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Rumors on new colleges fly

Return of the Poopetrator.

Some people never learn.

According to a Thursday night email from Saybrook Master Paul Hudak describing “another incident in the laundry room,” it appears that the Saybrook defecator has struck again, doing the unspeakable to an untold number of innocent, hygieneminding Yalies. Hudak urged students not to leave their laundry unattended and said he will follow up with Yale security to determine the appropriate response. See, this is why we can’t have nice things.

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dent Salovey will be announcing two to three major projects during his inauguration, and I believe that the residential colleges is one of them,” Stern said.

Stern said he knows little more about the gift’s size or donor, and declined to reveal his sources.

Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill said she has no information to provide about a significant gift toward the new colleges.

“There’s no story,” she said.

Timothy Dwight College Dean John Loge ’66 announced Thursday in an e-mail to TD students that he will step down at the end of the academic year after a 23-year tenure in the college.

Loge, a lecturer in the English Department, said he will leave the deanship in order to spend more time with his family and to pursue other interests. He first came to Yale as an undergraduate in 1962 and was appointed dean of TD in 1991, following stints as an adviser at Undergraduate Career Services and as a writing tutor in the college.

He said he has not yet decided whether he will maintain his post in the English Department but said he hopes to “keep a hand in at Yale in some way, perhaps by teaching.”

As dean for more than two decades, spanning the tenures of two masters, Loge said he has come to value the college as a tightknit community that has rallied around him in times of personal hardship.

“I’ll miss the people — students and everybody I work with. I’ll miss the conversations, especially the philosophical conversations,” he said.

After he was hit by a car three years ago, Loge said, he was welcomed back to campus, still on crutches, with a studentplanned celebration in the dining hall.

An avid nature writer, Loge said he looks forward to having more time to hike, camp and go on road trips. He said he also plans to spend more time with his family, including his three grandchildren in Connecticut.

“It’s something I’ve been thinking about

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Calling out trouble. In the

middle of Wednesday night’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Yale Repertory Theatre, Joe Manganiello stopped during the third act — without breaking from his character, Stanley Kowalski — to yell at an audience member who had been taking photos throughout the show. “Can you stop with the camera?” Manganiello reportedly shouted. “You have no idea how distractin’ it is!”

Earlier in the show and prior to the outburst, Manganiello had posted a message on Twitter asking the incessant photographer to stop, leave and never return.

E-I-E-I-O. The 94th

running of the Durham Fair, Connecticut’s largest agricultural fair, began on Thursday and will run through Sunday. The attraction typically brings horses, large pumpkins, sheep and giant sandcastles, as well as eager families looking for an easy weekend getaway. Road trip?

STEM experts. The Yale

College Council is launching a “STEM Sibs” program designed to help the STEM community by pairing prospective freshmen interested in the STEM fields with upperclassmen majoring in the sciences.

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The two new residential colleges, under construction above, will cost a total of roughly $500 million.

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER Extended silence about the state of fundraising for the two new residential colleges — which former President Richard Levin first announced over five years ago — has given way to a percolation of rumors surrounding a large gift the University will allegedly announce in the near future.

The total cost associated with the planning and construction of the two new residential colleges is approximately $500 million, of which Yale

has officially secured roughly $200 million. Architecture School Dean Robert A.M. Stern, whose firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects designed the plans for the construction, told the News Thursday morning he has heard the University has secured a donation toward the remaining $300 million, though he added that he does not think the gift will completely cover the outstanding balance. Last fall, administrators said they would not authorize construction before completing the necessary fundraising.

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New Haven arts funding faces insecure future

Returning to their roots.

Twenty-eight retired Air Force personnel returned to campus on Wednesday afternoon, five decades after they helped pioneer Chinese language study at the University through the Institute of Far Eastern Languages. Welcome back!

Disaster control. Power was partially restored on the Metro-North line between Stamford and New York City following a Wednesday morning power cable failure affecting a 138,000-volt feeder line. Officials said the electrical problem could take several weeks to repair fully.

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City living spurs volunteering

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER Davis Nguyen ’15 did not think when he matriculated at Yale that he would spend his time volunteering in New Haven.

Now in his junior year, Nguyen assists with PALS tutoring and mentoring. He also reaches out to Vietnamese children in New Haven through the Asian American cultural center.

“I had no intention of volunteering for New Haven directly,” Nguyen said. “I thought it would be for students at Yale and not so much reach out of town.”

Nguyen’s story is common.

When wide-eyed freshmen wander

through Phelps Gate for the first time, they know little of the city that sits beyond Yale’s Ivy walls.

But as they continue to experience Yale life, they soon become parts of the New Haven community.

Though some question whether Yale students do enough to volunteer in the Elm City, Yale’s location right in heart of urban America often forces students outside of their academic bubble and supports Yale’s vision of community and civic engagement.

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“On your way to the bookstore you’re going to pass a bunch of homeless people,” said Leah Sarna ’14, Dwight Hall co-coordinator.

“New Haven is a great asset to Yale because you can’t just bury your head in the Ivy tower. If you’re a sensitive person, you walk around New Haven and you see social issues.”

Sarna is not alone. Andrew Grass ’16 did not consider New Haven when he applied to Yale, but he was drawn to volunteering once he stepped off campus to campaign for U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy. Julie Qiu ’14 said that she chose Yale for the “community feel” rather than for New Haven, but she has since volunteered at Yale-New Haven hospital.

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Uncertainty reigns in Ward 7

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1961 Student group “Freedom Fund for Southern Students” decides to give its entire holdings of $700 to the “Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee” in Mississippi to help post bail for five high school students, who were jailed for participating in sit-in demonstrations earlier this month.

TD dean to leave at end of year

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Arts organizations in New Haven like the People’s Arts Collective benefit from state and local funding.

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER As Dave Greco, co-founder of New Haven’s Arte Inc., prepares to host his organization’s annual Family Arts and Culture Workshops on Oct. 5, he said he looks forward to a day of parent-child bonding, complete with a variety of fine arts workshops. The event, which has been held annually since 2004, has seen a larger turnout each year, with 447 community members attending in 2012.

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More than two weeks after winning the aldermanic Democratic primary, Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 still does not know whether he will face a challenger in the general election.

Ella Wood ’15, who ran against Hausladen in the primary, is yet to announce whether she will continue on as an independent through the Nov. 5 contest. According to Hausladen, though, Wood has little time to decide. City Clerk Ron Smith sent a letter to candidates who did not receive their parties’ endorsements — called petitioning candidates — saying they had until today to make a decision.

Hausladen said that Wood has not alerted the clerk as to her decision.

“I’m a classically trained scientist,” said Hausladen, who came to Yale to study biology, “I have to assume that until I have better data, my data is good, and right now Ella Wood is running in the general election.”

Hausladen said that he left a voicemail on Wood’s cell phone in the days after the primary inviting her to meet about her ideas for the ward. Wood, though, never returned Hausladen’s call.

Wood did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Candidates who lose in the primary can choose to run as independents in the general election, with mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ‘10 SOM ‘10 as a notable example in the city’s mayoral race. During the Sept. 10 primary, Wood garnered 178 votes to

Hausladen’s 252 in the ward that includes much of downtown and parts of East Rock. In the hours after her loss, the Ezra Stiles junior said she would need time to decide whether she would run as an independent, but did not specify how long.

“From here we reevaluate,” Wood said at the time. “We’re talking to supporters about what’s the best way forward.”

Ward 7 Democratic co-chair Alberta Witherspoon also said she has not heard from Wood in the wake of the primary. Witherspoon, who supports Hausladen, said that the co-chairs plan to spend more time knocking on doors, hoping to increase voter turnout in the general election, regardless of whether SEE WARD 7 PAGE 8

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MOOCing magic E

CON 115 has got to be the most boring class I’ve taken at Yale. I spent more time snapping photos of my friends (and strangers) dozing off than I did listening. You can go ahead and judge me for being a poor student, or — as more and more in the world have been doing — you can reconsider the method by which I was taught.

As Nathan Heller wrote in a New Yorker article last May, “Lecturing can seem a rote endeavor even at its best — so much so that one wonders why the system has survived for so long.”

ECON 115 as we know it — supply and demand curves projected onto a lecture hall screen — may not survive much longer.

Online education, in the form of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, is transforming centuries of traditional learning, and at lightning speed. The main MOOC platforms, EdX, Udacity and Coursera, have together attracted tens of millions of students from Kentucky to Kyrgyzstan eager to master basic programming, pointillism or “A Brief History of Humankind.”

Yale, though it launched Open Yale Courses in 2006, was embarrassingly late to the MOOC bandwagon (embarrassingly late in today’s world, meaning by more than one year).

Open Yale Courses are merely filmed lectures, whereas successful MOOCs are elaborate technological concoctions that intertwine a variety of teaching methods and media.

Last week, I got the chance to eat dinner with co-founder of Coursera Daphne Koller, a computer science professor at Stanford and total boss. She debunked a number of myths and misconceptions about online education.

Koller reminded us that 60 percent of college students are commuters and told us that Coursera courses, when used by colleges rather than individuals, aren’t meant to replace “brick and mortar” lectures but to supplement them.

Koller asked us: Does every professor who teaches a lecture need to write his or her own textbook? Well, no — that would be absurd. Why then do they all need to create their own individual lectures for the same exact course, or re-narrate the same syllabus for the ninth year in a row?

Points well made. But what’s so much better about MOOCs? Well, first off, they are “designed according to the way the brain actually learns,” according to an October 2012 article in TIME magazine by Amanda Ripley, who looks specifically at a physics class offered through Udacity. In this online class, the video stops every three or four minutes to ask a question, making it difficult for you to disengage (i.e. scroll through a Buzzfeed about gerbils). The people behind Udacity know that humans like immediate feed-

back and the satisfaction of being correct, so you’re allowed to keep trying each problem until you TAO TAO get it right.

HOLMES Studies have also shown Taoisms that college students can focus for only 10 to 18 minutes before their minds need active engagement with new information, adds Ripley. “Researchers know a lot about how the brain learns, and it’s shocking how rarely that knowledge influences our education system.” Talk about the bewildering survival of the 75-minute, monotonic, uninterrupted, one-way lecture.

Sebastian Thrun, co-founder of Udacity, thought he’d test out the effectiveness of the whole MOOC approach. He told his Stanford students they could take his class (“Artificial Intelligence”) either online or by attending his lectures. Those who took the MOOC version outscored the class average in previous years by a full letter grade. None of the top performers enrolled in his MOOC were Stanford students.

And if you were wondering, courses in the humanities and social sciences can translate just as smoothly into MOOC format.

Take Harvard professor Gregory Nagy’s class, “The Ancient Greek Hero,” for instance. In the New Yorker article, Heller described Nagy thinking about each section “as a short film” and trying to figure out “how to dramatize the production.” Transforming his brick and mortar lecture into an online form, Nagy said, forced him to study his teaching more than before.

But what about Yale? What does free, high-quality online education mean for us and our collegiate gothic?

Not too much, really. “I think the top 50 schools are probably safe,” said Udacity co-founder David Concedes in his interview with Ripley. “There’s a magic that goes on inside a university campus that, if you can afford to live inside that bubble, is wonderful.” As Yalies, we’re privy to four years of this magic. Seriously, this magic is even better than the stuff they have over at Durmstrang and Beauxbatons.

But ECON 115 is still not very magical. Neither are a lot of lecture courses, most of them dreaded prerequisites. I don’t see Yale replacing its big lectures with MOOCs any day soon, but that doesn’t mean professors can’t incorporate the successful aspects of online teaching into the product that they deliver us from their lecterns.

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Practice makes perfect W

hen I was in preschool, I begged my mom to let me bring her brand new scissors to school. They were sleek and red, with a cozy grip. I’m told I bragged about how sharp the scissors were during snack time, prompting another classmate to dare me to “prove it” by cutting her finger. I warned her that this would hurt and likely cause her finger to bleed, but she insisted. Of course, as a lifelong supporter of individual rights and agency over one’s body, I acquiesced.

She bled; I got in trouble.

In the first grade, my brother brought home the class pet for the weekend. This was quite a privilege and to make sure it all went smoothly, he told me I wasn’t allowed to touch it.

I immediately complained to mom — she sided with me! I dropped it and it died the next day.

In the sixth grade, I acquired a black hamster named Rocky. I was terrified to go near him, and almost never fed him or cleaned his cage. Or was it a she? I never knew — I was too afraid to pick him/her up to check. Soon thereafter, he/she died of starvation.

As you can tell, I was a men-

ace. My victims were diverse — little girls, small animals, my mother’s plants — and those are just the ones I remember.

But something happened to the little girl that couldn’t care for a rock if her life depended on it. It looks like there might be something about being a girl that makes her more likely than her male friends to stop being such a menace.

Years later, I’ve asked a bunch of girl and guy friends some questions: Have you ever sent a care package to a friend? Have you ever helped a friend through an emotional breakdown? Have you ever skipped an academic or extracurricular commitment to be there for a friend who needed you?

If you had to guess how the results broke down, which gender do you think overwhelmingly answered yes?

Maybe you think my questions are crap. Maybe my sample is screwed up. So try it yourself.

Write questions you think indicate what it is to be a caregiver.

