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Evidently Yale students have low expectations of their peers. Marc Brackett, director of the Center for Emotional Intelligence, guest lectured in a psychology course on Tuesday and asked volunteer Davis Nguyen ’15 to do as many push-ups as he could in one minute. Around 100 students guessed beforehand how many they thought he could do and their guesses averaged around 20-30. Nguyen did 41, probably while muttering “I’ll show them all” under his breath.

View from the high road. The Harvard Crimson published a “guide” to “why Harvard is better than Yale” on Tuesday, but only came up with three reasons: the Yale is Brave video, the New Haven location and the poopetrator. Seems the spineless souls over in Cambridge are not even brave enough to handle a little danger with their laundry…

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Meanwhile, elections are underway for the Harvard Undergraduate Council and one team of president and vice-president candidates is Sam and Gus, a pair labeled

by The Harvard Crimson as the “joke ticket.” “You could do worse,” their campaign slogan reads, with a platform promising “tomato basil ravioli soup everyday” and touting the fact that Gus is a “fully licensed rabbinical scholar.”

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1980 The Calhoun Social Committee sponsors a “tuck” service, offering to tuck students into bed. Variations include the “Champagne tuck,” “Guitar and Massage tuck,” and “My Barbershop Quartuck,” one of which includes a free leg shave.

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BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER Yale received a total of 4,768 early applications for the class of 2018 — a 5.6 percent increase from last year.

The Admissions Office received 4,514 early applications for its single-choice early action program in 2012, and 4,323 applications in 2011.

In the three years prior to 2011 — the year that Harvard and Princeton reinstated their early application programs — Yale’s early applications topped 5,000, with an all-time peak of 5,556 early applications in 2008.

New cloud-based printing kiosks have appeared in several residential colleges over the past few weeks.

Yale is currently piloting a new printing service called WEPA, which stands for “Wireless Everywhere. Print Anywhere,” that could replace the current UniPrint system. Made by an Alabama-based company that aims to capture the college printing market, the kiosks have recently been installed in computer clusters in Branford, Timothy Dwight and Saybrook.

Though WEPA allows students to print from multiple devices at a cheaper price than the current UniPrint service, most students interviewed said they have yet to try the new kiosks.

“The spring 2013 ITS student survey revealed that printing was an area of dissatisfaction,” Derek Zhao, assistant manager of the Student Technology Collaborative, said in Tuesday e-mail. “As such we are piloting the WEPA print kiosks at selected locations to try and improve print services and satisfaction at Yale.”

Once students install the WEPA “print to cloud” driver on their devices, they can print at any WEPA kiosk from their computers, smartphones or USB devices, John Copeland, the General Manager of WEPA, told the News. WEPA also offers color printing, he said.

Though students pay per page for printing, Copeland said WEPA does not charge the uni-

University anticipates budget cuts

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past years, roughly 650 to 700 applicants have been accepted in the early round. William Morse ’64 GRD ’74 — a former admissions officer at Yale and a private college counselor — said this year’s acceptance numbers will likely not change significantly from last year. In past years, Yale’s early application round has yielded acceptance rates of roughly 13 to 16 percent.

The University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Brown and Princeton received 5,313, 1,678, 2,990 and 3,831

A day after receiving an email from the University’s senior administrators regarding Yale’s budget woes, leaders of different units across the University are beginning to chart paths toward reduced costs.

Monday’s update from University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak said the University’s effort to close its $39 million deficit will require a new round of budget cuts focused on administrative departments. Despite the prospect of reduced funding, leaders of the University’s 40 units — which include Yale College, each of the graduate and professional schools, each of Yale’s galleries and museums as well as several large administrative units like Facilities and Human Resources — said attempting to further tighten their budgets will not signal a significant shift in their way of doing business. Though Salovey and Polak have begun to collect suggestions for cost-cutting measures from faculty and staff, the new target budgets for each unit, which will apply to the 2015 fiscal year, have yet to be released.

“It is not yet fully clear how the budget situation will impact the different units at Yale,” Peter Crane, dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, said in a Tuesday email. “This is not a one size fits all situation, and in F&ES we will have to evaluate what the best response is, once we have more details and once we get more deeply into the budget process in the coming months.”

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Admissions experts interviewed said that although early applications numbers tend to vary from year to year, Yale’s rising numbers are in line with an ongoing trend of selective universities receiving more and more applications every year.

“Once again, the pool of applicants includes an extraordinary range of talents, interests, and backgrounds,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said in a Tuesday afternoon email to the News.

Quinlan declined to comment as to how many early applications will be accepted this year, though in

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An NBC film crew was taping the Caseus grilled cheese truck on Tuesday and the truck served a special NBC, “Nutella Banana Cheese,” sandwich in celebration. Looks like Caseus is angling to get into the TV game because NBC employees were not even asked to complete the Cheese Truck Challenge — eat 10 sandwiches in one hour or less — before having a menu item named after them.

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“We bring the technology and the equipment to the campus without any economic cost to the institution — we don’t make them sign a contract,” Copeland said. This business model makes WEPA a more cost-effective and appealing resource, he said.

We are piloting the WEPA print kiosks... to try and improve print services and satisfaction at Yale.

DEREK ZHAO Student Technology Collaborative, assistant manager Despite WEPA’s flexibility and lower costs, the new printing kiosks have yet to command the attention of students, many of whom said they are perplexed by the new user interface and have so far continued to print using UniPrint or their own printers.

Johnathan Terry ’17 said he has not tried using the kiosks yet because he has his own printer, though he added that the combination of lower fees and color printing — a feature unavailable on most of Yale’s current printers — makes the kiosks a good addition to campus.

XinXin Xu ’16 said she tried to use one of the WEPA kiosks but did not end up using the new system.

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Dean Mary Miller, rumored to leave, is scheduled to give lectures at University of Cambridge in 2015.

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS With her term slated to end in June 2014, Yale College Dean Mary Miller appears poised to step down from her administrative position.

Though administrators have not confirmed Miller’s departure, Miller is already scheduled to give a series of lectures at the University of Cambridge in early 2015 — an endeavor that traditionally requires faculty members to leave campus for months at a time. Miller assumed her deanship five years ago, in 2008, after current University President Peter Salovey

moved from Yale College Dean to University Provost.

The term of the Yale College dean — as with other University deans — lasts five years and is subject to renewal. In an interview with the News this week, Miller said that the continuation of her position is ultimately in the hands of Salovey, adding that she cannot provide a comment beyond the fact that her current term extends through the end of the academic year.

“I know she has writing plans, I know she has been invited to give the most important lectures in her field,” Salovey said. “We wouldn’t want to get in the

way of that.”

The last Yale College Dean to serve for more than five years was Richard Brodhead, who left Yale in 2004 to become president of Duke University after 11 years in the position.

Miller’s upcoming stint at the University of Cambridge is the result of her appointment to the Cambridge Slade Professorship, a position that brings an art historian to Cambridge for approximately two months to deliver eight lectures and also conduct seminars for graduate students. Miller, a historian of pre-Columbian Latin AmerSEE DEAN MILLER PAGE 4

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Thanksgiving at Walmart C

anned food drives are a common sight around Thanksgiving. The holiday asks us to evaluate all that we are thankful for in our lives, which, for some, includes the ability to indulge in a large meal of turkey and pumpkin pie.

Since others are not so lucky as to be able to afford a Thanksgiving dinner, we pull together baskets of holiday-themed foods for them. Typically, the recipients of food drives are thought to be unemployed or homeless.

This year however, Walmart employees in Canton, Ohio will be receiving canned food donations as well.

On Monday, bins labeled, “Please Donate Food Items Here, so Associates Can Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner,” appeared in an employee-only section of a Cleveland-area Walmart. A worker took a photo and sent it to the group Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart), and the photo was immediately circulated around the Internet.

Many were shocked to learn that Walmart, this year’s number one Fortune 500 company, was paying its workers wages so low that they could not afford to put a Thanksgiving dinner on the table.

Walmart’s revenue was $443.9 billion in fiscal year 2012. And, as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed out last year, the net wealth of six members of Walmart’s founding family, the Waltons, is equal to the wealth of more than 40% of the American population.

Yet, Walmart employees earn so little that they need a canned food drive. Clearly something doesn’t add up.

The company responded to the widespread criticism of the food drive by saying that it was executed solely at the individual store level and that it was only intended for those employees who had recently experienced hardships, such as a spouse who had become unemployed. No explanation was given for why that second piece of information was not included on the clearly labeled bins.

Additionally, while the canned food drive may have been specific to the Canton store, Walmart has a companywide program called the “Associates in Critical Need Trust,” which asks employees to take payroll deductions to address the financial hardships of fellow workers. The existence of this program demonstrates that Walmart’s corporate management knows that they are not providing their workers with a living wage.

According to the research company IBISWorld, the average Walmart sales associate earns $8.81 an hour, or $15,576 a year at a full-time status, which at Walmart is only 34 hours per week. Many associates work part-time and are unable to secure more hours. Associates

have also complained about poor health coverage and u n pre d ictable work schedules that prevent DIANA them from ROSEN securing additional Looking Left e m p l o y ment.

O U R Walmart was formed in June 2011 with the mission of ensuring that every Walmart employee is treated with respect. The group calls for a minimum wage of $13 per hour and full-time employment for associates who desire it. Other requests include affordable health care, predictable scheduling and wages and benefits that guarantee that employees will not have to rely on government assistance.

By no means do Walmart’s labor practices affect their employees alone. A study released by Congressional Democrats earlier this year showed that just one Walmart in Wisconsin could cost taxpayers up to $900,000 in covering government assistance for underpaid workers.

OUR Walmart responded to these issues this time last year by leading a series of protests and strikes across the country on Black Friday. Many have credited these events with sparking the low-wage worker movement nationwide this year.

Employees have walked out of a number of retail and fast food stores on one- and two-day strikes demanding a $15 hourly minimum wage, and many have made substantial gains.

Black Friday is a notoriously horrible workday for employees of stores like Walmart. It only gets worse each year as the sales start earlier and earlier — a Target near New Haven is having its workers show up at 6:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving to open up the store. Preventing employees from enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday while still maintaining unreasonably low wages is an act of complete disrespect.

Once again, OUR Walmart is planning a series of protests for Black Friday. They expect them to be even larger than last year’s, as more employees have signed up to join the group. I stood outside with them in the cold last year, and I have every intention of doing so again.

Walmart employees, and lowwage workers around the country, deserve to be paid a living wage. They’re fighting an uphill battle against some of the most powerful entities in the world, and they need all the support they can get.

'FACTUALITY' ON 'BIG CITY, BIG MONEY'

GUEST COLUMNIST JULIE LOWENSTEIN

A crack in Toronto’s reputation B

eing from Toronto gives me great pride. The cosmopolitan city is a mosaic of culture, and home to people of all walks of life. The public school system is excellent, the streets are clean and, in true Canadian fashion, the people are generally friendly and good-natured. But the city has one massive problem: its mayor, Rob Ford. Over the last few weeks, Mayor Ford has, unfortunately, made it difficult for Toronto’s beauty to shine through.

As if Canada wasn’t funny enough already, the mayor of its largest city is now an international farce.

In case you’ve missed the recent tumultuous saga of Ford’s career, here are some highlights.

