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COLLEGE HABITS SLEEPLESSNESS, DRINKING LINKED

RESTRUCTURING

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Transition in the Digital Media Center for the Arts draws mixed reviews.

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Varga ’15 makes Colts roster

It’s a party, it’s a party.

Even with the College Street Music Hall drawing serious headliners, Toad’s refuses to cede its place in the New Haven music scene. After hosting Earl Sweatshirt this weekend, Waka Flocka Flame takes the stage tonight for a York Street Party. And the good times roll on with Wale later this month.

Case in point. Campus critics are fast to lampoon Yalies who flock to finance and consulting without having a passion for — or any knowledge of — either industry. Fortunately, the Office of Career Services continues its “What is…” series with an information session about the latter this afternoon. May you emerge with a better understanding of both the “what” and the “why” behind your decision to join Bain (besides that cushy paycheck, of course).

Brand management. This weekend, the University community received a breaking news email from an unusual source. Proudly announcing a new line of those Herschel backpacks that everyone on this campus seems to have, the Yale Bookstore has you covered if you’re looking to fit in here.

Call it a serenade. Given that

most of us at the News cannot claim to be singers ourselves, we recommend you check out one of the many singing desserts taking place this week. Out of the Blue and the Alley Cats get things started tonight, with the Duke’s Men and Spizzwinks(?) to follow soon thereafter.

You’re my favorite. Though college football just kicked off on Saturday, ESPN has already begun to look forward to the basketball season. Over the weekend, reporter Andy Katz discussed Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia — his “favorites” for the Ivy League title this winter.

Should’ve picked Stanford.

At least if you want to work with artificial intelligence technology. Yesterday, Toyota announced a partnership with the Palo Alto, California, university and with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to design and test its “crash-proof” cars.

Getting hot in here. So take

off all your classes. Such is what public school districts around the state plan to do today in anticipation of a coming heat wave, announcing early dismissals for their constituents.

After the Presidency.

Lawrence Lessig, currently a professor at Harvard Law School, officially declared his candidacy for the 2016 election yesterday.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1944 The University’s Army Specialized Training Reservists group gains 90 new members.

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SHOW AND TELL Students present research at first-ever YURA symposium.

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Schwarzman, man and donation, scrutinized

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abnormally high five running backs on the team. That number, however, shrunk to four the next day when Indianapolis waived-injured second-string running back Dan Herron, meaning that Herron will be placed on the Colts’ injured reserve list if he is not picked up by another team this week.

With other recent injuries to

In the short span of a decade, Stephen Schwarzman ’69, through donations of $100 million or more, has imprinted his name on landmarks — such as the New York Public Library’s flagship building — and a high-profile scholarship at Tsinghua University modeled on the Rhodes Scholarship.

The full force of Schwarzman’s philanthropy has now extended to Yale. Following Schwarzman’s $150 million gift to the University to renovate Commons and Memorial Hall into a cultural hub for campus life, Yale honored Schwarzman by removing the former blue sign that said “Commons” and replacing it with one bearing Schwarzman’s name.

“I think the idea behind replacing the old blue signs that used to say ‘Commons’ with ‘Schwarzman Center’ is to get people excited about what’s coming,” said University President Peter Salovey.

But the months following the announcement, campus debate has spread far beyond the blueprints for the project, with attention now being directed to the man behind the second-largest gift in Uni-

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Tyler Varga ’15 posted the third-most rushing yards in school history last season with 1,423 yards on 233 carries.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Former Yale running back Tyler Varga ’15 has had just about everything go right for him in the past year.

After an injury-free, recordbreaking senior year that ended with an Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year award, Varga went on to score two touchdowns as a cap-

tain in the NFL Senior Bowl before beginning his professional career with a strong NFL preseason for the Indianapolis Colts. This past Saturday, the Kitchener, Ontario native added one more accomplishment to his record: making the Colts’ initial 53-man roster to start the 2015–16 NFL season.

The deadline to cut rosters from 75 to 53 players was Saturday at 4 p.m. EDT, and the Colts kept an

Candidates compete for freshman vote

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER With the Ward 1 Democratic primary just over a week away, candidates are emphasizing freshman outreach as part of their last-minute campaign strategies.

The three candidates in the race — Democrats Sarah Eidelson ’12 and Fish Stark ’17, along with Republican Ugonna Eze ’16 — have all been active on campus in recent days, manning stands at the Extracurricular Bazaar

on Sunday and going from door to door. For Eidelson and Stark, the rush to spread their messages is increasingly urgent, while Eze has been able to run a more relaxed campaign, with two months remaining until the general election.

On a hot, cloudless Saturday afternoon, members of Stark’s team went door-to-door in Vanderbilt and Welch Halls.

Stark said they had already canvassed some of the rooms the week before, but they were trying to make sure all freshmen heard

their message.

Sergio Lopez-Valdez ’18, the campaign manager, and Sean Nelson, a resident of nearby Milford and student at High School in the Community in New Haven, made a simple pitch to freshmen during the canvas. Lopez-Valdez introduced himself and briefly outlined Stark’s major areas of emphasis, while Nelson spoke about the roots of his own support for Stark. They also encouraged students to register to vote, SEE WARD 1 PAGE 4

At “Puzzle Day,” students question CS50’s purpose

Members of Fish Stark’s ’17 campaign team have been actively canvassing for votes in recent weeks.

Deer’s head found at Spizzwinks(?) audition A CAPPELLA TENSIONS REACH A FEVER PITCH

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER The small flyers cropped up during Camp Yale. They were simple, shaped like a small jigsaw piece, the words “CS50 Puzzle Day” emblazoned across.

CS50, or “Introduction to Computing and Programming,” the joint Harvard-Yale course whose roster boasted 670 enrolled students on its first day of class, is the most popular course on campus. On Saturday, the class brought around 150 Yale students to Harvard for the first joint Puzzle Day competition. The event was classic CS50 — loud music, photo booths, free food and seemingly unlimited swag.

Over 700 Harvard and Yale students competed, solving eight puzzles, which included ciphers and word searches. A longtime tradition of CS50, Puzzle Day, which was sponsored by Facebook this year, is meant to get students excited about the semester ahead. The puzzles require no computer science knowledge, but the environment — nonstop problem-solving — mirrors the cultural symbol of the CS world, the hackathon.

While the competition was friendly, students were quick to make jokes with one another.

“I find it hilarious that the most popular class at Yale is a Harvard class,” said Har-

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COURTESY OF CS50

“Introduction to Computing and Programming,” also known as CS50, is the most popular course on campus. vard junior Andrew Mayo, who took fourth place at Puzzle Day. But one of Mayo’s teammates, Harvard junior Zach Bathon, took a more generous approach. He took CS50 his freshman year, loved it and wants Yalies to be able to experience it, too.

The lecture course, which is being offered in two separate time slots due to high demand, included a class selfie, SEE CS50 PAGE 6

Late Saturday morning, a Yale student walked into Timothy Dwight College to audition for the Spizzwinks(?) a cappella group. He left a box on a table outside of the audition room, performed and walked out.

The box went ignored for several hours, stretching into the afternoon, until surrounding students began to notice a smell. After a brief inspection, students realized the box contained a prank reminiscent of a scene from “The Godfather” — a thawing severed deer’s head.

The severed deer’s head, which led TD Master Mary Lui to call the Yale Police Department, was just one of three pranks directed against a cappella groups over the weekend.

Both the Duke’s Men and the Alley Cats were the targets of pranks involving a dead mouse.

The pranks have rendered a rival a cappella group — the Society of Orpheus of Bacchus, of which the alleged prankster is a member — ineligible for fall rush.

The member of the SOBs had signed up to audition for the Spizzwinks(?) under a false name, a member of the Spizzwinks(?) told the News Saturday evening. He did the same for the other two groups, and was also scheduled to audition for the Baker’s Dozen, another all-male group.

According to an email sent Monday afternoon by the Singing Group Council the student acted without the assistance of anyone else in the SOBs. Despite this, the Yale College Dean’s Office has suspended the entire group from the rush process this year, effectively barring them from recruiting new members this year. The SEE SOB PAGE 6

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OPINION

.COMMENT “Or, life is the harvest of Yale.” yaledailynews.com/opinion

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n his freshman address, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway characterized Yale as “ever-evolving.” He noted that the freshman class of 1965 would hardly recognize the University that exists today and suggested that the Yale of 2065 will be “quite distinct from what [our] present collective imagination can summon.”

I have little doubt that Holloway is correct. If anything, I think he is conservative in his estimate, considering the rapid pace at which Yale is changing.

By the time the class of 2019 graduates, the two new colleges will have opened. The $150 million student center will be only months from completion. The overhaul of our administration, which has been restructured and turned over at an unprecedented rate over the last few years, will have likely settled.

Yale is at a hinge point in history today, and I doubt our collective imagination can summon what it will look like in 2025, much less 2065.

As a senior, my personal stake in this transition is limited. As a class, our chance to impact the community has more or less come and gone, and this last year is mostly a victory lap.

I primarily took up this column to devote most of my writing to the day-to-day issues which annoy the average Yalie, such as being nickeled-and-dimed by an infestation of $50 fines, the Lucky Charms knock-offs labeled Lucky Charms and losing Christmas.

However, as someone who loves Yale, I feel compelled to express my concerns about the scale and speed of change affecting this community. Holloway characterized our present discussion as our University engaging “with questions of its own identity.” Such a fundamental challenge should inspire all of us to think about what Yale means.

I understand that some change is necessary, and I am sure many of the potential developments facing our University will be positive. Frankly, some of today’s campus discussions, such as whether or not it is appropriate to have a college named after one of the great villains of American history, seem overdue.

But most of my reflections on questions of Yale’s evolving identity focus on what we shouldn’t lose. I worry that in the hullabaloo and turnover, we might lose our culture.

Yale is a great university, but there are many great universities. What distinguishes us is our community, our sense of belonging. Even Harvard acknowledged as much in the famed Crimson article, “The Cult of the Bulldog.”

I know it’s a tired line. People throw out platitudes about Wenzels and Toad’s and residential colleges, and the allusions become hackneyed and

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lose their meaning.

But the sense of what they’re getting at is real, and an anecdote from last year MICHAEL shows HERBERT much. as In OctoScoop of ber 2014, s o m e Herbert one drew a swastika on Old Campus. It was quickly removed, and at many institutions, that would have been the end of the story. But here, it wasn’t. Holloway sent a campuswide email acknowledging the act and denouncing it.

Memorably, he wrote, “There is no room for hate in this house.”

The next morning, at the site where the swastika had been drawn, the same message was repeated, decorated by vibrant colors, encouraging words and symbols of love. There was no organization of the effort, nor any coordination. It was a simple, spontaneous, grassroots act affirming our sense of community in a powerful and unspoken way.

YALE WILL BE VERY DIFFERENT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. In this time of institutional transformation, this story bears repeating. It represents the best of us. Yale will be very different in the near future. Events like the Parade of Comestibles may no longer be possible once we no longer have the physical capacity for them. The college may cease to be the heart of the University and instead take on a more co-equal position with the graduate and professional schools. Yale’s signature classes, the kind written about in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, will likely be less accessible.

Not all of these changes are within our control, but we can do our part to preserve Yale’s culture. No matter what the colleges are named, or how many of them we have, or how many new administrators there are, it is ultimately up to us to choose how we interact with each other.

It is those interactions that shape our identity as an institution. I think I have seen Yale at its best, in this respect. As we begin this season of change, I hope our sense of community holds.

MICHAEL HERBERT is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at michael.herbert@yale.edu .

Straight outta excuses

t’s not uncommon to see columns on this page cataloging the plethora of institutions, structures and even words that allegedly condition and perpetuate oppression. These columnists are not the only ones who parrot the party line. People of all backgrounds post, tweet and rail against Yale’s purported love of enforcing inequality. Yet what confounds me is that many of the same students who decry microaggressions and demand trigger warnings are quite content to blare violent, hyper-sexualized hip hop music from their speakers.

Rap music is not inherently misogynistic, but the genre’s appalling record of sexism is difficult to ignore. Ice Cube describes how a “dumb-ass hooker aint nuttin’ but a dyke.” Snoop Dogg suggests that “bitches ain’t shit but hoes and tricks.” I won’t profane the News by transcribing some of Lil Wayne’s boasts.

Contrary to what this summer’s critically acclaimed movie “Straight Outta Compton” might have you believe, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre’s lyrics did not concentrate exclusively on police brutality. The founders of N.W.A also delivered lengthy monologues that denigrated and objectified women. Ice Cube’s “I Ain’t the One” and Eazy-E’s “A Bitch Iz a Bitch” are just two examples.

These violent songs were more than testosterone-fueled fanta-

sies: Eazy-E dismissed Dr. Dre’s wellpublicized assault of a reporter critical of N.W.A. with callous indifferAARON “The SIBARIUM ence. bitch had it coming,” he The remarked.

Many libModerator erals excuse refrains like “Fuck Tha Police” as indictments of a failed criminal justice system. Such arguments have great purchase in the post-Ferguson era, and indeed, some rap is intended to shock its audience out of complacency. Immortal Technique’s “Dance with the Devil” chronicles the lawlessness and depravity of gang violence in an impoverished ghetto community bereft of a sufficient social safety net. This song’s sober depiction of drug abuse, gang rape and suicide hardly qualifies as glorious or fetishistic. As Americans become increasingly aware of the structural barriers facing African Americans, it can be tempting to explain away all problematic hip-hop lyrics as a form of social consciousness or empowerment.

