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169 Conn. schools to receive funds to improve security resources

STUDENTS TO TAKE LANGUAGE COURES ON YALE’S CAMPUS

Men traumatized by the Cold War settle into mundanity of 1960s life

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Elicker, Harp look to Yale

School’s out! Sort of.

Professor Brad Rosen took the more than 70 students in his CPSC 183 “Law, Technology, & Culture” class to Cross Campus on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the intersection of law and technology while basking in the sunshine. Though students still participated and raised their hands during the session, many wandering eyes turned away from Rosen’s lecture and toward the bicyclists and passers-by strolling through the grassy field instead. Sigh.

HOLLOWAY TO FOCUS ON ACADEMICS AFTER TWO TERMS

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER

of New Haven.”

When the next mayor — either Connecticut State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78 or Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 — takes office on New Year’s Day, he or she will be faced not only with improving the city, but also with navigating the complexities that have come to define the Elm City’s relationship with Yale.

The walk between City Hall and Woodbridge Hall, the seats

Calhoun College Master Jonathan Holloway GRD ’95 announced on Wednesday that he will step down at the end of the 2013–’14 academic year, leaving the college after two terms at its helm.

Holloway, who also serves as chair of the Department of African American Studies, announced news of his planned departure in a Wednesday afternoon email to Calhoun students. He said he was grateful for his experience as master, but that it was “time to let someone else have the great honor of leading this amazing community.” Having assumed the mastership in 2005 — six years after he arrived at Yale as an assistant professor — Holloway said he never imagined being master for more than 10 years.

He said he intends to focus on his academic work and to devote more time to his two children, who are 10 and 13 years old.

“Part of it is certainly my scholarship,” he said. “It’s really hard to do as master. It takes up a lot of the time you’d otherwise spend researching and writing, and I’m really wanting to get back to that full time.”

Chair of the Council of Masters from July 2009 until June 2013, Holloway helped oversee the body as it negotiated the rebalancing of residential college budgets. He said chairing the council was “tough” but that it helped him learn how the colleges fit into the broader University.

Morse College Master Amy Hungerford,

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Nobel in the future? Every year, Thomson Reuters releases its annual predictions of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, physics, physiology/medicine and economics — and this year, one Yale economics professor is on the list: Peter C.B. Phillips. A Sterling professor of economics and professor of statistics, Phillips is known for his work on time series forecasting and econometric model determination. Reuters has correctly predicted 27 Nobel Prize winners since the list’s inception in 2002 and, in 2011, went four for four in its picks.

Extreme weight loss. A new initiative by “Get Healthy Connecticut” is trying to encourage all of New Haven to lose a collective 375,000 pounds in the next two years in honor of the Elm City’s 375th anniversary. The program aims to build a healthier community by encouraging better eating, physical activity and support systems. A 2012 survey by the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) — run by the Yale School of Public Health — found that New Haven residents do not meet national recommendations for diet and exercise.

Technical difficulties. MetroNorth’s New Haven line is expected to experience delayed service for the next few days after a power cable failure affecting a 138,000volt feeder line caused major cancellations on Wednesday morning. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said the power failure would create a “substantial disruption for a substantial period of time,” and that travelers should look for alternative methods of transportation if possible.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1968 University administrators increase tuition by $300, bringing the total tuition for the 1969–’70 academic year up to $3,600. For some, the decision is “obscene” and prompts discussion about how the Financial Aid Office will respond to the tuition hike.

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The next mayor — Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 or Toni Harp ARC ’78 — will shape the city’s relationship with Yale.

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER When the vote tallies for Yaledominated Ward 1 were called out at Toni Harp’s primary victory party on Sept. 10, one woman in the crowd shouted, “We don’t need Yale! They’re not even part of New Haven!”

In New Haven, Yale often is a source of commendation and criticism. The University is the city’s largest employer and taxpayer, but

nevertheless keeps tremendous sums out of city coffers through its tax-exempt status. It is a source of gentrification, but also socio-economic and racial division. To some, it is a benevolent figure looking to improve a downtrodden postindustrial city; to others, a selfinterested institution of privilege.

“People beat up Yale all the time, but the reality is that Yale is the largest property taxpayer,” community activist Gary Doyens said.

“Yale has been very good to the city

Parents question Promise requirement

BY DANIEL GIRALDO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While the New Haven Promise program has won praise from University and city officials for helping New Haven high school students fund their dreams of attending college, one program requirement has come under criticism from students and parents.

The Promise program will fund tuition for students attending in-state colleges, but those who qualify for the scholarship cannot use the funds to attend out-of-state colleges. Parents of New Haven students questioned whether this practice should continue at a September meeting of the Citywide Parent Leadership Team in Wilbur Cross High School.

“This is one of three or four questions that comes up every meeting,” said Patricia Melton, executive director of New Haven Promise.

The Promise program, funded entirely by Yale, offers two scholarships: the Promise Scholarship and the Passport to Promise. To qualify for the Promise Scholarship, students must fill out a pledge form their freshman year and meet academic and disciplinary standards throughout their time in high school. The Promise Scholarship is given to all who qualify and covers 100 percent of in-state public college tuition and $2,500 of in-state private school

tuition. The Passport to Promise Scholarship is a competitive scholarship that awards $1,000 to 20 students whose GPA is between 2.5 and 2.99 and who go through an application and selection process.

In 2013, 203 students qualified for the Promise Scholarship, but only 168 accepted the scholarship. Those who did not accept the scholarship did so either because they decided to go out-of-state for college or because they decided to defer enrollment, Melton said.

Keeping our talent local makes the most sense and is the best for the future of New Haven.

JOHN DESTEFANO JR. Mayor, New Haven Abbe Smith, communications director of New Haven Public Schools, indicated that the Promise Board of Directors would be the body “that would consider the question” of whether the program could be expanded to cover out-ofstate colleges. The board of New Haven Promise is composed of five people, among whom are Yale President Peter Salovey and Mayor John DeStefano Jr. SEE PROMISE PAGE 6

Three Ivies join student aid program

BY HAILEY WINSTON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Cornell University, Princeton University and Dartmouth University are among 11 private institutions that last week joined the Say Yes to Education Inc. Compact, an agreement to provide low-income students with an affordable path through college, but Yale has yet to sign onto the initiative.

Say Yes provides students from lowincome, urban backgrounds from kindergarten to 12th grade with academic and social support and guarantees college tuition upon graduation from high school.

Say Yes founder George Weiss and longtime supporter Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced the new schools in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 18, bringing total members of the Higher Education Compact to 54. Yale Dean of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan and Say Yes Senior Vice President of Higher Education and Communications Jacques Steinberg both said a dialogue has begun between Say Yes and Yale about a potential partnership, but no formal agreement has been reached.

“We’ve only started conversations with the organization recently, but it’s obviously an organization that’s had success in Syracuse and other places, and an organization that we’d be interested in talking more with,” Quinlan said.

Based in New York City, Say Yes serves almost 65,000 public and charter school students who live in urban areas such as Syracuse, Hartford and Philadelphia. For students from families with incomes of less than $75,000, Say Yes pays full tuition for students attending public two- or fouryear colleges in New York state. Private schools that partner with Say Yes typically pledge to waive tuition for admitted Say Yes students in this income bracket.

Quinlan said he thinks it is particularly important for Yale to partner with organizations such as Say Yes because research shows that prospective students and their families respond to broader messages about affording education that include institutions beyond just Yale.

Recruiting students from low-income families and communicating with them about the University often work best when peer institutions collaborate and discuss college admissions in general, Quinlan added.

“There is much more power in talking about it in a larger group,” he said. “It’s very important that we keep our eyes out for these types of institutions.”

We’ve only started conversations with [Say Yes] recently … and [it is] an organization that we’d be interested in talking more with.

JEREMIAH QUINLAN Dean of admissions, Yale University Steinberg, who coordinates the Say Yes Higher Education Compact that the Ivy League schools recently joined, said the organization would be pleased to talk to Yale on a more formal basis about becoming a partner.

“I am very hopeful that the conversation will continue,” Steinberg said. “The only reason we have not yet formally approached Yale is because of time. I only began working at Say Yes earlier this year.”

Admissions officials at Princeton, UniSEE SAY YES PAGE 4

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The Global Zero time bomb T

hey boast: “This isn’t your grandma’s anti-nuke campaign.” And when it comes to scale, that’s certainly true. Global Zero, a group dedicated to “a world without nuclear weapons,” touts 300 global leaders, numerous prestigious signatories and 450,000 members worldwide. Its members have hosted flashy galas across the world, made videos with A-list celebrities (Morgan Freeman, Alec Baldwin, etc.) and have even taken multiple trips to pressing political hotbeds like Bonnaroo.

The architects of the movement are not shy about being their own loudest cheerleaders.

They have labeled themselves as “one of the most remarkable social movements in history” orchestrated by a “visionary group of leaders and experts.”

And our generation seems to like it: The initiative has 150 college and high school chapters in 20 different countries, 6,000 Twitter followers, and over 30,000 Facebook likes. The chapter at Yale is one of the most active of the bunch, even hosting a posh conference here last year.

Yet while such an endeavor may not be my grandma’s campaign, it is lipstick — Instagrammed, tweeted, well-funded, celebrity-sprinkled lipstick — on an old pig. The underlying idea has been around for decades; in fact, Barack Obama championed it as a college student in 1983. As president, he is now all too willing to let Global Zero take up the cause, hook, line and sinker, as it fits into his prosaic playbook for wooing millennials: promise lofty ideals with short specifics, while casually gliding over the snags of substantively disastrous policy.

At first glance, the biggest problem with Global Zero is not even its ultimate objective, but rather the precipitous, overconfident intellectual sprint it uses to get there. The “Global Zero Action Plan” is the bedrock of the initiative’s mission, outlining the “phased, verified, multilateral elimination of all nuclear weapons” by 2030 — in all of nine pages.

The combination of unearned gravitas and big-name support, coupled with no comparable counterweight, has contributed to Global Zero’s contagious authority among student advocates. “There is actually no reason to have a nuclear weapon. A lot of people think it can protect us, but it really doesn’t,” one student leader declares in a video.

“The idea of nuclear weapon is just … outdated,” explains another, cinematically seated before a white backdrop.

One can only imagine what a relief this was for the ayatollah to hear.

Global Zero has a two-stage approach: first,stress compliance from potentially willing (read: safe and responsible) nations, and second, figure it out with less than receptive (read: dangerous and irresponsible) ones later.

