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PRESS

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CHANDLER

The Yale University Press strives to join the e-book, Internet era

YALE ACQUIRES NEW SOURCES IN LGBTQ ARCHIVES

Ward 1 challenger secures new funds, endorsements

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Harp appeals to women

Voters could change city charter

The miserable lives of graduate students. Stressed-

out graduate students were given some guidance on how to navigate the long, dark, winding road to academic recognition in a Wednesday evening talk at the Hall of Graduate Studies. Sleep medicine expert Meir Kryger from the School of Medicine spoke at an event titled “Sleep Well and Succeed in Grad School,” advising students on how to improve their likely chaotic and sporadic sleep schedules. Attendees also enjoyed milk and cookies from Insomnia Cookies and a chance to decorate their own sleep masks.

Aim lower. Everybody should

have their blank sheets and scissors at the ready.

University President Peter Salovey’s Halloween Party in Commons tonight features a number of costume contests, including one for “lamest costume.”

Statistically scary. Scientists’

convention? More like mad scientists’ convention. The Center for Science and Social Science Information is hosting an hourlong workshop, “Monster Mashup: Night of the Living Data,” at 11:30 p.m. on Thursday in the CSSSI StatLab. Teaching statistics with a Halloween twist, the presentations will include investigations into UFO sightings, sasquatch appearances, witch trials and ghost hauntings. “Dr. Frankenstein mashed up body parts. Modern researchers mash up data,” the event description reads.

Train to the red light district?

Through an unfortunate typographical error, or perhaps a crude prank, a departure schedule sign at Union Station mistakenly read “Whore Line East” instead of “Shore Line East” on Wednesday.

Boo State continues. “More Halloween Treats!!” read an announcement from Blue State Coffee on Wednesday.

In addition to the candy corn vanilla bean cupcakes offered this past week, the baked goods section at the coffee shop will now also feature candy bar brownies, Halloween chip cookies and gluten-free pumpkin cookie cakes with spiced cream cheese frosting.

What precisely differentiates a “Halloween chip cookie” from one of the regular chocolate chip variety, however, was unspecified.

HallowQueenTown… is the clever name chosen for the Co-op’s Halloween weekend party.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1985 Anti-apartheid activists stage a protest outside the home of University President A. Bartlett Giamatti’s home to encourage divestment from businesses that operate in South Africa. The protest, organized by the South Africa Action Committee, lasts for two hours.

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petitioning Independent candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10.

The victor will be the city’s first new leader in 20 years, set to replace outgoing New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. If Harp wins, she will become the first female mayor in the city’s history.

“I think we have to realize that it is a glass ceiling — not one made of cement, concrete, steel or stone,” Harp told roughly 35 supporters gathered in the main hall of the

On Election Day this Thursday, New Haven residents will choose not only the future occupants of the city’s political offices, but also how much power those occupants will wield.

Voters will decide the fate of two revisions to the city charter, as part of a process that reviews the city’s constitution each decade. The first revision allows for the election of two members to the seven-person Board of Education (BoE), which is currently entirely appointed by the mayor, while the second is a broad package of revisions primarily designed to rebalance power between the mayor and Board of Aldermen. If voters approve either revision on Nov. 5, the charter will be suitably amended.

The Charter Revision Commission, comprised of aldermen and community members, was tasked last December with identifying and developing a set of recommended changes for the city charter. It delivered those recommendations to the Board of Aldermen in May 2013.

Presently, the BoE consists of seven members: the mayor and six of his appointees. Under the revised charter, the BoE would be made up of the mayor, four mayoral appointees, two members to be elected from two “educational

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SEE CHARTER PAGE 6

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If elected, mayoral candidate Toni Harp ARC ’78 will be the first woman to hold New Haven’s highest office.

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER AND MATTHEW NUSSBAUM STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Wednesday Toni Harp ARC ’78 hitched her campaign for the mayor’s office to ideals of gender equality, promising to shatter the glass ceiling that has kept women from traditionally male-dominated jobs — including the Elm City’s top post.

While accepting the endorsement of a regional chapter of an interna-

tional firefighters’ association, Harp praised the group’s female members who came to town from across the Northeast to back the candidate. Harp said female firefighters — in New Haven, New York City and around the region — embody ideals of courage and competence that transcend gender differences.

“I am honored and proud to accept your endorsement, and I hope to blast through that ceiling next week,” said Harp, an 11-term Connecticut state senator running in the Nov. 5 general election against

Sustainability plan launched

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER Two days after the release of the 2013–2016 Sustainability Strategic Plan to the Yale community, University President Peter Salovey and members of the Yale sustainability community gathered to officially launch the effort.

Salovey noted that while the 2010–2013 plan had focused on environmental policy changes in the Yale community, the new plan centers upon encouraging behavioral change in areas ranging from food consumption to paper use. The event, which took place in the President’s Room in Woolsey Hall, also reflected on the successes and

shortcomings in meeting the goals established in the 2010– 2013 sustainability plan.

“This is about empowering the community to make mindful decisions and integrating these principles into everyday behavior,” said Amber Garrard, education and outreach program manager at the Office of Sustainability.

Salovey’s remarks addressed the most effective ways to encourage behavioral change.

Drawing on counterintuitive research from his field of social psychology, Salovey said the most effective way to have the community adopt attitudes sympathetic to environmen-

The number of Yale students who study abroad jumped by 50 percent in the last year, according to an unreleased annual report from the Center for International and Professional Experience.

According to the report — which included data from the 2012 fall semester and the 2013 fall semester — 45 students are enrolled in study abroad programs this semester, a sharp increase from the 30 students who studied abroad last fall.

While CIPE Director of Study Abroad Christina Johnson said the increase in numbers could reflect the rising popularity of study abroad programs at Yale,

Innovating the Elm City

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Study abroad numbers soar

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER

BUSINESS

she cautioned against fixating on the statistics as measure of the success of study abroad.

For us, this is not about numbers. This is actually more about enhancing a Yale student’s experience.

CHRISTINA JOHNSON Director of Study Abroad, CIPE “For us, this is not about numbers,” Johnson said. “This is actually more about enhancing a Yale student’s experience.”

