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Economists consider recovery

Take me to New York.

Commuters taking the MetroNorth today will enjoy a free ride all the way to Grand Central Station. Following three days of suspended service due to damage caused

by Hurricane Sandy, Conn.

Gov. Dannel Malloy announced Wednesday that there would be no fare for state MetroNorth commuters for the rest of the week. Full New Haven rail line services will also resume today.

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global financial downturn. “[Fed Chairman] Ben Bernanke is a good man who dearly wants to put Americans back to work,” said Yale economics professor John Geanakoplos, one of the panelists. “But one man can’t do everything. He needs more tools than just inflation.”

Yale economics professor Robert Shiller said he combined all four national

New Haven has a lot at stake in this year’s presidential election.

In addition to $12 million from a federal education grant, the city has received $26,477,616 in federal funding so far this year that has been used to support housing, transportation and security throughout the city. But with the possibility of a new party controlling the White House and the U.S. Senate following this November’s election, New Haven politicians said this funding may be in jeopardy.

“Under Republican control of either the White House or the United States Congress, it is entirely possible that New Haven, along with other urban areas, would see a drastic reduction in federal funds,” said U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, whose congressional district includes New Haven, in a Thursday email to the News. “The Republican budget proposal would slash education funding by almost 20 percent, resources for health care by 20 percent and result in cuts to job training, infrastructure and biomedical research, all of which are critical to New Haven.”

New Haven’s federal grants have supported a range of projects from engineering capital projects to housing for those

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A blue state indeed. Blue

State on Wall Street has been temporarily closed since the storm due to power issues, according to a sign posted on the coffee shop’s window yesterday afternoon. Looks like Hurricane Sandy’s presence is still lingering on campus even days after it stormed through the Elm City.

Raise your voice. The Yale

College Council is encouraging students to submit questions to University President Richard Levin for an upcoming town hall meeting that will be moderated by YCC President John Gonzalez ’14.

Submissions will be accepted through Sunday and can relate to any issues students feel are most important to Yale.

Hit the road, Jack! Yale Transit

has been hit with a case of vandalism, forcing officials to close the shuttle’s yellow line yesterday as several vehicles needed to undergo repairs. Yale Transit said the vehicles will be back on the road as soon as their tires are replaced.

Casinos collect the cash.

Connecticut’s casinos have seen an increase in business after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast. Some are suggesting that the boost may stem from casino closures in Atlantic City, which has had to battle widespread power outages. Neither of Connecticut’s two casinos lost power during the storm.

Laugh the night away.

Tomorrow is the Yale College Council’s Fall Comedy Show featuring comedian John Mulaney, a writer for Saturday Night Live who has performed on several late-night talk shows. Shon Arieh-Lerer ’14 and Ryan Bowers ’14 will perform the opening acts.

Piling up. Economic damages created by Hurricane Sandy could total $30 billion to $50 billion in damages, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Some economists fear that the storm could cut off a half percentage point from the nation’s economic growth for the current quarter.

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1993 University officials decide to eliminate the position of “bursar,” an administrator who was responsible for ensuring students paid their tuition.

The bursar’s responsibilities will be handled by other administrators instead.

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University President Richard Levin moderated the second half of “The Economy and the Election” panel at Yale Law School Thursday.

BY ASHTON WACKYM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With just five days until the 2012 presidential election, Yale hosted a panel to address the macroeconomic issues Americans should consider before taking to the polls.

University President Richard Levin moderated a discussion featuring five renowned economists from Yale and Columbia in front of a packed Yale Law

School auditorium on Thursday night.

The panel — the second in a two-part series entitled “The Economy and the Election” — aimed to present a nonpartisan overview of America’s current economic troubles, though Levin said the event was intended to inform the audience’s voting. The panelists’ focused their discussion on the fiscal cliff, the leverage cycle and the need for the Federal Reserve to take on a larger role in helping the United States recover from the 2008

Candidates campaign unopposed

Detained immigrant backed

BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER Eight candidates in New Haven currently stand unopposed for eight seats in the Connecticut State Assembly and Senate, and all of them are Democrats.

New Haven is a largely Democratic city, with its Board of Alderman entirely Democratic and 45,000 of its residents registered Democrats, compared to 2,400 registered Republicans, according to a spokesman for the New Haven Registrar of Voters. The six candidates for the Connecticut House of Representatives and the two candidates for the Connecticut Senate are Democrats with no Republican opponents.

I think voters not having the opportunity to … decide whether they need to change their representatives is disappointing.

ROB KANE Connecticut state senator Such uncontested races happen in both parties, Republican State Senator Rob Kane said. Four of the six Republican House of Representative candidates in the 32nd district, his district of representation, are also running unopposed.

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A crowd gathered in front of City Hall on Thursday to show solidarity for immigrant rights.

BY NICOLE NAREA AND CLINTON WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER Juana Islas, a New Haven resident and undocumented Mexican immigrant, broke down in tears before a crowd gathered at City Hall Thursday evening as she recounted the story of how her brother Josemaria Islas may now face deportation after having just settled misdemeanor charges.

Josemaria Islas, who is currently in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, was arrested last July by the Hamden police investigating an attempted

armed robbery. Though the victim identified Islas as the perpetrator, he was not convicted of any crime due to a lack of evidence, and instead he enrolled in a state rehabilitation program allowing individuals charged with non-serious crimes to have charges waived after a period of probation. But rather than releasing Islas to move forward with rehabilitation, judicial marshals continued to detain him in voluntary compliance with an ICE hold request, which may lead to his deportation. But immigrant rights advocates are criticizing the judicial marshals’ decision to honor the hold

request — authorized under the federal Secure Communities program — because Gov. Dannel Malloy had previously promised in March not to comply with hold requests for nonviolent offenders.

Secure Communities, which was implemented statewide Feb. 22, allows ICE officials to check police fingerprints of criminal suspects against ICE and FBI databases in an effort to deport criminals residing in the country illegally. When ICE officials believe a suspect may be undocSEE DEPORTATION PAGE 6

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End legacy preference now A

t the end of this academic year, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel will return to the classroom. Brenzel’s tenure has been marked by a number of successes, including an effort to yield more applicants interested in science and engineering and more effective international recruitment. But as we usher in a new face to guide the office of admissions, it is time to institute a new era of admissions practices. It is time to rid our Admissions Office of a policy conceived in elitism, dedicated to the proposition that not all applicants are created equal. I speak, of course, of legacy preference.

It is a widely known fact that, at most selective colleges like Yale, applicants whose parents or other family members attended the school get some advantage when applying to that same school. There are numerous reasons given for this policy: legacy applicants are continuing a loyal family tradition; legacy preference is an effective tie-breaker in admissions; because the school knows their parents, it knows that the student comes from an intellectually rich background that has prepared them well; legacy preference ensures that a school will remain closely connected with its alumni, who may reciprocate generously.

Giving preference to legacy applicants has its roots in the unsavory policy of trying to propagate a white educational elite. According to Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and editor of a recent book on legacy preference, “legacy preferences began after World War I, part of an effort to curtail the enrollment of immigrant students, particularly Jews, at Ivy League colleges.” According to Kahlenberg, “minorities make up 12.5 percent of the applicant pool at selective colleges and universities but only 6.7 percent of the legacy-applicant pool.”

AN UNFAIR BOOST? Having alumni family members is not an insignificant advantage: According to Dean Brenzel, Yale treats “legacy status as a positive factor in the evaluation process, and in recent years legacies have been admitted at about three times the rate of non-legacies.”

“However,” Brenzel cautions, “the degree of advantage does not correspond to the difference in admit rates, because legacy applicants on average present academic qualifications substantially stronger than non-legacy applicants. In other words, the average legacy applicant is more competitive

in the process, even without any regard paid to legacy status.”

To me, the question that SCOTT immediSTERN ately jumps out is: If the A Stern children of Perspective alumni are, on average, more qualified to begin with, why do they need any extra boost? If they begin the process already “more competitive,” then many legacy applicants should win admission even without preferred status.

The least cited, though perhaps most important, argument in favor of legacy preference is that it keeps the alma mater on the minds of the alumni. It is no secret that this close connection often entails significant donations on the part of pleased alums. Accepting the children of alumni at higher rates might be seen as an unspoken quid pro quo — we’ll take your kids, you’ll buy us a new library. To some, this trade-off is acceptable, because all students benefit from the resources that can be secured through generous alumni donations.

But there is something about legacy preference that seems inherently unfair, which, according to Kahlenberg, is probably one reason why 75 percent of Americans oppose it.

Legacy status is giving an advantage to those who are already advantaged enough.

Yes, exceptions abound, but it is not an unfair generalization to claim that children of those who attended elite colleges are likely to have advantages distinct from those whose parents were not quite so lucky. Coming from a home that, on average, is wealthier and emphasizes education cannot be underestimated. The single greatest correlating factor in whether you will attend college is whether your parent attended college.

Now for the record, I was possibly the beneficiary of legacy status. My mother attended Yale Law School. While I am not sure how much, if at all, this aided my application, it is possible that this connection tilted the scales in my favor. If this is the case, I am eternally grateful.

However, like Clarence Thomas acknowledging his debt to affirmative action yet abhorring it nonetheless, I cannot change my stance on legacy preference.

It is unjust — benefiting those who don’t need it in a craven attempt to secure donations.

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GUE ST COLUMNIST LEAH SARNA

A threat to all of us T

hough many a Buddhist might disagree, I am not a Buddhist. My religious practice and spiritual well-being were in no direct way hindered by the eviction of Indigo Blue from Yale. I am, however, a deeply religious Jewish undergraduate, and I am very concerned by what transpired with the sudden termination of the Indigo Blue Buddhist Program at Yale.

