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CROSS CAMPUS Polo on the lawn. The 30th Annual Harriman Cup was held this Saturday at Bethpage State Park in New York. The charity polo match between Yale and the University of Virginia benefited the undergraduate polo teams at both schools. The excessively preppy affair featured awards for Best Hat and Best Dressed.

The Cup was founded in 1984 to commemorate polo player and former Governor of New York W. Averell Harriman 1913.

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Rudd Center to leave for UConn

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER In January, the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity will complete a move from its current home beyond Science Hill to the University of Connecti-

cut’s new campus in Hartford, the Center announced Friday.

The Center was founded at Yale in 2005 and since has been a leader in obesity prevention and weight stigma research. Though the Center will not officially be part of UConn until Jan. 1, 2015,

the moving process is well in the works, with some researchers already situated at their new desks in various departments across UConn. The Rudd Center is the only group of researchers at Yale focused on food policy, and the move to UConn

was triggered by a desire to be integrated with the broader research community, said Marlene Schwartz, director of the Rudd Center. “[UConn is] really in a growth period,” Schwartz said. “We’re excited to be somewhere where

other researchers are doing similar work.”

Yale does not have a department of public policy, nutrition or a school of agriculture, Schwartz said. UConn, in addiSEE RUDD PAGE 7

After MSA email, confusion

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Photo finish. The winners of the Yale School of Public Health’s third annual summer internship photo contest were announced. Wan Nural Naszeerah, Nicole Hermand and Luis Maldonado received awards for their pictures from Bhutan, New Haven and Ghana. The contest asked for entries from students who wore their School of Public Health T-shirt while working at their internship.

Clean and clear. A new study from Matt Davis probes the dermatology of dinosaurs.

Examinations of dinosaur skin samples reveal that the hadrosaur, a duck-billed plant-eating dinosaur, had extremely tough skin, roughly 30 times as tough as the skin of other dinosaurs. Previously, scientists did not understand why hadrosaurus skin is particularly prevalent among all dinosaur skin fossils.

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hen the Elis kick off at home against Lehigh on Saturday, they will inaugurate an especially memorable year in which the team celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Yale Bowl’s construction. See PAGES B1-4 for a preview of the players and storylines that will define the 2014 football season.

In the days that have passed since the Muslim Students Association (MSA) sent a campus-wide email expressing concern over Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s planned appearance, some campus organizations listed as signatories have withdrawn their signatures, claiming that they never gave their clear support.

Organizations including the Slifka Center, Yale Friends of Israel (YFI), and the Yale Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) said they did not grant MSA explicit permission to use their names. Some of these groups have sent emails to their respective panlists clarifying that they are not, in fact, signatories on the letter. In addition, over the weekend, the MSA sent two correction emails to student leaders of the listed signing groups with updates to the list following the withSEE MSA PAGE 7

Extreme science. Ivan

Bozovic, a professor of applied physics, will receive a $1.9 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to continue his research into “superconductivity.” Bozovic is one of 12 scientists to receive the award, and is part of the foundation’s Emerging Phenomena in Quantum Systems initiative. The grant comes from a program called Moore Materials Synthesis Investigators.

Curing cancer. Craig Crews,

the Lewis B. Cullman Professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, received the 2014 UCBEhrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry along with $10,000. Crews has worked on developing an anticancer therapy for patients called Kyprolis.

Meanwhile at the farm …

Sign-ups for fall farm tours are now open, offering students fresh-cooked meals as well as fruit and vegetable picking and the chance to get in touch with their inner hipster.

Cheaper than tuition.

According to NBC News, Ivy League email addresses are being sold by Chinese e-commerce site Taobao.

Email accounts from 42 universities, including Harvard, Yale and Columbia, were up for sale for prices ranging from 16 cents to $390.

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Endowment growth looks likely

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER Great expectations abound for the release of the University’s endowment performance over the past year.

In the coming weeks, Yale will publicize the details of the returns that its investments earned in the period of July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014 — also known as fiscal year 2014. Though Provost Benjamin Polak could not be reached for comment, financial experts interviewed are predicting positive growth in the numbers.

Yalies to join climate march

According to experts, the American economic environment in fiscal 2014 likely produced sizeable returns for endowments nationwide, including Yale’s. While most schools have not yet released official figures, the U.S. stock market’s strong performance, coupled with a rebounding real estate sector and robust bond returns, indicates that the endowment will rise. In fiscal year 2013, the University’s assets grew to $20.8 billion and returned 12.5 percent, beating the national average of SEE ENDOWMENT PAGE 6

YCC adopts casual correspondence

BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER Michael Herbert ’16, president of the Yale College Council, wants to befriend all of campus.

Herbert and Isaac Morrier ’17, YCC’s communications director, have been working to revamp the Council’s image and interaction with the student body. The goal is to make the YCC more accessible, approachable and personable, Morrier said. To this end, the YCC now sends emails from the accounts of individual executive board members, instead of from the “anonymous blue

shield” image that decorated its former correspondences, Morrier said. The YCC’s Twitter account has also adopted a more lighthearted tone.

Board members are also including photos of themselves in their emails. Herbert — who released his personal phone number in a Sept. 1 email to all students — said he wishes to make himself known to the campus through personalized correspondence.

“They’re not going to be able to ask for my help if they don’t SEE YCC PAGE 6

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Members of Fossil Free Yale are organizing students to attend the People’s Climate March in New York City this coming weekend.

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER This Sunday, both Yale students and New Haven residents plan to join the ranks of thousands of other activists in order to promote awareness of climate change at the People’s Climate March in New York City.

The march, which will start in Central Park and weave its way downtown,

looks to be one of the most well-attended rallies in the history of the climate justice movement, said Alexandra Barlowe ’17, outreach coordinator for FFY and one of the campus leaders coordinating Yale students attending at the event. The Yale Student Environmental Coalition has already seen over 140 students sign up for spots on the two buses that it has organized to attend the event,

and reports that even more students plan to attend independently.

“We’re in a unique place to take part in this moment in history,” said Daniel Leibovic ’17, president of YSEC. Barlowe said that she estimates over 100,000 people will be in attendance.

Chelsea Watson, vice president of YSEC and a SEE CLIMATE PAGE 6

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GUEST COLUMNIST ABRAR OMEISH

Reality check

On MSA’s letter

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uring a recent discussion among campus leaders, we were asked to describe the way outsiders might view the quintessential Yalie. It wasn’t hard to come up with an illustration: an attractive white male from an East Coast prep school with a killer smile and flowing locks of dirty blonde hair. As a tall black woman with black hair twisted into braids, I didn’t fit the description. So despite my four years of history here, I wasn’t surprised to be aggressively confronted last weekend by an individual who questioned my affiliation with the University.

DESPITE MY YEARS OF DEDICATION TO THIS CAMPUS, I'M MADE TO FEEL THAT I DON'T BELONG Last Saturday morning, an older gentleman challenged me as I entered a residential college. First, he asked whether I was a Yale student — to which I immediately replied yes. But even after my quick response he continued to accost me. He asked me which college I was in (to which I responded Morse), my name (I said Patricia). Then he asked for my last name. Even after that barrage of questions, he asked me what I was doing in the residential college. I then turned away without waiting for him to respond or continue to question me.

On my own campus, I was made to feel like an outsider, like I didn’t belong. In the heat of the confrontation another student walked by, but the gentleman was so consumed with my presence that he failed to acknowledge or question my classmate’s status.

Public safety is a major concern at Yale and we should all be working to create a secure campus. But this encounter made me wonder: When do our public safety efforts morph into disrespect?

The encounter lasted only two minutes, but left me feeling insulted, humiliated and belittled. It didn’t matter that I was a freshman counselor or the former president of the Black Student Alliance at Yale. It didn’t matter that as Dwight Hall’s Institutional Service Coordinator I had entered the college that morning to gather breakfast and bagged lunches for

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Yale freshmen participating in a day of service. These things weren’t visible on my person.

What mattered was that something about me — my demeanor, clothing or, more likely, my complexion- — was enough to warrant a hostile confrontation.

After nearly four years of giving my all to a university that I cherish deeply, I was essentially told I didn’t fit the standard mold of a Yale student.

This isn’t an isolated case.

It’s striking how many similar incidents happen at Yale and go unreported. My friends and classmates of color have spoken about having residential college gates slammed in their faces, or being asked by Yale security officers to show ID. Yale prides itself on being a community that believes in racial equality and rejects discriminatory practices. But like every other community in this country, this campus is filled with individuals with unconscious negative attitudes about people of color.

This implicit bias is more pervasive and at times more insidious than intentionally offensive demonstrations of racism. That becomes all too clear just by reading the national headlines — an armed white man walks away unharmed after murdering six family members, yet an unarmed black teenager is shot by police multiple times on a residential street.

WE LIKE TO THINK OF YALE'S CAMPUS AS PROGRESSIVE, BUT WE MUST CONFRONT OUR IMPLICIT BIASES We need to wake up and be more critical of ourselves. We need to be more aware of the biases we use to judge others.

Despite receiving acceptance letters, paying tuition fees and moving excitedly onto campus, students of color are sometimes still made to feel like outsiders on campus. Last weekend’s incident encouraged me to begin discussing the racial undertones of my encounter.

Those conversations aren’t easy, but as a campus community we need to initiate those uncomfortable conversations about race. Wake up Yale: It is time for a reality check.

PATRICIA OKONTA is a senior in Morse College. Contact her at patricia.okonta@yale.edu.

uch like our fellow Yalies in the Buckley Program, Muslims on campus believe in the value of free speech. In fact, we are proud to be a part of the Yale community because of the culture it promotes, one that protects student freedoms. We know that our university stands up for its students and encourages them to act on their values — in faith and ideology.

But when the Muslim Students Association learned of the Buckley Program’s decision to host an event with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, we decided to write a letter expressing our concerns.

We understand that many Yalies are questioning the letter we released and our process for verifying signatories. We want to take this opportunity to tell the story of our reaction to the announcement of Hirsi Ali’s visit, from the beginning.

We have no reason to hide what has transpired and we encourage those hearing rumors to reach out to us for the truth.

We first heard about Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s visit to campus through a member of the MSA. We were surprised to see that a group of our fellow Yalies would invite a speaker so well-known for her hate speech and assumed that they must not have been aware of the extent of her intolerance.

At a meeting with the president of the Buckley Program, I expressed my concerns about the speaker and explained how offensive many people find her commentary. I explained my view that Hirsi Ali does not have the scholarly credentials to speak on Islam and asked that the event be limited to subjects she can speak on from her personal experiences. I also requested that another speaker be included in the discussion with Hirsi Ali to provide a more balanced talk.

I would like to clarify that I certainly was not asking for a disinvitation or cancellation.

Ultimately, the MSA decided to draft a letter expressing our concerns about Hirsi Ali’s visit.

We did our best to be deliberate and fair in reaching out to organizations and asking them to sign the letter.

We first asked club presidents to tentatively add their signatures after we had explained the situation and released a portion of the letter. At the time, we did not send out the full document, as it was still undergoing edits.

We then invited all club presidents who had tentatively signed the letter to a meeting at which we planned to finalize the letter by making appropriate edits and discussing any concerns club presidents voiced.

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We notified all groups that had tentatively signed that we would send the final version of the letter, with requested edits, by 12:00 a.m. that night. All clubs were told they had until 1:00 a.m. to take back their signatures before the letter would be released, and we had confirmed at the meeting that the late timing would not be an issue for signatories.

We put in a sincere effort to respect the requests of all groups that raised concerns and we did our best to accurately represent everyone involved. Because of the countless emails we had been receiving, we may have miscommunicated with some groups that had provided tentative signatures. We are truly sorry for any trouble this may have caused and we have already sent out a number of emails clarifying and apologizing to the relevant groups.

WE ARE ENCOURAGED BY THE...SOLIDARITY OUR CLASSMATES HAVE SHOWN Could we have sent additional confirmation emails to signatories? Probably. Could we have arranged for an alternative meeting time for those student groups that could not attend to review the letter? Most likely. As a group of full time students with less than two weeks to coordinate with over 100 people, we were doing our best to handle email after email on this issue.

It was very difficult and we ask that our fellow Yalies understand that.

We are encouraged by the amount of solidarity that our classmates have shown throughout this endeavor, and we are overwhelmed by the support our peers and staff have given us. We are inspired by the number of Yalies who decided to stand up for a cause, regardless of whether they had personal ties to it or not.

We believe that we have taken steps to promote student activism, and we hope our classmates continue to unite around causes that help further coexistence and freedom of expression on Yale’s campus in the future.

ABRAR OMEISH is a sophomore in Branford College. Her views do not represent those of the Muslim Students Association. Contact her at abrar.omeish@yale.edu.

'MIKE HARRINGTON' ON 'ON GAMEDAY'

GUEST COLUMNIST SAM SUSSMAN

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ast Wednesday morning, the Muslim Students Association emailed much of the Yale student body with a letter condemning the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program’s invitation of Ayaan Hirsi Ali to speak on the topic of “Clash of Civilizations: Islam and the West.” Among the supposed signatories to that letter were the Slifka Center, Yale Friends of Israel, the Yale Women’s Leadership Initiative, Survivor’s Inbox, Jews and Muslims at Yale and J-Street U. But none of these groups, according to an MSA email sent on Saturday, had consented to sign on before the letter was issued. The last two later decided to sign on to the letter.

