himself as the spokesman for the Jundullah wing of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack.

“All non-Muslims in Pakistan are our target, and they will remain our target as long as America fails to stop drone strikes in our country,” Marwat told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location.

Jundullah has previously claimed responsibility for attacks on minority Shiite Muslims in southwestern Baluchistan province. Hard-line Sunni extremists like the Taliban consider Shiites to be heretics.

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“I see the next four years in front of me and I can promise that we will face many tasks, at home, in Europe and in the world,” Merkel said during a television appearance with other party leaders.

If her current coalition lacks a majority and the conservatives can’t govern alone, the likeliest outcome is a Merkel-led alliance with the Social Democrats. The two are traditional rivals, but governed Germany together in Merkel’s first term after an inconclusive 2005 election.

“The ball is in Merkel’s court,” her center-left challenger, Peer Steinbrueck, said.

“She has to get herself a majority.”

A “grand coalition” could result in a greater emphasis on bolstering economic growth over the austerity that Germany has insisted on in exchange for bailing out economically weak European countries such as Greece.

Merkel’s conservatives, the Social

ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives triumphed in Germany’s election Sunday and appeared likely to end up close to an absolute majority. While Merkel was headed for a third term, her center-right coalition partners faced ejection from parliament for the first time in post-World War II history.

Depending on which parties end up in parliament, Merkel could find herself leading a “grand coalition” government with the left-leaning Social Democrats or - less likely - with the environmentalist Greens. Either way, several weeks of difficult negotiations are expected. Each combination might bring a slightly softer tone to Europe’s debt crisis, but probably without any significant policy shifts.

Merkel, Germany’s chancellor since 2005 and the de facto leader of the response to Europe’s debt crisis over the past three years, told supporters it was “a super result.” She wouldn’t immediately

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Kenyan authorities said they would do their utmost to save hostages’ lives, but no officials could say precisely how many people were being held captive. Kenya’s Red Cross said in a statement, citing police, that 49 people had been reported missing. Officials did not make an explicit link but that number could give an indication of the number of people held captive.

Kenya’s Red Cross said the death toll rose to 68 after nine bodies were recovered Sunday. More than 175 people were injured, including many children, Kenyan officials said.

Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked rebel group, al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for the attack that specifically targeted nonMuslims, saying it was in retribution for Kenyan forces’ 2011 push into neighboring Somalia.

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The Kenya Defense Forces later said it had rescued “most” hostages and had taken control of most of the mall, though it did not provide details.

Many of the rescued hostages — mostly adults — were suffering from dehydration, Col. Cyrus Oguna, a military spokesman, told The Associated Press. He refused to say how many hostages were rescued or how many were still being held. He said some of the attackers had “most probably” been killed in the operation.

The assault came about 30 hours after 10 to 15 al-Shabab extremists stormed the mall Saturday from two sides, throwing grenades and firing on civilians.

Loud exchanges of gunfire rang out from inside the four-story mall throughout Sunday. Kenyan troops were seen carrying in at least two rocket-propelled grenades. Al-Shabab militants reacted

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Merkel’s conservative Union bloc won about 42 percent of the vote, an improvement of more than eight points over Germany’s last election in 2009, according to ARD and ZDF television projections based on exit polls and partial counts. They showed the conservatives falling just short of an absolute majority — which is possible because parties need 5 percent support to claim seats in the lower house. Many small parties miss that threshold, meaning their votes don’t count in the division of seats.

Her coalition partners of the past four years, the pro-business Free Democrats, were projected to win about 4.8 percent.

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hile rumors of squirrel extermination abound, contributing photographer TASNIM ELBOUTE and photography editor VIVIENNE ZHANG went on a search and found surviving squirrel communities near Science Hill and around the rest of campus. Long live our furry friends.

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TYLER VARGA ’15 ELI RUSHES INTO RECORD BOOKS The Yale tailback rushed for 236 yards, the third most in school history, in the Bulldogs’ season-opening beatdown of Colgate. Varga scored a touchdown and finished with a 6.1 yards per carry average in the first game of his second season at Yale.

“We proved we can play well against some of the best teams in the country.”