But nothing about this country’s treatment of African Americans justifies Ja Rule’s end-

less stream of chauvinistic epithets. No amount of redlining makes it okay to profit off sexual violence. The professor Cornel West calls rap “a cry that openly acknowledges and confronts the wave of … cruelty and existential hopelessness in the black ghettoes of Afro-America.” Frankly, I find these intellectual gymnastics absurd and offensive. Growing up in unfortunate circumstances does not dilute one’s obligation to treat women with respect. The notion that the very real problems facing black America somehow rationalize hiphop culture’s attitude towards women strips rap artists of their moral agency. To claim otherwise infantilizes the very men West seeks to exonerate.

If there were ever a campus willing to stick up for progressive causes, it would be ours, where an Overheard at Yale post detailing Stephen Davis’s decision to abolish the title “master” received nearly 1200 likes.

But do all those students boycott explicitly misogynistic music that should nauseate any civilized human being? I highly doubt it. When the organizers of Spring Fling announced Ja Rule’s appearance in 2014, it’s true a few protested his appearance. But the vast majority of the school still showed up in droves. Similarly, it’s hard to go to Toad’s or Box for a night out without being forced to hear such vile music.

Those in favor of eliminating “master” argue that its benign genealogy is less important than the feelings of an unspecified minority of students. Yet anyone who subscribes to this contextis-irrelevant philosophy should be especially outraged that so many Yalies subject their peers to music that will clearly make some people uncomfortable. And I would hazard to guess many more students feel uncomfortable when they hear Chief Keef claim, “you gone suck my dick, or I’ll kill you” than an Oxbridge title meant to impute academic gravitas and respect.

Before we start theorizing nebulous hierarchies of race and gender, let’s take a cold hard look at the hierarchies we quite literally buy into. Before we make hysterical Facebook posts about microaggressions, let’s stop ignoring the macroaggressions of Ice Cube, Dr. Dre or Kanye West. We have commercialized misogyny for a few good dances and work-out routines, yet we have the gall to demand Yale abandon names and titles that have been around for centuries.

This is hypocrisy at its finest.

There is no case for funding misogyny. We are straight out of excuses.

AARON SIBARIUM is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. His column runs on Tuesdays. Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T J A C O B WA S S E R M A N

Dismantle the machinery of death “W

e need to kill more people,” said a man responsible for at least four deaths in the past five years. “… [R]evenge is important for society as a whole.”

Are these chilling words from the manifesto of a mass murderer or an ISIL insurgent? Actually, these telling statements were recently uttered by Dale Cox, one of the nation’s most efficient death penalty prosecutors.

When put in Cox’s blunt terms, the motivations behind the death penalty become clear: revenge and bloodlust. With Cox’s words in mind, if our nation seeks to be a fair arbiter of justice and a moral example to the world, we must end the death penalty without delay.

But that fight will not be easy.

The Supreme Court ended an otherwise fruitful term with a barbarous ruling in the case Glossip v. Gross. Five justices found the execution drug midazolam neither cruel nor unusual — the same drug behind a number of horrendous botched executions that Justice Sonia Sotomayor LAW '79 described as “the chemical equivalent of being burned at the stake.” To add insult to (literal) injury, the majority also decided that the burden is on the prisoner to find an alternative execution method, failing which the state can essentially kill him or her by whatever method it wishes.

But other events of the summer offered some hope. Here in Connecticut, while Governor Dannel Malloy and the legislature had ended death sentencing, 11 prisoners remained on death row for past crimes. But in August, the state Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in all cases. Meanwhile in Nebraska, a state as conservative as Connecticut is liberal, a supermajority of the right-leaning legislature voted to repeal the death penalty in May. “The death penalty today is a broken and ineffective government program,” wrote a group of Nebraska conservatives. “The time has come [for repeal].”

Indeed, conservatives of all stripes should oppose the death penalty. For the libertarian, capital punishment is big government at its worst, allowing the state to meddle not just with taxes, but with lives. For the fiscal conservative, study after study has shown the death penalty to cost far more than life sentences. In one study, the death penalty costs up to 10 times more than sentencing criminals to life behind bars. For the religious conservative, capital punishment violates the values of many faith traditions. As Pope John Paul II preached, “the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil.” I applaud those in the prolife movement, particularly at

Yale, who realize that a true prolife stance necessitates opposition to the death penalty.

People across the political spectrum can agree that capital punishment is inaccurate, ineffective and racially biased.

Astonishingly, over 150 death row inmates have been proven innocent and officially exonerated in the past 42 years — though even one would be too many. Scores of studies and the American Society of Criminology concur that the death penalty fails to deter crime.

Sometimes, it even has the opposite outcome, desensitizing people to death via the “brutalization effect.” And on top of all this, state after state has uncovered systemic racial biases in death penalty sentencing. For instance, a University of Washington study found black defendants three times more likely to be sentenced to death than whites, all other variables controlled, and a Government Accountability Office review of 53 different studies conclusively showed that those who killed white victims disproportionately receive the death penalty.

Maybe, just maybe, these astounding statistics would be excusable if the punishment could be revoked. But the death penalty can’t admit its mistakes.

Of course, the crimes of the truly guilty on death row are unimaginably horrible. Homicide violates the most basic tenets of our

society and causes untold trauma for the victim’s loved ones. But if we collectively condemn those who take a life, why should our government stoop to the same level? How can our nation have written into its laws that the appropriate response to one killing is another? Surely homicidal criminals deserve severe punishment, but to have the death penalty in a democracy puts blood on all of our hands.

Yet since we live in a democracy, collective action can remove this national moral stain. With states across the nation reconsidering their stances, the time is ripe for action. If you hail from a state where the death penalty has already been done away with, urge your federal representatives to do the same.

In 1994, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun came to realize the horrors of capital punishment, declaring “from this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.”

While his statement rings powerfully to this day, it is not enough.

Two decades later, we cannot just sit back and “no longer tinker.”

We must actively dismantle the machinery of death, or it will continue to grind on.

JACOB WASSERMAN is a senior in Saybrook College and vice president of the Yale College Democrats. Contact him at jacob.wasserman@yale.edu .

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Against renaming Calhoun College As an alumnus of Calhoun, I feel strongly compelled to respond to the opinions expressed in last week’s News’ View (“Rename Calhoun College,” Sept. 2). Counter to the argument of the writers, Yale must retain the current name of Calhoun College.

Although the legacy of John C. Calhoun is undoubtedly counter to the values we currently hold as a society, it is extremely important that we continue to acknowledge past injustices to enable every generation to understand the moral evolution of American society. As cliché as it may be, history reminds us of the failings of human nature. Erasing Calhoun’s name is tantamount to disavowing a central portion of the legacy of our country. It will deprive future generations of the opportunity to deeply reflect on the progression of humanity in America.

Removing Calhoun’s name now is especially troubling as the history of our nation has become even more intertwined with contemporary events. The legacy of police brutal-

ity and feelings of disenfranchisement within the African-American community undeniably originate in the very philosophical beliefs promoted by John C. Calhoun. Knowledge of racial subjugation is integral to understanding the modern situation. Confining references of slavery to the dusty pages of history books or the easily forgotten words of a lecturer do not confer the relevancy of historical injustices to modernday events. In contrast, Calhoun’s name serves as an ever-present reminder that the specter of the past can cast a perpetual pallor over the present.

Aside from Calhoun’s historical significance, as an African-American student at Yale University, I appreciated that the name of John C. Calhoun remained a potent force for reflection on the legacy of enslavement imposed upon the ancestors of many in America. Calhoun’s name serves as a constant reminder of the ignoble past, but is also a beacon to acknowledge the progress that has taken place in our society. It was not lost on me that both the Master (Jonathan Holloway) and the Dean (Leslie Woodard) of Calhoun College during my time at Yale were African American. Their positions in posts

of authority juxtaposed against the harsh reality of Calhoun’s advocacy of slavery served as a tangible reminder that minorities have made incredible strides in society — and that we can look forward to a future of continual progress.

In closing, it is undeniable that Yale is unequivocally opposed to both the ideas and legacy of John C. Calhoun. No rational observer would conclude that by retaining the name of Calhoun College, Yale intends to glorify the legacy of oppression Calhoun advocated. Replacing Calhoun’s name with another — more culturally progressive — alumnus of Yale’s, however, would function to absolve the legacy of our nation, and wash away past sins under a façade.

Yale prides itself on educating the brightest minds and the future leaders of our generation. Ensuring Calhoun’s name remains perpetually installed upon the college will force every subsequent generation to proactively reflect on the lingering impact of slavery in our society to this day — and make the Yale experience all the richer for it.

JORDON WALKER The writer is a 2013 alumnus of Calhoun College.

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NEWS

“People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.” DAVE GROHL AMERICAN ROCK MUSICIAN

CORRECTION

After report, issues remain at cultural centers

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A previous version of the article “New grad dorms on Elm Street to displace Broadway parking” incorrectly stated the intersection of streets that City Economic Development Director Matthew Nemerson was referring to. He was speaking about Whalley Avenue, Broadway and Goffe Street — not Elm Street, Broadway and York Street.

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BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Freshmen entering Yale’s cultural centers for the first time this fall may be wowed by some of the newly renovated spaces, but veteran members of cultural organizations say that concerns remain.

Following an external consultation last December and several student-led discussions that spanned the spring term — both of which took issue with the University’s lack of attention to its cultural spaces — administrators in May promised to reaffirm the importance of Yale’s cultural spaces, both physically and more abstractly. Many of the more tangible changes materialized over the summer, with the hiring of three new directors for the centers and renovation of three of the houses.

Both La Casa Cultural and the Asian American Cultural Center are no longer filled with asbestos, and the live wires in the basement of La Casa have been removed. The AACC received a new paint job, flooring and lighting. A shared handicap ramp was installed for the AACC and La Casa, said AACC director Saveena Dhall, who called the new space “radiant.” The three new directors — which include Eileen Galvez, director of La Casa; Kelly Fayard, director of the Native American Cultural Center; and Rise Nelson Burrow, director of the Afro-American Cultural Center — also hold positions as assistant deans of Yale College.

But some students say these preliminary changes do not address deeper concerns about the cultural houses, including their remote locations. Additionally, few details have emerged about a promised increase in funding for the centers.

“We need to measure commitment not as an attitude but in the form of continued action and dialogue,” said Edward Dong ’17, co-head coordinator for the AACC. “We want to see the University recognize its students’ cultural lives not as baggage to be accommodated but rather as part and parcel of the growth and learning that takes place on this campus.”

For the Af-Am House, at least, a new dean seems to have made a significant difference.

Paige Curtis ’16, the house’s head peer liaison, said Nelson’s appointment “definitely signifies that the centers are now a priority for the

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Three of Yale’s cultural centers were renovated over the summer.

Yale administration.”

But for some of the other houses, these changes are only the beginning. Galvez said the renovations to La Casa make it a warmer place, but she added that they do not change the fact that the house is located on Crown Street, which many students consider to be the outskirts of campus.

Jessica Liang ’17 said the same about the AACC, for which she serves as co-head coordinator.

“While the [renovations] give the center a fresher appearance, that doesn’t change the fact that the AACC is still on the outskirts of campus and still retains its previous capacity,” Liang said. “There is still no implemented shuttle route to facilitate access to the center, nor has the 180-person cap been expanded at all to accommodate our community of about 3,800 Asian-American students.”

Additionally, Liang said, she has not received any details about the promised increase in funding for the center, which will support the hiring of a new graduate assistant.

LiLi Johnson GRD ’18, one of the AACC’s graduate student assistants, said that while the hiring of an additional graduate student will help divide the center’s work more evenly,

the ideal would be to hire full-time staff whose sole responsibilities are at the AACC. When interviewed in June, after their hirings were announced, all three new cultural house directors acknowledged that they were assuming their roles at a time when the cultural centers were the focus of much scrutiny. They all said conversations with students would guide their actions in the new year.

Galvez said it is still too early to tell what shape those actions will take, but she added that it will become more clear as students, especially freshmen, become more acclimated to campus.

“It’s difficult to ask a question, when you don’t know what you don’t know,” she said.

“Time will tell as the new cultural center directors and I get acclimated, get to know stakeholders across campus and get embedded in the vibrancy found at Yale.”

Still, more work remains to be done. New furniture has been ordered for the two centers, but it has not yet arrived. It is set to arrive next month, although the centers will open for community use next week.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

DMCA restructuring promises new offerings amid controversy

BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER For the first time in its 18-year history, the Digital Media Center for the Arts is undergoing a largescale restructuring of its leadership and function — a transition that has been met with both anticipation and condemnation.

On July 8, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway announced in an email to arts directors and administrators that Johannes DeYoung, the Director of Digital Technology at the Yale School of Art, would be the first-ever faculty member to lead the center, starting on Aug. 10. DeYoung, who has been a Film, Video, and Interdisciplinary Studies faculty member since 2008, is also a lecturer in design at the Yale School of Drama.

Holloway wrote in his announcement that the appointment followed the recommendation of an ad hoc committee that he had called in November 2014.

He wrote that he had tasked the group with strengthening the DMCA’s connections to the academic offerings of Yale College and the graduate art schools. Members of the committee included faculty and administrative representatives from Yale College, the Schools of Art and Drama, the Film and Media Studies program and Information Technology Services.