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s the election draws nearer, the mayoral can didates outline their platform for economic development, one of the most important issues facing New Haven voters.

J.R. REED REPORTS in the second of a series of five stories that examine major issues leading up to the mayoral election.

As mayoral hopefuls Toni Harp ARC ’78 and Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 enter the final week of their campaigns, both candidates have rolled out platforms to combat one of the most pressing issues facing the Elm City — economic development.

In the 1950s, New Haven’s economy was concentrated almost exclusively within the manufacturing industry. Today, while manufacturing remains an important component of the regional economy, the focus of the economy

has shifted to health care, business and financial services.

Surrounded by institutions of higher learning, ripe with talent and an entrepreneurial spirit, New Haven has been labeled a city prime for economic growth, provided the new mayor effectively addresses the challenges facing the city.

At 12.4 percent, New Haven’s unemployment rate is markedly higher than both the state’s rate, at 8.1 percent, and the national average, at 7.2 percent. In the past few months, total employment and the size of the region’s labor force have consistently declined.

The newly appointed mayor will be faced with a monumental task: developing a strategy to spur local businesses, grow the biotechnology industry, improve transportation systems and help foster a more attractive community for incoming entrepreneurs.

Harp and Elicker have unveiled economic development initiatives, hoping to stimulate current businesses and lure new ones to boost employment in the Elm City.

Both candidates recognize the importance of providing better resources for startups, SEE DEVELOPMENT PAGE 4

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OPINION

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No one for Ward 1 R

egardless of who will be elected Ward 1 alderman — Paul Chandler or Sarah Eidelson — not much is going to change.

This isn’t undue cynicism: The city around us is the methodical, longstanding byproduct of half a century of union-backed candidates furthering union-sanctioned goals for a union-dominated electorate. Over the past few generations, New Haven has certainly had its share of deficits — from budget gaps to employment rates — but Big Labor liberalism has never been one of them. And until the Elm City begins to look more like the Motor City, odds are things are going to stay that way.

This isn’t to say that someone like Chandler — a moderate Democrat on any political spectrum outside of Yale — doesn’t represent a refreshing resistance to this governmentby-solidarity mentality. But if elected, he would join union pariah Doug Hausladen in a caucus of roughly two (of 30).

Eidelson, on the other hand, has her entire political capital wrapped up in entrenched labor — not the least because most of her actual capital comes courtesy of a full-time Local 34 paycheck.

In the backdrop of New Haven’s union-induced political stasis, we need to realize that if Yale students are going to approach this election thoughtfully, the primary discussion should not be on the nuances of policy differences.

A deeper precursor takes precedent: Why do we deserve an alderman in the first place?

When asked this question directly during Monday’s debate, the two candidates had a similar response: Ward 1 exists with Yale students as its majority, so we should have representation.

For Eidelson, it was open and shut: “We are New Haven residents, period… Many of us are here for only four years but many of us choose to stick around. And we deserve representation the same way anyone else does.” Granted, the tautology holds there is a set of borders that constitutes an aldermanic district composed of Yale students: but none of this addresses why we should have one.

The position of Ward 1 alderman is exhaustively problematic, equally so for the elected as for the electorate.

We are fundamentally unqualified for both.

The initial defect with a guaranteed student position on the local board of government is that it requires a student to think he or she is ready to serve on a local board of government. Only an unflattering combination of intellectual hubris and profound naiveté

would bring one to look in the mirror and say: “Hey, my first fulltime job should be legislatHARRY ing the lives GRAVER of others.”

At best, Gravely this sort of mindset mistaken allows for good intentions and clumsy experimentation as our adopted city is turned into a political laboratory. At worst, it breeds the sort of pompous intellectual undercurrent embodied in Ella Wood’s campaign: that the right combination of liberal guilt and Yale political seminars constitutes a sufficient resume for office, ready to be immediately applied to any new community.

WHY DO WE DESERVE OUR OWN ALDERMAN?

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'DWIGHTSTREETER' ON 'POVERTY FRONT AND CENTER FOR NEXT MAYOR'

GUE ST COLUMNIST GABRIEL LEVINE

Brown's divestment blunder L

ast Sunday, President Christina Paxson of Brown University announced that her university would not divest from the so-called “Filthy 15,” a set of American coal companies with the some of the worst records of pollution and greenhouse emissions.

For many in the worldwide fossil fuel divestment movement, including myself as a member of Fossil Free Yale, the statements were disappointing. For future generations, they will likely mark another sad failure by those in power today to live up to their ethical obligation.

But the problem with Paxson’s decision was not just the outcome itself — it’s that she did not adequately grasp the moral imperative of fossil fuel divestment.

Brown, like Yale, has clearly defined ethical guidelines limiting the activities of its investments office. And as at Yale, those guidelines specify that divestment from a company’s stock is appropriate when, among other conditions, that company is causing “grave social harm.” Brown’s Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies (ACCRIP) found that the “Filthy 15” had engaged in “egregious harmful conduct,” and recommended divestment. But Paxson and the rest of the Brown Corporation disagreed.

What’s more, Eidelson’s stand-alone claim that we “deserve representation” as much as anyone in this city seems overwhelmingly generous (or baldly opportunistic: your call). We ought to be honest to ourselves and realize that the New Haven we know is markedly dissimilar to the one that the vast majority of actual residents experience. We exist here in periodic isolation, spending eight months within our gated castles and bubbled community, and then four back in our real homes. This fails to genuinely provide the immersive experiences needed to truly be part of the political community around us.

The approach of the Yale undergraduate turned temporary legislator is done with all the charm of a McKinsey consultant: You’re welcome, and we’ll be leaving now. While we are innately transitory, whatever legal legacy our alderman chooses to leave behind is not. Ideas have consequences, even if we are never here to see them.

At the end of the day, Yale students should be expected to contribute to New Haven — be it volunteering, working or innovating. But we need to earn a voice in shaping its laws. It is not another entitlement of being at Yale.