Regardless of the ultimate position of Yale Friends of Israel, of which I am a co-president, and other organizations, the unprofessional process of this letter’s creation calls into question the validity of every single signature and calls into further question the integrity of both the letter’s sentiments and its authors. It is unfortunate that a letter whose content concerns itself with free speech and issues directly relating to women marginalized some of the very organizations concerned with these topics.

Creation of and advocacy for the letter was led by the Religious Activities Chair of the MSA. Based on the experience of the Yale Friends of Israel and several other organizations that I have spoken with, the chair contacted many organizations looking for signatories. At some point in the process, however, several organizations were added as signatories after merely expressing a willingness to discuss the letter; they never gave permission for their names to be used. This false list was then used to solicit the support of other organizations.

Whether the tactics used were simply severe negligence or malicious fraud, the Yale community should be concerned.

The MSA finally attempted to rectify its mistakes with a letter sent out Saturday afternoon — though, unlike the first, it was not sent to the community at large. During the intervening time, organizations that were signed on questionably had to decide whether to risk alienating themselves or let the error stand.

Amazingly, several organizations took the path of least resistance.

In the face of having their own reputation taken from them, they quietly accepted this outright assault on their autonomy, reputation and institutional integ-

rity in order to maintain relations with the MSA. This impressive show of restraint by organizations was incredible to witness but ultimately misguided. Yale is a place where dialogue can succeed, but only if we make clear that this sort of behavior is unacceptable.

The public will never be able to truly know how much of the supposed support for the letter was real and how much has been obscured by the inappropriate conduct of the MSA. But what we do know is that this conduct is wrong and unbecoming of any organization at Yale. Such conduct divides communities and generates unnecessary tension.

Although Yale Friends of Israel has taken no official position on the letter or Ms. Hirsi Ali’s talk, I want to close with my opinion on the matter — the opinion that I hope is shared by the majority of my classmates.

I STAND FOR THE ABSOLUTE PROTECTION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH I stand for the absolute protection of freedom of speech and actively encourage the free and open exchange of ideas. I do not believe any nonviolent speech should be silenced nor any opinion shouted down. True to Yale’s greatest traditions, in a campus such as ours, full of great minds and thinkers ready to actively engage, the answer can never be to silence speech one disagrees with. I applaud the Buckley Program for its effort to promote intellectual diversity at Yale and welcome the constructive dialogue that the speaker can inspire if we are all willing to listen and participate. I hope participation in such a constructive dialogue includes the Muslim Students Association and that all voices can be heard. But this can only happen if we are open and honest with each other.

SAM SUSSMAN is a junior in Davenport College, a co-president of the Yale Friends of Israel and a William F. Buckley, Jr. Program Fellow. This reflects the opinion of the author and not any organizations he is affiliated with. Contact him at samuel.sussman@yale.edu .

Malloy is America’s progressive governor I

EDITOR IN CHIEF Julia Zorthian

for the Princeton game in 2006.”

n January’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama looked beyond an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to issue a challenge directly to state governors: Raise your minimum wage to $10.10 so that no one working a full workweek will have to live in poverty.

Inspired by those words, Connecticut’s own Governor Dannel Malloy took immediate action.

Within a matter of months, he convinced legislators in both the State Senate and State House to push through a bill that raised our minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. And on March 27, Malloy signed the bill into law, making him the first governor in the country to follow through on the President’s challenge.

Following Malloy’s example, other states then rushed to catch up. Within months, Vermont, Maryland, Massachusetts and Hawaii had followed suit by passing similar legislation – making a livable minimum wage a reality for a growing segment of the population.

Such a chain reaction is the result of bold progressive leadership. And it is but one of the many ways in which Malloy has rapidly become America’s most influential progressive governor.

When Adam Lanza shocked the world by gunning down 20 innocent children and six

adults at an elementary school not far from New Haven, Malloy responded with legislation that went furTYLER than any BLACKMON ther in the nation to keep our Back to streets safe and address Blackmon the ongoing gun violence epidemic. That swift action soon prompted other states to fall in line and pass their own versions of the legislation.

When other states scrambled to put together a statewide healthcare exchange for the Affordable Care Act, both Malloy and Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman assembled the most sophisticated team in the country and produced such remarkable results that Connecticut cut its uninsured rate in half, the Obama Administration hired our exchange’s CEO to take over HealthCare.gov and other states even began purchasing Connecticut’s blueprint for implementation in their own states.

The list goes on and on. From ending the death penalty to decriminalizing marijuana, laying the groundwork for early

voting and implementing paid family sick leave, Malloy has led Connecticut to become a beacon of progress.

But very soon, it may all come crashing down.

In what may come as a surprise to most Yale students, Malloy’s re-election this year is no sure bet. In fact, Republicans have poured so much money into fighting Malloy’s progressive policies that the match-up between Malloy and Republican Tom Foley has become the most competitive gubernatorial race in the country.

Those Republicans know this race has national implications. Without Malloy at the helm, Democrats have one less reliable state through which to start national progressive movements. Same-sex marriage needed a groundswell of support from states before it could gain the nationwide respect it has today. Decriminalization of marijuana at the state level eventually gave rise to a conversation about full legalization. And the death penalty is on its way to extinction because states like Connecticut have joined a chorus of voices pointing out its discriminatory disparities. But keeping up these trends requires us to elect progressives to office.

So what can you do to help Democrats keep Connecticut

blue?

First, register to vote in Connecticut. Unless you live in a state with a competitive Senate race (Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina), your vote matters most right here in New Haven.

Second, do your research. Tom Foley has accepted endorsements from right-wing groups like the rabidly anti-gay Family Institute of Connecticut and the extreme gun rights group Connecticut Citizens Defense League.

Finally, make sure to vote.

Election Day is Nov. 4, and this race will be extremely close.

Malloy only won in 2010 by 6,404 votes — just barely more than Yale’s undergraduate population.

If Malloy wins, we will send a message to moderate Democratic leaders that they can support bold progressive ideas without fear of electoral retribution. But if Malloy falls to Foley, the American progressive movement will lose its most instrumental soldier.

And we will have only ourselves to blame.

TYLER BLACKMON is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. His columns run on Mondays. Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu.

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“I went to a restaurant that served ‘breakfast any time,’ so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.” STEVEN WRIGHT AMERICAN COMEDIAN

Brunch makes brief appearance downtown

BY MICHELLE LIU AND SAMUEL WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS New Haven residents have an innovative new option for Sunday brunch — but only for two more weeks.

Downtown Table, the brainchild of local chef Nadine Nelson and Katherine McComic ’14, opened this Sunday on the corner of Orange and Crown. This new brunch spot is a pop-up restaurant serving farm-to-table cuisine at one long table, encouraging strangers from the Yale and New Haven communities to connect over a shared meal. But as McComic is moving to Spain at the end of September, her latest food venture will be short and sweet.

“I love bringing people together over food,” McComic said. “It’s not just that the food tastes better, it’s that the whole experience makes you feel more social, it makes you feel more human in many ways.”

The idea for the pop-up enterprise came from a conversation between Nelson and McComic at the English Market this summer. The two women found that they were both frustrated by the lack of accessible brunch options in downtown New Haven, especially in the Ninth Square area.

Nelson said she is hoping the pop-up sparks a larger culinary community in New Haven — one that can match her experiences in cities like Boston and San Francisco. Nelson said she is planning on opening a French market in New Haven later this year, after Downtown Table closes.

I love bringing people together over food. …

It makes you feel more human in many ways.

KATHERINE MCCOMIC ’14 Chef, Downtown Table “There’s a lot of good food in New Haven, but there’s not a food culture,” Nelson said. “I want people to interact with food and with each other.”

In order to connect Downtown Table with local farmers, most of the ingredients are from nearby vendors, Nelson said.

The menu, which fluctuates throughout the day depending on patrons’ seating time, includes items like seasonal frittata and kielbasa with onions and locally sourced apples.

Nelson said Downtown Table aims to serve breakfast food with an interesting spin. In addition to foods like “hoppin’ john” — a bean dish — with cornmeal, Nelson also serves tortilla espanola and pates.

“We’re drawing on different traditions from all over to make breakfast fun,” she said.

Brunch-goers interviewed praised Downtown Table, emphasizing its communal setting.

Tim Follo ’16 said his meal tasted very “homey and authentic.”

“What I really liked about it is that the food didn’t seem rehearsed,” he said. “It was just very spontaneous, the way that the menu wasn’t revealed beforehand — like we were eating in their kitchen the way they would cook for friends and family.”

Lucas Sin ’15 — a founder of the student group Yale Pop-Up, which runs similar pop-up restaurants on campus each semester — said although pop-ups may lack the stability of traditional restaurants, their value lies in the flexibility that their chefs have with the menu and the immediate feedback received from patrons.

Sin added that he has been

BiP leaves new artwork in New Haven Cafe

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Believe in People again made his mark in New Haven, this time on a cafe in the Ninth Square neighborhood.

BY STELLA SHANNON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Believe in People, the street artist whose artwork has appeared throughout the Elm City, contributed a new, controversial painting to a historic cafe in the city’s Ninth Square neighborhood.

Although the artist announced his departure from town earlier this year, he contacted the owner of Cafe Nine — a brick coffee shop on the corner of State and Crown Streets famous for its title as the “musicians’ living room” — via Twitter to offer up a piece for installation. Painted on a broken door, the piece consists of a simple representation of a man’s face with two middle fingers pressed into his forehead.

According to Margaret, an employee at Cafe Nine who declined to offer her last name, the piece has received mixed reviews from customers. “Some people love it, some people hate it,” she said.

It took a while for the cafe’s staff to decide where to hang the painting, keeping the piece in the basement for a few weeks while they deliberated, Margaret said. They finally decided on a wall space between a Guinness board and a piece of Cafe Nine logo wall art, just to the left of the cafe’s main bar.

Sean Saxton, a part-time employee and customer at the cafe, said he thinks the piece is a great addition.

“It really adds to the feel of the place,” Saxton said, adding that he does not take offense to the pictured gesture. “You know when you’re just really angry and you put your hands over your

face?” Sexton asked, mimicking the emotion as he spoke. “That’s what this guy’s doing. He’s just mad at himself.”

Saxton’s interpretation of the piece stands in contrast to that of many critics, including Margaret, who see the piece as a message to New Haven.

Believe in People left town on somewhat uncertain terms — some residents view the piece as a flippant goodbye.

Still other residents appreciate the painting as an example of free public artwork.

“I think it’s positive that art is being situated in much less formal venues than museums and galleries,” Emmanuel Candor ’18 said. “Street art allows for more public access and exposure for people who might not spend an afternoon at one of the art museums here but nevertheless appreciate it.”

For his part, Believe in People cautioned against reading too much into the piece in an email to the New Haven Independent. “[S]ometimes a crude, poorly-done line drawing with sentimental value is just a crude, poorly-done line drawing with sentimental value,” he said. “I gave away some things to friends and places I used to hang before I left. That was a broken door I used for a drafting table when I couldn’t afford one.”

Believe in People is best known for his various works around Yale as well as an Anne Frank mural on Crown Street and his infamous “SUPA-THUG” on State Street.

Contact STELLA SHANNON at stella.shannon@yale.edu .

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Downtown Table, a pop-up restaurant serving brunch on Crown Street, has received high praise. invited to cook for Downtown Table next weekend.

“Pop-up restaurants are breeding grounds for ideas,” he said. “[They’re] different from brick-and-mortar restaurants because at the end of the day, you’re working with a new menu that changes a lot.”

Sin added that pop-ups often publicize through Facebook pages, the online ticket sale site

Eventbrite and word-of-mouth to garner a community presence and a full house.

McComic said that Downtown Table, which has utilized these marketing tools, has also received support from Project Storefront, a New Haven program that promotes local creative businesses, as well as from nearby shop owners.

New Haven is invested in mak-

ing sure local-scale projects such as Downtown Table succeed, she said.

Downtown Table, which had its first two seatings yesterday, will open again on Sept. 21 and 28, at 82 Crown St. Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu and SAMUEL WANG at samuel.wang@yale.edu .

Parents talk Israeli-Palestinian conflict

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER After her son was killed in action defending an Israeli checkpoint, Robi Damelin decided her life’s work would be to ensure that no other parents had to suffer that kind of pain. Bassam Aramin came to a similar conclusion after his daughter was killed by an Israeli soldier at the age of 10.

Damelin and Aramin came together before a crowd of 50 on Sunday night to share their stories and implore members of the Yale community to support a dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. The two work together through Parents Circle Families Forum, an organization that brings together bereaved Israeli and Palestinians.

Damelin said that the first time she participated in a Parents Circle Families Forum meeting, she sat with 140 Palestinian and Israel families. All were complete strangers, but they shared something powerful in common she said.

“That’s when I realized that we all shared the same pain,” Damelin said.

“I realized that that could be the most powerful tool for making a difference because, if I could stand up with a Palestinian who had also lost a child on a stage, surely that would be an example to others that there is another way.”

The talk was moderated by Nate Swetlitz ’17, co-founder of the Yale chapter of J Street U, a national student organization that advocates for a two-state solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. Swetlitz said he originally learned about the Parents Circle Families Forum while in high school and started planning the event this past summer.

“These people are wonderful models for what we are all striving

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The Parents Circle Families forum attempts to bring together Israelis and Palestenians who are suffering from loss. for,” Swetlitz said. “I think it’s especially important ... with all the divisiveness, slander, hate speech and polarization that’s occurred over the past several months. I think it’s so essential and so special to see an Israeli and a Palestinian who have lost what’s most precious to them to work together towards peace.”