But while the center’s transformation will usher in new technological capabilities and arts programs for students across the University, the restructuring has also resulted in changes to the center’s staff that have prompted outrage from a number of current students and alumni.

A CONTROVERSIAL TRANSITION

With DeYoung’s appointment came the elimination of the digital media specialist positions, and therefore the layoffs of Lee Faulkner and Ken Lovell, the center’s founders and former associate directors. Shortly after news of the layoffs spread through the Yale community, many students and alumni decided to express their dissatisfaction through email and social media. Dozens wrote to the Yale College Dean’s Office, and as of last night, 530 individuals had signed on to a change.org petition that was started by a group of current students and Yale School of Art alumni calling for a reversal of the University’s decision to remove Faulkner and Lovell.

Ben Boult ’14, who now works full-time in film and video production, said he learned more from Faulkner than from anyone else at Yale. Boult noted that he has not met a single person with Faulkner’s level of technical expertise, adding that he does not think it makes sense for the University to remove a staff member who is deeply familiar with the DMCA’s history and function.

“This is like saying, ‘We’re going to restructure you by taking out your brain and replacing it with a new one,’” Boult said.

Faulkner said that while he was aware that a review of the DMCA was in progress prior to being laid off, he has never seen the contents of the report. He added that he was not expecting to be laid off, and that he was told the decision was not performance-related.

Holloway noted in his announcement that the appointment of a faculty director will help to sync the center’s mission and programs with recently established curricular programs, such as the Computing and the Arts major and the film concentration within the Art major last year. Committee members interviewed echoed Holloway’s sentiment.

“As a University, our programs need to be driven by our faculty,” said Associate Dean for the Arts Susan Cahan.

DeYoung, who specializes in animation and digital video, stressed that the DMCA must serve the community “broadly and equitably,” adding that his role will help the center actively respond to curricular developments across campus. Pointing to his past collaborations with Yale Dance Theatre faculty director Emily Coates, Theater Studies and YSD professor Joan MacIntosh, and Yale School of Music Deputy Dean Melvin Chen, DeYoung noted that one of his major goals for the DMCA is to continue the spirit of interdisciplinary partnerships.

was informed by a survey that the YCDO had sent out in spring 2014 to all students in Yale College and the four graduate art schools. She explained that the survey’s purpose was to give administrators data about the center’s activities, and which of the resources were generating the most and least amounts of activity.

“That assessment was really the foundation of the decision to convene a strategic planning committee, because we realized that some functions were being very highly utilized, and others barely at all,” Cahan said.

The survey yielded roughly 850 responses, including 350 responses from the 650 students who regularly used the DMCA. Cahan noted that a majority of undergraduate respondents without access to the center reported that they would use it if allowed, adding that the DMCA will now expand its hours to include the weekend.

DeYoung said that since he has assumed his new post, he has launched initiatives to follow the committee’s recommendations for the future. The restructuring plan calls for the establishment of a faculty advisory board as well as several student forums to receive community feedback on the DMCA’s performance.

The restructuring plan also includes the creation of a post-

graduate associate position. Cahan said the post-graduate associate will both serve the students and conduct independent research.

DeYoung said the center’s new initiatives include a series of six workshops for this fall that will be taught by visiting professional artists from a variety of disciplines.

Film Studies Programming Director and Senior Lecturer Ron Gregg, who served on the ad hoc committee, said his “Films at the Whitney” program will be enhanced through workshops and masterclasses held this term through the DMCA. Director of Campus IT Partner Relationship and Development Randy Rode, who also served on the ad hoc advisory committee, said in an email that ITS plans to help build relationships between the DMCA and other tech-related establishments on campus, such as the CEID. ITS, he explained, will be able to provide the DMCA with core IT services, which allows the center’s staff members to focus on its discipline-specific needs.

Several faculty members said that the CEID might serve as a model for the collaborative potential of the DMCA.

FRUSTRATION, THEN ACQUIESCENCE

But while faculty and administrators remain confident in the survey responses and committee

recommendations, all but one of the 10 students interviewed said that news of the restructuring surprised them.

Moreover, several students said they were not aware of any initiative to investigate or restructure the DMCA and questioned why the administration did not directly consult the center’s most frequent users in making such decisions.

Many of the students and alumni expressed concern that the full-time support Faulkner and Lovell were able to provide will no longer be possible under the center’s restructuring.

“There needs to be some person, or multiple people, running the entire ship all the time, and they’re replacing two professionally experienced directors who spent all their time in the DMCA with a professor who’s working part-time to direct it,” said student filmmaker and computing assistant John Chirikjian ’17. “As great as [DeYoung] may be, there just won’t be enough time in his life to dedicate to leading this massive institution.”

All of the student filmmakers, computing assistants and several alumni interviewed — as well as dozens of petition signers — reported that their digital projects or senior thesis projects were made possible only with the help of Faulkner and Lovell.

But in late August, several stu-

dents who had expressed frustration at the original news of the restructuring said they have reluctantly accepted the committee’s decision and have turned their gaze towards the future.

“At the end of the day, the administration is going to do what is best for the University at large, which is not necessarily what’s best for currently enrolled students,” said Daniel Matyas ’16, a student filmmaker and DMCA computing assistant. “As a currently enrolled student, I like to think it’s all about me, but it isn’t.

And that’s been important to recognize.”

Others said they remained optimistic that the administration would respond to cries to rehire Faulkner and Lovell. One of the creators of the change.org petition, Mariya Vlasova ART ’16, said she hopes for a resurgence in activity online and in the community as the academic year begins.

Chirikjian recalled how the administration has listened and responded to past petitions from the Yale community. A computer science major, he pointed out that the University made the decision to hire seven new CS professors after a widely circulated petition in April that called for expansion of the department.

Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .

SUPPORTING A CHANGING ARTS COMMUNITY

Before the 2014–15 academic year, access to the DMCA had been restricted to students of the graduate art schools, majors in Film Studies, Art, Theater Studies, Music or Architecture, and any students enrolled in courses offered by these programs. But starting last fall, the YCDO opened the DMCA to the entirety of Yale College.

Cahan said the expanded access

COURTESY OF YALE UNIVERSITY

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FROM THE FRONT

“I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.” GEORGE H. W. BUSH FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT

Schwarzman’s philanthropic intentions called into question SCHWARZMAN FROM PAGE 1 versity history, a private-equity magnate who made $690 million last year alone.

In an interview with the News following the announcement of the donation in May, Schwarzman described why Commons carried a sentimental significance during his time at Yale.

“When I got to Yale in 1965, I actually knew no one … I didn’t know one undergraduate, one graduate student or one professor,” Schwarzman said. “So I thought the building, itself, was beautiful and I liked sitting at those tables, but I didn’t have anybody at the table to sit with, and in a way, that was a very difficult transition.”

Prior to his arrival at Yale, Schwarzman grew up in suburban Pennsylvania, attending public schools and assisting his family with their drapery and linen business. During his time at the University, Schwarzman mainly studied social sciences, but later attended Harvard Business School, graduating in 1972.

In business, Schwarzman — who founded the Blackstone Group, a private equity giant, in 1985 — does not tread lightly. He is known for making big bets and tirelessly promoting his firm. In many ways, little has changed since his time at Yale.

Money speaks at Yale.

Students speak at Yale. The only difference is one of them is heard.

TYLER BLACKMON ’16 “Steve was a Davenport dynamo,” said R. Thomas Herman ’68, who also lived in Davenport in the late 1960s and currently teaches a Yale college seminar. “Steve was a very impressive self-starter. He was constantly organizing fun events on campus. He is fiercely loyal to his old friends. He is a true mensch.”

Brian Dowling ’69, who was a member of the Skull & Bones society with Schwarzman, described him as someone who had ample self-confidence. He added that Schwarzman had a great sense of humor and as a student, was deeply inter-

ested in taking advantage of the opportunities Yale afforded him.

In regards to the renaming of Commons as the Schwarzman Center, Dowling felt it was a fitting tribute given his generosity.

“It was a great space but it was underutilized. I think it will be greatly utilized now, sort of becoming the center of campus — both geographically and functionally,” he said. “Almost every building has a name on it, so why not honor the people who made the buildings possible?”

Following Harvard Business School, Schwarzman worked for the now-defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers, where he eventually led the mergers and acquisitions department.

In 1985, he founded Blackstone, which brought in revenues of over $7 billion in 2014.

Yale School of Management Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Programs Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who grew up a few blocks from Schwarzman and attended the same high school, described Schwarzman’s financial success as a product of “his own courage, conviction and vision.”

“Steve Schwarzman is a unique combination of the American iconic business leader,” Sonnenfeld wrote in an email. “He represents the finest of the quintessential established pillars of finance and industry, yet has the self-made American Dream origins.”

Sonnenfeld noted that after being conceived in 1985 with $400,000 in assets and two employees, since the 2007 IPO, Blackstone has seen its assets rise from $102 billion to a staggering $303 billion, with profits reaching $3.4 billion. Sonnenfeld added that Schwarzman’s success “will be a lasting source of Yale pride, national enthusiasm and global admiration.”

But not everyone on campus finds pride in Schwarzman’s financial record. In the wake of the gift, many members of the Yale community criticized the University for their decision to rename Commons after Schwarzman, taking issue with the source of his money for the donation. A few days after the gift was announced, an article was posted on the popular campus Facebook group “Overheard at Yale” about the Blackstone Group and its alleged exploitation of the foreclosure crisis.

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Many members of the Yale community criticized the University for their decision to rename Commons after Schwarzman.

The article, which was published in November of 2013 on Occupy.com — an online platform for the Occupy Wall Street movement — focuses on companies that bought large numbers of foreclosed houses at cheap prices during the crisis, only to then rent them back out to the 10 million individuals who were evicted from their homes during the crisis.

The article argued that since the “buying frenzy” began, the Blackstone Group bought more houses than any other company.

Using a subsidiary business, the article went on, Blackstone got hold of houses in foreclosure auctions, through local brokers and in bulk purchases — all with remarkable nonchalance.

Still, Sonnenfeld defended Schwarzman’s commercial and philanthropic efforts.

“While his businesses are responsible for employment of 700,000 people, Blackstone’s business conduct has been

exemplary in legal and ethical standards,” Sonnenfeld said.

“Moreover, [Schwarzman’s] personal philanthropy leading the John [F.] Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the New York Public Library’s flagship building, the Schwarzman Fellows institution with China’s Tsinghua University and now his generous gift to Yale University approach $1 billion, and those are only a few of his philanthropic missions.”

However, Hannah Schmitt ’18 challenged the notion of Schwarzman’s donation being viewed as philanthropy.

“What really matters to me is that Schwarzman had this money and chose to donate it to an institution that is not only extraordinarily rich and powerful, but also too often occupies itself in service to the rich and powerful,” she said. “This is not philanthropy; it is cycling money among by and large privileged people who can cer-

tainly survive without a student union.”

Tyler Blackmon ’16, a staff columnist for the News who was active in the online debate on the topic, said that issues such as this emphasize the need for the University to come up with an objective policy about renaming important buildings on campus.

“Where was the ‘open conversation’ about nixing the name Commons from one of Yale’s most important buildings?” Blackmon asked. “If students set up a Kickstarter campaign, how much money would we have to raise for it to be enough for Yale to nix the name Calhoun College? The double standard here is disappointing but certainly not shocking.

Money speaks at Yale. Students speak at Yale. The only difference is one of them is heard.”

Alexandra Esnouf ’17 predicted that a debate similar to the one that has emerged in Calhoun will take place on cam-

pus regarding the naming of the Schwarzman Center, particularly because the center is being envisioned as a central space for undergraduates, graduate students and professional students to gather.

S t i l l , seve ra l s t u d e n ts acknowledged that Schwarzman has made a hefty contribution to the University warranting recognition.

Yale should take steps to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the University, said Benjamin Marrow ’17. He added that although he believes the money could have been better used elsewhere, he has no issue with Yale recognizing and commending Schwarzman’s contribution by renaming Commons after him.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

Democratic Ward 1 candidates campaign hard for freshman support WARD 1 FROM PAGE 1

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Volunteers for Fish Stark ’17 cite his interest in youth issues as a reason for their support of his campaign.

and handed out voter registration forms to those who needed them.

“Why I’m volunteering out of my time this weekend is that Fish actually cares about the youth,” Nelson said. “He’ll push for the issues that matter to the youth.”

One aspect of the race went unsaid during the pitch: Stark’s opponent, the incumbent Eidelson. In between stops, Lopez-Valdez said most freshmen he has met seem not to know about Eidelson or her bid for re-election.

When Eidelson did come up in a conversation, Lopez-Valdez made sure to emphasize that Stark was the only current Yale student running in the primary.

“It’s a seat traditionally held by a student,” he said. Nelson underscored that Stark supports policies that help youth, and “the person currently in the position hasn’t been doing it.”

Many of Stark’s student volunteers on the weekend, though, rose to prominence through a system that Eidelson worked to institute. Caroline Ricardo and Martin Clark, a senior and junior respectively at New Haven schools, both ran for the two student seats on the Board of Education in the spring.

As chairman of the Youth Services Committee, Eidelson has directed the establishment of those seats, making it one of her prime foci as alder.

Eidelson has championed other areas of youth policy as well. Under her direction, the Youth Services Committee poured nearly half a million dollars into community centers around the city, allowing them to make sorely needed renovations.

Like her Democratic opponent, Eidelson has campaigned since students arrived back on campus.