Why did the Brown Corporation take the unprecedented step of overruling ACCRIP? Paxson claims that “although the social harm [of burning coal] is clear, this harm is moderated by the fact that coal is currently necessary for the functioning of the global economy.” Burning coal might drive climate change, but there’s a reason we still do it. A world without the energy coal provides, Paxson argues, would not be a world in which we’d choose to live.

Paxson was right, empirically. We are dependent on fossil fuels, for now. But ethically, she was profoundly nearsighted — our dependence is the very problem the divestment movement is trying to tackle. From the latest Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we now know we’re about 22 years from emitting enough to blow past the internationally accepted limit of 2 degrees Celsius warming above preindustrial levels. Climate scientist James Hansen — who recently resigned the directorship of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies to focus on climate policy activism — has called a 2 degrees Celsius increase “a prescription for long-term disaster.”

Precisely because coal is so entrenched in the global economy, committing to burn more today without an alternative plan means

committing to burn more tomorrow and for years to come. That means committing to a future of droughts, floods and diseases. We might not feel all the social harms of coal right now. But we must still include them in our moral calculus because our decisions today are locking us into a catastrophic future.

Paxson did have a second major argument. She claimed that divestment “would convey only a nebulous statement — that coal is harmful — without speaking to the technological and policy actions needed to reduce the harm from coal — actions where Brown can make real and important contributions through teaching and research.” But it’s in Paxson’s power to articulate exactly what message Brown’s divestment would carry. If she thinks Brown should speak to the technology and policy of climate change, Paxson could frame divestment to do just that. The same would be true for Yale Univeristy President Peter Salovey.

And regardless of the complexities of climate change, fossil fuel divestment would still be a deeply meaningful statement.

Investment is, by nature, oriented towards the future. By divesting, Brown would have told the world exactly what it needs to hear at this critical juncture: that regardless of all the difficulties of tran-

sitioning to a low-carbon economy, today’s coal companies cannot play a responsible role in our near-term energy portfolio. Run through Paxson’s list of the tough questions in energy policy, such as the timing of the transition to renewables and the development of carbon capture and storage, and you won’t find a single one that the decision to divest wouldn’t clarify.

For over a year now, I’ve been working, along with the many other dedicated members of Fossil Free Yale, to develop a divestment proposal that targets those companies emitting the most greenhouse gasses and doing the least to transition to lowcarbon technologies. As we’ve sought the endorsement of the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, Yale’s equivalent of ACCRIP, we’ve worked to make sure our plan respects the needs of Yale’s endowment, follows our investor responsibility guidelines and takes seriously the nuances of climate change. But all our work will have been for naught if Salovey and the Yale Corporation make the mistake of looking north for guidance when they consider it.

GABRIEL LEVINE is a senior in Trumbull College and the policy coordinator of Fossil Free Yale. Contact him at gabriel.levine@yale.edu .

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tudents often ask me what to do after graduation. They want to do intellectually engaging work that helps people.

Should they apply to law school or work abroad? Teach or try consulting? Although the details depend on the individual student, the core of my advice remains the same: do the hardest thing.

Many students mistakenly think about their professional careers the same way they have thought about their academic careers. They want to find the subject that interests them the most and at which they excel. But most students do not have enough data about themselves or about career paths in the real world to make a reasoned decision based on subject matter alone. Also, many Yale students are genuinely passionate about many issues, and for good reason.

If you are one of these students, don’t worry. You should think of your career choice not as a single, one-time-only decision, but rather as a series of small, stepwise decisions, made one at a time.

At each decision point, all you need to do is find a job that pushes you outside of your com-

fort zone to add a skill — a "tool" to your "toolbox" — that will help you grow the most. If you want to learn to work in high-pressure situations with people who come from backgrounds unlike your own, then it does not matter if you are teaching in an underfunded high school or working in a refugee camp — all that matters is that day in and day out you are working as hard as you can on your interpersonal skills, your efficiency, your grit. Mastering these skills will help you land a new job in a different substantive area at a higher level of responsibility. You can switch fields many times, and eventually work towards a job that combines your substantive interests with the skills you enjoy using the most. In other words, the best route is often is a zigzag.

Resist the temptation to predefine yourself, to put yourself in a box. Sometimes students say to me, “I am the kind of person who is analytically strong but not that creative.” Sometimes your selfperception is well-founded, but often it is not — it's just fear. What you were good at in college at age 20 does not indicate what you'll be good at in the real world at 28.

The first time I went to a prison

to give a “Know Your Rights” presentation to a group of 70 or so immigration detainees facing deportation, I felt like a fraud. My Spanish was far from perfect and I had started learning immigration law only weeks before. After several years of work at top corporate law firms, I had “directly represented” on my own only one client before. Why would these men want my legal advice? Within a few weeks, I was good (not perfect) at the job: mostly because I didn’t have a choice. There was no one else to advise unrepresented detainees; it was me and my friend or no one. Years later, I represent children, draft and advocate for legislation and teach at Yale. Different subject matter, same skills. And believe me, after working in a prison, nothing I do at work seems too scary to handle.

As I learned from taking on a job I didn’t feel quite prepared for, it’s crucial to take risks. Many students I teach are risk-averse.

It's really hard not to be perfect.

And in high school and college, it is possible to work hard enough and to avoid enough challenges to make it through without failing in any real way. All you have to do is choose your courses well and stay

up all night. Post-graduation, this strategy of being perfect will hold you back.

Indeed, the best times to take risks are when you are young and aren't yet responsible for taking care of your children or aging parents — when the costs of failing are relatively low. If you have an idea for a startup company or want to go abroad to do something borderline crazy, you have a right to be scared, but you should probably do it anyway. It is easier to sleep in a tent in the wilderness when you are 22 than when you are 40.

Preparing to leave Yale is frightening. It can be tempting to look for a straight and narrow path, to shy away from risk and ambiguity. This strategy may have worked well in the past; after all, you made it to Yale. But as you prepare to leave, start to practice something. Practice looking your fear in the eye, taking a deep breath and doing the hardest thing. You will make loads of mistakes, and then you will do great.

ALEXANDRA DUFRESNE is a lecturer in Yale College and the former dean of Morse College. Contact her at alexandra.dufresne@yale.edu .