“This phased approach will allow for the steady expansion of participation … while [thus] preventing any holdHARRY outs or temGRAVER porary withdrawals from Gravely derailing the process,” reads Mistaken the plan — essentially Smokey the Bear asking everyone without matches to not start fires while hoping that big-game hunters put their guns away.

To be fair, the initiative recognizes the potential skepticism that can meet the promise to recruit every nuclear power onto a “legally binding international agreement” within a decade.

Proponents point to “decades of successful experience … dismantling nuclear weapons programs,” in “Iraq” and “Libya.”

With the former coming courtesy of Israeli jets in 1981 and the latter from an American intervention in the former (odd how nations can be persistent about this sort of thing), it doesn’t take long to see how the organization is willing to jump between shoddy history and a very loose definition of “diplomacy.”

But this is the perceived millennial predilection that Global Zero tries to pick on: a generation supposedly quick to demand and slow to discern.

It is easy to rally students to “demand zero” from Jerusalem or Islamabad. How to resolve the weapons-necessitating military conflicts that have plagued each nation from its inception is a problem that can be figured out down the road. It seems intuitive that the world will come together for “collective security” to now combat “nuclear terrorists,” as long as student leaders are cautioned not to name-call friends when around the mullahs. And how certain are we that countries like South Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia — previously without need to pursue their own programs because of an American umbrella — will look upon the panacea of a “legally binding international agreement” with equal esteem?

We should push for a higher discourse than the utopic impulses that belie Global Zero.

It is a movement not in search of a problem but rather for a longlost time before humanity tipped the brink into a nuclear world.

Yale students — many of whom will have a very tangible impact on how our nation conducts itself in the future — have a choice as to whether to engage in this world or indulge in another.

We’ve come of age under a president who chose the latter.

How’s that working out?

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'RIVER_TAM' ON 'FIX THE CORPORATION'

GUEST COLUMNIST SAM COHEN

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Cruz’s scrambled eggs

t is not often a U.S. senator speaks for 21 hours against debating a bill that he, and his 99 colleagues, then promptly vote to begin debating a few minutes later.

But on Tuesday night, Sen. Ted Cruz (a graduate of Princeton and Harvard, but thankfully not Yale) gave a speech and did just that.

I say speech, and not filibuster, because the Republican senator from Texas was actually concerned with his own airtime, not stopping a bill. His “fauxlibuster” (as it has been dubbed) was Cruz versus Obama. Cruz versus Obamacare. Cruz, Cruz, Cruz. Welcome to Ted Cruz Storytime!

And it was a disgusting display of his disregard for the hard work of governing, and his utter misuse of the stories of Theodor Geisel.

Let me explain: Ted Cruz pushed House Republicans to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government without funding Obamacare. When they actually did so, he hastily tried to figure out how to prevent the Senate taking a vote on the plan he supports so that they wouldn’t have an alternative to send back to the House.

So Cruz, unable to actually filibuster, asked Majority Leader

Harry Reid for permission to give a long floor speech — again, not to filibuster, just to showboat. Harry Reid seemed thrilled to let Ted Cruz become the face of Republican obstructionism.

But Cruz’s speech was more than just an infuriating waste of time from a government that has gotten really good at wasting time. It was his attempt to theatrically shutdown government because he doesn’t like Obamacare.

We all get it — congressional Republicans don’t like Obamacare. Forty-two attempts in the House to repeal the law make that abundantly clear. But Republicans lost the last presidential election by 6 percent of the popular vote. They failed to win the Senate in an advantageous year. They actually lost seats in the House. And in every race in 2012, Obamacare was a critical issue.

Congressional Republicans should stop wasting all of our time. Governing requires a modicum of maturity and willingness to compromise. Governing and Ted Cruz are apparently incompatible.

So the most revealing moment of Cruz’s soliloquy was when he took a time-out to read “Green Eggs and Ham” to his daughters. “I do not like them, Sam-

I-Am, I do not like green eggs and ham!” Cruz thundered Dr. Seuss’ words into an otherwiseempty Senate chamber. “Give Mommy a hug and a kiss, brush your teeth, say your prayers, and Daddy is going to be home soon to read to you in person,” he finished sadly to the camera, as though he were physically prevented from being with his daughters. As though it were his great burden, not a disgraceful dereliction of duty, to blow 21 hours’ worth of hot air.

CRUZ SHOULD TAKE STORYTIME OFF THE SENATE FLOOR Since I am Sam, I want to point something out. The irony is that at the end of the story, the narrator — Cruz, in this case — realizes that he actually does like green eggs and ham after all. He realizes that his muleheaded stubbornness is foolish.

“Say, I like green eggs and ham! I do! I like them, Sam-I-Am!” No one is asking Cruz to support Obamacare — not in a boat, not with a goat, neither here nor there, not anywhere. What

we’re asking is that Cruz fulfill the duties of the office he took an oath to carry out. We’re asking him to stop running for president three years too early and start governing one year too late.

There are thousands of fathers right now serving overseas who are actually prevented by the duties of their jobs from reading bedtime stories to their kids. They don’t get to decide to shut everything down because they’re grumpy about a law passed by both houses of Congress, signed by the president and upheld by the Supreme Court. They don’t decide whether to do their jobs based on who is president.

Cruz may be exhausted after his marathon speech. And while his daughters may have liked “Green Eggs and Ham,” the rest of the country could do with a bedtime story that doesn’t just serve to highlight Cruz’s damaging intransigence.

SAM COHEN is a junior in Calhoun College. This column expresses his personal views only and not the views of Yale NROTC, the Department of Defense or any other entity. Contact him at samson.cohen@yale.edu .

Cruz-ing in class

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have a voice”

Srsly saving language “S

rsly, get a hold of this.

I gave away my jorts yesterday; decided I’m going for a geek chic look. Maybe it was because all of the guac I’ve been eating gave me a food baby.

Or maybe it was the fact that I can’t twerk as well in them as when I’m rocking sweats. Anyway, I kind of regret giving them away. … I think I’m going to vom.”

Get used to it, because what you just read might just be the new lingo of the 21st century.

Dictionaries are endorsing valley girl talk and text abbreviations for those with lazy fingers and minds. Recently, the Oxford Dictionaries Online released a lengthy list of its newest additions. The free online dictionary now includes words like “selfie,” “buzzworthy” and “derp.” Some of these words gained popularity through their online use, while others were derived from recent trends. “Seriously,” being too long of a word to write out completely (perhaps for those who have never laid their eyes on “hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian”), was slimmed down to “srsly.” Maybe it was people’s fear of receiving a “TL;DR” (too long; didn’t read) reply to a text that caused this sudden vanishing of vowels. But perhaps the exact opposite is being achieved.

Should we be worried that we are becoming more willing to read sentences in which we are frcd to fll the gps?

ODO defines FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) as “anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on a social media.” I try to picture Macaulay Culkin in “Home Alone” FOMOing as the rest of his family accidentally left him behind on their Christmas vacation, or the crew of Apollo 11 FOMOing as Armstrong became the first to step on the surface of the moon, but it doesn’t seem quite right. The creation of FOMO accompanied the rise of social media. Were it not for Facebook posts of weekend trips to the Hamptons or Instagrams of drinks at Viva’s, we would lack the jealousy-triggering visuals that cause us to feel FOMO and begin the self-deprecation that comes with it. Making FOMO an official word is a formal acceptance of a type of person that can’t appreciate what is happening here and now.

Words are not added to the dictionary on a whim. The dictionary is a Bible of sorts for any and every communicating human, and it must remain sacred. I once used to imagine a

committee of scholars and linguists extensively debating over words, discussing their meaning, examining their usage, musing over every aspect of speech and expression. They would sit in a room for days on end throwing the word around and playing with the idea of someday introducing it to the world. They would scrutinize each word until they agreed that it was ready to be set in stone or discarded into oblivion with all the dying words that never came to be. But now, I see a young group of easygoing people casually talking about words at the bar, as they text under tables and surf the Web for the latest viral videos and trends.

“Twerk? Add it. Cake pop?

Sure, I’ve had ’em before. Selfie?

Don’t we all?” Well, they’re all in the dictionary.

As words are thrown around, the beauty of our language is being sacrificed. At the Merriam-Webster dictionary, editors monitor the words that are being used most often — paying close attention to how people are using them. A word must have enough citations in order to be added to the dictionary. However, frequency and popularity are not strong enough deciding factors to merit the addition of certain words. The key is maintaining

selectivity if we are to preserve the richness of language.

These new words might provide us with speedy communication, might capture current trends and may very well become part of our society’s culture. But finding them within a dictionary that has been around since 1884 gives them credence and reflects what we are becoming, whether we are proud of it or not.

We cannot acknowledge these words without blurring the lines of language. If we accept them, we will no longer know when formal words are appropriate — or when casual words are acceptable. Will mellifluous words like “susurrous,” “lissome,” “fugacious” and “diaphanous” even be used anymore?

As culture changes, language does too. But we should not be codifying fleeting language that is part of a fad or that may be temporary. Some words might make the dictionary, others might not; they must be able to stand the test of time. Let us hope that those words that prove unworthy eventually perish, and we re-evaluate the culture that once gave them life.

IDA TSUTSUMI ACUNA is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact her at ida.tsutsumiacuna@yale.edu .

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“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN AUSTRIAN-BRITISH PHILOSOPHER

State grant supports school security

NHPS students enroll in Yale languages

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER

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Following last year’s shooting in Newtown, Connecticut will distribute $5 million to partially reimburse 169 schools for improvements to their security resources.

BY LORENZO LIGATO AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Nine months after the Newtown shooting, 169 Connecticut schools will receive state funds to improve and upgrade their security resources as part of the first round of the state’s Competitive Grant Program.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy announced last week that these schools — located across 36 Connecticut districts — will split $5 million in state funding as a partial reimbursement for the costs associated with installing new security infrastructure.

“After the horrific events on December 14, Connecticut cities and towns moved swiftly to improve security infrastructures at schools in need,” Malloy said in a press release accompanying the announcement.

“We will never be able to prevent every random act, but we can take the steps necessary to make sure that our children and our teachers are as safe as possible.”

The schools were selected from a pool of 604 applicants that were evaluated based on their current security configurations and on the district’s

wealth, with priority given to schools that had limited or no pre-existing security measures.

The awards, which will be administered by the state’s Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, will allow the schools to develop their own security upgrade projects, including installation of surveillance cameras, ballistic glass, computer-controlled electronic locks and entry-door buzzer systems, according to Scott Devico, spokesman for the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. Costs associated with hiring and maintaining security personnel or sworn police officers will not be covered by the grant, Devico added.