She and her campaign team were knocking on doors and registering

voters on Old Campus on freshman move-in day, and similar operations have continued since, with her team canvassing the residential colleges and distributing literature.

“The vast majority of people I’ve talked to are excited to register and to learn about where they live and get involved,” she said. “That’s been great to see.”

For Eze, the sole Republican candidate in the race, Stark’s and Eidelson’s form of campaigning is unnecessary at the moment: He still has two months until the general election.

In the Pierson common room last week, Eze said he has so far run a relaxed campaign based on “organic interactions” with students. Eze runs the gamut of Yale extracurriculars, from the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union to the Hip-Hop Collective.

He said he has leveraged his extracurricular involvement as a means to meet as many students, especially freshmen, as possible. His wide range of activities, he said, lets him “resonate” with many different types of people across campus.

“We’re not trying to reach out to people who are from political families or are already super-involved in politics,” he said. “We’re trying to reach out to people who aren’t involved, who typically wouldn’t vote.”

He criticized Stark and Eidelson for their aggressive campaigning throughout the first days of college.

Describing Camp Yale as a “very special time,” he said he doesn’t want to “compromise it with politics.”

Instead, Eze said he will continue to pursue his strategy of casual conversations with voters in a nonpolitical context throughout the immediate future.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Comfort is key for a barbecue.”

ASHLEY MADEKWE ENGLISH ACTRESS

SOM modifies core curriculum

Eight weeks until election, Harp hosts cookout

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER

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The School of Management’s core curriculum has undergone several changes for the new academic year.

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER The School of Management’s core curriculum underwent a series of changes this fall, namely those targeted at enhancing students’ global exposure.

Following months of faculty-conducted research, student focus groups and multiple meetings of the SOM’s senior faculty, modifications to the core curriculum were officially approved late last spring.

While some of the changes concern rearranging course material into new classes under different names, the most significant addition involves the introduction of an entirely new course, “Global Virtual Teams.” By requiring SOM students in New Haven to work on project simulations with students from business schools in Paris and Mexico, the course aims to prepare students for team-based business management that crosses borders and oceans.

“We know from all of our stakeholders who lead companies that people have to collaborate constantly with colleagues who are scattered around the world,” said SOM Senior Associate Dean Anjani Jain.

“You have to overcome language and time differences. This course will pay attention to the team dynamics and how individuals and teams create a higher performance organization.”

Both Jain and SOM Associate Dean David Bach said they were not aware of any other business schools that offer courses like “Global Virtual Teams.” While this year’s course will involve students from the SOM, HEC in Paris and EGADE Business School in Nuevo León, Mexico, Bach said he hopes that the course will grow to

include as many of the SOM’s schools in the Global Network — an international partnership of schools founded by SOM Dean Ted Snyder in 2011 — as possible.

Bach said as many as 10 Global Network schools were approached for participation in the course but that a number of challenges arose in securing their participation. Some business schools expressed hesitation in joining a program as new as “Global Virtual Teams,” Bach said. Others could not commit due to scheduling conflicts as the course — which will be offered during the first half of the spring semester — has to align with the semester schedules of each partner school. Bach admitted that coordinating a critical mass of schools was more difficult than he expected.

“I underestimated how many factors come into play and how many factors you have to control to get this lined up,” he said.

SOM professor Amy Wrzesniewski, one of the architects of the course, said she hopes that students who take it will be better equipped to enter the workforce, because they will be exposed to the different ways global business teams operate. It is easy to assume that all teams in the business world work the same way, she said, but being unprepared to face structural and procedural differences with collaborators can prevent people from achieving their goals.

Despite the novelty of “Global Virtual Teams,” Bach and Jain agreed that this year’s core curriculum changes are not drastic in nature. Rather, the core generally undergoes changes every few years, they said.

SOM professor Olav Sorenson, who also serves as the director of the core curricu-

lum, said that through a series of student focus groups that he led in the spring and fall of 2014, it was clear that students were feeling overwhelmed with the amount of material covered in the first part of the core. Sorensen said that over the past year, he looked for ways to decongest the beginning of the fall semester and reduce overlapping course material.

Of the SOM students interviewed, all spoke positively about the core’s changes, particularly regarding the introduction of “Global Virtual Teams.” However, almost all first-year students acknowledged that they were only a few weeks into the core curriculum and could not speak definitively about the impacts of those changes.

Second-year students said they were not particularly dissatisfied with the core curriculum they completed last year.

Douglas Wynne SOM ’17 said that before beginning business school he worked at a company with international offices in London, Prague and Sydney, where he was often required to set up conference calls early in the morning or late at night to accommodate various schedules. Wynne said he was looking forward to taking “Global Virtual Teams” because this kind of international exposure reflects current modes of thinking.

Surbhi Lal SOM ’17 said she previously worked with a business team based in India, and can now see the advantages of practicing how to navigate different business cultures and time zones.

The Global Network currently includes 27 business schools in 25 countries.

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

While students lounged on Cross Campus were enjoying one of the last weekends of summer, supporters of Mayor Toni Harp gathered at the Elks on Dixwell Avenue for food, music and conversation.

More of a party than a formal campaign event, the Labor Day Weekend Cookout on Saturday afternoon was more a chance for Harp to connect with longtime supporters rather than solicit votes. The event was representative of Harp’s campaign style, which has consisted of several meet-and-greet events, such as a birthday celebration and a painting party. Eight weeks from election day, Harp has secured the support of Senators Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy, as well as Rep. Rosa DeLauro and several alders.

Her opponents, Newhallville plumber Sundiata Keitazulu and former City Clerk Ron Smith, will face her as independents in the general election on Nov. 3.

“We’re moving forward,” Harp’s campaign manager Rick Melita said. “The last eight weeks are a critical time in terms of getting the word out and getting people to the polls.”

In addition to grilling stations serving hamburgers and hot dogs, the mayor’s cookout featured a DJ booth and a moon bounce. Although it took place on Labor Day Weekend, when many people leave town, the barbecue — which was publicized through Harp’s campaign website, emails and Facebook — drew a crowd. Close to 800 were invited through the event’s Facebook page.

Melita said the event was a chance for Harp, who represented New Haven as a state senator before her term as mayor, to connect with old friends.

Among the attendees were Newhallville Alder Brenda Foskey-Cyrus, one of several alders who has endorsed Harp. Melita said he has not spoken to any alders who oppose Harp’s bid.

Foskey-Cyrus, who was also one of 18 alders to formally endorse Harp in 2013, said the cookout

was an enjoyable social event where she was able to converse with the mayor one-on-one.

Foskey-Cyrus is also one of eight alders who will compete in the aldermanic primary elections on Sept. 16. Melita added that, generally, Harp will support the incumbent alders in the primary elections.

Smith, who formally declared his bid for mayor in late July, has not held any publicized campaign events since his announcement. His campaign has planned a barbecue meetand-greet similar to Harp’s cookout for Sept. 11. Keitazulu, meanwhile, said he plans to spend his time campaigning door-to-door.

The last eight weeks are a critical time in terms of getting the word out and getting people to the polls.

RICK MELITA Campaign manager, Mayor Toni Harp “Harp doesn’t need a campaign,” Keitazulu said, adding that the incumbent’s support is strong enough to grant her a landslide victory because many city residents are not even aware that she is being challenged by two opponents.

Hill Alder Dolores Colon ’91, who said she believes Harp does not have serious opposition, said that any candidate who challenges Harp will have a difficult time given her record and support.

Melita said that while the next two months of campaigning are the most critical for the mayoral election, he expects mayoral campaign events to slow down in the two weeks leading up to the aldermanic primaries as city residents will be focused on the local races. Once the primaries have been decided, the Harp campaign will pick up the pace, he said.

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

York Street Flavors-less after froyo store closing

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER One year after Polar Delight and Pinkberry closed their doors, a third frozen yogurt shop has bitten the dust.

Flavors, located at 290 York St., posted a sign on its window in early September announcing a search for new tenants, who were instructed to call the property landlord. The store was empty except for several boxes, deconstructed frozen yogurt machines and remnants of the counter, which had been torn down. Owner Mohamed Elsamra could not be reached for comment, but Elliot Detchon ’67, who owns the frozen yogurt store Go Greenly on 48 Whitney Ave., said the presence of several frozen yogurt shops, including Froyo World on 46 High St., created tough competition for his business and likely Flavors’ as well.

“There were a burst of stores opening all within a relatively short time, and there is only so much of that business you can sustain because competition can weed things out pretty quickly,” Detchon said. “I feel like it is fortunate just to be survivors at the moment.”

Anthony Koutroumanis, Flavors’ landlord, said he does not know why Flavors’ owners chose to close the store, adding that he had not been aware of any plans to close Flavors until the owners told him near the end of August. Koutroumanis noted that he did not know who would be his next tenant.

“Whoever pays the rent,” Koutroumanis said. “If a dress shop pays the rent, then I’ll bring a dress shop in.”

Flavors opened in fall 2011, after the arrival of Froyo World, which set up shop in 2010. In 2011, Froyo World owner William Bok publicly accused Flavors of stealing his store’s marketing strategies. Go Greenly, Polar Delight and Pinkberry all opened their doors in 2013.

Joyce Koltisko ’18 said she believes that because Flavors and Froyo World were in close proximity to each other, the closing of one did not create much of an inconvenience for her.

“Seeing the closing of Flavors was certainly a surprise,” said Koltisko. “It was in a central location. But realistically, anyone going to Flavors would also go to Froyo World because they are not too far from each

other.”

Koltisko added that the impact of Flavors’ closing was further softened by the store’s proximity to Ashley’s Ice Cream, which also sells frozen treats.

Detchon also highlighted that New England’s cold winters made New Haven a lessthan-ideal location for frozen yogurt shops. He added that while his store is expanding its menu to include seasonal items such as hot drinks, the dearth of frozen yogurt customers in the winter likely resulted in lower revenues for the area’s frozen yogurt shops, including Flavors.

Nicole Clark ’16 agreed that opening a frozen yogurt shop in New England was probably not the most foolproof business decision.

“I don’t understand why you’d need more than two frozen yogurt shops in a place whose main consumer base is there when Yale is under a blanket of snow,” Clark said.

A recent report by USA Today found that college students order frozen yogurt more often than any other food item.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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Flavors, the frozen yogurt shop located at 290 York St., closed in early September.

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“Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to computers or science.” NEIL GERSHENFELD MIT PROFESSOR

Varga graduates from Ivy League to the NFL VARGA FROM PAGE 1 running backs Vick Ballard and rookie Josh Robinson, Varga may have a chance at getting carries behind star back Frank Gore this Sunday. “[The NFL] is a huge step up [from the Ivy League], but we’re talking about Tyler Varga,” said Larry Ciotti, Varga’s former running backs coach at Yale. “He’s a tremendous athlete with great strength and terrific knowledge of being a running back … the Colts think they know what they have, but he is going to be above and beyond what they think.”

Varga was a consistent presence both at running back and on special teams during the preseason, making his primary role with the Colts not entirely certain heading into Week 1 on Sunday. Ciotti noted that the recent injuries to other running backs strengthen his chances of getting in the game as a running back, but he also may get playing time as a blocker on special teams.

Showing his versatility as a football player, Varga has played as a personal protector on the punting unit, a linebacker for the punt return team and an upback during kick returns. All of these positions, according to Ciotti, are opportunities for Varga to prove his worth to the Colts.

“He has to take every opportunity to excel on special teams,” Ciotti said. “I’ve always told him that an opportunity missed is an opportunity lost. Tyler picks up on that.”

The lone running back in the final 22 roster cuts was Zurlon Tipton, who signed as an undrafted free agent in 2014 but did not play for the Colts until the latter half of last season.

Varga, who was also an undrafted free agent, worked to make a strong case for himself in the Colts’ preseason.

He appeared in all four games,

most notably scoring a one-yard touchdown in Week 3 and then breaking out for a 19-yard run in last Thursday’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Colts’ decision to keep Varga marks their 17th consecutive season of holding an undrafted free agent on their 53-man roster. Undrafted free agents often face a long uphill battle to make a team’s final roster, but Varga’s prospects improved throughout his preseason performance. To his former teammates, however, the final result was never unexpected.

“Tyler’s most recent accomplishment is supremely impressive, but it’s not surprising in the least,” former offensive lineman Will Chism ’15 said in a message to the News. “Anyone who’s played with him knows he’s the real deal. He’s methodical in his physical training, meticulous in his mental preparation, he’s a fantastic teammate and he’s got heart.”

Ciotti said that while watching Varga’s play at the Senior Bowl in February and in the preseason this past month, he could see no difference between his production for the Colts and his performance at Yale. Head coach Tony Reno agreed, noting that Varga has qualities that allow him to compete at every level.

“From a physical standpoint, Tyler has all the tools,” Reno said. “He’s got great speed, he changes direction well, he can block and catch and he’s very physical. For the mental piece, Tyler has complete control of the game … If you have both of those, no matter what league you’re playing in, you can really excel.”

The Colts begin their season next Sunday, Sept. 13, on the road against the Buffalo Bills.

Kickoff is slated for 1 p.m. EDT. Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

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Varga tied the Yale single-game record with five touchdowns in two different contests in 2014.

SOBs barred from a cappella rush process SOB FROM PAGE 1 fate of the perpetrator is still uncertain, but according to a member of another a cappella group on campus, the offender will face the Executive Committee as a result of his actions.