Since Toronto Police confirmed on Oct. 31 that they had obtained a video allegedly showing Ford smoking crack cocaine, Ford has confessed to smoking crack while in office, been caught on video swearing profusely and yelling threats of violence, apologized for said video by saying that he was “extremely inebriated,” admitted to purchasing illegal drugs while in office, conceded to claims of drinking and driving and refuted oral sex allegations by saying that he has “more than enough to eat at home.”

And after all this, coupled with a long history of other transgres-

sions, the Mayor refuses to resign.

Ford claims that he has apologized for his mistakes and has nothing left to hide. But I have problems with both parts of that statement.

First, Ford constantly tries to justify his behavior by saying that he was under the influence of alcohol, or “in a drunken stupor,” as he once put it. This is hardly an apology, and alcohol is no excuse. Second, Ford’s low credibility renders his promise that he has nothing to hide rather implausible. He also claimed he had nothing to hide while denying the existence of the infamous crack video in May, but we now know that was a lie. As of now, the allegations keep flowing, followed by his shocking admissions and tenuous apologies.

Rob Ford’s roller-coaster scandal can be seen as rather humorous. His ridiculous stunts, coupled with his striking physical appearance, really do lend themselves to comedy. Late-Night TV hosts — Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and others — continuously point out the absurdity of the situation, and Ford was the butt of jokes on last week’s Saturday Night Live.

But there is still a significant gravity to the disgrace of Ford’s behavior. Parents have had to explain the terms “crack cocaine” and “pussy” to their elemen-

tary school children, after hearing them spill out of the Mayor’s mouth on live TV. We continuously teach teenagers that they can’t use intoxication to justify misconduct. Yet Ford models the opposite, trying to use alcohol to excuse his disgusting behavior.

This is unacceptable.

Although he denies it, Ford’s history of rampant and public intoxication suggests that he has a substance abuse problem.

This element of the story reaches beyond late-night comedy. Ford is a human wrecking ball, destructing himself in public view, fueled by the media. Despite the hardship he has caused to Toronto, Ford is still human and I do feel sympathy for his affliction. If he wants any chance at recovery, he must resign from office, step out of the public eye and seek professional help.

Ford must step down immediately. The mayor of any city should be a role model, and he is no such thing. If he really wanted the best for the people of Toronto, he would allow them the dignity of a new mayor who treats them with respect. Not only are the streets of Toronto full of protesters begging for his resignation, but Toronto City Councilors also voted 37 to five in favor of him taking a leave of absence. Still, Ford will not budge.

If Ford were the CEO of a major

company, he would be fired. The problem now is that there’s no one to fire him. Since he has not yet been convicted of a crime, the Toronto City Council has no way to legally remove him.

This is where the Rob Ford predicament becomes relevant to Americans. The most effective way to remove local or state officials from office is through a recall election. Unlike impeachment, where members of Congress have the power to oust the president, recall elections allow constituents to vote on whether local officials should remain in office, usually in light of questionable Ford-like behavior. But according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 29 states (including Connecticut and New York) currently do not allow recall elections. Neither does Toronto, which is why Mayor Ford has maintained his perch.

While we can laugh at Ford’s lewd remarks, we must not forget the serious consequences of his leadership (or lack thereof). In order to prevent similar calamities in other cities, recall elections must be universally implemented.

JULIE LOWENSTEIN is a sophomore in Trumbull College. Contact her at julie.lowenstein@yale.edu .

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Rescuing men’s fashion I

n our culture, men’s fashion sounds almost oxymoronic.

To the majority of men at Yale, fashion means wearing a different pair of sweatpants than the day prior, or fulfilling the cookie-cutter “look” of homogeneity that is dictated by mainstream culture. It may be about blending in, or simply a manifestation of laziness.

Not to say that there aren’t plenty of young men who dress extremely well, but our generation as a whole shuns gentlemen’s fashion — preferring the blasé approach to the one form of personal expression that is always on display for the world.

Fashion is so much more than spending extravagantly to display a gaudy designer logo of epic proportions. It requires neither wealth, nor talent per se, but rather a mere pinch of effort that carries transformative properties. What goes on your body is a reflection of your personality and lifestyle. You are not what you wear; you wear what you are. Dressing well allows you to go forth with confidence, striding with a smile, because your colors are coordinated, your look is defined and your persona is com-

DIANA ROSEN is a sophomore in Pierson College. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact her at diana.rosen@yale.edu .

plete.

Of course, nothing worthwhile comes without sacrifice. You will have to set your alarm five minutes earlier. You may have to turn on your brain before the beginning of your third class so you can determine if an outfit will clash and burn. It may even require the discipline to plan ahead, laying out the essentials on the eve of your big day, but sleeping soundly with the knowledge that tomorrow GQ could be waiting for you. The rewards of a life well dressed are great in number, and you may very well find the satisfaction of a day spent looking smart to be addictive in nature. Escaping the black hole of the Seattle grunge derelict campaign will bring personal satisfaction, and the ladies will hardly take offense.

For me, fashion is simple. In the evening, I take no more than a few minutes to prepare for the next day. I consider the vibe and the style that I want, the formality of events that the next day holds and of course the weather. I examine the colors and layers at my disposal, the potential for accessorizing and the shortcomings of every

potential combination. Economically put, it is a cost-benefit analysis — one that covers you from head to toe.

A certain thrill ensues when the right outfit comes together: the complementary belt and shoe relationship, the pants that fit well and command attention and the sweater that feels as good as it looks. Some days it is vibrant colors and vitality; others the shades may match the season. Sunglasses, scarves, hats, watches and other accoutrements become the finishing touches for the casual day attire. Not unlike the frenzied formality that is the last five pieces of a 5000-piece jigsaw puzzle, the peripheral accessories seem to come together all at once, quickly turning a standard top and bottom getup into an intricate web of subtle color complements. These small details are the very things that, in the end, set the outfit apart from those of menial effort and uninspired dressing.

Laying it all out, appreciating the subtleties of the look and seeing the harmony that comes from a seamless ensemble: that is my style and that’s what fashion does

for me.

I won’t tell you how to go about finding your own style and looking your fashionable best. That is a personal journey. It is not for everyone to wear plaid trousers, top hats and purple scarves, but perhaps that is the beauty of it.

Fashion and style are for each of us to interpret in our own way. It is not so dissimilar from art, you see, except that every day it changes and you can create something new and exciting, which comes to life when we put it in motion. Yesterday it was aviators and wingtips.

Today it is tie bars and wayfarers.

Tomorrow it could be cuff links and high tops, or perhaps pinstripes and pocket squares.

So I challenge you to look past the fads and the fleeting trends that dip in and out of fashion grace by generation or decade.

Develop your own style. Give it a flare that can only be attributed to your name. Have some fun with it. Most importantly, dress to impress and dress to express.

WILL DAVENPORT is a junior in Silliman College. Contact him at william.davenport@yale.edu .

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n 1895, two German words combined to form a bittersweet union. “Schaden” met “Freude” and the concepts of harm and joy became jointly represented in the one and only schadenfreude — pleasure derived from another’s misfortunes. English has no exact synonym for this word, and yet we have borrowed the term to explain a fundamental human emotion just as present in Anglophone culture.

Three different conditions give rise to schadenfreude: we gain something as a result of another’s misfortunes; a person’s misfortune is deserved; or we envy another person’s accomplishments. It is a natural feeling — perhaps one we should be slightly ashamed of, but one that is all too common nonetheless.

Yalies would never dare speak of such a thing. In an environment teeming with talent and skill, bars are raised and the stakes are higher. A competitive spirit is often part of the scene and it is this very attitude that brings about both healthy motivation and unhealthy comparisons. When friends get into selective seminars, excel in their courses, make it into an a cappella group, get elected to

a desired position or set an outstanding school record, we are supposed to rejoice. And oftentimes we do. But we have also all been culprits of allowing that leftshoulder devil to whisper in our ears, causing our competitive self to welcome moments of failure, weakness or vulnerability in others.

We mistake another’s misfortunes for signs of our own triumph. But this is a delusion our angels must fight against.

As individuals we can do little to prevent this immoral high.

However, if our society were less receptive to it, perhaps we would be too. As a society, we can try to avoid celebrating other people’s failures, especially those in public, in order to promote our own selfworth. Some of the most viral videos are those in which someone in an unfortunate situation causes us to laugh. Media publications often grab our attention and keep newspapers and magazines flying off the shelves by indulging us in public figures’ misfortunes.

Studies have revealed how schadenfreude can hinder cooperation. For example, results from a study involving children suggested that those with greater schaden-

freude were more likely to exhibit spiteful behavior in resource allocation games. Another study found that prosocial videogameplaying increased interpersonal empathy and decreased schadenfreude. It seems that schadenfreude and ethical behavior are inversely related.

In addition, when a society tolerates — and fosters — the conditions that give rise to schadenfreude, a self-perpetuating cycle develops. Innocuous joy derived from misfortune can evolve into indifference toward — or even rationalization of — harmful acts.

History is proof of this effect.

In order for atrocities and genocides to occur, dehumanization must take place. This desensitizes perpetrators by inducing pleasure when witnessing the harmful effects of violent acts. Intergroup conflict becomes easier when people replace guilt and empathy with pleasure.

It is unlikely that schadenfreude will disappear. But introducing a counteractive positive force into the picture is plausible, and perhaps necessary. If we can derive pleasure from other people’s good fortunes, we will be able to motivate our pleasure-seeking selves to

promote the welfare of others. In turn, this might reinforce a culture that returns the favor. This would be a non-zero sum game, in which people collaborate for better absolute outcomes for all, instead of relatively better outcomes for a few.

In order to feel happy for others, we must take a step back. In a competitive environment, we can reframe the circumstances to avoid viewing others as our direct competitors. Once competition is taken out of the equation, it becomes easier to derive pleasure from another’s good fortune. The next time we are shopping for classes and our friends get into a prestigious seminar, rather than feeling a pang of jealousy, we should try to view the situation in a new light. Focus on our differences: that our friends are in another year or pursuing another major — which means that their successes will not hurt our own.

If we implement this philosophy, perhaps someday we’ll instead be talking about the positive force of “freudefreude.”

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

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“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”

CHARLES M. SCHULZ AMERICAN CARTOONIST

One chocolate store replaced with another

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Replacing café and chocolatier Chocopologie is another similar storefront — Chocolat Maya. Situated next to New Haven Salad Shop on High St., the chocolate and wine bar will set up shop in December.

BY JR REED STAFF REPORTER A block that has already had its fair share of storefront changes will be seeing yet another, when Chocolat Maya sets up shop at 47 High St. this December.

Robert Klinger, who owns S’wings Restaurant and New Haven Salad Shop next door at 45 High St., is trying his hand at a new venture, Chocolat Maya, a chocolate and wine bar. He plans to move into the empty storefront next to New Haven Salad Shop — the space previously occupied by another chocolatier and café, Chocopologie. Klinger

was unavailable to comment on his new venture.

Klinger, who has occupied the neighboring storefront since 2009, plans to sell French pastries and other chocolate-themed offerings in the new space. His inspiration for the chocolatier stems from his Parisian friend Maya, who introduced Klinger to various European desserts and suggested he create a chocolate and wine bar in the Elm City, according to his son Sebastien.

Chocolat Maya will offer a wide selection of chocolate bars, truffles, bon-bons, and other chocolate-dipped delicacies, in

addition to a plethora of wine choices. Klinger’s son said the chocolatier will hope to capture a 1920’s theme and feature circular tables, black leather chairs and sofas to present a loungestyle seating area for customers.