I’m not saying my guy friends will be bad fathers because they’ve never sent a care package. But I do think it is important to notice that patterns and habits that many women practice,

even at this young age, reinforce the role of caregiver. Surrounded by people at all hours of the day, they practice these skills over and over — not in a secret Women’s Club, but in real life — in clubs, musical ensembles and the like. Practice makes perfect.

When I’m 30 and married to my super hot husband, we may at some point have to talk about whether one of us will take on more household responsibilities, or sacrifice a position at work to give us more hours at home. (Let’s say for the sake of argument that by that time, we’ve taken care of all the serious systemic challenges to achieving work-life balance — quality affordable child care, paid maternity and paternity leave, equal pay for men and women, the whole shebang.) Who do you think it’s going to be? Probably the one of us who has been practicing that kind of caregiving for years.

Not that 20-year-old girls are ready for parenthood, but talking a friend through a breakdown can translate into managing your kid’s meltdown over what is (or isn’t) for dinner. This isn’t to say that young women always learn to do this and young men don’t — I know plenty of

wonderfully caring young men and plenty of young female menaces. But if we’re looking for a world in which each couple can really freely decide what works best them, we’ll want to unstack the deck a little bit.

The way forward demands that we place a much higher value on kind and caring individuals, in addition to insisting on specific institutional reforms. We’ve got to start talking about and openly appreciating those who think of and care for others, so it becomes a normal and expected thing for everyone to do.

Because who doesn’t want to live in a world where everyone is a better caregiver? Those skills of empathy and support can only improve our social interactions, political processes, civil society and more. And in an ever-complicated world where children are at risk for everything under the sun, these skills are going to be vital for raising a generation of smart, kind, tolerant individuals to care for the world that we’ll leave them. We’d better get started! Practice makes perfect.

EMEFA AGAWU is a junior in Silliman College. Contact her at emefa.agawu@yale.edu.

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t’s a fact so fundamental to my being that it’s become something of a running joke among my friends: I’m from New York City. The city is almost as large a part of who I am as my parents and friends are — and as a result, I feel enormously proud, and even more protective, of Mother Manhattan.

And in certain ways, I feel like it’s almost impossible not to love New York. It’s the city that never sleeps; its cobbled streets and towering skyline are the backdrop to movies and the birthplace of superstars. But it’s also too easy to choose to see the wrong side of New York. It’s the city that brought you Wall Street and its greed, the city where no one knows each other’s name and strangers will shove you to try to get to the subway on time.

That image (while not altogether unfounded) is only exacerbated by men like Anthony Weiner and Alex Rodriguez. This summer, by putting themselves before the place they purport to represent, they did lasting damage to the reputation of my city.

Weiner and A-Rod have much in common. They’re both New Yorkers. They’re both shameless, they’re both arrogant and they both believe they’re more important than the field they’re

meant to be serving.

Let’s take Anthony Weiner first: Everyone has seen far more of Weiner than they’d like to. I’m not going to waste time talking about the photos, the Twitter messages and the (unsuccessful) bid for election. Everyone knows the story, and it’s just too easy to criticize it. At every step of the way, Weiner was wrong. But the part I want to focus on, though, as Weiner’s most egregious wrongdoing, is that he monopolized media attention, taking it away from a pivotal mayoral primary for an American city in transition. Weiner should have remembered that the best way to serve New Yorkers is to let the city speak for itself.

A POLITICIAN AND A SPORTS STAR CAN'T HOLD NEW YORK BACK If Anthony Weiner wanted to convey to the public that he had any shred of respect for the citizens of the city he wanted to govern, he would have stepped

out of the race the second his genitalia garnered more attention than Bill Thompson's (know who he is? He was a candidate, too) goal to end New York’s policy of closing low-performing public schools. After 12 years of Michael Bloomberg, the primary should have been the time for New Yorkers to take some time to coolly decide which of the candidates would best fight for the issues that will carry our city forward.

At Yankee Stadium, A-Rod suffers from a similar breed of hubris. He plays for the most reviled team in all of baseball. So when the steroids scandal broke this summer, the world was only too gleeful to see Alex Rodriguez, the smug slugger who had insisted for so long that his hands were clean, go down with the rest of them. Now, I have little love for A-Rod to begin with, but, much like with Anthony Weiner, the part where he really lost me was when he, after being served with a 211-game ban, he chose to put his own ego over the good of his entire team.

Had he quietly accepted his punishment, like many other players this season, maybe the rest of the summer could have been devoted to praising pitcher Mariano Rivera, whose last

season with the Yankees has inspired packed stadiums across the country. But instead of bowing out with grace, and allowing Rivera to elevate New York’s reputation with his masterful pitching and notable humility, A-Rod chose to drag the whole city down with him, entering a very public and self-centered battle to overturn the sentence.

So if you want to judge A-Rod and Anthony Weiner (and believe me, I want to judge them right along with you), judge them not for representing all that is bad about New York. But rather, think of them as loud-mouthed, disproportionately represented anomalies that are obscuring the much more nuanced and beautiful New York.

At a place like Yale, nothing is worse than feeling like everyone has already formed their opinion of your history. To know me is to open yourself up to New York. To do that, you have to look past our unsavory spokesmen and see the promise of the city they’re hiding.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a junior in Berkeley College.

Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu.

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God, country, Hogwarts?

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hen I first saw Commons on my official tour of Yale, my guide announced giddily that the dining hall looked like the one at Hogwarts. My fellow visitors and their parents “oohhed” and “aahhed” when they saw the splendor of the room, and nodded in agreement. Yes, this was Hogwarts incarnate. This is the school they needed to attend.

An opinion piece in the News observed that “Yalies [seemed] snobbily reluctant to succumb to the magic of Harry Potter.” But that was in 2001, and in just over 10 years, this observation could not be further from the truth. As the generation of children who grew up reading Harry Potter are now Yalies themselves, references to this World of Witchcraft and Wizardry have become commonplace. Students argue why their residential college is the true Gryffindor, draw connections from the Tyng Cup to the Triwizard Tournament and Instagram photos of campus with #Hogwarts as their

captions. One student I overheard even compared the Yale-New Haven relationship to that of Wizards and Muggles — and that’s just offensive.

What may have started as a harmless attempt to relive childhood nostalgia has now become a spell cast upon the student body. Yale is not Hogwarts, nor should it try to be.

The comparison overlooks the centuries of tradition on which Yale rests — traditions that precede the book and its author. Yale is an institution steeped in real history that cannot be reduced to the fantasies of a single individual. By fetishizing the college experience into fanfiction, we reduce what makes Yale uniquely our own into nothing more than an item that can be purchased at Barnes & Noble.

Even some of the most esteemed Yale professors would recoil at this analogy. In a famous Wall Street Journal op-ed from July 2000, Harold Bloom argued that J.K. Rowling’s writing was junk, and her 35 million book buyers were just plain wrong.

He goes on to warn that “cultural critics will … introduce Harry Potter into their college curriculum,” diluting the value of education. This forecast, of course, came true at in our own Blue Book; “Harry Potter and Christian Theology” is a residential college seminar this year, and has been offered in others. While I do not doubt the rigor of this course, if students were looking for the Harry Potter experience, it would be much cheaper and easier to simply go to Universal Studios.

Perhaps our larger campus fixation with this book is a sign of gratitude — an acknowledgment that what we often feel on campus is so surreal it can only be described as straight from a book. But we must remember that exact point: Harry Potter is fiction. Hermione did not have to take the SATs when she was a junior, and Ron never had to cram for an Econ midterm. Not only is it a cliché to use Hogwarts as a comparison, but it it’s not a fair fight either.

There is no way a school can live up

to a child’s dreams, no matter how great Yale may be.

So whether we look to Rory Gilmore, Harry Potter or any other made-up character for a mark of accomplishment, enough is enough.

Although J.K. Rowling appeals to our desire for fantasy, we do, in fact, live in the real world. Behind every gothic façade on campus, there is a student working on an essay, not a potion for the dark arts. Our college dining halls may not have candles floating midair, but the chicken tenders are still pretty good. We may not have received an acceptance letter by carrier owl — but that’s okay, too.

We don’t need a sorting hat to remind us our time here is meaningful. Only once we move past these types of comparisons can we hope to have a college experience with more dimension than a page in a book.

LARRY MILSTEIN is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at larry.milstein@yale.edu.

GUEST COLUMNIST MARC CUGNON

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or many Yalies, Sunday is football. We coordinate everything around kickoff, from social schedules to the problem sets we really should have started last weekend. A single sport, sometimes a single team, dominates our day. While Yale has forced us to find some creative ways of actually watching the games — especially for those of us whose hometown teams lie outside of the New York and New England areas — family “game-day” traditions find a way of resurfacing here in New Haven.

In my central-Virginia household, the Washington Redskins rule the roost. Watching the latest failings of D.C.’s perennially maligned squad is a weekly event. Unhealthy foods of all sorts are prepared and voraciously consumed, while jerseys are donned and expletives freely hurled.

What makes football so significant, so intrinsic to my family’s weekly routine, is the way it brings us together.

We are bonded as a family by the simple act of stopping for a few hours and watching 22 super-athletes hurl

themselves at each other.

My Calhoun suite experienced that very feeling when the Redskins took on the Philadelphia Eagles in their season opener. I proudly threw on my Robert Griffin III jersey, dragged a few of my suitemates to our common room couch and proceeded to swear wildly as my Redskins, true to form, threw away the game. Little had I realized that football, much as it had at home, took over my evening. I could think of nothing other than the game on TV, as work was tossed by the wayside. An evening of suite bonding erupted from an otherwise mundane day. While the faces were new, the tradition of community (and junk food) remained the same, reminding everyone of life “back home.”

While college isn’t necessarily conducive to the transplantation of homegrown weekly norms, Yale doesn’t force us to abandon everything we once loved about Sundays.

Football merely becomes a new way for students to meet, talk and shout together. Every football-oriented Sunday custom predicates itself on

the idea of a community. Whether that community is a family, a group of friends or even a bunch of strangers is irrelevant. The return of football has signaled a return to outgoing, person-to-person interactions that are uniquely fostered by the world of spectator sports.

I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time glued to a television screen, sitting side-by-side with an everchanging group of peers, cheering and jeering as each game unfolds.

At this point, the team I’m watching doesn’t even matter, I’m just glad to have football back. Spectator sports, especially football, give us a unique sense of connection with the people in our social spheres. For a few moments, we are all focused on the exact same thing, free to express emotion loudly and openly, rather than hide feelings of intense elation or displeasure. Outbursts are encouraged and personal reservations have a tendency of leaving the room. Sundays have become a time to reconnect with suitemates and friends; football serves as our intermediary.

Even though my family is hundreds of miles away, a new family emerges in front of every screen. Watching games here at Yale brings a big group of very different people together, with a nationally viewed sport serving as an excuse to meet people with whom you may have nothing in common.

My suitemates from Arkansas, New Jersey, Mexico City, New Hampshire and Florida all joined me, for varying intervals, to catch a few minutes of football. Though our origins are very different, “America’s game” gives us all a chance to connect (often by consoling people like me, whose teams can’t seem to find the end zone).

Though I initially associated my Sundays with a family tradition that I could never recreate, that feeling has evaporated. Football has provided a new way to bring together a village. It helps us to find our place, make new memories and start those new traditions we’ll have when we leave.

MARC CUGNON is a freshman in Calhoun College. Contact him at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

ast week, a friend of mine upgraded to iOS7. It was a big deal in the sense that he first made me look at it on both his phone and his computer, then watch a seven-minute film about the new software, narrated by an intriguing British man who turned out to be Apple’s chief designer. In rich, near-hypnotic tones, against a pure white backdrop, this god described to us the “profound and enduring beauty found in simplicity, in clarity, in efficiency.” My friend couldn’t get enough.

I could.

Lively. Intuitive. Apple’s words, not mine.

For me, the new interface wasn’t lively, it was childish. Sweetly rounded letters, an abundance of color; I felt like I was using the Kidz Bop version of an iPhone. Retrieve your emails from the mailbox crouching smugly in two-dimensional squatness; complete some task on your Reminders app and its little bubble gets filled in as it slides cutely out of the way.

“We have always thought of design,” the British god assured us, “as being so much more than just the way something looks.”

Okay, I thought. I swallowed back my Kidz Bop comment. I’d give him a few more minutes.

“It’s the whole thing,” he continued in voiceover, as an iPhone 5 glided smoothly across the screen in all its profound, enduring, simplistic beauty. “The way something actually works, on so many levels.”

Okay. That didn’t justify, for me, the fact that the new Notes app didn’t have lines.

How could I write notes on something that only vaguely resembled a notepad?

Call me old-fashioned, or even needlessly nit-picky, but I think I’m just nostalgic.

Who else remembers the dial-up tone?

Most of us at Yale do, but my young cousins certainly don’t. How about when we hung calendars on the wall instead of making Gcal our homepage? Or wrote down every task in little spiral notebooks, ready to be checked off or crossed off or scribbled out?

A little button at the corner of one app boasts a quizzically poised miniature pencil outline hovering over a blank rectangle.

Everyone knows this means “New Note.”

But I can’t help fast-forwarding a century or two; once every written word is digitalized, will our great-grandkids even know what that little oblong stylus means? Or will they just think, “New Note”?