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Yale comeback fuels win over Vermont

BY ASHLEY WU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With its Alumnae Weekend celebrations as a backdrop, the field hockey team split its two games this weekend by identical 3–2 scores.

FIELD HOCKEY On Saturday, the Bulldogs opened Ivy League play with a loss against Harvard before rebounding with a second-half comeback victory over Vermont on Sunday.

The games took place amid former players returning to Yale and ceremonies recognizing the recent endowment of the head coaching position in honor of Caroline Ruth Thompson ’02.

“It was exciting having the alums back,” midfielder Geor-

BY CHARLES CONDRO, ALEX EPPLER AND ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTERS After a year of turnover and turmoil for the Bulldogs in 2012, some old familiar faces led Yale to a season-opening romp on the gridiron in 2013.

Quarterback Hank Furman ’14 and tailback Tyler Varga ’15 ran all over Colgate as Yale legged out an emphatic 39–22 victory over the Raiders (0–4, 0–0 Patriot) in Hamilton, N.Y., on Saturday.

“I was proud of how the team came out in game one,” captain Beau Palin ’14 said. “But the best part of the game is that we have so much to improve on.”

In just his second career start under center for the Elis, Furman played like a salty veteran.

The signal caller went 11–17 through the air for 129 yards, but he made an even bigger impact with his feet. Furman ran four times for 60 yards, with three of those carries taking the Elis into the end zone.

Furman was not the only Eli who had success on the ground, as Varga pummeled the Raider defense for a career-high 236 rushing yards and one touchdown. Indeed, one could be forgiven for asking, as the Baha Men did so elegantly some years ago: Who let the dogs out? Varga’s punishing between-thetackles attack resulted in the

third-highest rushing total in a single game in Yale history. Only tailback Mike McLeod ’09 ever ran for more yards in a single game for the Bulldogs.

The Elis looked like they were shot out of cannon in their season opener, ending the first quarter up 14–0, tacking on another six to make it 20–0 in the second quarter and ending the first half up 27–7. The explosive offensive performances from Varga and quarterback Furman helped bring Yale the powerful season opener it wanted.

“For the first game we were fairly happy with our performance, but there is a lot we can improve on,” wide receiver Cameron Sandquist ’14 said.

“We committed seven penalties and turned the ball over once.

Cleaning up mental mistakes like that is a point of emphasis this week.”

Both Sandquist and Palin emphasized the team’s room for growth. In addition to two fumbles (one lost), the team allowed Colgate to climb out of a 20–0 hole and narrow the gap to 11 with 13 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.

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gia Holland ’14 said. “They all are super supportive of the program and it’s inspiring to see their ongoing passion for Yale and field hockey.”

But the support of their alumnae could not help the Bulldogs (1–4, 0–1 Ivy) on Saturday as they fell to Harvard (2–2, 1–0 Ivy) for the first time in five years. The Elis were outshot by the Crimson 26–19, and only the 16 saves made by goalkeeper Emily Cain ’14 kept the Bulldogs in the game. Harvard also held an advantage in penalty corners, 17–6.

Yale trailed the entire way, as Crimson forward Noel Painter scored the lone goal of the first half in the 28th minute, and the Crimson extended their lead to 2–0 only two minutes into the secSEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE B3

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Outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Week, hit six kills and added nine digs against Albany.

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER In its second straight tournament on the road, the women’s volleyball team was matched up against yet another national contender.

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The Bulldogs recovered from a defeat to Harvard with a second-half comeback against Vermont after trailing 2–0 to the Catamounts.

Over the weekend, the team faced the nation’s top volleyball team, Penn State at its home tournament in State College, Penn. Though the

Elis (6–2, 0–0 Ivy) were able to dispatch Eastern Kentucky and Albany by scores of 3–1 and 3–0, respectively, they fell the Nittany Lions in straight sets.

Eastern Kentucky came into its match against Yale on Friday having lost its last six bouts. Nevertheless, the Colonels kept it competitive through the first two sets.

After a 25–20 Yale victory in the first set, Eastern Kentucky rebounded to narrowly win the second one by a score 28–26.

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Outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 said the team, sensing they were playing below their abilities, approached the third set with renewed aggressiveness.