The dismissal of Budhist Chaplain Bruce Blair involved an immediate and unannounced closure of the Buddha Shrine in Harkness Tower. This is unconscionable. One does not deconstruct synagogues, churches or temples just because one takes issue with their clergy or practices — nor should one, for those same reasons, move them to the basement of Welch. There should be no situation at Yale wherein a group of religious students one day has a worship space and the next day does not.

Chaplains and clergy members may be hired and dismissed appropriately or inappropriately, yet none of these political dealings should result in the closure of religious spaces or the dissolution of religious communities.

Students persistently demand the creation of safe spaces for reflection and discussion on our campus — and our religious spaces should be the safest of safe spaces,

permanent and immovable.

Without well-established religious institutions, it would be impossible for me to attend Yale.

As a junior in high school looking towards college, my list contained only schools with kosher food, daily Orthodox prayer services, rigorous Torah study opportunities and a Shabbat-observant community. To put myself in the shoes of my Buddhist counterparts, it would be impossible for me to imagine waking up one morning to find the Slifka Center shut down, the clergy dismissed and the cogs of Jewish life disassembled.

I see two problematic areas in what I know of this incident (reserving judgment on any allegations involved), and both might just as easily affect any religious group on campus. The first element is a structural one, the second a confusion in priorities.

First, had Yale’s relationship to Indigo Blue been structurally different, much of the present hurt may have been avoided.

The relationship between individual religious organizations and Yale might be best characterized as sketchy. Yale provides, often, use of space and a modest amount of financial support. Mostly, though, these organizations fundraise significantly on their own, owning their own sacred objects, prayer books and accoutrements.

This situation, in fair weather, fares well, and all parties involved benefit from the end result: The community’s needs are often mostly met. Here, however, we have witnessed an example of a hurricane. When an organization providing crucial services to students is suddenly cut off, the systemic flaws of this loose structure between Yale and religious institutions become readily apparent.

When Yale decides to sever ties with a religious organization, the funds and ritual items provided by that organization disappear. In the case of Buddhism, and most other religions, those items are crucial to the practice of a religion.

In the future, funding for programming and the salary of clergy may continue to come to Yale’s campus through outside organizations. But Yale itself should own the objects and provide the spaces necessary for its students’ religious practice, so that no student faces the loss of crucial religious services in the future.

Second, the confusion in priorities here is the same one spoken about openly and painfully by Buddhist students. Chaplaincy at Yale exists in order to “support the flourishing of religious and spiritual communities,” as stated on the Chaplain’s Office website.

Decisions made regarding dramatic changes in the chaplaincy’s

relationship with a specific community ought to be supportive ones, and they ought to be presented as such. The first priority should not have been to rid the campus of Indigo Blue, it should have been to protect and foster the Buddhist student community on campus.

Perhaps breaking ties with Indigo Blue was a necessary part of protecting that community, but if so, the process utterly failed to send that message. Had the student religious community been the first priority, their religious practices and needs would have been attended to first. Buddhist student leaders, with a knowledgeable eye to the needs of their own community, would have been included in the process.

Moving forward, I hope our administration takes every measure to ensure that our religious spaces become and remain the safest spaces on campus. Let’s hope that this discussion prompts us to have other conversations about how religious life at Yale in general is conducted, and how we can build better collaboration between students and administrators to ensure that nothing like this happens again.

LEAH SARNA is a junior in Pierson College. Contact her at leah.sarna@yale.edu .

GUE ST COLUMNIST DIANA ENRIQUE Z

Design your own path I

t’s telling that a year later, Marina Keegan’s piece on consulting and banking recruitment, “Even Artichokes have Doubts,” continues to ignite heated conversations across campus and the country about campus recruitment and the jobs we take once we leave Yale. The piece left us questioning what we value, how we measure our own impact and what we want to learn along the way.

I didn’t go through the consulting and banking interviews many of my friends did this past year.

I spent my summers working in rural Mexico on development projects and running around Colombia doing research on drug cartels for my senior thesis. My value system developed through these on-site experiences, because I learn better from full immersion into my projects than I do behind a textbook or my laptop. I grabbed these opportunities when they were offered to me because I wasn’t sure I’d ever have these chances again.

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SCOTT STERN is a sophomore in Berkeley College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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I’ve met at Yale are the unconventional ones. The ones who didn’t follow the rules and instead made their own. The ones who skipped down the path written out for them or forged their own way. The ones who aren’t afraid to be different and push beyond the expected in their fields — whether this is in engineering, philosophy or social sciences. There is something to be said for people challenging the accepted order of things.

It feels like the big question on all of our minds, and especially the anxious seniors, is how we get to the next step. Once we leave, how do we realize the larger projects we have in mind — the ones we developed while we had time to explore at Yale?

It requires a certain confidence to accept uncertainty, to accept being different. I’m talking about those people in your sections, your seminars and your afternoon activities whose eyes light up when they talk about their ideas and projects. How do we hold on to these interests and turn them into

our future projects? As we begin the job search, we are also figuring out how best we can put these ideas into practice.

Personally, I have come to understand that my future job will require me to pitch my own ideas, and to me this is both terrifying and exciting. I spent my break talking to people who were doing work that I found interesting. I learned about the pros and cons of working in think tanks and living in various cities. I asked about what work life was actually like and how much people could control in their daily lives. I asked about skill sets and what people hoped to get out of their current jobs. It’s all given me a better way of understanding what I am looking for in a work environment.

One statement came up over and over again in these conversations: the single career path no longer exists. You will probably change jobs several times over the course of your lifetime, and each one will teach you something you need to take on to the next round.

This is exciting. It means we don’t need to have that 10-year plan carefully laid out and set in stone right now. You have the chance to work on all kinds of projects and talk to interesting people, but you also need to keep pushing yourself to come up with new ideas.

We came to Yale as individuals, each with something to offer to our classes as a whole. Over time it gets more difficult to give these unique traits the same degree of weight, and we may be tempted to conform and give them up. But make a promise to yourself here and now: Celebrate everything that makes you unusual. Because that individuality is what will help you find your first job and your space in whatever community you find yourself after Yale. It’s up to you to decide what impact you want to have in the world, and how you’ll measure it along the way.

DIANA ENRIQUEZ is a senior in Saybrook College. Contact her at diana.enriquez@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN

The storm has arrived A

mid the disarming shock of having so little to do on Monday, as I watched the winds getting stronger from my room and heard the occasional scream as students flouting the curfew encountered various flying objects outside, I decided to do something I hadn’t in a while: read the entirety of the YDN opinion page. Therein I found many anxieties common to Yalies, ranging from concern about post-graduation employment to the importance of spending time with family amid our ohso-busy lives to the typical Yale jeremiad against conservatism.

Facebook was also a continuing aggregate of student sentiment.

Friends posted songs of thanks to Yale for keeping us safe and paeans to our truly brave dining hall staff — many of whom drove home as the storm bore down on the Connecticut coast.

It’s true. Yale knows how to handle these situations well.

Never have I been so comforted at receiving so many emails from Linda Koch Lorimer in the span of a day.

But there’s also been a creeping feeling growing inside of me, predating this storm. It’s been growing the more I read angst-

ridden columns, the more I talk to friends, the more I wonder about what my own life will look like.

Indeed, this other storm — which seems to have made landfall a long time ago, even if unnoticed — threatens to do much more damage to the Yale student body than Hurricane Sandy.

It has become clear how obscenely narrow most students’ realities at Yale are. Many of us burn through our four years with our post-graduation lives always in the front of our brains.

We spend so little time contemplating things just for their own sake, and we forget how to enjoy activities and people who don’t seem to matter in the context of our extremely limited criteria for success. We proceed to shake our heads (er, respectfully disagree) at those who differ politically.

Every Yalie acknowledges these problems, but rarely do we do anything about them. We pause, we reflect for a moment and then we move on.

What if we designated a month of the upcoming summer to roam the foothills of Nepal with a friend — and not for the purpose of teaching English to Nepalese schoolchildren? Or, for the religious, made a pilgrimage to a holy

site? We could propose a vacation idea to our families. We could find that student we’ve always disagreed with and start a conversation about his views, rather than disagreeing from afar.

Reflection is great, but we should act on our observations and self-critiques after we make them.

Complacency here is so easy to come across. The continuous treadmill that is life at Yale, with all its conveniences, makes following ambition and seeking achievement too easy. We are as far removed as we will ever be from the nasty, brutish and short world beyond. What we often fail to see is that in this faux world in which we live, embracing insignificance — even just a little — would make us far more mature.

It would help us understand what it means when people drive through a hurricane just so our unrealistic state of being can be maintained.

Some of my best friends tell me they feel uninspired by their activities, that they had fallen in love with an academic interest and that they can’t seem to commit to anyone amid the boomand-bust cycles of their romantic relationships. Friendship

seems to come naturally here, but is a person who you see on a biweekly basis for a one-hour time slot a friend? Has their loyalty, empathy, or respect for you been tested? Has yours?

Yale was once idealized as a place dedicated to making its students invested in things: in each other, in ideas. It used to teach and foster friendship, love and virtue — and in doing so, to prepare people for the real world, even if they got to live in an artificial one for a while. All this is certainly gone, and the University doesn’t even profess to teach these things amid the prevailing skepticism of the day.

But Yale students are still smart, and — even if they don’t realize it — notice in bits and pieces that this place’s thinking has changed, and for the worse.

They feel it in their everyday lives.

It’s now up to us to teach ourselves what this university won’t: contemplation and virtue. Yale’s hollow marble can’t protect us from our own immaturity, superficiality and inaction.

JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu .

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TRACY FLICK IN 'ELECTION' “Some people say I'm an overachiever, but I think they're just jealous.”