According to current New Haven Salad Shop employee Shanequa Williams, Klinger envisions the chocolate shop will complement its next-door neighbor, offering a place for New Haven Salad Shop customers to sit after ordering their salads.

Chocolat Maya will replace Chocopologie, a café that served hot beverages and hand crafted

chocolates and pastries, after the former failed to attract adequate foot traffic.

It’s not a frat spot, but it’s going to appeal to the Yale student body as a whole.

NICHOLAS TAKI ’16 Cristobelle Ormiston ’16, a Chocopologie aficionado who praised the business’s hot chocolate, said she believes the store ultimately proved unsuccessful

CT increases funds for school security

BY ABIGAIL BESSLER STAFF REPORTER Half of Connecticut’s public schools will receive money to upgrade their security infrastructure, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced last week.

Malloy said that the state would contribute an additional $6 million to a $15 million pledge it made earlier in the year to bolster public school security following the shooting in Newtown, Conn. The grants, outlined in the Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety Act that passed in April, aim to promote security improvements such as adding bulletproof glass, keycard systems and safe rooms.

Samaia Hernandez, a spokeswoman for the Governor, said this first $21 million wave of funding is meant for schools with little to no security infrastructure already in place, describing them as “the neediest schools.”

Making schools actually safer without making [them] appear dangerous is really the challenge.

ALAN KAZDIN Psychology professor All 604 schools from 111 school districts that applied for grants will receive funding in the form of reimbursements for completed or ongoing security upgrades. Private schools and vocational-technical schools were not eligible for grants.

The 13 New Haven public schools that applied will receive a combined $1.8 million for security improvements through combined state and municipal grants, an amount surpassed only by Milford public schools’ $2.8 million, according to information provided by the Governor’s office.

To qualify for funding, districts must cover 20 to 80 percent of the

upgrade costs themselves, depending on their wealth and number of need-based students. New Haven will pay for 27 percent of its costs through municipal funds, with funding from the state at $1.4 million.

According to Scott DeVico, spokesman for the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, the legislature appropriated $15 million in grants but Gov. Malloy committed to finding an additional $6 million after demands for funds exceeded the amount allotted for security upgrades.

Ultimately, the $6 million came from the Urban Act, a bond assistance program administered by the Office of Policy and Management that covers grants ranging from economic development projects to nonprofit organizations, said Gian-Carl Casa, the undersecretary of legislative affairs at OPM. Casa said the legislature will likely expand the School Security Grant Program to cover the additional $6 million, explaining that the Urban Act grant money could then be used to fund other state initiatives.

The School Infrastructure Council, set up by the legislature to draft and implement new safety guidelines, will release standards on Jan. 1 based on a four-part approach to security called “Deterrence, Detection, Delay, and Response.” According to Jeffrey Beckham, spokesman for council chairman Donald DeFronzo, future requests for funding will likely need to comply with these new standards.

DeVico said the most common security improvements implemented over the past year have been the addition of door locks, buzzer systems and camera systems to school buildings. Funding covers infrastructure improvements made since Jan. 1, 2004 and the cost of training hired personnel on using new systems. However, funds cannot be used to hire security guards.

Yale Psychology Professor Alan Kazdin, who specializes in child psychiatry, said infrastructure improvements could be more effective than having armed guards in schools.

“Making schools actually safer without making [them] appear dangerous is really the challenge,” Kazdin said. “You don’t want to have too many cues that make students, especially children, feel uncomfortable.”

After the Sandy Hook shootings, New Haven Public Schools repaired security systems, started a program connecting 10 local police officers to 30 grade schools, and began adding keycard systems for exterior entry to internal doors, according to a legislative summary of school security improvements published in June 2013.

Last March, New Haven Public Schools Chief Operating Officer William Clark projected in an interview with the News that retrofitting older schools with systems found in new schools, including panic buttons and keycard entry systems, would cost over $1 million.

According to Abbe Smith, communications director for NHPS, New Haven has built or rehabilitated 37 schools since 1995.

“New Haven has been ahead of the curve in installing state-of-theart security measures in schools, like cameras and buzzer systems at entryways,” she wrote in an e-mail.

“With the new grant, we will be able to build from the strong security foundation we have in place.”

Smith added the grant will allow NHPS to improve its 911 emergency response connectivity, expand keycard access and upgrade its camera systems.

Joyce Wang ’17, who works in New Haven public schools as a Community Health Educator, cast doubt upon the idea that state-of-theart security infrastructure would be adequate to protect children from harm. She said that at one school she visited last week, she saw kids line up for metal detector inspections but noted that no one asked to see her ID when she entered through another door.

There are 1,230 public schools in Connecticut, 46 in New Haven.

Contact ABIGAIL BESSLER at abigail.bessler@yale.edu .

because of timing and publicity. She thought that not enough Yale students knew about the café, adding that other local businesses, such as FroyoWorld, overpowered Chocopologie — which only appealed to students during the winter and could not match its competitors on High Street during other seasons.

Nicholas Taki ’16, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon who frequents the fraternity’s house on High Street near Chocopologie, said that the new store’s revenue will very much depend on the price point. Nearby Ibiza, a high-end Spanish restaurant, has a wide selection of good wines but is

much more formal and expensive, Taki said.

Still, he added, if the new spot’s ’20s theme is executed well, it could become “date spot central.”

“If it’s targeting a price point that is affordable to students, while offering a cool fresh atmosphere, it will be profitable,” Taki said. “It’s not a frat spot, but it’s going to appeal to the Yale student body as a whole.”

Five businesses have operated next door to Chocolat Maya’s future space in the past decade.

Contact JR REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

All Our Kin launches new program

BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new experiment in New Haven childcare, inspired by a Yale graduate and Yale psychologist, kick-started this October and continues to aid the relationship between New Haven parents and children.

All Our Kin, a community-based childcare center, co-founded by Yale graduate Janna Wagner ’95, has developed the Circle of Security Project, which attempts to find a creative way to impact the caregiver’s childcare skills. Currently, 35 parents and other childcare providers in the greater New Haven, Bridgeport and Norwalk areas are participating in the eightweek program that program organizers said aims to change peoples’ perspectives on childcare. Dr. Sarah Gray, psychology fellow in early childhood at the Yale Child Study Centre who helped develop the course said the program hopes to utilize further Yale expertise in the future.

“We want people to understand that parents and nannies are not baby-sitters, but family childcare providers. We don’t want people to feel guilty about the relationships they have with their children,” said Paula Simpson, Senior Educational Consultant at All our Kin, and former worker at the Yale Divinity Nursery School. “Through the COS-P program, we want to be able to provide them with the necessary tools for reflection and development.”

Gray has been working with All Our Kin, since early October, to develop the program. COS-P is based on the Attachment Theory, developed by developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth. The theory proposes that babies need secure attachment with their primary caregivers in order to develop into healthy and secure individuals. The program aims to help family childcare providers improve their relationships with their children, facilitate parental bonding and consequently aid the social and emotional development of children.

The course meets once a week for one and a half hour long training sessions. The model used is interactive video viewing.

After watching a series of videos, par-

ticipants are asked questions that force them to reflect on their relationships with their own children, Wagner said.

She emphasized that the COS-P program encourages caregivers to think not only about the behavior that they exhibit towards their children but also about the causes of the behavior. She also said the model also endeavors to assess the stress levels, confidence levels, efficacy, and levels of social and emotional understanding of the family child-care providers.

New Haven is a city significantly affected by homelessness and drug abuse.

PAULA SIMPSON Senior educational consultant, All Our Kin Simpson said she hopes the program helps create greater connections between childcare providers and children in the New Haven community.

“We hope to change the way parents, teachers, and other childcare providers approach the idea of childcare. Children are not seeking attention; they are seeking to make a connection,” Simpson said.

In addition to helping parents become better childcare providers, Simpson said COS-P should help participants improve relationships in other areas of their life.

The All Our Kin Team also expressed hopes to expand collaboration with the Yale community to develop the COS-P program in future.

“New Haven is a city significantly affected by homelessness and drug abuse. It would be great to have the support of the Yale community to make New Haven a better place through the COS-P project,” Simpson said.

According to All Our Kin’s website, their team trains and supports over 250 parents and educators each year, who in turn serve nearly 1,500 children.

Contact GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

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“I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.”

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Vice President for Finance and Business Operations Shauna King will soon provide budget targets for each unit across the University for 2014-’15, according to the memo. Though the targets are distributed annually, the new targets will emphasize cutting administrative costs.

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EARLY ADMISSIONS FROM PAGE 1 applications this year, respectively. Penn and Dartmouth saw increases of 6.6 percent and 6.7 percent. Admissions officers at Brown and Princeton told student newspapers at their respective universities that their numbers are still growing, as students who have been affected by technical problems in the Common Application — the online undergraduate college application portal used by Yale and more than 500 other colleges in the United States — may still be sending in applications.

Harvard, Cornell and Columbia have not yet released their early application numbers.

Michael Goran, the director of California-based private education consulting firm IvySelect, said schools such as Yale already attract so many applicants that any annual rise in the number of applications received is impressive, adding that it is easier for less-established and non-Ivy League schools such as Duke or Northwestern to quickly grow their applicant pool. Goran added that although the Common Application glitches may have affected some students’ applications, the number of

2008 affected students is probably not statistically significant.

“Often minority students, particularly African American and Hispanic students, will not apply to schools like Yale early because they haven’t heard the message of Yale’s generous financial aid programs,” said Jon Reider, a college counselor at San Francisco University High School, adding that the early applicant pool at a school like Yale is often demographically different from the regular application pool because legacy students and students who come from private schools such as Harvard-Westlake or Exeter are often encouraged to apply early.

At many of these private schools, Reider added, where awareness of the college counseling process is very high, students often perceive early action or early decision programs as a chance “to roll the dice” and apply to a college that they may not have otherwise have the test scores or grades to get in.

David Petersam, president of Virginia-based higher education consulting group AdmissionsConsultants, said lowincome students are less likely to apply early to Yale, often because they are intimidated by

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DEAN MILLER FROM PAGE 1 ican art, is widely regarded as a leader in her field, having delivered the prestigious Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art in May 2010. According to Yale professor Tim Barringer, Miller will be the only art historian of pre-Columbian Latin America at Cambridge.

I’ve been working on big things.

I’m interested in now looking at the small things.

MARY MILLER Dean, Yale College Miller agreed to give the Slade lectures several years ago, when January 2015 was the most distant available slot, she said.

“I’ve been working on big things,” said Miller, who plans to focus her lectures on hand-held Mayan objects. “I’m interested in now looking at the small things.”

Miller confirmed that long-term lecture positions like the Slade professorship typically require faculty members to take a leave from the University. She added that she is currently eligible to take time away from Yale, given that she last took a leave in the 1997–’98 academic year.

But Miller also said that when faculty take weeklong lecture positions away from campus, they can sometimes schedule them in the spring break period, in order to avoid taking leave and creating conflicts with teaching and research responsibilities at Yale.

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the University’s selectivity and not aware of Yale’s financial aid programs. Petersam added that the early application pool — which may seem to yield better chances because its acceptance rate is higher than that of the regular pool — is actually often more challenging, because so many recruited athletes and legacy students apply to Yale early.

Morse said he often advises students without a special connection to Yale, such as a legacy or athletic recruitment status, to postpone applying until the regular round.