Each municipality, he added, will be reimbursed between 20 and 80 percent of their total security expenses, depending on the town wealth, which is defined by the municipality’s property tax base and the income of its residents.

The Competitive Grant Program was developed as part of the Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety Act, the bipartisan legislation passed in April in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School

shooting that killed 20 children and six adults on Dec. 14, 2012.

“The tragic events of that day will never be forgotten,” said State Sen. Toni Boucher, a co-chair of the task force committee on school security and one of six GOP senators who voted for the Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety Act.

We will never be able to prevent every random act, but we can take the steps necessary to make sure that our children and our teachers are as safe as possible.

DANNEL MALLOY Governor, Connecticut West Haven Public Schools, just a 12-minute drive southwest of Yale’s central campus, was one of the 36 districts selected in the first round of the program. Two school buildings within

the West Haven Public Schools district will receive funding totaling over $22,000 to purchase modern surveillance cameras that will be installed at 16 sites throughout each building, said the district’s superintendent Neil Cavallaro.

“We’re a community that doesn’t have a lot of means or resources,” Cavallaro said, calling the Competitive Grant Program a “success” which will allow the schools in his district to upgrade an otherwise “antiquated” security system. “We already had a plan in mind [to improve our security resources], and now we are getting some money back to either save or expand on the project.” He added that additional funding could be used to upgrade school badges and identification cards for entry into the school buildings.

The Governor’s Office will discuss the second round of the Competitive Grant Program, which would allocate an additional $10 million for school security upgrades, this Friday.

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

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

Connecticut high school students will soon descend on campus for weekly classes in uncommonly taught languages such as Russian, Turkish and Kiswahili.

The classes in the High School Cooperative Languages Program will last from Oct. 15 to May 16 and take place in buildings across Yale’s campus throughout the week.

Programs in Educational Resources Director Margaret Marcotte said she expects between 100 and 125 high school students to enroll this year, with between 55 and 60 percent of these students coming from the New Haven Public School system and enrolling in Yale’s annual program for free.

“Our students understand that the world is getting smaller, so to speak,” Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina said.

“The global economy we’re in now requires students to be able to speak a variety of languages.”

High School Cooperative Languages Program director Julia Hsieh GRD ’14 said providing the program for free to NHPS students gives more students the chance to learn languages that are not offered at their high schools.

Marcotte and Hsieh will incorporate a motivational survey into the programming this year to better understand why students are taking the uncommon language they choose, they said. With this information, Marcotte added, Yale can better tailor their classes to students’ needs.

Carolina added the opportunity for Hillhouse High School students to take courses on Yale’s campus also boosts their selfesteem in other academic subjects at their school.

In addition to beginner classes, the program will also offers second-year classes in Chinese, German and Japanese this year. Marcotte said eight students this year placed out of the levels and will attend Yale language classes daily instead.

Program tuition is $370, and PIER, the outreach program for the MacMillan Center, funds the classes and tuition for NHPS students with a federal Title VI grant.

Hsieh said teachers work to include more than just grammar and speaking into the curriculum. The teachers, who have taught at Yale and elsewhere in the state, also encourage students to engage with the culture associated with the languages they study.

“It really gives the kids a competitive edge if they take [their language] to continue in their college years,” Marcotte added.

Yale first offered the program over 25 years ago, Marcotte said.

The program traditionally draws the most students from surrounding towns such as Trumbull, Madison and Woodbridge.

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

From video to sculpture, ‘Solstice’ lets the sun in

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER With autumn’s arrival, the undergraduate Art Department is looking back to the heat of summer.

Featuring pieces from students in fall art classes, “Solstice: Undergraduate Summer Art Exhibition” presents artwork produced over the summer, both independently and through programs in Norfolk, Conn., and Auvillar, France. With media ranging from video to sculpture, the exhibit demonstrates the kinds of work that are produced outside of the classroom, away from the expectations of structure, Associate School of Art Dean Samuel Messer ART ’82 said.

“Students are so used to fulfilling requirements and realizing other people’s ideas of what they should be making,” Messer said.

“A lot of the work that we see in this show is more personal — the investigation may be more of what the person is thinking about rather than a formal exercise.”

This year’s exhibit, which recurs annually, was the first to invite students outside of the major to contribute work. But in spite of this open call for submissions, Director of Undergraduate Studies Lisa Kereszi ART ’00 said the bulk of the work was produced by art majors, with roughly five submissions from non-majors.

Three participating students interviewed described the free-

dom afforded them during the summer, a season that presents both a period of liberation and a test of one’s artistic discipline.

Andrew Wagner ’15, whose pieces include three photographs and a sculpture, discussed balancing the difficulty of producing on his own with the increased agency of creating outside of a formal framework.

“The photos are very different from what I’ve done in class in the past,” Wagner said. “I didn’t have to try to make something cohesive — I just created what came to my mind.”

Wagner added that working independently can be daunting because the art often has no wider audience, so a student exhibit such as “Solstice” provides the benefits of others’ reactions and opinions.

Among the exhibit pieces were works created by the two Yale students who participated in the Yale Summer School of Art and Music in Norfolk, Conn. The program, which takes place on the pastoral Stoeckel estate, accepts art students from around the world for a six-week session of workshops, lectures and independent studio work.

The products of this intensive period include a piece of video art created by Martina Crouch ’14, who made T-shirts reflecting her relationship with each of the 25 other students in the program.

Called “A Play in 25 Acts,” the video tracks Crouch’s creation of

each piece, focusing on the personal elements she adds to each. “[This summer], I realized that I can perform as myself, and I don’t have to be a neutral identity,” Crouch said. “Art is so much about construction, but I’ve learned that the private is always public, and that my art can be

about me as a person and not as a fictitious entity.”

Jennifer Mulrow ’14, who submitted photographs she took using a 4-by-5 view camera, assembled “semistaged” sets to play with questions of photographic truth. One photograph depicting two crumb-speck-

led napkins around a half-eaten birthday cake was taken after Mulrow’s mother baked the cake expressly for the shoot. The image is a part of a set representing “postfestive” events. “[Photography] is its own truth,” Mulrow said. “It’s not necessarily real life, but it gives us

the opportunity to create our own moment.”

“Solstice” opened on Sept. 18 and will be on view at the Green Hall Galleries through Oct. 4.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu.

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“Solstice: Undergraduate Summer Art Exhibition” will be on view at the Green Hall Galleries through Oct. 4.

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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Promise reforms weighed

Holloway to leave Calhoun CALHOUN MASTER FROM PAGE 1 who filled in as Calhoun’s master during Holloway’s sabbatical, praised the outgoing master for his “light touch as a leader.” Holloway helped the council navigate a period of change while “keeping the college system healthy across the board,” Hungerford said in a Wednesday email.

During the 2011–’12 academic year, Holloway took a sabbatical from the University that he said made him eager to “refocus on a broader scholarly agenda” and gave him time to finish a book that will be released in the next week or two.

[It is] time to let someone else have the great honor of leading this amazing community.

JONATHAN HOLLOWAY GRD ’95 Master, Calhoun College Also factoring into his decision were his children, who have “grown up in the college,” he said.

“Part of it is thinking about where our kids are academically and developmentally,” he said, describing his family’s integration into the college community as one of his favorite aspects of being master over the last eight years.

Holloway said he will continue to teach in the History, American Studies and African American Studies departments.

Calhoun students said the news came as a surprise and a disappointment, noting Holloway’s affability, attentiveness and sense of humor.

Whether he was participating in an omelet cook-off in the dining hall or

sending scolding emails about latenight antics in the courtyard, they said, Holloway was a devoted master committed to building a home for students in the college.

Lily Vanderbloemen ’16, a Calhoun master’s aide, said she was sitting in the courtyard when the news reached her inbox.

“Everyone in the courtyard at the time was just astounded,” she said.

“Usually his emails are giving us tickets to shows or about a special Master’s Tea. I was completely taken by surprise.”

She said the master’s family — his two children and wife, Aisling Colon — are pillars of the college community.

She recalled babysitting for the master’s children and eating with them in the dining hall.

A former co-chair of Calhoun’s student activities committee, Elizabeth Henry ’14 said the college will not be the same without its beloved leader, but that she is glad to be leaving Calhoun with Holloway.

“There’s something beautiful about it,” Henry said. “The class of 2014 will be the last class that Master Holloway graduates. As we leave Calhoun, so does he.”

Henry recalled a surprise party she helped plan for Holloway before he left for his sabbatical in 2011, when students presented the master with a lifesized cutout representation of him so that “we could have him at events while he was gone,” she said.

Meg Brink ’17 said Holloway is “really protective of Calhoun” and “always eager to help.” Her sister Laura Brink ’15 added that “everyone in Calhoun is sad” about the news.

Holloway said he hopes to maintain ties to the college even when he moves out of the master’s house and into his family’s home in Cheshire, Conn.

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Calhoun College Master Jonathan Holloway GRD ’95 will leave his post after eight years leading the college.

Though he is leaving the college, Calhoun will never leave Holloway, Jonathan Edwards College Master Penelope Laurans said.

“Once you are master, you are never the same again,” Laurans said in an email. “You have a different, closer, more intimate relationship to the

institution. The college has become part of your blood.”

Calhoun’s dean is Leslie Woodard, who could not be reached for comment Wednesday evening.

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

versity of Pennsylvania and Cornell, all partner schools of Say Yes, expressed similar motives for pursuing relationships with outside organizations.

Thomas Keane, director of financial aid for scholarships and policy analysis at Cornell, said in an email to the News that Cornell sees its partnership with Say Yes as beneficial because it supplements its own recruiting efforts. Marlene Bruno, the financial services spokeswoman for the University of Pennsylvania, agreed and said the parternship helps Penn identify and communicate with high-achieving, low-income students the school may not have otherwise reached.

“These partnerships are one way in which the University aims to engage outstanding yet underserved students with high potential who might not otherwise have the opportunity to go to Penn,” Bruno said in her email.

Caesar Storlazzi, Yale’s director of financial aid, said outside institutions may provide a similar type of assurance as Say Yes to students from the start. “[Students] can’t imagine how they could possibly afford the $62,000 price tag per year, and organizations such as QuestBridge [another institution that connects low-income students with higher education opportunities] help students understand that upfront,” he said.

Students such as Wafa Muflahi ’17 said specific information and a guarantee of tuition, as provided by Say Yes, would have been useful in the admissions and financial aid process.

[Students] can’t imagine how they could possibly afford the $62,000 price tag per year.

CAESAR STORLAZZI Director of financial aid, Yale University Muflahi said Yale’s online financial aid calculator and information from

The [Promise] programs focus on improving the school district and economic growth.

