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Investment returns slow down
CROSS CAMPUS Save our trees! University officials originally wanted to remove 18 maple trees on Prospect Street along the Grove Street Cemetery wall, but instead will remove only seven trees in the most “fragile” condition, the New Haven Register reported. In their place, the University will plant nine new trees and a bunch of bulbs, too.
WITH 4.7 PERCENT RETURN, YALE STILL BEATING IVY LEAGUE PEERS BY GAVAN GIDEON STAFF REPORTER
the Sprague auditorium. “I would like to ask for your help and support to the reestablishment of the rule of law in Burma.” A Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 1991, Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest in Burma before being released in November 2010.
Though Yale returned 4.7 percent on its investments in the latest fiscal year — beating the performances recorded by two other Ivy League schools so far — the value of its endowment slipped by $100 million because spending distributions outpaced growth. The performance of Yale’s endowment, valued at $19.3 billion as of June 30, was significantly weaker than the 21.9 percent return posted in fiscal year 2011. The University’s investments in foreign equity were hit particularly hard, as international developed markets lost 13.8 percent and emerging markets fell 15.9 percent, according to a statement released Thursday. But Yale’s continued commitment to alternative, illiquid assets helped prevent too dramatic a reversal from last year, even though those investments were largely responsible for the endowment’s huge loss three years ago. “We’ve done well compared to the general market, and that’s really all you can hope for,” University President Richard Levin said. “It’s the only benchmark that matters.” Richard Anderson, former principal of
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IvyGate is still around? The
New York Times published an article Thursday examining how social media is changing the ways college students go out. “Pregames often are single sex, with men playing beer pong or video games, and women drinking vodka sodas or a peach-flavored Champagne called André and refusing to head out until they have captured the perfect photo, which they promptly post to Instagram and Facebook.” The article got in trouble, though, when IvyGate pointed out that the Cornell students named weren’t actually real students: as it turned out, they were underage students with fake IDs who had lied about their names. Still going? There’s a bit of a
shakeup underway at Mohegan Sun, where former CEO Jeffrey Hartmann is out and over 300 employees will be laid off, according to The New London Day. Mohegan will shut down Birches, a tribe-owned restaurant, and close its keno operation. Foxwoods has no plans for layoffs.
Getting noticed. On Thursday,
Slate published an article by Law School professor Emily Bazelon ’93 LAW ’00 examining the potential for New Haven’s education reform efforts to succeed.
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Through Timothy Dwight College’s Chubb Fellowship, Nobel Prize laureate and internationally renowned democracy and human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi delivered a speech at Sprague Hall that drew roughly 700 attendees.
Hundreds gather for Suu Kyi address BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER A crowd holding signs and waving Burmese flags welcomed international human rights and democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi as she arrived to Sprague Hall to deliver a public address Thursday morning.
Visiting Yale as part of an 18-day tour of the United States, Suu Kyi urged the establishment of an independent judiciary in Burma and encouraged Yalies to contribute to the cause of democracy. “Until we achieve the rule of law, we cannot say Burma is truly on the road to democracy,” she said to roughly 700 attendees inside
Building Yale’s sustainable future BY LILIANA VARMAN STAFF REPORTER Some call it “Darth Vader’s Summer Palace.”
UPCLOSE Stretching across approxi-
mately 150,000 square feet of land at 55 Lock St., the dark, looming structure that houses the Yale University Health Center may look formidable to some. But the interior floods with natural light — just one aspect of the structure’s sustainable design initiatives. Thirty-four percent of the
Yale Health Center’s installed material came from recycled materials such as locally manufactured steel, concrete and wood. In an effort to promote public transportation, the location is also easily accessible — it can be reached on foot, bike or bus. The building is the most
recent Yale facility to receive Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification, guidelines set by the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council for evaluating a building’s sustainable practices. When it opened in August 2010, it was the 12th Yale building to be certified since 2005. Seven Yale labs, which are
part of larger buildings, have also received LEED certification. As one of the highest consumers of Yale’s energy resources, laboratories offer a high potential for energy savings to help meet University-wide sustainability goals, said Virginia ChapSEE LEED PAGE 4
Isn’t he, like, famous?
Legenadary (?) Grammywinning singer-songwriter Michael Bolton had to cancel a concert in Trumbull, Conn., last weekend due to lagging ticket sales. It’s costing the town $75,000 in cancellation fees. Yale is a sexy place. We’re
not sure whom they talked to, but people at Playboy published an infographic this week that ranked Yale as one of the nation’s best schools for student sex life.
Resolved. Republican candidates will get top billing on election ballots this November, Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Statute said the party which received the most votes in the last gubernatorial race gets the top spot. Even though Democrat Dannel Malloy won the race, some of his votes came from the Working Families Party, so the Republicans ultimately tallied the most votes.
City schools win $53 million federal grant BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s school reform efforts received a federal endorsement Thursday afternoon in the form of a multi-million dollar grant from the Obama administration. The city’s school district will receive a projected $53.4 million federal grant over five years to support professional development for teachers and administrators, city officials announced in a Thursday afternoon press conference at John Martinez School in Fair Haven. Mayor John DeSte-
fano Jr., Superintendent Reginald Mayo, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and other city and school officials announced that New Haven had won the competitive grant, which they said was awarded due to the city’s ambitious education reform drive, which first attracted national attention with a 2009 contract with the district’s teachers’ union hailed as a breakthrough for tying teacher evaluations to student learning. “New Haven school change is one of the nation’s pre-eminent public school reform initiatives that says the best way to SEE GRANT PAGE 6
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New Haven city and school officials announced that the district had won a $53 million federal grant in a press conference held at John Martinez School in Fair Haven.
JE’s Farley named Yale-NUS dean BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTER Former Jonathan Edwards College Dean Kyle Farley will serve as the inaugural dean of students at Yale-NUS College, the school announced Thursday evening. Farley left Yale in fall 2011 to work at Academies Australasia, an educational group that serves international students studying in Australia. At the time, Farley said his move was partly motivated by his wife’s desire to return to Australia, where her family lives. The day before Wednesday’s announcement, Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said the new dean of students will be expected make decisions about how to address Singapore’s restrictions on political parties and public protests, and address any “gray areas” that might be found in Singaporean law. “He’s been very successful with conflict resolution,” Lewis said of Farley. “The job of any residential college dean is representing students when they go to the Executive Committee, so he’s quite good at representing students and helping them with their needs and so forth.” JE Master Penelope Laurans also said Farley’s experiences as a residential college dean have prepared him to represent and men-
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Former Jonathan Edwards Dean Kyle Farley will be the first dean of students at Yale-NUS College. tor students “in the midst of crisis,” such as involvement with illegal activities. Farley said in a Thursday email that he is studying Singaporean history to better understands the country’s laws, and also plans to consult with other U.S. universities with programs in the citystate. Yale College Deputy Dean Joseph Gordon, who worked with Lewis and Farley on Yale’s Committee on Majors, said Farley has strong “people skills” and has a history of working well with Lewis. “[I] was impressed by how their collaboration led to the smooth operation of the work SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 6
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We, the Yale Daily News Managing Board of 2013, are on our way out. We will elect our successors this weekend, and next week’s papers will be theirs. Our lives will change drastically. The newspaper to which we have dedicated the last year will no longer define our days. But for you, our readers, this weekend is not a landmark at all. You will read the same newspaper once we are gone; our year at the Oldest College Daily will be just another in its 134 years of history. The News will continue to cover the stories of the moment, from the presidential search and Yale-NUS College to the Connecticut Senate race. But the issues that defined our tenure will gradually fade into history. Just as our board leaves the News this weekend, all Yale students will eventually leave the University and the world they built during their years here. New students will take their places, new buildings will rise and the school they know will slip away. Somehow, this changed and somewhat foreign place will still be Yale. In the past year, our board has sought to chronicle the Yale of our time and to tell the stories we encountered around us. We grappled with questions concerning the sexual climate on campus. We weighed globalization and liberal arts ideals. We questioned the well-worn path from Yale to investment banks as Occupy New Haven camped across
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s Daw Aung San Suu Kyi entered the doors of the Timothy Dwight college dining hall, the commotion in the room dwindled to a hushed whisper. All eyes were glued on her as she walked briskly towards the head table with Master Jeffrey Brenzel, smiling broadly, eyes glowing. As one of the lucky few to have been able to secure a spot at the Chubb Fellowship dinner on Wednesday night, I didn’t quite know what to expect. There she was, standing barely 30 feet away from me, and yet I felt as if she had just walked out of a photograph. My heart almost stopped when she left her seat and began to visit each table, shaking students’ hands and conversing with each of them. She was inquiring, laughing, looking like she genuinely enjoyed talking to the students, who in turn seemed nervous and starstruck. I frantically thought of what I would say to her when she came to my table. Should I address her as Daw Suu, or is that too informal? How should I introduce myself? In the end, she stopped short before she reached my table, causing a collective groan of dis-
appointment from those around me. Secretly, though, I felt a tinge of relief. It would almost be too much of a shock to actually meet her, to hear her voice without the amplification of a microphone, to see her eyes looking into mine. For me, the name Aung San Suu Kyi had not referred to an actual, living human being of flesh and blood. Rather, it denoted a set of notions and ideals that were too broad and weighty for any single person to carry: Freedom. Democracy. Peace. Love. Tolerance. It is precisely the vagueness of these terms that gives them their appeal. When we become accustomed to throwing them into a bundle to describe someone, each of these words begin to lose its individual meaning. Instead, all they manage to evoke in us is a sense of approval, a sense of goodness. A friend jokingly told me after the Chubb dinner that three living people possess moral authority equivalent to that of Jesus Christ: Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama and Aung San Suu Kyi. The statement is of course an exaggeration, but it is indicative of how these people are so widely regarded and
venerated. They are seen almost as living saints. While it goes without saying that each of these figures deserves our utmost respect, I am hesitant to place them on an unreachable pedestal. To idolatrize or worship them is also to depersonalize them in a way that implicitly denies in each one of us our individual capacity for moral strength. In her talks on Wednesday and Thursday, Suu Kyi deliberately downplayed the personal suffering she underwent in the past 20 years. House arrest did not compare to the agony of prison her colleagues went through, she repeatedly emphasized. When she told us, “They put me under six more years of house arrest,” her tone was so calm and casual that she might have been saying, “They invited me to tea.” How can she take her loss of liberty so lightly? What about the pain of watching her countrymen suffer and yet feel powerless to help? What about being separated from her family, even during the last moments of her husband’s life? Make no mistake; Suu Kyi’s suffering was immense. Her perseverance, against all odds, testi-
fies to her extraordinary courage and character. By downplaying her individual calamity, Suu Kyi is making a point. “I don’t understand it when people ask me how I go on, how I don’t quit,” she said at the dinner. “It is not difficult to do the right thing. How could I not do the right thing? How could I leave my colleagues and simply give up?” The danger of worshipping our heroes is that, by doing so, we are implicitly admitting that we are incapable of what they have done and that we rely upon them to take us to the promised land. Suu Kyi rejects that idea. She reminds us that she is also mortal; she, like you or me, is a normal human being. She is challenging all of us to do the right thing, simply because we can and should. Under adverse circumstances, Aung San Suu Kyi held true to her beliefs and became the Aung San Suu Kyi we respect so highly. There is an Aung San Suu Kyi in each of us as well, and we must strive to realize her. XIUYI ZHENG is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at xiuyi.zheng@yale.edu .