“The five percent increase makes it tougher, but everyone who applied early realizes that the process has always been very tough at Yale,” said Gregory Hosono, a high school senior at Philips Academy Andover, adding that applicants cannot control anything beyond how they present themselves to schools.

Hosono said he applied early to Yale as a way of signifying that it was his top choice.

Several universities nationwide extended their early application program deadlines this year to account for numerous technical glitches in the Common Application. Yale pushed its deadline from Nov. 1 to Nov. 4

Miller’s term up this year For February 2013, the Slade lectures were delivered by Harvard professor of Islamic art Gülru Necipoglu on Mondays and Thursdays at 5:00 p.m. over four consecutive weeks. When delivering the lectures, Necipoglu was on sabbatical from Harvard.

Jean Michel Massing, the head of the University of Cambridge Department of Art History, declined to comment as to how Yale and Cambridge have planned for coordinating Miller’s responsibilities while she is in the United Kingdom.

Barringer is the only other Yale faculty member to have been appointed to the professorship at Cambridge, having given the lectures during the 2009– ’10 academic year. While at Cambridge, Barringer was also on sabbatical from Yale.

In 2010, Miller delivered the Mellon lectures in Washington, D.C. Unlike the Slade lectures, the Mellon lectures took place on Sundays, and the location was physically close enough for Miller to travel from New Haven on the weekends.

Salovey said that at the end of a dean’s term, a faculty committee forms to lead the search for a replacement.

The committee is tasked with examining the “kinds of people that may or may not be appropriate for the kind of position” while consulting members of the Yale community, before making a recommendation to Salovey and University Provost Benjamin Polak.

Before assuming her role as Yale College Dean, Miller served as the Master of Saybrook College for nine years.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

FRANK DOUGLASS Vice president, Local 35

after students and college counselors nationwide reported difficulties ranging from frozen computer screens to an inability to upload necessary documents and essays. This is the third year in a row that Yale has extended its early action deadline, after a snowstorm in 2011 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012 affected applicants living in the Northeast.

Yale accepted 649 students last year from its early applicant pool, yielding a 14.4 percent acceptance rate for the class of 2017. Out of the 4,514 early applications, 2,529 students were deferred and 1,302 were rejected.

Applicants to the class of 2018 were given the option to share their applications with Yale-NUS College in Singapore by checking a single box on the online form, and the two schools’ admissions offices will review each individual’s application separately. This is the second year that the option has been offered.

Admissions decisions for early applicants to the class of 2018 will be released mid-December.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .

The primary responsibility for determining the specifics of the cuts will fall to unit leaders.

Still, senior administrators said they would work to encourage collaboration between units in deciding where to enforce cuts.

“While the approach may be local, we also have to be talking to each other,” King said.

Salovey, Polak and King told the News that cuts in personnel costs — which account for 60 percent of Yale’s expenditures — will be vital in reducing the deficit with the goal of eventually creating a yearly surplus. However, they said their first strategy for reducing expenses will be to leave vacant administrative positions unfilled.

Michael Peel, vice president for Human Resources and Administration, said extensive discussions have occurred with both Salovey and Polak about the need to eliminate the deficit and “build greater financial flexibility.” Peel said that his department has been reallocating its budget resources over the past five years to increase efficiency.

“I believe that the gradual approach that has been adopted should allow leaders the time to determine activities that we can stop doing, do less frequently, or do in an entirely different and less resources-intensive manner,” Peel said.

While reducing redundancies in administrative tasks will be central to Yale’s strategy for lowering costs, Polak said the University “shouldn’t fall into the waste myth.” Buying into this myth, in which administrative tasks are considered unnecessary, can actually reduce cost efficiency for faculty and staff, he said.

Genecin said Yale Health already operates on a “lean administrative cost structure,” in which less than 10 percent of the department’s expenditures are administrative.

In the Monday memo, Salovey and Polak invited faculty and staff to share any ideas by responding to the email.

Though Alison Coleman, Polak’s administrative assistant, said there have been responses to the email, she added that it is too early for Polak to comment on their nature.

Frank Douglass — a Yale Facilities employee who also serves as Community Vice President for Local 35, Yale’s service and maintenance labor union — said though emails are a relatively effective way to solicit feedback on this issue, many Yale employees do not read the Universitywide emails sent by Salovey.

Despite the looming cuts in administrative spending, many of Yale’s workers have no reason for concern. Service and maintenance employees at Yale in the Local 35 union are party to a labor contract that prevents the University from implementing layoffs until at least 2016.

“If they’re talking about any cuts, it would be in management,” Douglass said, adding that he thinks Yale currently employs too many managers.

“We’re top heavy.”

Members of the Local 34 union, which includes many of Yale’s non-managerial administrative workers such as office assistants, do not have a no-layoff guarantee in their contract.

Douglass said the no-layoff clause will be central to Local 35’s next labor contract negotiation with the University in 2016, adding that the union is “not going to give that up.”

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu and ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

New printers arrive PRINTERS FROM PAGE 1 them,” she said. “I tried swiping my ID but that’s apparently not how it works.”

Xu said the initial complexity of the kiosks may put off many potential users.

To promote the use of the new system, Zhao said the STC is actively working to simplify the use of these printers and make students more aware of their existence.

“We work with residential colleges’ Master’s Offices to help us announce and distribute information about the new WEPA printers,” he said.

He added that an outreach campaign involving Gil Phish, which is the mascot for STC and Yale ITS, is in the works. Campuswide announcements have yet to take place, as not every residential college has a WEPA kiosk yet, he said.

Copeland said he remains optimistic for the future of WEPA printers on the Yale campus.

“Once it’s on the campus, the degree of its integration as a campus utility depends on a number of things, including whether or not it will be available to only undergraduates,” he said.

The next step in the process will be expanding the system to graduate students and faculty, he added. The long-term expectation, Copeland added, is that WEPA kiosks will become available at non-traditional locations, allowing students to use the cloud to print everywhere.

WEPA was founded in 2008.

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

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WEPA printing kiosks have appeared around campus as part of a new utility brought in by the Student Technology Collaborative.

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“What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.” KAMALA HARRIS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA

Alders discuss public safety

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After New Haven saw a 2000 percent drop in its crime rate since the end of 2007, Mayorelect Toni Harp’s ARC ’78 administration and the newly elected Board of Aldermen seek to continue this positive trend in public safety.

The Public Safety Committee, comprised of seven aldermen, held its last meeting of 2013 on Tuesday night to discuss the year’s main public safety concerns and outline an agenda for 2014. A hot topic on Tuesday night was New Haven’s nightlife in light of the fatal October shooting at the Key Club Cabaret strip club, where 26-year-old Erica Robinson was killed and five others were injured.

What we really need is more regular [law] enforcement, so nightclubs know what to expect.

DOUG HAUSLADEN ’04 Alderman, Ward 7 Committee member and Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, whose ward contains many of the city’s nightclubs, has been examining the club scene since the shooting.

“What we really need is more regular [law] enforcement, so nightclubs know what to expect,” Hausladen said. “Right now we go through waves of enforcement every quarter.”

Committee chair and Ward 29 Alderman Brian Wingate suggested a regulation of three bouncers per club and a Bew Haven Police Department training program for bouncers as two possible goals for 2014.

Barbara Constantinople, Committee member and Ward 11 Alderwoman, noted the issue of underage drinking in nightclubs. Hausladen agreed, claiming that the most dangerous of New Haven’s clubs were those that advertised after-hours

drinking, between the hours of 2 a.m. and 5 a.m., with a “bring your own bottle” policy. This past year, these clubs allowed the most underage drinkers, he said.

Constantinople added that such activity can easily be curbed through stricter I.D. checks.

Another committee goal targeting New Haven youth is to launch a gun buy-back initiative.

A buy-back would offer teenagers gift certificates to popular clothing or shoe stores in exchange for their guns, Wingate said. Bridgeport saw success with such a program this year, taking 169 guns off the streets.

Wingate said he believes getting started on the gun buy-back program is the most important item on the 2014 agenda.

“One hundred sixty-nine guns is a lot,” he said. “And our homicide rate is higher than Bridgeport’s.” Bridgeport has seen 12 homicides this year, while New Haven has seen 17.

The committee was also concerned about the response of city police officers in the critical time period immediately after crimes are reported. Wingate said that, in his ward, police officers were taking reports solely over the phone instead of arriving at a crime scene.

He added that one of his constituents waited for two hours at the scene of the crime after calling police about a car break-in, but was never met by an officer.

“People get disgusted,” Constantinople said of her constituents. “So they don’t care if they call the police or not.”

Looking forward, committee vice chair and Ward 17 Alderman Alphonse Paolillo Jr. noted that two key ways to advance public safety in 2014 are to improve crime data collection and increase manpower in the police department.

The city plans to hire 26 additional officers in the NHPD, Wingate said. But Paolillo said that retaining officers, rather than recruiting them, remains one of the main issues facing the police force.

The Committee plans to meet again in December to hold a public hearing.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

NHPD, YPD go digital

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The country gets a little smaller as the New Haven and Yale Police Departments join BlueLine, an online network of officers and departments.

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER Last week, the New Haven and Yale Police Departments joined the social media revolution with BlueLine, an online professional network linking police officers and departments from across the country.

A Thursday press release from NHPD spokesman David Hartman announced that the department would begin to integrate the website into its standard communication systems. Like most other social media platforms, BlueLine allows individual police officers to create and join online groups with officers from similar regions, jobs or areas of focus. The NHPD will use these networks to share information in real-time with nearby city departments — such as those in Stamford, Hartford and Bridgeport — and university forces like the YPD. “BlueLine is a fantastic way for us to stay connected and continuously share infor-

mation,” NHPD Chief Dean Esserman said in the release.

“We’ll save time and money by video conferencing security with colleague[s] from across the state and we’ll be able to quickly build a network of skill sets and areas of expertise that will help us keep the state of Connecticut safe.”

Launched last month by Bill Bratton, Jack Weiss and David Riker, BlueLine allows users to build their own profiles and interact with each other through instant messaging, desktop sharing and video conferencing systems.

The site is already off to a fast start. In just its first month, the site has generated thousands of users, representing officers and chiefs from each of the fifty states.

“These things go viral,” Weiss said. “We’ve been working it from every angle, but the real growth that we’re seeing is organic. Officers use the platform, realize that it’s great and then invite a bunch of their colleagues.”

The use of BlueLine continues two NHPD trends that

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The Public Safety Committee, comprised of aldermen, held their last meeting of 2013 to discuss the year’s main concerns and new agendas.

have been increasingly prevalent under Esserman’s leadership: police innovation and enhanced communication. Recently, the NHPD announced the expansion of its CompStat meetings and conference calls in hopes of making valuable crime and public safety information easily accessible for all departments in the area.

YPD Assistant Chief Steven Woznyk said in an email to the News on Monday that the department has used other forms of technology like Bulldog Mobile and YaleTip to facilitate dialogue between University police and students, but that BlueLine will give Yale police a stronger connection to the NHPD. Additionally, Woznyk said that BlueLine will help Yale communicate with schools like Harvard, Brown and UPenn which face similar campus-related safety concerns.

Woznyk added that, though communication between the YPD and other departments has historically been “tre-

mendous,” he hopes BlueLine will enhance existing working relationships, as well as help form new ones.