YALE TALKS ELECTIONS GUEST COLUMNIST ALDA PONTES

America’s role in the world

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n the evening of Oct. 22, presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney got together at Lynn University in Florida for their third debate, which focused on foreign policy and other related issues.

Bob Schieffer, the debate’s moderator, asked the president and governor: “What is America’s role in the world?” The debate that followed was surprising and slightly disconcerting.

Gov. Romney went first, explaining that America has the responsibility and privilege to promote principles of peace, touching on human rights, democratic elections and free enterprise. Yet in less than 30 seconds, he took a step away from the question, claiming that “in order to be able to fulfill our role in the world, America must be strong.”

He then went on to explain how to lower unemployment levels, enhance our military powers and get the US economy churning towards a more steady recovery. Gov. Romney finalized his argument with a plea for America to “stand for our principles”; in straying from the question, the governor’s paradoxically domestic foreign policy was revealed.

Paralleling this approach, President Obama began his two-minute argument by claiming “America remains the one indispensable nation.” He quickly described

the military shift from Iraq to Afghanistan, explaining that it allowed us to position “ourselves so we can start rebuilding America.” He explained that to do so will require bringing manufacturing back onshore, strengthening the auto industry, enhancing the education system and both controlling and investing in our own energy sources. The debate that followed for this section focused on how to strengthen our education system and the American economy, specifically by reducing our budget deficit.

AMERICA HAS A DOMESTIC APPROACH TO FOREIGN POLICY On two different occasions, Schieffer asked the candidates to “get back to foreign policy” and tried to steer the debate away from domestic issues, which had been covered extensively in the first two debates. But the candidates repeatedly drove the discussion closer to home.

From their discussion, it seems that America’s role in the world is to help America.

It is undeniable that the U.S. economy is far from what it was pre-2008 depression. It has begun to recover, but unemployment is still at a substantial level of 7.8 percent according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In terms of politics, it’s sensible why both candidates would make foreign issues seem more domestic: to appeal to those holding onto a voter ballot who are struggling with decreasing take-home pays or cyclical unemployment. And of course, the national government should have as their foremost concern the well-being and safety of its citizens. Yet when presidential candidates depict global responsibility only through American terms, our political tunnel vision becomes evident.

This domestic-only mentality establishes America as a country that is concerned with others only as a function of itself. As such, foreign aid and assistance might as well be referred to as self-serving philanthropy. Mathematically, it is so: research by Rep. Jim McDermott, as explained in a 2001 Washington Post article

by Michael Dobbs, showed that 53 cents out of every buck spent by the U.S. on anti-AIDS efforts in Africa had never left the D.C. area. And this might even make us wonder: How much of it actually left the United States?

Although debates are mostly

politics, in the 21st century, as we see the impacts of Syrian, Libyan and Afghani turmoil, voters must understand there is more at stake than the American automobile industry. Our success in keeping Iran nuclear armsfree is not solely dependent on American military power, but also on technological, humanitarian and political aid that is geared towards Iranian citizens.

We must stop thinking of foreign affairs so unilaterally, and understand that global progress must be approached holistically.

Not through building America, but through development assistance that concerns the welfare of the recipient, not the gregarious donor.

The leaders of America, “the one indispensable country” with the responsibility to fight for the freedoms of the oppressed, seem to not deem this function to be a privilege unless it can be used to the American advantage. It is understandable that candidates must frame issues to target the concerns of American voters. Yet ideally, our national stance on foreign aid shouldn’t be Americacentered, but rather stem from our responsibility to foster democratic principles.

ALDA PONTES is a junior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at alda.pontes@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST ALLIE BEIZER

Think before you vote T

here is a presidential election coming up. Surely you know this.

But the presidency is not the only office that will be decided on Nov. 6. We will also be voting for a host of state and local representatives and ballot measures whose importance must not be diminished by the hubbub of the presidential race.

The Constitution entrusts states with those rights not specifically designated to the federal government. States thus have tremendous control over the lives of their citizens. School systems, for example, are maintained by municipalities but required to meet state standards and comply with state mandates. Many taxes and marriage laws are state-specific. We, as voters, therefore have the power to approve our state representatives and amendments to constitutions.

We cannot overlook the importance of thoughtfully selecting these officials, nor can we overlook the importance of conscientiously selecting local officials who oversee district schools, courts, security and infrastructure. If you claim that your vote does not matter because your state is decidedly blue or red, then perhaps you are not looking at the

right election.

On Election Day, we also have the opportunity to vote on certain proposed amendments to our state constitutions. Remember California’s Proposition 8? That 2008 ballot measure, approved by a margin of only 600,000 votes, amended the California Constitution such that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

Connecticut does not have any such proposals in this year’s election, but Maryland, Washington, Minnesota and Maine ballots will all feature measures determining the legality of same-sex marriage.

Passing of California’s Proposition 34, another state measure, would repeal the death penalty, substituting it for life imprisonment without parole. In Florida, one of the 11 ballot propositions concerns abortion funding. If approved, Florida’s Amendment 6 would forbid state tax dollars from fronting abortion costs except in cases involving rape, incest and life of the mother. The decisions of the voting public will affect these states’ legal codes and thus the laws that govern all of their citizens. Why, then, do we not approach state elections with the same level of seriousness that we have for the presidential race?

Before casting a ballot, it is imperative that we know for whom and what we are voting.

Project Vote Smart provides an extensive database of information on all United States elections, as does Ballotpedia, an electionspecific offshoot of Wikipedia.

Study your district. Know your candidates. Examine their records and understand their stances in relation to yours.

YOUR LOCAL AND STATE ELECTIONS STILL MATTER It may be tempting to simply vote down the party line. Blindly doing so, however, locks us into an ideology: we choose exclusively Democrat or Republican because it is convenient to assume that a member of one party closely represents our own values based solely on his or her political affiliation. For instance, the congressional race in Massachusetts’ 6th District between incumbent Democrat John F. Tierney and pro-choice, openly gay Republican Richard Tisei does not draw

along historic party lines. Tisei’s economic policies may place him on the right side of the political spectrum, but his appearance on the Republican ticket should not disqualify him from the consideration of Democratic voters. Conversely, congressmen belonging to the Blue Dog Coalition identify as moderate Democrats and should not be neglected

by Republican voters. If we actually believe that each Democrat’s objectives are better than those of his Republican counterpart’s, or if we truly think that each Republican representative will embody our values more closely than his Democratic equivalent, then so be it; vote exclusively blue or red.

But we must be sure to select our representatives based on merits rather than party association.

Our government derives legitimacy from the consent of the governed. We can only issue this consent by carefully choosing the individuals we see best fit for state and local office based on our thoughtful consideration of their platforms. Blinded by party politics, you’ll never know what you could be missing.

ALLIE BEIZER is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Contact her at alexandra.beizer@yale.edu .

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ur campus is almost uniformly supportive of gay marriage and is strongly, if not universally, in favor of a woman’s right to choose. Nonetheless, it’s become almost chic to identify as a “fiscal conservative.”

Identifying as a fiscal conservative allows such Yalies to contrast themselves with idealistic, yet allegedly impractical, liberals. Romney supporters claim that if Obama wins, it’ll be due to his ability to direct voters’ focus from economic issues.

Yet the perception that Obama’s economic policies are idealistic or dogmatic is untrue. Whether you’re fiscally liberal, moderate or conservative — basically, if you’re anything short of fiscally insane — you should vote for the president this Tuesday.

One of Gov. Romney’s favorite refrains during this campaign has been that the economy is growing more slowly this year than last year, and that last year it grew more slowly than the year before. It’s a good point — for the president. Two years ago was the last year the economy was fully benefitting from President Obama’s stimulus.

Since then, a Republican-controlled House has forced austerity at the federal level, while cash-strapped cities and states have laid off millions of public workers.

The reasons Republicans give for their policies consist of a belief that government cannot stimulate demand in a depressed economy — and that even if such spending could stimulate the economy, we couldn’t afford it. Their beliefs are belied by history, current events and common sense. That Republicans in Congress can claim we cannot afford stimulus, when investors over the last four years have essentially paid the government to take their money and spend it for them, is remarkable.

If we return to the financial crisis of 2008, primarily Democrats provided the votes for an unfair yet totally necessary financial sector bailout. The bailout has given rise to difficult questions of moral hazard, yet anyone who remembers the feeling of chaos — or the precipitous drop in the Dow — when the bailout plan first failed in Congress knows how necessary this stabilizing action was. The relative strength of our financial sector today is one of the Obama administration’s greatest achievements.

During the financial crisis, Republicans stood in the way of what our economy needed.

Their fight wasn’t about distributional or fairness issues — we’re all better off for the strong action the federal government took — but rather about a delusional objection to all government involvement in the economy.

Worse yet, in 2011, Republicans in Congress actually manufactured an economic crisis in the form of a totally unnecessary standoff over our nation’s

debt ceiling.

Their refusal to raise the debt limit went beyond political theater — they carried our HARRY nation to LARSON the brink of default. To Nothing in the extent that uncerParticular tainty over government action, rather than a lack of consumer demand, is holding back our nation’s recovery, it is an uncertainty created by Republican recklessness.

Congressional Republicans’ abysmal record on the economic crisis could be overlooked if, going forward, Gov. Romney promised us better economic policies than President Obama.

He doesn’t. It seems highly implausible that his tax plan won’t add to the deficit, but even if he somehow gets the numbers to work so that the government doesn’t lose any revenue, Romney has ruled out any revenue increases. He’s also ruled out cuts to Medicare providers or to Social Security over the next 10 years, while promising to dramatically increase our military spending and reduce the deficit.

REPUBLICANS HAVE BLOCKED ECONOMIC GROWTH That means the most savage cuts in government spending under a Romney administration would fall on domestic discretionary spending, the category which includes money for science research, infrastructure and education, not to mention government agencies such as FEMA, whose role Hurricane Sandy has made only too clear.