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Rethinking the Ivy style B
efore I came to Yale, I didn’t know that outfits of bright green shorts, pastel-colored collared shirts and boat shoes were all that common. I was not accustomed to brand-name clothing that was kelly green, periwinkle blue or pale pink (sorry — salmon). Before I came to Yale, my exposure to preppy clothing had been very limited. Now, I feel weirdly well-versed. I started thinking more about preppy clothing after coming across an article in last week’s News about an “Ivy Style” art exhibit at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology consisting of mannequins dressed in a quintessentially preppy manner. The exhibit — from its title to its mannequins standing “in the middle of a grassy quad against the backdrop of a neo-Gothic façade akin to Calhoun College” — equated preppy clothing and the Ivy League. Historically, this conflation is accurate. The preppy look was born early in the last century when upscale clothing lines like J. Press marketed collegiate British garb to students at schools such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Over the next few decades, this look became synonymous with the Ivy League; the style gained its name from the elite prep schools that adopted the look of the universities they fed into. Now, the
word “preppy” instantly calls to mind Lacoste and Brooks Brothers, Chinos and Sperrys — all of which I see on a daily SCOTT basis at Yale. STERN Before I go any furA Stern ther, it should Perspective be noted that Yale is not the preppiest school out there. According to the Huffington Post’s very scientific “Preppiest Colleges of 2012,” the preppiest school is Georgetown, followed by the University of Virginia and Boston College. Other names I frequently heard in a highly informal poll I conducted at lunch were Bucknell and Vanderbilt. Many students told me their high schools were far preppier than Yale. Nevertheless, preppy clothing has been linked to Yale. To me, coming from a public high school in Pittsburgh where preppy clothing was certainly not common, this link seems valid. At first, I instinctively disliked preppy clothing for what it represented. “Preppies are most basically those people who don’t mind being associated with elite schools and the professions those
schools feed into,” Mark Oppenheimer ’96 GRD ’03 wrote in Salon a few months ago. “By virtue of the clothes they wear, they express their comfort being associated with a certain kind of cultural prerogative.” That cultural prerogative is a distinctly upper-crust, monied one. Cody Pomeranz ’15 remembers how a bunch of kids at his private high school in Cincinnati founded a “Gentleman’s Club” and wore expensive and preppy clothing to school every Wednesday. It was no coincidence, Pomeranz believed, that most of the members of the Gentleman’s Club were also members of the Investment Club. Preppy clothing is “better understood as an orientation toward power,” Oppenheimer wrote. To me, that seemed a bad thing. I perceived preps — who wore expensive clothing that peacocked opulence — as elitist. By looking like you are just about to head off to the yacht club, you are practically begging people to make a judgment about you, your parents and your country club membership. You seem exclusive, at the very least. Three years ago, Harvard set off a minor controversy in the fashion world (are there ever minor controversies in the fashion world?) by launching its own brand of clothing: Harvard Yard.
This archetypically preppy line — “A New England patchwork of tartan, seersucker and oldschool plaids,” in the words of The New York Times — was instantly assailed for being both elitist and designed solely for the elite (sports coats cost a hefty $495). I judged Harvard Yard. I judge Yale’s preps. That is, until I started talking to them. At a certain point I had a revelation: Even preppy clothes are still just clothes. I don’t dress well. Really. You can ask pretty much anyone I know. I also don’t expect anyone to judge me because of how I dress. Not all people who wear preppy clothing are pretentious, and not all people who wear old jeans and T-shirts are slobs. After meeting countless preps who were normal, down-to-earth kids, I rethought my opinion of those who don the Ivy Style. Clothing has always carried certain connotations. Preppy clothing — expensive and ostentatious — carries with it a stereotype of Yale I don’t care for. But clothing really is just something you wear because being naked would be too uncomfortable. You might never catch me in salmon slacks, but if you choose to wear them, I have no right to judge. SCOTT STERN is a sophomore in Branford College. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .
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YALE TALKS ALCOHOL GUEST COLUMNIST M I C H E L L E TAY L O R
G U E S T C O L U M N I S T NATA L E E P E I
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rinking is Yale’s single largest problem. If any other student activity sent unconscious students to the hospital on a monthly basis, it would receive more attention than binge drinking. Moreover, if any of my friends were legitimately at risk for longterm alcoholism, there is no way I would know because the majority of them — myself included — meet the criteria for concern. The culture of binge drinking at Yale is difficult to avoid, unless you hide out 24/7 in some dark corner of the stacks. By contrast, in my four years at Yale, I have never personally encountered the purported culture of rape. Nor do I feel that Yale-NUS poses any immediate risks to my health and safety. I also would not say the new president, whomever we pick, is likely substantially to change the Yale experience. Yet we engage in heated debate over these issues over and over again. So let’s finally give the alcohol problem the attention it deserves. The first step is admitting we have a problem. Notice I say we. I, like most of you, am a fiercely competitive pong player, and I have my share of mildly to extremely embarrassing alcohol-induced stories. And granted, some of these
stories will make great fodder for storytime with the grandchildren, but most would be better left in the past. Yale, we have a problem. The health concerns are overwhelmingly obvious. Every weekend, students of Yale ingest poison en masse. With alarming frequency, we continue ingesting until our livers can’t handle anymore, and we vomit.
IT IS UNDENIABLE THAT YALE’S APPROACH TO ALCOHOL IS FLAWED Then add on the whole slew of indirect damages of binge drinking — from embarrassing dance floor tonsil hockey to acts of vandalism worthy of the Executive Committee. If two people are hammered and have sex they regret the next morning, does that mean they raped each other? Honestly, I have no idea. It doesn’t appear to be anybody’s fault. But I do know I’d blame it on a culture of binge
drinking before I’d blame it on a culture of rape. So why do we do it? It’s not because we enjoy a fine beer. Otherwise we wouldd all be drinking Duvel over bowls of Gouda cubes instead of shotgunning Natty Ice. It’s also not because we need it to be social. My friends are just as awesome sober as they are drunk. And past a certain point, the positive social lubricant effect rarely outweighs people’s annoying drunk tendencies: abrasive honesty, crazy clinginess or stealing, destroying or urinating on other people’s belongings. If you’re now thinking, “This isn’t a Yale problem; it’s an American university problem,“ then you’re right. There is something unique about the American university environment. It is the only place in the world where a concentrated group of young adults living away from home are legally prohibited from drinking. We do it because we can’t. It’s the inescapable, age-old lure of the forbidden fruit. Before I turned 21, the attraction of the whole bootleg culture of underage drinking was irresistible. It was the last frontier of the forbidden grown-up privileges, and there was no parental presence to
rain on our parade. Didn’t matter how terrible the beer was, or how dank the frat basement was. Free beer was virtually unmissable. But when I turned 21, some magical switch flipped in my head. Suddenly, I wasn’t drinking just for the sake of drinking anymore. I enjoyed it for things like the taste, the mild buzz, the chill bar environment. Don’t get me wrong — I’m not saying beer pong isn’t fun anymore, or that now I never have one too many. But I’m no longer shoving through a dirty basement full of sweaty zombies beelining for the cooler full of Dubra punch. What’s the solution? It’s a nobrainer — the drinking age should be 18. For Yale’s sake, and for the sake of every other American university, treat us like the adults that we are. All you have to do is imagine the Yale of not too long ago when beer was always on tap in the dining hall. Do you see people rushing out after dinner to chug 30-racks? So Yale, I hope you will join me in admitting that first, we have a problem, and second, the drinking age needs to change. NATALEE PEI is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact her at natalee.pei@yale.edu .
GUEST COLUMNIST CHLOE DRIMAL
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uring our downward dogs in yoga class, our teacher explains that if we feel no love for something, we need to leave it behind. She goes on to say that on the other hand, if we hold even just a tiny hiccup of love for something, we need to hold onto it as tightly and as long as we possibly can, no matter who tells us it’s a bad idea. Because in the end, those people aren’t us. They don’t know what makes us tick or how we see the world. I love to work until 10:45 p.m. on a Wednesday and then quickly slap on mascara and head to penny shots with my best friends. I dance, I chat, I may take a shot, but most of all, I observe in order to tell stories. My stories may not be the same as yours. My stories aren’t buried in a book in Bass at 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning when I’ve already gotten my work done. Some of my friends’ stories are written in their beds, tucked in for the night, maybe with a boy, maybe with a girl, maybe with a stuffed purple giraffe. Other Yalies’
stories are being told in a drunken haze outside of Box 63, which has just closed for the night. A guy may be peeing on the wall out of sight of Carl, the owner; next year, that same guy may obtain a high-paying job at one of the top banks. He may eventually leave his job. Banking isn’t for everyone; there may be no hiccups of love left in it for him. He may find his way to Teach for America. He may be living in one of the most dangerous cities in the country, but for him, there is some hiccup of love in teaching young kids and for now he’s holding on to it. Maybe partying was just a necessary part of his growth, and maybe he just needed to let loose in the stressful environment that consumes Yale. Partying is a small sip of a person’s eclectic life. It doesn’t change their morals or where they will end up. Hey, even George W. Bush ’68 liked to party, but then again, maybe he’s a bad example. Back to New Haven at 2 a.m. on a Saturday. There may be a girl
already walking towards the frats. She’s probably with other girls trailing behind guys who are chanting, “DKE, DKE late night! DKE, DKE, DKE late night!” Tonight she may dance until the moon dips below the trees. She may take her shirt off, or maybe she’ll put a sweatshirt on. She may make out with one or two boys, or she may lay on her back in the parking lot and watch the stars. She won’t go into banking; that’s not in the cards for her. But maybe she’ll go to med school, and maybe she’ll be taking care of your father’s heart a few years from now. Maybe she wanted more than med school. Maybe she left Yale only to come back and get a M.D. and a Ph.D. at the same time — maybe she’ll run a hospital. But maybe she never went to DKE at all. Maybe she went back to the Elmhurst or the Lynwood or some other hipster haven and passed around a joint and talked about the characters floating around in her head. Maybe she’s living in L.A.
writing a show that could one day land her an Emmy. We’ll soon find out. Maybe some of these shes are hes and maybe some of these hes are shes (although I hope no girl is found squatting on the side of Box 63). Some of these characters could have been classified as a SWUG or a SWUB in their prime — either way, they’re not homeless alcoholics. Sometimes, the hardest thing in life is to not judge yourself and not to be afraid of others judging you. We can’t always understand exactly who we are in this moment or the choices we make. The only thing one can do is move forward, following these small hiccups of love we have in our hearts. We’ll understand our college years in hindsight when we’re 30. Then it will all make sense, but for now we live our lives forward and save the understanding for later.
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personable and conversational and at the same time very happy to party. I can hear them arguing that there’s plenty of other time for conversations and building relationships. At parties, you can let loose, and isn’t that great? We lead such stress-filled lives — do we not deserve a few nights without worrying about the how-are-yous and the nice-to-meet-yous that Yale overflows with? Is that really true? Do we really have a lot of time here? A month at Yale passes at the speed of a week at home. As such, weird as it may sound, parties, just like homework and extracurriculars, really encroach upon the time we have at Yale to talk, to converse and to make friendships that will last a lifetime. Our parties, despite being overly crowded and very loud remain, at heart, mute and impersonal. It is ironic that a culture so heavily dependent on alcohol has at its core this muteness and loneliness. I say ironic because alcohol is probably the greatest social lubricant man has known. The joy to be found in drinking in the company of friends is unique. Most importantly, alcohol loosens our tongues and gets us talking and sharing our deepest secrets in a way few things
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do. This summer, in France, I tasted wine for the first time. It would have been idiotic, I told myself, to be in France and miss out on the opportunity. This fall, in the same debate hall where I had refused that drink three springs ago, I was toasted at our last toasting session, and proceeded to sip from the brimming Mory’s cup. We sang ridiculous songs and made ridiculous toasts. I myself toasted to alcohol and quoted “Madhushala,” or “The House of Wine,” the most remembered work of Harivansh Rai Bacchan, poet extraordinaire of 20thcentury India: “Alas, he that with eager lips has not kissed this wine, / Alas, he that trembling with joy has not touched a brimming goblet, / … / Has wasted this honey-filled tavern of life.” There are few places at Yale where we properly celebrate alcohol. Alcohol should hardly be a deterrent to conversation and the building of relationships. If only we looked beyond the dominating party culture of our times, we would appreciate this end a lot more. RADHIKA KOUL is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at radhika.koul@yale.edu .