Fast-forward.

And rewind … back to when fast-forward wasn’t an option, and neither was replay.

Our technological devices give us so much more than communication and convenience — they give us a vocabulary, a way of visualizing and interpreting the world. The only reason iOS7, or any operating system, is so “intuitive” is that it takes our cultural way of organizing ourselves and modifies it to make things more “efficient” and apparently more “profound.”

I like that the Contacts app has little tabs for letters of the alphabet. I like making fake Post-Its on my computer desktop to remind myself to do laundry on Mondays. And I like the little camera shutter on my phone spiraling open, even though the iCamera doesn’t even have one.

My tech-savvy friend hates this stuff, these digital imitations. They’re called “skeuomorphisms,” he tells me, before declaring them useless. Now that the tech industry has trained us how to use buttons that aren’t real buttons, how to navigate a Contacts app that isn’t a facsimile address book, there’s no more use for these archaisms. But somehow, amidst the technological craze of the last decade, as we’ve all grown up and digitalized, these visual cues are comforting. That’s what I like. Even as everything changes, some things stay the same.

We made a deal, my friend and I: I’m going to upgrade. Otherwise he’ll steal my phone and upgrade it for me. I won’t resist too much — just for these few minutes, as I listen to the dial-up tone in my head, and think about how much I like holding a pencil and making sharp, deep, definitive check marks.

“Ultimately, of course,” the god concluded, “design defines so much of our experience.”

Yes. And sure, after a few months, iOS7 won’t even bother me any more. The same colorful lettering that strikes me as juvenile now will slowly fade into my technological default, and my Notes will flourish in their lineless abode, and my experience will indeed be defined a little bit more by the British god, and a little bit less by the hordes of fallingdown Post-It notes that papered our parents’ cubicles. We’ll adapt and change, and so will our phones and tablets and newspapers and our minds themselves.

So I’ll upgrade. But I’m waiting for October 1st. I’m going to hold on to my dial-up tone until then.

LUCY FLEMING is a sophomore in Saybrook College. Contact her at lucy.fleming@yale.edu .

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“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”

YOGI BERRA FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER

City attracts food trucks New common app sparks criticism

BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER

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Food trucks — like Rubamba, above — have overtaken the Elm City. The Caseus food truck, one of the first in New Haven, opened four years ago.

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM AND PATRICK CASEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER New Haven foodies these days have plenty of reasons to rejoice.

Food trucks and carts have maintained a presence in downtown New Haven, but their numbers have grown over the last several years. Many of the trucks cater primarily to the Yale community, which seems to have embraced the street food culture.

When the Caseus cheese truck opened four years ago, New Haven’s street food scene was very different.

“We were definitely one of the earlier trucks. There are significantly more trucks on the road now than when we started,” said Tom Sobocinski, co-owner of Caseus.

Since then, student demand has increased significantly, although many believe the food truck market is not yet saturated.

“There needs to be more food trucks,” said Charlie Hauch LAW ’14, who said he frequents street food vendors multiple times each week. “It would be nice to have some diversity.”

Many food truck owners agree. Bruce Bonini, owner of Bubba’s Road House, a cart that normally occupies York Street outside of Trumbull, would like to see even more food carts open for business.

“I love competition. I want to turn this area into a food court, so everyone will come here,” he said.

Sobocinski expressed similar sentiments. He said many food truck owners are actively planning to park together at certain city events in order to attract families and groups of friends.

I love competition. I want to turn this area into a food court, so everyone will come here.

BRUCE BONINI Owner, Bubba’s Road House Street food vendors attract customers with different tactics than their brick and mortar competitors.

Sobocinski said the truck’s social media presence is “huge.”

The Caseus food truck has more than 4,000 Twitter followers, and the account regularly alerts followers to the truck’s location.

Bonini, on the other hand, chiefly advertises by “word of mouth.” As Bonini and Evans have been in the food vending industry for less than a year, they are building their networks and are looking to further incorporate social media into their advertising strategy.

The high demand encouraged

“Ricky D.” Evans to open a barbecue food truck.

“Yale is a very highly populated tourist attraction,” he said, explaining that the campus sees “a lot of foot traffic” that supports the food truck industry.

Evans opened his business three months ago, and he has parked on York Street between Chapel and Elm for the past three weeks.

Although New Haven does not cap the number of permits available to street food vendors, Evans said that joining the industry can be difficult.

“It wasn’t easy. Initially I wanted to get a smoker on my pick-up truck, but the health department wouldn’t approve of it,” said Evans.

To open a food cart or truck, an owner needs a vending license from the city’s Building Department, which costs $200.

Cart owners also must pay $280 per year to the Health Department and pass health inspections.

The process, according to Bonini, can be “time consuming and expensive.”

Although street food vendors benefit from their mobility, they often face challenges in finding suitable locations.

Sobocinski noted that parking a truck can be difficult in downtown New Haven’s small spots.

In addition, carts and trucks must stay dozens of yards away from brick and mortar restaurants, and trucks are typically

not allowed to stay in the same parking spot for more than two hours at a time.

“We do get ticketed,” said Sobocinski. “Occasionally we’ll get tickets for just being there too long, even when there’s money in the meter.”

The growth of the food truck industry has engendered some pushback from owners of storefront restaurants. Steven Berry, an economics professor at Yale, said in an email that the restaurant owners may gripe about the relatively low taxes food vendors pay when compared to the high property taxes facing brick and mortar establishments.

“It is possible that the trucks are ‘crowding-out’ some lowerprice lunch places that might otherwise open,” said Berry.

Evans said that he receives “a lot of grief from other restaurants.” While Bonini and Sobocinski acknowledge that there is some opposition to street food vending, both said they do not see it as a significant concern.

“We do hope the city will embrace the truck movement,” Sobocinksi said.

The Caseus Cheese Truck was featured on “Man v. Food Nation” in 2011.

Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .

Contact PATRICK CASEY at patrick.casey@yale.edu .

This fall, hundreds of thousands of high school students will apply to colleges around the country. But a recent slew of changes to the application process has left many of these students and their counselors unhappy.

The Common Application — the online undergraduate college admission application that is used by more than 500 universities in the United States, including Yale and its peers — underwent several major transformations in its newest iteration, which was released this August. In addition to sporting a new, minimalist-styled online interface, the application features a new set of essay questions that does not include the popular “topic of your choice” option offered in past years. For the first time, it also enforces a strict 250 to 650 word limit on essays.

While it is hard to predict how the Common Application’s changes will affect applicants to Yale, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said that the Yale Admissions Office will still review candidates in the same holistic way of years past.

“I will note that we maintained the open-ended format of our [specialized] essay question so that students applying to Yale could tell us about something that is important to them that does not fall under one of the Common Application questions,” Quinlan said, referring to the essay prompt on the Yale Supplement that asks for an additional 500-word essay on a topic of the applicant’s choice.

In general, college counselors and college admissions experts have not supported changes to the Common Application.

David Petersam, president of Virginia-based higher education consulting group AdmissionsConsultants, called the word limit and restrictive essay prompts “limiting and frustrating” for many students because they do not encourage specificity or creativity.

“What the Common App seems to really be doing is curtailing opportunities,” Petersam said. “I can see they’re trying to simplify the process, but it’s not truly in the applicant’s best interest.

It’s another way the Common App tries to encourage students to apply to more schools.”

When students attempt to standardize their application to apply to a larger number of schools, Petersam added, they will usually end up spreading themselves too thin and wasting time.

Even the new online interface has stirred up its fair share of concern. The new system has already faced numerous glitches, including log-in problems and confusing, roundabout steps to

accomplish simple tasks, said Terry Kung, co-director of college counseling at Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles and former assistant director of admissions at Columbia.

“Counselors have been up in arms about too many changes with the Common App,” Kung said, recalling that over 5,000 counselors and admissions staff members attended the National Association of College Admissions National Conference in Toronto last week, which was “peppered with concerns and buzz about the new app.”

Counselors have been up in arms about too many changes with the Common App. TERRY KUNG Co-director of college counselig, Immaculate Heart High School Kung added that having worked with the new application with many of her own students now, both she and her students think that its features are frustrating and not intuitive.

Another major concern about the application is its insistence on uniformity.

On the Common Application website, the organization explicitly encourages students to use the same essay for all of their schools — instructions that go against the advice of almost every college counselor and admissions consultant interviewed.

But high school students interviewed expressed mixed reactions to the new application. Although some were disappointed in the removal of the “topic of your choice” essay option, Kanupriya Gupta, a high school senior from Florida, said she thinks the change can actually be beneficial.

“It provides applicants with a sense of guidance and direction if they’re feeling overwhelmed by picking an original essay topic,” Gupta said. “The new word limit also serves to reinforce the simplicity of our essays and convey who we really are.”

The five essay prompts on the 2013-’14 Common Application ask students to describe different types of experiences or accomplishments that have shaped their lives, ranging from “an incident or time when you experienced failure” to “an event that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood.”

Currently, 517 colleges and universities in the U.S. use the Common Application for admission. In last year’s admissions round, roughly 3.05 million applications were submitted through the site.

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

17% increase in child poverty unsurprising

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A recent report from the U.S Census Bureau found that the portion of New Haven children living in poverty has increased by 17 percent since 2008.

Though poverty is one of New Haven’s most far-reaching and substantial issues, the increasing amount of child poverty in New Haven is not surprising to local leaders. In fact, the U.S Census Bureau’s findings are largely representative of how families are struggly to recover financially after the recession.

The increase in child poverty follows the general family income trend. If this data were broken down geographi-

cally, said DataHaven executive director Mark Abraham ’04, there would be even higher rates of poverty in certain New Haven neighborhoods.

What we’re really concerned about is that there hasn’t been a downturn in child poverty since 2011.

MATT SANTACROSE Connecticut Voices for Children Ward 6 Alderman Dolores

Colon suggested that although unemployment in New Haven is not particularly high, many parents find that they need multiple jobs to pay their bills. Colon also described the fundamental consequences of poverty, such as increased hunger rates, as bad for New Haven residents.

Coming amid the Census Bureau’s findings, the recent $40 billion federal decrease in food stamps program funding in Connecticut makes life for those in poverty even more difficult.

“The cuts in food stamps are a tragic mistake,” Colon said.

Matt Santacrose of Connecticut Voices for Children said he is not shocked by the increase of Connecticut children living

in poverty, but he finds it “certainly discouraging.” He points out that the recent recession was “the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression,” adding that he was more concerned about the longterm trend of increasing child poverty.

“What we’re really concerned about is that there hasn’t been a downturn in child poverty since 2011,” said Santacrose.

Kids in Connecticut have not been able to reap any benefits of what some experts have described as a recent economic recovery.

“For 1 in 7 kids in the state, things are still really bad,” Santacrose said.

He said he sees the decrease

in participation in the labor force as a concerning tend.

Santacrose thinks there is substantial correlation between the rate of poverty and the rate of participation in the labor force.

Because of the geographical distribution of poverty, Abraham said, it is especially important for children in poorer neighborhoods to have access to affordable early education.

Connecticut Voices for Children has seen that early education can make a huge difference in the general academic trajectory of a student. To better ensure that current financial situations are not passed down to the next generations, Santacrose said, early education’s benefits can be “profound.”

One effort to help families earning poverty-level incomes is the Earned Income Tax Credit. Abraham said the EITC is a better measurement of poverty, adding that current measurements do not consider some benefits that have been put in place.

Abraham commends the EITC for helping low-income families.

“The Earned Income Tax Credit brings low income families out of poverty,” he said.

The Census Bureau’s findings come from the annual American Community Survey.

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

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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.

Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” MARCUS AURELIUS ROMAN EMPEROR, STOIC PHILOSOPHER

Pollster Rasmussen criticizes Republican discourse

BY JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN STAFF REPORTER At a talk in Linsly-Chittenden Hall Thursday, Scott Rasmussen, cofounder of ESPN who later became involved in politics and founded the political polling company Rasmussen Reports, declared that the national political discourse surrounding the Republican Party’s failed 2012 campaign is “irrelevant and a total waste of time.”

Rasmussen delivered his theories about upcoming political dynamics and his perspective on the 2012 election in a lecture titled “Conservatism and Changing Dynamics,” sponsored by the William F. Buckley Jr. Program.

Although Rasmussen arrived 30 minutes late due to transportation issues to New Haven, about 40 members of the Yale community listened to Rasmussen’s lecture and asked for his thoughts on potential presidential contenders in the 2016 election. Rasmussen instructed students that the economy and an incumbent’s job approval serve as the most important factors in determining election results.

“Barack Obama won because the economy did just well enough to get him reelected,” Rasmussen said, explaining the way Obama’s approval ratings tracked the state of the economy.

Although much of the current conversation about the future of the Republican Party focuses on its ability to reach out to minority voters, Rasmussen said he does not think minority outreach, while important, will be a definitive factor in the 2016 election.

Rasmussen said he thinks the GOP needs to find a way to make the argument that all Republican policies, such as education, benefit minority communities, rather than labeling certain policies, such as immigration, as crucial to the success of the party in future years.

Much of Rasmussen’s insight extended beyond party lines.

“I believe all the obsession about candidates and tactics is pretty misguided,” he said. “[A candidate has] to have a compelling message … that is uplifting and positive and consistent.”