Both Damelin and Aramin depicted people who commit violent acts as victims themselves, including the fighters that took the lives of each of their children. Aramin said there is no such thing as a type of

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Sunday night’s talk was moderated by Nate Swetlitz ’17, co-founder of Yale’s chapter of J Street U.

revenge that does not create another victim or another criminal.

Aramin said he first identified as a Palestinian resistance fighter at age 13 and was imprisoned at 17. He said that the culture he grew up in leaves little room for children not to grow up hating the other side.

“We have no education not to hate or not to be a fighter,” Aramin said.

“They teach us how to hate them and how to fight them.”

Aramin said he had so much loathing for Israelis following his imprisonment that he began watching Holocaust films to watch Jews being tortured. Then he said he realized that if Palestinians adopted the same ideologies as the Nazis, that they too would lose their humanity.

Aramin now has a master’s degree in Holocaust Studies.

Damelin said the long-term goal of the Parents Circle Families Forum is to create a framework for reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, adding that any future peace agreement without such a framework is “just another ceasefire.”

Both speakers maintained that there is no merit in a military solution to the conflict and that while it is still possible to support either Israel or Palestine, no progress can be made until both sides are understood.

“I love Israel, it’s my country, but being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine doesn’t help either side,” Damelin said. “Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. If you were a friend of Israel, you would also be a friend of the Palestinians.”

The talk was cosponsored by J Street U at Yale, Yale Friends of Israel, the Arab Students Associations and the interfaith group, Jews and Muslims.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

MAHATMA GANDHI INDIAN THINKER AND ACTIVIST

Dwight Hall reboots freshman service program

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER In its second year, Dwight Hall members are seeking to breathe new life into its freshman service program.

Like its predecessor, the new Freshmen in Service Program aims to introduce a select group of freshmen to community service opportunities around the Elm City. Dwight Hall leaders are hopeful that this year’s changes will help them avoid the pitfalls of last year’s program, such as irregular service trips and a lack of connection to Dwight Hall.

“We really want freshmen to get to know New Haven as a home,” said Freshman Impact Accelerator co-coordinator Phil Esterman ’17. “One of our big-

gest goals is to connect freshmen with a network of people working on the front lines.”

The coordinators are drawing from their experiences in the service program last year to identify areas for improvement, Esterman said, adding that the restructured Freshmen in Service Program will introduce its members to a more rigorous approach to service. This year, attending service projects will be mandatory and there will be more meetings throughout the semester he said.

While the former Freshmen in Service Program introduced its members to various service opportunities around New Haven, participants criticized the program for losing steam after the first few weeks.

“It was a little sparse in parts,” Will Ge ’17 said, a former member of the Freshmen in Service Program. “There were some parts that were very unique to the program and some parts that could use some work.”

Dwight Hall was prompted to revisit the structure of the freshman service program after members felt that the first year did not fulfill the original goals to encourage long-term engagement between the program participants and Dwight Hall, said Patricia Okonta ’15, Dwight Hall institutional service coordinator.

Former members of the Freshmen in Service Program echoed concerns that it did not create enough connections between Dwight Hall leaders and freshmen.

Peabody exhibits employee talents

“It would have been nice to have met with student leaders of organizations to see how they got things off the ground,” Ben Jacobs ’17 said. “That would have given us a clearer road map to see how our interests might have translated into working with an organization within Dwight Hall.”

This year’s program will be structured around a two-phase system, according to Briana Burroughs ’17, co-coordinator for the new freshman service program.

The first phase mirrors last year’s program, bringing freshmen to a new service site each week, she said. This year service projects will be tailored to students’ interests and preceded by a speaker earlier in the week, she

added.

“Even though we had a lot of activities, it seemed like not a lot of kids did them and it also seemed like there was not a lot of incentive to do them,” Burroughs said. “They were more like random activities that weren’t based on what people in the program actually wanted to do.”

The second phase of the program will direct freshmen to create their own service projects, Esterman said.

Following a semester of volunteering in various locations, program leaders expect freshmen to form teams and work with an existing community organization to identify a problem and develop an original solution.

Program leaders will then connect freshmen with mentors and

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BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER Lynn Jones, an assistant at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, never considered herself a photographer — more a documenter of nature. Now, her close up shot of a dandelion is hanging in the Peabody’s newest exhibit.

This past Friday, the Peabody held an opening reception for over 30 attendees who came to see Jones’ work, along with that of many others, at the new exhibit “Seeing Nature.” The exhibit contains over 30 pieces — including photographs, paintings, sculptures and even cartoons, all depicting the natural world — made entirely by over a dozen members of the Peabody staff. Although many of the Peabody employees featured in the exhibit have created art since they were children, “Seeing Nature” offered many staff members the first opportunity to present their work to a greater audience.

These [photos on display] are just three of the hundreds of photos I have taken over the past eight years and will continue to take.

MAISHE DICKMAN Technician, Peabody “When they designed the [Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center] building, they designed this space with the intent of showcasing artwork related to natural history,” said Annette Van Aken, exhibit coordinator and West Campus

project registrar. “We have had many exhibits of art here before, but this is the first time we have had a show comprised entirely of Peabody staff work.”

Van Aken said that in order to create the exhibit, a small jury was formed to choose the pieces among the staff members’ submissions. She added that while she knew the many talents of the Peabody staff, the caliber of the work greatly impressed her.

Peabody technician Maishe Dickman, who has extensive experience with ceramics, said the exhibit was his first opportunity to showcase the products of his photography hobby. For the past eight years, Dickman has taken one photo from the exact same location at his home on the coast of Milford, Conn. From the spot, Dickman has been able to capture the sunrise, the mating rituals of birds on the water, and even the turbulence of the waves the morning after Hurricane Sandy.

“No view is ever the same,” Dickman said. “These [photos on display] are just three of the hundreds of photos I have taken over the past eight years and will continue to take. There is such beauty in nature — enjoy it.”

Preparator Michael Anderson works closely with crafting the exhibits and dioramas at the Peabody. Anderson, who sculpted the Torosaurus dinosaur statue currently in front of the Peabody entrance, said he was excited by the chance to display “Winged Figure,” a plaster and resin cast influenced by Assyrian bas-reliefs and Stony Creek granite.

The exhibit also incorporates technology, with an untitled piece by Armand Morgan, museum senior instructor, which shows a digital display of mainly landscape sketches in pencil, watercolor, acrylic and ballpoint pen on paper. He said the display gives the view-

ers the opportunity to zoom in and observe the detail and pen strokes up close.

Reception attendee and head of education and outreach at the Peabody David Heiser said he was not surprised by the talent of his colleagues, many of whom he has known for over 13 years, although some he had never known as visual artists.

He added that he was happy to see the diverse range of work that could be effectively shown to the Yale community in an area on campus — the Environmental Science Center — that receives a lot of foot traffic from students and faculty.

Director of public programs Richard Kissel has been cartooning since childhood. Although Kissel has drawn many scientific illustrations in his line of work, he said that he enjoys the challenge of crafting cartoons because it means creating a personality. In one of his two pieces on display, “Type Specimen,” Kissel said he wanted to try to personify the discomfort of a type specimen — the prototypical individual of a species — if it were to have human emotions. Putting a small lizard under a spotlight, Kissel portrays the large emphasis scientists put on one specimen that basically become the definition of a species.

“I think this is a great opportunity to showcase everyone’s talents, and I know there’s a lot of people who didn’t have time to enter work into this show,” Jones said. “I hope that we can really mix it up in the future and get another chance to show more artwork, then people would get to see some of the other talents that have been hiding away in the museum.”

The exhibit will be on display until Dec. 8.

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

New Haven Healthy Start receives grant

BY VICTOR WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The Peabody’s new exhibit, “Seeing Nature” features art made by the museum’s employees.

introduce them to other Dwight Hall members who can help them carry out their projects.

The goal of the second phase is not for freshmen to create a completely new organization, but rather to complement the work of New Haven residents, Esterman said.

“We want them to focus not on which service groups they belong to, but what impact they’re actually making,” Esterman said. “It’s about solving problems, not creating organizations.”

Last year’s freshman service program introduced 11 freshman to four different nonprofit organizations the Elm City.

New Haven’s Healthy Start program received a $5.4 million federal grant — to the delight of New Haven’s leaders, who gathered at the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven on Friday.

Local and state officials celebrated the announcement of the grant, which will be dedicated to the city’s Healthy Start Program. The program, which began in 1997, serves women and their babies in New Haven and aims to lower the city’s high infant mortality rate. It is one of 87 programs nationwide to successfully compete for the $65 million total federal aid given by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to reduce high infant mortality rates and improve maternal care in high risk communities.

“This news of sustained viability from the five-year federal grant is in fact joyous news,” said Mayor Toni Harp. “I believe deeply that those in public service have a special obligation to those at the start of life, those in the latter stages of life and those who remain vulnerable in between.”

Also in attendance were Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, William Ginsberg, president and CEO of The Community Foundation and Ken Harris, director of the New Haven Healthy Start Program.

Harp also pointed out the program’s role as a pioneer in the community. The Healthy Start Program was one of the first resources in the city to offer prenatal and prenatal care aiming to lower the infant mortality rate and has been a model for many other similar projects, Harp said.

Data provided by The Community Foundation reveals both how much progress the city has made and the challenges it still faces.

Since 1997, the Healthy Start has received federal grants totaling $16.9 million and has served nearly 16,000 participants, more than 8,000 of them infants. The overall infant mortality rate among program participants from 2005 to 2009 is 3.7 deaths per 1,000 live births, while the 2003 to 2009 rate for the city as a whole — including participants and non-participants — was 12.1 deaths per 1,000 live births.

According to the Central Intelligence Agency’s website, the nationwide average

is 6.17 per 1000 live births, nearly half New Haven’s average rate.

Race and ethnicity also affect the infant mortality rate. In 2006–2010, the infant death rate among babies of African-American women was above 30 per 1000 births, compared to 13.6 of Hispanic, and 10.6 of white women. As a result, the program focuses greatly on supporting the AfricanAmerican community and aims to eradicate the disparity among different ethnicities.

“The data that flags the difference in infant mortality rates between the city and the suburb, different areas in the city, different races, and ethnicities define a continued challenge in this community,” Ginsberg said. “The challenge persists in New Haven and the commitment persists.”

A new focus for the project moving forward is support and collaboration with men and fathers, including them in the process of childbirth and early stages of infancy, Harris said.

I believe deeply that those in public service have a special obligation to those at the start of life, those in the latter stages of life and those who remain vulnerable in between.

TONI HARP Mayor, New Haven This is the first time since the project’s inception that it has to compete for federal funds, DeLauro said. She added that it “speaks volumes” about the work of the New Haven Healthy Start program that it successfully received the grant. The New Haven Healthy Start program not only achieved close to its target sum of $5.7 million, but it did so against the national trend. The total federal aid allocated was $65 million, compared to $100 million in previous years, signaling a drop of around 33 percent.

The New Haven branch received a 25 percent increase in its grant reward.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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The city’s healthy start program just received a $5.4 million grant.

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FROM THE FRONT

“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in the world; now that I am old I know that it is.”

OSCAR WILDE IRISH WRITER AND POET

Positive predictions for endowment ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1 11.7 percent.

“I’m sure it’s going to be a pretty good year for the endowment and endowments in general,” School of Management professor Roger Ibbotson said.

The University’s endowment is largely comprised of three asset classes: absolute return, private equity and real estate. Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Jonathan Parker ’88 said it is possible to roughly estimate the performance of an endowment from its allocation of each type of asset and that asset’s average return.

Ibbotson said that he predicts the returns on absolute return and real estate will be in single-digit positive numbers.

John Griswold, executive director of the institutional investment firm The Commonfund Institute, also predicted growth, particularly pointing to the rebound of the real estate industry.

“It’s looking like a pretty good year,” Griswold said.

The performance of private equity can often be predicted by analyzing public equity markets.

The S&P 500 stock market index, which is considered to be one of the best representations of the public equity market, saw a total return of nearly 20 percent over both the past year and the one before..

Rising markets and support from central banks to keep interest rates low have likely boosted endowment returns as well, according to William Jarvis ’77, managing director of The Commonfund Institute.

“I think it’s going to end up being a strong year for endowments generally because many strategies have had benign environments over the past year,” Jarvis said.

Parker echoed Jarvis’s statement, arguing that Yale does not seem to be the only institutional investor likely to see strong growth in fiscal year 2014. Investors in a diversified set of index funds with low fees should also do well, he said.

While financial experts said the rise in stock markets would benefit endowments with heavy investment in public equity, they cautioned against adopting poorly diversified portfolios. The great virtue of Yale’s portfolio, Jarvis said, is that it’s “designed to be an all-weather portfolio.”

In a February report, the Yale Investments Office reported that its risk-adjusted growth rate remained strong. According to the report, Yale’s mix of assets under current management produces a portfolio expected to grow at 6.2 percent with risk of 14.8 percent.

Optimism across institutions is strong. In a Commonfund Investor Outlook survey in March, several hundred nonprofit institutional investors said they expect their portfolios to grow by an average of 7.3 percent in fiscal year 2014. On Friday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said its assets returned 19.2 percent over the past year.