MICHELLE TAYLOR is a senior in Davenport College. Contact her at michelle.a.taylor@yale.edu .
CHLOE DRIMAL is a senior in Calhoun College. Contact her at chloe.drimal@yale.edu .
The lost art of social drinking produce smirks and assurances that within a few weeks I would leave my high ground. A friend of mine taking acne drugs that could damage the liver when taken with so much as a sip of alcohol was accused of being sanctimonious. Friends asked if she really thought herself morally superior to the rest of them. The underlying assumption, of course, was that fun consists of being in a state in between trying to talk, pretending to dance and finding someone to hook up with in a semi-dark room with loud music. And to be able to actually partake of this fun, of course, as I was reminded over and over again, you really needed to be somewhat drunk. It might seem counterintuitive to say this, but Yale’s party culture actually has two important characteristics that we tend to overlook. These are muteness and its consequent loneliness. While there are exceptions, the typical Yale party, on campus or off campus, is hardly where conversations are the norm. Not unrelated to this, a typical Yale party is also hardly the place where one would even begin to develop a meaningful personal bond with anyone. I do have friends who are very
knew in my heart that it would happen — that we, the class of 2013, were heading for something huge, something colossal and threatening. Not heading, even, but being thrown, mercilessly, tossed, buffeted by fate, captive on a wave hurtling towards, well — towards life. Real life. Life outside of college. And I have watched, in this first month, as some have scampered, fighting, amphibianlike into the fray, and others — so many others — have beached themselves on the shores of the impending future. Washed up, you might say. Yes, we are washed up. Like a herd of whales suited only for the blithe and easy college lifestyle, we have slammed hard against the grating reefs of job applications, the pincers of standardized testing, the reeking detritus of graduate school. We flop, we roll, we cast wildly into the vast stretch, each of us caught in our own unique catastrophe. This happens every year, of course. And among us, a word began to be whispered, then spoken, then screamed from atop a table well after the party had died at Sig Ep: SWUG, shorthand for senior washed-up girl. “What’s in a name?” a young Italian once asked. He wasn’t very smart. A name is an identity, a title; a name can be defined, and its definition can bring meaning to the person who bears it. To call yourself a SWUG is to say “There are more of me; I am one of us; I am not alone.”
And yet there is, I think, a gap between the word SWUG and its definition, between SWUG qua SWUG and the “senior washedup girl.” As she has been defined, the senior washed-up girl is only a type in this pageant play of a sloshy senior year: She’s the washedup sorority princess, first in line for Wednesday night Toad’s, last to leave the frat party du jour, loudest of all the drunks at G-Heav. But there are other players, players who just as vibrantly and importantly embody the essence of SWUG. There’s the washed-up hipster, lying on the floor of his off-campus apartment, an empty $5 bottle of wine in his hand and a bowl of chicken fried rice turned over into his lap. On Saturday night, you’ll find him at GPSCY, throwing himself at his bewildered Milton TA, who is unfortunately straight. Is he any less SWUG because he’s too grossed out by the floor to visit SAE? There’s the SWUG-like nerd, who cracks open her first study beer at 9 p.m. and doesn’t stop drinking until five hours later when she has finished reading Hamlet. In the process, she has received three noise complaints, but she’s not done yet — she has another slurred soliloquy to scream. On a Wednesday night, you won’t find her at Toad’s — she has James Merrill on her Ouija board and a bottle of gin to empty. Is she any less SWUG for ordering her Wenzel in? And there are more of them — SWUG actors and SWUG vegans, SWUG scientists and SWUG philanthropists, SWUGs who already have jobs and SWUGs who will graduate and move back in with their parents. There are even SWUG pre-meds, flasks and textbooks almost always in tow — until they get into med school. For the SWUG is not a type but an ethos: It is the Dionysian response to the cruel brevity of our bright college years. The SWUG seeks oblivion in the face of despair, love in the face of alienation, whiskey in the face of moving back in with your parents who don’t have a liquor cabinet. At a time when so many seniors are washed-up, like the beer bottles they’ve discarded, on the shores of certain (or, worse, uncertain) graduation, it should not be for a few of us to stand and sing their SWUG songs alone. At heart, we are all the same — made one by our shared joy and fear, our shared dreams and nightmares, our shared thirst and shared craving, urgent and clawing, for Wenzels. SWUG is not a label, but a feeling; SWUG is not a person, but a community. We must stand, then, together, lifting each other up like flailing children in oversized fins; we must totter and dance on the shore and we must support ourselves until that imminent fall. Or at least until Feb Club.
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he first time anyone offered me an alcoholic drink was during Bulldog Days three springs ago, at a debate I happened to randomly stop by. I said no, and was thrilled to have done so. Coming from a fairly conservative family in India where drinking is unthinkable for a girl and very undesirable for a boy, I saw no pressing reason to breach the implicit values of my upbringing. (The old women in the community I belong to tend to give dirty, condescending looks to men who decide to take a night off to play cards and drink.) Self-control is a muchlauded virtue in Indian culture, and I was sent off to America with more than full confidence in my ability to hold against the hedonistic tendencies of its college culture. But I was thrilled when I was offered that drink during Bulldog Days, because it was the first time I got to exercise my choice. What is more, I was in a place where my choice was duly respected, and I felt comfortable in a manner I never would have imagined before. Such a situation, of course, is far from the norm at Yale. Come freshman fall, I was dragged along to the usual weekend parties where refusal to drink would inevitably
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“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” H. G. WELLS AUTHOR
Yale leads in emphasizing LEED standards LEED BUILDINGS A T YA L E CLASS OF 1954 CHEMISTRY RESEARCH BUILDING
October 2005 LEED Silver Certification Total Floor Area: 117,985 sq. ft. Seventy-two percent of construction debris was diverted from landfills. MALONE ENGINEERING CENTER
October 2005 LEED Gold Certification Total Floor Area: 64,786 sq. ft. Ninety percent of construction debris was recycled.
Total Floor Area: 17,500 sq. ft. Twenty-one percent of building materials were manufactured regionally. STERLING HALL OF MEDICINE I-WING FIRST FLOOR
September 2006 LEED Gold Certification Total Floor Area: 17,038 sq. ft. Eighty-five percent of demolition and construction debris was diverted from landfills. 10 AMISTAD LABORATORY
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LEED FROM PAGE 1 man, director of sustainability initiatives for the Yale Office of Facilities. But the LEED ranking system pertains to more than just science-related buildings: it also applies to educational, retail and housing facilities. The new residential colleges, for example, will be constructed to meet LEED Gold certification standards, as will the Klein Chemistry Laboratory and Yale Biology Building that are currently being designed. The third floor of Brady Memorial Laboratory, the seventh floor of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Yale School of Management — all currently under construction — are targeted toward meeting LEED Gold standards, she added. While adhering to LEED standards requires an added investment from the University — approximately 2 percent of the overall construction cost is added to the baseline construction cost — Chapman said these buildings yield monetary and environmental benefits for Yale. And for now Yale shows no sign of straying from its LEED commitment.
SETTING THE STANDARD
Yale’s sustainability practices are guided by goals set in its 2003 Environmental Principles, in which the University committed itself to demonstrating “outstanding environmental performance” in the design, renovation and construction of its campus facilities. LEED did not play a role in furthering the University’s environmental aims until 2005, when the first campus building planned according to LEED standards opened. Four years later, Yale Facilities established formal requirements for the construction and renovation of campus properties. Those requirements mandated that all future construction projects of “comprehensive scope” — such as the creation or restoration of new buildings — adhere to the
standards for LEED Gold or Platinum certification, in addition to meeting other University-specific regulations. University projects of “small or limited scope” do not require LEED certification, but must adhere to basic sustainability requirements set by the University. Still, several of Yale’s peer universities, such as Stanford and Princeton, do not mandate LEED certification for campus buildings. Stanford, which has a mix of LEED and non-LEED buildings, leaves the decision to the individual school or entity of the building instead, said Fahmida Ahmed, associate director of the Stanford Office of Sustainability. “We certainly wouldn’t want to force anyone to do it, and we leave it to the discretion of the school who’s the owner of the building,” she said. Regardless of whether a project ultimately becomes LEED certified, Ahmed said, it tends to meet or exceed the sustainability guidelines recommended by the University. She added that Stanford’s guidelines draw on a variety of practices for which LEED is “a valuable leverage point.” Chapman said Yale considered other ranking systems but ultimately chose the LEED ranking system because it took multiple aspects of design into account. Renovation and new construction projects are evaluated in five assessment areas: sustainable site development, water efficiency, energy efficiency and atmospheric impact, indoor environmental air quality, and materials and resource selection and use. Extra credit categories, such as innovative design practices or adherence to regional priority credits, can give additional points to projects awaiting LEED certification. Though not affiliated with the U.S. government, the LEED ranking system is “recognized as the national standard measure of sustainability,” Chapman wrote in an email to the News. To achieve LEED certification for a structure, project designers
July 2007 LEED Gold Certification Total Floor Area: 120,000 sq. ft. Sixty-four percent of construction debris was diverted from landfills. RUDOLPH HALL & LORIA CENTER
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December 2008 LEED Gold Certification Total Floor Area: 12,500 sq. ft. Ninety-seven percent of construction debris was diverted from landfills.
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July 2009 LEED Gold Certification Total Floor Area: 7,635 sq. ft. Ninety-five percent of construction debris was diverted from landfills.
September 2008 LEED Gold Certification Total Floor Area: 110,307 sq. ft. (Rudolph Hall); 82,353 sq. ft. (Loria Center) Ninety-two percent of construction debris was diverted from landfills.
typically go through the Council’s checklist to determine how they will achieve the desired number of points qualifying them for a specific ranking, said Kristin Simmons Ferguson, a LEED-accredited professional of the Green Building Council. Ferguson added that obtaining LEED certification is a way for institutions to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability. Though the Council does not require the hiring of LEED-trained architects and engineers for projects, she said that constructing new buildings necessitates the consultation of a trained official. The architect, she said, will usually register the project on the Council website and declare the project’s intent on receiving certification. The applications are reviewed twice before they are approved or rejected.
A SCIENTIFIC START
The first college lab in the world to receive a LEED ranking sits near the top of Science Hill, at 275 Prospect St. Named for the Yale class responsible for funding the project, the Class of 1954 Chemistry Research Building opened in October 2005 and achieved silver LEED certification in 2006. “Laboratories are one of the highest consumers of resources, so they are great opportunities to address our sustainability goals,” Chapman said. The Building consumes 25 percent less energy than a “standard high-intensity laboratory” of its size, according to a report on the building published by the Office of Sustainability. To avoid wasting heat, the building’s ventilation system circulates tempered air — which consists of low-temperature air added to a heated airstream — through the offices at carefully calculated velocities. This temperatureregulated airstream then travels to the lab workspaces and is released through reduced-volume fume hoods, said LEED Accredited Professional Patricia Culley, who works for the Bohlin Cywin-
May 2009 LEED Gold Certification Total Floor Area: 13,642 sq. ft. Eighty-one percent of construction debris was diverted from landfills.