In short, Romney would slash government’s ability to perform its basic functions effectively, while neglecting investments in our nation’s physical and human capital and in our development of new technologies and ideas necessary for economic growth.

President Obama’s policy prescriptions are at least as “fiscally conservative” as those of President Nixon. More important than their place on the political spectrum, however, is their firm tether to basic economic realities, a tether the policies of Governor Romney and congressional Republicans lack.

I’m voting for President Obama this Tuesday, and I’m voting for him on economic grounds.

HARRY LARSON is a junior in Jonathan Edwards. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at harry.larson@yale.edu .

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BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Berkeley is looking to expand its arts presence on campus.

The college is creating an arts council — led by Master Marvin Chun, Dean Mia Genoni and Julie Reiter ’14 — that aims to encourage students to use Berkeley spaces to showcase visual art. Reiter said that unlike some colleges such as Davenport, Jonathan Edwards and Silliman, Berkeley is not known for its support of student art projects, a perception she said she hopes the council will change.

The group will initially rely on Creative and Performing Arts awards to fund exhibitions by students in the college.

“We basically want to expand Berkeley’s connection to the arts and make Berkeley a center of art at Yale,” Reiter said.

Despite support from Berkeley, funding for the council is “still … being worked out,” Reiter said. For the time being, the council plans to fund projects on an individual basis, but will rely heavily on CPA awards, which the Council of Masters distributes for art exhibits and productions in the residential colleges.

The first exhibition, which will feature Reiter’s photographic portraiture, for instance, is funded with a CPA award.

Chun said he hopes the council will encourage more students to apply for CPA funding.

Most student art projects in residential colleges are funded

by CPA grants.

“Most of the exhibitions I’ve attended or helped set up were at least partially funded by CPA awards,” former Jonathan Edwards Art Gallery manager Kate Huh ’14 said.

Despite their popularity, CPA awards come with numerous restrictions, such as tight funding limits and strict definitions of what students can purchase with the funding. For instance, CPA awards for visual

arts are limited to $500 and may not be used to purchase picture frames, which Reiter described as frustrating as she prepares her upcoming exhibit.

Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti ’91, who leads the Arts and Awards Committee on the Council of Masters, declined to comment on the limits imposed

by CPA awards. Anna Reynolds, director of finance and administration for the Council of Masters, could not be reached for comment.

We basically want to expand Berkeley’s connection to the arts and make Berkeley a center of art at Yale.

JULIE REITER ’14 Member, Proposed Berkeley arts council Chun said the Berkeley arts council traces its roots to an exhibition in the college last spring, in which students showcased work produced in a variety of mediums including photography and sculpture. After the exhibit, Chun said he and Genoni approached Reiter about creating the council. “[The exhibition] was so successful that we wanted to keep the momentum going with this Arts Council,” Chun said.

Despite its home in Berkeley, the council hopes to engender a more vibrant arts culture across all of Yale College, primarily through its blog, in which anybody can contribute posts about artists on campus, Reiter said.

Of Yale’s 12 residential colleges, four have art galleries and seven have art studios.

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

“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.” HENRY MILLER SURREALIST WRITER AND PAINTER

Candidates appear on ballot twice

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER When Connecticut voters head to the polls this Tuesday, they will see the names of both U.S. Senate candidates on their ballots — twice.

Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon will appear on the Republican Party and the Independent Party lines, while Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy will appear on the Democratic Party and the Working Families Party lines. Putting candidate names on the ballot twice, a method referred to as “fusion voting,” can make third parties something “other than spoilers,” said political science professor Susan Stokes, adding that it “breaks the duopoly.” In a race as close as Murphy and McMahon’s, fusion voting can make a difference, said Ebong Udoma, Connecticut state capitol reporter for WSHU Public Radio.

Connecticut is home to approximately 1 million registered voters who identify as Independent, while 800,000 identify as Democratic voters and 425,000 identify as Republican, meaning Independents have a sway in elections, Udoma said.

Lindsay Farrell, Connecticut executive director of the Working Families Party, said his party typically garners 5 to 6 percent of the vote in legislative elections. Nancy DiNorda, chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Connecticut, said some voters “feel loyal” to the Working Families Party and would not vote on a straight party ticket. The same is true for Independent Party voters supporting McMahon, she added.

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Both U.S. Senate candidates Linda McMahon and Chris Murphy are endorsed by third parties. or her name on the Independent Party line, he or she must receive 7,500 petition signatures and then pay $20,000 for the spot, Udoma said. This election marks the first time in Connecticut history that a Republican candidate will have his or her name on the Independent Party line, which “caused a rift in the Independent Party,” he added. The Connecticut Independent Party could not be reached for comment, and McMahon’s headquarters did not return the News’ calls.

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name under both the Democratic Party and Working Families Party. Fusion voting in the United States first began at the beginning of the 20th century with the Populist Party in New York, Udoma said. Only eight states currently utilize fusion voting systems similar to Connecticut’s.

According to 2011 U.S. census data, slightly under one-third of Connecticut residents are registered to vote.

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cratic Party and Working Families Party pairing seems more expected, Udoma said. The Working Families Party and the Democrats support a “tax system that makes sense — not putting the burden on the back of middle- and working-class voters to give big tax breaks to corporations, and universal health care,” Farrell said.

Connecticut’s fusion voting method is not a new feature of Connecticut politics. Current Gov. Dannel Malloy ran on a fusion ballot in 2010 with his

Despite difficult odds, latest polling suggests Democrats may maintain their hold on the Senate this November.

With this year’s election cycle coming to a close, Republicans hope to reclaim a Senate majority for the first time since 2006 are facing a spate of final polls showing GOP candidates leading in only four of the country’s 11 competitive Senate races. With 33 races taking place this year, the latest polling puts Democrats in position to hold at least 52 seats in the Senate after Election Day, maintaining their majority despite having many more seats up for re-election.

Republicans came into this election cycle defending 10 Senate seats, while Democrats were forced to defend 23, a situation that Yale political science professor John Bullock ’01 said could result in a perceived loss for Senate Republicans this November.

“If the Democrats keep control, it should be regarded as a big blow to the Republicans. The Democrats had a slim majority.

They had to defend many more open seats. And they had a few highly vulnerable candidates,” Bullock said in a Wednesday email to the News. “A year ago,

I don’t think that any informed, objective observer would have given them a 50-50 chance of keeping their majority. I certainly didn’t.”

But political science professor David Mayhew disagrees.

Excluding the presidential race, Mayhew said 2012 was “a real bad year for challengers, regardless of party.”

“Ninety-five percent of incumbent senators who are running again, 95 percent of House members who are running again and 100 percent of governors running again are running ahead,” Mayhew said. “Despite the low [polling] standing of Congress, there is virtually no evidence of any voter kickback against House Republicans, Tea Partiers or otherwise.”

Pundits expect the Republican party to maintain its control in the House of Representatives.

In Connecticut’s open seat to replace retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67, Democrat Rep. Chris Murphy has pulled ahead of Republican businesswoman Linda McMahon, maintaining a five-point average lead in polls after having run neck-and-neck with McMahon earlier in the campaign. In neighboring Massachusetts, incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown is trailing Harvard professor Elizabeth

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Warren by over four percentage points, though pundits still consider the race a toss-up.

Geoffrey Skelley, chief political analyst for the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said the race is Warren’s to lose.

“Unless Elizabeth Warren had turned out to be a complete zero of a candidate, it was always going to be tough for Brown to win re-election in a presidential year,” Skelley said. “The Democratic tide in Massachusetts is just too much.”

Democrats also lead narrowly in Virginia, where former Democratic Governor Tim Kaine currently bests former Republican Senator George Allen by a narrow one-point margin, and Wisconsin, in which former Republican Governor Tommy Thompson is running 0.3 points behind Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin. While these races are close, Democratic incumbents have seen significant polling leads ahead of Republican challengers in Florida and Ohio, even while both remain swing states in the presidential election, with Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson ’65 and Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown ’74 leading by five- to six-point margins in Florida and Ohio polling averages, respectively.

While Republicans began the 2012 Senate election cycle hope-

ful about retaking the Senate by running moderate candidates with bipartisan appeal in New Mexico, Hawaii and New Jersey, all three are behind Democrats in polls. In Missouri and Indiana, two races in which Republicans were long presumed to be favorites, the Democratic candidates are now once again competitive in light of comments made about abortion in the case of rape. Competitive Senate elections in which Republicans currently lead in polls are in Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska and Nevada.

Skelley said he recommends looking to the 2014 elections, when it will be “difficult” for Democrats to stay in control given the number of vulnerable seats they will be defending.

RealClearPolitics political analyst Caitlin Huey-Burns, meanwhile, suggested watching Pennsylvania in the final days of the election, where Democrats are favored to win in both the Senate and presidential election but Republicans are showing signs of closing the gap in the final days of campaigning.

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6 Contact JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu .

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“You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.” NOAM CHOMSKY AMERICAN LINGUIST

Yale Opera presents Fall Scenes

BY JENNIFER GERSTEN AND JASMINE HORSEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS This weekend, students will be able to sample 10 different opera scenes in just one night.

On Friday and Saturday evening, the School of Music’s Yale Opera program will present its annual “Fall Opera Scenes,” the first of three major productions for the 2012-’13 season. Directed

by Doris Yarick-Cross, the production will feature students in scenes from both comic and tragic operas by Bizet, Puccini and other composers. The scenes will span a variety of languages and time periods, with each one lasting between 16 and 30 minutes.

Yarick-Cross said each of the 16 students in the program will have the opportunity to perform both leading and supporting roles in scenes that are chosen to develop their abilities as actors and performers.