The former pollster also explained his recent decision to leave his polling organization and establish a new, albeit

related, company: Rasmussen Media Group.

Conceding that he sees a huge business opportunity in the digital media environment, Rasmussen said he is tired of being a scorekeeper.

“I have a bigger vision of what I’d like to be doing,” he said. “I’d like to be involved in actually empowering public opinion rather than just reporting on what’s been happening.”

Comparing the political environment to the interlude between World War I and World War II, Rasmussen suggested that the 2012 election was like trench warfare in World War I and that World War II shaped the modern system of centralized government.

Currently the U.S. is awaiting a political paradigm shift akin to what occurred during WWII. Society is now growing much less centralized, Rasmussen argued, suggesting that individuals’ desire to make personal decisions, like how comprehensive a health insurance plan they would like, will ultimately trump the power of any political vehicle.

“A one-size-fits-all government cannot survive in an iPad era,” he said.

The politician or party that can present a coherent message that taps into this shift in public opinion will enjoy a long period of success, Rasmussen said.

In response to audience questions, Rasmussen made a wide variety of electoral claims about the 2016 election: Neither Hillary Clinton nor Chris Christie have a shot at their respective parties’ nominations, he said.

Josh Altman ’17 said he found Rasmussen’s insights to be interesting. He added that he thinks Rasmussen captured the ambiguity of the 2016 presidential field very well.

A self-identified liberal, Altman said he is grateful that the Buckley program brings conservative leaders to campus.

“I’m not at college to hear the same opinions,” he said. “[The Buckley Program] is making sure Yale isn’t only a one-sided experience.”

The William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale, founded in 2010, is dedicated to fostering intellectual diversity on campus.

Contact JACO B WOLF-SOROKIN at jacob.wolf-sorokin@yale.edu .

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Scott Rasmussen, co-founder of ESPN and founder of Rasmussen Reports, discussed political dynamics in Linsly-Chittenden Hall.

Yale to open Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale researchers are joining a nationwide fight to regulate tobacco.

On Sept. 19, the United States Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Disease and Prevention awarded 14 five-year grants to institutions across the country in order to create several Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science. The TCORS will conduct scientific research on the addictive nature of ingredients in tobacco to help shape future FDA regulations. Yale received a $20 million federal grant to create its TCORS — set to open at the end of the month — due to the University’s superior faculty and scientists, said Yale School of Medicine associate psychiatry

professor Suchitra KrishnanSarin, who will be a co-director for the Yale TCORS.

Tobacco addiction is still the number one, preventable cause of death in the United States.

SUCHITRA KRISHNAN-SARIN Associate psychiatry professor, Yale School of Medicine “Tobacco addiction is still the number one, preventable cause of death in the United States,” Krishnan-Sarin said. “While rates of cigarette use appear to have stabilized in the United States, these rates are still high

and there is also increasing concern about other emerging tobacco products.

Researchers and scientists nationwide have spent several years and millions of dollars to further understand the relationship between nicotine use and addiction as well as the subsequent detrimental health consequences. Although nicotine’s effects on the brain are now mostly understood, the 4,000 other constituents of tobacco and the new e-cigarettes — an electronic inhaler that serves as a substitute for tobacco smoking — need to be studied further to solidify FDA regulation, said James J. Mahoney III, predoctoral clinical neuropsychology intern at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

The TCORS center at Yale has four specific goals — to test the

menthol and nicotine flavors in addiction. From their work, the researchers hope to produce acceptable regulations not only for nicotine but the other ingredients such as flavoring inside of the tobacco.

Yale was chosen as one of the TCORSs because it has the resources to carry out the four different projects, KrishnanSarin said. The other 13 institutions — which include the American Heart Association, University of California-San Francisco, University of Pennsylvania and the Ohio State University — were selected to conduct various projects based on their resources and superior scientific productivity, according to the NIH website.

“The most notable aspect of our center is that it brings together scientists with exper-

effects of flavors on nicotine choice and the brain’s reward mechanisms, to understand the effects of smoking in adolescent smokers, to create knowledge for tobacco regulation using experiments and economics and to test the effects of menthol on nicotine reinforcement in smokers.

“Menthol, sugars and other tobacco flavors are important sensations that smokers and e-cigarette users associate with the experience of using tobacco products,” said Yale Medical School psychiatry professor Marina Picciotto, core faculty member of the Yale TCORS. “Sensations, like the smell of menthol or the taste of flavors added to tobacco or e-cigarettes, is enough to cause craving for tobacco.”

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She added that Yale will use the $20 million to train new tobacco regulation researchers and interpret the findings to make policy decisions about existing and future tobacco products, revolutionizing the concept of addiction and working to meet deadlines with rapid results for the FDA. Approximately 300,000 Americans die each year from tobacco-related illnesses, according to Picciotto.

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“I don’t believe in colleges and universities.” RAY BRADBURY AMERICAN AUTHOR

Rumors point to residential college funding NEW COLLEGES FROM PAGE 1 The colleges were originally scheduled for completion this fall, but the University postponed the construction when the recession hit in the fall of 2008.

One staff member with close ties to Woodbridge Hall, who wished to remain anonymous, said senior coworkers are speaking about the colleges as if the University is gearing up to break ground, discussing details about the construction and how to fit an influx of vehicles onto Prospect Street near the site of the new residences.

“People are operating under the assumption that they’re happening,” the staff member said.

“It seems like the new colleges are being spoken of in the present tense.” The staff member added that the inauguration will likely be the occasion for the announcement.

But if the University is planning on moving forward with construction soon, it has yet to file building permits to do so. The last updates on the site permits for the construction site at 70 Sachem St. were for electrical and mechanical preparation on March 22 and April 10, respectively.

Jimmy Lu ’77, chair of the Association of Yale Alumni Board of Directors, said discussions of an impending gift frequently crop up during alumni gatherings.

Last spring, when alumni gathered on campus for a dinner for Sterling Fellows, a class of donor to Yale, on May 3, another anonymous Yale staff member said many

expected an announcement about the colleges during the event.

The staff member told the News a group of alumni gathered in Mory’s after the dinner, and discussion turned to how they had believed Levin would announce the groundbreaking.

Thomas Ketchum ’72, present at the dinner and Mory’s afterward, told the News that the event was a celebration in Levin’s honor, and confirmed that alumni present had heard rumors that the University would announce a big gift soon.

But Levin told the News the next day that while the University was always working on large gifts, he did not expect anything would be ready to announce within the next few months.

University President Peter Salovey told the News on Aug. 27 that he could not discuss the state of fundraising for the two new colleges beyond how gifts for the college were “continuing to come in.”

Salovey could not be reached for comment Thursday.

He added that though nothing was scheduled at the time, the University would provide an update to the community sometime during the fall semester, since it had “been a while” since the last announcement.

Turner Construction Company is slated to undertake the construction on the currently-empty lots behind Grove Street Cemetery.

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

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The two new residential colleges will be built on the currently empty lots behind Grove Street Cemetery.

Loge to leave Timothy Dwight deanship LOGE FROM PAGE 1 for a while,” he said. “It’s time for me to do some other things I’m interested in and time for me to let somebody else have all the pleasures of being dean.”

TD Master Jeffrey Brenzel cited Loge’s “grounded wisdom” and “deep conviction” as qualities that made the dean a beloved figure in the college.

“I know that his abiding calm and sense of proportion have made his office in TD, and TD itself, a place of welcome, encouragement and support for genera-

tion after generation of students,” Brenzel said in a Thursday night email.

Hailed in TD as “the dean of deans,” Loge will be sorely missed in the college, students said Wednesday afternoon.

Seniors Anada Lakra ’14 and Serena Cadelaria ’14 said they were glad they would leave the college with Loge. They wondered whether a new dean would be able to match Loge’s musical prowess, displayed at the annual TD music night when he and Brenzel perform by singing and playing guitar to a song the pair composes.

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“Dean Loge is TD,” Kelly Wu ’16 said. “He’s such a weird and thoughtful human being.”

Russ Egly said he will not let Loge leave the college — “we’re going to barricade him in his office.”

Egly described Loge as a “father figure” whose care for his students transcends their academic standing. He said Loge drove him to the airport at 5 a.m. when Egly found out his father had a terminal illness, sending him home and telling him not to worry about his exams.

Students remarked on Loge’s

laid-back, comforting attitude and his well-known maxims, including his advice to always “go slow.”

Maxwell Ulin ’17 said he first came to respect Dean Loge when he heard his famous “boat speech,” a speech he gives every year at the college’s freshman dinner in which he compares the TD dining hall to a boat protecting the students from harm.

But Loge said he is devising a way to make sure all students, including non-seniors, hear “the other half of the boat speech,” which he typically gives at the

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Corey Malone-Smolla ’16, a member of the TD college council, said students are brainstorming ways to commemorate Loge’s legacy in the college.

“We’re thinking of renaming our buttery after him, or maybe creating a Loge lounge somewhere in the college,” Malone-Smolla said. “Or getting a plaque made out of the ginkgo wood because he loves our ginkgo tree so much and putting it somewhere special.”

Loge’s announcement comes in a week filled with similar news of departures from the residential

colleges. Silliman Dean Hugh Flick and Calhoun Master Jonathan Holloway GRD ’95 announced on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, that they will be stepping down from their positions at the end of the academic year as well.

Loge will officially step down from his post as dean in June 2014.

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

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“Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR FRENCH INTELLECTUAL

Yale, city look to lose pounds

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER AND DAN WEINER STAFF REPORTERS 375,000 pounds in two years.

That’s how much weight a joint YaleNew Haven public health initiative is asking city residents to lose as part of an obesity awareness effort launched Wednesday. The initiative — organized under Get Healthy Connecticut and carried out by the Yale School of Public Health, Yale-New Haven Hospital and the City of New Haven — seeks to unify existing infrastructure in the city to encourage healthy eating and physical activity. Marta Moret SPH ’84, president of a policy think tank Urban Policy Strategies and wife of Yale President Peter Salovey, is helping to lead the project.

“The inspiration is the severity of our chronic diseases in New Haven that are driven in large part by obesity, which is driven by the unhealthy culture that we’ve developed in America,” said Jon Atherton, director of strategy for Community Alliance for Research & Engagement, or CARE, at the School of Public Health. “This initiative is a connecting point for all the stuff that is already happening, recognizing that without being connected, we won’t have the same impact that we need.”

On Wednesday, Moret joined representatives from New Haven’s Community Services Administration, the Yale School of Public Health and Yale-New Haven Hospital to launch the project at Beulah Heights First Episcopal Church,

as town and gown came together to address obesity and obesity-related health problems in the city.

Moret heralded a coming “health revolution” that would mobilize local businesses and nonprofits in the fight for affordable health care and access to healthy nutrition. New Haven could become a “model for the nation” in nutrition best practices, she said in a statement, through the “widest possible partnership for better health in our city.”

Similar initiatives have seen success in other cities, said Roberta Friedman, director of public policy at the Yale Rudd Center, a nonprofit dedicated to improving food policy. Expanding access to healthful foods is the type of environmental change that improves health outcomes, Friedman said, adding that the Rudd Center will help out “as much as we can.”

“It’s a wonderful opportunity for New Haven to focus on improving environments so that we can bring down the rates of obesity-related chronic diseases,” she said. “I think this is going to be a very important initiative.”

In the past, some public health initiatives in the city have been “too quick to assume an agenda,” and Atherton said the working groups take the opposite approach by “getting around the table” to debate the best approach to improving obesity and chronic disease in New Haven.

The initiative is working to develop a website and iPhone app where city res-

idents will input their measurements of weight loss and physical activity can be tracked. The website will also list the services the initiative is gathering to support weight loss around nutrition and physical activity in New Haven, Atherton said.

Surveys conducted by CARE in 2009 and 2012 found that residents in New Haven’s lowest-income neighborhoods reported drastically poorer health than Connecticut residents reported statewide, said Althea Marshall Brooks, New Haven Community Service Administrator.

Lack of access to healthy foods and inadequate exercise drive the city’s obesity problem and contribute to heart disease and diabetes, the report confirmed.

Brooks said asking the city to slim down by thousands of pounds seems gimmicky, but is effective in “engaging residents around a tangible goal.”

She said the precise figure — 375,000 pounds — pays homage to the 375th anniversary of the Elm City, which was founded in 1638 by English Puritans.

“It is a fun challenge,” Brooks said.

“But also an immensely important one.”

According to a 2012 survey by CARE, 43 percent of New Haven residents are obese, compared to 23 percent statewide.

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

Contact DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .

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Conn. retirees face high cost of living

BY ISABELLE TAFT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As members of the baby boomer generation retire, those who live in Connecticut might consider moving elsewhere.

A 2012 report by the Wall Street Journal and TopRetirements.com called Connecticut the worst state for retirees after analyzing each state’s fiscal health, property taxes, income taxes, cost of living and climate. In March, U.S. News & World Report, citing high home rental costs and mortgage burdens for seniors, named Bridgeport, the state’s most populous city, one of the 10 worst places to retire in America.

John Brady, the founder and owner of TopRetirements.com, spent his career living in Madison, Conn. He retired to Key West, Fla., in part, he said, to escape the heavy tax burden he faced in Connecticut. The state has high income and property taxes and is one of just 14 states to tax social security benefits.