April 2009 LEED Platinum Certification Total Floor Area: 52,635 sq. ft. Sixteen percent of purchased materials contained recycled content.
ski Jackson architecture firm that designed the building. Instead of having preconditioned air for separate lab areas, the Building takes air from the outside, conditions it and uses it to cool or heat the offices. Then, that air, instead of returning outside, circulates to the lab zone, where it ultimately travels through a fume hood and returns outside. Culley added that this system, with only one source of preconditioned air rather than several, reduces wasted energy. The building’s air flow system further saves thermal energy by capturing heat from the air traveling through the fume hood. This captured heat is used to condition the air entering taken in from outside the building. This system not only reduces energy use but also ensures healthy air quality, a necessity for safe chemistry research. In the new building, one can hardly smell any organic compounds, a change from previous chemistry department laboratory setups, said Chemistry professor Robert Crabtree, who has worked in the Yale Chemistry Department since 1977. He added that the building is the preferred facility among chemistry students and researchers alike. “We users of the building are happy to use it, but we don’t really know the technical details that the architects obviously work out for us,” he said. While all the labs he has worked in contained fume hoods, he said fume hood positioning was limited in the past — the window could either be completely open or completely closed. The Building’s horizontal and vertical fume hoods allow for the opening and closing of specific panels, leaving a minimal amount of surface area exposed and allowing for more efficient air passage. Though Crabtree said he had never heard of the term “LEED buildings,” he said building occupants do notice the effects of this sustainable technology.
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Fall 2009 LEED Silver Certification Total Floor Area: 68,627 sq. ft. Fifty-three percent of construction materials were diverted from landfills.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
As Yale’s LEED pilot project, the Chemistry Research Building utilizes several technologies that have since been implemented in other LEED projects across campus. Together, the 19 buildings and lab spaces have contributed two percentage points toward the University’s goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent of 2005 base levels, Chapman said. The Building required sustainable design from the start: It was constructed from products like recycled steel and sustainably harvested wood, which comprises 75 percent of the building’s wood content. Nearly three-fourths of the material that resulted from the demolition and the material leftover from the construction was recycled. Windows in the Yale LEED buildings are positioned to maximize natural lighting. The Chemistry Research Building’s open laboratories were also designed to face north in order to allow the most natural sunlight possible to pass through their tall windows, Culley said. Other features, such as the use of glass enclosures for writing spaces, further minimize the use of artificial lighting by borrowing the labs’ light. “The sun comes in and makes people feel happy,” Crabtree said, adding that the well-lit facility helps foster a sense of camaraderie and excitement to conduct research. Windows can also help regulate temperature. Offices located on the south-facing side of the Building contain smaller windows equipped with horizontal solar shading to reduce glare and heat gain during the summer. To further avoid wasting energy, occupancy sensors turn lights on and off automatically based on the detected amount of human activity, as well as minimize airflow in emptier rooms. New Haven has also placed its faith in the LEED system. The Elm City currently ranks sixth in terms of LEED-certified buildings in the Northeast and ranks third in the
HUNTER RADIATION LABORATORY 6TH FLOOR
December 2009 LEED Gold Certification Total Floor Area: 8,800 sq. ft. Ninety-eight percent of construction debris was diverted from landfills. YALE HEALTH CENTER
August 2010 LEED Gold Certification Total Floor Area: 147,006 sq. ft. Ninety percent of construction material was diverted from landfills.
New England region, said Robert Tufts, a business intelligence specialist at the US Green Building Council. LEED certification is not mandated in Connecticut except in a few cases, but the majority of the Elm City’s recent construction projects — such as Gateway Community College and 360 State Street — have successfully met LEED standards, said Giovanni Zinn ’05, who works as a consultant for the New Haven Office of Sustainability. New Haven’s education buildings, he added, have set a precedent for the rest of the state — the city is home to the Barnard Environmental Magnet School, Connecticut’s first public school to achieve LEED certification. “Before LEED really became a thing at all, we brought our own high-performing school specifications that really promoted efficient schools,” Zinn said. “We’ve seen millions of dollars in savings in utility bills in that and all of our energy initiatives in the city.”
DOUBTS, CRITICISM
But not all Elm City residents are as accepting of LEED’s ranking system. In 2010, New Haven’s Environment & Human Health, Inc. published a study criticizing LEED’s emphasis on energy reduction at the expense of human health. EHHI President Nancy Alderman said the idea of sustainable, LEED-certified buildings may incorrectly imply a healthy and safe interior environment, so construction projects can achieve the highest-ranked LEED Platinum certification without accounting for toxins such as indoor air pollutants. “Some of the LEED buildings, of course, are wonderful, but our point was that you could have a building that was not a terrific building that could still be LEEDcertified,” Alderman said. Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies professor John SEE LEED PAGE 6
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“Just sit on my grill, that’s that tailgate for ya.” LIL WAYNE ENTERTAINER
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Students prepare to tailgate with new rules
THURSDAY, SEPT. 27
The article “Principal disciplined for grade tampering“ incorrectly stated that Hillhouse High School assistant principal Shirley Joyner and principal Kermit Carolina had altered the academic records of student athletes. Joyner did not engage in changing students’ records. She first informed Carolina of what she noticed to be inconsistent data on the school’s computerized academic records management system and later brought allegations of Carolina’s grade changing to the Board of Education. FRIDAY, SEPT. 21
The article “Yale closes gender gap in sciences” incorrectly stated that biology and environmental studies are the only two STEM majors at Yale in which a majority of students are female. In fact, the only two STEM majors with a female majority are biology and environmental engineering. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19
The article “Journalist McKibben rails against fossil fuel emitters“ said Yale Political Union guest speaker Bill McKibben argued that energy company BP divested its interests in solar and wind power two years ago. However, BP maintains investments in wind farms in seven states across the United States.
New science network to speed up research BY MICHAEL DISCALA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A recently awarded grant may help Yale resolve the technical challenges associated with transferring the large volumes of data its researchers study every day. Earlier this month the National Science Foundation awarded Yale a $496,253 grant to improve the process of transporting large-scale scientific data. David Galassi, the director of network services for ITS, said the University plans to use these funds to build a dedicated science network which will be 10 times faster than the current system. While the project schedule in the grant proposal spans two years, Galassi said he expects that researchers will be able to use parts of the developing network within six to nine months. Until the new network launches, scientists working with massive data sets must rely on the same system used by the rest of the University. Though this primary network is sufficient for average use — browsing the web, sending emails and other day-to-day activities — it becomes a significant bottleneck for certain scientific applications which must transfer far more data. Daisuke Nagai, a professor of physics and astronomy and one of the authors of the NSF grant application, said he frequently encounters these network bottlenecks in his research on the formation of galaxies, stars and the structure of the universe. His group runs simulations that generate upward of 200 terabytes of data — roughly equivalent to 42 million MP3s — which can take months to send across campus from research storage to local astronomy servers. “When we have to transfer one set of simulations that we are analyzing, it takes a couple of months to transfer the data or to retrieve the data from West Campus,” Nagai said. “If you want more data, it takes another couple of months.” Nagai said he expects that these multi-month transfer times will be reduced to several weeks after the new network has been deployed. The upgrades may also eliminate the need to transfer the data to the astronomy department’s servers in the first place by allowing his group instead to “interact with this data online,” thus enabling researchers to process their data in real time. Nagai said the network upgrade will be “the key for finding new trends” by allow-
ing scientists to work more efficiently and reducing the delays due to file transfers. He added that the need for faster transfer of massive data sets is common to scientific research across all institutions.
When we have to transfer one set of simulations… it takes a couple of months to transfer the data or to retrieve it from West Campus. If you want more data, it takes another couple of months. DAISUKE NAGAI Astronomy and physics professor A n d rew Sherman, a researcher in the Computer Science Department and a member of the grant writing committee, said that many scientists at Yale collaborate on projects with national laboratories or other universities that require sharing large data sets. The planned science network will facilitate external collaboration by creating a DMZ, a specialized network segment through which researchers can securely swap data without traversing the less flexible firewall which protects the main campus network. Large data downloads from outside the University are especially important for projects such as Yale’s Center for Earth Observation, a research lab that analyzes satellite images of the Earth. The Center’s director, Ronald Smith, explained that the project’s data sets consist of “a huge amount of data per second,” most of which must be “downloaded from external archiving sites around the world.” Smith, a professor in the Geology and Geophysics Department, said he hopes that the new network resources will prevent researchers from abandoning data intensive projects because the University lacks the “network capability to bring it in.” Yale was one of 33 campuses to receive network funding from the NSF under the Campus Cyberinfrastructure-Network Infrastructure and Engineering program. Contact MICHAEL DISCALA at michael.discala@yale.edu .
BY THE NUMBERS BIG DATA 1,024 terabytes 200 terabytes
Total size of Yale’s research storage facility Amount of data generated by some astronomy simulations The approximate number of
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In the face of tighter tailgate regulations, the tailgate at Saturday’s home football game against is likely to draw a small crowd, though fraternity leaders who are not planning events this Saturday said the new rules did not impact their decisions. BY MADELINE MCMAHON AND KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG STAFF REPORTERS Though several fraternities who normally attend tailgates will not be present at the first tailgate of the 2012 football season this Saturday, fraternity leaders and other students interviewed said the new tailgate regulations did not affect their decisions. Last January, administrators issued new tailgating restrictions — prohibiting U-Hauls and kegs, confining student tailgating activity to a “tailgating village” and requiring students to leave the tailgating area by kickoff — in response to a fatal U-Haul crash at last year’s HarvardYale tailgate. Administrators have recently expressed concern that new restrictions will discourage students from attending tailgates this fall, so they have taken measures, such as increased bus routes to the stadium, to maintain interest in the events. Leaders of three fraternities that regularly host tailgate events but will not attend this weekend said special circumstances led to their decision, and that they intend to participate in future tailgates. Daniel Tay ’14, president of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, said he thinks the tailgating experience will change with the new restrictions, but students need to continue to attend to make it fun. He added that his fraternity will not take part in Saturday’s
tailgate because it is holding a party at its house the night before. “[The success of tailgates] will depend on the effort that we as students are willing to put in to making the tailgate our own,” he said. “Hopefully once we really see how things go on Saturday and beyond we can respond appropriately, and do what makes sense to make it fun.” Two weeks ago, administrators and members of the Yale Police Department met with fraternity leaders to discuss ways to keep the tailgating experierience fun despite new regulations. The bus route shuttling students to the field has added a new pick-up location on Chapel and York Streets for convenience, and Yale-sponsored tents at the tailgating village will have free food, corn hole sets and beer for students over 21, said Natalie Gonzalez, associate director for varsity sports administration. Gonzalez said she expects the tailgating experience to be similar to past years, adding that the new location is larger and more convenient for students to access the Yale Bowl. In contrast to the other fraternities, Alpha Delta Phi fraternity will set up a tailgate at Saturday’s game, ADPhi President Cooper Godfrey ’14 said. “We are doing it to keep the tailgate tradition alive and support the school and football team,” he said. Godfrey said he thinks the tailgating
atmosphere will be significantly different this year due to the new restrictions, since cars cannot drive onto the tailgating field. While ADPhi usually brings kegs to the tailgate, the fraternity does not plan on bringing any alcohol this weekend, he said. Billy Fowkes ’14, president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, said his fraternity will not hold a tailgate this weekend because many of SAE’s members have a rugby match on Saturday and the fraternity does not have enough funds in their budget to buy tailgating supplies for this weekend. Six out of nine students interviewed said they would not be participating in Saturday’s tailgating activities, but not because of the new tailgating restrictions. One student who said he will be at the tailgate, Jack McAllister ’16, said he wants to go because he is excited to experience his first tailgate as a freshman. “I am planning on going to the tailgate to hang out with friends and socialize,” he said. “The tailgate will be an opportunity to meet even more people.” The next home football game after Saturday’s faceoff against Colgate will take place on Oct. 6, against Dartmouth. Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu and KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .
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After an increase in its admissions yield, the School of Management faces tight space constraints, espcially in terms of study spaces. BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER After an unexpected increase in admissions yield for the School of Management’s full-time MBA program, the school is now facing tighter space constraints than ever before. The 4 percent increase in the 2011-’12 admissions cycle yield to 46 percent brought approximately 20 more students than last year into the first-year MBA student body. Though the school intends to grow in size as it transitions to its new campus set to open in spring 2014, the yield increase is both a blessing and a curse. The higher yield, which has remained relatively constant in recent years, suggests that SOM may be in higher demand, but space will remain an issue until it moves to the new campus. “We’re definitely cramped — I would agree with that,” Snyder said. “I’ve seen several students extending … into the sort of nooks and crannies in the hallways, and I’ve seen groups of students outside late in the day during the week, and basically on the picnic tables.” SOM Director of Admissions Bruce DelMonico pointed to several factors as possible explanations for the uptick in yield, including greater funding for scholarships and the school’s new network of partnerships with foreign business schools — all initiatives SOM Dean Edward Snyder started since taking office in July 2011. When Snyder arrived at SOM last academic year, he came with an impressive
track record at the University’s Booth School of Business, which soared through business school rankings during his nine-year tenure and gained several large donations including a $300 million naming gift, the largest in business school history. “It’s tough to disaggregate the various factors,” DelMonico said. “I have no doubt that [Snyder’s arrival] did help, given not just the fact that he’s high-profile but that he’s also been very vocal internally about making sure that we don’t just do good things, but let others know about them, too.” Though this year’s growth in the MBA population at SOM was unexpected, it fits into a larger growth plan designed to increase the size of the full-time MBA program from roughly 450 students last year to 600 students by 2017. Snyder said the MBA student body will grow to roughly 500 next year, adding that the newly introduced Master’s of Advanced Management degree, which has accounted for yet another 20-student addition to the overall student body this year, will grow to roughly 60 students. Until the school begins to use its new 242,000-square-foot campus on Whitney Avenue in spring 2014, each additional student is noticeable at the current facilities, which are less than half the size of the new building. Five students interviewed said the size of SOM’s current campus leads to a “cozy” environment, and they all added that space contraints are generally manageable. Caitlin Sullivan SOM ’13, president of
SOM’s student government, said the major issue with the current facility is its shortage of study spaces for students to use in groups. A large part of the first-year MBA curriculum involves group projects, she said, adding that it was already difficult to find suitable spaces for work last year, before the size of the student body increased. Still, the discomfort caused by the current facilities has contributed to the cohesion of the student body, according to two first-year students interviewed.. Boris Sigal SOM ’14 said the fact that people often bond over shared complaints has helped students deal humorously with issues like whiteboards that cannot erase and an air conditioning system he described as a “tornado force within the building.” “It’s kind of a gritty place to study if you look at it from the outside, and inside,” Sigal said, adding that studying business at SOM has enforced a sense of humility he said is important to management. All seven professors interviewed said they felt the increase in student body size has not affected the classroom dynamic at the school since the spike in the first-year MBA population is spread across the class’s four “cohorts,” or sections, and Master’s of Advanced Management students pursue a wide range of elective courses rather than all following one curriculum. There are currently 249 first-year and 227 second-year MBA students at SOM.. Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .
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“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” OSCAR WILDE PLAYWRIGHT Fiscal Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1 the higher education group at the endowment consulting firm Hammond Associates, said the “whisper number,” or the unofficial figure cited by professionals in the industry trying to forecast performance, for endowments is roughly a 1 percent loss. He said 4.7 percent is “absolutely a terrific number” given the economic conditions of the past fiscal year. Harvard University announced on Wednesday that its endowment — the largest in higher education, worth $30.7 billion — fell in value during fiscal year 2012 after its investments faced a 0.05 percent loss. The University of Pennsylvania posted a weak 1.6 percent return last week, and Stanford University reported similarly low earnings of 1 percent on Thursday. Two weeks ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published its return of 8.0 percent for the same period. The Yale Investments Office declined to comment Thursday. While the University’s return on investments added roughly $900 million to the endowment in the last fiscal year, Yale spent $1 billion from its endowment in
that year’s budget — resulting in tions, you can expect to have a a net decline in the value of the higher average return,” said Roger endowment. Kaufman, an economics profesFor the fiscal year that began on sor at Smith College. July 1, administrators are budgetChief Investment Officer David ing just over $1 billion of spending Swensen is credited with develfrom the endowment, accounting oping the nontraditional instifor about 36 percent of the Uni- tutional investment strategy that versity’s net revenues. has led formance in the long “If the University were to run. The model, which has been allow its expenditures to fluctu- emulated by many of Yale’s peer ate based on the annual return of institutions, takes a long-term the endowment — if they were to view and favors alternative, illiqallow its expenditures to fluctu- uid assets such as private equity ate the same way those returns and real estate. In the current fisfluctuate — it would be a disas- cal year, the Investments Office ter,” said Sandy Baum, an eco- aims to allocate roughly 35 pernomics professor at Skidmore cent and 22 percent of its endowFiscal Year ment Endowment Return two Value of Endowment College and a senior policy anato those illiquid asset 2006 22.9 percent $18.0 billion lyst at College Board. classes, respectively. 2007 28.0 percent $22.5 billion 2008 4.5 percent $22.9private billion Yale’s endowment continues Anderson said equity 2009 -24.6 percent $16.3 billion to perform strongly in the long “probably jumped back up” 2010 8.9 percent $16.7 billion term. It has registered an averthis year after tak2011 21.9 past percent fiscal$19.4 billion 2012 $19.3 billion ing4.7apercent beating during the nationage annual return on investments of 10.6 percent over the past wide recession that hit in 2008. decade, and increased in value That financial crisis led to the almost sevenfold from $2.8 bil- endowment’s fall from a highlion over the past 20 years. On water mark of roughly $22.9 bilaverage, endowments in higher lion, losing almost a quarter of its education have maintained esti- value in fiscal year 2009. While mated 6.8 percent annual returns domestic and foreign stocks fared 30 over the past 10 years. poorly across the board in the last 25 “If you’re going to look at the fiscal year, Yale’s portfolio pro20 long term and you’re not wor- jections for the current fiscal year ried about short term fluctua- allocate only 14 percent of 15the
Suu Kyi visits Yale SUU KYI FROM PAGE 1 In April 2012, she was elected to the Burmese parliament, where she also chairs the National League for Democracy party. In an interview with the News, Suu Kyi said she hopes Yale students will use their privileges to make a difference in other people’s lives. “Yale is one of the best universities in the world, so students here are very privileged,” she said. “You should use your education to try and help others.” Suu Kyi spoke to the audience for about 40 minutes on the steps required to take to achieve democracy in Burma, followed by a question-and-answer period. “If democracy is to be restored to our country, we must have rule of law, an end to ethnic conflict, and changes to the constitution,” she said. She described her realization while under house arrest that there was “no rule of law in Burma” and that the law instead “only worked for those in power.” As chair of the Rule of Law and Tranquility committee in Burma, she said her main goal is to establish an independent and responsible judicial system and restore people’s faith in law. “It’s not just a question of sending [the judges] to special courses at Yale,” Suu Kyi said, eliciting laughter from the crowd. “We have to start imposing the rule of law on judiciary itself.” Plans to bring Suu Kyi to Yale began in mid-July when two Yale students caught word that the former political prisoner was scheduled to travel to the United States for the first time in two decades to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. Han Myo Oo ’15 and Katherine Aragon ’14 — the co-founders of the Myanmar Project, a group that supports Burmese refugee communities within and outside Burma — were both working in Thailand at the time and read the announcement online. Immediately, they alerted Timothy Dwight Master Jeffrey Brenzel to propose Suu Kyi as a candidate for this term’s Chubb Fellowship, a program funded and administered by Timothy Dwight College. “At the time, we had very little chance of this happening,” said Aragon, who said she was also involved in Burmese refugee issues in high school. “She was going to be in the United States for a few days and she would receive invitations from everyone.” Brenzel said he promptly issued an invitation to Suu Kyi’s office, enlisting the help of University President Richard Levin and other administrators. The news of Suu Kyi’s Yale visit,
endowment to those assets. Prior to the economic downturn, Yale’s investment model propelled the endowment to returns of around or above 20 percent during the “boom years” of the mid-2000s. The endowment seemed to rebound in fiscal year 2011, but experts at the time cautioned that the performance was not necessarily indicative of sustained strong returns, as markets remained highly volatile. Anderson said institutions such as Yale that “invest wisely” could see returns in the “high single digits” in the next decade. Levin said Yale aims for returns of 5 percent plus inflation. “No one can predict future returns, but it would be irresponsible for the University to plan a budget for the next five years or so in which we made double-digit assumptions about the endowment’s annual return,” Provost Peter Salovey said in a Thursday email. Yale’s endowment remains the second-largest in higher education.
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announced Sept. 5, immediately generated campus-wide excitement. On Wednesday, Sept. 19, students lined up as early as 7 a.m. to obtain one of the roughly 600 tickets available for students. The tickets were distributed beginning at 10 a.m., and were gone within 10 minutes, according to students who attended Thursday’s talk. “This really shows the incredible support from the Yale community for Suu Kyi and her career,” Myo Oo said, noting that the talk was scheduled in the middle of a weekday. The Myanmar Project hosted a Wednesday afternoon discussion with U.S. Campaign for Burma representative Myra Dahgaypaw and a Friday night screening of “The Lady,” a 2011 film based on Suu Kyi’s life in hopes of informing students of political and social issues in Burma before the talk. As part of the Chubb Fellowship, Suu Kyi also attended a private dinner in Timothy Dwight College Wednesday night with around 55 TD students and 55 undergraduate leaders representing selected cultural, political and service groups. Suu Kyi also met roughly 70 professors and graduate students in an invitation-only forum before her speech. Brenzel said Suu Kyi brought to the Yale community “the importance of her commitment to democracy and human rights” and “the example of her unwavering life commitment to a cause” during her speech. Levin called Suu Kyi “one of the most impressive women I’ve ever encountered.” “She’s a remarkably inspirational figure,” he said. “She has extraordinary humility and grace on the one hand, and remarkable commitement and toughness on the other, which allowed her to achieve great things for her people. I found it truly inspiring to be in her presence.” Yale College Council Secretary Leandro Leviste ’15, who met Suu Kyi in December 2010 on a family trip to Burma, said he found Suu Kyi’s speech “surprisingly honest about the state of her country.” “It was clear this wasn’t a politician behind the podium, but a real leader of moral authority,” he said. “She faced her country’s problems, but in a constructive manner, all the while keeping hope in its future and putting it in the best light.” When Suu Kyi left the stage, she received a standing ovation from the audience. The event was also simulcast in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium and livestreamed online.