“We just weren’t playing Yale volleyball,” Rogers said.

“After that set we got together and said, ‘Hey this isn’t how we play. We have to be more aggressive. We have to go for balls. We have to take advantage of what they can’t do.’

We came out and just played much better.”

In the third set, the Elis

obliterated the Colonels with 13 kills on .522 hitting, winning the set by a score of 25–8. Captain Kendall Polan ’14 produced an impressive 42 assists and 18 digs in the match — both marks led the Elis — but she deflected all praise to the rest of the team, in particular middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16. “[Ebner] got a kill almost every single time I set the ball for her,” Polan said. “She definitely stepped up to the SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE B3

ON SATURDAY, THE SENIOR QUARTERBACK RAN FOR THREE TOUCHDOWNS AND 60 YARDS. Furman led the Bulldogs to a win against Colgate 39-22 in their season opening game.

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“You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let’s go to work.” COACH HERMAN BOONE REMEMBER THE TITANS

Men’s team places 2nd at Van Cortlandt CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE B4 than in high school — 8k rather than 5k. … I’m no longer trying to get way ahead at the start of the race,” Randon said. “We work more as a team, and run as a pack.”

Randon added that in this race, the first through fifth place Bulldog runners finished within 23 seconds of one another.

According to team captain Ryan Laemel ’13, part of the team’s success this weekend had a lot to do with getting through the first meet of the season.

“It’s important to practice what it feels like to race again.

We got our first race out of the way at Harvard and could now improve on our performance for the following week. … We are all settled [academically] and can now focus on racing,” Laemel said.

The women’s team brought six runners to the race, mainly freshman and middle-distance track runners, with the purpose of preparing them for the Boston College meet next weekend.

For Meredith Rizzo ’17, Van Cortlandt Park was no unfamiliar trail. The freshman went to high school at Bronxville in New York and said that it was “really

nice to be back on [her] home course.” Rizzo led the Bulldog pack Saturday, placing 17th out of 190 competitors with a solid 23:26.17 finish.

“The adjustment [to running at the competitive collegiate level] has been good so far. I’ve been trying to stay calm and run as I’ve always run in all my races.

I don’t let the fact that there are some girls who are four years older than me with experience be an intimidating factor.” Rizzo said.

The women placed 13th out of 20 competing teams, of which 14 are other Northeast Regional schools they will face again at the NCAA Regionals. The Bulldogs beat five of their regional contenders, one of which was Ivy rival Brown.

“The goal was to run a good race and get our first 6k under our belt,” Rizzo said. “I think what we did best this weekend was supporting each other.

During the race, the strategy was to work together and push each other through to the finish.”

Though this was their first appearance in the Iona meet since 2009, the Bulldogs have had much experience on the Van Cortlandt trail over the past few years. This also will not be the

last time both squads take on the challenging Van Cortlandt this season, as the NCAA Region Championships will be held at the park in November.

“Van Cortlandt is revered by many distance runners. It’s known for being a hilly course that challenges all runners equally. Even a person who is more inclined to run the mile during track season will struggle just as much as a person who is a pure cross country runner,” team captain Ryan Laemel ’13 said.

He added that there are rolling hills, which are very relentless no matter where you are on the course.

“Cemetery Hill is the most famous part of the course, which is about two minutes long. You just have to put your head down and grind through it. Then after that, it’s about a kilometer to the finish,“ he said.

The women will be heading back to Franklin Field this Friday, Sept. 27 for the Boston College meet set for 3:30 p.m. The next race for the men is the Paul Short Invitational held in Bethlehem Penn., which is set for Oct. 5.

Contact RHYDIAN GLASS at rhydian.glass@yale.edu

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Underclassman Bulldogs demonstrated strong performances in the 19th Annual Iona College Meet on Saturday.

Tough trip to California

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After two losses in California over the weekend, the Bulldogs are now on a four-game losing streak.

MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 could not score another goal. In the 65th minute, Champion met a cross at the top of the box with a stunning scissor kick that flew past Brown into Yale’s net for a 3–1 UCSB lead. This effectively ended the contest for the Bulldogs.