“We pick a variety of scenes — that’s wonderful fun for the audience [and] gives the singers an optimal advantage to advance,” Yarick-Cross said.

Valerie Webster, the production’s costume coordinator, added that many of the scenes are not set in their original time periods. For example, the scene from “Il Arbiere di Siviglia” (The Barber of Seville) will feature the character Figaro dressed in a sweat suit.

The Yale Opera program, which the School of Music began in 1983, admits four to five students each year. The Yale Opera will perform twice more this year: “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” at the Shubert Theater in February and Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta” at Morse Recital Hall in May.

Jenna Siladie MUS ’13, a soprano in the program, said the Yale Opera program’s performances are very popular with the local community, attracting New Haven residents as well as professors and undergraduates.

“The presence of opera at Yale is very prominent, and it’s a program that is universally recognized as being one of the top opera programs in the world,” she said. “Our duty as opera singers is to entertain people and to give them an escape from the daily stresses, to let them go on this journey back into time and experience these other languages, costumes and fashions.”

Three undergraduate students interviewed said that although they had not heard of the upcoming performance, they would still be interested in attending. Halley Kaye-Kaudere ’15 said she thinks undergraduates would attend despite not knowing about Yale Opera specifically due to music’s strong appeal on campus.

In addition to offering students the chance to play major roles in opera excerpts and perform in full productions of major works, the Yale Opera program boasts a strong relationship with the “Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Guiseppe Verdi” in Milan, Italy.

Since 2004, Yale Opera has been travelling to Milan over the summer to present a series of joint performances.

Both Friday and Saturday performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall, with tickets priced at $5 for those with a student ID. Contact JENNIFER GERSTEN at jennifer.gersten@yale.edu.

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The Fall Opera Scenes production will feature 10 scenes from operas spanning a variety of languages and time periods.

Pinker considers violence

Artist talks British identity

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Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker spoke about violence and human nature in his Thursday lecture.

BY MAYA AVERBUCH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Though some consider the 20th century one of the bloodiest in history, psychologist Steven Pinker believes the world has become more peaceful over the course of human existence.

At a Thursday lecture entitled “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” Pinker — an eminent experimental psychologist and Harvard University professor — discussed declining violence in major historical periods and the related implications about human nature.

The talk marked the first event held by the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, which was founded last year to organize interdisciplinary lectures. Pinker said he thinks society has become more peaceful because people have begun to rely increasingly on reason and empathy as a result of as a result of modernization.

“Violence of all kinds has decreased,” Pinker said. “This calls for a [rehabilitation] of the ideals of modernity and progress and is certainly a cause for gratitude for the institutions of civilizations and enlightenment that have made it possible.”

To explain his argument, Pinker laid out six periods important to the pacification process: the formation of government nearly 6,000 years ago, the development of commerce and criminal justice systems in the Middle Ages, the end of corporal punishment over the last 300 years, the post-WWII

enduring peace between major world powers, the post-Cold War decline in civil conflicts and human rights movements.

He said the worldwide percentage of deaths attributable to violent acts — such as man-made famines, genocide and wars — is currently around 3 percent, but in prehistoric times, before the pacification process began, the figure was nearly 15 percent. During medieval times, he added, an Englishman was 35 times more likely to be murdered than his contemporary counterpart.

It was very classic Pinker … very simply and quantitatively laid out.

ANDY ZHANG ’15 After the Middle Ages, increased communication and higher literacy rates contributed to the spread of knowledge, which Pinker said he thinks brought about a decline in corporal punishment during the period.

He added that the death penalty, slavery, witch-hunts and religious persecution soon became significantly less common.

Pinker said the “frequency of Great Power wars, the duration of Great Power wars and the deadliness of Great Power wars have all declined,” though he said incidents of civil war had been

increasing until the Cold War. Still, he said civil wars kill a “fraction” of the amount of people that inter-state wars kill.

When trying to pin down a specific reason for the rise of pacification, Pinker said modernity has allowed people to rely on reason, morality and empathy rather than violent urges.

“Human nature is extraordinarily complex and has always comprised both the inclinations toward violence and inclinations that counteract them — what Abraham Lincoln called ‘the better angels of our nature,’” Pinker said.

Audience members interviewed said they were impressed by the lecture.

“It was very classic Pinker — very formulaic, very simply and clearly, quantitatively laid out,” Andy Zhang ’15 said.

But other attendees doubted his argument, partially due to the complexity of data analysis.

“I imagine what I saw was a very selective presentation of data,” Sam Spaulding ’13 said, adding that Pinker has “done a good job of identifying and elucidating at least some of the factors that are responsible for the empirical drop in observed human violence.”

Pinker will appear alongside members of the Yale faculty in Friday’s panel discussion on “How Should We Address Violence?” in the Whitney Humanities Center.

Contact MAYA AVERBUCH at maya.averbuch@yale.edu .

Following multiple flight cancellations caused by Hurricane Sandy, London-based artist Hew Locke barely made it to Yale.

Nonetheless, Locke delivered a lecture to roughly 150 Yale and New Haven community members Thursday, presenting work from the last 20 years of his career. Known for creating complex pieces that explore British culture and identity in a global context, Locke came to international attention in 2000 following his win of the EASTinternational Award and the Paul Hamlyn Award, which the Guardian called “the art world’s most coveted prize.”

Locke meshes together various media in his installations, often making extensive use of everyday objects, including consumer detritus. Entitled “Prisoners of the Sun,” his lecture addressed the international, aesthetic and political issues he explores through his work, particularly the restraints of national identity.

Locke’s focus on political themes was evident in the presentation of his 1994 piece “Ark,” one of a number of pieces in which he uses the image of a boat to evoke the shifting nature of national identity.

Citing his move from Edinburgh to Guyana at a young age as an important influence on his artistic career, Locke said he has tended to fixate on certain images and incorporate them into multiple works.

“I made boats for quite a number of years, for a long time,” Locke said.

“It comes out of the fact that when I was a kid and moved to Guyana, I went by boat. Things like that stick in your brain.”

Despite the fact that “Ark” garnered largely positive reactions, Locke confessed he found the reasons why people appreciated his work problematic. He explained that his British audience did not appreciate the universality of his themes, instead assuming that his work

was influenced by foreign cultures.

“This was 1994. This is a different world we’re talking about,” Locke said.

“Everybody was obsessed with a particular kind of thing. People weren’t looking beyond Britain.”

These frustrations gave rise to the 2000 piece “Hemmed in Two,” which was displayed in the lobby of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

Developed using cardboard and galvanized guttering from houses in Guyana, “Hemmed in Two” enabled Locke to address his audience’s misunderstanding of the transnational works of art. “‘Hemmed in Two’ referred to being hemmed in by people’s ideas and concepts of who I should be and who I shouldn’t,” Locke said.

Locke’s concern with the boundaries imposed by others’ concept of national identity led him to begin exploring British culture and power, an interest that culminated in a series of images of Queen Elizabeth II. One piece, “Black Queen,” is constructed of black M16 machine guns, spiders, newts and lizards. Though the series has been somewhat controversial, Locke said he found the topic essential for addressing the themes of power and national identity.

Two audience members interviewed said they found Locke’s presentation inspiring. Krysten Koehn ART ’13 said she enjoyed the opportunity to hear an artist talk honestly about his own work.

“I appreciated the way he was just really down-to-earth and honest about his themes,” Koehn said. “He didn’t have any convoluted conversation from one work to the next — it was just about what was interesting to him at the time or what was happening in the world at the time that influenced him in some way.”

The lecture series that hosted Locke was established in honor of Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, the director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1957 to 1971.

Contact JASMINE HORSEY at jasmine.horsey@yale.edu .

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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” WINSTON CHURCHILL BRITISH POLITICIAN AND STATESMAN

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The Secure Communities program has been criticized by immigrant rights groups for unnecessarily targeting non-violent criminals.

umented, they can issue a detainment request asking the state to hold the individual in custody pending deportation proceedings. But the program has faced heated criticism from immigrant rights groups and members of the Latino community as unnecessarily targeting non-violent criminals and undermining community policing. In an effort to curb the program’s implementation, Malloy announced in March that Connecticut would only honor detainment requests for serious offenders who meet certain objective criteria, and given that Islas has not been convicted of a crime, his detention has incited further criticism of Secure Communities.

Advocacy groups rallied to protest Islas’ detention at a press conference that drew 17 people including members of the Islas family, advocacy group Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA), a City Hall representative and members of the Divinity School student organization, Seminarians for a Democratic Society. Prior to his arrest, Islas was a volunteer for ULA and an advocate for immigration rights.

ULA pressed Malloy to urge Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to dismiss Islas’ case and develop a clear policy to address Secure Communities detainment requests. ULA volunteer Megan Fountain ’07 said that Mike Lawlor, Connecticut’s undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning, had betrayed his promise that Islas would not be transferred to ICE custody and demanded that the state “develop a much clearer position” on the enforcement of Secure Communities.

“There still is no cohesive or transparent standard of dealing with ICE hold requests,” Fountain said.

Lawlor, however, said Malloy is already a vocal critic of Secure Communities. Malloy ordered an investigation of the program in July and announced he would only honor detainment requests for serious offenders such as convicted criminals, gang members and suspected terror-

Democrats control New Haven CITY DELEGATION FROM PAGE 1 they need to change their representatives is disappointing,” Kane said.

He added that it is easy to find uncontested Republican candidates in more suburban communities and uncontested Democratic candidates in more urban areas. The combination of the reluctance of people to run in an election that seems difficult to win and the little attention given to State Assembly races compared to national campaigns results in uncontested races, he said.

The Connecticut GOP did not return multiple requests for comment and the spokesperson for the Republican Town Committee said he could not comment due to power outages from the hurricane.