Brady said the high taxes could become “oppressive” for retired people living on a fixed income.

“If you have lots and lots of money and taxes don’t matter to you, come to Connecticut,” Brady said. “It’s a great place to live.”

Despite the burden they can be for retirees, high taxes allow Connecticut to offer a strong social safety net and numerous services for seniors, said Bette Marafino, president of the Connecticut Alliance for Retired Americans, an organization that advocates for senior citizens and lobbies at the state level. Marafino said she feels the level of taxation is reasonable.

A bigger issue, Marafino said, is the lack of livable communities for seniors in the state, forcing them to move into nursing homes. A March report by the Connecticut Department of Social Services found a nursing home occupancy rate of about 90 percent, the 10thhighest in the nation.

“Studies show people live longer, are happier and are healthier when they’re in their own home or they live in an environment where they can be with

people,” Marafino said.

In recent years, Connecticut has made strides to reduce a reliance on nursing homes that left it with the nation’s highest nursing home occupancy rate in 2003. A recent ranking by the American Association of Retired People of each state’s “long-term care toolkit” — support systems for aging people and their caregivers — placed Connecticut 11th in the nation. Claudio Gualtieri, associate state director for advocacy for the Connecticut AARP, said this ranking indicates the state offers broad and high-quality options for elder care, legal supports for caregivers and support for elderly people who choose to age in their own communities.

Gualtieri said his organization has recently begun focusing on the importance of livable communities — areas of mixed-use development that allow people, especially senior citizens, to take care of their needs without traveling long distances in a car. New Haven, he said, has been a leader in this area.

“You have this great coming together of entertainment, grocery stores, pharmacies, housing, parks,” Gualtieri said.

“We’re trying to make sure that those practices get shared in other towns.”

But New Haven’s retired people face their own challenges. Patricia Wallace, New Haven’s director of elderly services, said senior citizens in the Elm City are particularly likely to be food insecure, meaning they sometimes struggle to obtain all the food they need for themselves and their families. The Elm City also has seen a recent increase in the elderly homeless population — an issue Wallace said the city has been working to address by coordinating the work of the elderly services department with that of case managers who handle homelessness.

In Connecticut, 14.8 percent of the population is over the age of 65, compared to 13.7 percent of the national population.

Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

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Government funding for local arts uncertain NEW HAVEN ARTS FROM PAGE 1 received a $1,080 grant from the 2013-’14 Mayor’s Community Arts Grants, announced on July 15, which awarded roughly $25,500 to fund 25 local arts projects and initiatives. But while Greco said he is pleased to have received the grant, the Family Arts and Culture Workshops will cost thousands of dollars to host, a significantly higher amount than the grant provides.

The financial obstacles Arte faces in hosting these workshops are reflective of a larger struggle for government arts funding that has affected many other Community Arts Grants recipients over the past two years as they worked to expand their organizations’ outreach and programming variety. Only two of seven leaders within local arts organizations interviewed said their grant fully covered the expenses of the project for which it was intended. None of the seven said their organization was able to depend primarily on the city for overall funding. And although all seven groups reported growth in their size and outreach during the past two years, only one has seen a steady increase in state funding during that period.

“I think the arts are a great economic engine for the city,” Bregamos Community Theater Founder Rafael Ramos said.

“They make the community more vibrant and are therapeutic for some. … But especially in this economic environment, the arts are usually one of the first to get cut.”

But three local organization leaders said the outcome of the upcoming New Haven mayoral race on Nov. 5 will determine whether the city’s current level of support for the arts will continue. And while the amount of Connecticut state arts funding for New Haven arts organizations has increased by roughly $300,000 in the past three years, the overall level of support for the state’s arts organizations has decreased more than $3 million since 2008. Simultaneously, a federal proposal calling for a 49 percent decrease in the National Endowment for the Arts may threaten state governments’ ability to fund such programs, Arts Council of Greater New Haven Director Cindy Clair said. As a result, all seven leaders emphasized the uncertainty in relying on government funding for their arts organizations.

CHANGING PRIORITIES

Daniel Forrest, director of arts at the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, said that over

the past two years, the state has started to prioritize grants funding specific projects over more general grants covering organizations’ operating costs. For the next round of funding, which will last from Jan. 1, 2014 to June 30, 2014, the state plans to use roughly $575,000 of its $971,000 in new grant money for the New Haven arts to fund specific projects, he explained, adding that only $190,000 will be given to organizations to cover general operating costs.

Two local arts organization leaders said this change in statelevel funding priorities has put their groups at risk of losing funding or prevented them from applying for additional funding. LEAP, a long-term youth leadership development program that serves nearly 700 students between the ages of six and 23, receives the majority of its funding — for both operating costs and specific projects — from the state. Lucy Diaz, director of development at LEAP, said that at one point during the last three years, the organization was eliminated from the governor’s proposed annual budget and was only kept on after members of the state senate, including mayoral candidate Toni Harp ARC ’78, fought strongly for its retention.

Julie Trachtenberg, director of development and marketing at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, said that because the organization receives funding from the state’s annual budget, it is no longer able to apply for many individual grant opportunities at the state level. And since the Arts Council is a large agency serving a broad range of artists and art organizations, it does not receive grant money for individual projects from the city. Consequently, the council currently receives roughly 75 percent of its funding from individual donors, corporate sponsors and private foundations.

“Not that we wouldn’t appreciate being supported by the city, but those grants are for smaller organizations that need a finite amount of money for a specific project,” Trachtenberg explained.

The prioritization of project-specific funding has also extended to smaller local groups.

Greco, the co-founder of Arte, noted that his organization receives vastly different levels of funding for different purposes. He said the largest grant Arte receives from the community is for ASAP, an after-school program that combines the arts with standard academic subjects such as math and science.

But while these specialized programs are receiving consistently satisfactory funding, Greco said

the group only receives a small amount of government funding for general operating costs.

A ‘STAMP OF APPROVAL’

Three Community Arts Grants recipients interviewed were awarded their grant for the purpose of hosting multi-weeklong programs that will lead to longterm community impact, rather than individual events. All three said that while they were not dependent on the grants for their financial survival, the awards are still significant in symbolizing the city’s commitment to community improvement.

One recipient, the Bregamos Theater, was given $1,200 to host a four- to six-week summer theater program in 2014 that will teach fundamental acting skills to 10-13 year old students in the New Haven area. Sharece Sellem, artistic director of Bregamos, said the program will be limited to 15 students and be completely free of charge.

Sellem added that the program’s impact will revolve around fostering solidarity in addition to teaching acting techniques.

She cited the example of a young actor who told her that though he was not very interested in theater, he still enjoyed being part of Bregamos’ last production because he felt like he was part of a community. The program would still have been launched if Bregamos had not received the grant, she explained, but the grant is important in showing the city’s awareness of the group’s contribution to the city.

“We kind of got a stamp of approval in a way,” Sellem said. “[The grant] validates who we are and what we are about.”

Kenneth Reveiz ’12, cofounder of the New Haven Free Skool, said the $500 he received from the grant allowed him to host the Free Skool’s summer session, which lasted from July 15 to Aug. 24. The classes in the program are taught by members of the community and have ranged from “Mexican Salads” to “Human Sexuality.” Reveiz noted that all classes are free and that over 600 people have participated in the program across the three sessions since its founding.

He explained that since the costs of running the program are relatively low, it most likely would survive regardless of whether it received the grant. Still, Reveiz feels that the Community Arts grant is a promising sign that the city supports the mission of the Free Skool, which is to empower both its students by providing them with learning opportunities they otherwise would not have and its instructors through providing the chance to serve as

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This year, New Haven’s Mayor’s Community Arts Grants helped fund 25 local cultural organizations. leadership figures.

“Coming from Yale, it is expected that I know how to lead because I have had many opportunities to do so, but for many people that doesn’t exist,” Reveiz said.

Elm City students volunteer VOLUNTEERING FROM PAGE 1 67 percent of students at Yale are involved in volunteering, based on a random sample taken in 2007. In comparison, the website for Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House said that 1,400 people — or approximately 21 percent of undergraduates — volunteer at the school.

At Cornell, approximately 54 percent volunteer through Cornell’s public service center, according to statistics provided by the Cornell Public Service Center’s annual report, though 73.8 percent of Dartmouth students volunteer at the rural New Hampshire school, according to Helen DamonMoore, the director of service and education at the Tucker Foundation.

“It’s not necessarily about being in an area that’s in a dense population or in an area with urban challenges,” said Johnny Scafaldi the director of development and alumni relations at Dwight Hall. “It takes talented, visionary, committed people, contributing to a vibrant democracy.”

Scafaldi also noted that the number of people volunteering at Yale has increased over the years. In 2001 there was an estimated 2,500 student volunteers, increasing to a total of about 3,500 in 2012.

THE TOWER WALLS

Despite Yale’s high rate of volunteering, some students argue that the effort is too insignificant and often patronizing to those in

New Haven.

Max Rolison ’15, the new membership coordinator of Dwight Hall, said that it can be difficult to get programs started in New Haven Public Schools because Yale students have a bad reputation. Often they cancel on plans to arrive in a school, Rolison said.

However, he added that the public school system appreciates students who are dedicated to their program and participate consistently.

Volunteering is not the key to integrating Yale with New Haven, said Christian Rhally ’15. Rather he thinks the only real way to integrate town and gown is to make meaningful friendships outside of Yale. Volunteering, he said, “is not like two friends hanging out and having a drink, it’s not an equal relationship.”

There are also Yale students who do not have the time to participate in New Haven. ike Erica Leh, they would like to be involved off campus but find themselves too busy with classes and oncampus extracurricular activities.

“I feel bad that I’m not doing a lot of volunteer stuff in New Haven and I did a lot of it in high school,” Leh said. “If I had more time those are the things that I’d really like to get into.”

Morales agreed, adding that college is often a time of self-discovery and for this reason it is often easy to justify not engaging your community.

partake in civic service in the Elm City said that it contributes to their education and understanding of the world around them.

Life skills, Rolison said, are learned through volunteering.

During Hurricane Sandy, for example, Rolison said he raked leaves for the first time as he led students through relief efforts.

“Yale teaches me intellectual skills but all of my actual life skills comes through work that I do at dwight hall,” Rolison said. “It’s really crucial for Yale students to realize that there’s more to this world than this academic bubble.”

More than just providing practical, a glimpse into New Haven can provide students with the real world education that they need to understand how to lead and engage with their community outside of college. For this reason, Bonita Grubbs, the executive director of Christian Community Action in New Haven, has always seen student volunteering as a two-way street. It is beneficial to the community and it is also a way for students to grow.

“Yale has the opportunity to see the real world and to be educated by people in this community,” Grubbs said. “If Yale thinks about students as future leaders, there is value to understand, to be in touch with a world other than their own.”

In 2002 there were 60 member organizations in Dwight Hall compared to 90 in 2013.

PART OF GREATER EDUCATION

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

Those who do feel the pull to

Despite these uncertainties, Diaz and Reveiz said the local government has become increasingly supportive of arts groups over recent years.

“We are seeing more support for grassroots and community

outreach organizations,” Reveiz said. “The city is really taking [the arts] seriously.”

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu.

Unclear if Wood will run WARD 7 FROM PAGE 1 Wood runs.

“We’re going to try to cover more territory,” Witherspoon said, “because we have a few buildings in our ward that we cannot go into and solicit for votes.”

Laurie Kennington, president of Yale’s Local 34 union, could not be reached for comment. Wood worked for Unite Here, the parent union of Local 34, over the summer and her candidacy has been deeply connected to organized labor.

Smith’s deadline, according to Hausladen, is at least partially responsible for other candidates’ decisions to suspend their campaigns.

On Wednesday, former city clerk candidate Sergio Rodriguez announced he was dropping out of the race.

In the meantime, the Ward 7 incumbent is continuing his campaign as if he were in a contested election.

He said that he is continuing to canvass throughout the ward.

“The primary was really a learning experience and one that has made me a stronger alder and a stronger candidate,” Hausladen said.

Wood’s candidacy came as a late-summer surprise. New to the ward, she jumped into the race only

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Ella Wood ’15 has not yet announced whether she will continue on as an Independent through the Nov. 5 contest. days after breaking her lease and moving from Dwight Street in Ward 2, running on a platform of providing better representation to all of the ward’s residents.

Hausladen said, however, that fundraising remained uncertain in the absence of Wood’s decision. Although aldermanic campaigns gen-

erally operate on low budgets, his candidacy will require more funds should Wood contest the race.

Hausladen was first elected to the Board of Aldermen in 2011.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.

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SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 3:00 PM Master Class: “Cole Porter’s Milieu: Art and Design in the Jazz Age” Come learn about the French and American art and cultural influences on Cole Porter’s music. YUAG. 4:00 PM Film screening: “Seize the Time” Sponsored by Film Studies Program and Films at the Whitney, this film screening will explore issues of civil rights and social movements in the ’60s. “Seize the Time” is a biographical depiction of the life of Bobby Seale, co-founder and organizer of the Black Panther Party. Free admission. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Auditorium.