Yale’s endowment generated an investment gain of $2.29 billion in fiscal year 2013.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

YALE UNIVERSITY

David Swensen (above) has been Yale’s Chief Investment Officer since 1985.

Activists travel to NYC CLIMATE FROM PAGE 1 campus leader for the event, said that YSEC’s planning for the march began in the summer, when it was contacted by the national office of the People’s Climate March. According to Watson, enthusiasm for attending the march has spanned across all grades from upperclassmen and graduate students to freshmen who knew about the march before even setting foot at Yale.

Leibovic said that YSEC does not have space on its buses for all those who expressed interest, but it has been pointing students towards other campus organizations who have contingents attending, such as the Slifka Center and the School of Forestry. Additionally, local faith and political leaders have struck a bargain with Metro-North to offer reduced-price tickets to those attending the march from Connecticut. Tickets will cost $28 for those over 19 years old and $13.50 for those under 19 years old.

Support of the march has not been limited to the confines of Yale’s campus. Last Tuesday, a coalition of faith, labor and political lead-

ers — including the executive secretary of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, as well as U.S. Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 — joined together at a press conference in New Haven to express their support of the rally.

The march is being held just two days before the 2014 U.N. Climate Summit in New York, which will be attended by world leaders such as President Barack Obama.

Riddhima Yadav ’18, a scheduled panelist at a forum on women and climate change that is to be cohosted

by U.N. Women and the Mary Robinson Foundation a day before the U.N. summit, has drafted a letter with YSEC to show Yale students support for the climate justice movement.

Yadav said she hopes to pass the letter on to Mary Robinson, U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Change, who is scheduled to attend the forum.

This week, Yadav and YSEC plan to garner student support by asking students to sign the letter.

“This statement is just meant to be a symbolic gesture — to send a message to heads of state that we have high expectations, and that we want this summit to have real out-

comes and not insubstantial rhetoric,” Yadav said.

Watson said that the freshmen have been very involved in preparing to go to the march. On Sunday, freshmen helped paint signs on Old Campus for the rally, and many have signed up for spots on the busses.

Phoebe Chatfield ’18 said that while she had known about the rally before coming to Yale, she was surprised at how welcoming various environmental groups on campus had been in extending the invitation to get involved with planning.

“The march is really going to show the true face of the climate justice movement — and that face is all the faces,” said Maya Jenkins ’18. “It’s going to be incredible to see people from all different backgrounds and different experiences to be there because it affects us all, and I think that’s what this movement is really going to show.”

Leibovic said that YSEC may organize an on-campus rally either before or after the march to show support.

YCC revamps social media

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .

TWITTER

YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 hopes the organization will reach more students by adopting a lighter tone.

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Alexandra Barlowe ’17, outreach coordinator for Fossil Free Yale, said she estimates over 100,00 will attend the People’s Climate March.

know who I am,” Herbert said.

Herbert expressed disappointment, however, that students have not yet taken advantage of his contact information. It would be exciting to receive phone calls from students with ideas or concerns, he said.

Still, the YCC’s new personalized email template has generated fair amount of interest from students. YCC Events Director Jaime Halberstam ’16 said in an email that after sending out an announcement for Spring Fling Committee applications, she has been stopped on the street by students interested in submitting an application.

“We’re all very approachable, and the new style helps facilitate the face-toface, casual communication with the student body that, at day’s end, is one of the key goals of the organization,” she said.

Herbert credits Morrier for the new email setup, but said he has contributed to the YCC communications strategy by making the Council’s Twitter account more “fun and engaging.” The YCC’s professionalism can still be conveyed through meetings and its website, he said.

Herbert said he thinks the new Twitter format engages “with a whole new

set of people who are otherwise disengaged from YCC.” In his Sept. 1 email to students, Herbert urged them to follow the Twitter account, guaranteeing that it would be the “most exciting Twitter of any student government in America.”

Former YCC Vice President Kyle Tramonte ’15, a staff columnist for the News, said he appreciated the changes and that the new email format would allow for a more personal, friendly connection to the student body. He would not be surprised if the new emails received more clicks and responses, he said. Former YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 could not be reached for comment.

“What I think the YCC is going toward, which I support, is an attitude that takes what it does very seriously, but does not take itself too seriously,” Tramonte said.

Morrier said he and the Council plan to utilize social media platforms for other purposes as well. On Facebook, for instance, Morrier and other Council members regularly check Yale Ideas — a page where students submit their thoughts for improving campus life — for potential projects.

Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“This is all just a moo point… it’s like a cow’s opinion. It just doesn’t matter.”

JOSEPH TRIBBIANI FRIENDS

Food studies center to leave campus RUDD FROM PAGE 1 tion to having all three, has an entire department of agricultural economists. Schwartz added that Tatiana Andreyeva, the director of economic initiatives at the Rudd Center, was siloed in her work as the only person doing research on agricultural economics.

According to both Schwartz and Jacob Hacker — director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, under whose auspices the Rudd Center operates — academic centers cannot be isolated from the larger university community if they want to do their work well.

“Though Rudd worked closely with a number of Yale scholars, the community of researchers was neither dense enough nor engaged enough with Rudd’s work to sustain the highly productive interchange between center and university that fuels high-quality, influential research,” Hacker wrote in a Sunday email.

According to Paul Cleary, the dean of the Yale School of Public Health, the 2013 departure of Rudd Center founder Kelly Brownell left a “big gap” in food policy research at Yale, which has left the Center without a sufficient community of like-minded researchers on campus.

Still, Cleary said the Rudd Center is an important locus for research on food policy and obesity.

“I think it will be a big loss not necessarily for basic research, but for the application of policy research and the translation of research into policy,” he said.

In contrast to Yale, UConn is especially focused on food and obesity policy, said Jeffrey Fisher, director of UConn’s Center for Health Intervention and Prevention, which Rudd will join in January. At UConn, approximately 130 faculty and community member organization partners interested in obesity prevention research are spread out across various academic departments, he said.

While Rudd researchers at Yale worked together in a single building at the top of Science Hill, they will find themselves scattered across different department’s on

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The Rudd Center will leave its home at 309 Edwards St. for UConn.

UConn’s campus, a change that Schwartz thinks will allow the Center to “anchor” itself within the UConn community “in a way that’s just not possible at Yale.”

According to Schwartz and UConn Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Sally Reis, the Yale administration has been nothing but cooperative in the moving process. Schwartz said that she let University President Salovey know about the potential move back in January when talks were just beginning, and he was supportive from the start.

“The Provost’s office has been

incredibly helpful,” Schwartz said. “Physically moving everything is a huge administrative job.

It’s been a production. The Provost’s office said ‘we want this to be a smooth transition,’ and that’s exactly what’s happened. We’re leaving Yale on really good terms.

We were all trained here — there’s a huge amount of affection and gratitude.”

The move to UConn’s new Hartford campus, which will likely begin offering classes in fall 2017, also places Rudd in the state capital, where the Center will be neighbors not only with legisla-

tors, but with state government agencies, including the Connecticut Department of Public Health. The proximity to the state’s policy hub will help them to fulfill the policy advocacy part of their mission, wrote Rebecca Puhl, deputy director of the Rudd Center, in a Saturday email.

Association with a public, land-grant university has added financial perks, Sally Reis, UConn vice provost for academic affairs, said. The Center will now qualify for certain grants from the United States Department of Agriculture that it was ineligible for while at

Yale. A number of grants are in the process of being transferred from Yale to UConn, Reis added.

Talks about moving began last January, when Schwartz spoke at a University of Connecticut health colloquium. At the event, Fisher expressed interest in having the Rudd Center join CHIP. Talks continued, and, according to Rigoberto Lopez, director of the Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy at UConn, the plans were finalized this past summer.

While the Center will no longer have a physical presence at Yale,

Hacker has no doubt that Rudd and Yale will continue to work together.

“I think that the move could open up the possibility of deeper collaborations between UConn and Yale — something that President Salovey has indicated is a priority of his,” Hacker wrote. “It will also facilitate a closer connection between Yale and Connecticut state government.”

The Rudd Center is currently located at 309 Edwards St. Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

Open letter signatories attract controversy MSA FROM PAGE 1 drawal of student groups.

The letter began with 35 signatories, in addition to the MSA. Since then, six groups have been removed, while two others have been added.

Interviews with students involved and emails obtained by the News indicated the inclusion of erroneous signatures resulted from vague language, lengthy email chains and late timing. MSA religious chair Abrar Omeish ’17 said she did not intend to misrepresent any groups in the letter.

I sincerely and honestly put a good faith effort to represent everyone correctly, and it was by no means our intention to try to get signatures that we didn’t fully have .

ABRAR OMEISH ’17 MSA religious chair “I sincerely and honestly put a good faith effort to represent everyone correctly, and it was by no means our intention to try to get signatures that we didn’t fully have even though it would have made us look good,” Omeish said.

In the week prior to the sending of the email, the listed supporting organizations had expressed tentative support for the contents of the letter, and Omeish invited leaders from these groups to a meeting to finalize the letter on Tuesday afternoon. The MSA said in early correspondence that the groups could withdraw their support throughout the process, pending review of the final letter.

At the meeting, which had representation from at least 10 organizations, the attendees decided that Omeish would release the final version of the letter by midnight so that the tentative signees could review it and issue their withdrawal within the next hour.

Later that evening, Omeish sent an email to all tentative signatories and stated that the MSA would send the final version of the letter to these groups at midnight for review and approval.

Still, leaders from other organizations said they only expressed interest in the idea of the letter.

Stephany Rhee ’16, president of the WLI, said that when contacted by a student on Sept. 4 discussing Ali’s invitation to speak on campus, she did not receive any information about which group the student represented, what the letter would say, when it would be published or when further discussion would take place before the letter was finalized.

Rhee added that she was not included in any subsequent correspondence to discuss the email.

Omeish said that Rhee was included in a follow-up email on Sept. 8, but the MSA could not confirm this claim.

The Slifka Center’s name was also removed from the list of signatories on Sunday.

After reaching out to the Slifka Center with the original invitation to support the MSA, Omeish said she initially received support from Slifka leadership, though she added that she received an email declining to sign the letter, which she said she did not see until after sending out the campus-wide email. Rabbi Leah Cohen could not be reached for comment Sunday evening.

“Because of the countless e-mails we have been receiving, there may have been unintended miscommunication with some groups that had provided tentative signatures,” Omeish said in a statement on behalf of

the MSA emailed to the News.

“We also heard from some groups after the set time for withdrawal.

We are very sorry for any trouble this may have caused and we have already sent out a number of e-mails clarifying to the student body and apologizing to the relevant groups.”

Yale Hillel President Rebecca Bakal ’16 said that the Slifka Center, to her knowledge, did not agree to sign the letter, but added that the situation had since been internally resolved by the MSA and Slifka. She said the Jewish and Muslim communities at Yale

have a good relationship and offer support to one another.

Leaders of Yale Friends of Israel claimed that they never gave explicit permission to use their name in any letter condemning the arrival of Ali. On Sept. 5, YFI co-president Josh Feinzig ’16 responded to Omeish’s initial email about the initiative explaining that YFI would be “most likely interested be in cosigning [the letter].”

But Feinzig said this interest did not lead to explicit support for the letter.

“Never at any point did we

sign on to the letter,” Feinzig said.

“When I expressed interest on the behalf of YFI there was no letter to even reference and it wasn’t clear what the content of it might be.”

Feinzig said the organization was simply looking for MSA to clarify its clerical mistake to the Yale community because there are “powerful implications here to a letter like this one.”

Sam Sussman ’16, co-president of YFI, emphasized that the organization was neither for or against MSA’s letter, but that it was simply not a part of the sign-

ing process.

Hirsi Ali — a Somali-born American activist known for her women’s rights advocacy and critical remarks about Islam — is slated to give a lecture titled “Clash of Civilizations: Islam and the West” on Sept. 15 as part of the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program speaker series.

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu, ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu and WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES C O L U M B I A S P E C TAT O R

Students protest sexual assault policy

BY EMMA BOGLER SPECTATOR SENIOR STAFF WRITER “Welcome back, rapists!” read one sign. “How dare you?” asked another. “CU has a rape problem,” declared a third.

Nearly 100 students held signs, painted in red and black on sheets of cardboard, during a rally Friday afternoon on Low Steps to protest Columbia’s handling of sexual assault on campus.

After months of student activism, a still-pending federal complaint, and national media attention sparked this September by Emma Sulkowicz’s, CC ’15, performance art piece, survivors and protesters shared stories, statements, and poetry as a way of expressing their frustration at the University administration’s lack of response to the issue.

“The only way they [administrators] are going to take notice of this is when we force them to,” Jen Roesch, TC ’15, said, adding that her rape during her time as a Barnard student in the 1990’s prevented her from graduating.

“They don’t care about me, they don’t care about this, they don’t care about us ... I wanna know, when will [University President] Lee Bollinger speak? When will this University speak?”

Others were more blunt in their calls for action. “Dean Valentini, why are you letting my rapist walk around this campus?” asked sexual assault survivor Sarah Yee, CC ’16, as a chant of “Fuck you, deans” rose up from the crowd.

“No one has our consent to fuck us over,” said Giuliana ‘G’ PeBenito, COLUMBIA BC ’16, who described herself as a three-time survivor of rape. PeBenito went on to share two spoken-word pieces, one of which described Columbia as a place “where future leaders commit rape and come back,” and its administration as a “machine of superiority and control.”