PATRICIA MELTON Executive director, New Haven Promise

college counselors left her uncertain as to exactly how much aid she would receive, which turned out to be $8,000 less per year than she had originally estimated. Muflahi said organizations such as Say Yes, which guarantee a certain amount of aid to urban students such as herself, could be extremely helpful.

Say Yes to Education Higher Education Compact colleges include Columbia University, Harvard University, Rice University, Pomona College, Duke University and Georgetown University.

opment of the area where the program is implemented.

“There are 14 Promise programs [in the United States].

Every single one has a [in-state] requirement,” Melton said. “The programs focus on improving the school district and economic growth.”

Expansion of the program to include students who choose to attend out-of-state colleges is opposed by at least one member of the Promise Board — DeStefano.

“One of the goals of Promise is to keep kids in state,” DeStefano said in a statement issued Sept. 16. “New Haven Promise is a benefit, not an entitlement.

Keeping our talent local makes the most sense and is best for the future of New Haven.”

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

Contact DANIEL GIRALDO at william.giraldo@yale.edu .

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However, the expansion of the Promise Scholarship is not currently in the works, as Melton said the Board of Directors is not considering allowing students to use the scholarship to pay for tuition in out-ofstate colleges at the moment.

She said that Promise is, at its essence, a “place-based scholarship.”

The New Haven Promise program was founded in 2011 and modeled after similar programs started throughout the country, the first of which was the Kalamazoo Promise program in Kalamazoo, Mich. Similar Promise initiatives exist in Pittsburgh and West Virginia.

These and other place-based scholarships focus on promoting college attendance and improving the economic devel-

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“Living in the sprawl/ Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains/ And there’s no end in sight” ARCADE FIRE FROM THEIR SONG “SPRAWL II (MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS)”

‘Tenderness’ on display

BY PIERRE ORTLIEB CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On display at the Whitney Humanities Center is a visual inculcation of the tribulations and sentiments of a generation of men traumatized by the militarism, fear and despair that accompanied World War II and the Cold War. “The Tenderness of Men in Suburbs,” an exhibition of photographs taken in 1968 by American studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies professor Laura Wexler, opened yesterday in Gallery at the Whitney. The show encapsulates the quotidian tasks, such as mowing the lawn or going to work, that men at the time performed under the weighty and distressing specter of the atomic bomb, nuclear tension and mutually assured destruction. Wexler said her pictures capture the stark contrast between the somber political climate of the Vietnam War era and the mundanity of everyday life in the Boston suburbs of Brookline and Newton.

Inspired by a conversation she had over lunch with her father — during which she became cognizant of the deeply ingrained fear World War II veterans felt toward the atomic bomb — Wexler’s photography represents an “incision into history … a registration of past and present,” she said, adding that the images gave her a sense of pause in a time of social unrest marked by a “frail social contract.” That these men “continued to be gentle” within this social and historical context was remarkable, she explained, especially considering the ubiquity of the atomic bomb and World War II’s vivid remnants.

“The suburbs were an interlude of peace for people who knew that peace might never happen,” she said.

Jules Prown, a former history of art professor at Yale, said the pictures represent “a slice of a historical period,” and noted the blanket of harmony which smothers the scenes in the photographs. This concord came in spite of the “uproar” and turmoil which at the time had invaded nearby college campuses such as Harvard, he said.

Joseph Gordon, dean of undergraduate education, also mentioned the juxtaposition of instability and tranquility in the photographs. “[The photographs] depict the things we take for granted,” Gordon said. “For me, it was a period marked by all kinds of changes in society — the roles of women, the beginning of the end of segregation, and the emergence of gay and lesbian public identities. We began to understand the true diversity and complexity of America.”

Yet despite their newfound comprehension of America’s shifting social climate, suburban men continued to follow their routines, Prown explained.

The pictures on display demonstrate precisely this phenomenon, depicting ordinary, even pastoral scenes of labor and homeliness, such as two men sawing a log of wood, or a young man watching television in a kitchen.

The suburbs were an interlude of peace for people who knew that peace might never happen.

LAURA WEXLER Photographer, “The Tenderness of Men in Suburbs” Wexler said these moments that blended simplicity and complexity were pivotal in her career.

“The impulse behind documentary photography took me over,” Wexler said, explaining that she found herself struck by the power of her camera. “I was making images, but I didn’t want to keep making images. … I wanted to discover what it meant to stand on one side of the camera and capture something on the other. I became not an image maker, but an image teacher.”

“The Tenderness of Men in Suburbs” is on display at the Whitney Humanities Center from Sept. 25 through Dec. 18.

Contact PIERRE ORTLIEB at pierre.ortlieb@yale.edu .

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“The Tenderness of Men in Suburbs” captures the mundanity of everyday life in 1968 despite the widespread fear of the atomic age.

Aldermen debate food stamps

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The Board of Aldermen’s Human Services Committee authorized a proposal to provide job education training to food stamp recipients.

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC AND EDDY WANG STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new proposal working its way though city government could win hundreds of thousands of dollars of job training for food stamp beneficiaries.

In a meeting Wednesday night, the New Haven Board of Aldermen’s Human Services Committee unanimously authorized a proposal to secure over half a million dollars from the Connecticut Department of Social Services to continue Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment & Training (SNAP E&T) in New Haven, an employment readiness and education program for unemployed adults in exchange for food stamps.

Frederick Kaiser testified to the work of the City of New Haven SAGA Support Services, or SSS, of which he is deputy director. SSS works with single unemployed adults receiving SNAP benefits and provides group orientations and monthly activities for these adults to get job education training, the end goal being to enhance their capabilities of finding employment and getting back into the job market.

SSS disseminates monthly mass mailings to about 800 prospective clients and also provides these clients with resources for transportation. If the proposal is approved by the DSS, it would represent 14 straight years of funding for the SAGA Support Services program.

Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidelson ’12 said the SNAP E&T grant will be an important step in reducing New Haven’s 8.3 percent unemployment rate, which is 1.4 percent above the national average according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“It is working to address the unemployment crisis in New Haven,” Eidelson said. “Anything that does this has to be a top priority.”

Another important item on the meeting agenda was the endorsement and the approval of the Food Action Plan from the New Haven Food Policy Council by the Human Services Committee. The NHFPC is a volunteer advisory council that consists of 12 New Haven residents from various parts of the local food system.

The NHFPC has drafted a Food Action Plan, which according to plan materials, is responsible for reviewing the key characteristics of New Haven’s food environment and proposing strategies that will move the city toward a more sustainable and healthy food system.

Some of the items discussed during the meeting Wednesday included New Haven’s high rate of obesity compared to that of the state of Connecticut and the country as a whole, and the increasing rate of food insecurity among low-income households.

A key goal of the Food Action Plan is to increase access to healthy food for all people in New Haven, which includes those on SNAP benefits, through initiatives such as developing community and school gardens. Sebastian Koochaki ’14, one of the co-directors of Yale’s Hunger and Homelessness Action Project, said that “as SNAP benefits stand now, it is near impossible to have a healthy, nutritious diet.” He added that New Haven needs to “increase access to food by promoting the inclusion of grocery stores and other food markets throughout the city.”

Following the Human Service Committee’s unanimous vote to endorse the Food Action Plan, it will now move to the full Board of Aldermen, which will discuss the item and then put it to a vote of approval.

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

Contact EDDY WANG at chen-eddy.wang@yale.edu .

City begins ‘Hill-to-Downtown’

BY DAVID BLUMENTHAL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New Haven took the next step into a new era of urban planning Wednesday night.

Nearly 70 community members gathered at Hill Central High School for a meeting concerning New Haven’s largest redevelopment project since the 1960s, which will encompass an area from New Haven’s Union Station to the Oak Street Connector. The so-called “Hill-to-Downtown Project” seeks to connect the Hill Neighborhood, Yale Medical School and Union Station, extend New Haven’s downtown and move the Yale School of Nursing to a less entrenched area.

The change would most notably remedy the problems arising from the construction of Route 34, a legacy of the 1960s-era city planning philosophy known as “urban renewal.” Route 34’s construction was, and remains today, highly controversial.

“They essentially destroyed a neighborhood — what they thought was a slum,” said Josh Isackson ’15, the co-president of the Yale urban studies student group Urban Collective. Isackson likened the displacement to the Cross Bronx Expressway, another infamous project that disproportionately affected New York City’s poor due to their lack of political power.

The scene at Wednesday night’s presentation was supposed to tell a different story. Titled “Church Street Redefined: A Vital Main Street for New Haven’s Hill-toDowntown District,” the presentation went further than simply dealing with Route 34’s lasting destruction of the city’s urban fabric.

Livable City Initiative Director Erik Johnson and David Spillane, director of urban planning and design for the city-hired architecture firm Goody Clancy, both spoke about an extensive threepart plan to redevelop the area across from Union Station and on the other side of Route 34, which is

now a parking lot.

Their three-part plan also includes increasing retail in and accessibility to Union Station, redeveloping public housingladen Church Street South into a shopping street with mixedincome housing, and “Neighborhood Square,” transforming the current maze-like street system at the convergence of Columbus Avenue and Church Street into something resembling the New Haven Green. Johnson and Spillane also discussed the anonymous feedback they had received for each part of the plan in previous community meetings.

Much of the discussion following the presentation revolved around the Sacred Heart Church site, as well as the new developments in city traffic lanes that the proposed reconnecting of streets would bring.

[Route 34] essentially destroyed a neighborhood — what they thought was a slum.

JOSH ISACKSON ’15 Co-president, Urban Collective Paul Larrivee, a former worker at the New Haven Police Department, expressed concern about the tenuous life expectancy of religious buildings in the area, citing the unsuccessful effort to get the St. Peter’s Church — which was eventually demolished — declared as a landmark. Johnson answered that the Sacred Heart Church was “part of the planning body” involved in redeveloping the area and that he “recommended there was going to be some change.”

Meeting attendees also raised concerns regarding development across the street from Union Station, which was likely to displace residents. Johnson responded by exhorting the attendees to think of a more long-term approach,

explaining that the redevelopment is projected to create 3,300 jobs.

“Part of the conversation is, how do we make this district better to accommodate those future investors?” he said. “We can work to make the lighting better, we might even be able to make the traffic better. But to get to that point, we have to get to this first step and set the table to get that first $182 million investment.”

Johnson said that he and his colleagues would aim for that first goal “instead of making a commitment to you about what we’re going to do and how we’re going to do it.”