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3:00 PM, 6:00 PM Triple Threat: A Dance Show by Rhythmic Blue, Steppin’ Out and the Yale Breakers Come see some of Yale’s most talented dancers collaborate and groove. This show promises to bring a dynamic energy to your Saturday afternoon.

Tickets are $5 at the door for students. Morse-Stiles Crescent Theatre 8:00 PM Our Town (New Haven Theater Company) “Our Town” is a timeless, poignant piece of theatre, with meditations on life and its meaning, set in a small, nondescript town. The New Haven Theatre Company will approach it with a “fresh take,” bringing new energy to this classic. Tickets are $12 for students. English Building Market (839 Chapel St.)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 8:00 PM Yale Swing and Blues Weekly Dance Practicum Come dance away your Sunday end-of-the-weekend blues, to the uplifting and freewheeling notes of swing and blues music. Slifka Center (80 Wall St.),

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No compromise: Govt on brink of a shutdown?

BY ANDREW TAYLOR AND DONNA CASSATA ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Moving closer to the brink of a government shutdown, House Republicans vowed Thursday they won’t simply accept the stopgap legislation that is likely to remain after Senate Democrats strip away a plan to dismantle President Barack Obama’s health care law.

A sense of confusion settled over the House, both over how to avoid a shutdown and how to handle even more important legislation to increase the government’s borrowing ability to avert a default on U.S. obligations. Short of votes, House leaders shelved a vote that had been expected this weekend on the debt limit measure and gave frustrated GOP lawmakers few clues about what they plan to do to avoid a shutdown.

The chaos sets the stage for weekend drama on Capitol Hill, with the Senate planning to send the fractious House a straightforward bill Friday to keep the government operating through Nov. 15 rather than partly closing down at midnight Monday.

Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and several rank-and-file Republicans said the House simply won’t accept a “clean” spending measure, even though that’s been the norm in Congress on dozens of occasions since the 1995-96 government closures that bruised Republicans and strengthened the hand of Democratic President Bill Clinton.

“I don’t see that happening,” Boehner said. Still, he declared that “I have no interest in a government shutdown” and he doesn’t expect one to occur on Tuesday.

Senate Majority Leader Harry

Reid of Nevada said the Democratic-led chamber will not relent.

“The Senate will never pass a bill that guts the Affordable Care Act,” Reid declared.

A partial government shutdown would keep hundreds of thousands of federal workers off the job, close national parks and generate damaging headlines for whichever side the public held responsible.

Washington faces two deadlines: The Oct. 1 start of the new budget year and a mid-October date — now estimated for the 17th — when the government can no longer borrow money to pay its bills on time and in full.

The first deadline requires Congress to pass a spending bill to allow agencies to stay open. The mid-month deadline requires Congress to increase the government’s $16.7 trillion borrowing cap to avoid a first-ever default on its payments, which include interest obligations, Social Security benefits, payments to thousands of contractors large and small and salaries for the military.

The standoff just four days before the end of the fiscal year increased the possibility of a shutdown, with no signs of compromise.

The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, Dick Durbin of Illinois, said that because of the time it takes the Senate to approve even non-controversial bills, if the House amends a Senate-passed spending bill and returns it to the Senate over the weekend, “That is a concession on their part that we’re going to shut down the government.”

Not far from the Capitol, at a community college in Largo, Md., Obama insisted he would not negotiate over his signature

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Pressure is building on Republicans over legislation to prevent a partial government shutdown. domestic achievement, either on a bill to keep the government operating or legislation to raise the nation’s borrowing authority.

“The entire world looks to us to make sure that the world economy is stable. You don’t mess with that,” Obama said of the debt ceiling/default measure.

“And that’s why I will not negotiate on anything when it comes to the full faith and credit of the United States of America.”

Responding to Obama’s

non-negotiable stand, Boehner said, “Well, I’m sorry but it just doesn’t work that way.”

Meeting behind closed doors, House Republican leaders encountered resistance from their rank and file over the debt limit measure even though they were attaching a list of other Republican favorites such as green-lighting the Keystone XL oil pipeline, blocking federal regulation of greenhouse gases and boosting offshore oil exploration.

Official avoids cellphone queries

Republicans who lost the presidential election and a shot at Senate control last year are trying to use must-pass measures to advance agenda items that the Democratic-led Senate and Obama have soundly rejected.

The last-ditch effort on “Obamacare” comes just days before coast-to-coast enrollment in the plan’s health care exchanges begins Oct. 1.

Despite the popular items, the leadership was struggling to win

Justice Dept spent nearly $5M on drones

BY PETE YOST ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., center, talks with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, left, and Deputy Attorney General James Cole on Capitol Hill in Washington.

BY KIMBERLY DOZIER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The nation’s top intelligence official on Thursday sidestepped questions from a senator about whether the National Security Agency has ever used Americans cellphone signals to collect information on their whereabouts that would allow tracking of the movements of individual callers.

Asked twice by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., if NSA had ever collected or made plans to collect such data, NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander answered both times by reading from a letter provided to senators who had asked the same question last summer. He also cited a classified version of the letter that was sent to senators and said, “What I don’t want to do … is put out in an unclassified forum anything that’s classified.”

Wyden promised to keep asking.

“I believe this is something the American people have a right to know, whether NSA has ever collected or made plans to collect cell site information,” Wyden said.

The testy exchange at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing illustrates the wider tension that has grown between the public and the

U.S. intelligence community, following disclosures by Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former systems analyst on contract to the NSA, about the extensive NSA collection of telephone and email records of millions of Americans.

I believe this is something the American people have a right to know, whether NSA has ever collected or made plans to collect cell site information.

RON WYDEN U.S. Senator, D-Ore. The panel’s bipartisan leadership used the hearing to promote their version of legislation to change the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act. The lawmakers seek to trim NSA’s authority to access and analyze U.S. phone records and provide new protections to Americans’ privacy. They also want to broaden the government’s spying powers to allow monitoring of terror suspects who travel to

the U.S. after being tracked overseas by the NSA. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the committee, said the legislation would “strictly limit access to the ... phone metadata records, expressly prohibit the collection of the content of phone calls,” and limit the amount of time such U.S. phone call data could be kept.

Such records show the date and length of calls, and the numbers dialed.

But Feinstein’s proposed legislation would not stop the bulk collection of telephone and email records. A separate bipartisan group of four senators, including Wyden, unveiled legislation earlier this week to end those bulk collections.

Feinstein and the committee’s top Republican, Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, defended U.S. intelligence efforts, as did Alexander and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — insisting that while they collect U.S. bulk records, they do not listen in on individual Americans’ phone calls or read their emails without a court order.

Alexander and Clapper spoke of wanting to cooperate with suggested changes in order to win back the public’s trust.

over its recalcitrant GOP members, especially tea party-backed lawmakers pressing for deeper, deficit-cutting spending measures. The spending cuts the Republicans would attach to the debt-limit legislation would be likely to represent a small fraction of the almost $1 trillion in new borrowing authority the bill would permit.

“Among conservatives, there’s a lot of angst about that,” said Rep. John Fleming, R-La.

WASHINGTON — The FBI has been using drones to support its law enforcement operations since 2006 and has spent more than $3 million on the unmanned aircraft, the Justice Department’s internal watchdog said Thursday.

The disclosure came in a new report by the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, who revealed that the department also has awarded $1.26 million to at least seven local police departments and nonprofit organization for drones.

In addition, the IG said another Justice Department component, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, plans to use drones to support future operations. To date, the ATF has spent almost $600,000, the IG report stated.

From 2004 to May 2013, the Justice Department spent almost $5 million on the unmanned aircraft.

In June, then-FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress that the FBI occasionally uses the unmanned aerial vehicles but was developing guidelines in anticipation of issues that will arise “as they become more omnipresent.” In one instance earlier this year, the FBI used drones at night during a six-day hostage standoff in Alabama.

In a letter in July to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the FBI revealed it had used drones 10 times since 2006 for surveillance in kidnappings, search and rescue missions, and drug and fugitive investigations. Among them was last winter’s standoff between authorities and Jimmy Lee Dykes, who was shot to death after holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in Alabama, the letter said.

The IG’s report cited the Alabama case, but no others, saying only that a review of available records showed that the FBI appeared to be operating drones only after obtaining required approvals from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Civil liberties groups critical of domestic drone use say such operations could invade people’s privacy.

The government worries drones could collide with passenger planes or crash, concerns that have slowed more widespread adoption of the technology.

Paul, mentioned as a possible 2016 GOP presidential candidate, had been thwarting the Senate confirmation vote of Mueller’s successor, James Comey, over his concerns about the

FBI’s domestic use of drones and had asked the FBI to address his concerns.

The FBI’s letter to Paul also said that while the Supreme Court had not ruled on the use of drones, prior rulings on aerial surveillance held that court warrants were not needed because the areas monitored were open to public view and “there was no reasonable expectation of privacy.”

The agency also wrote that a warrant would not be needed because drones don’t physically trespass on private property.

Civilian versions of unmanned military aircraft that have tracked and killed terrorists in the Middle East and Asia are in demand by police departments and border patrol units. Justice Department officials told the IG’s office that none of their drones were armed. Law enforcement agencies want drones for a bird’s-eye view that’s too impractical or dangerous for conventional planes or helicopters to obtain.

The drones purchased by the Justice Department are what the FAA calls “small UAS,” unmanned aerial vehicles that weigh up to 55 pounds.

The FBI has said its unmanned aerial vehicles are used only to conduct surveillance operations on stationary subjects. In each instance, the FBI first must obtain the approval of the FAA to use the aircraft in a very confined geographic area.

Two other Justice Department components, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Marshals Service, have purchased drones for testing, but said they had no plans to deploy them operationally, the IG’s report said. The Marshals service spent $75,000. The DEA acquired its drone from another federal agency at no cost, and said it planned to transfer the craft to another agency. The Marshals Service said it planned to destroy its drones because they were obsolete and no longer operable.

Regarding potential privacy concerns, both the FBI and ATF told the IG’s office they did not believe there was any practical difference between how a drone collects evidence and how that’s done by a manned aircraft, the report said.

The FBI told the IG that bureau guidelines require that agents get supervisor approval before conducting any aerial surveillance and comply with aviation laws and policies. As of May, the ATF said it was developing a checklist to guide how drone operators conduct flights.

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WORLD

“There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.” E.B. WHITE AMERICAN WRITER

Diplomats support nuke talks

Deal reached on Syria weapons

BY EDITH M. LEDERER AND MATTHEW LEE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, attended a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security Council on Thursday.

BY MATTHEW LEE AND LARA JAKES ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS — The U.S. and its European allies said Thursday they were pleased by a new tone and a significant shift in attitude from Iran in talks aimed at resolving the impasse over the country’s disputed nuclear activities. Iran said it was eager to dispel suspicions that it is trying to develop a nuclear weapon and to get punishing international sanctions lifted as fast as possible.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who also had an unexpected one-on-one meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, said six world powers and Iran had agreed to fast-track nuclear negotiations with the hope of reaching a deal within a year.

Iran, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany also agreed to hold a new round of substantive nuclear negotiations on Oct. 15-16 in Geneva.

“We agreed to jump-start the process so that we could move forward with a view to agreeing first on the parameters of the end game … and move toward finalizing it hopefully within a year’s time,” Zarif said after the talks ended. “I thought I was too ambitious, bordering on naiveté. But I saw that some of my colleagues were even more ambitious and wanted to do it faster.”

Kerry said he was struck by a “very different tone” from Tehran after their sessions, which marked the highest-level direct contact between the United States and Iran in six years. But, like his European colleagues, he stressed that a single meeting was not enough to assuage international concerns that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian atomic energy program.

“Needless to say, one meeting and a change in tone, that was welcome, does not answer those questions,” Kerry told report-

ers. “All of us were pleased that the foreign minister came today and that he did put some possibilities on the table.”

He said they agree to continue the process and try to find concrete ways to answer the questions that people have about Iran’s nuclear activities.

Zarif and Kerry sat next to each other at a U-shaped table during the group talks.

It was the highest-level direct contact between the United States and Iran in six years. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton suggested the two men had shaken hands and been cordial with each other.

She also said the parties had agreed to “go forward with an ambitious timeframe.”

Zarif said the meetings were “very constructive” and “very substantive.”

“We hope to be able to make progress to solve this issue in a timely fashion (and) to make sure (there is) no concern that Iran’s program is anything but peaceful,” he said. “I am satisfied with this first step,” he added. “Now we have to see whether we can match our positive words with serious deeds so we can move forward.”

He said the end result would have to include “a total lifting” of the international sanctions that have devastated Iran’s economy.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said there had been a “big improvement in the tone and spirit” from Iran compared with the previous government under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said the meeting had taken place in a “completely different tone, atmosphere and spirit” than what the group was used to and that a “window of opportunity has opened” for a peaceful resolution of the situation. He too insisted that Iran’s words would have to be matched by actions.

“Words are not enough,” he said.

“Actions and tangible results are what counts. The devil is in the detail, so it is now important that we have substantial

and serious negotiations very soon.”

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Zarif, both in New York this week to attend the U.N. General Assembly, have said they are anxious to clinch an agreement quickly that could bring relief from sanctions that have slashed the country’s vital oil exports, restricted its international bank transfers, devalued the currency and sent inflation surging.