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GRANT FROM PAGE 1 strengthen America and New Haven, to reduce violence and build a civil society, to create jobs and welcome our families — the best way to do that is to invest in the academic competence of our young ones.” said DeStefano, who called the grant a “game changer” for New Haven education. “Couple this effort with our groundbreaking school administrators and teachers agreement, our focus on a portfolio approach to schools, [the scholarship program] New Haven Promise, our partnership with Yale … Wrap all of this together and you have one of the broadest, most comprehensive approaches to gathering adults around our young people.” New Haven has been called “ground zero for school reform in America” by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof for the unusually cooperative relationship between the teachers’ union and school administrators. DeStefano has spoken at education summits in Seattle and during the Democratic National Convention about what DeLauro said has been called the “New Haven model.” “Here in New Haven, our schools and teachers have led
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the way in demonstrating to the entire nation that strong teachers’ unions, strong schools, strong education reforms are all part of the education solution,” DeLauro said, who stressed that the grant is a “big deal.” To put the amount of money New Haven received in perspective, DeStefano compared the city’s grant to that of the New York City School system, another recipient. While New Haven will receive $12 million in the first year of its grant, the New York City School system will receive just $13 million in that time despite its much larger size, DeStefano said. Teacher evaluation and development play a central role in New Haven’s reform efforts, and most of the money will go to bolstering the existing system of teacher development. The grant, from the federal Teacher Incentive Fund of $285 million, will primarily flow to the New Haven Professional Educator Program, which builds off the teacher and administrator evaluation system to provide additional training. Some of the grant money will also go to higher compensation and better career advancement opportunities for school district employees. Mayo, meanwhile, cited some
of the city’s prior successes 10 in improving its schools, which he attributed to the efforts of 5the city’s teachers. The graduation rate has improved by 2 percent 0 over the past year, standardized test scores are up, the achievement gap is narrowing and New Haven schools have seen a 9 percent increase in the number of students on track to graduate on time, Mayo said. The grant — one of 35 such grants awarded across the country — will be overseen by a sixperson Talent Council consisting of three school administrators and three teachers who will split decision-making authority, officials said. Ideally, the grant will help the city attract top talent to New Haven schools with higher compensation, Assistant Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 said, who added that grant-funded programs should begin at the start of 2013. “We want to be a place where great teachers want to be and want to spend their careers,” Harries said. New Haven’s public schools enroll a total of nearly 21,000 students. Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu .
Farley back to Yale, in Singapore YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 of the committee,” Gordon said in a Thursday email. “I saw them develop an easy rhythm of partnership and a deep mutual respect.” Farley said he could not pass up Yale-NUS’s offer, despite his previous intention to live in Sydney, Australia with his wife and children. He said his family will move with him to Singapore in January. “We have loved our time here [in Australia], but this is a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity at YaleNUS College: to build a university
from the ground up, to bring the liberal arts to Asia and to create a global curriculum,” Farley said in a Thursday email. Yale-NUS also announced Thursday that Anastasia Vrachnos — former executive director of the Princeton in Asia program, which Lewis compared to the University’s Yale-China Association — will serve as the college’s dean of international and professional experience. During her tenure at Princeton in Asia, the program doubled its endowment, tripled its participants and started programs in 12
new countries. “Being dean of international and professional experience, it’s really about outreach and placing people off campus,” Lewis said. “She’s placed a whole lot of Princeton students in very good situations that have been very valuable to them.” In addition to Farley and Vrachno, Yale-NUS has two other appointed deans: Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn and Dean of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan. Contact TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .
LEED questioned as metric for sustainability LEED FROM PAGE 4 Wargo, the report’s lead author, said that although LEED has become one of the nation’s most widely recognized building certification programs, he was concerned by the lack of uniform federal standards for sustainable buildings. He added that he hopes Yale‘s future projects continue to surpass LEED standards, and take typically undervalued LEED criteria — such as controlling haz-
ardous material used in building products and improving methods of exchanging outdoor and indoor air — into consideration. Environment school professor Arnulf Grubler said the LEED ranking system consists of too many categories of focus, and that not every indicator can be so easily measured. “The rating of the indicators are at best arbitrary, and at worst, counterproductive,” he said. He added that the current classification system does not hold
buildings accountable for clearly demonstrating how they benefit the environment over time. The Green Building Council does not require already LEED-certified structures to re-apply for the title, said Ferguson, who works for the Council. “LEED is largely a design of constructing a building and doesn’t check how the building performs over its entire lifetime,” Grubler said. “My perspective is it is the performance of the operation phase of the building
that dominates its environmental footprint over its entire lifetime because buildings are just here for such a long time.”
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Chapman said she sees LEED buildings as a long-term investment in Yale’s financial and sustainable future. Nationwide, buildings account for almost three fourths of energy consumption and over a third of energy use, carbon dioxide emissions, and raw material use, Chap-
man said. Buildings, she added, produce 30 percent of waste output — 136 million tons annually — and account for 14 percent of potable water consumption. As Yale’s campus continues to expand, she said, LEED buildings consistently use energy efficiently, which contributes to the University’s goals of reducing energy, conserving water, recycling and improving air quality. LEED technologies and building practices, she said, include features which reduce the environmental impacts
of these buildings. The impact of Yale’s LEED buildings may not be quantifiable just yet. But with just a year left as Yale approaches its 2013 deadline for accomplishing the goals outlined in its 2010-’13 Sustainability Strategic Plan, the University will once again evaluate how successful a role LEED buildings play in helping the University meet its goals. Contact LILIANA VARMAN at liliana.varman@yale.edu .
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Voting as an Ex-Offender In all but two states, voting-age citizens convicted of a felony are barred from voting for at least some period of time. A 2011 study by the Florida Parole Commission found that ex-offenders whose civil rights had been restored were much less likely to return to prison than others in the released prisoner population, with respective recidivism rates of 11 and 33 percent.
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On Election Day, Republicans such as Senate candidate Linda McMahon, left, and presidential contender Mitt Romney will appear at the top of Connecticut’s ballots, thanks to a Wednesday ruling by the state’s Supreme Court. BY EDDIE ORTIZ NIEVES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Thanks to a unanimous decision by the Connecticut Supreme Court, presidential challenger Mitt Romney, Senate candidate Linda McMahon and all other Republican candidates will find themselves at the top of the state’s ballots on Election Day. The court ruled in favor of the Connecticut GOP on Wednesday, over a month after the party filed a suit against Secretary of the State and Electoral Commissioner Denise Merrill, a Democrat, challenging her decision to list Democratic candidates first on the ballot. State law requires
“the party whose candidate for governor polled the highest number of votes in the last-preceding election” to receive the top spot in ballots. Merrill interpreted Democrat Dannel Malloy’s victory in the extremely close 2010 gubernatorial race as sufficient reason to put Democrats at the top of the 2012 ballot, but Republicans challenged her decision, noting that the Republican Party actually received more votes than any other party in that election. Malloy’s votes were split between the two parties that endorsed him — with 540,970 on the Democratic line and 26,308 on the Working Families Party line — while Republican challenger
Tom Foley garnered 560,874 votes. The court sided unanimously with the GOP in a short decision released on Wednesday without elaborating on the reasoning behind their conclusion, stating that “a full written opinion on these issues will follow.”
I don’t think there’s room for interpretation to say that the court got it wrong. LEN FASANO ’81 State Senator (R-North Haven) State Sen. Len Fasano ’81, a
Ex-offenders register with Unlock the Vote BY COLLEEN FLYNN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With the U.S. presidential election approaching in November, a new voter registration program in New Haven is seeking to address misconceptions about ex-offenders’ right to cast a ballot. On Tuesday, Unlock the Vote launched its first registration drive at the Project Model Offender Reintegration Experience headquarters on Grand Avenue to reach out to potential voters with a history of incarceration. The campaign, established under the umbrella of the New Haven Prison Reentry Initiative, seeks to inform legal service providers and potential voters about state voting rights laws.
[People with a history of incarceration] have paid their debt to society. KELLY RADAR Assistant professor, Political Science Department In Connecticut, persons with past convictions are eligible to vote provided they have completed their sentences and parole, and have not been convicted of voter fraud. Tuesday’s drive registered over 30 first-time voters, most of whom did not know they could vote, said Nia Holsten ’14, the political action chair for the Black Student Alliance and co-chair of the Ward 1 Democratic Committee. “There is a whole population out there who aren’t aware about their constitutional rights,” said Melissa Lavoie ’12, an intern at the New Haven Prison Re-entry Initiative who has worked extensively on the project. Holsten brought the concept to Lavoie after spending a year working in New York City on voter registration projects, Holsten said. Holsten said the program in New York conducted surveys and found that most people with former convictions had been misinformed about their right
to vote. Much of the confusion, Lavoie said, stems from lack of consistency in voter rights laws for ex-offenders across states and the recent changes to many of these laws. Lavoie said that Unlock the Vote has been under development since July. The program conducted surveys, held two focus groups and brought the proposal in front of the New Haven Prison Re-entry Round Table before its official launch on Tuesday, she added. “There is this conception out there that people with criminal records are not interested in getting involved in the political process, and that’s just not true,” Lavoie said. Unlock the Vote also provides information to legal service providers, parole officers, and voter registration programs to make them aware of ex-offenders’ rights, Holsten said. Lavoie said she recently met someone from the local corrections department who did not know the voting laws for persons with a history of incarceration. Holsten said that the ability to vote has an effect on how engaged ex-offenders feel with the government, which is important to their reintegration into society. This particular demographic has often been forgotten in registration efforts, she added. “Unfortunately, a lot of politicians don’t necessarily see this as a strong potential voting block,” Holsten said, adding that even the huge registration drives behind the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign ignored the demographic. “[People with a history of incarceration] have paid their debt to society. Now they should be able to exercise their freedoms,” said Kelly Rader, assistant professor of political science, adding that registering people with former convictions is important because it is “a restoration of full citizenship.” The program plans to hold more drives ahead of the election, with its next event planned for Wednesday, Oct. 3 at the New Haven Adult Education office on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard. Contact COLLEEN FLYNN at colleen.flynn@yale.edu .
North Haven Republican who was the first to bring the ballot decision to his party’s attention, noted that the decision was unanimous among a court with a mixed bag of “very liberal and conservative” justices. “I don’t think there’s room for interpretation to say that the court got it wrong,” he said. “To say that would be disingenuous to our court at best and at worst show partisan politics.” Because of the controversy, the state was faced with an administrative challenge due to imminent ballot deadlines. State law required Merrill to mail ballots to military and overseas voters by Sept. 21. To comply, Merrill opted to send blank ballots
along with a list of candidates’ names in alphabetical order along with their party and the office for which they are running. She faced an additional Oct. 5 deadline to distribute the finalized ballots to town clerks. In her response to the ruling, Merrill said she was “surprised at the outcome,” but “pleased that the decision comes in time for [the distribution of] absentee ballots and Election Day ballots.” State Republicans, meanwhile, celebrated their victory while excoriating the Merill for protecting “partisan political interests.” According to Yale political science professor Kelly Rader, there is ample political sci-
ence research on ballot order to suggest that the top ballot slot allows lesser-known or thirdparty candidates to receive “a few more percentage points” than they would have received otherwise, suggesting that the court’s ruling may not have a significant effect on the presidential or gubernatorial races, but Republicans in local races may get few extra votes come November. The new ballot order will remain in place until the next gubernatorial election in 2014. Mason Kroll contributed reporting. Contact EDDIE ORTIZ NIEVES at eddie.ortiznieves@yale.edu .