At the meeting, Spillane and Johnson also announced the creation of a steering committee that individual residents could sign up to be on. The committee, headed by Project Manager Serena Neal-Sanjurjo, would “make sure there’s a community voice” to “make sure [the stipulations of the project] get done,” Neal-Sanjurjo said. He explained that, as the plan expanded, the “community conversation” would become a “city conversation.”

Urban Collective Co-President Isackson said that, while he enjoyed the meeting, it had its drawbacks.

“It was misleading how many people were here, because the front was all city workers and consultants,” he said. Isackson estimated that “around half” of those present were city residents with no ulterior connection to the project.

Johnson said that the student presence at the meeting was encouraging.

“I think that more or as much diversity as we can bring to the planning process is a good thing for the city’s future,” he said.

The Hill-to-Downtown project has received funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as well as various Connecticut institutions of economic development.

Contact DAVID BLUMENTHAL at david.blumenthal@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.” FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD NOTED FRENCH AUTHOR OF MAXIMS AND MEMOIRS

In mayoral election, candidates look to Yale relations

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Connecticut State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78, left, and Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, right, boast different visions of the ideal city-University relationship.

TOWN-GOWN FROM PAGE 1 of power in New Haven and at Yale, is barely a quarter mile, yet in the past that distance has seemed much greater.

Before former Yale President Richard Levin and current Mayor John DeStefano Jr. took office in the mid-1990s, New Haven and Yale frequently stood at odds. The Board of Aldermen stymied plans to build two new residential colleges in the 1970s, and the University was openly hostile to Yale labor unions, whose members made up a significant voting bloc in the city.

University President Peter Salovey and the two mayoral hopefuls say they hope to preserve the strong Levin-DeStefano relationship of the last two decades. Nevertheless, both mayoral candidates emphasize that they would treat the relationship differently, pointing to transparency, respect and collaboration as a point of departure — though they vary in their willingness to address specific changes and to attack the policies and practices of DeStefano.

TRANSPARENCY, POWER AND COLLABORATION

Elicker, who has built his mayoral campaign on promises of transparency in all city dealings, pointed to that same issue

in improving town-gown relations.

“There’s generally been a lot of deals that have been negotiated behind closed doors between the mayor and Yale,” Elicker said.

The Harp campaign placed a similar emphasis on transparency, but declined to comment on any errors made by DeStefano. According to campaign Communications Director Patrick Scully, Harp wants to bring transparency to “all aspects” of city government, though he added that some decisions between city and University should be made privately.

To Elicker, the city’s sale of portions of High and Wall streets to Yale earlier this summer is indicative of an off-kilter balance of power between the two entities. The city gave the University rights to the streets in perpetuity for $3 million to help close a gap in its budget. The low price, Elicker said, shows that Yale often enjoys the upper hand in negotiations with the city.

New Haven, which consistently faces massive budget shortfalls, frequently looks to Yale to supplement programs throughout the city. Scully said Harp, who has led the State Senate’s Appropriations Committee, would work to strike a balance between asking for

fair contributions from Yale and looking at the University to underwrite all of the city’s activities.

Regardless of their efforts to improve the city’s position in the Yale-New Haven power relationship, both candidates recognize that Yale is vital to the future of the city.

[The futures of Yale and New Haven] are tied together, and we both can mutually benefit.

JUSTIN ELICKER FES ’10 SOM ’10 Mayoral candidate, New Haven Community activist Doyens said the University provides some compensation to the city for its tax-exempt property through the state’s PILOT program while also funding initiatives like New Haven Promise, which helps Elm City students pay for college. Through University Properties’ acquisition of land on Broadway and Chapel, he said, Yale has prevented New Haven from “starting to fall back apart.”

“It’s a good idea for the city to have a collaborative relation-

ship,” Elicker said. “Our futures are tied together, and we both can mutually benefit.”

Elicker has suggested the University and city work together to improve public transportation downtown and in the graduate student-heavy East Rock neighborhood by combining bus lines.

Both Yale Shuttle and CT Transit buses shuttle Elm City residents, some Yale students and others not, along the main thoroughfares of Orange and Whitney avenues, which Elicker said is redundant.

Elicker also said that collaboration between the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute and New Haven’s Grove, an incubator for business startups, would benefit both Yale students and Elm City residents.

For Harp, the primary benefit of collaboration comes in the form of one of her campaign’s three pillars: education.

According to Scully, the University can have a major impact on the city’s schools, which continue to struggle to improve test scores and graduation rates.

“Any sort of working relationship we can have between Yale and the city schools is a gigantic plus,” Scully said.

A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE

While Elicker has presented specific proposals for collabo-

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ration and instances where he believes the relationship has gone awry, Harp’s campaign strikes a less definite tone.

“I think that Toni’s going to evaluate the city’s relationship with every important entity in the city, and of course Yale is right at the top of the list,” Scully said.

That flexibility is evident in the way the candidates regard the Graduate Employees and Students Organization, Yale’s graduate student union. A part of Unite Here, a group that has endorsed Harp in the general election and includes Yale’s powerful Local 34 and Local 35 unions, the union has maintained a contentious relationship with the University since its founding in 1991.

Elicker said involvement in fights between the union and the University does not lie in the purview of the mayor.

“While graduate students should have the right to push that issue and organize,” Elicker said, “I think that the mayor of the city should not get involved in that kind of fight.”

Harp spokesman Scully, though, was less definitive, saying the candidate would “look at” intervening in a dispute if it was “warranted.” He added, though, that the unions’ support of Harp would not engen-

der them any special favor in the mayor’s office should she be elected.

Perhaps more significant than specific policies, though, are the attitudes the two candidates have struck in their dealings with Yale. A resident of Yalepopulated East Rock, Elicker’s campaign has maintained a higher visibility on campus amongst students.

“Just the tone of how he approaches Yale … I don’t think it’s going to be a very hard sell to Yale to be more invested in the city,” said David Streever, a former Ward 10 co-chair.

Harp, meanwhile, has built strong relationships with Yale employees, largely through Local 34 and Local 35. Many of Yale’s employees live in the nearby Dixwell neighborhood, where Harp won convincingly in the Sept. 10 primary.

On Nov. 5, one of the two candidates will become mayor-elect of the city of New Haven. How he or she will navigate the relationship with Salovey, though, will only be revealed as the winner changes and charts the city’s path forward.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 6:00 PM Global Perspectives Society Presents “Rising from Ashes” “Rising from Ashes” is a documentary about the creation and growth of the Rwandan National Cycling Team. Under the leadership of Jock Boyer, the first American cyclist ever to compete in the Tour de France, the team faced steep challenges: The riders were recovering from the genocide in 1994, the nation was gradually rebuilding its infrastructure from that era of horrors and the world of competitive cycling was completely new. But cycling gave the team strength. Team Rwanda gave riders a chance to fulfill a dream and a chance to come together again in the name of their country. The production team will be there after the film for a Q-and-A session. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Room 101.

THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 8:30 PM Magevet Annual Family Weekend Concert Family, friends, students, alumni and community members are invited to hear the beautiful music of Magevet, Yale’s Jewish, Hebrew and Israeli a cappella group during our annual Family Weekend concert. In addition to enjoying Magevet’s diverse repertoire, attendees will also get to see the debut of the group’s tap class of 2013. Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life (80 Wall St.).

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 10:00 AM “Nanotechnology for Energy Applications: How Small Things Make a Big Difference in Our World” Professor André Taylor, director of the Transformative Materials and Devices Lab, will discuss how he uses nanotechnology to dope, arrange and assemble carbon nanotubes into energy devices (electrocatalysts, batteries and solar cells). He will also describe his work with bulk metallic glass alloys, an amorphous metal that can be molded like plastic into a micro fuel cell. Following the talk, there will be hands-on science demonstrations and a chance to tour the lab to see these devices. Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center (15 Prospect St.), Davies Auditorium.

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NATION KENNEBUNK, Maine — Former President George H.W. Bush was an official witness at the same-sex wedding of two longtime friends, his spokesman said Wednesday.

Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, attended the ceremony joining Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen as private citizens and friends on Saturday, spokesman Jim McGrath said.

[I] shouldn’t be taking a speck out of someone else’s eye when I have a log in my own.

GEORGE W. BUSH Former president, United States Thorgalsen posted a photo on her Facebook page showing Bush signing the marriage license as a witness. She captioned the photo: “Getting our marriage license witnessed!”

In the photo, Bush is seated in a wheelchair, a stack of papers on his lap and his left hand poised with a pen. One bright red sock and one bright blue one peek out below the cuffs of his blue slacks.

The 41st president has deep ties to the area and owns a compound in Kennebunkport, a small coastal town. Thorgalsen and Clement own a gen-

eral store in neighboring Kennebunk. They were honeymooning overseas and didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment Wednesday.

Gay marriage became legal in Maine in December.

One of Bush’s sons, former President George W. Bush, opposed samesex marriage and in 2004 announced his support for a proposed constitutional amendment to outlaw it. But his wife, Laura Bush, and their daughter Barbara Bush support gay marriage, as does his former vice president, Dick Cheney, whose daughter Mary Cheney is openly gay.

A spokesman for George W. Bush on Wednesday declined to comment on his current feelings about same-sex marriage or his thoughts about his father’s role in a same-sex wedding.

In July, George W. Bush made headlines when he said he wouldn’t comment on the issue, saying he “shouldn’t be taking a speck out of someone else’s eye when I have a log in my own.” He later explained that he just wasn’t going to answer the question because he was out of politics.

His brother Jeb Bush, a former governor of Florida and a potential presidential candidate, has said samesex marriage is an issue best left to the states to decide. In a speech in June, he told the Faith & Freedom Coalition the nation needs to be supportive of nontraditional families.

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BY ERIC TUCKER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis left a note saying he was driven to kill by months of bombardment with extremely low-frequency radio waves, the FBI said Wednesday in a disclosure that explains the phrase he etched on his shotgun: “My ELF Weapon!”

Alexis did not target particular individuals during the Sept.

16 attack in which he killed 12 people, and there is no indication the shooting stemmed from any workplace dispute, said Valerie Parlave, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office. Instead, authorities said, his behavior in the weeks before the shooting and evidence recovered from his hotel room,

backpack and other belongings reveal a man increasingly in the throes of paranoia and delusions.

“Ultra-low frequency attack is what I’ve been subject to for the last 3 months, and to be perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this,” read an electronic document agents recovered after the shooting.

The attack came one month after Alexis had complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings of his hotel room and sending microwave vibrations into his body to deprive him of sleep.

On his shotgun, he had scrawled “My ELF Weapon!” — an apparent reference to extremely low-frequency waves — along with “End to the Torment!” “Not what yall say” and “Better off this way,” the

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Terrance Parker poses with wife Miranda Parker and their daughter Tiana, seven.