Encouraged by signs that Rouhani will adopt a more moderate stance than Ahmadinejad, but skeptical that the country’s all-powerful supreme leader will allow a change in course, President Barack Obama has directed Kerry to lead a new outreach and explore possibilities for resolving the long-standing dispute.

Rouhani has come across as a more moderate face of the hard-line clerical regime in Tehran and his pronouncements at the U.N. have raised guarded hopes that progress might be possible. But they have also served as a reminder that the path to that progress will not be quick or easy.

In his speech to world leaders at the U.N. on Tuesday, he repeated Iran’s long-standing demand that any nuclear agreement must recognize the country’s 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. They have imposed sanctions over Iran’s refusal to halt enrichment. Uranium enriched to low levels can be used as fuel for nuclear energy but at higher levels, it can be used to make a nuclear weapon.

Rouhani also insisted that any deal be contingent on all other nations declaring their nuclear programs, too, are solely for peaceful purposes - alluding to the U.S. and Israel.

Those conditions underscored that there is still a large chasm to be bridged in negotiations.

UNITED NATIONS — The five permanent members of the deeply divided U.N. Security Council reached agreement Thursday on a resolution to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, British and U.S. diplomats said, and the full council was set to discuss it Thursday night.

The agreement represents a major breakthrough in addressing the 2 and a halfyear conflict, which has killed more than 100,000 people.

Divisions among the permanent members have paralyzed council action on Syria since the conflict began.

U.N. diplomats said this resolution would be the first legally binding one on Syria in the conflict if adopted, which now appears virtually certain.

Britain’s U.N. ambassador, Mark Lyall Grant, tweeted that Britain, France, the U.S., Russia and China had agreed on a “binding and enforceable draft … resolution.”

He said Britain would introduce the text to the 10 other council members Thursday night.

The U.S. and Russia had been at odds on how to enforce the resolution, but Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power confirmed that the last hurdles to agreement had been overcome.

On Twitter, Power said the draft resolution establishes that Syria’s chemical weapons “is threat to international peace and security and creates a new norm against the use of CW.” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Lavrov met in hastily scheduled, closed-door talks Thursday afternoon at the United Nations, and the agreement was announced soon afterward.

The agreement came a day after Russia’s deputy foreign minister said negotiators had overcome a major hurdle and agreed that the resolution would include a reference to Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which allows for military and nonmilitary actions to promote peace and security.

The U.S. and Russia had been at odds on how to enforce the resolution to secure and dismantle Syria’s chemical

weapons.

In Moscow, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov offered to provide troops to guard facilities where Syria’s chemical weapons would be destroyed.

The flurry of diplomatic activity is in response to an Aug. 21 poison gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians in a Damascus suburb, and President Barack Obama’s threat of U.S. strikes in retaliation.

After Kerry said Syrian President Bashar Assad could avert U.S. military action by turning over “every single bit of his chemical weapons” to international control within a week, Russia, Syria’s most important ally, agreed. Kerry and Lavrov signed an agreement in Geneva on Sept. 13.

Assad’s government quickly accepted the broad proposal, but there have been tough negotiations on how its stockpile will be destroyed.

Security Council action on Syria had long been stalled because of differences between Russia and China, who back Assad’s government, and the U.S., Britain and France, who support the opposition. Russia and China have vetoed three Western-backed resolutions aimed at pressuring Assad to end the violence.

Work on the new resolution continues while the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the body that will be in charge of securing and destroying the stockpile, is working on its own document to set out its exact duties. The U.N. resolution will include the text of the OPCW’s declaration and make it legally binding - so the OPCW must act first.

The Hague-based OPCW said Thursday it was optimistic it could quickly schedule a meeting of its 41-nation executive council to approve a roadmap for swiftly destroying Syria’s chemical arsenal and production facilities.

A U.N. diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because consultations have been private, said the executive board of the OPCW isn’t likely to meet before Sunday, which means that Security Council adoption of the resolution likely won’t take place until next week

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AROUND THE IVIES

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”

ANSEL ADAMS AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER

B R O W N D A I LY H E R A L D

Environmental program looks to grow

BY MOLLY SCHULSON STAFF WRITER Environmental studies and human impact on nature were highlighted as one of seven key “integrative themes” for Brown University’s next decade in President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan, released last week. But changes are already underway at the Center for Environmental Studies: With a new leadership team, the center is working to expand its faculty, adjust to recent curriculum changes and improve advising and cohesiveness under new leadership.

In May, Dov Sax, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Kurt Teichert, senior lecturer in CES, were named the center’s director and associate director, respectively.

Their primary goal this year is to begin implementation of the University’s new environmental curriculum, Sax said.

The Committee to Review the Environmental Studies Concentration recommended changes last semester to the environmental studies and environmental science concentrations. These originally included increasing the required core from two courses to four and constructing four tracks, instead of letting students choose their own focus areas.

“For the current curriculum, it has just been too wide open for interpretation, and it has been difficult to guide students through that process,” Teichert said.

The tracks were created to make sure students “get enough depth in a particular area to complement the breadth,” Sax said.

“There’s a danger in the existing curriculum that someone can get

too much of a hodgepodge of courses and not enough of a focus. The problem there is that without enough BROWN disciplinary depth, you are in danger of not actually having the expertise to go solve a problem.”

But in March students at a public forum voiced opposition to several of the proposed changes. Students particularly objected to the lack of a track relating to food and health topics, The Herald reported at the time.

There’s a danger … that someone can get too much of a hodgepodge of courses.

DOV SAX Associate professor, Biology In response to student and faculty feedback, the proposed tracks were revised this spring to include Air, Climate and Energy; Conservation Science and Policy; Land, Water and Food Security and Sustainability in Development.

Some students said they appreciate the revisions but called the changes to the track options insufficient.

“I would still like to see more focus on environmental health and food from not really a food security perspective but more of a food justice perspective,” said Katie Parker ’14, an environmental studies concentrator.

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The Center for Environmental Studies will focus on revising the environmental studies and environmental sciences curricula.

Parker said she also believes an environmental health track should have been created. “It was a little frustrating to me that it wasn’t added despite a lot of student support and a lot of Brown professors who have focused on that in the past,” she said.

Sax said he wants to focus on getting the four tracks in place before creating any additional ones.

“The hope would be that we’re going to continue to hire faculty and continue to grow, and as we do that … we can add tracks,” he said.

Having concentrators take the core classes will help build a

D A I L Y P E N N S Y L VA N I A N

Engineering houses wind tunnel

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The wind tunnel is regularly used by the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department.

BY BRENDA WANG STAFF WRITER The Towne building has a secret padlocked in the basement.

Room B2 has long housed Penn’s only wind tunnel. A little known fact to most Penn students including engineering students, the wind tunnel has helped many in designing projects and gathering data.

Though small compared to industry standards, the wind tunnel is quite imposing by normal standards. Painted a pale blue, the Aerolab Educational Wind Tunnel System measures 15 feet long and 6 feet high and takes up most of the underground room in Towne.

Bruce Kothmann, a senior lecturer in the engineering department, estimates that it is around 15 years old.

The Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department is one of the only departments to use the wind tunnel. It is used by three classes, among them Junior Design Lab I and II and “Introduction to Flight.”

Junior Design Lab I is currently using the wind tunnel to test the efficiency of student-designed wind turbines. Students first research and create a small scale model of a wind turbine, which they then place inside the chamber of the wind tunnel to test how

much electricity their turbines ge n e ra te .

A c c o rd i n g to Kothman, the wind t u n n e l PENN can reach speeds of up to 120 miles per hour, although for educational purposes, 60 miles per hour is usually sufficient.

Engineering junior Audrey Keller, who is about to start building her own turbine, said, “I’m excited … everyone in MEAM knows about this project. It’s pretty famous.”

After testing the model turbines, students create full-size prototypes eight to ten times the size of the model. The wind tunnel cannot be used to test the prototypes, which are too large to fit inside the tunnel. Instead, prototypes are fitted to wheeled carts which sprinting students then push down the long hallways of Towne in order to simulate wind.

In Junior Design Lab II, the wind tunnel is used to measure convection, “the transfer of heat by moving air,” by seeing the time it takes a piece of hot metal to cool to a specific temperature at a controlled wind speed. This helps students understand the principles behind such applications as varied as lap-

tops and jet engines.

The wind tunnel is also used in “Introduction to Flight” to “measure the thrust and torque on a small propeller, and once again use ‘scaling laws’ to predict what will happen with a larger propeller.”

When asked whether Penn will ever invest in a full-size wind tunnel, Kothmann replied that the ones similar to what Boeing has are “not cost-effective.” He also argues that being forced to “use data they gather from testing a small turbine in the wind tunnel to predict the behavior of a large turbine operating in the real world” is a valuable learning experience.

Dean Wilhelmi, an engineering senior, said moving from the small model to the large turbine is “a little challenging in terms of just understanding the dimensional analysis,” but he, like Kothmann, did not see a need for a fullsize wind tunnel.

Still, Kothmann admits that, “It’s hard to get good data on a really small model.”

Although his students joked about the diminutive size of the wind tunnel during class, Kothmann points out that it is educational as well as cost-effective.

“We have a fairly small engineering department, so the fact that we have a wind tunnel at all is very good.”

shared language within environmental studies and sciences at Brown, Sax said. “It will create a shared understanding of the different disciplines that we view as essential in solving environmental problems,” he said.

The required classes for the new curriculum include ENVS 1509: “Introduction to Environmental Social Sciences,” GEOL 0240: “Earth: Evolution of a Habitable Planet,” ENVS 1350: “Introduction to Environmental Economics” and Introduction to Environmental Life Sciences.

Some of the courses are still in development, Teichert said.

“I think it’s great in theory, and

if it works, it would be awesome,” said Eliza Drury ’16, who is planning to concentrate in environmental science. “I think one of the key parts of environmental studies is that you can approach it at many angles so it would be hard to facilitate all of the concentrators to take a lot of the same classes.”

A class that used to be one of the two core classes, ENVS 0110: “Humans, Nature and the Environment: Addressing Environmental Change in the 21st Century,” is no longer required.

“That was one of my favorite classes at Brown, and it was kind of unclear why it is not being

required when it has so far been a lot of people’s introduction to the concentration,” Parker said.

Deciding whether ENVS 0110 should remain a required course was a complicated issue, Sax said. The course will be encouraged but not required, he added.

Requiring environmental studies concentrators to take an economics class was another point of disagreement in the public forum last semester.

Drury has already taken the economics requirement. “I think economics is applicable to almost everything, and it’s just a good life class,” she said.

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SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS MARIANO RIVERA The greatest closer ever and the last player to wear No. 42 threw his final pitch at Yankee stadium last night. Rivera finishes his career with 42 postseason saves (the same number as his uniform) and an astonishing 0.70 ERA in the playoffs. He will be missed.

Big Red roll into Yale Bowl Hank Furman ’14 ran in three touchdowns to accompany Tyler Varga’s ’15 236 rushing yards against Colgate.

While it may seem to the casual fan that Varga breaks off his pounding runs with ease, left tackle Wes Gavin ’14 knows that the running back earns every yard. “[Varga] is a tough guy to bring down,” offensive lineman Gavin said. “He works harder than most people think.”

At first glance, Yale appears to be driven by its ground game, but the Bulldog attack is actually fairly balanced: Three quarterbacks threw for 210 passing yards, and running plays contributed another 327 yards to the Bulldog offensive totals. By contrast, Cornell features Mathews in a passing offense that generated 285 of Cornell’s 302 total offensive yards last week.

Reno said that Furman will start this weekend if he is healthy enough to play and that the senior’s running game was a major factor in the decision. “[Furman] is a better runner than must people give him credit for,” Reno said. “I think Hank has earned the opportunity to play more.”

The Bulldogs know Matthews will be throwing the ball, so they hope to contain the rest of the Cornell attack by taking control of the pace of the game. Between tough defense and the no-huddle offense, the Elis know they can play the game at the pace they want.

“If we can stop the run or control the run, it makes it easier to control the pace,” said defensive end Dylan Drake ’14, who earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors for his performance at Colgate last week.

Reno’s no-huddle strategy this season compliments the team’s forceful running

Keys of the game vs. Cornell

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER

DON’T PASS ON THROWING THE FOOTBALL

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Cornell employs a dynamic passing attack, while Yale’s offense features Tyler Varga’s punishing runs. game and allows the Elis to set the pace, punishing their opponents with quick run after quick run while advancing up the field.

“We want to control the tempo of the game,” Gavin said.

On the other side of the ball, both teams display similar defensive prowess. Last weekend the Big Red forced and recovered five fumbles against Bucknell while at Col-

gate, the Eli defense forced and recovered two fumbles, including a recovery by Beau Palin ’14 on Yale’s four-yard line.

The Bulldogs ran a total of 86 plays with an average gain of 6.2 yards per play last week. The Big Red ran 76 plays, gaining 4.3 yards per play on average.

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

Elis take on Quinnipiac MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 16 Scott Armbrust ’14 leads the team in assists with two, while forwards Avery Schwartz ’16, Jenner Fox ’14 and Henry Albrecht ’17 each have one assist. Freshman forward Cameron Kirdzik ’17 has been sensational in his first campaign scoring two goals and registering 12 shots, second only to Jacobson’s 15 shots.