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$1,717

University press adapts to digital age

Amount raised by Paul Chandler ’14

In the final filing period of the Ward 1 campaign, Chandler raised $1,000 more than Democratic incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12.

Ward 1 sees final funds, support

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER

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A separately endowed department of the University, the Yale University Press primarily publishes academic books about art, history, science, religion, philosophy, psychology and languages.

BY SAMUEL ABER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As digital media creates new challenges for traditional print sources, the Yale University Press is striving to adapt to a new era.

A separately endowed department of the University, the YUP primarily publishes academic books about art, history, science, religion, philosophy, psychology and languages.

Though YUP director John Donatich said print sales still account for 90 percent of revenues, he added that the publishing house has made a concerted effort to introduce a variety of new digital initiatives in recent years. Among these are a continued commitment to online e-book publishing, the introduction of new digital archives and the development of several iPhone and iPad apps.

“I’ve been in publishing for 30 years, and I’ve been at Yale for 11 years, and I don’t think there was ever a time when we weren’t adapting to change,” Donatich said. “But in this past five years, that change has accelerated a lot because of the digital realm.”

Virtually all non-art books published by the YUP today are simultaneously released in e-book format to be sold in marketplaces such as the Amazon Kindle Store and the Apple AppStore, Donatich said. He added that the YUP has also made digital versions of books published before the internet age. In total, about 60 percent of the non-art books ever published by the YUP are available as e-books.

Though Donatich said increased digitalization has brought more access to information within the academic world, professors interviewed who have published with the YUP said the existence of e-books has had little effect on their interactions with publishers.

Dale Martin, a professor of religious studies, recently published a book with the YUP entitled “New

Testament History and Literature.”

Though his book is for sale as an e-book as well as in print, Martin said that digital media generally has not affected the decisions he makes as an academic about publishing his work.

“I’m not particularly interested in [the digital realm] as an author,” Martin said.

Likewise, Lewis Perry, a history professor at Saint Louis University, published “Civil Disobedience” with the YUP on Oct. 22. Perry said publishing his work in e-book format along with print was not a decision he actively made. Rather, the publication of an e-book version was a default feature of the contract he signed with the YUP.

It’s a really wonderful way to make this documentation available to scholars.

JOHN DONATICH Director, Yale University Press Perry said he believes e-books may be less useful in classroom settings because it is harder for students to take notes and flip between sections of the book. Still, he said online versions have the capacity to expand readership of scholarly texts beyond academia, adding that he sees e-books as a positive innovation.

“I don’t imagine anyone would object to [publishing an e-book version],” Perry said. “You really just want people to read your book.”

Current digital projects at the YUP include the creation of the Stalin Digital Archive, Donatich said. The archive will feature about 400,000 digitized pages of Joseph Stalin’s recently declassified personal papers available on an interactive platform. According to the YUP website, the archive is slated to

be available early next year through East View Information Services. “[There are] some really cool things there, like his thank-you letter to Hitler for the non-aggression pact,” Donatich said. “It’s a real wonderful way to make this documentation available to scholars, whereas before you would [have] had to go to Moscow and apply to get access.”

The YUP has also released a number of iOS apps, the most successful of which is an adaptation of “The Interaction of Color,” a book by artist and former Yale professor Josef Albers. The book has been a bestseller in the education category of Apple’s App Store and has seen 70,000 downloads in the three months since its release, with 10,000 users opting to purchase the full version.

The project, according to Donatich, represents the YUP’s desire to use digital content to enrich their readers’ experience.

“I think a lot of my frustration with enhanced digital content from books is that it’s just more stuff, it’s actually not transformed or enhanced in any way,” Donatich said. “And I think with this book it was actually transformed.”

In fiscal year 2012, the YUP’s revenue reached a record $34.7 million. Though the YUP’s revenue fell by 10.9 percent during the recently concluded 2013 fiscal year, the overall trend remains positive.

“We had a big bump because of a couple of things [in 2012],” Donatich said, referencing two unusually popular books — one about art and one about history — that the YUP sold that year. “[In fiscal 2013,] we didn’t have those big hits, and secondly, the digital growth sort of plateaued a bit.”

The YUP published more than 400 titles in the 2013 fiscal year.

Contact SAMUEL ABER at samuel.aber@yale.edu .

Republican Ward 1 Candidate Paul Chandler ’14 raised $1,000 more than Democratic Incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12 in the last filing period of the campaign, reversing his opponent’s initial fundraising lead and drawing in donations that he said prove his campaign can transcend party ideology.

In campaign finance documents filed on Tuesday, Eidelson reported raising $732, the sum of five small student contributions and three from family members. Chandler reported raising a total of $1,717, in addition to a $200 contribution received just after the filing deadline from Ward 19 Alderman-elect Mike Stratton, a registered Democrat and trial lawyer in New Haven. Chandler’s total consists of a $250 contribution from the Republican Town Committee and 16 other donations, eight of them from Yale students.

Chandler Campaign Manager Ben Mallet ’16 said news that the campaign trailed Eidelson in funds at the beginning of the month mobilized a significant number of donations in the past three weeks. Sterling Johnson ’15, treasurer for Eidelson’s campaign, said the campaign had already successfully motivated most students to donate during the first filing period but added that he was still satisfied with the fundraising total of $2,817.

More important than the amount of money, Chandler said, is the source of his donations. In addition to the $200 raised from Stratton, the campaign took in a $100 contribution from U.S. Senator Rob Portman, whose son is a Yale senior.

“Senator Portman met Paul at Yale when he was giving a speech and was impressed with him and his ideas,” Caitlin Dunn, Portman’s press secretary, told the News in a Wednesday email, referring to an informal conversation with Trumbull College students Portman held in early October. “The Senator gave him a small personal contribution to help him with his grassroots campaign.”

Chandler cited the contribution from Stratton to emphasize that his candidacy crosses party lines. He said the fact that Stratton endorsed him rather than his Democratic opponent proves that the political divide on the Board of Aldermen is not attached to party affiliation, but is instead caused by the Yale unions.