New Haven Democratic Representative Pat Dillon, who has served for almost 30 years, cited public campaign finance laws as a potential reason for the lack of Republican candidates. The public campaign finance option gives candidates significantly more money if they are facing an opponent, she said.

“The theory behind reform of public campaign finance was that it would make elections more competitive by giving challengers an opportunity to raise money against evil

incumbents. It gives you more money if you have an opponent, and very little if you don’t,” Dillon said. “What this means is that if I have a Republican opponent, it’ll just probably increase the money I get and the turnout,

A challenger from another party … makes it more likely that there will be an open discussion about the role of government.

PATRICIA DILLON Representative for New Haven, Connecticut House of Representatives and running a Republican candidate might not be worth that.”

State Senator Majority Leader Martin Looney said he thinks the Republican Party may not be running any candidates because they may feel that Democratic candidates would be more engaged in their campaigns if they had opponents. This might be especially true this year, he added, because of its status as a presidential election year.

Looney said he does not think the slate of unopposed candidates is necessarily a downside.

“I think the ebb and flow of

the competitive process over time results in this, and I don’t think it’s necessarily a source for alarm in any given year,” Looney said.

Looney added that even though he is running unopposed this year, he is still sending out campaign mail and attending the same number of community events and forums as he would if he had an opponent.

“When you have a challenger from another party, it makes it more likely that there will be an open discussion about the role of government and other issues,” Dillon said. “I would always ask for a debate when I had an opponent because I thought it’d be good.”

Democratic Representative Gary Holder-Winfield, who called New Haven a “basically one-party town,” said the lack of public debate and discourse means voters do not get as much as they can out of the election process. He said that these debates enabled him to connect with voters and communicate his ideas about issues.

There were 431,721 registered Democrats and 431,721 registered Republicans in Connecticut as of Oct. 25, 2011, according to the state’s registration and party enrollment statistics.

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ists.

But Malloy’s executive policy does not apply to Islas, who was detained under a court order, Lawlor said.

Though Malloy cannot overturn such a legal ruling, he has repeatedly pressured state judicial marshals not to comply with Secure Communities’ detainment requests for non-criminals, Lawlor added. Lawlor said Malloy has also urged advocacy groups to engage members of the judicial branch in a conversation about Secure Communities.

Secure Communities is a misguided and mishandled program.

ELIZABETH BENTON ’04 Spokeswoman, City Hall “We can’t compel the judicial branch to follow our policy,” Lawlor said. “We have encouraged advocacy groups to put pressure on the right people.”

Fountain said ULA had not reached out to judicial officials.

ULA organizer John Lugo said undocumented immigrants seek refuge in New Haven due to policies that limit questions about an individual’s

immigration status during routine law enforcement interactions. City officials, including Mayor John DeStefano Jr., have denounced the Secure Communities program. Both DeStefano and Malloy said the program could breed mistrust between local immigrant communities and police.

Under Secure Communities, they said, undocumented immigrants have come to view the local police as arms of federal deportation agencies and are consequently reluctant to turn to law enforcement when they are witnesses or victims of crime, fearing they will be deported.

“Secure Communities is a misguided and mishandled program that will make neither New Haven nor the State more secure,” City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said.

“The program runs counterproductive to the relationships our police department has worked hard to establish with immigrant communities.”

A Yale Law School study found that nearly 70 percent of people deported from ICE hold requests in Fairfield County were not convicted criminals, violent offenders or threats to public safety or national security.

Contact NICOLE NAREA at nicole.narea@yale.edu.

Contact CLINTON WANG at clinton.wang@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

1,106

Jobs Created in Connecticut This Summer

The federal government reports that between July and September 2012, 1,106 new jobs were created in Connecticut thanks to the funds awarded to the state by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. At least 83 of these jobs were created in downtown New Haven.

Election threatens city funding FEDERAL FUNDS FROM PAGE 1 suffering from AIDS. One source of federal funding arrives annually in the form of Community Development Block Grants, which are used to support city and neighborhood development by building affordable housing, constructing public facilities and funding the city’s nonprofit organizations. New Haven received $3,688,534 — an amount that has been shrinking in recent years — from block grants in 2012, which came directly from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

But federal funding could be in trouble, and many New Haven politicians said the results of next week’s election could affect the amount of federal grant money that the Elm City receives.

“The election of Governor Romney and a Republican Congress would be devastating for cities like New Haven,” Connecticut State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney said. “I think that everything we rely upon would likely be in jeopardy with a Republican president.”

In 2009, New Haven received federal money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. While city organizations received money directly from the Act itself — such as the $706,765 sent to New Haven Home Recovery Inc., a housing and support organization in the city — New Haven also received stimulus money that passed through the state before reaching the Elm City.

“The untold story of the Recovery Act is that a third of it went toward state municipal aid, and that money is drying up,” Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said. “Our budget in New Haven has seen better days.”

The election of Governor Romney and a Republican Congress would be devastating for cities like New Haven.

MARTIN LOONEY Majority leader, Connecticut State Senate According to Hausladen, a large percentage of the city’s budget comes from the state, which he said has been “tremendously helped” by the Recovery Act. However, not everyone believes that the state has made good budgetary decisions.

“Malloy and the Democrats continue to concoct a variety of formulas for creating red ink, but the ingredients always stay the same: massive government spending, jaw-dropping borrowing, failure to pay off bond obligations and their insatiable appetite for new revenues that take the forms of taxes, fees, business permits, licenses and anything else that helps them dip their hand into our taxpayers’ pockets,” Connecti-

cut Republican Party Chairman Jerry Labriola, Jr. said in a June statement.

Romney has said he believes reducing government spending is in the best interest of the country, calling fiscal responsibility a “moral imperative.” But Hausladen said that he would be “fearful” of what Republicans would do in terms of infrastructure investment in cities like New Haven. The federal government has funded several transportations projects in the city, including a grant supporting Downtown Crossing development, the I-95 renovations and an airport capital project that Hausladen said will soon add flights from Tweed airport to Chicago.

New Haven has also been the beneficiary of federal education funding, including a five-year $53.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education received by the city in September for the continued success of its school reform effort. But as the funding is spread out over five years, only $12 million in the first year is guaranteed, Looney said, leaving the rest of the grant open to changes from the federal government. Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s budget proposal would cut funding to education and programs like Head Start and Pell Grants by nearly 20 percent.

In 2012, New Haven received $1,600,000 of federal funding from the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

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

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Economists emphasize importance of the Fed ECONOMICS PANEL FROM PAGE 1

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Yale economics professor John Geanakoplos emphasized the importance of forgiving debt.

debates — the three presidential debates and the one vice-presidential debate — into one document and searched for commonly used words.

He said he found the word “jobs” 161 times, the word “economy” 101 times, but no politician mentioned the Federal Reserve — an institution that every economist on the panel viewed as essential to emerging from the recession.

Geanakoplos, who went through a 69-slide presentation entitled “What Caused the 2007–9 Crisis and How I Think We Should Have Prevented and Fixed It” in 20 minutes, said Congress and the Treasury must support the Fed in regulating leverage ratios — or the relationship between an asset’s value and price — to stimulate economic growth.

Columbia economics professor Michael Woodford discussed the issue of interest rates on loans and warned of approaching a 0 percent interest rate, which is the “zero lower bound.”

He said low interest rates typically help the economy grow but added that without any ability to set interest rates, the Fed loses an important tool for stimulating the economy. He said excessively low interest rates perpetuate the leverage cycle.

“It is very rare for the Fed to talk this way,” Woodford said. “It is very rare for [interest rates] to go that low.”

Woodford also said the economy’s unusually slow recovery is illustrated by statistics on the slow decline in unemployment and the remaining 6 percent gap between potential GDP

output and real GDP output.

Yale professor of economics William Nordhaus said that it is necessary to enact a fiscal stimulus before the economy encounters the fiscal cliff — a combination of the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts and a decline in government spending that would cause a major decrease in GDP. Though most people think government spending should decrease over the next years, he added that in the short term, he believes it should increase for a better long-term economic outlook.

When introducing the panel, Levin said he hoped the discussion would address ways to improve the economy and reduce unemployment.

“The purpose of these discussions is not to persuade any of you, but to illuminate the major economic issues that face the nation at this time and look at them from various perspectives,” he

said.

Three audience members interviewed said they enjoyed hearing the different expert perspectives in dialogue but were disappointed that each presidential candidate’s policy was not examined more closely.

“I’ve been in discussions with friends about the economy and since I’m nearing retirement age, I would like to understand what to expect in the future, what the proposed changes might be to our policies,” said Mary Lewis, an nurse at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

The first panel in the “The Economy and the Election” series took place Oct. 10 and focused on health care reform, taxes and the budget deficit.

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

Here we are two months away and we don’t know what our tax rates are going to be and we don’t know if our doctors are going to get paid or not. That’s no way to run a country.

WILLIAM NORDHAUS YALE ECONOMICS PROFESSOR

We’re still about 6 percent below our potential real GDP output and that gap is not closing.

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BY MEGHAN BARR AND LEANNE ITALIE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Frustration — and in some cases fear — mounted in New York City on Thursday, three days after Superstorm Sandy. Traffic backed up for miles at bridges, large crowds waited impatiently for buses into Manhattan, and tempers flared in gas lines.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city would send bottled water and ready-to-eat meals into the hardest-hit neighborhoods through the weekend, but some New Yorkers grew dispirited after days without power, water and heat and decided to get out.

“It’s dirty, and it’s getting a little crazy down there,” said Michael Tomeo, who boarded a bus to Philadelphia with his 4-year-old son. “It just feels like you wouldn’t want to be out at night. Everything’s pitch dark.

I’m tired of it, big-time.”

Rima Finzi-Strauss decided to take bus to Washington. When the power went out Monday night in her apartment building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, it also disabled the electric locks on the front door, she said.