The SOBs’ “singing dessert” — a recruitment event designed to showcase the group’s repertoire to interested singers — which had been scheduled for Monday evening, was canceled, as were any previously scheduled rush meals, during which prospective members meet with current members of the group.

“The SOBs wish to express their sincere regrets that the events of this past weekend transpired as they did, affected such a broad swath of the Yale community, and foremost, that fewer members of the class of 2019 may have the opportunity to participate in a cappella at Yale,” the SOBs told the News in a joint statement Monday night.

The YCDO is still in talks with the SGC and the SOBs, and additional punishments may still be handed down, said Grant Fergusson ’17, a cochair of the SGC. If there is any kind of appeals process, he added, that will likely be between the SOBs and the administration.

Students who had planned to rush the SOBs will now be allowed to audition for additional groups or groups that they had previously stopped rushing. Fergusson said he does not anticipate that the rush process, which usually spans three weeks, will be extended because of the incident.

Still, members of the a cappella community have criticized the administration’s decision, stating that it unfairly targets the entire group — as well as freshmen interested in joining the SOBs — rather than the individual perpetrator.

On Monday evening, the SGC held a meeting with representatives of each of its 15 affiliated a cappella groups. According to an attendee who insisted upon anonymity, students there unanimously agreed that the Dean’s Office decision will more negatively impact interested freshmen than the singing group itself.

“The bottom line is the Dean’s Office came out a lot harder than the SGC had hoped,” he said, adding that

freshmen interested in the SOBs now face a lose-lose situation, as they can either try out for their second-choice group or wait a year to audition.

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Hannah Peck did not return a request for comment.

A member of an all-female a cappella group on campus, who asked to remain anonymous because her views do not necessarily reflect those of her singing group, said the SOBs’ removal from rush could hurt the group’s long-term legacy in the a cappella community.

“Every tap class is very special, so to take that away from everyone [will cause] damage to the group,” she said. “They’re not going to recover from this for at least five, maybe 10 years.”

But others were confident that the punishment would do nothing to hurt the SOBs’ reputation.

A member of a male a cappella group on campus who asked to remain anonymous because he did not want any negative attention focused on his group, said he found the pranks to be “hilarious” and typical of the SOBs, who have a reputation for being jokesters. He added that he does not expect the incident to lessen interest in the group going forward.

“I think they’re known to be a joking group of guys, and I think it’s hilarious,” he said. “For the kids that they’re looking for, I don’t think that this would deter them much.”

Fergusson noted that there is always friendly competition between groups, but he said rush usually goes smoothly and that any pranks are usually minor. This one, he acknowledged, was “kind of a fluke.”

He added that the SGC is exploring ways to allow the SOBs to recruit new members before rush next fall, although the a cappella groups do not traditionally hold spring rush.

“Obviously that’s a high target, and we don’t know if it’s feasible, but we are trying,” he said. “We’re not trying to villainize the SOBs for anything. We really are a community.”

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

CS50: a cultural phenomenon CS50 FROM PAGE 1 and has become a kind of a cultural phenomenon. The first day of class included music played by a disc jockey and cake. The Facebook Group “Overheard at Yale” and the Yale Rumpus Twitter page featured many live update posts during the first lectures. One Overheard post even referenced a sarcastic remark made by another computer science professor to his students on the first day of lecture.

“This is not a Broadway show.

That’s CS50,” the post reads.

At the Yale Up! pep rally on Saturday, even Yale College Dean Jona-

than Holloway compared the boisterous celebration of reveling Yale students to the hype of a CS50 lecture. “I don’t know whether this is Yale Up! or CS50,” Holloway said through cheers.

Students interviewed at Puzzle Day who plan on taking the course acknowledged “extensive hype” surrounding it, but six out of seven students said they believe it is warranted. The special effects and prizes that epitomize the class help students get excited to learn about computer science and encourage those who have never been exposed to computer science before to take the course, said Yingjie Wang ’17.

“I think [CS50] is actually making people excited about learning, and from what I’ve heard from other students at Harvard and who have taken the course online, it is actually a good class,” she said.

Wang, who is still shopping the course, said she wonders whether this initial excitement and momentum will be sustainable throughout the semester. She said she is unsure whether students will be this enthralled midway through the semester, after the cake runs out and the DJs disappear.

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

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Wrongfully convicted Johnson released after nine years in prison

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER After serving nine years of a 38-year sentence for a murder he did not commit, Bobby Johnson was released from prison on Friday.

The year was 2006, and Johnson, aged 16, was brought in for questioning regarding the murder of Herbert Fields, a 70-year old Newhallville resident. Kwame Wells-Jordan, Johnson’s friend who was 14 at the time, was also picked up for the same crime, but the two boys had very different fates. Both were accused of murder, falsely told by detectives that there was forensic evidence against them and pressured to confess. But at the police station, Wells-Jordan refused to confess and was escorted away by his aunt, Julia Sykes, while John-

son was pressured to confess by being told that he would never see his family again and be subject to the death penalty.

Wells-Jordan’s defense attorney, Diane Polan, fought the charges in court, and Wells-Jordan was acquitted. Johnson, however, had confessed, and his lawyer failed to investigate further in an effort to clear his name. Johnson plead guilty in exchange for a 38-year sentence, rather than taking his chances in court. After five years working on Johnson’s behalf, the Connecticut Innocence Project and defense attorney Kenneth Rosenthal helped bring justice to Johnson and his family this past Friday.

“This is like the perfect storm,” Rosenthal said. “Police officers who misuse their power in strong-arming a confession, followed by a prosecutor who didn’t

do anything to look at the evidence that they had, as well as not turning over exculpatory evidence about the misconduct, and then you have a defense lawyer who didn’t do anything … and then you have a court system that allows this to happen.”

Rosenthal said the two New Haven detectives who worked the Fields case — Michael Quinn and Clarence Willoughby — claimed to have a 100 percent solvability rate and prided themselves on rapidly closing murder investigations.

However, according to the petition for writ of habeas corpus, submitted by Rosenthal, both detectives had a history of corruption, including fabricating police documents and stealing funds used for policemen to access confidential informants during investigations. In John-

Symposium aids undergrad research

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG AND ANDI WANG STAFF REPORTERS On Monday, the Yale Undergraduate Research Association hosted Yale’s first undergraduate research symposium — an all-day event that gave almost 50 student researchers the opportunity to showcase their findings.

In the hallway of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, roughly 100 undergraduates gathered in small groups around the 48 presenters, who displayed their summer research on topics ranging from Japanese-American identity in the internment period during WWII, to the role of the protein ATF4 in Lung Adenocarcinoma Metastasis.

The symposium began with a keynote speech by Megan Urry, director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the first tenured woman in Yale’s Physics Department, proceeded with four speakers selected from the larger group of researchers — and concluded with an awards ceremony.

The Monday event was the first-ever interdisciplinary symposium for undergraduate research at Yale, said Daniel Lee ’16, an organizer of the event. The idea for the symposium, Lee said, was to give students the chance to capstone their summer projects — an opportunity they previously lacked. He added that he hopes the symposium will now be held each year.

Similarly, Jingjing Xiao ’18, one of YURA’s board members, said the event aims to cultivate a broader culture of research at Yale that would encourage greater collaboration among students.

“A lot of why I came to Yale was because 98 percent of STEM students engage in research before graduating, but when I got here I saw that research jobs were separated by department,” said Xiao.

“In reality, the way Yale treats education isn’t so compartmentalized — we come into Yale undecided majors so that we have the opportunity to explore a wide range of majors.”

For this reason, Xiao said, undergraduates can explore a wider range of topics and discover new passions by engaging with each other’s ideas — something that the event facilitates.

The symposium is supposed to represent all subjects from humanities to social sciences to natural sciences, although this year 41 out of 48 selected projects are in STEM fields, with biology taking up 22 spots alone. There were six research projects in social sciences and one in humanities.

Juliana Coraor ’16, a director on the organizing board, said that the board will continue to make an effort to diversify the disciplines presented.

“Although we all come from science backgrounds, we want to get away from this idea that only science research is worth doing and to have a more even-balanced symposium,” Lee said.

One perk of the event for presenters was that it gave them an opportunity to practice putting their research into accessible terms rather than appealing only to experts, said Andrew Saydjari ’18, who presented on research he had conducted on the origins of life on earth. While he was comfortable speaking to his coworkers in the lab about the project

and to academic advisors, he saw value in being able to articulate his research to people inexperienced in the field.

This skill, he added, was crucial when applying for grants and forced him to consider his area of expertise from other perspectives.

“I think some of the best scientific breakthroughs are going to come through people looking at each other’s work and discussing it,” he said. “I’m a chemist, but I’m working on a biochemistry project and some of the pleasure of it comes from looking at it from a much different perspective.”

Urry said that for college students who are interested in research as a profession, their first priority at college is to find which field is the right fit.

“I didn’t do any research while I was studying at Tufts as an undergrad because [undergraduate research] was not a thing. And yet there is nothing more important for an undergrad than figuring out what you want to do,” Urry said.

Urry told the News that undergraduate researchers can often make meaningful contributions, and that the Physics Department often sees undergraduates as coauthors of published articles.

Roughly 60 students submitted their projects for admission to the symposium. The winners of the competition were Saydjari, Blake Smith ’16 and Daniel McQuaid ’18.

Contact BRENDAN HELLWIG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu and ANDI WANG at andi.wang@yale.edu .

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Anamika Veeramani ’18 (right) explains results from her work during the first undergrad research symposium.

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son’s case, the detectives claimed that information from a confidential informant had provided them with the justification needed to bring Johnson in for questioning. At the time that the suspect was being prosecuted, no one disclosed any of this exculpatory evidence to Johnson or his council.

Meanwhile, forensic evidence released during the course of the most recent investigation linked two others — Larry Mabery and Richard “Bo-Bo” Benson — with Fields’ murder. According to the petition, a .45 caliber semi-automatic recovered from Mabery matched the gun used to kill Fields, and a “conclusive” match of Benson’s right palm was lifted from Fields’ car.

Johnson’s confession, however, was enough to dissuade the two detectives from pursuing poten-

tial other suspects in the case.

Johnson spent years pursuing his case through typical legal channels, but it wasn’t until Rosenthal brought the case to Deputy Chief State’s Attorney Leonard Boyle that progress was made. An investigation spearheaded by the State’s Attorney Office led to the hearing last Friday.

Two lawyers close to the case offered high praise for both the defense and the prosecution.

“It seemed like the perfect case for Ken [Rosenthal] because it was a case that required a tremendous amount of investigation and someone who was never going to say ‘This is impossible.’ And that’s Ken,” said Darcy McGraw, head of the Connecticut Innocence Project.

Rosenthal praised New Haven State’s Attorney Michael Dear-

ington for “exercis[ing] his power responsibly” and filing the motion to set aside the conviction.

Now Johnson is busy trying to get back to life as a civilian. He is working towards obtaining his driver’s license and other forms of identification. He does have great job opportunities, McGraw told the News. But she did note that Johnson has a “very supportive” family that could prove critical in helping him get back on his feet.

As Johnson left the New Haven Superior Courthouse, he was surrounded by family and greeted by cheers. He smiled as he talked about looking forward to spending time with his family.

“You see how crazy these people are,” Johnson told the crowd.

Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .

Yale Dining to introduce vegan desserts

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Yale Dining has developed new vegan desserts in response to student interest.

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER This semester, Yale Dining will offer new dessert options for vegan students.

Bakers in Yale Dining recently developed new vegan desserts in response to student interest, said Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke SOM ’86. Director of Culinary Excellence Ron DeSantis said offerings would now include vegan cupcakes, cookies and tarts, adding that Yale Dining began to explore vegan desserts in 2013 when an expert in vegan cuisine visited Yale. Catherine Henry ’17, a vegan who moved off-campus because of a lack of edible options, noted that while these treats represent a step in the right direction, they fail to address the major challenge she faced: putting together nutritional meals.

“I think it’s great that they’re expanding vegan desserts, but it’s only a start. The reason I moved off campus wasn’t because of the desserts — it was the main meals,” she said. “If you live on campus, you have to be on the meal plan. They always provided me with something to eat, but it was too expensive considering I ate green beans for dinner every night.”

Henry said she would have “loved to stay on campus,” adding that she does not fault Yale for making residential students purchase meal plans. Given that dorms do not have kitchens, she said, instituting such a requirement ensures that students will be fed.

DeSantis said Yale Dining has been interested in expanding its vegan offerings since Chef Tal Ronnen — an expert in vegan cuisine — visited Yale in 2013. The goal in the development of these dishes is to create recipes that are both delicious and vegan, he said.

“Chef Tal Ronnen was a guest chef for Yale Dining and introduced us to delicious vegan foods. During his visit in November 2013 we began exploring vegan desserts, testing them and refining them to become part of our daily

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offerings,” DeSantis said. “We like to think of them as delicious desserts that happen to be vegan. Our offerings this year will consist of cupcakes, cookies and delicious tarts.”

Berkeley Cook’s Helper Audrey Martineau said there is no downside to adding new desserts — the more options the better. She added that vegans are especially limited, so she understands why Yale Dining is focusing on improving their culinary experiences.

General Services Associate Harold Turnage said he also is excited about the new desserts, because they likely will increase satisfaction and enjoyment amongst vegan students.

“I think adding vegan desserts is important, so everyone can experience their comfort foods,” he said. “If you’re a vegan, we sometimes didn’t have anything — now they’ll have a choice.”