Stratton agreed, condemning Eidelson for running while no longer a current student and accusing her of voting in lockstep with Yale’s Unite Here Local 34, a union local representing clerical and technical workers at the University.

“I think the only reason Sarah is still hanging on is because the union can’t find another student they can control as much as they’ve controlled her,” said Stratton, who added that his donation

to Chandler’s campaign marked his first ever to a Republican politician.

Eidelson has forcefully denied that allegation. During Monday’s debate, she said her employment with Local 34 as a graphic designer does not dictate how she votes on the Board.

“I represent Yale students,” Eidelson said. “I don’t represent Yale as an institution and I don’t represent Local 34 as an institution when I’m voting on the Board.”

Eidelson has drawn support from a considerably different slate of political leaders than the ones who have flocked to Chandler, principally ones with whom she has worked over the past two years on the Board of Aldermen. The incumbent also won the endorsement of mayoral candidate and 11-term Connecticut State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78 in September.

Eidelson said her support from a collection of sitting aldermen stems from her community activism work in New Haven even before she ran for alderman.

Ward 29 Alderman Brian Wingate, Ward 22 Alderman Jeanette Morrison and Ward 28 Alderman Claudette Robinson-Thorpe also said they confidently endorsed Eidelson’s re-election campaign.

Stratton said he supports Chandler because he sees him as an “independent-thinker willing to challenge the status quo,” likening the Ward 1 hopeful to a series of other candidates including himself, Democratic Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, Independent Ward 8 candidate Andy Ross and Democratic Ward 25 write-in candidate Michael Pinto.

None of these three candidates have officially backed Chandler. But the Ward 1 hopeful did win the support of two Connecticut state legislators on Wednesday evening, who stopped by campus to join the candidate for a discussion of education reform. Connecticut State Sen. Art Linares and Connecticut House Rep. Gail Lavielle GRD ‘81, both Republicans, backed Chandler, praising his knowledge of the city’s schools and his campus outreach efforts over the past two months.

Robinson-Thorpe, who chairs the Board’s planning committee on the shuttered Goffe Street Armory alongside Eidelson, said it is due to Eidelson’s leadership that the Board was able to conduct a feasibility study and open the space for the City-Wide Open Studios arts event last week.

While Chandler talked education reform with state leaders on Wednesday evening, Eidelson stopped in on a meeting of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, speaking to the group about how sustainability efforts on campus can intersect with city initiatives.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

KATHRYN CRANDALL/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Ward 1 Candidate Paul Chandler ’14 could become the only Republican on the Board of Alderman come Nov. 5.

European Commission VP talks free trade

BY EDDY WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Wednesday afternoon, European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding spoke on campus about the benefits of a free-trade agreement between the United States and the European Union, as well as her vision for the future of the EU. Reding — who serves as the first European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship — addressed an audience of roughly 40 in the Hall of Graduate Studies on Wednesday. She spoke to the potential benefits of a first freetrade agreement between the U.S. and the EU, which have two of the largest economies of any country or region in the world.

Reding’s hourlong talk also delved into her views on U.S.EU relations and the need for political and fiscal centralization within the EU. “If [the U.S. and the EU] want to work even more [closely] together, the only way not to [make] too many mistakes is to know more about each other,” Reding said.

Reding outlined a variety of potential benefits of a U.S.EU free trade agreement, highlighting the financial benefits.

According to the EU website, the proposed free-trade agreement — which was formally called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership — has been in the works since July 2013 and would generate more than $120 billion a year in revenue for the

U.S. and more than $160 billion a year for the EU.

[The proposed agreement] would mean the addition of another Oklahoma to the national economy.

VIVIANE REDING Vice President, European Commission In addition to the projected revenues from the free trade agreement under negotiation, Reding spoke about the proposed combination of industry standards between the U.S. and the EU.

“For the United States, [the proposed agreement] would mean the addition of another Oklahoma to the national economy,” Reding said.

Reding said she has been working with American officials for a long time to combine different industry standards, adding that if the U.S. and the EU continue down this road of collaboration, the two entities could set a “golden world standard.”

Jolyon Howorth, a visiting professor at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs who was present at the talk, said in a Wednesday email to the News that the harmonization of U.S. and EU standards may prove difficult. “[The different standards] go to the very heart of the cultural and lifestyle differences between

the two sides of the Atlantic,” he said. “Europeans and Americans want and expect rather different products.”

Reding also spoke about potentially harmonizing customs standards between the U.S. and the EU. She praised the recent increase of supervisory power given to the European Central Bank and advocated for a direct election for the European Commission President in place of the current parliamentary election procedure.

Many audience members came away impressed by Reding’s passionate defense and vision for the EU. “I enjoyed her spirited defense of the European project, which ran counter to most American ‘doom and gloom’ portrayals of

the situation across the pond,” Fil Lekkas ’14 said. “I was pleasantly surprised at her good sense of humor and rhetorical flair.”

Igor Mitschka ’15, the editor in chief of Accent magazine — the group that organized and hosted the event — said he hopes Reding’s talk will inspire Yale students to continue the debate on the future of the EU. Mitschka added that he hopes students can contribute towards narratives and policies that will ultimately make Europe a role model for other areas of the world.

Before becoming vice president of the European Commission, Reding was a member of the European Parliament.

Contact EDDY WANG at cheneddy.wang@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR AND HUMORIST

Appeal of study-abroad programs broadens STUDY ABROAD FROM PAGE 1 Data from past CIPE reports shows that the number of students opting to study abroad each year has stayed relatively steady, with 160 students studying abroad in the 2011-2012 academic year compared to 156 in 2003-2004. The most recent increase in numbers marks a potential break from the trend and contradicts the common perception amongst students and administrators that study abroad programs have a limited niche at Yale.

Both students and administrators interviewed said that intense social and extracurricular attachments to campus often discourage students from pursuing study abroad. Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry said he believes study abroad programs may not appeal to many students because they are already

satisfied with their campus experience.

“A lot of people don’t [study abroad] because it’s not a thing people do,” said Nicola Soekoe ’16, who plans to study in India next semester. “If there was more of a culture at Yale of studying abroad, most people would do it.”