“We had three guys sitting out in the lobby last night with candlelight, and very threatening folks were passing by in the pitch black,” she said. “And everyone’s leaving. That makes it worse.”

The mounting despair came even as the subways began rolling again after a three-day shutdown. Service was restored to most of the city, but not the most stricken parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, where the tunnels were flooded.

Bridges into the city were open, but police enforced a carpooling rule and peered into windows to make sure each car had at least three people. The rule was meant to ease congestion but appeared to worsen it. Traffic jams stretched for miles, and drivers who made it into the city reported that some people got out of their cars to argue with police.

Rosemarie Zurlo said she

planned to leave Manhattan for her sister’s place in Brooklyn because her own apartment was freezing, “but I’ll never be able to come back here because I don’t have three people to put in my car.”

With only partial subway service, lines at bus stops swelled.

More than 1,000 people packed the sidewalk outside an arena in Brooklyn, waiting for buses to Manhattan. Nearby, hundreds of people massed on a sidewalk.

When a bus pulled up, passengers rushed the door. A transit worker banged on a bus window, yelled at people inside, and then yelled at people in the line.

With the electricity out and gasoline supplies scarce, many gas stations across the New York area remained closed, and stations that were open drew long lines of cars that spilled out onto roads.

At a station near Coney Island, almost 100 cars lined up, and people shouted and honked, and a station employee said he had been spit on and had coffee thrown at him.

In a Brooklyn neighborhood, a station had pumps wrapped in police tape and a “NO GAS” sign, but cars waited because of a rumor that gas was coming.

“I’ve been stranded here for five days,” said Stuart Zager, who is from Brooklyn and was trying to get to his place in Delray Beach, Fla. “I’m afraid to get on the Jersey Turnpike. On half a tank, I’ll never make it.”

The worst was over at least for public transportation. The Long Island Rail Road and MetroNorth were running commuter trains again, though service was limited. New Jersey Transit had no rail service but most of its buses were back, and Amtrak was hoping to resume train service between New York and Boston for the first time since the storm hit.

The storm killed at least 90 people in the U.S. New York City raised its death toll on Thursday to 38, including two Staten Island boys, 2 and 4, swept from their mother’s arms by the floodwaters.

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BY JOSH LEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg backed President Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney on Thursday, saying the incumbent Democrat will bring critically needed leadership to fight climate change after the East Coast devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy.

The endorsement from the politically independent and nationally recognizable mayor was a major boost for Obama, who is spending the campaign’s final days trying to win over independent voters whose voices will be critical in determining the winner of Tuesday’s election.

Both candidates had eagerly sought the nod from Bloomberg, who didn’t endorse a presidential candidate in 2008 and has publicly grumbled about both Obama and Romney. But Bloomberg said the possibility that Sandy resulted from climate change had made the stakes of the election that much clearer.

“We need leadership from the White House, and over the past four years, President Barack Obama has taken major

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steps to reduce our carbon consumption,” Bloomberg wrote in an online opinion piece.

A full-throated stamp of approval this was not. Even as he pledged to cast his vote for Obama’s re-election, Bloomberg faulted the president for discounting centrists, trading in divisive, partisan attacks and failing to make progress on issues like gun control, immigration and the federal deficit.

The billionaire businessman and former Republican also praised Romney as a good man who would bring valuable business experience to the White House but said Romney had reversed course on issues like health care and abortion.

“If the 1994 or 2003 version of Mitt Romney were running for president, I may well have voted for him,” he said.

Vice President Joe Biden, campaigning in Fort Dodge, Iowa, said the essence of Bloomberg’s endorsement was that “we’ve got to work together.”

“We got to stop this blue, red — I mean we’re a purple nation, man,” Biden said.

Bloomberg’s endorsement could have the effect of injecting climate change and the environment into the national

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Mayor Bloomberg backed Barack Obama over Mitt Romney. conversation just five days before the end of a campaign where both topics have been virtually absent.

“Our climate is changing,” Bloomberg said. “And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it might be — given this week’s devastation — should compel all elected lead-

ers to take immediate action.”

To the dismay of environmental activists, climate change never came up during any of the three presidential debates and has been all but absent throughout the rest of the campaign. When Romney invoked the environment in his August speech accepting the Republican nomination, it was to mock his rival for making the issue a priority.

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Jeremy Lin and James Harden rocket to big Houston debuts In their first game as members of the Houston Rockets, Harvard graduate Jeremy Lin and gold medalist James Harden had impressive performances in a 105–96 win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday. Harden led the team with 37 points, while Lin added 12 points and 8 assists. Lin’s point differential of +23 (the net points the Rockets scored when Lin was on the floor) was the second-best of his career.

Football looks for momentum FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 three fumbles last Saturday was a direct result of miscommunication on the transfer from Varga, who played quarterback last week, to running back Mordecai Cargill ’13.

The “mesh” is about both repetitions in practice and timing, according to Reno. Running back Kahlil Keys ’15 added that handoffs have been emphasized in practice this past week.

“A main point of practice has been ball security and securing the ball during the mesh,” Keys said.

Unlike for most teams in the Northeast, practice for the Bulldogs was unaffected by Hurricane Sandy this past week as the team was back on the practice field Tuesday evening. But the storm did prevent injured quarterbacks Eric Williams ’16 and Derek Russell ’13 from attending rehab for

several days, Reno stated.

Several players have been pressed into service under center by the injuries that have plagued the quarterback position this season. In addition to Varga and wide receivers Furman and Russell, linebacker Scott Williams ’13 could be the next signal caller to see action for the Bulldogs. He quarterbacked for the JV team last Sunday. After Williams, Reno said that Yale will be hard-pressed to find another player with experience at quarterback in high school on its roster.

“We have John Powers ’13 but he’s got a broken arm,” Reno said.

“He’s the last of the Mohicans … We have kind of exhausted all options to be honest.”

Wide receiver Cam Sandquist ’14 said the revolving door at quarterback this season has not affected the wide receiving corp. He added that the strength of Yale’s running

backs has kept pressure off of the receivers. Sandquist said he has had experience with every quarterback Yale has run out on the field this season.

“We have been taking reps with every quarterback that has stepped on the field so far this year since preseason,” Sandquist said. “That has made it very easy for us to mesh so far.”

Communication between the quarterbacks and receivers will be at a premium against a Brown secondary that leads the Ivy League with 10 interceptions. The Bears are in a three-way tie for first with Cornell and Princeton with 13 total takeaways this season.

Kick-off in Providence is at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in Brown Stadium.

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The Bulldogs will look to ride their powerful ground attack to a victory at Brown tomorrow.

Yale hopes for two wins

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Yale has beaten Harvard in five of the last seven contests and Dartmouth in 10 of the last 11.

M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 wards and goaltender look to be a real strength for them.”

Finding a balance between aggressive play and penalties is important as well for the Bulldogs this weekend.

Aside from a 15 minute boarding and game misconduct penalty, the Bulldogs have only accumulated 12 penalty minutes — the same amount as the Crimson, while the Big Green has put up 16.

The Bulldogs have scored a total of five goals in two games while the Crimson have scored five in a single game and the Big Green has put away six goals in two games.

“Harvard has a very good power play,” Allain said. “They have a num-

ber of players capable of beating you one-on-one.”

Freshman forward Jimmy Vesey leads the attack for the Crimson with two goals and an assist in his first game. For the Big Green, junior forward Eric Robinson leads the attack with two goals in his first two games this season. The Bulldogs have two players that have registered three points in their first pair of games.

Laganiere has put up three goals and forward Clinton Bourbonais ’14 has contributed three assists.

On the power play and penalty kill, the Bulldogs will have to work as a team. The Elis have gone one for eight on power play opportunities compared to the Crimson’s one for two and the Big Green’s three for

nine. On the penalty kill, the Bulldogs will also have to outwork the competition.

While still a high success rate, the Elis’ penalty kill percentage of 0.75 is not the same as the Crimson and Big Green’s perfect penalty killing percentage.

“We are focused on being better in our team game, pushing the tempo and applying pressure on our opponents,” Allain said.

Yale has beaten Harvard in five of the last seven contests and Dartmouth in ten of the last 11.

The Elis will take on the Big Green tonight at 7 p.m.

award of the season. Yale setter Kelly Johnson ’16 said that although Shepherd is a great player, the Elis’ offensive approach will not change.

“We try to focus more on what’s happening on our side of the net rather than the team we’re playing,” Johnson said.

Yale will counter the Penn defense with an offense that is one of best in recent Ivy history. The Bulldogs currently rank third in the nation in kills per set, with 14.89, and second in the nation in assists per set, with 13.97.

Yale’s versatile attack continues to propel the offense. Although the Bulldogs have hands-down the best offense in the league, they do not have any players in the top five in kills.

“A lot of people are contributing on the team,” middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 said. “Because of our versatility, we’ve been able to be consistent. Even if one person is off, someone else will pick them up.”

But Yale’s defense will be the main concern on Saturday against Princeton. The Tigers’ offense does not run as deep as Yale’s, but Princeton has some serious weapons. Outside hitters Lydia Rudnick and Kendall Peterkin hold the top two spots in the conference in kills per set while setter Ginny Wills is far ahead of the pack in assists per set.

Most years, The Tigers’ home court in the Dillon Gymnasium is a hostile

place for the Bulldogs to play. Dillon seats just 1,500 spectators and Appleman said that last year’s match was standing room only. But libero Maddie Rudnick ’15 said that Yale may have caught a stroke of good fortune this season because Princeton is currently on break.

Because of our versatility, we’ve been able to be consistent. Even if one person is off, someone else will pick them up.