The crowd of hundreds who gathered to attend the protest included students from across the University’s schools, many of whom said they had been following the issue and looking for a way to get involved.

“So much of this activism has been from undergraduates, and we’ve been looking for a way to participate,” Victoria Wiet, GSAS ’18, said. “Because this is largely an issue of culture, and that affects everyone.”

“We’re totally in solidarity,” Rosa Schneider, also GSAS ’18, said. “This is a nationwide issue—the fact that so many of our colleges are currently being sued under Title IX is completely ridiculous.”

“I’m disgusted at how many resources this college does not offer,” Gabrielle Robbins, BC ’16, said.

Robbins’ theme was a common one, with many protesters listing the ways in which they felt the University had failed in

its responsibility to provide adequate resources for survivors of sexual violence.

Though the University’s Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Support Center now has an additional location in Lerner Hall, students say that the center still lacks round-the-clock staffing. Students also pointed to the University’s delay in releasing aggregate, anonymous data on sexual assault adjudication as an area of disappointment.

“What about actually reforming the adjudication process so that those most invested in this school’s reputation are not the ones making the decisions?” asked one speaker during the rally, in reference to the fact that sanctions and appeals in sexual assault cases are decided by the dean of the respondent’s school— a procedure activists have repeatedly said they want to change.

“They [the deans] don’t look out for us. The record condemns them more than any email could,” the protester said.

Several professors attended the rally, but University officials were not present on Friday. When asked for comment, a Columbia spokesperson said the University supports students’ right to express their views.

“We believe every student and every member of the Columbia community should be safe and feel respected, and the University is committed to sustaining the effort needed to achieve this goal,” the University said in a statement sent to Spectator.

“Student activism and campus dialogue are a welcome part of

SPEAK OUT | Emma Sulkowicz was one of many protesters who spoke at the rally. building upon the many changes underway at Columbia aimed at preventing gender-based misconduct and better responding to its occurrence. We expect and welcome students exercising their free speech rights in peaceful ways that continue the campus conversation that began in earnest in the spring semester and continues today.”

Earlier this week, a group of students, including a number of the organizers of the Stand With Survivors speak-out, met with Bollinger to request further changes to Columbia’s sex-

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

Teach-in highlights Gaza

BY CAROLYNN CONG STAFF WRITER A teach-in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict grew tense Wednesday evening as opinions clashed in a MacMillan 117 filled to capacity.

The event, entitled “Why Gaza Matters: The War and its Consequences,” featured a panel of five speakers followed by a question-and-answer session that continued nearly an hour over the planned time frame.

The panel was moderated by Beshara Doumani P’17, director of Middle East studies and professor of history, who encouraged students to ask tough questions and voiced his hope to “bridge the gap between public discourse and academic knowledge on the issue.”

Panel speakers addressed the historical, political and international dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Professor of History Omer Bartov said the conflict is a “deadlock” that stems from the fundamental idea that it is better to gain territory than to gain peace. On both sides, “no leader has been produced who has had the courage and sense to make the sacrifices that are called for,” he said.

“This conflict is very personal to me,” said Sa’ed Atshan, postdoctoral fellow in international studies, who is from Palestine. “My family and friends are there,” he said, adding that a few of his friends’ family members had died in the conflict. Atshan showed a presentation to the audience, including slides with photos of relatives of friends who had lost their lives.

Many describe Gaza as an “openair prison” where people are “trapped in a brutal siege with nowhere to go for safety,” Atshan said, adding that those living in Gaza are being “denied the basic rights.”

Atshan also addressed how the American media treats the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and said the main-

stream media in this country assumes that Israel and Palestine are “symmetrical in terms of the power t h ey yield” BROWN despite an actual imbalance. He described Israel as an occupying force with nuclear weaponry, while he characterized Palestine as “a colonized, occupied, stateless population.”

Melani Cammett, professor of political science, highlighted the political dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Conflict and violence empower extremists,” she said, adding that support for Hamas was bolstered during periods of heightened tension, such as when the Israeli blockade began to take effect in 2008.

Cammett said data has shown a “lower level of self-reported economic security” for Palestinians who are unaffiliated with or opponents of Hamas, which she said was likely due to “discretionary access” for Hamas supporters in the Gaza. “The blockade disproportionally hurts people who were less supportive of Hamas,” she added.

“It’s tragic how extremes on both sides are feeding and legitimizing each other to produce no solution other than more and more violence,” Bartov said.

Cammett highlighted the recent decrease in global public approval of Israel, with the United States emerging as an exception. There has been “strong and consistent support” for Israel in the United States, she said, including higher public support for Israel among Republicans than among Democrats, a characterization that raised a question during the question-and-answer session about Cammett’s motivation behind associating support with Israel with conservative opinions at Brown.

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Panel moderator Beshara Doumani, director of Middle East studies, urged students to ask tough questions related to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Cammett responded to the question by saying she had no objectives behind the characterization other than the available data.

Nina Tannenwald, director of the international relations program and senior lecturer in political science, said the concept of human rights is central to the conflict, and there is no prospect of a stable solution without addressing the “grievances” on both sides.

Violation of international law on one side does not justify the violation by the other, Tannenwald said. Though Israel has the right to self-defense and Palestinians have the right to resist occupation, there are limits to both parties’ actions, she added.

In the question-and-answer session that followed, Adam Bennett ’16 said the panel lacked representation of and support for Israel, garnering claps and shouts from the audience, some of whom yelled that the panel was biased.

Bennett also questioned whether the role of the panel was to foster “an objective conversation” about the conflict or to serve as a forum for the Middle East Studies program.

When the panel members moved on to address the next question, some audience members said the panel was “a stacked deck.” Doumani reiterated that the panel would only address four questions at a time, prompting two audience members to exit the room.

Nancy Khalek, assistant professor of religious studies, expressed her disappointment over some community members’ “angry departure” of the teach-in before it had concluded.

“The value of a teach-in comes from actually listening to each other,” Khalek said, calling for people to discuss the situation in Gaza with “a slightly more open mind and a little more empathy for each other.”

In response to Bennett’s question, Atshan asked audience members to consider“why don’t we have anyone who supports Hamas” in the auditorium. Atshan urged the audience “not to impose our own labels” and to “listen empathetically to what others have to say,” which led to snaps of approval among some audience members.

Matt Dang ’16 said he was “surprised, to say the least” at the abrupt change in tone during the questionand-answer session. It was interesting to see the clear divide in strong opinions in the auditorium, as the open discussion became more of an argument, he said.

Jonathan Tollefson ’15.5 said he was surprised at the lengths to which audience members went to try to defend Israel.

Carly West ’16 said she saw the panel as an “interesting mix of constructive, insightful people with civil questions and sharp, emotive reactions.”

ual assault policies. The students asked that Bollinger respond to the proposals—which focused on prevention, adjudication, and response—within three weeks.

Some activists said they took the University’s lack of response as an effort to shut them out.

“Maybe the reason they’re trying to get us to shut up is because this conversation hurts,” Marybeth Seitz-Brown, CC ’14, said on behalf of Columbia Alumni Allied Against Sexual Assault.

“It’s especially hard to keep having it year round and day after day, and not just have this turn

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into another Columbia scandal,” she added.

Although many stepped up to share their thoughts, one of the more poignant moments came toward the end of the event when a student stepped out from behind the barricade of mattresses set up by the protesters to accept the megaphone being passed around.

“My name is Emily, and I’m a freshman,” she said. “I’ve been on this campus for two weeks and I was sexually assaulted six days ago. And nobody has told me where to go from there.”

T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

Former anthropology professor plans to sue university

BY STEVEN R. WATROS CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Kimberly Theidon, a former associate professor who previously alleged Harvard violated Title IX in denying her tenure in May 2013, has withdrawn her complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination with intent to file a lawsuit against the University, her lawyer said Tuesday.

Theidon’s original complaint alleged that the University’s tenure decision was made to punish her for exercising free speech protected under Title IX. Her lawyer, Philip J. Gordon, said that complaint was a formality necessary to pursue legal action.

“Filing at the state fair employment agency is required prior to filing a state employment discrimination or retaliation claim or a federal Title VII employment discrimination claim,” Gordon wrote in a follow-up email on Wednesday.

He said that Theidon and her legal team have yet to determine where they will file the lawsuit. Though the specific allegation has not yet been finalized, he said the team would “very likely accuse the University of violating Title IX and violating Title VII.” Theidon held the title John J. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, an endowed position, before her contract expired in June. The contract’s expiration ended her formal relationship with the University.

Theidon alleges Harvard was eager to cut ties with her because she had evidence of the University’s lack of compliance with Title IX. She said she had been given indication that she was a strong tenure candidate, though the tenure review process is strictly confidential.

Especially influential in the University’s decision, she alleges, was consideration of comments she posted in March 2013 in response to a Crimson article about sexual assault at Harvard. In her comments, Theidon offered a defense of the anonymous sexual assault victims quoted in the story and argued with commenters who self-identified as “men’s rights” activists.

Theidon told The Crimson in April that before commenting, she learned that women interviewed for the article had seen the comments attacking their claims of sexual assault, leaving them feeling “violated all over again.”

This action, combined with other instances of advocacy, such as providing counsel to a student who told her that a male faculty member had sexually harassed her, led the University to deny her tenure two months later, she alleges.

University spokesperson Jeff Neal on Wednesday reiterated the University’s

earlier statements that its tenure decision was based purely on academic merit.

“Dr. Theidon’s central claims that inappropriate judgHARVARD ments affected her tenure decision continue to be flatly wrong,” Neal wrote. “There is no merit whatsoever to her allegations of discrimination or retaliation. Any advocacy on Dr. Theidon’s part on behalf of victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault was not known, let alone considered, as part of the University’s decision on her tenure case.”

Theidon challenged the University’s initial tenure decision, filing an appeal in August 2013. During the spring semester, she was notified that the decision had been upheld in an investigatory process she said she believes had “zero transparency.” She said the investigation delivered no justification or explanation for the decision.

“She was told that it would be futile to file her appeal. And it was,” Gordon said, calling the decision a “rubber stamp” on the University’s original decision.

Theidon filed a complaint with MCAD in late March, before she learned of the verdict on her appeal. On July 9, Theidon and her lawyers withdrew the complaint to prepare for legal action.

Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on print More Sharing Services Gordon said that exactly when Theidon’s case will move forward has yet to be determined.

In the meantime, Theidon is working in Washington, D.C., through a fellowship with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she is writing a book entitled “Speaking of Silences: Gender, Violence and Reparations” as well as a series of articles based on her work in Colombia.

When the fellowship ends in 2015, Theidon will move back to the Boston area, this time as a professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Democracy. Theidon will very likely enter the university in a tenure-track position, Gordon said.

“One way in which [academics denied tenure] are damaged…is they move to another institution. And they don’t move with tenure, because they don’t have tenure,” he said.

Theidon maintained that her action against the University is meant not only to vindicate her own allegations, but to end the “pattern of retaliation against faculty who speak up” at Harvard and at other universities.

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 4:00 p.m. Physics Club: How Do Fruit Flies Perceive Motion?

It remains poorly understood how animals extract motion information from their visual environments, both in terms of the algorithms they use and how their visual circuits use these algorithms. MCDB professor Damon Clark uses the fruit fly to investigate how a small neural circuit processes visual motion.

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6:30 p.m. On Vaulting. Engineer, scholar and MacArthur Fellow John Ochsendorf will present recent research on the design and technology of vaulting, tracing the engineering and architectural aspects of contemporary vaulted forms in the thin-tiled structural technology introduced in the United States by the Guastavino Company, whose work graces numerous significant public spaces in New York City. Paul Rudolph Hall (180 York St.), Rm. 322.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 7:00 p.m. Windham Campbell Prizes Literary Festival: Screening of “The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu.” Novelist Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long-hidden legacy of thousands of ancient manuscripts in this 50-minute BBC documentary. With its university founded around the same time as Oxford, Timbuktu is proof that the reading and writing of books have long been as important to Africans as to Europeans. Forna will introduce the film, which will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Charles Musser and historian Robert Harms. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 12:30 p.m. Gallery Talk, Conservation at the Crossroads: New Techniques for Treating Roman and Byzantine Mosaics. The mosaics excavated at Gerasa by Yale University in the 1920s and 1930s are highlights of the gallery’s collection of ancient art, and innovative new conservation methods have made it possible to bring them out of storage and be displayed. Lisa Brody and Carol Snow explain the unique challenges of mosaic conservation and the exciting techniques that have been developed by the gallery’s conservation staff. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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SPORTS

“Football [soccer] is a matter of life and death, except more important.”

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Elis split weekend at home WOMEN’S SOCCER

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The women’s soccer team hosted the Yale Classic at Reese Stadium this weekend.

BY SYDNEY GLOVER STAFF REPORTER The Yale women soccer players faced a true test of their abilities this weekend, with two games in three days for the annual Yale Classic, held at Reese Stadium.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The Elis (3–1–0, 0–0–0 Ivy) showed their strength as a team, however, taking home a victory to extend their season-opening win streak before losing a close overtime battle. Yale topped Western Kentucky 2–0 on Friday before falling to Manhattan 2–1 on Sunday.

“Both Western Kentucky and Manhattan gave it 100 percent effort, and unfortunately we were only able to get the result in one game,” goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 said.