If there was more of a culture at Yale of studying abroad, most people would do it.

NICOLA SOEKOE ’16 Mary Shi ’14, who studied abroad at Oxford last spring, said that because studying abroad is “off the beaten path” for Yale students, she had to think at

length about her reasons and motivations for choosing to go abroad.

According to figures in the report provided by Johnson, the number of students who have chosen to spend the entire academic year has increased, contributing to the increased number of fall study abroad participants.

Out of the 45 students abroad this semester, seven are enrolled in yearlong programs, compared to three of 30 students last fall. Study abroad figures do not include students who participate in the Yale-in-London program.

While fall semester numbers only include juniors, study abroad programs in the spring semester — which are usually more popular than fall programs — include second-semester sophomores as well as juniors.

Though she declined to say how many students applied for study abroad in past years, Johnson said

108 students applied to study abroad for spring 2014.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller pointed to the abundance of junior year extracurricular leadership positions as a potential deterrent for some students to study abroad. But Miller added that the availability of study abroad credit to second-semester sophomores — a policy that has only been enacted in recent years — allows many of these students to go abroad.

“If people don’t think they’re going to do it until junior year, by the time they get to junior year they have so many commitments they feel like they can’t leave,” said McKenna Keyes ’14, who studied in Spain during her sophomore spring. A study abroad peer advisor, Keyes said the most frequent concern she hears from other students considering studying abroad is the common fear of missing out on

experiences at Yale.

Shi said that while she regretted missing senior society tap night and internship recruitment sessions because she was abroad, she also went abroad to “escape extracurricular culture” in the first place.

But though many voiced apprehension about leaving behind campus culture, students interviewed said they were not as concerned about missing out on Yale’s academic offerings.

Soekoe said her time working in India will make her Yale coursework in international development feel more relevant.

After first studying in the Turks and Caicos for marine biology research, Benedict Scheur ’14 later studied in Thailand to gain a richer cultural immersion experience.

While academics at Yale are stronger than they are at most other schools, Keyes said, one

cannot assess the value of study abroad solely in terms of academics — as studying in foreign countries provides for an unparalleled level of language and culture immersion.

Most students interviewed emphasized that the choice to study abroad did not mean they were dissatisfied with their time at Yale. Soekoe said students sometimes need to distance themselves from Yale to appreciate it.

Now a freshman counselor, Scheuer maintains that he has not lost touch with campus.

“You establish Yale as a home, and that just makes it easier to go out on these journeys to the unknown,” he said.

The deadline to study abroad in the spring semester was Oct. 15.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu .

Candidates pitch plans to spur growth DEVELOPMENT FROM PAGE 1 further developing the biotech industry and creating a more welcoming environment for entrepreneurs. However, Harp has focused efforts on creating more effective transportation options to cities such as Boston and New York, while Elicker centered his attention more on inner-city transportation improvements.

Elicker has focused on unlocking potential in three main areas — around the Union Train Station, where there is high demand for residential apartments and developments, near the waterfront, which has vacant spaces and empty factories and in neighborhoods such as the space along Whalley Avenue and Grant Avenue.

“If we can improve and invest along those corridors, we’re likely to see some of that prosperity downtown spreading to those neighborhoods,” Elicker said.

But Harp has differentiated herself through her focus on small-business development.

She calls her approach a “Main Street” philosophy. By placing business incubators in neighborhoods and creating a central space for businesses to obtain resources, she hopes to spur economic development not only downtown, but on a number of city streets.

She plans to work with city officials and community groups to develop a customized economic development strategy for each neighborhood.

CONNECTICUT’S ‘CITY OF INNOVATION’

New Haven has a storied history of innovation as the birthplace of the hamburger, the Frisbee and the bicycle.

The presence of research institutions in New Haven has led the city to be dubbed “Connecticut’s City of Innovation.”

Yale and other local colleges together maintain a student base of nearly 50,000 and employ thousands of others, many of whom are working at the forefront of major research projects.

Elicker and Harp agree that current initiatives including the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI), one of the top rated incubators in Connecticut, and the Grove, a shared working space, have helped encourage entrepreneurs during their early stages of development.

These establishments connect young business owners with mentors who advise them on how to best raise capital or develop business technology. While this initial network of connections has helped companies at the outset, Grove co-founder Slate Ballard said that the Grove does not have the resources to help make these businesses attractive to significant funds from outside venture partners.

Hasan Ansari SOM ’14, who worked with a team through YEI to create TummyZen, a brand of antacid, said he and his team struggled to raise money in the New Haven area to produce their pills and market the product online and in local pharmacies.

Fortunately, using School of Management grants and YEI grants, Ansari and his team have

developed a website and created the first batch of their product, but he said that other startups would be out of luck if they were not fortunate enough to secure a grant.

“Even if you have a great product idea, it’s very hard for a New Haven-based company to raise money and take the product mainstream without giving away a significant portion of the company,” Ansari said.

“Many startups are forced to be beholden to investors outside of New Haven.”

For startups to better understand what resources are available to them, Harp intends to combine city and state resources in one centralized location for New Haven residents.

In addition to obtaining more resources, local entrepreneurs said that more collaboration between small-business owners would be beneficial to the city’s economy.

“New Haven has been a very supportive community, but I wish there was more matchmaking between people with different expertises,” Chairigami founder Zach Rotholz ’11 said.

Elicker and Harp have both recognized this Achilles’ Heel.

Elicker said the Grove and YEI must be better connected so the city can entice local college graduates to locate their businesses in New Haven.

Harp emphasized specific plans for each neighborhood in the city, and supplementing economic development downtown with business incubators in neighborhoods throughout the city.

“It’s imperative that people in our communities who have entrepreneurial spirit have support from the city, as well as from the state government, to help build successful businesses,” Harp said. “We need to continue to make big business splashes, like Alexion [Pharmaceuticals], and also support small businesses and help them stabilize. ” In addition to encouraging startups, both candidates recognized the importance of the biotech industry in New Haven.

The potential is there today and we are one of the key hubs around the country.