Aldermen consider Whalley development BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER Representatives of the Greater Dwight Development Corporation presented their plans Thursday night to the joint community development and legislation committee of the Board of Aldermen to purchase two parcels of land near Stop and Shop off of Whalley Avenue. Dwight Golden — a non-profit company affiliated with the GDDC — presented the proposal to purchase 485 Orchard St. and 561 Elm St. from the city. The plan calls for the group to spend one dollar to buy the two plots, which currently stand as unused vacant lots, and then finance their environmental cleanup. After this, Dwight Golden plans to lease the land to Stop and Shop on Whalley Avenue for the development of a gas fueling station on the properties. Shaw’s Supermarket, also previously located on Whalley Avenue, shut down in March 2010; Stop and Shop opened in its place in April 2011. Stop and Shop operates discount gas stations, with one nearby on Amity Road in New Haven. Like the Stop and Shop store and gas station on Amity Road, customers receive points with purchases at the store that can be used to help pay for fuel at the adjoining gas station. “A while ago, we were devastated when Shaw’s pulled out of the city and we had no full service grocery store,” said Kelly Murphy, New Haven’s economic development administrator, who added that both of the land parcels in question are in need of drastic cleaning. “The [GDDC’s] project will get the sites cleaned up, result in investment by Stop and Shop, strengthen the overall shopping district, and provide social services and community development.” Another benefit of developing the vacant lot into a gas station will be additional taxes to the government after the gas station is built, Murphy said. According to Linda Townsend Maier, the executive director of GDDC, the Dwight community has played an “integral role” in the decision-making process and tends to be supportive of GDDC’s work in
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The Dwight Development Corporation presented its plans to buy two vacant lots next to Stop and Shop to the Board of Aldermen Thursday. the area. Four residents testified and expressed their support for the selling of the land and the construction of the gas station. “This [plan] is important to keep the Stop and Shop viable. It generates more loyalty among customers, it generates more sales, and it turns into tax payments for the city,” said Lynn Smith, who works at Start Community Bank on Whalley Avenue. “I think this store is an example of a good corporate customer and they deserve and have earned our support.” The gas station will have to replace certain existing parking spaces in the area around Stop and Shop, and GDDC also requested that the Board of Aldermen approve their request to lower the number of required parking spaces in the area. Currently, the ratio is 4.5 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of supermarket floor area; GDDC wants to lower it to 3.75, according to the proposal. At most,
the supermarket will remove 13 parking spaces. To demonstrate that the impact this change will be minimal, the GDDC commissioned a study that concluded that over half of the lot’s 357 spaces are not used even during peak hours, Murphy said. “[The vacant lot] is an eyesore that has brought down the perception of the neighborhood for the past twenty years. It’s an embarrassment for the people that live in the area to drive by that very unsightly location,” said Kate Walton, a city resident who lives nearby. Also present at Thursday’s committee meeting were Janis Foo LAW ’13 and Ming-Yee Lin ’13, who are serving as legal counsel for GDDC. The Board of Aldermen will vote on whether to approve the proposals on Oct. 15. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS CONDOLEEZA RICE Condoleeza Rice, who served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush ’68, is a former provost of Stanford University and a renowned classical pianist. She is the second woman and first African-American woman to serve as secretary of state.
At Hopkins, Condoleezza Rice emphasizes education BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER Standing on the steps of New Haven’s Hopkins School Thursday, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recounted the story of how her grandfather became the first person in her family to receive a college degree, emphasizing education’s “transformative power.” Rice attended the private day school’s annual academic convocation ceremony, delivering a formal address and engaging in a question-and-answer session with students. Rice advised students on how to make the most of their educational opportunities, peppering her talk with colorful anecdotes about her own experiences as a student, professor and public servant. “Everyone is not only worthy but also capable of greatness, and what enables this is education,” Rice said. “If you can get a quality education, you can do anything.” Hopkins School’s headmistress, Barbara Riley, said the “integrity and intelligence” Rice demonstrated while in the public eye inspired her to invite the former secretary to the event. She added that Rice’s background in education,
as a professor and former provost of Stanford University, made her an ideal speaker for a student audience. In her speech, Rice outlined five points to help students navigate through their educational career, encouraging them to find their passion, challenge themselves, study other languages and cultures, take things one step at a time, and always stay optimistic and grateful for their opportunities. “We are too quickly becoming a society that asks, ‘Why don’t I have?’ and ‘Why don’t they give me?’ but if we adopt this mentality, we have lost control over our own circumstances,” Rice said. “Education is not a right, it is not an entitlement, it is a privilege.” Following the speech, Rice answered questions from the student body on topics including her relationship with former President George W. Bush ’68 — in whose administration she served as national security advisor before she was named secretary of state — her opinion on the use of executive powers in matters of national security, and her view of President Barack Obama’s approach to foreign affairs. Ian Clark, a science teacher at Hopkins, said Rice “respected the intellect
of the kids” and filled her speech with “substance,” noting that all of the students appeared to be paying attention. All 11 Hopkins students interviewed said they felt “engaged” with Rice’s speech and enjoyed the opportunity to hear her respond to their questions. “It was really a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and it’s such a privilege in high school to be able to listen to someone like her,” sophomore Valerie Daifotis said. Eighth graders Abigail Davis and Alexandra McCraven said that while Rice was very articulate, she also did a good job appealing to the age group of her audience. McCraven added that hearing Rice — the first woman to serve as national security advisor and the African-American woman to serve as Stanford provost and secretary of state — talk candidly about the obstacles she overcame was inspirational. “It felt like we were living the journey with her,” McCraven said. Rice now directs Stanford’s Global Center for Business and the Economy. Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .
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Mitchell Davis, pictured above, speaks about the importance of American food culture in William L. Harkness Hall. BY PAYAL MARATHE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Mitchell Davis, food journalist, chef and executive vice president of the James Beard Foundation, spoke yesterday in William L. Harkness Hall on the significance of American food culture. His talk, hosted by the Yale Sustainable Food Project, focused on the development of his foundation — a non-profit group that seeks to promote the culinary arts. About 50 students and faculty members attended the talk which also covered how the organization has elevated the status of the chef in society and some contemporary issues in the food industry. Davis began his presentation with a description of chef and food writer James Beard, whom he called “a large, gossipy and very flamboyant gay man who would chat about food with anyone who would listen.” Beard wrote prolifically about food, taught small cooking classes in his home and thought about food early in the 20th century when culinary pursuits weren’t considered legitimate, Davis said. The foundation was started after Beard’s death in 1985, when his friends, including famous chef and television personality Julia Child, raised money to buy his house in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. Wolfgang Puck was the first chef to publicly cook at this new home for American cuisine, which Child has called “a Carnegie hall for chefs,” Davis said. Now in its 26th year, the New York-based foundation continues to maintain Beard’s legacy. “What Beard did was convince a whole generation to think about food in a new way,” Davis said. “Our mission now is to shine a spotlight on chefs and celebrate America’s culinary heritage and future.” Davis told the crowd that he
was not encouraged to become a chef when he was younger, explaining that “25 years ago it wasn’t the case that you could turn on the television or open a magazine and see a chef.” The foundation also oversees the James Beard Foundation Award for Excellence, which is the first public consumer-oriented award for food, recognizing that the food industry is not just important to chefs, Davis said.
America is in the best position to actually do something and to affect tangible change in the global food industry. MITCHELL DAVIS Food journalist, chef The foundation not only wants to promote the importance of the cooking profession, he said, but wants to encourage chefs to participate in conversations about modern political and health issues. According to Davis, chefs can contribute a unique voice to discussions on obesity and food quality. “America is in the best position to actually do something and to affect tangible change in the global food industry,” Davis said. The foundation recently hosted a boot camp for policy and change, through which 16 chefs were trained to be advocates in their own communities. It also recently launched an official partnership with the U.S. State Department to send American chefs abroad to influence change. “Are we going to solve the problems in the Middle East? Probably not, but at least they’ll
have good dinner,” Davis said. The talk also emphasized another part of the foundation’s overall mission: highlighting food as an essential aspect of culture in the same way that music or art are considered significant. Davis explained that “it’s hard for people to understand why dinner could be a cultural event, but easy to understand why the opera counts as a cultural event.” In fact, food is especially significant to American culture, Davis argued. In the United States, the line between food trucks and fancy restaurants is blurry because the eating experience has been democratized for everyone, Davis said. Accordingly, the foundation hosts hamburger parties alongside gourmet dinners. It encourages chefs to train in America rather than abroad. There’s a reason the New York Times called Beard “the dean of American cookery” instead of the “father of American cuisine,” Davis said. “Cuisine” is too often associated with the French connotation, where there is a distinction between the food prepared in gourmet restaurants and what average people eat. “Although Beard wrote restaurant reviews and launched several chefs’ careers, for him, cooking was really about the food you made in the home,” Davis said. For many students in attendance, the portion of the talk that focused on the current political climate resonated the most. “People don’t really pay attention to what they eat or where their food comes from, but food should be an important topic,” Sara Hamilton ’16 said. In addition to traveling and speaking on behalf of the foundation, Davis has authored three cookbooks. Contact PAYAL MARATHE at payal.marathe@yale.edu .
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 3:00 PM “The Faces Behind the Dolls.” This hourlong film from 2010 is a tribute to the Dominican and Latin American workers at the Madame Alexander Doll Company and their dedication to creating the beautiful dolls that have delighted people around the world. Screened as part of the New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium.
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Romney decries military cuts; Obama talking jobs BY DAVID ESPO AND KASIE HUNT ASSOCIATED PRESS VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — President Barack Obama pledged to create many more jobs and “make the middle class secure again” in a campaign-closing appeal on Thursday - more than five weeks before Election Day - to voters already casting ballots in large numbers. Republican Mitt Romney, focusing on threats beyond American shores, accused the commander in chief of backing dangerous cuts in defense spending. “The idea of cutting our military is unthinkable and devastat-
ing. And when I become president we will not,” declared the challenger, struggling to reverse a slide in opinion polls. Romney and Obama campaigned a few hundred miles apart in Virginia, 40 days before their long race ends. They’ll be in much closer quarters next Wednesday in Denver - for the first of three presidential debates on the campaign calendar and perhaps the challenger’s best remaining chance to change the trajectory of the campaign. In a race where the economy is the dominant issue, there was a fresh sign of national weakness as the Commerce Department low-
ered its earlier estimate of tepid growth last spring. Romney and his allies seized on the news as evidence that Obama’s policies aren’t working. There was good news for the president in the form of a survey by The Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation suggesting he has gained ground among older voters after a month-long ad war over Republican plans for Medicare. The pace also was quickening in the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate. Prominent Republican conservatives pledged financial and political support for Rep. Todd
Akin in Missouri. That complicated Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill’s bid for re-election. But it also left Romney, running mate Paul Ryan and the rest of the GOP hierarchy in an awkward position after they tried unsuccessfully to push Akin off the ballot in the wake of his controversial comments about rape. Farther west, in Arizona, Republican Rep. Jeff Flake unleashed an ad calling Democratic rival Richard Carmona “Barack Obama’s rubberstamp.” It was not meant as a compliment in a state seemingly headed Romney’s way, a response for sure to Democratic claims that the Senate
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS BO PORTER Bo Porter was named manager of the Houston Astros yesterday. Porter is currently the third-base coach for the Washington Nationals, and will remain with the playoff-bound team until the season ends. The Astros have lost more than 100 games in the past two seasons.
Seniors seek Harvard win BY ASHTON WACKYM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last year at Reese Stadium, during Alumni Day, a penalty kick by The Crimson just 2:16 into overtime gave Yale its first Ivy loss of the 2011 season. The Bulldogs still haven’t forgotten.
WOMEN’S SOCCER On Saturday, the Bulldogs (5–4, 0–1 Ivy) have the chance to take another shot at Harvard (5–4, 0–1 Ivy). And for the seniors, this will be their last chance. “Our senior class has never beaten them,” head coach Rudy Meredith said. “Nobody on the team has ever beaten Harvard.” According to Meredith, Yale’s game is going to mirror the style of play that was apparent in the Princeton game, with a few subtle differences. First, the Crimson packs an offensive punch that Princeton didn’t. While the Tigers had the league-leading scorer on their team, Jen Hoy, goals did not come from many others. For Harvard, on the other hand, the 12 goals put away this season have come
from nine different players. Also, the Crimat son has scored consistently, being shut out only once this Harvard season by Penn. “They are good at going forward and attacking and putting you under pressure,” Meredith added. The Crimson has another similarity to the Tigers — a long thrower. In the Bulldogs’ overtime loss last week, the goal that ended the game was the result of a long throw-in. To prepare for Saturday’s matchup, the Elis have been splitting their focus between defending a flurry of attackers and protecting against long throw-ins. Blocking the opposition out when the ball is in the air will aid the Bulldogs in clearing goal-scoring opportunities from their zone. One-on-one defense is crucial to overpowering the myriad of scorers at the Crimson’s disposal. “We’ve got to work on our oneon-one defending this week,” Meredith added. “They have some really good one-on-one players.”