The classic started on Friday with Sacred Heart defeating Manhattan before Yale took on Western Kentucky (4–2–0,

0–0–0 C-USA), whose coach, Jason Neidell, is a Yale soccer alumnus. For the first 25 minutes of the first half, all of Yale’s shots on goal came from forward Melissa Gavin ’15, while all of Western Kentucky’s came via forward Shayna Dheel. Ames and Allison Leone of Western Kentucky, however, stopped three shots between them to keep the game scoreless.

The ball continued to travel up and down the field with fouls on both sides until a foul by Western Kentucky gave Gavin a free kick in the 26th minute. She took advantage, driving the ball into the net from 20 yards out for an unassisted goal that gave Yale the lead at 25:49.

After multiple substitutions by both teams, Western Kentucky took control, taking backto-back shots on goal, both of which were saved by Ames.

Gavin managed to take another shot, but Yale failed to capitalize on the opportunity before the half ended.

Heading into the second

half, Ames was replaced by Elise Wilcox ’15, who had two saves within 10 minutes of her entrance. Midfielder Geny Decker ’17 took charge for Yale, taking three shots on goal in five minutes. Another save by Wilcox and a shot by Gavin kept Western Kentucky on their toes. Gavin was taken out for a substitute in the 72nd minute, but in a crucial move for Yale, only stayed out for a few minutes before subbing in for Frannie Coxe ’15.

Just five minutes later after returning, Gavin took control of the ball, weaving through the Western Kentucky defense before passing to Sarah McCauley ’18. The freshman ripped the ball into the net to raise Yale’s lead to two at 84:55, sealing the game for the Bulldogs.

“Sarah’s goal was great and secured the win for us,” Ames said. “We weren’t expecting to shut out Western Kentucky but were expecting a tough game where we would have to earn the win.”

The Elis took a day off before

taking on Manhattan (5–3–0, 0–0–0 MAAC) midday on Sunday. Though Manhattan is much closer to Yale than Western Kentucky, the squad did not know much about the Jaspers when heading into the game, according to a number of players.

For the entire first half, the ball went up and down the field evenly, with both teams making multiple shots without success.

Though many shots were taken, neither goalkeeper had to make a save.

The second half started in the same way as the first, with both teams taking shots. Gavin took the first shot on goal of the game at 55:35, with Manhattan’s Kristen Skonieczny protecting the goal for her team.

Just minutes later, a foul on Manhattan gave Coxe a penalty kick, which she capitalized on to score at 63:33.

Things were looking up for Yale until a key substitution for Manhattan lead to a goal. At 74:56, Emily Ude went in for Sam Washuk. Less than two minutes

later, Ude passed the ball to Tiffanie McIntosh, who scored high in the goal, tying the game at one.

Both Western Kentucky and Manhattan gave it 100 percent effort, and unfortunately we were only able to get the result in one game.

RACHEL AMES ’16 Goalkeeper, Women’s soccer team Both goalkeepers made saves for the rest of the half, keeping the game tied and sending the game into a golden-goal extratime session. Overtime began with an early shot by Manhattan, but Gavin struck back with a shot of her own. Both Yale and Manhattan took two more shots

each before Aislinn McIlvenny of Manhattan scored the gamewinning goal at 98:06, serving the Bulldogs their first loss of the season.

Though players said that suffering their first loss is upsetting, the team is already focusing on its next game, which will be against St. Peter’s on Tuesday. Both Gavin and Coxe said that they will be focusing on one game at a time heading into another busy week, with a game at Hofstra on Friday and another against New Hampshire on Sunday.

The game against Hofstra will be the first out-of-state game of the season for the Bulldogs, but their mentality will not change.

“Having the game in New York will not affect the way we go into the game against Hofstra,” Gavin said.

The Bulldogs compete against St. Peter’s on Tuesday in Reese Stadium at 7 p.m.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

Volleyball gels at Villanova

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER When they finally finished winning point after point on Saturday night at The Pavilion, Yale emerged with a dominating win over their host, Villanova. Yale took the final two games by 15 points each in the sweep, which marked a redeeming end to a weekend that had begun with losses to two nationally ranked foes.

VOLLEYBALL Yale notched a 1–2 record at the Villanova Classic in their first away matches of the season. The Bulldogs (2–4, 0–0 Ivy )came out on top against the Wildcats (4–7, 0–0 Big East), beating them 3–0 on Saturday. The Elis were swept 3–0 in the matches against the Jayhawks (9–2, 0–0 Big 12)and the Nittany Lions (8–1, 0–0 Big Ten)on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Her impressive total of 34 kills in the weekend’s matches earned captain Mollie Rogers ’15 a spot on the Villanova Classic All-Tournament team.

“Being named to the AllTournament team is a great honor,” Rogers said. “But this weekend, especially our win over Villanova, was a complete team effort.”

Rogers dubbed the tournament an “overall success” despite the team’s mixed performance.

Before the weekend, several Elis said that they hoped the Villanova Classic’s matchups against tough competition

— including No. 3 Penn State and No. 24 Kansas — would push them to work even harder on the court. Rogers said the team achieved its goal of upping its level of play.

This team gelled so well, and we played as the team we always work to be.

TORI SHEPARD ’17 Libero, Volleyball team Libero Tori Shepard ’17 said the highlight of the weekend was the team’s win over Villanova. “ We e s ta b l i s h e d a n extremely high level of play that we like to call ‘Yale volleyball,’” she said. “This is when we’re all doing our jobs and working together as a unit.”

Shepard was one of four Elis to reach double digits in digs against Villanova with 10.

Maddie Rudnick ’15, Kelsey Crawford ’18 and Rogers also hit double digits.

“It was such a fun match to be a part of. This team gelled so well, and we played as the team we always work to be,” Shepard said.

Shepard and head coach Erin Appleman agreed with Rogers in saying that the Bulldogs had a successful weekend.

Kansas had slim margins of victory in each of their games against Yale in Friday’s

match, with Yale losing 25–21 in the first and third games.

The Bulldogs held together on the court against Penn State as well, Appleman said.

She added that though Kansas and Penn State were extremely gifted teams, Yale performed well over the weekend.

“Feeling comfortable with each other and working together was our big goal,” she said. “We fought in every match.”

According to Appleman, the new and returning players got closer to their goal of figuring out how to play as a seasoned team.

The women had spent the week leading up the Villanova Classic focusing on team drills, according to outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17.

“It all came together in the Villanova game,” Appleman said. “We were able to string together points, and we fought for every point.”

The Bulldogs demonstrated their best hitting results of the season against Villanova, hitting .371. Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 took control on the court, hitting an impressive .565.

Rogers said the upcoming Fullerton Classic tournament in Cal State will be a key event and that the Yale women are expected to “arrive ready to play” after this week’s training.

Yale will travel to California to face Cal State, No. 25 UCLA and Georgetown this coming weekend.

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

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Nothing is Set in Stone,” an exhibit at the New Haven Museum, delves into the story of a tree on the New Haven Green that fell during Hurricane Sandy. It includes art made from the tree, as well as two time capsules and details of human remains found at the site. ALEX SCHMELING reports.

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NFL Washington 41 Jacksonville 10

NFL St. Louis 19 Tampa Bay 17

NFL New England 30 Minnesota 7

FOOTBALL QUICK HITS

SEEING DOUBLE FOOTBALL TEAM The Elis will sport nine pairs of players wearing the same number. Six of those pairs include at least one signal caller, including the brace of No. 19s — defensive back/kicker Jason Alessi ’18 and quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16.

NFL San Diego 30 Seattle 21

NFL Houston 30 Oakland 14

PREVIEW

ARMCHAIR QUARTERBACKS FOOTBALL TEAM Yale fans across this great nation will get to watch their Elis play on Saturdays, as FOX College Sports will air Yale’s Sept.

27 game vs. Army and its Nov. 8 visit to Brown, while NBC Sports Network will broadcast as Yale hosts Penn Oct. 25 and goes to Harvard on Nov. 22.

“People take pride in Yale and they want to be able to gloat a little bit on Sundays.”

MORGAN ROBERTS ’16 QUARTERBACK

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Bulldogs have Ivy title in their sights

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER After a long offseason of discontent from the Bulldogs’ fans, the Yale football team will finally get a chance to improve upon its 0.500 campaign last season and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Yale Bowl.

In 2013, head coach Tony Reno’s second season at the helm, the Elis dramatically improved upon their 2–8 record from 2012, starting the season 5–3 following a dramatic victory over Brown. Those good feelings quickly evaporated, however, after blowout losses to Princeton and Harvard at the end of the season left a bitter taste in many players’ mouths. But starting quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 said that those losses should only give the team more motivation this season.

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Yale will open its season at home against Lehigh University on Sept. 20.

Elis, Chiappetta make big IMPACT

BY GRANT BRONSDON AND ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTERS The football team has been active on the field recently as it prepares for its season opener against Lehigh on Sept. 20, but the squad is equally active off the field, recently adding six-yearold Dante Chiappetta to the team.

On the evening of Sept. 11, the Yale football team held a draft day, selecting Dante Chiappetta to become a member of the Yale football team. He was greeted by members of the team and put on a white Yale football jersey with No. 39.

The football team worked with Team IMPACT, a nonprofit based in Boston, Mass. that pairs kids with college athletic teams in an effort to improve the quality of life for children between the ages of five and 15 and have some sort

of chronic or life-threatening disease, according to the organization’s website.

Tight end Jackson Stallings ’17 and defensive end Marty Moesta ’17 organized the team’s efforts with the Chiappetta family and Team IMPACT. “It has been and continues to be an incredible experience,” Stallings said. “Team IMPACT does a great job in helping our relationship with the Chiappettas, but I can honestly say that our Yale football family has grown because of Team IMPACT and the Chiappettas.”

Dante Chiappetta, a student at Clintonville Elementary School, has cortical visual impairment and cerebral palsy.

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Six-year-old Dante Chiappetta was given No. 39 by the Bulldogs when he was drafted Sept. 11.

Yale fêtes Bowl

Reno bares all

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER Head coach Tony Reno is entering his third season at the helm of the Yale football team. After a tough 2–8 record in his rookie season, Reno led the Bulldogs to three wins to start the 2013 campaign and a 5–5 record overall. He sat down with the News to discuss his plans for the Bulldogs in 2014.

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The Yale Bowl was constructed in 1914 and celebrates its 100th anniversary this season.

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER The last time the Bulldogs faced a Football Bowl Subdivision (Division I-A) team was in 1996, when the Yale football team took on Army. Since then, Yale has exclusively faced Football Championship Subdivision (Division I-AA) schools. That

will change, however, when the Army Cadets march into the Yale Bowl on Sept. 27 during the stadium’s 100th anniversary celebration season.

“It’s great to recognize the tradition and history of the bowl, and to do it with an opponent like Army just makes it that much better,” quarterback Logan Scott ’16 said. “We

always want to play the best teams possible so to have a big game like that is really exciting.”

While the Yale-Army matchup has not taken place for several years, the teams’ rivalry is historic.

In the 1923 contest, the Yale Bowl was nearly 20,000 fans

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the graduation of QFollowing Hank Furman ’14, who is the starting quarterback?

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Morgan [Roberts ’16] is currently the starter. Logan’s [Scott ’16] the number two. After that, we have a pretty intense competition for the third guy between three freshmen: Steve Barmore ’18, Andrew Johnson ’18 and Rafe Chapple ’18. They’ve all shown a lot of good things.

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Head coach Tony Reno led the Bulldogs to a 5–5 record in 2013.

GAMES FOR THE YALE FOOTBALL TEAM THAT WILL BE NATIONALLY TELEVISED IN 2014. FOX College Sports and NBC Sports Network will each broadcast two Yale games, including the Sept. 27 showdown with FBS foe Army.

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“Now, I understand my role. I’m a point guard. I’m distributing the ball to really good playmakers in space.”

MORGAN ROBERTS QUARTERBACK, FOOTBALL TEAM

Greener pastures ahead for the blue and white FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 tant,” Roberts said. “Looking back, losing to Princeton and Harvard, you realize how important it is to the alumni. Those games are extra special. People take pride in Yale and they want to be able to gloat a little bit on Sundays.”

The biggest question mark for the Bulldogs is under center.

With the graduation of last year’s starter, Hank Furman ’14, the most important position on the field is left to Roberts, a transfer from Clemson, who started against Penn last year.

In limited action last season, Roberts completed 37 of 71 passes for 339 yards and four passing touchdowns. And after a full offseason and preseason of reps, captain Deon Randall ’15 said he believes Roberts is ready to shine.

“Morgan’s done a great job facilitating the ball, making the right reads and just being confident,” Randall said. “I think he’s doing a great job as a leader and we’re excited for him to [be our] quarterback.”

Roberts added that the full offseason helped make him more comfortable with the schemes and

playbook of the Yale offense.

Any quarterback would love to have the weapons that Roberts will have at his disposal, with two of the most dangerous players in the Ivy League suiting up for the Elis.

Randall and running back Tyler Varga ’15, both former first-team all-Ivy selections, comprise perhaps the best offensive duo in the Ancient Eight.

Last year, Randall caught 85 passes for 788 yards and eight touchdowns, all team highs. He also carried the ball 33 times for 176 yards and three touchdowns, none more impressive than his 32-yard touchdown run on 3rdand-10 with 19 seconds remaining to beat Brown.

And while Varga was hampered by injuries last year, receiving meaningful carries in just five games, it was just two years ago that he ran for 935 yards in eight games, notching at least 91 yards in each appearance. In last year’s season opener against Colgate, Varga put up 236 rushing yards, ranking as the third-best single-game total by any Yale back.