Lynn Han ’19 said she thinks developing these dishes was a smart idea, adding that it would be even better if they were healthy as well. Monica McDonough ’19 said she also approves of the offerings, because they are modern and beneficial to vegan students.

“I’m happy for my vegan friends, because now they can have dessert,” she said. “I think it is very smart to give vegans new options — and vegan desserts also sound trendy.”

But Haley Mitchell-Adams ’18 said that providing new vegan desserts would prove to be detrimental to students, and Yale Dining should instead be focusing on major dinner items.

“I think vegan desserts aren’t helping anyone. Vegans need actual vegan food — not desserts,” she said. “A vegan diet is healthy, but vegan alternatives to already unhealthy food are not.’

Other desserts offered by Yale Dining include assorted fruit, Jell-O, pudding and yogurt.

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“Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IRISH PLAYWRIGHT

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Catholic groups expect record turnout for Pope

Development alters Collegetown

BY TALIA JUBAS In the absence of local hotspots such as Pixel Lounge and The Chapter House, and with a number of new construction projects completed or underway, the Collegetown landscape has been the home to many new development changes since last semester.

Steve Fontana’s Eddy Street development, Josh Lower’s Collegetown Crossing and Pat Kraft’s new Kraftees building recently broke ground on new projects.

Fontana plans to open Dryden Eddy Apartments, which displaced Pixel Lounge and Club Sudz, in August 2016, with a complex featuring an on-site fitness room, laundry machines and air conditioning, among other amenities.

Kraftees has temporarily relocated to 313 College Ave. after construction began on a new building at 205 Dryden Rd. in June. Plans for the new building, known as Dryden South, include Kraftees in a retail space on the bottom floor, beneath five floors of residential apartments.

Meanwhile, Lower’s longawaited mid-rise, Collegetown Crossing, is slated for a June 2016 completion. Leasing space on the bottom floor, Greenstar Cooperative Market will open in July 2016, and leases will begin mid-August.

While much development is underway, some Collegetown construction projects are now complete. This semester, Lambrou Real Estate moved the first tenants into a three-apartment expansion to its building at 114 Catherine St. The building, Nick Lambrou argues, is modest in respect to what the new zoning laws — which sparked the increase in construction — allow.

“Just because the zoning says something doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do,” Lambrou said.

“I think it’s better the way it’s constructed.”

Additionally, the house at 202 Eddy St. saw completion this summer. A fire destroyed the original, historic 11-person building in March 2014, and according to Lambrou, the new property stands as an exact replica of its predecessor.

“Nobody got hurt, thank God, but we had to go through the process of reconstructing,” he said.

Calling the building almost unique in a neighborhood where most new construction is on apartment complexes, Lambrou said he is proud of the house’s design. He also said he is confident he could win an Ithaca Pride

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As of last week, 931 people signed up to walk down together to the papal mass in Philadelphia on Sept. 25.

BY DAN SPINELLI It’s not Homecoming or Spring Fling, but Penn students will be out in droves for Pope Francis’ visit to Philadelphia.

As of last week, 931 people are signed up with the Penn Newman Center to walk down together from St. Agatha-St. James Church at 38th and Chestnut Streets to the papal mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. That number is expected to exceed 1,000 people well before the pope’s visit.

The attendees will have breakfast at the Newman Center in the morning before walking to Center City for the mass.

An additional 240 people are registered to volunteer at the World Meeting of Families through the Penn Catholic Students Association.

This high level of participation among Penn students — both Catholic and nonCatholic — is unprecedented for either the Newman Center or the PCSA. “These people are coming out of the woodwork and want to be involved,” said Penn Newman Vice President and Wharton and College senior Andrea Muglia.

“This is the first time a religious figure will captivate a secular research university.”

Muglia helps run the Penn for Pope Francis Facebook page, which distributes information about events during the weekend of his visit. She is thrilled PENN by the amount of interest in the Pope’s visit, sparked in part from Penn announcing the suspension of classes on Friday, Sept. 25.

“When the school announced that they were canceling school on Friday, that was the biggest publicity we’ve gotten,” Muglia said.

Penn Newman will also host the acclaimed Jesuit author and 1982 Wharton graduate Father James Martin. He was invited by College senior and Penn Democrats President Sean Foley. Martin, a frequent guest on “The Colbert Report,” drew widespread attention after a Facebook post he made pleading Catholics to be more respectful and loving of LGBTQ people went viral. Martin will be speaking at Penn on Monday, Sept. 14.

Other events at the Newman Center include a “pope-fest” party on Friday, Sept. 25 in collaboration with Drexel University.

The PCSA, which coordinates volunteer efforts for the World Meeting of Families, has also been pleasantly surprised with the amount of volunteers registered for their event.

Penn was allotted 300 slots for volunteers. So far, 240 people have signed up, with many spots still open for any interested members of the Penn community. “[The volunteers] don’t need to be Catholic. Actually, we would like people that aren’t Catholic,” said PCSA President and College junior Diana Orlandi.

Volunteers need to be at least 18 years old, and must have a Social Security number so they can undergo a background check.

The volunteers, who will be assisting with translation or crowd control, may have a better chance of seeing Pope Francis up close. He is expected to greet all volunteers after mass in a separate event, Orlandi said.

Though the event will draw attention from the Penn community for a weekend, student leaders hope that it may spark a continuing interest in Catholic belief.

“I’m hopeful there will be a shift on campus to be more open to Catholic intellectual tradition and moral teaching,” Muglia said.

of Ownership award — an award the city bestows to property owners who have develCORNELL oped properties in ways that enhance the neighborhood’s appearance.

Beyond its exterior aesthetic, Lambrou explained that the design was carefully thought out to appeal to his clientele. Unlike apartments, which have “a different dynamic,” according to Lambrou, “houses are where people like to have fun.” This sentiment inspired him to designate the basement a party room. “The rest of the house can stay preserved and the action can happen down there,” he said.

Lambrou, whose family has been in business in Ithaca since the 1950s, said he has seen Collegetown evolve over the years.

When the drinking age was raised to 21, he said he saw nightlife businesses suffer, and as oncampus housing became more expensive, he noticed students were seeking to live elsewhere.

However, the surge in demand led to rent hikes in Collegetown, a source of frustration for many students.

“This is a complicated matter,” Lambrou said, attributing higher rents to a confluence of external cost factors. “It’s never gotten less expensive to build, so that increases rent.”

Moreover, the city continues to increase property taxes. “The city’s got it down perfect,” Lambrou said. “They make the landlord the fall guy.”

Lower, who has been involved in local real estate for 10 years, said he has also witnessed these changes. He attributes the rent increases to similar causes: student competition, property taxes and other government fees and regulation.

Lower said he believes that students at Cornell “have it in their blood to be competitive and that is what they do with finding apartments.” Other reasons are external and relate to recouping the costs of investing in property and construction, he said.

“It’s difficult to create housing in Ithaca,” Lower said. He added that it took Urban Ithaca, his company, five years to get approval for Collegetown Crossing, adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to the project costs that ultimately get factored into rent prices.

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Prof. arrested for child pornography

Women protest Hasty Pudding

BY THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF English and African American Studies professor J. Martin Favor was arrested Thursday morning for the alleged possession of videos of children being sexually abused, the Valley News reported.

After a hearing in Claremont District Court on Friday, he was released on a $10,000 personal recognizance bail. No plea was entered.

Favor has been placed on paid administrative leave and is banned from campus, college spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in

an email.

“We have no reason to believe that the charges against Professor Favor have anything to do with his employment at Dartmouth,” she wrote.

Favor has been a proDARTMOUTH fessor at the College for 22 years and formerly chaired the African American Studies program. Access to Favor’s faculty page on the college website has been denied.

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BY R. BLAKE PATERSON AND IGNACIO SABATE Women are signing up to audition for the cast of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, a student comedy drag troupe, in protest of the group’s traditionally all-male cast.

A group of undergraduate women organized the mass sign up — including 17 women as of early Monday evening — in advance of next weekend’s auditions for the group’s upcoming shows. Women are involved in the Pudding through its business staff, tech crew, band and creative writing and music teams, but the cast of its burlesque show has been composed of all men since 1844.

Tess V. Davison ’16 and Olivia R. Miller ’16, two of the students who signed up to audition, said they were prompted to organize the protest when they participated in a summer competition to write the script for the group’s upcoming spring show.

They want to challenge the longestablished tradition, they said, because they wanted not only to write performances, but also to act in them.

“We were just thinking about how we would like to be a part of the Pudding, but we still had our hesitations because we still feel it’s not quite a fair and equal

g r o u p ,” Davison said.

Several current officers of the Theatricals, HARVARD i n c l u d i n g president Bobby T. Fitzpatrick ’16, did not respond to requests for comment.

So far, the protest has already attracted attention on social media. Davison and Miller first sent out an email to several women on campus involved in theater asking them to join them and audition as a way to challenge the norm of the male-only cast.

After they signed 14 women up to audition, protest participant Megan G. Jones ’16 posted a photograph of the sign up sheet on Facebook and Instagram, amassing more than 200 likes.

Glenn A. Kiser ’91, a former Pudding actor who now works in film production and with the College’s Freshman Arts Program, weighed in on Facebook, sharing Jones’s post and expressing his support for the protest. In an interview, he said others involved in theater at Harvard were upset by the Pudding’s exclusion of women from its cast when he was a member because it limited opportunities for actresses.

“For the actors that are potentially interested in pursuing an

acting career, the Pudding is really the closest thing available as an undergraduate to what a professional career might be like because you work with a professional director, choreographer; a lot of the direction comes from professionals,” Kiser said.

“There are a lot of really interesting traditions at the Pudding,” he added. “But now in 2015, the all-male cast is one of the least interesting traditions.”

More women have signed up since Jones posted the photo on Sunday afternoon with the hashtags “#drag4all” and “#revolution.” Several women who signed up to audition acted in a production — this one with an all-female cast — last spring about women and gender equity.

Some protest participants said they believe that the Pudding’s policy to keep its cast allmale stands in stark contrast with other theater groups on campus.

“I think it’s particularly important that where there’s gender inequality, a red flag should be raised, but I think it’s especially important in the arts, because the arts present itself as this really open place where anyone with any level of experience can join, and there’s a culture of openness,” said Elizabeth P. Terry-Kantor ’18, who plans on auditioning. She said she plans to take the opportunity seriously.

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CHINA IN TRANSITION BY DOO LEE

ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 5:30 PM Between Aniconism, Iconoclasm, and Religious Rights: Biblical Veto on Divine Images in China. Archie C. C. Lee, Distinguished Professor at Shandong University and former Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, will give the Bartlett Lecture at the Yale Divinity School. Sterling Divinity Quadrangle (409 Prospect St.), Niebuhr Hall.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 4:00 PM Calhoun College: What’s in a Name? A Conversation with David Blight. David Blight, professor of history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition will discuss John C. Calhoun and Calhoun College at a Calhoun College Master’s Tea. Open to Yale Community only.

Calhoun College (189 Elm St.), Master’s House.

6:00 PM Design Workshop/Info Session. Come to the CEID to learn more about Design for America and participate in a design workshop to see if DFA is right for you. Becton Center (15 Prospect St.), Center for Engineering Innovation and Design.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 4:30 PM Moving the Mountains: Cultural Friction in the US War in Afghanistan. Aaron O’Connell, Associate Professor, Cultural History of US Military, United States Naval Academy will speak as part of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy.

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SPORTS From shootout to shutout

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After allowing nine goals during its first two games of the year, the Elis shut out UMass-Amherst 1–0 on Sunday.

W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 14 game against UMass (0–3–2, 0–0–0 Atlantic 10) on Sunday represented a much-improved defensive showing for Yale.

Ames and fellow goalie Maritza Grillo ’19, who made her first career appearance for the Bulldogs, combined for 10 saves in a shutout victory over the Minutewomen.

The Bulldogs set the tone from the very start when, within the first 10 minutes of the game, a pair of freshmen connected to find the back of the net. Midfielder Sofia Griff ’19 sent a long ball down the field, and Alozie corralled the pass and put it in the back of the net.

Combined with Grillo’s three saves in the first half, Alozie and Griff’s exploits proved that the freshman class can contribute from day one.

“Our freshman class has been playing a lot and many of us have been starting in games,” Griff said.

“We have had a lot of support from

the older players on the team, who have been amazing at helping us adjust to playing in a new environment.”

Yale continued their offensive pressure with shots from Griff, Hagopian and captain and defender Ally Grossman ’16.

The Minutewomen were almost able to equalize in the 30th minute of the game. Though they capitalized on a loose ball after a long free kick, sneaking it past Grillo, the side judge called back the goal, stating that UMass was offside.

“Although Sunday’s victory was a great feeling for all of us in women’s soccer, we can’t hold onto that feeling forever,” Alozie said. “We are focused coming into Tuesday’s game and we are starting to know what works for this 2015–16 team.”

Alozie was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for her assist against Hofstra and her goal against UMass.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

“If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.” URBAN MEYER THREE-TIME NATIONAL CHAMPION COACH

Elis win, lose 2–1 matches FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 throughout the rest of the second half. Christine Mace and Lauren Lawson combined for five shots on goal for the Pioneers (1–2, 0–0 Metro Atlantic), while captain Noelle Villa ’16 and forward/midfielder Evagelia Toffoloni ’19 each chipped in with three shots on target for the Elis (1–1, 0–0 Ivy). But neither Sacred Heart nor Yale capitalized on their effective build-up play — though the Bulldogs earned a penalty corner on the last play of regulation, they were not able to put a shot on goal before overtime.