We’ve … been told culturally that to be acceptable and to make other people … comfortable with the way that we look, we should straighten our hair.

LEILA NOELLISTE Blogger on natural hair In New York City, the dress code at 16-year-old Dante de Blasio’s large public high school in Brooklyn includes no such hair restrictions. Good thing for Dante, whose large Afro is hard to miss at campaign stops and in a TV spot for his father, Bill de Blasio, who is running for mayor.

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from The Associated Press. Jayson Bendik, dean of students at Horizon in Lorain, said in an email that “our word choice was a mistake.”

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Schools criticized for ban on dreadlocks “Why are you so sad?” a TV reporter asked the little girl with a bright pink bow in her hair.

“Because they didn’t like my dreads,” she sobbed, wiping her tears. “I think that they should let me have my dreads.”

With those words, secondgrader Tiana Parker of Tulsa, Okla., found herself, at age 7, at the center of decades of debate over standards of black beauty, cultural pride and freedom of expression.

It was no isolated incident at the predominantly black Deborah Brown Community School, which in the face of outrage in late August apologized and rescinded language banning dreadlocks, Afros, mohawks and other “faddish” hairstyles it had called unacceptable and potential health hazards.

A few weeks earlier, another charter school, the Horizon Science Academy in Lorain, Ohio, sent a draft policy home to parents that proposed a ban on “Afro-puffs and small twisted braids.” It, too, quickly apologized and withdrew the wording.

But at historically black Hampton University in Hampton, Va., the dean of the business school has defended and left in place a 12-year-old prohibition on dreadlocks and cornrows for male students in a leadership seminar for MBA candidates, saying the look is not businesslike.

Tiana’s father, barber student Terrance Parker, said he and his wife chose not to change her style and moved the straight-A student to a different public school, where she now happily sings songs about her hair with friends.

“I think it stills hurts her. But the way I teach my kids is regardless of what people say, you be yourself and you be happy with who you are and how God made you,” he said.

Tiana added: “I like my new school better.” As for the thousands of emails and phone calls of support the family has received from around the world, she said she feels “cared about.”

Deborah Brown, the school’s founder, did not return a call

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icies on hairstyles, or surveys indicating whether such rules are widespread. Regardless, mothers of color and black beauty experts consider the controversies business as usual.

“Our girls are always getting messages that tell them that they are not good enough, that they don’t look pretty enough, that their skin isn’t light enough, that their hair isn’t long enough, that their hair isn’t blond enough,” said Beverly Bond of the New York-based esteem-building group Black Girls Rock.

“The public banning of our hair or anything about us that looks like we look, it feels like it’s such a step backward.”

Bond founded the organization in response to an episode in 2007 when radio host Don Imus called members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos.” He later apologized.

In Chicago, Leila Noelliste has been blogging about natural hair at Blackgirllonghair.com for about five years. She has followed the school cases closely. The 28-year-old mother with a natural hairstyle and two daughters who also wear their hair that way said it is a touchy issue among African-Americans and others.

“This is the way the hair grows out of my head, yet it’s even shocking in some black communities, because we’ve kind of been told culturally that to be acceptable and to make other people kind of comfortable with the way that we look, we should straighten our hair, whether through heat or chemicals,” she said. “So whether we’re in nonblack communities or black communities, with our natural hair, we stand out. It evokes a lot of reaction.”

Particularly painful, said Noelliste and others, is the notion that natural styles are not hygienic.

“Historically natural hair has been viewed as dirty, unclean, unkempt, messy,” she said. “An older black generation, there’s this idea of African-American exceptionalism, that the way for us to get ahead is to work twice as hard as any white person and to prove that if we just work hard and we look presentable we’ll get ahead, and that’s very entrenched. My generation, we’re saying that that’s not fair.

We should be able to show up as we are and based on our individual merit and effort be judged on that.”

FBI said.

Alexis, a 34-year-old former Navy reservist and computer technician for a government contractor, used a valid badge to get into the Navy Yard and opened fire inside a building with the Remington shotgun, which he had legally purchased in Virginia two days earlier. He also used a 9 mm handgun that he took from a security guard, a weapon found near Alexis’ body. He was killed in the building by a U.S. Park Police officer following a rampage and shootout with police that the FBI said lasted more than an hour.

“There are indicators that Alexis was prepared to die during the attack and that he accepted death as the inevitable consequence of his actions,” Parlave said.

Surveillance video released

by the FBI on Wednesday shows Alexis pulling his rental car into a garage, walking into the building with a bag and then skulking down a corridor with a shotgun, ducking and crouching around a corner and walking briskly down a flight of stairs. The video does not show him actually shooting anyone.

A timeline issued by the FBI shows Alexis started the rampage on the building’s fourth floor and then moved down to the third and first floors. He ultimately returned to the third floor, where he was killed around 9:25 a.m. FBI Director James Comey has said there’s no evidence that Alexis shot down into the atrium despite earlier accounts from witnesses at the scene.

Alexis had started a job as a contractor in the building just a week before.

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WORLD

“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”

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Sudan drops off Internet

Iran aims to revive nuclear talks

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A police office was damaged in protests Tuesday, amid a wave of unrest over the lifting of fuel subsidies by the Sudanese government.

BY MOHAMMED SAEED ASSOCIATED PRESS KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan dropped almost completely off the Internet on Wednesday as riots over the lifting of fuel subsidies entered their third day and protesters battled security forces in the capital.

Renesys Corp., a company that maps the pathways of the Internet, said it could not confirm whether the blackout was government-orchestrated. But the cut recalls a similarly dramatic outage in Egypt, Sudan’s neighbor, when authorities shut off Internet access during that country’s 2011 uprising.

“It’s either a government-directed thing or some very catastrophic technological failure that just happens to coin-

cide with violent riots happening in the city,” said senior analyst Doug Madory. He said it was almost a “total blackout.”

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said it was alarmed by the reports of what seemed like an official attempt to stifle coverage, and called on the government to restore the country’s connection.

A police statement said three people have died in three days of rioting over the lifting of fuel subsidies — two in the town of Wad Medani south of Khartoum, and one in the Omdurman district of the capital.

In northern Khartoum, Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters who demonstrated and torched a police station.

Wednesday’s protests took place in

several areas of Kadro district, 15 miles from the capital’s city center, where protesters blocked roads using lengths of pipe and burning tires. They also attacked a police station.

The riots that began in the state of Gezira, south of Khartoum, have turned into a call for the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir, who has ruled the country for more than two decades. The rioting started after Sudan’s government decided to lift subsidies, immediately doubling prices of gasoline and fuel.

The semi-official Sudan Media Center on Wednesday quoted Gezira governor Al-Zubair Bashir Taha as saying that aside from police stations, riots there targeted power and gas stations, banks, shops and private property. Police are tracking down the “saboteurs,” he said.

Pakistani earthquake survivors struggle

BY ARSHAD BUTT AND REBECCA SANTANA ASSOCIATED PRESS DALBADI, Pakistan — Survivors built makeshift shelters with sticks and bed sheets Wednesday, a day after their mud houses were flattened in an earthquake that killed 285 people in southwestern Pakistan and pushed a new island up out of the Arabian Sea. While waiting for help to reach remote villages, hungry people dug through the rubble to find food. And the country’s poorest province struggled with a dearth of medical supplies, hospitals and other aid.

We need more tents, more medicine and more food.

JAN MOHAMMAD BULAIDI Spokesman, provincial government The quake flattened wide swathes of Awaran district, where it was centered, leaving much of the population homeless.

Almost all of the 300 mudbrick homes in the village of Dalbadi were destroyed. Noor Ahmad said he was working when the quake struck and rushed home to find his house

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Pakistani villagers look for belongings amid the rubble of their destroyed homes following an earthquake in the remote district of Awaran. leveled and his wife and son dead.

“I’m broken,” he said. “I have lost my family.”

At least 373 people were also injured, according to a statement from the National Disaster Management Authority, which gave the latest death toll.

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comforting residents.

The remoteness of the area and the lack of infrastructure hampered relief efforts.

Awaran district is one of the poorest in the country’s most impoverished province.

Just getting to victims was challenging in a region with almost no roads where many people use four-wheel-drive vehicles and camels to traverse the rough terrain.

“We need more tents, more

medicine and more food,” said a spokesman for the provincial government, Jan Mohammad Bulaidi.

Associated Press images from the village of Kaich showed the devastation.

Houses made mostly of mud and handmade bricks had collapsed. Walls and roofs caved in, and people’s possessions were scattered on the ground.

A few goats roamed through the ruins.

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Iranian President Hasan Rouhani speaks at the Iranian parliament.

BY LARA JAKES ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS — Iran showed new urgency Wednesday to revive stalled negotiations with six world powers over its disputed nuclear activities, seeking to ease crippling international sanctions as quickly as possible.

New Iranian President Hasan Rouhani said “we have nothing to hide” as diplomats prepared to meet Thursday to discuss the way forward on the negotiations that have been on hold since April.

Rouhani’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who has been tasked as the lead nuclear negotiator, said he hoped his counterparts from six world powers — the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany — “have the same political will as we do to start serious negotiations with a view to reaching an agreement within the shortest span of time.”

Zarif will be a part of the Thursday meeting to discuss the next round of negotiations in Geneva, expected in October.

The West suspects Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon and has imposed crippling sanctions on Tehran that have slashed its vital oil exports and severely restricted its international bank transfers.

Inflation has surged and the value of the local currency has plunged.

Tehran has repeatedly denied that its nuclear program is for anything other than peaceful purposes.

But since his June election,

Rouhani has made clear he is seeking relief from the sanctions and has welcomed a new start in nuclear negotiations in hopes this could ease the economic pressure.

He has said he has the full support of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final word on all important matters of state including the nuclear file.

If there is political will on the other side, which we think there is, we are ready to talk.

HASAN ROUHANI President, Iran “If there is political will on the other side, which we think there is, we are ready to talk,” Rouhani told editors Wednesday in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. “We believe the nuclear issue will be solved by negotiation.”

In his debut speech to world leaders at the U.N. on Tuesday, Rouhani repeated Iran’s longstanding demand that any nuclear agreement must recognize its right under international treaties to continue enriching uranium.

The U.S. and its allies have long demanded a halt to enrichment, fearing Tehran could secretly build nuclear warheads.