ANTHONY RESCIGNO President, New Haven Chamber of Commerce In the late 1990’s, biotech companies added 1,000 jobs to the regional economy. Today, Local healthcare and pharmaceutical firms, combined with the Yale Medical School and Yale-New Haven Hospital, account for 16 percent of jobs in New Haven County.

The percentage has risen dramatically in the last decade due to investments such as one in the Smilow Cancer Hospital and will further increase with the impending move of Alexion Pharmaceuticals back to New Haven.

Elicker said New Haven has a great advantage because its two

UNEMPLOYMENT RATES WITHIN NEW HAVEN

largest biotech companies will be in the city for many years. As mayor, he added that he would capitalize upon the opportunity by improving zoning in the hospital area to make it a more appealing place to invest.

Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Robert Alpern said jobs in the biotechnology industry are particularly important because they are high-paying.

He added that biotech firms want to be near a good university, but the city must work on developing a critical mass of these firms to attract the more high-profile businesses.

“They key to biotech is that these firms want to be near each other,” he said. “That’s why you have hubs like Silicon Valley and Cambridge, because, if a person is starting a business, they know that, if it doesn’t work out, they can switch to another company without moving. When a biotech company chooses to not set up in New Haven, it’s because of the location and proximity to other companies.”

Alpern said that New Haven has started to build this necessary critical mass, but it right now many companies would rather start up in Cambridge or California’s Bay Region. He does not fault the city, but he noted that the city can provide a welcoming environment by continuing to provide businesses spaces, get zoning approvals and grant permits.

In order to foster this community for young entrepreneurs and business leaders alike,

both candidates also stressed that improving the livability in downtown areas is key to attract entrepreneurs and retain students post-graduation.

New Haven Chamber of Commerce President Anthony Rescigno said that the city has a lot of retail, restaurants and cultural venues that can lure individuals to the area, but that it needs to continue to keep crime under control.

“People who are starting companies are looking for a place they want to live,” Elicker said, adding that “If we can’t address public safety issues, we will continue to drive people away.”

TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

Both candidates have touted improvements to transportation systems as critical for growing the local economy, but Elicker has focused on internal improvements, while Harp has looked to facilitating transportation between New Haven and other major urban areas.

Elicker said he believes transportation is a key economic development tool and has advocated for increasing the frequency of CT Transit routes, as well as potentially designing a streetcar system and integrating the Yale Shuttle system with CT Transit.

“When we consider people who want to move back into cities, that group of people is looking to live in places where there is reliable, safe public transportation,” Elicker said. “We don’t

have that in New Haven right now.” He added that there is often increased economic development along reliable transportation routes.

The Greater New Haven branch of the NAACP released a report in March that said lack of public transportation is one of the primary barriers to the minority community in New Haven having access to jobs.

Mark A b ra h a m ’04, DataHaven executive director, said he agreed the economy would benefit from more efficient transportation within the city itself, adding that it would make it easier for businesses to access the workforce and attract the most talented employees.

While Elicker has focused on these inner-city transportation options, Harp has concentrated on devising ways to improve the systems that link New Haven with major cities, such as New York and Boston.

“Those are the synergies that build New Haven and also build the entire state of Connecticut,” Harp said. Among her suggestions is creating a one-hour train ride to New York either by increasing the speed of trains or reducing the number of stops on the train’s commute.

Although Harp acknowledges that Metro North has not yet found a feasible way to accomplish this goal, she said she will continue to push to find a quicker route from New Haven to New York.

Elicker said he believes Harp does not “do her homework”

when it comes to pitching these types of economic proposals.

“She had the idea that we could have a one-hour commute to New York, but a reporter did their homework and talked with folks and realized this was physically impossible to do,” he said.

Yale School of Management Professor Douglas Rae said he believes that the integration of the New Haven economy with the New York Tristate economy is critical, though he added that he feels candidates have dealt with the issue “superficially” during the election.

“The way things stand now, New Haven is an isolated and small market, which means, when an institution like Yale, wants to grab a first-rank professor who is married to another first-ranked professor or researcher, the odds of outcompeting institutions in Manhattan or Cambridge will be a lot better if one can get from here to New York quickly and cheaply,” Rae said. He emphasized that the city must make this a priority, although it will likely cost billions.

Rescigno said that New Haven, if it can continue to capitalize on its strengths, can be a leader in innovation in the country.

“The potential is there today, and we are one of the key hubs around the country,” he said.

Contact J.R REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don’t think my body doesn’t think.”

TRISHA BROWN MODERN DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER

YDT announces spring 2014 project

Yale acquires LGBTQ archives

BY DAVID BLUMENTHAL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

YALE

This spring, Yale Dance Theater students will study the choreography and themes of Trisha Brown, a postmodern dance pioneer.

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER Yale Dance Theater announced last night that its spring 2014 project will focus on the work of postmodern dance pioneer Trisha Brown.

Each year, YDT brings Yale students into contact with professional artists for a semester of developing new choreography or reconstructing already existing works of dance. Through physical engagement with the choreographies of the artist they study in a given semester, dancers in the program research the history of and the ideas sparked by the artist’s work. Dancers also compose blog entries to reflect on their experiences. As part of the spring 2014 project, students will reconstruct selections from two of Brown’s most famous choreographies, exploring the mind-body connection central to Brown’s work. “[Brown’s work] relates to the work that we’ve looked at — task, action, movement for movement’s sake — but also shifts us into a new realm of mind-body connection,” said YDT director Emily Coates ’06 GRD ’11.

Although some themes tackled in the spring 2014 project will be similar to those of the previous year’s project, Coates said, students will gain a new understanding of the relationship between dance and visual art. In the case of “Newark,” one of the pieces YDT will explore, the flow of the

choreography is influenced by an elaborate set on stage. Although the YDT’s performance of “Newark” will not include such a set, dancers will still recognize the interactions between visual art and choreography by learning how a mental image can affect their movements.

Aren Vastola ’14, a student coordinator of the project, said he expects blog posts will frequently address the question of how the audience’s perception of dance as a visual art is different from the artist’s physical creation of dance as a performance art. Another important question the dancers will have to grapple with is how to reconstruct an already exisitng work for a new stage.