Weiss said his experience working in all three branches of government on both the federal and city levels alerted him to workflow gaps in the public sector.

“In the private sector, there are lots of great options for collaboration and connection,” Weiss said. “The public sector has largely been ignored by the networking revolution that Facebook and LinkedIn started. We feel very strongly that public safety is the most significant element of what government provides domestically, and we wanted to create a vehicle so that when one police department innovates, others can learn about it.”

Bratton has served as the Commissioner of the Boston and New York Police Departments and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

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Dramat mainstage tells tragic love story

Tony Award nominations “Parade” received “Parade,” written by Alfred Uhry, debuted on Broadway in December 1998, and closed February 1999. The musical won Best Book and Best Original Score out of the nine nominations.

Panel discusses careers in music

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At a Tuesday morning panel discussion, alumni of the School of Music advised current students to take risks and pursue innovative projects.

Roughly 20 students attended the panel, which was held as part of a School of Music course on sustainable careers in the field of music but was open to the entire Yale community. The discussion was moderated

by Astrid Baumgardner, the class instructor, who said she organized the panel to show students the different ways one can succeed in the music field.

The speakers, Missy Mazzoli MUS ’06, Mellissa Hughes MUS ’06, James Moore MUS ’06, and Owen Dalby ’06 MUS ’07, discussed their experiences as performers trained in classical music who are now pursuing projects involving contemporary music. The speakers highlighted the way their

Yale education has influenced their growth as musicians, providing them with a network of performers with whom they could cooperate after graduation.

The musicians emphasized the importance of taking on many projects — even ones that do not immediately earn a profit — to gain recognition in the music world.

Mazzoli told students that in order to overcome the intial difficulty of entering a field for which funding may not always be available, they should strive to start projects from scratch. Mazzoli, who started an ensemble called Victoire, said going off on her own allowed her to escape the anxiety of finding work in a shifting economic climate.

“I needed to have a project not dependent on trends,” Mazzoli said. “I preferred the atmosphere in New York, [which allowed me to] build things from the ground up.”

Three of the four panelists have started their own music groups. Mazzoli, trained as a composer, writes music and

plays the keyboard for her group. Dalby co-founded the DeCoda Ensemble, a group of musicians that plays for communities rarely exposed to contemporary music, performing in locations such as prisons, hospitals and shelters. Moore started Dither, an electric guitar quartet.

Hughes is a trained vocalist who works with musicians performing contemporary music.

The panelists advised students to make the most of their contacts at Yale and to start as many projects as possible while they are in New Haven. In New York, Mazzoli said, the stakes are much higher than they are at Yale.

Baumgardner’s students have already had to start their own entrepreneurial music projects for the class. “[It’s important to have] lots of projects going on — projects that feed you financially, spiritually and creatively, projects that make you wake up with a purpose,” Hughes said.

Dalby said he considers

ambition, creativity and versatility common features of all the panelists, adding that these are values important for any musician trying to build a freelance career to have. He said that certain restrictions at the School of Music made it difficult for him to start spontaneous projects while he was a student. An important aspect of being an innovative musician, he said, is “not asking permission, but begging forgiveness instead.”

Jean Laurenz MUS ’14, a member of the class, said she enjoyed hearing from individuals who are still in the process of gaining recognition in the music field, because she more often hears of musicians who have reached the peak of their careers already.

The School of Music course that hosted the panel is entitled “Careers in Music: Creating Sustainable Careers in the Arts.”

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .

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“Parade,” directed by Sarah Krohn and produced by Derek Braverman ’15, deals with the dark culture of the American South and grapples with various difficult issues during the pre-World War I era. The show, which is the Fall Mainstage for the Dramat, goes up today, and will be up until Saturday, Nov. 23.

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER One year after “The Drowsy Chaperone” filled the Yale University Theatre with laughter, this fall’s Dramat mainstage will address a more sobering topic.

“Parade,” by Jason Robert Brown, revisits a dark moment in American history. The play is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager who was accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old employee named Mary Phagan. The musical is set in Georgia and revolves around Leo’s trial.

While the show explores issues such as bigotry, media sensationalism and the culture of the American South during the years leading up to World War I, its main focus is the love between Leo and his wife, Lucille, according to four students involved with the production.

“I firmly believe that the story is fundamentally not about racism, bigotry, persecution or the South — beyond all that it is about love,” said Philip Jameson ’16, the show’s musical director. “The only way to do this show is to paint it as a love story.”

Alexandra Butler ’17, who plays

Angela, an employee of the governor of Georgia, explained that Leo’s love for his wife develops gradually, as he realizes that she is the only one who truly supports him throughout the trial process. Leo is surrounded by people who are against him — the racist southerners are suspicious of him, his lawyer betrays him and one of his family members is waiting for Leo to die so he can seize his estate, Butler said.

Sarah Krohn, the show’s director, said that Leo and Lucille are unhappy in their marriage until Leo’s arrest brings them closer

emotionally. Two duets between Leo and Lucille perfectly embody the growth of their love, Jameson said — in the first act, there is a song titled “Leo at Work/What am I Waiting For?” in which Leo is at the factory and Lucille is at home singing about how her marriage is unfulfilling. But near the end of the show, they sing “All the Wasted Time,” in which they are holding each other and singing in harmony, he added.

But Christian Probst ’16, who plays Mary’s friend Frankie, said there is another key love story in the play: the townspeople’s love

for their homeland. The opening song, titled “The Old Red Hills of Home,” puts forth the idea that the characters in the play are united by their common ‘home’ of Marietta, Ga. and that community members should love one another, he said.

The notions of ‘home’ and ‘community’ are echoed throughout the show, Jameson said.

Krohn and Probst noted that this type of love leads to a mob mentality that turns the townspeople against Leo partly because he is an outsider. “‘Love of homeland’ is an idea that’s historically been used to jus-

tify horrific acts, and we see how patriotism and xenophobia can go hand in hand in this play,” Krohn said. “Leo, as a Yankee and a Jew, is an easy target.”

Jameson explained that the townspeople’s suspicion of Leo originates largely in their desire to protect their community at all costs — a belief embodied in the character of Tom Watson, a member of the group of townspeople who are adamantly against Leo. In his two most impactful songs, Watson attempts to rally the community against Leo in the name of saving the integrity of their homeland.

The three cast members interviewed noted that while one may be tempted to view the play solely as a condemnation of southern bigots in the early 1900s, the show does not aim to criticize any particular group. In fact, Jameson said, the show creates parallels and highlights similarities between all of the characters, regardless of their background, instead of singling out any particular demographic. He noted that even the patriotic “The Old Red Hills of Home” features a melody that is partially an adaptation of a Jewish prayer, creating a blend of American militaristic cul-

ture and Jewish heritage.

Virginia Doyle ’17, who plays Mary Phagan’s mother, said that while part of her character’s contempt toward Leo is due to religious differences, the play places much more emphasis on the comfort and solace that religion can provide.

She noted that though Leo is a Jewish northerner and Mrs. Phagan is a Christian southerner, both turn to religion in times of hardship.

“Parade” opens tonight at the University Theatre.

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

KEN YANAGISAWA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The School of Music touted innovation and taking risks during a recent panel on sustainable careers in music.

Ballet show to honor Woodard

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER This week, Yale ballet dancers will perform in honor of former Calhoun Dean and fellow dancer Leslie Woodard.

The Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company’s winter show, titled “Metamorphoses,” opens today at the Off-Broadway Theater.

The performance is dedicated to former Calhoun Dean Leslie Woodard, who passed away last month. Dancers will explore the themes of transformation and change through excerpts and variations from several classical ballets, including ‘Swan Lake’ and ‘Giselle.’ In addition to being a popular theme in the classical ballet repertoire, the idea of metamorphosis is one that many Yale students can identify with as they come into their own during college, members of the YUBC said.

“In general, one of the most volatile times in a person’s life is at this stage,” YUBC Artistic Director Theresa Oei ’15 said. “[You’re deciding] your career path, who you are, what you’re going to do with the rest of your life.”

The ballet excerpts in the show explore many emotions and experiences students can identify with, Oei said, such as innocence, first loves and betrayal. Dancers

tap into their personal experiences when bringing their characters to life on stage, she added.

Having to portray a character and his or her motive makes dancing narrative ballets — such as the ones featured in the show — more difficult, said Aren Vastola ’14, a dancer in the show.

Dancers have to think about both acting and performing complicated choreography, he said, which can be tiring. The excerpts in the showcase ask dancers to consider how their movements motivate plot and relate to their characters. Vastola added that even though the showcase only focuses on excerpts, the chosen variations are from climactic moments in each ballet, which will allow the audience to see stories and relationships form on stage.

“Even if the audience can’t glean from one dance the whole story of the ballet, I think the grounding in narrative will make it more emotionally engaging,” Vastola said.

Oei said she thinks the intimate atmosphere of OBT will allow audience members a more personal experience than they would have viewing a traditional ballet performance on a raised stage, where the dancers are farther away from the audience.

The audience will be able to form a deeper connection with the

Tragedy and comedy to converge on stage

dancers and music, she said.

“The intimate space brings us closer to the audience, so they can experience those feelings and emotions we portray through our dancing and acting,” said dancer Adriana Rodriguez ’16.

Woodard, who was a professional dancer in the Dance Theater of Harlem, was very supportive of YUBC, Oei said. YUBC is establishing a scholarship in her name at the Dance Theater of Harlem for children who dance with the company, and YUBC will help collect donations for the scholarship. Oei added that the theme of metamorphosis represents Woodard’s ability to hold true to her love of dance while pursuing a career in academia.

Rodriguez said that she had spoken to Woodard about the showcase and invited her to come see the performance. Woodard was looking forward to seeing Calhoun freshmen in YUBC perform with the group for the first time, Rodriguez said, just as she had watched Rodriguez’s first performance at Yale.

“I know she’d be happy to see that ballet people remember her … one of many ways she’ll be remembered,” Rodriguez said.

“Metamorphoses” opens today at 7:00 p.m.

Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .

BY LEO KIM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

VICTOR KANG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company’s winter show, “Metamorphoses,” opens today at the Off-Broadway Theatre. The performance is dedicated to former Calhoun Dean Leslie Woodard.

A tale of love, a critique of social norms, a satire of human behavior — all are possible descriptions of the play opening Thursday at the Whitney Theater.

The plot of Molière’s “The Misanthrope” follows the lives of four men courting a woman in 17thcentury France. The production — a senior project for Gabriel DeLeon ’14 and Anna Cabrera ’14 — is being directed by Associate Theater Studies Professor Toni Dorfman and produced by Noam Shapiro ’15.

The play centers on one man in particular: Alceste, or the “misanthrope,” is frustrated that he cannot get the undivided attention of the woman he loves, as she is interested in many different men. Yet Shapiro explained that the production explores not only love, but human interactions in general. The play is a “comedy of manners,” Dorfman said.

“It’s an examination of human society and human nature and how … soci-

ety can attempt to shape or form or combat human nature and human desires,” said Eric Sirakian ’15, who plays Philinte, a friend of Alceste.

Shapiro said honesty is a central topic of the play, and one he said is particularly important in an age where technology enables anonymity.

It’s an examination of … how society can attempt to shape or form or combat human nature and human desires.

ERIC SIRAKIAN ’15 Actor Yet the play provides no clear answers and satirizes both honesty and dishonesty, said Reed Morgan ’17, who plays a suitor in the production. Celimene, the woman Alceste loves, is a caricature of untruthfulness, as she flirts with sev-

eral men but ends up scorning them behind their backs.