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AROUND THE IVIES

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”

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Rumors of sexual assault on campus

First puppies graduate

BY PRIYA RAMAIAH STAFF WRITER In the wake of the reported sexual assault near Novack Cafe on Saturday, students have expressed anxiety about the multiple reports circulating around campus. Safety and Security has been sending out updates as new details emerge, but to some students, these have caused more confusion than clarity.

On Monday night, residents of the East Wheelock residential cluster received news of a possible second sexual assault incident via an email from community director Josiah Proietti at 9:25 p.m.

“There is a second report of an assault on a woman on campus so I wanted to stress the importance of being safe at this particular time,” Prioetti wrote in the email.

Later that night, news of the possible assault spread, and some sorority presidents sent house-wide emails alerting their members. At noon on Tuesday, Safety and Security sent a campus-wide email stating that the rumors of a second assault were untrue.

[Rumors of sexual assault] make me feel unsafe in a place that’s supposed to be my home.

LEIGH GOULBOURNE Student, Dartmouth College Proietti was unavailable for comment.

The influx of sexual assault reports has caused a storm of rumors around campus. Students cited dissatisfaction with the information provided, particularly the vague description of the perpetrator, whom Safety and Security said was a college-age male with athletic build wearing plaid.

“The description they gave basically describes every guy on campus,” Leigh Goulbourne said.

She added that she felt uncertain about

the current state of events following the reports.

“It seems like every day there’s a new rumor going around that someone was sexually DARTMOUTH assaulted,” Goulbourne said. “It makes me feel unsafe in a place that’s supposed to be my home. The vagueness makes it even scarier because there’s no way to really be certain of who to look out for.”

Over the past few days, students have been practicing more caution as they travel on campus. In particular, several students living in the McLaughlin residential cluster were disturbed that the incident happened on the path that they take home every day.

“I’ll be more likely to walk around in a group, especially at night,” Rauner resident Liane Makatura said.

After the initial news of the assault, several undergraduate advisors reminded their residents to lock their doors at night and avoid walking outside alone.

Safety and Security director Harry Kinne emphasized that his team has increased the visibility and scope of security on campus.

The office has been conducting extra patrols every night and using more foot and bike officers to cover a larger section of campus.

Campus security continues to work closely with Hanover Police to identify the perpetrator.

Kinne urged students to remain vigilant, noting that despite the increased security efforts, the case has not still been resolved, “This is the type of incident that shakes a community,” he said.

There has been an increase in Safe Ride calls since the news of the assault on Saturday, Kinne said.

Because the woman who reported Saturday’s incident was a College employee, there has been a number of inquiries from faculty and staff requesting Safe Rides, Kinne said.

The service is available to all members of the Dartmouth community.

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Profs lament NSF cuts

BY FRANCESCA ANNICCHIARICO STAFF WRITER Six months after Congress approved cuts to the funding of the National Science Foundation Political Science Program, political scientists at Harvard said that their field has already begun to suffer from the loss of funding. Faculty members expressed concern at the precedent set by a congressional decision about what research should be conducted.

The budgetary cutback was proposed by Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, who argued that political science research rarely benefits society in a concrete way. He argued against NSF funding for political research unless it was “promoting national security or the economic interests of the United States,” according to Slate.

Jane J. Mansbridge, a Harvard Kennedy School professor, said the financial loss that the Coburn amendment has caused the Government Department and the Kennedy School is hard to quantify, but she said that she personally has felt the impact of the cuts.

Because the NSF responds to specific proposals, Mansbridge said, it is difficult to HARVARD know how many faculty members would have applied this year if the regulations had not changed. Back in March, however, The Crimson reported that the Kennedy School received almost $1 million in NSF funding in FY2012.

Mansbridge, who served as president of the American Political Science Association last academic year, reported that the NSF withdrew expected funding for her research project on negotiation in the political arena following the passage of the Coburn amendment.

“I was particularly sorry about this because negotiation is such a large part of politics and yet it has been relatively unstudied,” she said. “It is particularly sad not to have funding for this work when Congress today is having such a hard time negotiating.”

According to University pro-

fessor emeritus Sidney Verba, a former APSA president, the NSF cuts are slowing down or holding back several research projects in the government department.

Verba said that in the past many members of the government faculty members have had successful research programs funded by the NSF. Kennedy School professor Robert D. Putnam, who penned an editorial defending political science research, is among the Harvard faculty members who have benefited from NSF funding.

In the article, which was published in Politico in July, Putnam wrote that under the new regulations he would not have received NSF funding for his groundbreaking work on civil society and democracy.

“Somewhere in America at this moment, young political and social scientists early in their careers are pursuing ideas at least as promising as mine 40 years ago, ideas that eventually could contribute to our national well-being,” Putnam wrote.

“The Coburn amendment has the effect of turning off the oxygen in the incubator for those ideas.”

BY HARRY COOPERMAN AND JILL CASTELLANO STAFF WRITERS The most enthusiastic Penn students just received their diplomas after only a year at school.

The Penn Vet Working Dog Center graduated its first group of puppies yesterday. The Center, a premier research and training facility that turns puppies into detection dogs, had its opening ceremony on last year on 9/11.

First up on the long list of speakers at the graduation was Joan Hendrick, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine.

“I remember last year Thunder couldn’t walk up the middle aisle because he was too little and he had to be carried and now he’s a giant dog,” she said. “So many of our babies are growing up.”

“We started with big ideas and small puppies,” said Founder of the Center Cynthia Otto.

“This was Dr. Otto’s vision,” said Training Director Annemarie DeAngelo in an interview.

Otto performed research with 9/11 rescue dogs to see how they handled recovery after the rescue missions. With this in mind, the Center — whose puppies are all named after 9/11 rescue dogs — was founded to promote both the performance and health of all their canines.

The Center has agility courses, a bark barrel field and a giant rubble pile collected with the help of a construction company to simulate real-world search and rescue situations.

“Their careers loom big and we come here to celebrate the opportunity that each of them has to save lives,” Otto said.

The puppies in the graduating cohort will go on to be part of a range of programs and activities.

Thunder, a Labrador Retriever,

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The first group of puppies graduated yesterday from the Penn Vet Working Dog Center. will take part in further search and rescue training. Chocolate lab Papa Bear and golden PENN retriever Bretagne will continue training elsewhere to become diabetic alert dogs. Most of the remaining graduating dogs will likely join local police and fire departments.

The yellow lab Socks, whom DeAngelo called “the star of the class,” will become the first dog in Penn’s Canine Unit. Socks and her new handler Officer Julie Wesley have already begun their 13-week “bomb-school” training at Canine Academy in Atlantic County.

“We have a lot of dignitaries that come to the University,” said Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush. “It would be great to have our own dog to do a sweep to make sure it’s safe or in

the event of a bomb threat that’s called in to be able to immediately ascertain the environment is safe.”

Each dog needs foster parents — who must go through a screening process and training of their own — to house the dogs when they’re not working in the Center. Craig Carnaroli, Penn’s Executive Vice President, fostered Socks during most of her time at the Center and now fosters one of the youngest puppies, a yellow lab named Gus. Amie Thornton, Carnaroli’s wife, said that one time when she was playing with Socks, the ball went over the fence in their backyard. Thornton tried to go around and get the ball but when she came back, Socks was already there with the ball and trying to get back into the house.

“They’re sort of like the ducks on the pond,” Carnaroli said, referring to his dogs. “On the surface they look beautiful and calm, but underneath their feet are paddling as quickly as possible.”

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SPORTS

“Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper now about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac … It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!” BILL MURRAY FROM “CADDYSHACK”

The times they are a changin’ in Pittsburgh CARTY FROM PAGE 12 office led by team President Frank Coonelly, General Manager Neal Huntington and Field Manager Clint Hurdle. All have contributed to changing the culture of the once downtrodden franchise. In April of this year, Hurdle said, “to build a winning a team and a successful organization, you must create a culture of greatness. It is the most important thing a leader can do because culture drives behavior, behavior drives habits and habits

create the future. As the leaders at Apple say, ‘Culture beats strategy all day long.’” This season in Pittsburgh, a new, winning culture has taken the team to the postseason for the first time in two decades.

To the west of PNC Park, another Pittsburgh franchise plays its games. The last 20 years have produced far more success for this team. Since the Braves’ Sid Bream was called safe to knock the Pirates out of their last postseason in 1992, the Pittsburgh Steelers have had only two head coaches,

made the playoffs 13 times, won two Super Bowls, played in four and had only three losing seasons.

However, since losing to Green Bay in Super Bowl XLV, the Steelers are only 20–16 and this season are ranked 30th in total offense.

Already, injuries to players such as All-Pro center Maurkice Pouncey and veteran linebacker Larry Foote have decimated the once mighty Steelers. Once known for their toughness, the Steelers’ average age on defense is the oldest in the entire league, at just over 29

years of age. In addition, the Steelers have committed over $35 million over the next three years to a quarterback who has started a full 16-game season only once in his 10-year career, and only the Dallas Cowboys and San Diego Chargers have more salary cap commitments for 2014.

At 0–3, the Steelers have an uphill climb to make the postseason this year. Since the modern playoff system was implemented in 1990, only three teams have qualified for the playoffs

Freshmen add depth to volleyball VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 itself,” Appleman said. “We’ve been fortunate enough to keep getting better players, because they see that Yale offers the best of both worlds. It’s a world-class institution, and a place that offers the possibility of athletic success. You choose Yale because it’s Yale.”

Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 also noted the balance between academics and athletics that drew her toward Yale.

But the sophomore emphasized that it was her future teammates that clinched her decision.

“I started talking to Yale my junior year, and I came out visited and just fell in love with the school,” Johnson said. “I think the girls are what really sold me on it. There was a feeling that I couldn’t help but notice that Yale is just the perfect combination of academics and volleyball that I was looking for. The coach, the girls, the program really made it for me.”

Despite Yale’s ability to “sell itself,” Appleman also emphasized the need to focus her player search on certain regions of the country to get the most value out of the recruiting spots the team is allotted. During the tenure of University President Richard Levin, Yale reduced its number of athletic recruits significantly below the number allotted to it by the Ivy League. For the class of 2015, Yale recruited only 177 of a total 230 athletes allowed by the conference, and over the past few years, volleyball has been one of the teams affected by the cuts. This year the Elis brought in four new freshmen, while each other Ivy League team added at least five incoming players.

Appleman also discussed the benefit that winning itself brings to Yale’s recruiting triumphs. The Elis have been to the NCAA tournament each of the last two seasons and three of the past five years. In 2004 and 2008 Yale advanced to the second round of the tournament, and it remains the only Ivy League school to do so.

Last year the Bulldogs added another feat to their resume, as they became only the second Ivy League team to go a perfect 14–0 in conference play.