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Despite the defensive emphasis in practice, the Bulldogs have a wide variety of scorers themselves. With 19 goals coming from 10 players this season, the Elis have found ways to score in any situation. The same can be said for their goaltending. While the Crimson’s sophomore Bethany Kanten has started all seven games this season, the Elis have been successful with both Rachel Ames ’16 and Elise Wilcox ’15 in net, who have each started three games this season, following a season-ending injury to Adele Jackson-Gibson ’13. This weekend will be a character test for the Bulldogs and will give the Elis a chance to even up their record in the Ivy League to 1–1 while simultaneously putting the Crimson into an 0–2 hole. Against Princeton, the Bulldogs could not reverse the curse of losing to the Tigers at home. This weekend the Elis are determined to reverse the curse of Ohiri Field. The Bulldogs will kickoff against the Crimson at 4 p.m. on Saturday for the 35th time. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
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Midfielder Kristen Forster ’13 has scored five goals and added three assists so far this season.
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After allowing 45 points to Cornell last weekend, the Yale defensive corps will look to rebound against Colgate on Saturday. FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 anced opponent to date. He added that they have a very “active” defense. One weakness that Colgate has had this year is defending against the run. The Raiders have given up 5.4 yards per carry this season. With the Bulldogs averaging 168 yards on the ground themselves, the matchup on the ground favors the Blue and White. Although tomorrow will be the first
game in the Yale Bowl for the class of 2016, defensive back Cole Champion ’16 said that Reno and the coaching staff have gotten them prepared for the atmosphere. “I’m excited to get out there on a Saturday,” he said. “We’ve scrimmaged in there twice always so that will kind of help us get a feel for what it’s going to be like on Saturday.” The Yale Bowl will not be the first big stage that Champion has played on.
Yale faces Big Red, Lions VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 since 2009. The Lions have climbed out of the conference basement over the last few seasons and been a dangerous matchup for the Bulldogs. From 2007 to 2009, Columbia compiled a 3–39 Ivy record, which included two 0–14 seasons. But over the past two seasons, the Lions have gone 17–11 in Ivy play and finished third in the conference both years. On the other hand, Cornell (3–8, 0–1 Ivy) appears to be continuing a slide that has seen them fall from the conference elite. The Big Red went 24–4 in conference play during 2005 and 2006 and won the Ivy title each year. But since 2009, Cornell has compiled a meager 8–34 record in Ancient Eight play. This year, the Lions will likely prove to be the more difficult matchup. Columbia has won four straight
matches against Colgate University, University of Rhode Island, Hofstra University and Cornell. The Lions and the Bulldogs have played one common opponent, Texas A&M University from the SEC. Yale managed to take a set from the Aggies whereas Columbia was swept, perhaps indicating an advantage for the Bulldogs. Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 said that the team tries to ignore this kind of comparison. “We try to put it in the back of our mind,” she said. “Columbia is a great team and they might have just had an off game. We just try to look at the strategy for our side and focus on us instead of focusing on them.” The Bulldogs begin the weekend by traveling to Cornell for a 7 p.m. match Friday night and follow that up with a 5 p.m. match at Columbia on Saturday. Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .
When Champion was playing for St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florida, his team traveled to Dallas to play in Cowboy Stadium. The Bulldogs and Raiders will kick off at noon. Tomorrow will be Youth Day at the Bowl. All children participating in Youth Day will receive free admission to the game. Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
In the two games the team has played this season, Yale has coughed the ball up nine times. An early interception and fumble gave Cornell all the momentum in the Elis’ blowout loss to the Big Red last week. In quarterback Eric Williams’ ’16 defense, he is only two games into his collegiate career and several of the interceptions have not been his fault. One resulted from a busted screen play and several others were the result of tipped passes. The fact remains, however, that the Blue and White cannot expect to win many games if they continue to lead the Ancient Eight in turnovers. Opponents have cashed in on Yale’s mistakes — scoring 35 points on drives beginning with Bulldog turnovers. Not only are turnovers taking away scoring chances for the Elis, they are also putting points on the wrong side of the board. Taking care of the football could prove to make the difference tomorrow.
HIT THE GROUND RUNNING:
If there is one thing the Elis have shown they can do this year, it is run the football. The offensive line has done a great job of controlling the line of scrimmage, and Yale’s talented backfield has taken advantage — averaging 4.3 yards per carry in the two games this season. Mordecai Cargill ’13 says that he is good to go after leaving last weekend’s
contest against Cornell with a shoulder injury, so he will join fellow backs Tyler Varga ’16 and Khalil Keys ’15 in the Yale Bowl tomorrow. Cargill and running backs coach Larry Ciotti call the trio the “three-headed monster,” and they will get an opportunity to wreak havoc on a Colgate defense that has given up 5.4 yards per rush so far this season.
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Last week’s game was one that everyone associated with Yale football would love to forget — being beaten by 39 points is nobody’s idea of a fun Saturday afternoon. But one positive aspect that head coach Tony Reno and several of his players pointed to was that the team kept fighting, and Williams was leading that charge. The rookie signal caller shook off two firsthalf interceptions and kept his composure. He showed poise in leading the Bulldogs down the field even though Yale had trouble finding the end zone. For now Yale will have to live with mistakes, like Williams’ tendency to stare down his receivers, but he has shown flashes of good things to come. Williams has a strong and accurate arm, is a dual-threat with his feet and demonstrates good decision-making when he has the football. If Williams gets the support he needs, he has the ability to lead Yale to victory. Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
Elis head to Cambridge MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 Jake Freeman scored a goal against Michigan State and has 11 shots to his name this season. Harvard also has two freshman goalkeepers. Joe Festa has made 16 saves, while Evan Mendez has recorded 14 saves so far. On the other hand, Yale’s Thalman has started in all nine games this season, making 41 saves with a percentage of 0.837 and achieving four shutouts. Yale has also recorded a total of five goals this season. Forward Scott Armbrust ’14, forward Jenner Fox ’14, forward Peter Jacobson ’14, midfielder Conner Lachenbruch ’15 and midfielder Kevin Michalak ’15 have contributed one apiece. “Our goal this Saturday defensively is to stay disciplined, to provide strong cover for each other and to defend as a team,” Alers said. ”Offensively, we want to move the ball quickly and make incisive runs through their defense.” He added if such strategies work correctly, the
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The men’s soccer team defeated Harvard last season, 1-0. team wll have a great chance to beat Harvard on the road. Taking their first step to grab the Ancient Eight throne, the Elis will
face Harvard at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .
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Patriot). “We just have to correct the little things [for this week],” offensive lineman William Chism ’15 said. “The good news is that the effort was there.” Despite the score last week, running back Mordecai Cargill ‘13 was impressed that the team did not give up against the Big Red. He added that previous teams he has been a part of at Yale might have stopped fighting last week, so the team’s resilence is a good sign for upcoming games. The Raiders visit New Haven coming off their own disappointing loss. They came within one point but ultimately fell to Stony Brook 32-31 last Saturday. Despite its three losses, Colgate has been outscored by only seven total points through four games this season. Coach Reno said that the Raiders have been in every game. “[Colgate has] played three playoff football teams in the first four weeks,” Reno said. “You can make an argument that they could’ve won all of them.” Reno cited Colgate’s balance as its strength and called the team Yale’s most balSEE FOOTBALL PAGE 11
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Although a shoulder injury knocked him out of Yale’s loss to Cornell last week, running back Mordecai Cargill ’13 will be back on the field against Colgate on Saturday.
Road trip looms for volleyball BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER It is time for the endless New York swing. The volleyball team will log almost 12 hours on the road this weekend when it travels to Cornell and Columbia for its second and third Ivy matches of the season. “It’s tough when you have a long road trip, but it’s also kind of fun because we bond on the bus so it’s also a team building experience,” outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 said. “We try to make it fun.”
We work on preparing for each team like they’re our hardest opponent. MOLLIE ROGERS ’15 Outside hitter, volleyball The Bulldogs (5–5, 1–0 Ivy) opened their conference schedule last weekend with a Saturday matchup against Brown. Although Yale took away a 3–1 victory in that match, Brown made Yale work for the win by capturing the third set and pushing the Elis past 25 points in two others. As has been the case for most of the season, setter Kendall Polan ’14 will lead the Bulldogs’ efforts. Polan was named the conference
Player of the Week for at the second time in four weeks, which Cornell a l re a d y matches Saturday, 5 p.m. her total at f r o m last year. Polan had triColumbia p l e doubles against Albany and Brown and logged 2.86 kills per set, 8.43 assists per set and a .429 hitting percentage. Last season, Yale beat both Cornell and Columbia twice, but lost three sets to the Lions. That included a tightly contested 3–2 Yale win in New Haven in which Columbia rallied from a 0–2 deficit to force a fifth set. “We work on preparing for each team like they’re our hardest opponent,” Rogers said. “We learned that from our five-set match with [Columbia] last year.” This weekend’s opponents have already played each other this season. Columbia (6–4, 1–0 Ivy) came out of that battle with a decisive 3–0 victory, in which they outscored Cornell 75–56. That match adds to a trend that has seen Columbia rise to new heights and Cornell reach new lows
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Soccer archivals to meet in Cambridge BY EUGENE JUNG STAFF REPORTER The match of the year is finally around the corner, as Yale and its archrival Harvard will compete tomorrow in Boston to signal the kickoff of the Ivy League season. “A win on the road against our biggest rival would be an amazing way to start our Ivy League season,” defender Nick Alers ’14 said. After doubling up Marist but falling to No.2 soccer powerhouse UConn, the Bulldogs nevertheless have been showing some excellent form at both ends of the field against strong foes. Although the Elis (3-4-2) are halfway through the season, they have not met any of the Ivy League teams yet.
A win on the road against our biggest rival would be an amazing way to start our Ivy League season. NICK ALERS ’14 Defender, men’s soccer
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“After the loss to Connecticut, I think everyone on the team is very motivated to go into Cambridge and get a win,” Alers added. Looking at last year’s Ivy season performances, the Elis took fifth place and the Crimson ended up at the bottom of the league. Harvard (1-5-1) has been going through a rough season, with a total of five goals on 75 shots. In its games against California Poly and U.C. Santa Barbara, the Crimson suffered two consecutive losses, 2-1
and 1-0, respectively. Harvard was also humiliated in a at 6-0 shutout against UConn, whereas Yale held off the re g i o n a l p owe rHarvard house and lost by only a two-goal margin. In last year’s game, the Bulldogs defeated the Crimson 1-0, with last year’s captain Chris Dennen ’12 scoring the game sealer in the first half. “Last year’s match was a lot of fun,” Alers said. He added it was a physical and competitive game. Although Harvard overwhelmed Yale in terms of the shots alone (197), it failed to score goals. Captain and goalkeeper Bobby Thalman ’13 turned the Crimson’s eight goal-scoring chances into disappointments and played a crucial role in shutting out Harvard. Unfortunately for the Elis, Dennen, Charlie Paris ’12, Charlie Neil ’12 and Max Morice ’15, who were pivotal in the victory, will not be returning to help repeat the feat. But new players such as forward Mitch Wagner ’16, defender Pablo Espinola ’16 and forward Avery Schwartz ’16 have stepped up recently, taking up influential roles. “The biggest difference between our team last year and our team this year is that I think we will try to possess the ball a little bit more this year than we did last year,” Alers said. There are, however, some dangerous players that the Bulldogs have to watch out for within the Crimson’s lineup. Crimson forward Zack Wolfenzon scored a goal against California Poly and has recorded a total of 16 shots so far this season. Freshman
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THE NUMBER OF GOALS THE WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM HAS SCORED THIS SEASON. The team has received tallies from ten different players. In contrast, on the Harvard team that Yale will face this weekend, nine players have contributed to a season total of 12 goals.