“That is the kind of atmosphere that every soccer player lives for,” Brown said.

“Our team really enjoyed taking on a tough opponent in a tough venue. These games are to prepare us for the Ivy League season and I believe they did just that.”

On Sunday the Bulldogs traveled to Cal Poly (6-2-0, 0-0 Big West) to take on the red hot Mustangs who were on a threegame winning streak. The game started well for the Bulldogs who went in front in the 19th minute when freshman Cameron Kirdzik ’17 scored off a feed from Armbrust. Yale kept up the pressure and scored just over five minutes later on a counter attack. Schwartz forced the Mustang keeper into a save with a header from close range, and forward Peter Jacobson ’13 pounced on the rebound and put the ball in the back of the net for a 2-0 Yale lead.

But the Mustangs put pressure on the Bulldogs immediately after the score, forcing Brown into a save just two minutes later. Brown was forced into two more saves before the halftime whistle sounded.

Cal Poly started quickly after the break,

registering a shot with three minutes gone by in the half. The Mustangs pulled a goal back in the 50th minute when a Cal Poly defender headed a free kick into Yale goal from the edge of the box. The Mustangs continued to put pressure on the Bulldogs and had six corners and three shots in the next 20 minutes.

The Bulldogs were repelling every attack the Mustangs could throw at them.

In the 84th minute Cal Poly had two efforts cleared off the goal line by Yale defenders. The Bulldogs clung to their one goal lead and saw a further two Mustang shots saved by Brown in a minute span.

However, in heartbreaking fashion, Cal Poly equalized with just under two minutes remaining in regulation when a cross was headed in from close range to tie the game at 2-2.

The Mustangs kept the momentum for the overtime period and stopped the Bulldogs from taking a single shot. With eight minutes gone in the first sudden death period, a Cal Poly player cut in from the left wing and unleashed a curling effort past Brown into the top corner of Yale’s net to end the contest at 3-2.

The game was a tough result for the Bulldogs who let in three unanswered goals and were outplayed in the second half. Brown had a career-high seven saves in net, but the Elis were outshot eight to 19 and only had one corner kick compared to the Mustangs’ 11.

“It’s frustrating not getting results, but we are playing well,” captain Max McKiernan ’14 said. “We just need to keep our heads up and stay optimistic. Ivy season hasn’t started yet and that’s where it really counts.”

The road trip was the end of a hard two weeks for the Bulldogs who are now on a four-game losing streak. The Bulldogs now have two home games in a row against local rivals Quinnipiac and Harvard in the first conference matchup for both teams.

Yale takes on Quinnipiac at Reese Stadium this Saturday at 7 p.m.

minute of the first half as Fairfield’s Brenna Brown found the back of the net. The trend is not one due to a lack of execution, but rather concentration, according to Meredith.

“It just demonstrates a complete lack of concentration,” Meredith said. “It’s just inexcusable to give up a goal in the last minute of a half.”

Once again, a more energized and productive Bulldog team showed up for the second half, but the equalizer never came. Midfielder Frannie Coxe ’15 nearly connected in the 90th minute, but her shot deflected off the crossbar. Coxe attributes the lack of offensive punch in the first half of games especially to the inability to keep possession of the ball that has haunted Yale all season.

“In order to be more of a threat offensively early in the game, we need to get numbers forward and connect up top,” Coxe said. “Rudy [Meredith] always stresses the need to maintain possession while transitioning into the attack and praises goals scored off combination plays. If we can connect early on and play smart, the offense will be able to get out to a quicker start.”

Yale has scored only three goals in the first half of matches this season, as opposed to eight in the second half.

As this slip-up came during the non-conference portion of the team’s schedule, it has no direct impact on the Elis’ Ivy League chances. Meredith

acknowledged that next week’s matchup against Princeton must have been on the minds of the players.

“It’s easy to say you aren’t thinking about them,” Meredith said. “But you know in the back of their mind, they were thinking about Princeton.”

Captain and defender Shannon McSweeney ’14 felt as though the losses were not due to overlooking their opponents, but rather a focus on fine tuning some aspects of Yale’s performance that need improvement.