“We’ve been in the spotlight more often now,” Appleman said. “The success Yale has had has opened the eyes of some athletes to attending a nonscholarship school.”

The team is 6–3 so far this year, with its only losses coming to No. 1 Penn State, No. 7 Stanford and Missouri.

after starting 0–3. Things will not get any easier for the Steelers, as three of their next five games are against teams that made the playoffs last season. Looking further out, the team is in real trouble. For the past five seasons, the Steelers have mostly contended with Baltimore for supremacy in the AFC North. However, the Steelers now also have to contend with an upstart Cincinnati squad with electric playmakers in A.J. Green, Giovani Bernard, and Tyler Eifert.

If the Bengals continue to improve

upon their past two playoff seasons, Pittsburgh’s path back to the postseason will be all the more difficult.

A team that has been a mainstay for so long suddenly looks like it may be heading towards an era of mediocrity at best. It is as if the Pirates and Steelers are in the process of changing places. Everything changes in life; this goes for Pittsburgh sports as well.

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Elis finish third in tournament MEN’S GOLF FROM PAGE 12 said in an email.

On the second day of the tournament, Davenport finished strong with a 72 to fall to a respectable fifth-place finish for the tournament. He was not alone in fifth, however: Teammate and captain Sam Bernstein ’14 put together a strong final round to bring himself into a tie with Davenport. Bernstein shot a 69 after putting together rounds of 70 and 72 on the first day.

Willis also placed in the top 25 for the tournament. Whereas Willis could not place as highly as his teammates, he was perhaps the most consistent performer in the tournament: He put up a score of 73 in each of his three rounds to finish

in 21st.

The Bulldogs will continue their season in two weeks at the MacDonald Cup, which will take place on Oct. 5 and 6. The meet will be hosted by the Elis and held at the Yale Golf Course, the No. 1 ranked collegiate course in the country. The team will be defending its championship at this event, where it triumphed by three strokes over second-place Hartford University last year.

Houston’s Kyle Pilgrim won the Fighting Irish Gridiron Classic with a total score of 208 on the weekend.

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Both Kelly Johnson ’16 and Kendall Polan ’14 credit coach Erin Appleman for building a team with great chemistry.

Overall, the Bulldogs are averaging 13.12 kills per set on a .236 hitting percentage as well as 1.53 blocks per set and nearly two service aces per set.

In seven matches against nonranked opponents, the team has surrendered only seven sets as it approaches its Ivy League opener against Brown this weekend.

Captain and reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Kendall Polan ’14 said she was excited about the new season getting underway and impressed by the most recent freshman class.

“I think the freshmen get better each year,” she said. “They all have been contributing in one way or another. They’re all very good players. They came to the team ready to play, and they’re already playing at a very high level.”

Outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17 has already made a major impact and is currently third on the team with 74 kills and 2.39 kills per

set. Middle blockers Claire Feeley ’17 and Lucy Tashman ’17 and libero Tori Shepherd ’17 round out the freshman class for the Elis.

Both Polan and outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 said that the freshmen’s contributions to the team’s dynamic off the court have been as important as their performance on it.

“We have very good chemistry on our team,” Polan said. “Erin has a good idea of who will fit well within the team dynamic. She’s done a great job for the past four years I’ve been here. A lot of these girls are my best friends.”

The Bulldogs embark on their quest for a fourth straight Ivy championship against Brown on Saturday at 5 p.m. in the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

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Yale moved up from fourth place to third on the final day of the Fighting Irish Gridiron Golf Classic in South Bend.

Bulldogs open Ivy season against Princeton Tigers WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 she said. “In the Ivy League, one goal can make or break you.”

The Bulldogs found that out the hard way last year, losing their first two Ivy League contests in overtime to Princeton and Harvard, respectively. Head coach Rudy Meredith says the key to success against Princeton is straightforward.

We have to match their intensity and we have got to do a better job at keeping the ball.

RUDY MEREDITH Head coach, Rudy Meredith “We have to match their intensity, and we have got to do a better job at keeping the ball,” Meredith said. “One-on-one defending is

going to be crucial as well.”

As for who will be minding the net, the Bulldogs are entering their last two days of practice before Saturday’s matchup with the starting goalkeeper position still undecided. It will either be Rachel Ames ’16 or Elise Wilcox ’15, as both have split duties this year, producing very comparable stats.

Ames carries a .758 save percentage into play, while Wilcox boasts a .741 save percentage.

“It’s going to be a game-time decision,” Meredith said.

Captain Shannon McSweeney ’14 and Gavin both made the team’s intentions heading into the conference slate quite clear: to win an Ivy League championship and advance to the NCAA tournament. A win at Princeton would be a major step in the right direction.

Kickoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Saturday.

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The women’s soccer team will look to snap a two-game losing streak this weekend against Princeton.

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ERICA BORGO ’14 IVY PLAYER OF THE WEEK Borgo earned the Ivy honor with seven points last weekend against Harvard and Vermont. Borgo currently leads the Ancient Eight with six assists, and on Sunday against Vermont, she placed fifth on the all-time Yale scoring list for the field hockey team.

“[The freshmen] came to the team ready to play, and they’re already playing at a very high level.”

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Elis solid in Indiana

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER

MEN’S GOLF

Change comes to Pittsburgh

Entering the final round of its tournament this weekend, the men’s golf team sat in fourth place behind Houston, Georgia Southern and Michigan State. With those tough squads in front of them, the Elis looked to make a charge to get back into the swing of things. Will Davenport ’15 did his best to deliver a dramatic comeback, nailing an eagle on the 10th hole en route to a final round score of 72.

That one dramatic effort, however, was not enough to elevate the Elis to the top of the leaderboard at the Fighting Irish Gridiron Classic at the end of the weekend. Yale wound up in third place at the tournament, 20 strokes behind champion Houston and five behind runner-up Michigan State.

“Considering that there were some solid teams in the field, we were pretty pleased with this result overall,” Joe Willis ’16 said in an email. “I think everyone felt like they left a few shots out there, but we still finished ahead of some strong teams, which is a positive confidence-builder when looking ahead to the rest of the season.”

Though the Elis were unable to secure the tournament win, they still put forward a solid showing in the 13-team field. Even more notable, perhaps, was the performance of several individual Yale golfers.

Considering that there were some solid teams in the field, we were pretty pleased with this result overall.

JOE WILLIS ’16 After the first day of the tournament, Davenport stood at the top of the leaderboard at the Warren Golf Course in South Bend, Ind. The junior shot a 71 in the first round of the day and a 68 in the day’s second round, good for a one-stroke lead. The 68 was the lowest score shot by any Eli in any round on the weekend.

“I played some of my best golf as a Yalie this past weekend, so I was really thrilled to see a lot of hard work come to fruition,” Davenport SEE MEN’S GOLF PAGE 11

DAVID CARTY

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One of the rules of life is that everything changes. No matter how long something stays at a certain level, one day its position changes.

People get older, theories evolve, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. However, if you were from Pittsburgh, it might seem as if this rule were not true. You knew that the Steelers were always going to contend and the Pirates, well … would be the Pirates. But this season in the Steel City, it looks as if things are finally shifting.

Since 1992, the Pittsburgh Pirates have been one of the most inept franchises in all of North American professional sports. Since the days of Barry Bonds, Andy Van Slyke and Doug Drabek ended, the Pirates have failed to qualify for the postseason for 20 seasons. In major league history, only the Kansas City Royals at 26 seasons and Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals at 30 seasons have had longer periods of futility.

Since Bonds left for San Francisco in 1993, the Pirates have been terrible, never posting a winning percentage above .488 and going through six different managers during that time frame. However, change comes even for teams like the Pirates. Since the debut of center fielder Andrew McCutchen in 2009, the Pirates have steadily been improving, finishing out of the basement of their division in three of the last five seasons after finishing last in four of the five years before McCutchen arrived.

This season the Pirates have already won 90 games, their starters are fourth in the majors in strikeouts per nine innings, and McCutchen is an National League MVP candidate with a .405 OBP and 7.8 wins above replacement.

As important as McCutchen has been, the team has also benefitted from a stable front

The Bulldogs placed third at the Fighting Irish Gridiron Classic, 20 strokes behind champion Houston.

Strong recruiting keeps title hopes alive

SEE CARTY PAGE 11

Yale visits defending champs

BY JAMES BADAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Ivy League portion of the women’s soccer team’s schedule is finally upon the Bulldogs, as the team will travel south on Saturday to face off against Princeton.

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The freshman recruits on the Yale volleyball team have given head coach Erin Appleman hopes of a Bulldog Ivy League championship four-peat.

BY MARC CUGNON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After three straight Ivy League titles, the women’s volleyball team stands poised for a four-peat, an achievement not seen in the Ivy League in the past three decades. The secret to the team’s sustained success seems to be years of stellar incoming freshman players, scouted and courted by head coach Erin

Appleman, who has managed to put together championship-caliber squads with fewer recruiting slots than Yale’s Ivy League opponents.

VOLLEYBALL “The biggest thing in recruiting here is that Yale’s a great place and sells SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 11

The Tigers (4–1–2, 0–0 Ivy) are seeking to get their Ivy League title defense underway with a win against the Bulldogs (4–3–0, 0–0 Ivy), who are in the midst of a twogame losing streak. Princeton, on the other hand, is unbeaten in its last three matches. More impressively, the Tigers are coming off an undefeated Ivy League season last year, becoming only the fourth team to accomplish the feat in conference history.

Yale had won four of its first five games this season and played exceptionally well in a 2–0 win over Hartford last week, seemingly building momentum as Ivy League play approached. But losses to Sacred Heart and Fairfield this past weekend have taken much of the wind out of the Bulldogs’ sails.

This opening match of Ivy League play will pit the league’s two leading goal-scorers against one another, with Princeton freshman forward Tyler Lussi entering play with six

TOP ’DOG FRANNIE COXE ’15

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After seven non-league games, the women’s soccer team will be facing its first Ivy opponent Saturday in the Princeton Tigers. goals and Yale forward Melissa Gavin ’15 with five goals. Yale is also represented at the top of the league leaders in assists by midfielder Frannie Coxe ’15, whose five assists place her in a tie with Cornell’s Dempsey Banks.

Coxe is aware that the Elis must

demonstrate complete focus and concentration to be a true contender in the Ivy League, beginning this week against Princeton.

“We can’t let up or allow ourselves to have any mental lapses,” SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 11

THE JUNIOR MIDFIELDER OF THE WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM IS NO. 1 IN THE IVY LEAGUE IN ASSISTS. She has recorded five so far this season.