Winger Cody Wilkins ’13, who is coming off of two injury plagued seasons, has also been a bright spot for the Elis on offense registering a goal and five shots.

Two standout senior defenders lead Yale in the back. Captain Max McKiernan ’14 and Nick Alers 14’ have been stalwarts in defense starting all six games thus far. Goalkeeper Blake Brown ’15 has performed admirably in net having a total of 16 saves. Sophomore defenders Tyler Detorie ’16 and Philip Piper ’16 look set to have another full season in the back, both having featured in 16 games in 2012.

“I think going forward we have to do two things better,” Alers said. “One, we have to do a better job of keeping possession and connecting passes under pressure. Two, we have to stop giving away cheap goals, particularly off set pieces.”

Yale has been particularly vulnerable from set pieces thus far will look to improve quickly as they have been leaking goals at the back and are second to last in the Ivy League in goals against with a total of 11. The Bulldogs also need to be more clinical at the offensive end where they have managed to score two or more goals in two games and have been shutout three times despite having a decisive edge in shots in each of those contests.

“Offensively we are looking to attack quicker and get forward right after wining possession,” defender Pablo Espinola ’16 said. “On defense, we are pushing higher and trying to force turnover and offsides. The Ivy League season ushers

in games that are played at a faster pace and we are going to have to have more ball possession going forward.”

The Elis will look to snap their losing streak against the Bobcats (1-3-3, 0-0 MAAC) in only their second game at home this season. The Bulldogs are undefeated against Quinnipiac in all of their 11 meetings with a record of 9-0-2 that includes last year’s narrow 1-0 win courtesy of Ambrust’s first half strike.

Although the Bobcats are coming off of a 3-0 home loss to Hartford, they should not be underestimated, as they took perennial ACC powerhouse Boston College to a double overtime 2-2 draw.

Yale’s offense will have to be in top shape against junior goalkeeper Borja Angoitia,

who has two shutouts this season and was last week’s MAAD defensive player of the week.

“We always get excited to play Qpac,” defender Alers said. “Coming off this tough overtime loss, we can’t wait to get back on the field and get a win.”

The match up is also Yale’s final game before the start of the Ivy League campaign. The Bulldogs have conference opponents in four of their next six games after Friday’s matchup.

Yale faces Quinnipiac Friday at 7 p.m. at Reese Stadium.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu

games were big turning points for us because they really improved out competitive spirits. We’re as good as we think we should be.”

The hallmark of the Elis is their team chemistry. Now, with a freshman class ranked among the nation’s best, the Elis hope to stage a repeat of last year’s undefeated season (18-0 Ivy).

“I think we’ve progressed a lot,” Johnson said. “We’ve been working really hard and the cohesiveness of the team has really grown. We’ve all really improved as a whole.”

Brittani Steinberg ’17 has already made an impact. In her debut against Missouri, she led

PUT MATHEWS ON THE GROUND

Last year, Big Red quarterback Jeff Mathews picked apart Yale’s secondary for 340 yards and four touchdowns when the two teams met on Sept. 22. He was as precise and efficient as a surgeon, finding his mark on 29 of 39 throws for four touchdowns. Giving such a refined signal caller as Mathews time in the pocket to find open receivers is a death knell to opposing defenses. But even a pro-level prospect like Mathews cannot fire strikes across the gridiron when he is sitting on the turf.

Last year a lone sack by defensive end Beau Palin ’14 was all that the Elis could do to pressure Mathews. Now the captain, Palin will have to lead the Eli pass rush to greater success in order to disrupt the Big Red offense on Saturday. Palin will be aided by defensive end Dylan Drake ’14, who made the Ivy League Honor Roll last week with six solo tack-

STAND FURMAN

Six Elis have gone under center for Yale so far in the past two seasons, but one of them has towered above the crowd. Furman stands six feet, four-anda-half inches tall and boasts a flowing blond mane, but he stands out for more than just his stature. Recruited as a quarterback by former head coach Tom Williams and then converted to a wide receiver under new head coach Tony Reno, Furman returned from the wings to nest in the pocket once again last fall when injuries decimated Yale’s quarterback corps. Since then, Furman has done nothing but impress as the Bulldogs’ signal caller. Starting his first collegiate game as quarterback against Princeton last fall, Furman went 18–28 for 184 yards and a touchdown, yet his performance did not earn him the start at Harvard the next weekend. After more than a half of football in which Yale’s offense looked anemic and scored just three points, Reno again called on Furman to jumpstart the Elis. Furman delivered by passing for 158 yards (13–20) and another score.

Given the start last week at Colgate, Furman did exactly what he has always done: run Yale’s offense better than anyone else for the past two seasons.

He passed for 129 yards (11–17) and then showed off his dualthreat ability by rushing for 60 yards and three touchdowns on just four carries. Still, Furman split time with Clemson transfer Roberts for most of the first half before Furman’s day ended with a sprained ankle in the third quarter — Furman told the News in a message that he was kept out of the second half of the Colgate game as a precaution, but that his ankle was feeling much better. Now Roberts is an incredible athlete whose strong arm and quick feet were bottled up behind All-American quarterback Tajh Boyd at Clemson, but until Furman shows that he cannot handle Yale’s offense, he has earned the right to be called Yale’s starting quarterback.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

Drake on SportsCenter, Amen COLUMN FROM PAGE 16

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After their game Friday, the Elis will take on Ivy opponents in four of their next six games.

Ivy season to start against Brown VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 16

A lot remains shrouded in mystery about Yale football this season, but one fact is as clear as day: The Bulldogs will run the pigskin. The ’Dawgs rolled for 327 yards on the ground on 53 attempts at Colgate last Saturday to win their season opener.

It is no secret that Yale will run.

Without the Elis brandishing the pass, particularly a deep threat, Cornell will be able to stack the box with defenders and make tailback Tyler Varga ’15 and company earn every bruising yard.

Last week Reno and his staff did a great job alternating their attacks through the ground and the air. Yale quarterbacks dropped back to pass 34 times and completed 20 throws for 210 yards while being sacked just once. Cornell conceded 230 rushing yards to Bucknell in its 45–13 victory, but it took the Bison six more rushing attempts to gain 97 less yards than Yale did against Colgate. Veteran wideouts Cameron Sandquist ’14, Deon Randall ’14 and Chris Smith ’14 should give quarterbacks Hank Furman ’14 and Morgan Roberts ’16 the weapons to spread the Cornell defense and open up running lanes.

les, including a sack and three tackles for a loss as Yale triumphed over Colgate.

the team with 15 kills on phenomenal .500 hitting. Steinberg is now third on the team in kills and kills per set.

As it did last year, Yale’s Ivy League season will start against Brown.

The Bulldogs were victorious in both matches against the Bears last year, beating them by a score of 3-1 in Providence and routing them in straight sets at home. Both matches, however, were very competitive.

In the road victory against Brown last September, two of the four sets went to sudden death, with Yale taking both by scores of 28-26 and 27-25. The Elis got a strong contribution from captain Kendall Polan ’14, who

posted a 10 kill, 31 assist, 20 dig triple double. Johnson also made an impact with her 13 kills and 24 assists.

By the time Brown visited Yale a month later, the Bulldogs were in the middle of an historic season. They entered the match having won their last eight bouts, giving up only three total sets in that span.

This time the Elis were victorious in straight sets, but the match was no cakewalk. Neither team hit above .200 and they combined for 44 errors through three sets.

Brown (4-6, 0-0 Ivy) has struggled so far this season and will come into New Haven having lost its last bout against Tem-

ple in straight sets.

“I wouldn’t say [Brown’s record] matters that much at all,” Polan said. “Brown has always played really well against us. It’s never been a game we’ve easily won.”

The team’s focus, as Johnson said, will instead be on their side of the court: playing Yale volleyball.

“Brown’s a really strong team,” Polan reiterated. “It’ll be a good match.”

The game starts on Saturday 5 p.m., and the fans are encouraged to wear pink to support Dig Pink, the fight against breast cancer.

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

through the camera and made no acknowledgement of broadcasters Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit. It could have been an act, and he eventually livened up, even displaying an impressive reverence for Musburger and other long-time announcers, but the whole thing was a mess. Why do we care what inarticulate opinion Eminem has about his Detroit Lions?

For some reason, we demand something more out of our sports programming. Celebrities and other public figures make appearances on network morning shows and late-night talk shows, and they promote their products and discuss similarly inconsequential topics. Yet we find those discussions entertaining or at the least inoffensive.

Drake appearing on SportsCenter is frustrating because we expect to see experts discussing the topics of the day, not celebrities who we believe have similar or worse levels of sports knowledge than the regular viewer. We find these cross-promotions so awkward because we don’t believe Drake and Eminem are qualified to talk about sports, as if Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith on First Take are somehow better suited to have the Ronaldo/LeBron conversation than Drake. In fact, Drake may have a better relationship with some of these athletes than the ESPN personalities.

We’re equating sports with news — the two categories are our two dominant forms of live programming on radio, television,

or otherwise, and I agree that it would be even more awkward to have Drake tour the evening news shows and give his opinion on Syria. But I’d argue that the assumption of equality means we’re taking sports too seriously.

We consider sports to be more real than other forms of other entertainment, while music and film are perceived as more manufactured, and seeing the two come together results in a certain form of cognitive dissonance because we’re reminded that the dichotomy isn’t as strong as we think.

Sports is not news in its purest form — simplified, sports programming reports on the minute activities of multi-billion companies whose goals are to profit and only secondarily to entertain.

There is nothing wrong with this — it just means that sports don’t deserve a higher spot in the cultural hierarchy than other forms of art and entertainment.

To paraphrase Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z, another figure at the intersection of music and sports, they’re all just entertainers. We’re fine — even interested — if LeBron makes an appearance on Jimmy Fallon and talks about his favorite music. Why shouldn’t the reverse apply when Drake visits SportsCenter and praises LeBron? It’s worth keeping that in mind whenever we start to place sports on a higher pedestal than it deserves — a high pedestal nonetheless, but not one shielded and exclusive from the other cultural elements that enrich our lives.

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

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The Elis will take on Quinnipiac this weekend following four-straight losses.

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This weekend the Yale offense will try to match the 537 yards of total offense it put up last week against Colgate.

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Coming into its first Ivy League game against Cornell at 1–0 is a familiar feeling for Yale football, but on Saturday the 2014 Bulldogs will march into the Yale Bowl with a burning memory, a believer’s mindset and a bitter taste in their mouths.

At 12 p.m., the Elis will kick off against the Big Red in the Yale Bowl for the 76th

time in history, and Yale’s successful running game will combat Cornell’s passing prowess. Regardless of the squads’ diverse styles of play, the team that comes out on top of this year’s matchup will be the one that leaves it all out on the field. And like the Bulldogs, the Big Red has a reputation for playing a hard-nosed game, according to head coach Tony Reno.

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While the Bulldog offensive line is working to create holes for Yale’s rushing game, the Big Red has been busy giving 2011 Ivy League Player of the Year quarterback Jeff Mathews time to throw the ball.

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Yale will look to get back on track after four-straight losses against local rival Quinnipiac at Reese Stadium.

MEN’S SOCCER The Elis (1-5-0, 0-0 Ivy) return from two games in California last weekend. The trip included a heartbreaking over-

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The sports expertise fallacy, no lie Sports, music, film, video games — they all fall under the same umbrella of “entertainment.” I get it. But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t a little confused when I saw Drake promoting FIFA 14 earlier this week. FIFA came out this week, and so did Drake’s new album, so I see the business synergies. And, I see you, EA Sports, reinforcing stereotypes by using the softest rapper in the game to promote the softest game in sports. Soccer stars drop to the pitch with phantom injuries and whine about the weather, while Drake name-drops Yale and Harvard and whines about women and his lack of respect. Way to know your audience. (In the interest of full disclosure, I enjoy both soccer and Drake, and I probably am, in fact, “soft.”)

But it still doesn’t mean it wasn’t awkward when Drake seemed to take over ESPN for a few hours on Tuesday, making appearances on SportsCenter and First Take and competing in a soccer shootout challenge. He

appeared for over nine minutes in one SportsCenter segment where he discussed his friendship with Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel and his predictions for the upcoming NBA season. Aubrey was well spoken and clearly knowledgeable, but you had to wonder what the informational value was of knowing whether the Toronto native thinks Cristiano Ronaldo or LeBron James is a better athlete. Sure, the Johnny Manziel relationship is interesting — though Manziel should probably stick to the X’s and O’s more than the OVO — but everything else felt out of place. Great, Drake can mediocrely kick a soccer ball. Back to the highlights!

And it’s not like this is something new — it’s not true that nothing was the same. Just a couple weeks ago, Eminem made a bizarre appearance on ESPN’s Saturday Night Football during halftime to promote his upcoming album. The rapper stared blankly

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Notably, the Elis played against the top volleyball team in the nation – Penn State – and they did it on PSU’s home floor.

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RUSHING YARDS GAINED BY TYLER VARGA ’15 LAST SATURDAY AGAINST COLGATE. His ground-game performance was the third-best in Yale history behind two games turned in by Mike McLeod ’09. Varga rushed for an average of 6.1 yards per carry during the game.