“He’s really healthy [right now],” Randall said of the 5’11”, 224 lb. power back from Ontario.

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tions.

Beyond Champion and Oluokun, young bucks Robert Ries ’17 and Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 both saw a healthy number of snaps last season. Randall said that he expects the secondary to make major strides this year.

“There were a lot of young guys back there last year, and now they’re a lot more confident in the schemes and playing in general,” Randall said. “Foye is a big leader back there and he’s doing a great job.”

Highlighting the Bulldogs’ 10-game slate is the matchup against Football Bowl Subdivision foe Army on Sept. 27. The game, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Yale Bowl, is the first against an FBS team for an Ivy League ball club since 1996. A tweet from Paul Finebaum, ESPN college football analyst, said that the game is a possible destination for ESPN’s “College GameDay,” a pregame show that travels to various oncampus sites throughout the season.

Additionally, College GameDay producer Lee Fitting confirmed to the News that Yale-Army was “on the under-consideration list.”

Cornell

0-10 (0-7) 8th

Columbia is predicted to finish last in Ivy League play0-10 for(0-7) a second T-8th year in a row. Last season, the Lions went winless in conference play and overall, finishing the year at 0–10. This season, the Lions return 61 players and welcome 34 first-years to the team. The breakdown of newcomers consists of 17 defensive players, 15 offensive players and two specialists. Columbia opens its season against Fordham this weekend for the annual Liberty Cup, which has been played annually since 2000. Fordham leads the series 9–4. The Bulldogs travel to Morningside Heights, N.Y. on Nov. 1 for the teams' regular season showdown.

DAVID ARCHER 2nd season

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Princeton

4-6 (3-4) T-4th

Penn tied with Yale and Brown for a fourth place finish last season, just a year after winning a lone share of the conference championship in 2012. This year, the Quakers hope to improve their offensive attack and remain healthy in order to give head coach Al Bagnoli a proper sendoff in his 23rd and final season.

Leading that offensive attack will be sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen, who played in just one game in his freshman campaign, while an experienced team of wide receivers and running backs, including last year’s primary scorers Kyle Wilcox and Spencer Kulcsar, will surround him. Defensively, the Quakers were in the middle of the Ivy League in all respects last season and show potential this year with numerous starters returning, most notably inside linebacker Daniel Davis and fifth-year senior defensive backs Evan Jackson and Dan Wilk.

BOB SURACE 5TH season

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Princeton has made a quick turnaround in the past few years, climbing from eighth place in the Ivy League in 2010 to winning a share of the title in 2013. This year the Tigers are predicted to post an even better season, with the preseason polls showing Princeton on top by just a single voting point. Much of that turnaround can be credited to quarterback Quinn Epperly, who led the Ivy League in total scoring last season with 43 touchdowns, 25 passing and 18 rushing and returns for his senior year in 2014. Epperly earned Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year honors and ranked 10th in the voting for FCS National Player of the Year. The Tigers return a wide array of talent elsewhere on the field but will need to fill select holes left by the team’s top wide receiver Roman Wilson as well as three of its starting defensive linemen, all of whom graduated following last season.

TONY RENO 3rd season

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3-7 (2-5) T-7th

9-1 (6-1) T-1st

The Crimson handily defeated Yale 34–7 last season en route a 9–11st 9-1to(6-1) overall record and a share of the Ivy League title, but uncertainty on the defensive side of the ball this year has caused the team to drop to a narrow second place ranking in the 2014 conference preseason polls. Harvard graduated three starters in the secondary as well as key linebacker Josh Boyd and defensive tackle Nnamdi Obukwelu last year, making it unclear whether the defense will match up with its unit from 2013 — a defense that had already ranked third worst in pass defense in the conference. Defensive concerns aside, Harvard looks to post another strong offensive season, as the offense ranked second in the conference in scoring last year and will return quarterback Conner Hempel, running back Paul Stanton and a strong offensive line and receiving corps.

Yale

8-2 (6-1) 1st

The Bulldogs play two other non-conference games this year: the season opener against Lehigh on Sept. 20 and a rematch against Colgate on Oct. 18. Last year, Yale thrashed the Raiders 39–22 thanks to Varga’s record day and Furman’s three first-half rushing scores.

Lehigh, meanwhile, posted an impressive 8–3 record in 2013, but graduated its leading passer and rusher from last season.

But no matter how well Yale plays all season, many fans only care about the team’s finish against arch-rival Harvard. With seven straight losses to the Cantabs, Roberts said he recognizes that the Elis need to keep improving throughout the season in order to be in a position to finish strong.

“We’ve put a lot of work in during the preseason, but [improving] isn’t over for us at all,” Roberts said. “We’ll put out the best product we can Saturday, but as we continue, we’ll be a better and better team.”

Yale kicks off its 142nd football season on Saturday against Lehigh. Kickoff is at 1:00 p.m.

Cornell finished last year with a record of 2–5 in the Ivy League and 3–7 overall for a seventh-place finish in the Ivy League. The Big Red graduated two All-Americans, and uncertainty about how the team will look has put Cornell seventh in the Ivy League football preseason media poll. In the second year of head coach David Archer’s tenure, the offense will look to running back Luke Hagy to carry its offense to replace quarterback Jeff Matthews. The Big Red opens its season against Colgate University, whom the Bulldogs will face later in the season. The Bulldogs will travel to Ithaca, N.Y. on Oct. 4 for their first road game and Ivy League opener.

Harvard

6-4(5-2) T-3rd

Dartmouth ended last season with a third-place finish with a record of 5–2 in Ivy League play and a 6–4 overall, improving on its 2012 campaign, when the team lost three conference games. This season the Big Green is predicted to finish behind last year’s co-champions, Harvard and Princeton, making for the team’s highest finish in the poll since 1997. Meanwhile, the team has its sights set on the Ivy League championship. The Big Green returns nearly its entire defense, which allowed the fewest points in the Ivy League last year.

Dartmouth opens its season this weekend against Central Connecticut and travels to New Haven on Oct. 11 for Yale’s Ivy League home opener.

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and center John Oppenheimer ’14.

Both were all-Ivy selections last season, leaving big shoes to fill.

A pair of sophomores, Mason Friedline ’17 and Khalid Cannon ’17, are expected to step in at right guard and left tackle, respectively, while experienced starter Luke Longinotti ’16 will move from guard to center. Right tackle Ben Carbery ‘15 and left guard Will Chism ‘15, each with at least two seasons of starting experience, will reprise their roles from a year ago.

“The line is going to be really, really good,” Roberts said of the Bulldogs’ hog mollies up front.

“Last year, we were one of the best rushing offenses in the Ivy League, so we know we can run block.

We’re just trying to build some depth and some continuity with younger guys who can give older guys some plays off and keep them rested.”

On the other side of the ball, a young but experienced secondary figures to make some noise for the Elis. Two all-Ivy picks, safety Cole Champion ’16 and defensive back Foyesade Oluokun ’17, finished second and third on the team in tackles, respectively. Champion also contributed three intercep-

Columbia

6-4 (3-4) T-4th

Brown, picked to finish sixth in the Ivy League preseason media poll this season, ended last season with a record of 3–4 against Ancient Eight competition and a 6–4 overall record. Hit hard by graduation, the Bears have lost 11 starters on offense as well as seven on defense. Quarterback Marcus Fuller will run the team’s offense. The team's strength could be its depth at inside linebacker, as Dan Giovacchini and Xavier Russo return. The Bears kick off their season against Georgetown on Saturday before facing Yale on Nov. 8 in Providence, R.I.

Dartmouth

“He can definitely contribute a lot.

Usually, [having him] helps our passing game. Defenses … stack the box to make it tough for him to run, and that opens up the passing lanes.”

Other than Randall and Varga, playmakers abound behind a sturdy and experienced offensive line. Running backs Candler Rich ’17 and Kahlil Keys ’15 combined for almost 800 yards on the ground last season, and they both figure to get more opportunities as Reno looks to keep Varga fresh throughout the season.

Out wide, the graduation of dynamic receiver Chris Smith ’14 leaves a hole expected to be filled

by Grant Wallace ’15 and Robert Clemons ’17. Clemons did not catch a pass last year, but he did return 29 kickoffs for 579 yards and figures to make some explosive plays this season. Wallace, meanwhile, was Yale’s second-leading receiver, making 31 catches for 421 yards.

But to make Reno and offensive coordinator Joe Conlin’s no-huddle system hum, the Bulldogs need a strong offensive line up front.

Yale lost two stalwarts to graduation in left tackle Wes Gavin ’14

5-5 (3-4) T-4th

Yale finished right in the middle of the Ivy League after T-4 anth 5-5 (3-4) injury-plagued season with a 3–4 conference record. The Bulldogs are predicted to do much the same in 2014 with a fifth-place preseason ranking, but they could outperform these results if they remain healthy. The team graduated quarterback Hank Furman ’14 last season, beginning an ongoing battle for the starting quarterback position between Clemson transfer Morgan Roberts ’16 and Logan Scott ’16, both of whom had game experience last season. The team returns captain and star wide receiver Deon Randall ’15 as well as running back Tyler Varga ’15, but one of the main strengths of last year’s Bulldogs, the offensive line, is now a question mark in 2014 with the graduation of two starting blockers. Defensively, the Elis have graduated two key defensive ends but return a number of young players with experience, including defensive end Victor Egu ’17 and two second team all-Ivy safeties, Cole Champion ’16 and Foyesade Oluokun ’17.

Football Season Preview

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“Success is measured on outcomes … and as long as we’re doing the things we can control and playing well, I think we’ll be happy with that.” DEON RANDALL CAPTAIN, FOOTBALL TEAM

Reno, Yale ready to rumble RENO Q&A FROM PAGE B1 Logan Scott going to get any QIsplaying time under center this week?

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We haven’t really decided on that yet. But we feel really good about Logan. When he’s called upon, he’ll do a great job.

Morgan Roberts improved QHas with a full offseason with the team? In what ways?

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In any situation when a quarterback comes in, whether it be first year or transfer, it’s very similar. It’s a new environment, a new program, and a new set of expectations. I thought Morgan did a real good job handling what makes Yale unique, both on and off the field. We wanted to give him time to grow. He was pressed into service when we had some injuries to Hank [Furman], but his growth from last year to now has been monumental. He’s grown as a player, as a person and as a leader. He has a lot of work to do, like 100 percent of our guys do, but he’s been really good.

is your ideal run-pass QWhat split?

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You try to be as balanced as possible. Balance meaning in the ideal world, 50 percent is balanced. Give or take 10 percent is pretty good balance. There’s certain games that you’re running the ball more effectively, and you might be more than 50 percent run. There’s also certain games that you’re passing the ball more successfully, and you might be more than 50 percent pass. We generally want to be in that balance. If we have the ability to do that, it makes you a little tougher to defend.

do you think is the QWhat strength of the team?

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Well, I think we’re very experienced at running back. I say

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Head coach Tony Reno is entering his third season leading the Bulldogs. that with an asterisk: If [Tyler] Varga ’15, [Kahlil] Keys ’15 and [Candler] Rich ’17 are healthy.

They’re three guys who have proven to be very, very good. We feel that’s a strength. We’ve got some strength on the offensive line with three returning offensive linemen in tackle [Ben] Carbery ’15, center [Luke] Longinotti ’16 and guard [William] Chism ’15. We feel good about those guys. We have some experience.

We have a very young defense —

eight sophomore starters, two freshmen, and a slew of them in the two deep. do you see Tyler Varga’s QHow role shaping up this year? How

many touches per game do you expect him to have?

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The plan is to keep him healthy for [all] 10 [games].

He’s a special player. He’s obviously a guy who’s been a proven all-Ivy guy in our league. The

nice thing for us this year is with the emergence of Candler Rich and Kahlil Keys last year, we have two other guys who are very good backs and can get some carries.

We have a three-headed monster back there with guys that can all play in the games and make contributions, without wearing any one of them out. can you say about Kyle QWhat Cazzetta ’15 and his experience as a kicker and as a punter?

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I think Kyle’s experience is key for his performance this season. He’s kicked in a lot of football games at Yale.

ful, in your eyes?

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We’re looking at him to be a leader and a guy that we can count on in key situations, whether it be a field goal, punting or whatever it might be. We’ll rely heavily on him.

I think we all value success.

We’re much more process over outcome, that’s how we deal with things. We have goals like any team does, but for me it’s the day-to-day improvement for our guys. If our team follows its process, I feel like the outcome will take care of itself.

would it take for this QWhat year to be considered success-

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Yale to face Army on Sept. 27

Bulldogs draft Dante DANTE FROM PAGE B1

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Although the Harvard-Yale game will be held in Cambridge this year, the Yale Bowl has hosted 48 iterations of the rivalry.

YALE BOWL FROM PAGE B1 over capacity. For Yale’s 31–0 shutout of the Cadets, 80,000 cheering observers filed into a stadium that, at the time, only was meant to seat just over 60,000.

Six years later, the Elis came back from a 13–0 deficit to defeat Army 21–13 at Yale. In the historic matchup, Bulldog Albert “Abbie” Booth ’32 put the team on his back, scoring all three touchdowns and putting all three extra points through the uprights to give Yale the win.

Since Yale’s momentous wins in the ’20s, however, the rivalry between Army and Yale slowly faded away. Yale defeated Army for the last time in 1955

and played the Cadets for the last time in the Yale Bowl in 1988 in front of just under 18,000 fans — nearly a fourth of the 1923 spectators.