“Although it’s never desirable to lose, it’s better at this point to sort out the areas we need to fix and improve from there,” McSweeney said.

Yale opens up Ivy League play this Saturday at Princeton (3–1– 2, 0–0 Ivy). Kickoff is slated for 4 p.m.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu

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“I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn’t be our style.

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory … lasts forever.” SHANE FALCO THE REPLACEMENTS

Hot start for football offense at Colgate FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 for only one side of the team’s scoring. The squad’s first game of the season marked the return of kicker Kyle Cazzetta ’15, who expanded into the placekicker role after playing most of last year as a punter. The junior, who was placed on the College Football Performance Awards Watch List before the season, led the Elis in an impressive display of kicking prowess by knocking down both 30-yard and 46-yard field goals. The special teamer also nailed three of five extra points and kicked five punts for an average of 30.6 yards per attempt.

In addition to the Elis’ lightning offense, relentless defense also stopped the Raiders from scoring in the red zone. On Colgate’s final drive, Palin recovered a fumble on Yale’s four-yard line to cap the Raiders’ scoring at 22.

Linebacker Will Vaughan ’15 led the way for the Bulldogs with nine solo tackles. Defensive end Dylan Drake ’14 recorded the only sack of the day for the team, taking down Colgate quarterback Gavin McCarney for a loss of four yards midway through the first quarter.

On the offensive end, Yale debuted quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 during the second quarter. The much-discussed Clemson transfer threw for 66 yards on 8–15 passing with no touchdowns and no interceptions.

Roberts took most of his snaps in the second

half when Furman hobbled off the field early in the third quarter after being tackled hard on a quarterback keeper. Furman remained on the sideline and had his ankle taped up but did not return to the field.

Head coach Tony Reno said that he would know more about the extent of Furman’s injury later in the week, and that both players have earned the right to be on the field thus far.

“They’re both dual threat quarterbacks,” head coach Tony Reno said. “Throughout the preseason and the three scrimmages, they were in a dead heat. They both deserved playing time.”

The Elis will open their conference slate next Saturday at home against Cornell.

Kickoff will occur at 12 p.m. at the Yale Bowl.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu. Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu.

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

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Tailback Tyler Varga ’15 ran for the third-most yards in Yale history in the Elis’ win over Colgate on Saturday.

Two wins in Penn. for Elis VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B1 plate and played at a level that she had never played before. I was really impressed.”

In that crucial third set, Ebner produced five kills, two block assists and a service ace. She finished the game with 16 kills on .433 hitting to go along with 10 digs, 4 aces and 4 block assists.

Ebner also pointed to the overall team play as key for her individual performance.

“I think it was just a matter of everything coming together,” Ebner said. “I thought this weekend I was just connecting with the setters really well and our passing was really good, so that made it easier for me to perform.”

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This weekend I was just connecting with the setters really well and our passing was really good.

JESSIE EBNER ’16 Middle blocker, volleyball On Saturday, the Elis faced Albany, a team that had yet to win a set all season. Yale put together a defensive clinic, producing 10 blocks and 46 digs as a team, as they routed Albany in straight sets and extended the Great Danes’ losing streak.

Rogers put together a strong performance with 12 kills, seven digs and three service aces.

“It’s comforting knowing that we can rely on our defense to win matches for us,” Rogers said. “We know that we can adjust to different teams.”

The Elis ended the tournament against No. 1 Penn State. Polan said the Nittany Lions boast a combination of height, athleticism and talent that makes them a very formidable opponent.

The only loss Penn State has suffered this season was against No. 6 Texas. Their stellar record, in combination with their frequent lineup changes, made the nation’s No. 1 team hard to scout, Ebner said.

“Our focus going into the game was to concentrate on our side,” Ebner said, ”because if we didn’t take care of the little things, if we were making unforced errors or not being smart, then we were not going to get any points off them.”

The game plan for the Elis centered on tough serving to limit defensive opportunities and to neutralize Penn State’s size and athleticism. Midway through the first set, with the score at 17–11 in favor of Penn State, the Elis caused three consecutive attack errors and forced a Nittany Lion time-

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Middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’15 led the Bulldogs with 16 kills in their 3–1 victory over Eastern Kentucky on Friday. out with Yale trailing by only three points. Penn State came out of the time out and held on to win the first set, 25–16.