On the other hand, Alceste is a caricature of righteousness, as he claims he is committed to a life of virtue, yet ends up hating humanity.

Instead of providing clear answers, Sirakian said, the play poses questions and shows extremes. The production will urge the audience to consider the situations in life where complete honesty may be detrimental and dishonesty may be justified.

Several members of the cast and crew said the play evokes emotions they think many audiences can relate to. The idea of exclusivity in love — “of wanting love and being uncertain as to another person’s ability to truly give it” — is a feeling most people experience in their lifetimes, Cabrera said. Love and the fear that accompanies it are central to the play, she said.

Sirakian explained that the play critiques hypocrisy and insincerity, behaviors that many in 17th-century France used to get ahead in society and ones that are also present today at places

such as Yale, where social climbers may employ similar tactics.

Dorfman called the play an amalgamation of “high comedy, low comedy [and] tragedy.” Morgan said that he views the play as a meeting point of tragedy and comedy.

Despite the characters’ absurd traits and motives, Morgan said, the play ultimately portrays their authentic emotional lives; when Celimene rejects her suitors, they are genuinely crushed. The interplay between tragic and comic elements is what makes the play so powerful, he added.

“We hope that the audience will leave the theater with laughter in their bellies, thoughts in their minds, and warmth in their hearts,” Shapiro said. “We also hope that the play will inspire the audience to reflect on how we, as a community, interact with one another and what it means to love another person.”

“The Misanthrope” will run through Saturday.

Contact LEO KIM at leo.kim@yale.edu .

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Dramat mainstage tells tragic love story

Tony Award nominations “Parade” received “Parade,” written by Alfred Uhry, debuted on Broadway in December 1998, and closed February 1999. The musical won Best Book and Best Original Score out of the nine nominations.

Panel discusses careers in music

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At a Tuesday morning panel discussion, alumni of the School of Music advised current students to take risks and pursue innovative projects.

Roughly 20 students attended the panel, which was held as part of a School of Music course on sustainable careers in the field of music but was open to the entire Yale community. The discussion was moderated

by Astrid Baumgardner, the class instructor, who said she organized the panel to show students the different ways one can succeed in the music field.

The speakers, Missy Mazzoli MUS ’06, Mellissa Hughes MUS ’06, James Moore MUS ’06, and Owen Dalby ’06 MUS ’07, discussed their experiences as performers trained in classical music who are now pursuing projects involving contemporary music. The speakers highlighted the way their

Yale education has influenced their growth as musicians, providing them with a network of performers with whom they could cooperate after graduation.

The musicians emphasized the importance of taking on many projects — even ones that do not immediately earn a profit — to gain recognition in the music world.

Mazzoli told students that in order to overcome the intial difficulty of entering a field for which funding may not always be available, they should strive to start projects from scratch. Mazzoli, who started an ensemble called Victoire, said going off on her own allowed her to escape the anxiety of finding work in a shifting economic climate.

“I needed to have a project not dependent on trends,” Mazzoli said. “I preferred the atmosphere in New York, [which allowed me to] build things from the ground up.”

Three of the four panelists have started their own music groups. Mazzoli, trained as a composer, writes music and

plays the keyboard for her group. Dalby co-founded the DeCoda Ensemble, a group of musicians that plays for communities rarely exposed to contemporary music, performing in locations such as prisons, hospitals and shelters. Moore started Dither, an electric guitar quartet.

Hughes is a trained vocalist who works with musicians performing contemporary music.

The panelists advised students to make the most of their contacts at Yale and to start as many projects as possible while they are in New Haven. In New York, Mazzoli said, the stakes are much higher than they are at Yale.

Baumgardner’s students have already had to start their own entrepreneurial music projects for the class. “[It’s important to have] lots of projects going on — projects that feed you financially, spiritually and creatively, projects that make you wake up with a purpose,” Hughes said.

Dalby said he considers

ambition, creativity and versatility common features of all the panelists, adding that these are values important for any musician trying to build a freelance career to have. He said that certain restrictions at the School of Music made it difficult for him to start spontaneous projects while he was a student. An important aspect of being an innovative musician, he said, is “not asking permission, but begging forgiveness instead.”

Jean Laurenz MUS ’14, a member of the class, said she enjoyed hearing from individuals who are still in the process of gaining recognition in the music field, because she more often hears of musicians who have reached the peak of their careers already.

The School of Music course that hosted the panel is entitled “Careers in Music: Creating Sustainable Careers in the Arts.”

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .

KEN YANAGISAWA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

“Parade,” directed by Sarah Krohn and produced by Derek Braverman ’15, deals with the dark culture of the American South and grapples with various difficult issues during the pre-World War I era. The show, which is the Fall Mainstage for the Dramat, goes up today, and will be up until Saturday, Nov. 23.

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER One year after “The Drowsy Chaperone” filled the Yale University Theatre with laughter, this fall’s Dramat mainstage will address a more sobering topic.

“Parade,” by Jason Robert Brown, revisits a dark moment in American history. The play is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager who was accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old employee named Mary Phagan. The musical is set in Georgia and revolves around Leo’s trial.

While the show explores issues such as bigotry, media sensationalism and the culture of the American South during the years leading up to World War I, its main focus is the love between Leo and his wife, Lucille, according to four students involved with the production.

“I firmly believe that the story is fundamentally not about racism, bigotry, persecution or the South — beyond all that it is about love,” said Philip Jameson ’16, the show’s musical director. “The only way to do this show is to paint it as a love story.”

Alexandra Butler ’17, who plays

Angela, an employee of the governor of Georgia, explained that Leo’s love for his wife develops gradually, as he realizes that she is the only one who truly supports him throughout the trial process. Leo is surrounded by people who are against him — the racist southerners are suspicious of him, his lawyer betrays him and one of his family members is waiting for Leo to die so he can seize his estate, Butler said.

Sarah Krohn, the show’s director, said that Leo and Lucille are unhappy in their marriage until Leo’s arrest brings them closer

emotionally. Two duets between Leo and Lucille perfectly embody the growth of their love, Jameson said — in the first act, there is a song titled “Leo at Work/What am I Waiting For?” in which Leo is at the factory and Lucille is at home singing about how her marriage is unfulfilling. But near the end of the show, they sing “All the Wasted Time,” in which they are holding each other and singing in harmony, he added.

But Christian Probst ’16, who plays Mary’s friend Frankie, said there is another key love story in the play: the townspeople’s love

for their homeland. The opening song, titled “The Old Red Hills of Home,” puts forth the idea that the characters in the play are united by their common ‘home’ of Marietta, Ga. and that community members should love one another, he said.

The notions of ‘home’ and ‘community’ are echoed throughout the show, Jameson said.

Krohn and Probst noted that this type of love leads to a mob mentality that turns the townspeople against Leo partly because he is an outsider. “‘Love of homeland’ is an idea that’s historically been used to jus-

tify horrific acts, and we see how patriotism and xenophobia can go hand in hand in this play,” Krohn said. “Leo, as a Yankee and a Jew, is an easy target.”

Jameson explained that the townspeople’s suspicion of Leo originates largely in their desire to protect their community at all costs — a belief embodied in the character of Tom Watson, a member of the group of townspeople who are adamantly against Leo. In his two most impactful songs, Watson attempts to rally the community against Leo in the name of saving the integrity of their homeland.

The three cast members interviewed noted that while one may be tempted to view the play solely as a condemnation of southern bigots in the early 1900s, the show does not aim to criticize any particular group. In fact, Jameson said, the show creates parallels and highlights similarities between all of the characters, regardless of their background, instead of singling out any particular demographic. He noted that even the patriotic “The Old Red Hills of Home” features a melody that is partially an adaptation of a Jewish prayer, creating a blend of American militaristic cul-

ture and Jewish heritage.

Virginia Doyle ’17, who plays Mary Phagan’s mother, said that while part of her character’s contempt toward Leo is due to religious differences, the play places much more emphasis on the comfort and solace that religion can provide.

She noted that though Leo is a Jewish northerner and Mrs. Phagan is a Christian southerner, both turn to religion in times of hardship.

“Parade” opens tonight at the University Theatre.

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

KEN YANAGISAWA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The School of Music touted innovation and taking risks during a recent panel on sustainable careers in music.

Ballet show to honor Woodard

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER This week, Yale ballet dancers will perform in honor of former Calhoun Dean and fellow dancer Leslie Woodard.

The Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company’s winter show, titled “Metamorphoses,” opens today at the Off-Broadway Theater.

The performance is dedicated to former Calhoun Dean Leslie Woodard, who passed away last month. Dancers will explore the themes of transformation and change through excerpts and variations from several classical ballets, including ‘Swan Lake’ and ‘Giselle.’ In addition to being a popular theme in the classical ballet repertoire, the idea of metamorphosis is one that many Yale students can identify with as they come into their own during college, members of the YUBC said.

“In general, one of the most volatile times in a person’s life is at this stage,” YUBC Artistic Director Theresa Oei ’15 said. “[You’re deciding] your career path, who you are, what you’re going to do with the rest of your life.”

The ballet excerpts in the show explore many emotions and experiences students can identify with, Oei said, such as innocence, first loves and betrayal. Dancers

tap into their personal experiences when bringing their characters to life on stage, she added.

Having to portray a character and his or her motive makes dancing narrative ballets — such as the ones featured in the show — more difficult, said Aren Vastola ’14, a dancer in the show.

Dancers have to think about both acting and performing complicated choreography, he said, which can be tiring. The excerpts in the showcase ask dancers to consider how their movements motivate plot and relate to their characters. Vastola added that even though the showcase only focuses on excerpts, the chosen variations are from climactic moments in each ballet, which will allow the audience to see stories and relationships form on stage.

“Even if the audience can’t glean from one dance the whole story of the ballet, I think the grounding in narrative will make it more emotionally engaging,” Vastola said.

Oei said she thinks the intimate atmosphere of OBT will allow audience members a more personal experience than they would have viewing a traditional ballet performance on a raised stage, where the dancers are farther away from the audience.

The audience will be able to form a deeper connection with the

Tragedy and comedy to converge on stage

dancers and music, she said.

“The intimate space brings us closer to the audience, so they can experience those feelings and emotions we portray through our dancing and acting,” said dancer Adriana Rodriguez ’16.

Woodard, who was a professional dancer in the Dance Theater of Harlem, was very supportive of YUBC, Oei said. YUBC is establishing a scholarship in her name at the Dance Theater of Harlem for children who dance with the company, and YUBC will help collect donations for the scholarship. Oei added that the theme of metamorphosis represents Woodard’s ability to hold true to her love of dance while pursuing a career in academia.

Rodriguez said that she had spoken to Woodard about the showcase and invited her to come see the performance. Woodard was looking forward to seeing Calhoun freshmen in YUBC perform with the group for the first time, Rodriguez said, just as she had watched Rodriguez’s first performance at Yale.

“I know she’d be happy to see that ballet people remember her … one of many ways she’ll be remembered,” Rodriguez said.

“Metamorphoses” opens today at 7:00 p.m.

Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .

BY LEO KIM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

VICTOR KANG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company’s winter show, “Metamorphoses,” opens today at the Off-Broadway Theatre. The performance is dedicated to former Calhoun Dean Leslie Woodard.