Thirteen years after the last YaleArmy matchup at West Point in 1996, both programs decided it was time to bring the competition back.

Yale has been gearing up to play Army for five years — since 2009 — and both programs signed the paperwork to set the game in stone three years ago in 2011. Preparation for the Yale Bowl’s 100th anniversary has always been on the horizon, but focused efforts to shape and market the celebration have been concentrated in the past year and a half.

“We’ve had a committee working for

about a year and a half in preparation,” Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said.

“We’re working with the marketing of the idea in order to also create excitement around the 2014 team.”

At the Army game, 1,000 or more Cadets are expected to march into the Yale Bowl along with the band and mascot. Additionally, the game ball may be delivered by a skydiver, according to the Yale Athletic Department website.

Furthermore, the Yale 100 Tent, sponsored by Webster Bank and dedicated to honoring the 100th anniversary of the Yale Bowl, will be open all season long adjacent to concessions.

The 1937 Heisman Trophy, won by quarterback Clint Frank ’38, will be on

display in the tent, as will many other historical artifacts meant to educate and excite spectators about the tradition of Yale football.

“Webster is just as excited and proud about our partnership with Yale Athletics,” said Tara Gregson, senior vice president of Affinity Marketing at Webster Bank. “Adding the 100th Anniversary Yale Bowl season-long celebration elements was a natural fit to our already wonderful relationship.”

Webster Bank and Yale Athletics will be unveiling the Yale 100 Tent this Thursday, Sept. 18 at 2:30 p.m. just outside of the Yale Bowl.

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is not able to interpret images from the eyes correctly, leading to a form of visual impairment. Although he gained sight at the age of one, Dante still copes with vision sensitivity. He continues to attend speech, occupational and physical therapy daily.

Dante’s father, Joe Chiappetta, said at the draft day event that if Dante had not gained any vision by the age of one, doctors told the family that he might have been permanently blind.

“Watching Dante get excited and telling him that we’re going out to the Yale Bowl and we’re coming to see Jackson [Stallings] or some of the other players, he tries to race us down the stairs to get to the car,” Joe Chiappetta said. “He wants to be the first one to the car.”

Dante is far from the only beneficiary in this situation, however.

Every player interviewed agreed that Dante’s presence has positively impacted both them and the team.

Captain Deon Randall ’15 added that Dante is both a teammate and an inspiration for the team.

“Dante brings an energy and spirit of positivity that cannot be provided by anyone else,” Stallings said. “He is a source of inspiration for us daily and is truly a valuable member of our Yale football family.”

Yale is not the only Ancient Eight school to be involved with Team IMPACT recently. Last year, sixyear old Nyla was a part of the Princeton women’s hockey team, while the Tigers baseball team adopted five-year-old Ray Fantel. And lest you think that Yale’s archrivals are stingy, the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team adopted fiveyear-old Sophie in the 2012–2013 season.

Team IMPACT has worked with 501 kids and 251 schools across 36 states.

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“Clear eyes. Full heart. Can’t lose.”

ERIC TAYLOR FICTITIOUS FOOTBALL COACH

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Wide Receiver

As the only Bulldog to earn a spot on the all-Ivy first team last season, captain and wide receiver Deon Randall ’15 was the rock of the Yale offense and should continue to produce consistent results in 2014. After missing all of the 2012 season with an injury, Randall recorded just over 1,000 all-purpose yards on 135 touches as a wide receiver, tailback, quarterback and punt returner.

Though the team has graduated both wide receivers Chris Smith ’14 and Cameron Sandquist ’14, Grant Wallace ’16 and Sebastian Little ’17 both started the majority of games last season and will return to anchor the receiving corps this year.

Running Back

Head coach Tony Reno said in an Ivy League media preseason conference call that Yale’s strongest position will be its running backs if star tailback Tyler Varga ’15 can remain healthy. The 2012 first team all-Ivy honoree rushed for 627 yards in his six games played last season, but he missed four games in the latter half of the season as well as the first half of the Elis’ loss to Harvard due to injury. Running backs Candler Rich ’17 and Kahlil Keys ’15, who took over at the position when Vargas went down, will also get touches throughout the season. Rich rushed for 159 yards against Fordham last year, while Keys rushed for a school-record 94-yard touchdown against Columbia.

Offensive Line

Yale’s offensive line was among the best in the Ivy League last season, with its 10 sacks allowed trailing only Brown and Princeton in the Ivy League, but two newcomers to the O-line will have to fill large holes if the unit hopes to repeat that success. Will Chism ’15, Ben Carbery ’15 and Luke Longinotti ’16 return to the line with a combined 65 games of experience between them. But the graduations of center John Oppenheimer ’14 and left tackle Wes Gavin ’14 will prove a major challenge to the pass and run protection. Kahlid Cannon '17 and Mason Friedline '17 are expected to round out the line in Week 1, but one notable recruit Jon Bezney ’18, who passed up offers from Division-I powers Wisconsin, Louisville and Vanderbilt, may also enter the mix this season.

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PLAYERS TO WATCH

Quarterback

Four different quarterbacks saw action for the Bulldogs in 2013 and, after a long battle during the preseason for this year’s starting spot, one has emerged for Week 1. Morgan Roberts ’16, who transferred from Clemson at the beginning of last season, went 37–71 in his seven games of action as a backup, passing for 339 yards and four touchdowns.

Roberts is slated to start against Lehigh, but Logan Scott ’16, who played in two games last season, has the potential to see action or even take over the position later on the season. In the Bulldogs’ loss to Princeton, Scott went 22–39 with 240 passing yards and three touchdowns.

Defensive Line

As is the case with Yale’s secondary, the Eli defensive line will have both young players and proven experience this season, despite the losses of defensive ends Dylan Drake ’14 and former captain Beau Palin ’14. Victor Egu ’17, who last year was the highest-ranked Ivy League recruit since 2010, according to ESPN, will hold down the fort at defensive end alongside Marty Moesta ’17. The two combined for 41 tackles and four sacks, each playing in every game last season. Right between them, defensive tackles Copache Tyler ’17 and Carl Kreitzberg ’16 look to round out the line.

Defensive Backs

A young but experienced secondary has potential to make an impact in the Ivy League in 2014 as well as the years beyond. Safety Cole Champion ’16 will lead the unit, having earned second team all-Ivy honors last year with 49 solo tackles, three interceptions and four fumble recoveries, while safety Foyesade Oluokon ’17 also made the all-Ivy second team with 59 tackles last year. Two more sophomores, Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 and Dale Harris ’17, will round out the secondary at cornerback. Rymiszewski boasted 42 tackles last year, while Harris missed five games due to injury but looks to return strong this season.

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SPORTS

“The person who said ‘winning isn’t everything,’ never won anything.”

MIA HAMM U.S. SOCCER LEGEND

Men’s soccer sees disappointing stretch

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER After a disappointing home loss to Iona last Tuesday, the Yale men’s soccer team (0–3–1, 0–0–0 Ivy) looked to right the ship during its weekend road trip.

But instead of returning with two victories in tow, the team emerged winless, dropping both games 1–0 and capping a disappointing three game stretch for the Elis.

MEN’S SOCCER The Elis began their weekend getaway by facing Fairfield (2–1–1, 0–0–0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) on Friday night, then continued on to face the University of Rhode Island (2–3–1, 0–0–0 Atlantic 10). In the match against Fairfield, the Elis ran into familiar woes, proving unable to produce a goal despite myriad opportunities to score. The Bulldogs led the shooting battle with 10 shots to Fairfield’s nine and managed more shots on frame than their opponents. Despite this, the Elis simply couldn’t finish and went into the locker room deadlocked at 0–0 after the game’s first half. In the second 45, the match unraveled for Yale, as Fairfield produced an early winner in the 51st minute, forcing Yale to push for an equalizer that never came.

“Friday’s game was a terrific battle and both teams threw everything they had into it,” head coach Brian Tompkins said. “I thought our guys played some of their best soccer of the season against an experienced physical team. Unfortunately we had a couple of missed chances and there was a terrific point-blank save from the Fairfield goalkeeper, and we felt very unfortunate to come out of the game with

a loss.”

Despite out-shooting the Stags 7–2 in the second half and winning four corner kicks, Yale couldn’t force the ball into the net. This marked the second time in two years that Yale dropped a game against Fairfield despite winning both the shooting and corner kick battle, as finishing woes once again proved the Bulldogs’ demise.

I thought our guys played some of their best soccer of the season.

BRIAN TOMPKINS Head coach, Men’s soccer team The Rhode Island match proved a similar prospect for the Bulldogs as they dropped a second straight match 1–0. Though statistically the match was rather even, with Yale producing 11 shots to Rhode Island’s 12 and both keepers making six saves, the home squad came away with the win.

“We couldn’t find any sort of consistency until the second half [against Rhode Island], which is both unacceptable and disappointing considering this was a team we should have put away,” forward Cameron Kirdzik ’17 said in an email. “Perhaps [the] game on Friday made us a little lethargic tonight, but it’s still not an excuse.”

Kirdzik added, however, that the team is confident and believes it has the potential to turn its losing streak around going forward.

Rhode Island took the lead early into the match when Adam Camillo picked out Matt Sykes with a well-weighted pass through the box, which

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Forward Cameron Kirdzik ’17 led the team with two shots on goal at Fairfield on Friday, Sept. 12. was coolly finished by the latter.

Despite forcing Rhode Island’s Nils Leifhelm into six saves, the Bulldogs could not come up with an equalizer. Poor finishing plagued Yale once more and proved the unfortunate companion to another second-half surge

by the Elis. Yale led Rhode Island 6–5 in second-half shooting and 3–2 in second-half corner kicks, meaning that they produced plenty of scoring opportunities with nothing to show for them. Furthermore, Matt Sykes hounded the Elis, leading the

game with three shots, all of which were on frame, and scoring the contest’s only goal. Ultimately, Sykes’s man-of-thematch performance proved the difference in Sunday’s contest as he led the Rams to their second win of the season.

Yale next takes the pitch against Manhattan (1–2–0, 0–0–0 MAAC) when the Elis and Jaspers face off at Reese Stadium on Friday, Sept. 19 at 7:00 p.m.

Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

Field hockey collects first win

BY ASHTON WACYKM STAFF REPORTER While the field hockey team dropped a 3–1 game to Cal over the weekend, it also took home its first victory of the season in a tight 1–0 overtime winner over Quinnipiac.

FIELD HOCKEY The Yale women’s field hockey team (1–3, 0–0 Ivy) split games this past Saturday and Sunday during the squad’s annual alumni weekend at home.

“We made great progress this weekend in following our game plan and working together as a team,” forward Grace McInerney ’15 said. “Both the Quinnipiac and Cal games were great experiences for us to grow as a team, and they have prepared us well for next weekend’s play.”

While the Bulldogs got off to a slow start against Quinnipiac, being outshot 9–1 in the first half, they were able keep the game scoreless for 70 minutes, forcing Quinnipiac into overtime.

We made great progress this weekend in following our game plan and working together as a team.

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GRACE MCINERNEY ’15 Forward, Field hockey team Defensive play was essential for the Bulldogs, not just between the pipes, but also in the backfield. Early in the contest, back Megan Kirkham ’15 knocked aside two of the five penalty corners that Quinnipiac had throughout the game.

Key defensive play helped goalkeeper Heather Schlesier ’15 garner her first shutout of the season — something the Bulldogs were only able to achieve twice last season.

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The field hockey team captured its first win of the season this weekend.

Once the Elis entered overtime competition, the game’s tempo settled into the Elis’ control. In the seven versus seven setting, the Bulldogs kept the pressure on until midfielder Nicole Wells ’16 drew a penalty corner with just over nine minutes left to play. On the ensuing play, a flurry of shots were fired at Quinnipiac goaltender Megan Conaboy before Danee Fitzgerald ’16 knocked in the rebound sitting off the left post to end the game in a Yale victory.

The following day, the Elis

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returned to Johnson Field for their second matchup of the weekend, this time a contest against cross-country opponent Cal (4–2, 0–0 NorPac).

Penalty corners continued to pose a problem for the Bulldogs in their second contest of alumni weekend, as the Golden Bears posted a 5–2 advantage over the Bulldogs in that category during their 3–1 victory. Cal was able to convert two of these opportunities into goals.

Just nine minutes into play,

Cal forward Lara Kruggel popped a shot into the top right hand corner of the goal after the first penalty corner of the game.

The Bulldogs were able to regain their footing in the first half, though, and finished the half with a 5–4 shot advantage and tied the game at 1–1.

With just over a minute left in the first half, forward Lily Smith ’17 put the Elis on the board with the first goal of her Yale career.

“Katie is speedy and tenacious on and off the ball — which shows

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with how she scored,” Wells said in an email.

Yale was not able to sustain the momentum, however, and Cal knocked in another two goals in the second half to finish off the Elis.

With alumni weekend complete, the Bulldogs will now enter conference play.

“During the Cal game, and the other three games we have played so far — we have been able to pick up on our strengths and weaknesses in order to right-

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fully prepare for the big first Ivy game against Harvard this coming weekend,” Wells said in an email. “By the time we get into our league games we will have done enough trial and error to get a winning team on the field.”

The Elis will start Ivy League competition next week when they take on the rival Crimson next Saturday, Sept. 20 in Cambridge, Mass.

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

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