The Elis kept the match close through the first half of the second set, before a 12–2 run left Penn State ahead 24–12. Yale was able to take the next five points before succumbing to a kill by Penn State.

The Nittany Lions handily took the third set by a score of 25–6, showing how they earned the nation’s top spot.

“Things just didn’t really go our way [in the third set],” Polan said.

“I think they didn’t realize that the first two sets would be so close, so they came out and really played their A-game [in the final set].”

The Bulldogs took solace in the fact that they held Penn State’s Micha Hancock ’15, the nation leader in aces per set at 0.96, to just one service ace

through three sets.

For their strong performances throughout the tournament, Rogers and Ebner were selected to the alltournament team, a distinction their captain considered well deserved.

The team will now come back to Yale for a five-game in-conference homestand. After playing national giants Stanford and Penn State, the Bulldogs will now focus on repeating their undefeated Ivy League performance last season.

“We haven’t seen these teams play yet,” Rogers said. “We have to take it one match at a time. We’ll scout them well and play our game.”

The Elis play Brown on Saturday at 5 p.m. in Payne Whitney Gym.

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ond half. Forward Erica Borgo ’14 was able to bring the Elis within one when she scored unassisted at 56:24, but the Crimson stretched their lead back to two with about five minutes left in the game on a goal from forward Marissa Balleza.

As time expired, midfielder Holland scored on a penalty corner to bring the final score to 3–2. “[The loss] against Harvard was really disappointing,” Holland said. “We weren’t able to execute our game plan the way we wanted to.”

The next day the Bulldogs were able to recover against Vermont (0-8, 0-0 America East), winning with the same 3–2 margin by which they fell to Harvard.

The Elis outshot the Catamounts 23–9 in the first half and had the advantage in penalty corners 8–0 over the first 35 minutes, but they were unable to convert as Vermont goalkeeper Stephanie Zygmunt made 18 saves to keep the Bulldogs off the board. Yale went into the locker room at halftime down 2–0 off of two goals by junior forward Ashley McDonald.

Head coach Pam Stuper said at halftime she told her players they just needed to keep up their offensive pressure and they would be successful.

“We need to keep doing what we are doing. We were getting opportunities and it was just a matter of finishing those,” Stuper said. “Vermont had an incredibly strong goalkeeper and we were shooting right at the goalie.

We need to shoot around the goalkeeper, make her move and be ready for rebounds.”

Yale held Vermont scoreless in the second half, limiting them to no shots and zero penalty corners. And finally, the Bulldogs broke through at the 49:38 minute mark with a goal off a penalty

corner by Holland.

We finally played quality field hockey in that second half.

GEORGIA HOLLAND ’14 Midfielder, field hockey Borgo ’14 tied the game up at the 57:10 mark with a goal assisted by forward Rhoni Gericke ’17, and the comeback was completed by forward Jessie Accurso ’15, who scored her first goal of the season with seven minutes remaining.

“It was nice to see us respond strongly against Vermont,” Holland said. “We got ourselves into a tricky situation being down at halftime, but showed a lot of perseverance to rally in the second half.

We finally played quality field hockey in that second half. It’s really motivating going into this week against Princeton.”

The Bulldogs travel to Princeton on Friday looking for their first Ivy League win of the season.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu.

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“After this, it’s just babies and memories.”

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

Cross country underclassmen set high standards

BY RHYDIAN GLASS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Strong performances from underclassman Bulldogs in the 19th Annual Iona College Meet in New York’s Van Cortlandt Park on Saturday bode well for the men’s and women’s cross country teams as they start their seasons.

CROSS COUNTRY After a tough but well-fought loss to Harvard in their opening meet, both the men’s and women’s teams rebounded this weekend. The men’s squad had an outstanding performance, posting a second place overall finish out of a field of 18, and the women’s team recorded 13th of 20 teams participating.

Though no Bulldogs made the top 10, the men’s team was one of only three teams to place all seven runners within the top 50.