A tale of love, a critique of social norms, a satire of human behavior — all are possible descriptions of the play opening Thursday at the Whitney Theater.

The plot of Molière’s “The Misanthrope” follows the lives of four men courting a woman in 17thcentury France. The production — a senior project for Gabriel DeLeon ’14 and Anna Cabrera ’14 — is being directed by Associate Theater Studies Professor Toni Dorfman and produced by Noam Shapiro ’15.

The play centers on one man in particular: Alceste, or the “misanthrope,” is frustrated that he cannot get the undivided attention of the woman he loves, as she is interested in many different men. Yet Shapiro explained that the production explores not only love, but human interactions in general. The play is a “comedy of manners,” Dorfman said.

“It’s an examination of human society and human nature and how … soci-

ety can attempt to shape or form or combat human nature and human desires,” said Eric Sirakian ’15, who plays Philinte, a friend of Alceste.

Shapiro said honesty is a central topic of the play, and one he said is particularly important in an age where technology enables anonymity.

It’s an examination of … how society can attempt to shape or form or combat human nature and human desires.

ERIC SIRAKIAN ’15 Actor Yet the play provides no clear answers and satirizes both honesty and dishonesty, said Reed Morgan ’17, who plays a suitor in the production. Celimene, the woman Alceste loves, is a caricature of untruthfulness, as she flirts with sev-

eral men but ends up scorning them behind their backs.

On the other hand, Alceste is a caricature of righteousness, as he claims he is committed to a life of virtue, yet ends up hating humanity.

Instead of providing clear answers, Sirakian said, the play poses questions and shows extremes. The production will urge the audience to consider the situations in life where complete honesty may be detrimental and dishonesty may be justified.

Several members of the cast and crew said the play evokes emotions they think many audiences can relate to. The idea of exclusivity in love — “of wanting love and being uncertain as to another person’s ability to truly give it” — is a feeling most people experience in their lifetimes, Cabrera said. Love and the fear that accompanies it are central to the play, she said.

Sirakian explained that the play critiques hypocrisy and insincerity, behaviors that many in 17th-century France used to get ahead in society and ones that are also present today at places

such as Yale, where social climbers may employ similar tactics.

Dorfman called the play an amalgamation of “high comedy, low comedy [and] tragedy.” Morgan said that he views the play as a meeting point of tragedy and comedy.

Despite the characters’ absurd traits and motives, Morgan said, the play ultimately portrays their authentic emotional lives; when Celimene rejects her suitors, they are genuinely crushed. The interplay between tragic and comic elements is what makes the play so powerful, he added.

“We hope that the audience will leave the theater with laughter in their bellies, thoughts in their minds, and warmth in their hearts,” Shapiro said. “We also hope that the play will inspire the audience to reflect on how we, as a community, interact with one another and what it means to love another person.”

“The Misanthrope” will run through Saturday.

Contact LEO KIM at leo.kim@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 3:00 p.m. “Arguing For/Over the Dignity of Difference.” The Yale Center for Faith & Culture Respect is hosting Alon GoshenGottstein, executive director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, and Gilbert Meilaender, professor of theology at Valparaiso University, as part of the Human Flourishing Lecture. Sterling Divinity Quadrangle (409 Prospect St.), Niebuhr Hall.

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SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 2:00 p.m. Guided tour of the Cushing Center The center features more than 400 specimen jars of patients’ brains and tumors and original surgical illustrations and photographs that belonged to Dr. Harvey Cushing. Sterling Hall of Medicine (333 Cedar St.), Cushing Medical Library.

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SPORTS

“Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.”

TOM LANDRY FORMER HEAD COACH, DALLAS COWBOYS

Sandquist talks Harvard-Yale

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER

son but we definitely grew from it.

On Saturday, the football team will take on archrivals Harvard in the 130th installment of The Game. The Bulldogs (5–4, 3–3 Ivy) will have a chance to snap the Crimson’s six game win streak on home turf. Harvard (8–1, 5–1 Ivy) comes into the Yale Bowl needing a win to have a chance at a share of the Ancient Eight title. The News sat down with wide receiver Cameron Sandquist ’14 to discuss the impact of the rivalry matchup and his final game as a Bulldog.

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You’ve played Harvard at home once in your career, do you think playing The Game at home makes the contest a very different atmosphere?

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I think that the Harvard-Yale game in general is a different atmosphere. I don’t know if home or away changes anything.

Leading up to The Game generally there is more excitement around campus and [that the game is at home] definitely adds to it.

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Do you think that the experience of challenging Harvard right to the end last year will help in The Game this year?

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No. 9 Cameron Sandquist ’14 said that the atmosphere for a Harvard-Yale game is different from other games.

I think last season across the board has helped up prepare for this year. I think this season we can see the difference as opposed to other seasons. I wouldn’t say that [last year’s game with Harvard] shaped us more than other games last sea-

vard’s chances at an Ivy Title?

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We don’t think like that.

We treat every game pretty much the same. As a senior having a final win that’s what will be the most important to me. We don’t think about ruining Harvard’s Ivy chances.

do you need to do best QWhat in order to get a win on Saturday?

A

We focus on the same things every week. We are focusing right now on preparing the entire week and taking a step forward every day. When you get out there on the field on Saturday we want to control what we can take care of. That’s how we prepare every week; this week’s no different.

a senior does this game QAs mean even more to you?

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It’s the culmination of four years of hard work. I have played the game for 15 years; I am pretty excited about it. My family will be here. It’s my last year to play with my brothers. It’s just an exciting experience and something I know I’ll look back on and I’m preparing that way, as I know it’s something that will mean a lot to me down the road.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

Inside the 20, Bulldogs excel

BY GRANT BRONSDON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As any football coach can attest, great teams are able to dominate, scoring touchdowns on offense and limiting points on defense. By those metrics, the Yale football team certainly counts as a great team.

The Bulldogs head into Saturday’s matchup against Harvard ranked third in the nation in red-zone defense, allowing their opponents to score just 65.5% of the time. They also rank 17th in the country — and second in the Ivy League behind Princeton — in red zone offense, scoring on 87.5 percent of possessions inside the 20.

“No matter where you are on the field, it’s important just to play,” said defensive end and captain Beau Palin ’14.

The Bulldog defense has proven to be vastly improved over last year’s unit, which allowed teams to put points on the board in 36 of 46 trips to the red zone. By those numbers, the team ranked 41st in the country and fourth in the Ivy League.

Both head coach Tony Reno and defensive end Dylan Drake ’14 cited a shift in attitude as a contributing factor to stopping opposing drives.

“It started in preseason camp with the mentality that we need

to take points away [in the red zone],” Drake said. “We become a little more aggressive and a little bit more defensive.”

A big reason for the Bulldogs’ improvement this year has been the play of several young players, including linebacker Victor Egu ’17 and a trio of defensive linemen: Carl Kreitzberg ’16, Copache Tyler ’17 and Marty Moesta ’17.

Tyler has started every game this season, and all four have made big plays at crucial moments, such as Egu’s fourth quarter sack against Cal Poly that prevented the Mustangs from scoring off a turnover.

“A lot of times in games, I’ll pause the film and say, ‘Wow, there’s a lot of young guys on the field,’” Reno said. “But the reason they’ve been able to play as well as they [have] is because of guys like Beau and Dylan that contribute so much up front.”

Kreitzberg started against the team’s last two games, against Brown and Princeton, and Moesta starred in the game against the Bears, recording a sack and a pass breakup.

But this young defense has also pulled together as a team. Eight of the Bulldogs’ top 12 tacklers are freshmen or sophomores, and Egu holds the team lead in sacks with three.

“They’ve worked really hard

but they also have a ton of talent and a ton of potential,” Drake said of the defensive freshmen.

“What you’re seeing in the product they’re putting on the field is a combination of talent and ability and the willingness to develop.”

When the Elis have won this year, it has been in large part due to their defensive play, Reno said.

He cited the defense’s ability to stop the run and eliminate big plays as crucial elements of Yale’s victories thus far.

“We’re a team that has a very, very small window for success,” Reno said. “Our guys understand that. When we win, we do a great job [in those elements of the game].”

On the flip side of the ball, the red zone offense has done a good job putting points on the scoreboard. Kicker Kyle Cazzetta ’15 has made 11 of 14 field goal attempts this year, and no Yale quarterback has thrown an interception in the red zone all year.

Yale’s offensive success inside the 20 is even more impressive when considering the absence of some of the team’s main playmakers. Wide receiver Chris Smith ’14, running back Tyler Varga ’15 and wideout Cameron Sandquist ’14 have missed significant portions of the season with injuries. Smith and Varga are “game-time decisions,” according to Reno, and the team is still

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The football team ranks third in the country in red-zone defense and second in the Ivy League in red-zone offense. holding out hope that Sandquist, who was previously ruled out for the season, will be able to take the field against Harvard.

But other players have stepped up, especially in the red zone.

Though quarterback Hank Furman ’14 has only played in seven games due to injury, he has thrown

for 10 touchdowns and run for six more, with eight of those coming inside the opposing 20 yard line.

Running back Candler Rich ’17 has three of his six total scores in the red zone. Wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15 has emerged as the Elis’ second-leading receiver by receiving yards and has a red zone

score of his own.

“We’ve had some guys step in,” Reno said. “They’ve all done a solid job for us.”

The 130th edition of The Game will kick off at noon on Saturday.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

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Yale tops Pioneers

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With Derrick Rose back in the game, where can the Bulls go but up? Maybe down, especially since Rose is out for Friday’s game against the Toronto Raptors for a hamstring injury.

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The Bulldogs will take on Mercer this Saturday at 7 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 Bulldogs had trouble running their offense against an aggressive zone press by the Pioneers, who forced 14 Yale turnovers.

“I think we’re a lot better than we played,” head coach James Jones said.

“Our offense did not run smoothly. We took some chances that we didn’t need to take. If we just moved the basketball we would have gotten better shots.”

The Elis closed the first half leading 38–25, but had to withstand a late comeback by the Pioneers, who closed the gap to six points after guard Evan Kelley scored on a layup with 7:36 left in the game. The Bulldogs kept their composure, however, as Duren scored the game’s next five points to give Yale some breathing room.

“I just thought we calmed down,” Jones said. “We forced them to make mistakes and we got some stops with-

out fouling. Once we stopped fouling and defended we were in good shape.”

Duren’s outburst ignited a 14–1 Yale run in which Sears scored five points and took three trips to the free throw line.

Our offense did not run smoothly. We took some chances that we didn’t need to take.

JAMES JONES Head coach, Men’s basketball The Pioneers had trouble containing the explosive Sears and resorted to fouling him in the second half. The sophomore struggled from the line,

going just 5–11, but he showed assertiveness down the stretch, nailing an 18-foot jumper when the offense broke down with five minutes left in the game.

“I got kind of frustrated,” Sears said.

“I just got in this mindset like, ‘Hey this game has got to end.’ I just needed to attack.”

The Elis will now head to Macon, Ga. on Saturday to take on Mercer (2–2, 0–0 A-Sun).

The Bears had a strong season last year, but Victor said the Bulldogs are anxious to compete. ”I think we can play with anybody,” he said. “If we play our ball and with team effort, not [as] individuals, we can beat anybody.”

Yale tips off against Mercer this Saturday at 7 p.m.

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

Elis top BU W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 ally fouling the Bulldogs, Yale players knocked down six straight free throws to close out the game, bringing the final score to 78–68.