Sacred Heart created a dangerous scoring chance just a minute into overtime, but Villa made a strong play on the ball to keep her team alive.

Pioneer goalkeeper Mary Altepeter tallied 11 saves for the Pioneers but was unable to make save number 12 when Middough hammered home a game-winner just before the 80-minute mark.

“Starting off the season with an overtime win was a great feeling,” Middough said.

“I think going into the [first matchup], everyone was a little nervous and to come up with the win was a huge confidence booster.”

Yale played only three overtime games last year, including the season-ending win over Brown.

But according to midfielder Nicole Wells ’16, a staff reporter for the News, the Bulldogs entered the intense overtime atmosphere wellprepared.

“We have played through overtime situations during practice, so when 15 more minutes were added to the clock, we were more than ready to face off against Sacred Heart,” Wells said.

With its record unblemished through one game, Yale turned its attention to Sunday’s contest at Quinnipiac. The Bobcats (1–3, 0–0 MAAC) entered the game seeking their first win after a trio of tough road losses at UMass Lowell, Boston College and UConn.

Quinnipiac struck first with

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Yale won its first game and lost its second game of the weekend by identical 2–1 scores.

Bulldogs win once in tourney VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 14 Conference USA). Playing its third game of the season’s first two days, the Bulldogs fought back after being dominated in the first set, pulling out the next two back-and-forth frames by scores of 30–28 and 31–29.

The Elis lost close fourth and fifth sets by three points each, but players said that their ability to overcome the exhaustion and challenge of playing more experienced teams over a short period of time will serve well in the long non-conference and Ivy slate to come.

“For our first tournament this early in the season, we played well as a team,” outside hitter Kelley Wirth ’19 said. “Different people stepped up at different times, and it really made a difference in a long tournament with long games and tough matches.”

Indeed, the depth that many players touted during the preseason appears to have played a big part in the Bulldogs’ tournament success.

In particular, a couple of Yale’s new freshmen look to take on major playing time.

On the defensive end, libero Kate Swanson ’19 appeared in all three games and contributed nine kills against Rhode Island, good for fourth on the team. Offensively, Wirth tallied 22 kills over the three games, tying for the team lead with 10 against UC Santa Barbara.

Additionally, middle blockers Shreya Dixit ’19 and Gray Malias ’19 recorded their first career kills, and middle blocker Kate Aitkenhead ’19 made her first appearance in Yale blue.

Besides the contributions of new talent, returning star Kelly Johnson

’16 dominated in all three games, finishing as Yale’s only representative on the All-Tournament Team. Johnson led the team with 51 kills across her three matches, including more than 20 kills against both Rhode Island and Rice. She also finished tied with outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 for the team’s lead in service aces with five.

“Kelly Johnson killed it,” Swanson said. “She was a big part physically and mentally as a leader on the court.”

After the much-needed experience gained this weekend, Yale heads to Hamilton, N.Y. as a participant in this weekend’s Colgate Classic. The Bulldogs will face Albany Friday afternoon before matching up with host Colgate and Rutgers on Saturday.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

a goal from senior forward Savanna Reilly 13 minutes in.

Ten minutes later, Bobcats midfielder Angie King added a goal of her own to put the Bulldogs on the wrong side of a 2–0 deficit heading into halftime.

Given time to prepare during the intermission, however, Yale head coach Pamela Stuper and her squad made necessary adjustments. Fiftytwo seconds into the second half, Middough fired in her third goal of the young season.

After only producing six shots

compared to Quinnipiac’s 12 in the first half, the Bulldogs outshot the Bobcats 10–5 in the second half and secured seven penalty corners.

Ultimately, however, Yale’s prolific second-half performance was too little, too late. Quinnipiac senior goalie Megan Conoboy starred with 11 saves and the Bulldogs suffered a 2–1 defeat.

After Sunday’s loss, Middough remained optimistic that the Bulldogs will continue to improve and build on what they experienced this

The Bulldogs had only one player named to the All-Tournament Team: setter Kelly Johnson ’16.

Contact DREW SEMLER at andrew.semler@yale.edu .

Yale falls twice on road

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The Bulldogs were outshot 23–12 and 15–11 in their two games last weekend.

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weekend.

“I felt as though the weekend was a success despite our loss,” Middough said. “The team played really well and now we know what to work on going into next weekend.”

Middough and the Bulldogs will look to match the composure they showed against Sacred Heart when they travel to American University on Saturday. The game begins at noon.

game-winning penalty kick in the second overtime period, which Sacred Heart’s Murray Cockburn drove home during the 104th minute of play.

Goalkeeper Ryan Simpson ’17 made a total of eight saves to keep the Pioneers to only two goals. After an early foul in the ninth minute by Yale, he saved a penalty kick by Giancarlo Maurello to keep the game scoreless until the second half.

With only two days to recover from the loss, the team was on the road again, this time to play Fairleigh Dickinson (1–2–0, 0–0–0, Northeast). According to Onderdonk-Snow, however, the focus on overall team fitness during the preseason helped the team to rebound and play well against its second opponent of the season.

Despite the Bulldogs’ best efforts, the Knights were able to strike quickly, scoring within the first five minutes of the game.

Not long after that goal, Yale managed to find the back of the net as well when Kenagy headed in a pass from midfielder Archie Kinnane ’18 for his second goal in as many games.

“Their early goal didn’t change the game much, because we scored soon after to cancel it out,” Onderdonk-Snow said. “In fact, it probably only served to galvanize us.”

Kenagy credited Kinnane with a fantastic lob pass to set up the goal.

Yet at halftime, the Elis were down 2–1 due to a goal in the 37th minute on a rebound following a save by Simpson.

The second half remained scoreless until the last minute of the game, when Christian Dietrich scored the third and final goal for the Knights.

Despite the dismal start, players are still confident that they can compete against any team.

“We learned that we can compete well against any team,” Kenagy said. “We confirmed we have a top-notch defense and goaltender, and [we] just need to finish our chances. In the end, it all comes down to execution and perfecting the little details.”

The Bulldogs have their home opener this Friday at Reese Stadium against UC Santa Barbara. Kickoff is at 6 p.m.

Contact MADDIE WUELFING at madeleine.wuelfing@yale.edu .

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Sleep and alcohol don’t mix

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER Collegiate drinking is a welldocumented social phenomenon, as is the tendency for college students to sacrifice sleep for the sake of work, academics and social interaction — which may include drinking.

A new Yale study authored by Lisa Fucito, professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, seeks to establish better education and treatment systems to prevent these two issues from getting out of hand. Fucito’s team interviewed college students to determine the effectiveness of various types of online health education models that many schools require of incoming freshmen. The goal was to better understand gaps in the alcohol education of incoming students, particularly how alcohol use relates to healthy sleep schedules.

“There’s a lot of good data that backs up the idea that sleep deprivation is really bad for memory and other cognitive functions we need to perform well,” said Fucito. “The data doesn’t support the idea that we should be pulling all-nighters studying to improve our performance on tests.”

When a person consumes alcohol past a certain point, it acts as a depressant, causing tiredness or lethargy. However, according to Don Li GRD ’19, third year M.D./ Ph.D. student at the School of Medicine, when the drink begins to wear off, the body will be stimulated by the metabolization of the alcohol. Since many people tend to drink shortly before going to bed, the stimulation disrupts the sleeping process.

“You have a group of neurons in the upper pons area that helps to govern sleep,” said Li. “One of

the things that alcohol does is it prevents it from shifting to orexin and melatonin that help you go into REM sleep.”

Orexin and melatonin are hormones that lead people to sleep without disturbance. Without them, the body cannot move out of more restless stages of the sleep cycle, and as a result, the person cannot have a full night’s sleep. When someone consumes alcohol just before falling asleep, Fucito said, he may wake up much earlier than he or she intended and be unable to go back to sleep, or he may wake up multiple times during the night. This pattern, she said, affects more than how tired a person may feel.

Irregular sleep patterns, such as low-sleep weekdays and heavy-sleep weekends, disrupt a wide range of biological processes tied to sleep, said Fucito, such as cortisol production, which is tied to stress control.

“Not just biological processes of sleep can be altered, but essentially, all biological processes are timed to a clock based on sleep,” said Fucito. “Your immune function and many other functions can be affected by your sleep schedule.”

As a result, irregular sleep schedules can directly harm students in a wide range of ways, from memory production to disease prevention.

Li pointed to a study showing that mice who are sleep-deprived lose any capacity to form longterm memories. While irregular sleep cycles are not totally analogous to severe sleep deprivation, he said, the long-term memory capacity of students may also take a hit.

But that message can be hard to convey to college students. As one test participant asked, “This

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is supposed to be the best four years of your life, so why sleep?”

The study also looked at ways for students to improve their sleep patterns. Sleep barriers such as television and laptops tended to excite participants and make it harder for them to get to fall asleep and stay asleep.

Li suggested that students should engage in “sleep hygienics,” or activities meant to make it easier to fall asleep and to tran-

sition into deep sleep. He said students should try to minimize their time in the bedroom or on their bed for reasons other than sleep, such as working or reading for class, because it creates a different association with the bed. Solutions like these, he said, would help students fall asleep quicker and get to REM sleep faster.

Fucito said one of the more important findings of the study

was a lack of knowledge about the relationship between alcohol use and sleep.

One participant claimed, “If I drink, I sleep so well. I don’t wake up so, for me, somehow drinking on the weekends helps me to get sleep. I couldn’t sleep during the weekdays, and weekends I party and drink and I feel better, actually, because I can sleep well.”

But, said Fucito, this was far from the case. In the long term,

heavy alcohol use makes sleep deprivation a serious risk, she said. That misunderstanding demonstrated the need for the education program that the team hopes to develop over the next few months, she added.

Yale requires all incoming freshman to take an online alcohol education course.

Contact BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu .

Q&A: Do children know truth from fiction?

BY GEORGE SAUSSY STAFF REPORTER Do children know whom to trust? A study in an upcoming issue of the journal Cognition attempts to answer the question.

Researchers tested 187 three- to five-year-olds to see if they could figure out which of two sources of information was the more accurate — a mean but competent (i.e. accurate) person, or a nice but incompetent person?

Would courtesy have an effect on whether the children believed the speakers? Are children less likely to trust mean people? The authors found that if forced to discern the difference in accuracy between the speakers, the toddlers could not tell who was accurate. Only when the toddlers were told who was accurate did they learn whom to trust. The News spoke with the paper’s lead author Angie Johnston GRD ’18, a student in the

Department of Psychology whose research focuses on how children learn, about the study. your own words, could you QIndescribe what the goal of the study was?

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There were two goals actually. The first goal was to see how kids evaluate sources of information that vary in multiple characteristics. Specifically, we were looking at whether the sources were nice or mean and whether they were competent or incompetent. And the second goal was to see what the bigger picture was of how their evaluations of those characteristics would influence whom they trusted.

you surprised by the QWere results?

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We were a little bit surprised.

In [past research] there is this

one characteristic of sources that even three-year-olds are good at paying attention to, which is if someone has given them correct information in the past. In the studies done by other people, the way this is done is you show preschoolers pictures of objects they know very well, like spoons and shoes and things like that.

One person will provide accurate information calling it a spoon if it’s a spoon, a shoe if it’s a shoe; but the other person will provide inaccurate information. Maybe they will call the spoon a giraffe or something like that, and even preschoolers are really sensitive to this. So when that person tries to teach them something in the future, they will reject what the inaccurate person says.

It’s kind of surprising that they are that sensitive to how important it is that people are accurate when providing that informa-

tion. We thought, well, probably they will be able to pay attention to that even when the inaccurate person, the person who calls the spoon a giraffe, is nice and the accurate person, the person calling the spoon a spoon, was mean.

What we found was that kids actually didn’t show a preference between the two sources. That surprised us because usually kids are really great at figuring out who is accurate and who is inaccurate.

The first couple of studies in the paper showed that, and we spent the rest of the paper following up, trying to figure out what was going on. this research fall in a QDoes larger body, or is this branching off in a new direction?

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It’s kind of compiling multiple different areas of research into one. We used some research

that had been done by other people across the country that shows that sometimes kids have trouble using someone’s past behavior to make inferences about them. For instance, if they hear that someone provides accurate information, they might have trouble realizing, “Oh, that person is smart.”

If they are mean in the past, they might have a hard time saying, “Oh, that’s a mean person.”

If you think about it, it’s easy for us as adults, but it’s actually kind of hard to take these individual pieces of information about someone’s behavior and integrate them into a bigger picture about that person’s characteristics and traits. We used some of this research in our last study to build beyond this accuracy measure — whether witnessing people give incorrect or correct names for familiar objects — and we gave the kids the labels so they didn’t

have to make the inference. We told them, “This person is smart.

They give right answers. They know what things are called,” and we [say about] the other person, “She’s not smart. She doesn’t give right answers. She doesn’t know what things are called.” What we found when we gave them that little extra boost — and they understand what their behavior shows — then suddenly they trusted the smart person all the time. would be the future QWhat directions of this research?