For the second straight week, Alex Conner ’15 and James Randon ’16 led the way for the Bulldogs, each finishing with a time of 25:57.1 for 14th and 15th place.

John McGowan ’14, who posted a third-place finish against the Crimson last week, came in third for the Elis at Van Cortlandt with a time of 26:00.52.

In high school, Randon was a three-time New Balance AllAmerican. Now running at the more competitive level where team success depends on a “pack-running” strategy, Randon has taken on a new approach to races.

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The men’s squad posted a second place overall finish in the race, and the women’s team recorded 13th.

California trip ends in disappointment

Yale falls to in-state rivals

BY JAMES BADAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s soccer team suffered a disappointing weekend, falling on Friday to Sacred Heart at home by a score of 2–1 and then succumbing to Fairfield on the road by a score of 1–0.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The weekend offered the Bulldogs (4–3–0, 0-0 Ivy) a chance to head into the Ivy League portion of their

schedule with a four-game winning streak, but the two Connecticut universities put a hitch into those plans. On Friday, Yale lost for the first time in 12 meetings historically to the Pioneers (3–6– 0, 0–0 NEC). Sacred Heart attacked early and often, firing off the first 10 shots of the game. Dana Cosmedy put the Pioneers on the board first in the 19th minute, placing Sacred Heart ahead for good.

In the 45th minute, Sacred Heart captain and leading goal-scorer Kristin Verrette tacked on an insurance goal.

The goal came off a costly turnover midfield, further demonstrating the Bulldogs’ challenges in maintaining possession that have been a talking point for head coach Rudy Meredith throughout this season.

“We are just giving up bad goals,” Meredith said. “Part of it is we don’t get into a rhythm because we give the ball away too much, which causes counterattacks, which leads to these sort of goals.”

The 2–0 deficit proved to be too much to overcome for the Elis.

Forward Melissa Gavin ’15 connected with her fifth goal of the season in the 80th minute off an assist from forward Georgiana Wagemann ’15. The rally ceased there, though, and the Pioneers ran out the clock and walked away with the victory.

Sunday’s match against Fairfield (4–4–0, 0–0 MAAC) included many of the same issues that were on display against Sacred Heart.

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The men’s soccer team lost to both UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly over the weekend.

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER Despite several strong performances this weekend in Southern California, the Bulldogs did not have much luck in their matches.

MEN’S SOCCER The men’s soccer team fell to both California powerhouses it faced during its West Coast road trip. On Friday, the Bulldogs fell to UC Santa Barbara 3–1, and two days later, they lost 3–2 to Cal Poly.

“Our biggest takeaway from this trip is that we proved we can play well against some of the best teams in the country,” goalkeeper Blake Brown ’15 said. “We scored multiple times and had some great defensive plays. Now we are going to bring those positives back to New Haven.”

The Bulldogs (1-5-0, 0-0 Ivy), started their weekend at UCSB (4-2-0, 0-0 Big West) last Friday in front of 3,000 raucous fans.

The matchup was a homecoming for forward Avery Schwartz ’16, a Santa Barbra native, as well as five other Elis from California.

But the game did not begin well.

With only 10 minutes gone, a Gauchos player cut the ball back across the box where it was fired low into

the goal by forward Achille Champion. UCSB, coming off a win against fellow Ivy Penn, kept up the pressure, forcing Yale goalkeeper Brown into a save just a minute later.

In the next 20 minutes, UCSB had four shots and four corners, further pinning the Bulldogs in their own half. The pressure led to another breakthrough when, in the 35th minute, a UCSB corner kick was headed onto the cross bar by forward Charlie Miller, who reacted faster than the Yale defenders to steer his own rebound into the net for a 2-0 lead. The Gauchos continued to assert their dominance on the game, forcing Brown into another save in the 38th minute.

Yale got a goal back after some nice play by forward Scott Armbrust ’13 to set up fellow forward Cody Wilkins ’13, who fired a shot past the UCSB goalkeeper with just 35 second left in the half. It was Wilkins’ first goal since 2010, as the forward had missed the entire 2012 season and most of the 2011 season with injuries.

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The Elis fell to Sacred Heart at home on Friday and then succumbed to Fairfield on Sunday.