“We started to pull away at the start of the second half because we came out with more energy than BU,” guard Sarah Halejian ’15 said in an email.

“Our defense created a bunch of turnovers and helped us go on a run. Our bench players were key to us pulling away as well because they kept the pressure on and shot the ball extremely well.”

The Bulldogs were able to dominate the game inside the paint, outscoring the Terriers 32–22.

Yale also took advantage of BU’s miscues, scoring 22 points off the Terriers’ 19 turnovers.

“We remained poised throughout the game and we were able to make a run on BU by wearing them out on both the offensive and defensive end,” Graf said.

For the fourth straight game, 12 or more players stepped on the court for the Bulldogs, showcasing their depth.

The Bulldogs continued their balanced attack with three players scor-

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The Bulldogs will continue their season this Friday at Fordham. ing in double figures. Forward Meredith Boardman ’16 led Yale with 13 points and eight rebounds, while Halejian and Graf each added 12 points and two steals.

Yale faces Fordham University on the road Friday night as part of its fourgame road trip.

“We need to use this momentum going into Fordham and continue our

intensity on defense and our fast paced transition game,” Boardman said. “As with every game we hope to improve on the little things.”

The Elis defeated the Rams last year 67–53 and look to continue their early season success.

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

As a result, not all institutions feel compelled to send representatives to the NCAA conventions due to the inability to weigh in on issues that may affect them individually. Part of the proposed solution considers an adoption of a oneschool, one-vote policy for Division I that would encourage greater participation.

In Division II and III athletics, legislation is considered on a one-school, one-vote basis, but it is currently not the case in Division I, which uses the board of directors to adopt and approve legislation.

Yale and other Ivy League schools consider re-governance a relevant issue because a more representative policy would allow them to make an impact on the entire division .

Harris said that re-governance is important to Ivy League schools in order

to ensure that principles such as academic standards are maintained across the division in the face of the significantly larger amount of money spent by Power Five institutions on athletics.

While Harris added that Ivy League institutions recognize that some schools will supply advantages for studentathletes that other schools will not, it remains important to Ivy League athletic administrators that the basic tenants of the Ivy League are upheld.

“There are some schools and conferences that will choose to provide additional benefits to athletes that we will not do,” Harris said. “Our philosophy is to treat our athletes as close to the students as possible.”

The only Ivy League president on the NCAA board of directors is Dartmouth President Philip J. Hanlon.

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

Fantasy football’s compromise FANTASY FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 There are many fantasy owners who pick along their own team lines, but more often than not, player rankings and projections win out. This phenomenon itself isn’t a problem. The problem arises when interests are pitted against each other — when a Bears fan has the Baltimore defense, and rooting for the home team suddenly becomes more complicated. It’s in these cases when you hear people rooting for a low scoring offensive performance, with a turnover or two that’s inconsequential, for their team to score only the minimum to win — the list goes on.

These may be extreme examples, but they still reflect a reality of the impact of fantasy sports on fandom.

Fans start to root not for teams, but for individual players. This piece-meal style of support admittedly makes it fun to follow several games and track the performance of several individuals. However, the team results begin to fade into the background as individual success becomes the priority. Fantasy managers continually refresh their fantasy homepages instead of tuning into an actual game. People who typically wouldn’t know Eli from Peyton suddenly become the loudest people at the bar on Sunday afternoons.

All of these consequences of fantasy football might not be so bad. Fantasy owners certainly get broader exposure to scores and standings from all across the league. This broadens the field of vision for fans, who start to follow more than just one team.

Fantasy also gives people who might otherwise lack an interest in football a reason to care. In this way, fantasy actually creates more fans, giving the NFL more exposure and fans in America more people to engage in small talk on Monday mornings.

However, the level of commitment of fans to particular teams becomes somehow diminished through this process. I should be clear: There are many fans who play fantasy and still manage to root for their teams with

as much (and sometimes too much) vigor and passion as ever before. But there seems to be, on average, a general movement away from this kind of fandom in the fantasy football era.

Fantasy football effectively moves the fan one step further away from the games and the results of those games.

Real game points and statistics are converted to fantasy scores, and these are used as a substitute for the actual experience of the games themselves.

While emotional responses to fantasy teams prove to be surprisingly salient, divorcing the fan from the game itself weakens the emotionality of fandom in another, more important way.

Fantasy football is, for all intents and purposes, an individualistic effort.

Granted, there is undeniably a strong element of camaraderie that comes with fantasy’s live drafts, trade negotiations and trash talk. But when it comes to Sunday, you cheer alone. The more valuable camaraderie that comes from a group of people supporting a team together somehow gets lost in translation in fantasy football.

Again, don’t get me wrong: I enjoy fantasy football for what it’s worth. I also understand that, to a true fan, it shouldn’t change much. True Patriots’ fans still pumped their fists in celebration when Gronk’s fourth-down reception extended the final drive, and they yelled at the TV right along with Brady after the game was over.

But fantasy football strips away these overarching stories, the ones that are cause for camaraderie and true fandom. There is something to be said for investing in these broader narratives, and for doing so with others. Being a fan is ultimately a group effort that involves rooting for a team with others who are equally invested. Fantasy football breeds a different, competitive type of fan. The challenge, then, is to find a balance, to stay true to our teams and to know what’s real and what’s fantasy.

Contact SARAH ONORATO at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .

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MOLLIE ROGERS ’15 VOLLEYBALL The junior from San Diego, CA earned Ivy League player of the week honors for her performance in Yale’s two victories over Princeton and Penn this past weekend, during which she tallied 40 total kills. It is the second consecutive week that Rogers earned the award.

ERICA BORGO ’14 AND GEORGIA HOLLAND ’14 FIELD HOCKEY Borgo, from Randolph, NJ, and Holland, from Stony Brook, NY, were both named to the NFHCA Division I All-Mideast Region second team. The seniors concluded their careers as Bulldogs in Yale’s 2—1 victory over Brown last Saturday.

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Elis victorious in home opener MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER

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The men’s basketball team topped Sacred Heart last night, 80—65.

Just five days after a heartbreaking one-point loss at Rutgers, the Elis defended home court in their first game at John J. Lee Amphitheater against Sacred Heart.

After battling back and forth with the Pioneers (0–4, 0–0 NEC) for most of the game, the Bulldogs (2–2, 0–0 Ivy) pulled away in the closing minutes and prevailed, 80–65, in an impressive early season showing.

After struggling in his previous two games, guard Nick Victor ’16 had a bounce-back effort, leading the team with 16 points on perfect 7–7 shooting from the floor.

“I just need to be more aggressive,” Victor said. “I need to find my spots, where to drive and attack. I worked on my shot and it’s paying off.”

Even more impressive were Victor’s three blocks, including a chase-down swat late in the first half that led to a layup by forward Justin Sears ’16 on the other end.

Sears joined in on the block party with a vicious rejection of Sacred Heart’s leading scorer on the season, forward Louis Montes, at the 1:15 mark in the first half. After a turnover left the Elis scrambling, Montes drove baseline past the defense only to meet Sears, who plucked his shot out of the air to the delight of the crowd.

Sears led the team with 9 rebounds to go along with his 13 points. The starting backcourt of Javier Duren ’15 and Armani Cotton ’15 contributed a combined 27 points and 11 rebounds, but also had just five assists to their six turnovers. Forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 rounded things out with 10 points, including a rim-rattling dunk that sealed the game near the end of the second half.

The Yale defense held Montes, who came into the game averaging 20.3 points per game, scoreless through 22 minutes of action and allowed Sacred Heart just four three-point field goals out of 18 attempts.

On the other end of the court, however, the

Division I AD’s seek realignment

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Student-athletes, administrators and coaches across the country have long made claims that the NCAA is a flawed system and balance of power in Division I legislation is an underlying problem.

As the annual NCAA convention approaches in January, schools around the country are discussing major changes to how Division I NCAA athletics are governed. In particular, universities are considering changing how athletic directors around the country are considered in the division’s legislative process. Currently, the NCAA’s Division I board of directors is comprised entirely of university presidents. Athletic directors at Division I schools have proposed a new structure that would transfer more power to athletic directors, though university presidents would still remain active in sweeping policies such as budget approvals.

“It would be my opinion that it would be the right thing to do,” Yale Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said. “I don’t know what the decision would be, but I would certainly welcome that form of governance.”

According to the Executive Director of the Ivy League Robin Harris, some athletic directors feel disenfranchised by the legislative process.

In the current voting system, not all Division I athletic directors can vote on topics such as budgeting, academic standards and conference realignment.

“Currently we have a representative form of government in which AD’s are included but not all 350,” Harris said.

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Bulldogs top Terriers

SARAH ONORATO

The price of fantasy At the end of Monday night’s football game between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers, the Patriots charged down the field in the last minute of play. A fourth-down conversion to Pats’ tight end Rob Gronkoswki and a controversial no-call on a pass interference call in the end zone made for a thrilling finish to a back-and-forth game. As Tom Brady stormed off the field screaming at the referee, coverage cut away to the ESPN sports desk.

After the excitement, controversy and drama of the preceding game, John Anderson had one thing to say: “So how did your fantasy team do this week?”

BY ASHLEY WU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Elis had their best shooting performance of the season on Tuesday night, propelling them to a dominant win over Boston University 78–68.

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Over the past decade, fantasy football has gained popularity unparalleled in other fantasy sports. It has been popularized in the television show “The League,” makes the cover of Sports Illustrated yearly, receives coverage in national newspapers and has become the preferred topic of conversation by the water cooler on Monday mornings. Fantasy football’s surge in cultural stock over the past decade has seemingly reenergized fan interest in the National Football League. But at what cost to true fandom?

Yale (3–1, 0–0 Ivy) traveled to Boston to face the Terriers (1–3, 0–0 Patriot League), a squad that defeated the Bulldogs 59–54 in New Haven last year. The Elis overcame an 80 percent shooting performance by BU from behind the three-point arc, holding them to only 38.6 percent from the field overall.

“I think the biggest key to bouncing back from our loss Saturday was the commitment the team made to playing pressure defense today,” Captain and guard Janna Graf ’14 said. ”Everyone worked together and our defensive spark helped fuel us on the offensive end.”

The Bulldogs shot 50 percent from long range, 44.6 percent from the field and 76.7 percent from the line. Each of these marks are season-highs for the Bulldogs.

The Elis started off strong, scoring the first eight points of the game. BU then rallied off 11 straight points to take the lead.

The two teams continued to trade the lead until eight minutes remained in the first half with Yale leading 22–21. From then on, the Bulldogs would never look back, pulling away to head into the locker room up 35–27.

Yale maintained a single digit lead through to the 12:28 mark before going on a 20–7 run to extend the margin to 67–47 with under six and a half minutes remaining. The Terriers responded by pulling within six points; however, the run came too late, as only 47 seconds remained in the game. Although BU began intention-

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FANTASY FOOTBALL BREEDS A DIFFERENT, COMPETITIVE TYPE OF FAN

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STAT OF THE DAY 8

The women’s basketball team topped Boston University last night, 78—68.

NUMBER OF WEEKS, OUT OF ELEVEN, THAT A MEMBER OF THE VOLLEYBALL TEAM HAS WON AT LEAST A SHARE OF THE IVY LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK AWARD. Mollie Rogers ’15 won her second consecutive piece of the award this week.