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The future directions of this are figuring out why is it the case that these labels are helping kids so much, and what is it about the niceness that is distracting them? We would ideally like to have kids and adults evaluate information that would lead them to the most accurate conclusions, but it seems like sometimes this niceness information is distracting kids from the more relevant information about accuracy. We want to know if we can overcome that, and if there are other ways besides straight up telling the kid who’s smart and who is not smart because obviously they’re not going to have someone there every day telling them those sort of things.

would applications QWhat of this research be in the far long-term?

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In the far long-term the general goal of this body of research is to figure out ways to design interventions so that even the youngest kids start to learn how to become better consumers of information because, if you think about it, we get tons and tons of information really easily on the internet, from TV, from all sorts of places. So getting information isn’t the problem; the problem is filtering through it, to figure out “What’s inaccurate? Who has bias? Does someone want me to believe this?” The goal of all this, and the far-reaching implication, is that if we can start to get a better picture of where weaknesses in evaluating information lie, we can start to address them really early, maybe even as early as preschool, to help better develop better critical consumers of information.

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“Sleep is the best meditation.”

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TVs in bedroom raise kids’ sugary drink consumption

BY GRACE CASTILLO STAFF REPORTER

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According to a new Yale study, televisions in children’s bedrooms may usurp parental authority.

Researchers found that authoritative parenting reduced the level of sugary drink consumption in middle schoolers, but that this positive effect was not as strong when there was a television in the child’s bedroom. In other words, given equally strict parenting styles, children with televisions in their rooms tended to consume greater quantities of sugary drinks than those without a television. The reason, researchers said, is likely the influence of sugary drink advertisements on the children watching them.

The research could point to further initiatives educating parents about the risk of placing TVs in children’s bedrooms.

“It has been known for a while that having a TV in the bedroom is associated with higher rates of childhood obesity,” said Marlene Schwartz, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut, stressing that many parents try to teach their children to avoid unhealthy sugary drinks, but that children still end up consuming lots of sodas, juices and sports drinks. “We wanted to see if one way that having a TV in the bedroom hurt children was by exposing children to marketing for unhealthy drinks, and effectively undoing the messages that their parents were trying to give them.”

Researchers recruited 480 children from 12 different lowincome schools. Children took surveys assessing their parents’ nurturing and controlling behaviors, whether or not the children had televisions in their rooms and their level of sugary drink consumption the previous day. Using the responses about parental behavior, researchers crafted an “authoritative parenting” score.

They then used regression analyses to detect the interactions between that score and the presence of a television on children’s sugary drink consumption. Sure enough, higher authoritative parenting scores predicted lower sugary drink consumption, but that effect was reduced when children had televisions in their rooms.

Past results have shown that sugary drinks are particularly harmful to health — liquid sugar affects the body differently than the same amount of sugar in the form of food, Schwartz said.

For example, someone eating 100 calories worth of jelly beans would eat less food later in the day than someone who has consumed the same amount in liquid calories. In other words, the body does not seem to properly recognize calories consumed in liquid sugar, leading to overeating and the myriad health issues associated with excess body fat.

During middle school, dietary habits begin to solidify, meaning that the ways children eat during these years are likely to become life-long patterns. Thus, reducing sugary drink consump-

tion in sixth and seventh graders is a high priority. Schwartz noted that stricter parents may feel the need to pick their battles carefully — for example, a parent who frequently checks that the child has completed homework and regulates how often the child is allowed to go out may feel that allowing a television in the bedroom is not an important point to argue over. This study shows that the television’s implications extend into many spheres of children’s wellbeing, and, as a parent, is not worth compromising on, she said.

Schwartz also noted that it may not just be televisions that hurt the positive effects of authoritative parenting — with increasing access to smartphones and computers, children may be exposed to harmful advertising even without a television in the room. The data came exclusively from lowincome families, and thus may not be as applicable to families in a higher income bracket. Still, she stressed that “we need to find stronger ways to communicate with parents about the harm of sugary drinks, the harm of food marketing and the harm in allowing your child to have a TV” in the bedroom.

The study was funded by the National Institute of Child and Human Development, the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation and the Rudd Foundation, which funds the Rudd Center.

Contact GRACE CASTILLO at grace.castillo@yale.edu .

During meditation, more relaxed neurons

BY LIONEL JIN STAFF REPORTER Entering medical school fresh out of Princeton, Judson Brewer found himself one of many stressed out medical students.

“I wasn’t coping well, I was frustrated and I was just getting into my way,” said Brewer. “Then, I started meditating, and that was the best thing that has happened to me.”

Twenty years later, Brewer, now the director of research at the Center of Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, is focused on finding out how meditation affects the human brain. In a recent paper, published this September in the Journal of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, a team of researchers led by Brewer reports that expert meditators see reduced activity in a brain network associated with mind wandering. These findings held true for a sample size significantly larger than those of previous studies, and suggested that experienced meditators may indeed be better able to shut out distractions compared to novice ones.

“The one major contribution of this study lies in showing that previous findings are reproducible,” said Massachusetts General Hospital neuroscientist Thomas Zeffiro, acknowledging the recent upswell of concern following a study that suggested that over half of the studies published in leading psychology journals may not be reproducible.

Brewer added that while previous studies compared brain activity during meditation to brain activity during rest, this study compared the former with brain activity during another cognitive task.

Working with meditators who had an average of 10,000 hours of experience, psychiatry professor Kathleen Garrison and the team found significantly reduced activity in the default mode network, the brain network implicated in self-related thinking and mind wandering. They found an especially dramatic decrease in activity in the posterior cingulate cortex, the region of the brain involved in self-related thinking, Brewer said.

The team has not shown that meditation is responsible for these changes, Zeffiro cautioned. It is perfectly reasonable to believe that mindfulness training does lead to better focus, but it is also possible that the group of meditators is self-selecting, he said.

“It’s a chicken-and-egg issue, just like with any other learned skill,” Zeffiro said. “Do great musicians exhibit the differences in brain activity we see because of the practice it takes to become great, or do they become great thanks to differences that already

existed in the first place?”

The next step, said Zeffiro, is to conduct longitudinal studies where researchers follow individuals randomly assigned to meditation or non-meditation groups across an extended period. This will not only provide stronger

evidence of a causal relationship but also allow researchers to capture the time point at which changes in brain activity take place.

The research findings have generated interest among Yalies.

Members of YMindful, a commu-

nity of Yalies which hosts weekly meditation sessions, are hoping that such studies will draw more students to its events.

“It is nice to have affirmation that the feelings I experience [while meditating] are backed up by science,” said YMindful presi-

dent Ivy Ren ’18.

Six percent of the American population meditates, according to data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey.

Contact LIONEL JIN at chentian.jin@yale.edu .

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“[The NFL] is a huge step up, but we’re talking about Tyler Varga … the Colts think they know what they have, but he is going to be above and beyond what they think.”

MICHELLE ALOZIE ’19 FROSH PHENOM The Apple Valley, Calif. forward scored the lone goal in Yale’s 1–0 victory on Sunday against UMass-Amherst — and in the process, she was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

ANDREA COFRIN FROM YALE TO COLUMBIA Cofrin spent the 2014–15 season as a Yale assistant coach under former women’s lacrosse head coach Anne Phillips. But in 2015–16, she will take her talents to New York City as the new head coach at Columbia.

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Elis open with losses

BY MADDIE WUELFING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The first round of games for the Yale men’s soccer team resulted in a disappointing start to the season, with the first two non-conference games ending in losses for the Bulldogs.

MEN’S SOCCER Kicking off the year at Sacred Heart, the Elis put up a good fight, going into two rounds of overtime before falling to the Pioneers by a final score of 2–1. In Sunday’s contest against Fairleigh Dickinson, Yale was unable to rebound, allowing an early goal and losing 3–1 to the Knights.

“Results didn’t go our way this weekend, but we definitely put some pieces in place for the upcoming season,” defender Ollie Iselin ’18 said. “It’s a long road and while the beginning has been a little bumpy, we are confident that we can turn it around.”

Sacred Heart’s quick restarts and counterattacks were difficult for the Bulldogs to combat,

but the Elis’ defense was able to shut them down in a scoreless first half.

Just before the 58-minute mark, starting forward Kyle Kenagy ’19 headed home his first career goal to put the Bulldogs on the board. Midfielder Dylan Onderdonk-Snow ’17, who also made his first career start, had the assist for the first goal of the game — and season.

“It was placed perfectly,” Kenagy said. “All I had to do was head it in goal.”

After holding the lead against the Pioneers (1–1–1, 0–0–0 Northeast) for the majority of the game, a Yale defender accidentally chested Sacred Heart’s first goal into the net in the 72nd minute of the match. At the 90-minute mark, the teams were tied.

Going into overtime, Yale’s players felt confident that they would be able to pull out the win, especially because the switch to a pressing defensive system had found success in the game. However, a foul by Yale conceded the SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 10

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Yale proved unable to win its home tournament for the fifth straight season.

BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER After graduating two stars from last season’s Ivy-winning squad, the Yale women’s volleyball team looked to start strong in its quest for a sixth consecutive conference title.

In the standings, the Bulldogs finished just 1–2 in the season-opening Yale Invitational. Nonetheless, the team’s performances in the dominant season-opening win over Rhode Island and the next day’s close losses to UC Santa Barbara and Rice showed signs of a promising 2015 campaign for the team’s veterans and newcomers alike.

Yale started its season Friday night, hosting the Rams of Rhode Island to open the 2015 campaign. The Bulldogs fell in a hole early in the first set, but rebounded to take the first two frames.

Rhode Island (3–3, 0–0 Atlantic 10) pulled out a tight 26–24 third set, but the Elis were able to triumph in a 25–23 final frame, winning the match 3–1 in front of a raucous home crowd.

“It was very cool to start the season in our home gym with our friends and families cheering us on,” setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 said. “It also allowed us to just focus on volleyball and get into a routine for the upcoming home games.”

The following day, the Bulldogs played

a twin bill, facing the Gauchos of UC Santa Barbara and the Owls of Rice.

While Yale fell in four sets to UCSB (4–2, 0–0 Big West), it showed promise against a difficult and more experienced opponent. The Gauchos is an established program in the world of collegiate volleyball, as it appeared in the NCAA Tournament every year between 1981 and 2006.

But Yale managed to win the third set by a commanding 25–15 margin before falling 25–10 in the fourth.

In the tournament’s final match, Yale showed strength in the face of adversity in a tight match with Rice (5–2, 0–0

Bulldogs split opening weekend

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Elis split pair at home

BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER

The Yale field hockey squad’s opening weekend did not lack drama.

After a disappointing loss to Hofstra on Friday, the Yale women’s soccer team regrouped to pull out a win against the University of Massachusetts two days later.

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Led by forward/midfielder Carol Middough ’18, the Bulldogs started the season off in style with a thrilling 2–1 overtime win on Saturday over Sacred Heart at Johnson Field. But in Sunday’s game against local rival Quinnipiac, Yale failed to overcome a slow start and ultimately fell 2–1.

“On Saturday, we stuck to our game plan and got the result we wanted — a win,” midfielder/forward Katie Smith ’18 said. “We played very well together considering it was our first game, and as the season continues I know we will only improve from here.”

Middough set the tone early on Saturday, scoring Yale’s first goal of the year in the 10th minute off of an assist from Smith. Yale’s defense held onto the 1–0 lead until about nine minutes into the second half, when an unassisted shot from Sacred Heart’s Danielle Gallagher leveled the game at one goal apiece.

Both teams produced solid scoring chances

The second game of the season saw the Bulldogs (1–2–0, 0–0–0 Ivy) fall 5–4 in a double overtime loss against the Hofstra Pride (4–2–0, 0–0–0 Colonial).

Last season, midfielder Geneva Decker ’17 and forward Paula Hagopian ’16 scored two goals in the first half to give the Elis the win against the Pride. This year, Hofstra responded to each of Yale’s goals with one of its own.

The Pride sealed the deal four minutes into the second overtime when Jeannine Molleda powered the ball past Yale goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16.

“Every game is a learning experience and we’re just trying to focus on fixing the small tactical mistakes before the next game,” defender Hannah Coy ’18 said. “We are definitely dis-

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Despite out-shooting Quinnipiac 10–5 in the second half, the Bulldogs lost 2–1.

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The Elis’ season opener ended after a game-winning Sacred Heart penalty kick in the 104th minute.

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Despite a goal in the 89th minute to tie the game at four apiece, the Bulldogs could not pull out an overtime win against Hofstra. appointed in the final outcome [against Hofstra].”

Though Yale’s offense stepped up with four goals, its defense left something to be desired. It was the most goals allowed by a Yale team since the Sept. 13, 2013 match against Georgetown, and only two games in program history featured more combined goals than the nine scored between the Pride and the Elis — the most recent of which came in an 11–0 win over American in

1994.

“The defense is just learning how to play with one another,” forward Michelle Alozie ’19 said. “Firstly, we have six starting freshmen. Secondly, we suffered a major loss losing our center back Carlin Hudson ’18 due to an ACL injury, and that made our very dangerous midfielder, Sarah McCauley ’18, have to drop back.”

By contrast, the Bulldogs’ SEE W. SOCCER PAGE 10

NUMBER OF GOALS SCORED BY FORWARD/MIDFIELDER CAROL MIDDOUGH ’18 IN SATURDAY’S FIELD HOCKEY SEASON OPENER. The sophomore from Oceanport, N.J. scored at the 9:19 mark and again in overtime to clinch Yale’s 2–1 victory over Sacred Heart.