JESSE EBNER ’16 “Last year Princeton had one of the biggest, rowdiest crowds we had faced thus far,” Rudnick said. “Lucky for us, they’re on fall break so they probably won’t have as many fans.”

Whether or not Dillon is filled, the Tigers are sure to be fired up. Saturday night is Princeton’s Senior Night, the final match that the Tigers’ seniors will play at home.

The action begins at Penn tonight at 7 p.m. and wraps up at 5 p.m. on Saturday at Princeton.

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Bulldogs seek Ancient Eight goals M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 third in the conference with 1.6 goals per game.

Alers said he expects to face a very athletic team that features players capable of capitalizing on their opponents’ mistakes.

To prepare for the Bears’ intensity, both Alers and Thalman noted that the Elis have spent the week practicing with high energy. Alers added that the team will use its play against Columbia in the second half of last weekend’s game as a model for the rest of the season. During that half, the Bulldogs applied much more

pressure on Columbia by allowing only three shots and created more scoring opportunities, which led to a 69th minute equalizer.

The Bulldogs will also attempt to learn from the teams’ meeting last year, which the Bulldogs lost 1–0.

Alers said the Elis did not begin the game ready to face Brown’s speediness.

“We’ll go into this year’s game much more prepared knowing how fast they’re going to play and how intense the game is going to be,” Alers said. “We’re going to try to play them as we wanted to play them last year … We want to take the game

to them.”

Thalman added that while last year’s match was a difficult loss, it also showcased the Bulldogs’ toughness. He noted that the Eli defense held Brown’s offense in check most of the game.

“Obviously we’ll remember how close we were to beating them last year, and we’ll take that into this Saturday and use it as motivation,” Thalman said.

Kickoff will begin at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Providence.

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The Elis will attempt to learn from the last season’s matchup against Brown, in which they fell 1-0.

If the Elis return with victories against Princeton and Penn, they will clinch the Ivy title and the NCAA tournament berth.

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SPORTS 2014 NCAA HOCKEY REGIONAL IN BRIDGEPORT YALE CO-HOSTS WITH FAIRFIELD The NCAA announced on Thursday that the 2014 Men’s Hockey East Regional will be held at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport. Yale will co-host a regional portion of the NCAA hockey tournament with Fairfield University for the fourth time in six years.

MARY BETH BARNAM ’13 SELECTED FOR NFHCA SENIOR GAME The field hockey team’s leader in goals and points this season, midfielder Mary Beth Barnam ’13, has been selected for the NFHCA Senior Game on Nov. 17 at Old Dominion. Along with 37 other seniors, Barham will take on the U.S. Women’s National Team.

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Who’s at quarterback?

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER

Yale ranks second in the Ivy League with 194.4 at rushing yards per game and running back Tyler Varga ’15 paces the Ancient Brown Eight at 122.5 yards per game. Head coach Tony Reno said the Bears will try to force the Elis to move the ball

through the air instead.

“If it’s [Varga] or Hank [Furman ’14 playing quarterback], we have to mix it up a little bit,” Reno said. “Tyler had some stuff in the game plan [last week] that we didn’t use.”

One part of the running game that the Elis will have to work on is the hand-off. Reno said that one of Yale’s

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The Bulldogs will try to run away from their problems tomorrow.

Possibly having to play without a true quarterback for the second straight week, Yale (2–5, 1–3 Ivy) will look to ride its powerful ground attack to a victory at Brown (4–3, 1–3 Ivy) on Saturday.

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Keys to the Game PLAY FROM AHEAD

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER

HANDLE THE HAND-OFF

Before last week, nobody on the football team expected that running back Tyler Varga ’15 would have to hand the ball off to fellow back Mordecai Cargill ’13, so a few mishaps in the transfer were bound to happen.

The lack of familiarity on the handoffs last week directly caused one fumble and routinely slowed down Cargill on his carries. Although the duo was still able to combine for 258 rushing yards at Columbia on Saturday, the Elis will face a stingier defense in Providence. The Bears’ defense ranks second in the Ivy League against the run and has allowed only 97.4 yards per game.

Since none of Yale’s true quarterbacks have been cleared to play, Varga and his running backs must make smooth transfers in order to run successfully against Brown tomorrow.

Last week showed that the Elis can still score without a true quarterback, but it also revealed Yale’s limitations. Most importantly, Yale cannot fall behind in a game and expect to win. Although the run game is effective in driving the ball and using the clock, rarely can a team focused almost singularly on rushing score bunches of points in a short period of time. The inability to move the ball through the air was crucial last week when Columbia scored with 45 seconds left in the game to take a 26-22 lead. Using a fifth-string quarterback who just last week was playing wide receiver, Henry Furman ’14, Yale was unable to drive quickly down the field to win the game. It was not Furman’s fault that he could not orchestrate a last-minute drive — few quarterbacks can — but it did highlight Yale’s greatest weakness until Eric Williams ’16 or Derek Russell ’13 can return to the field under center.

PLAY IT SAFE

Brown is currently the co-leader in the Ivy League with 13 takeaways.

Yale paces the Ancient Eight with 20 turnovers. These two statistics could spell disaster for the Bulldogs if they do not hang onto the ball. Without a true quarterback, the Elis should pass only enough to prevent the Bears from loading up the box against the run. Last week at Columbia, Yale dropped back to pass just 13 times and that was just enough to keep the Lions guessing. It would have been even less had Columbia not taken the lead with less than a minute left in the game. Asking a running back or wide receiver to read defenses and make quick decisions with the football throughout the game would invariably lead to costly interceptions.

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

MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Yale ranks second in the Ivy League with 194.4 rushing yards per game and running back Tyler Varga ’15 paces the Ancient Eight 122.5 yards per game.

Bulldogs open ECAC competition Volleyball heads south

BY ASHTON WACKYM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After taking home a win and a tie in last weekend’s Ivy League Showcase tournament, the Bulldogs are looking to top their season opening performance and take two wins this weekend.

Yale (1–0–1) is going on a road trip to take on Dartmouth (1–0– 1) and Harvard (1–0–0) on Friday and Saturday night to open ECAC conference play. Head coach Keith Allain said physical play from the Big Green and individually skilled players from the Crimson will pose a challenge for the Elis. To top their two Ivy League opponents this

weekend, the Bulldogs will have to at compete and play at a high speed.

“We have Dartmouth been focused on all aspects Saturday, 7 p.m. of our game at and executing at high speed,” Allain said. “We are Harvard able to compete on the weekends with a relentless aggressive style of play.”

The Bulldogs’ explosive play

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brought bursts of scoring in their first two games. In last weekend’s matchup against Dartmouth, right wing Antoine Laganiere ’13 blasted two past the Big Green in the second period, just nine minutes apart.

Against Princeton, the Bulldogs scored first and added another pair of goals in the second period, just two minutes apart.

The Elis will have to play aggressively to battle Dartmouth’s gritty offense.

“Dartmouth looks to beat you with an aggressive forechecking system and strong net front play,” Allain said. “Their forSEE M. HOCKEY PAGE 11

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER The volleyball team will charge into the wake of Hurricane Sandy’s destruction this weekend when it travels to Penn and Princeton in an attempt to maintain its hold on first place in the Ivy League.

The Bulldogs (14–5, 10–0 Ivy) currently lead Princeton by two matches and Penn by three heading into the final two weeks of conference competition. If the Elis return to New Haven with two victories, they will clinch the Ivy title and the NCAA tournament berth that goes along with it. Head coach Erin Appleman said the key to the Bulldogs’

success this weekend will be solid team at play.

“We just have to do the things that Penn got us here,” Appleman Saturday, 5 p.m. said. “Countat ing on each other, trusting each other and serving Princeton aggressively.”

Y a l e downed these two opponents at home earlier this season, but accomplishing the same feat away from the John J. Lee Ampitheater will be a tall

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order. Over the past five years, the Elis have gone 5–5 against Penn and Princeton on the road while playing to a 7–3 record at home.

On Friday night, the Bulldogs will have to contend with Penn’s defense, which has been spectacular all season. The Quakers are first in the nation, just one spot ahead of the Bulldogs, in digs per set with 21.49 — almost two more than the Elis.

Penn libero Dani Shepherd has been the lynchpin of that unit and has led all of Division I in digs per set throughout the season. She currently averages 6.55 digs per set and is coming off her second Ivy League Player of the Week SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 11

Elis prepare for No.11 Brown

BY ALEX EPPLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Yale is going on a road trip to take on Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend to open ECAC conference play.

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Facing what appears to be one of its biggest challenges of the season, the men’s soccer team will head to Providence this Saturday to face the No. 11 Brown Bears.

After going winless and goalless in their first three Ivy League matches, the Bulldogs (4–7–4, 1–2–2 Ivy) have gained momentum entering their final two games. The Elis earned a 2–1 come from behind victory on

Oct. 20 against Penn and added another at point in the standings with last Saturday’s comeback 1–1 Brown draw against Columbia.

“It’s been a good time to get goals in these last two games,” captain and goalkeeper Bobby Thalman ’13 said. “It’s a huge encouragement going into Saturday.”

Defender Nick Alers ’14 said

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the Bulldogs understand the difficult test that Brown will provide. Undefeated in the Ivy League this year, the Bears (12–1–2, 4–0–1 Ivy) have not dropped a match since a 1–0 defeat against Fordham on Sept.

9.

Thalman said that the wellroundedness of the Bears is one of the team’s strengths. Brown has allowed 0.57 goals per game in Ivy League play — the best in the conference — and ranks SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 11

GOALS MADE BY MEN’S HOCKEY FORWARD ANTOINE LAGANIERE ’13 LAST WEEKEND. The senior from Quebec got off to a blistering start in the team’s first weekend of play, contributing both of Yale’s goals on Friday against Dartmouth and the game-winner Saturday in a 3–2 win over Princeton.