“I think one challenge is always going in with so much knowledge and so many ideas about the work that you sort of need to let go a little bit to encounter it physically,” Vastola said. “There are going to be impressions that arise [while] doing it that you can’t get from a book.”

But contextual knowledge of a dance is necessary for the creation of a successful reconstruction, said Carrie Brown, the education director of the Trisha Brown Dance Company. In order to interpret a reconstructed role, a dancer must have a deep understanding of that role, she said, adding that combining the history and ideas behind a specific movement with the movement’s physical practice creates a

richer performance than learning a choreography without any background knowledge.

“It’s one thing to understand [a work] conceptually, but it’s another to understand it bodily,” said Iréne Hultman, rehearsal director for the project and former dancer and rehearsal director with the Trisha Brown Dance Company.

Trisha Brown began her career in the Judson Dance Theater, where her investigations of movement challenged the definition of performance. Brown’s work bridged the gap between the worlds of art and dance and catalyzed a new type of creativity within the dance community, Hultman said.

Hultman said that through the project, dancers will gain a kinesthetic sense of Brown’s work and of the field of dance in general. Even after participating in just a few workshops with Trisha Brown dancers, Vastola said that his sense of body awareness and weight management during a dance improved. According to Hultman, working with “Newark” will be an invaluable experience because the piece — and Brown’s work as a whole — is considered groundbreaking in the history of dance.

YDT will hold an information session on Nov. 6.

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

A leading gay rights organization has chosen Yale as the new home for its historical documents.

The Family Equality Council, an advocacy group for LGBTQ parents and their children, announced earlier this month that it will donate its collection of archival materials to Yale University Library’s Manuscripts & Archives Department. Composed of documents ranging from meeting minutes to financial reports that chronicle the organization’s 30-year history, the donation represents one of the largest transfers of materials between a gay rights organization and Yale, according to history and American Studies Professor George Chauncey ’77 GRD ’89. The papers, which will arrive in early 2014, will contribute to Yale’s expanding collection of primary source materials about LGBTQ history.

“The growth in the number of LGBT-headed families and the legal recognition of same-sex relations is one of the momentous cultural transformations of our time,” said Chauncey, who serves as co-director of the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities and was Yale’s point person for the arrangement with the organization.

“Family Equality Council is still working on these issues and we will acquire more of their papers over time.”

Manuscripts & Archives first contacted the Family Equality Council in spring 2012, hoping to obtain papers on the historical prolificacy of LGBT families.

Eventually, this more limited proposition evolved into something greater — a full transfer of all of the Family Equality Council’s documents. Jamie Marks ’83, a board member of the Family Equality Council, had raised the possibility of the donation, according to Chauncey.

Gabriel Blau, executive director of the Family Equality Council, emphasized the papers’ comprehensive nature. He cited the institution’s examples ranging from detailed accounts of the process of passing anti-discrimination laws in Missouri, as well as to records of the organization’s more high-profile involvement in the Supreme Court’s overruling of the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8.

According to Director of Manuscripts & Archives Christine Weideman, the partnership between Yale and the Family Equality Council is far from over.

“When we work with an organization, we establish a relationship with them so that we not only document their past work, but continue to work [with] them in the future to document their ongoing work,” she said in Tuesday email.

Joseph Fischel, professor of Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, said the new partnership has great potential. Fischel estimated that four of the 10 seniors in the WGSS Department’s Senior Colloquium are currently writing senior essays directly engaging with LGBTQ issues, though he said he imagines more students at Yale are doing so indirectly.

Students interviewed also expressed their enthusiasm for the acquisition.

“That sounds like it could be a really interesting resource going forward,” said Julia Calagiovanni ’15, an English major whose senior essay will involve LGBTQ issues. Calagiovanni also cited the significance of the archive’s subject, adding that “it could help researchers understand the movement toward acceptance of these families.”

Taylor Nicolas ’15, a WGSS major, said that while her area of study does not relate to the new documents, she thinks the archives will enhance the WGSS core curriculum and supplement primary material about LGBTQ history.

One of the first results of Yale’s partnership with the Family Equality Council is already visible on the Family Equality Council’s website: an interactive timeline narrating the history of the LGBTQ family movement.

Yale has previously acquired many documents related to gay history. In 2010, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders — the legal rights organization that won same-sex couples the right to get married in several states, including Connecticut — donated its records to Manuscripts and Archives.

The Family Equality Council was founded in 1979 as the Gay Father’s Coalition and is located in Boston.

Contact DAVID BLUMENTHAL at david.blumenthal@yale.edu .

Artist traces non-traditional background

BY PIERRE ORTLIEB CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Wednesday afternoon, artist and writer Carol Diehl encouraged students at the School of Art to create “participatory” art — works that inspire audiences to immerse themselves in the themes and ideas expressed by the creator.

In front of an audience of roughly 20 graduate students, Diehl described her evolution from an employee at the Office of Graduate Admissions at Yale to the cover-art commissioner at Time Magazine. One of the country’s renowned art savants, Diehl also offered words of encouragement to the students, emphasizing the need for introspection and persistence in art-related careers. As part of the lecture, Diehl displayed slides of her work as well as works by her friends, collaborators and artists that have influenced her.

“When I was 19, I gave up my education to put my ex-husband through Yale Grad School. I had no ambitions, I did what women did those days,” Diehl said. “My degree is a vicarious Ph.D. from Yale and experience in the real world.”

Diehl’s breakthrough into the art world came when she was simultaneously working on a political campaign in Chicago and taking abstract painting classes. She began to write for New Art Examiner — a now defunct art magazine — where she rapidly rose through the ranks to become its managing editor. The forays into the Chicago art scene she was making at the same time were as influential as her work in the magazine, she said, adding that encounters with several prominent artists of the period, including Robert Irwin and John Coplans, “changed her life.”

Diehl said her disparate experiences allowed her to develop a view on art that remains that of both an outsider and an insider: of someone immersed in the art

scene yet lacking formal training. She noted her admiration of Banksy — a British graffiti artist and political activist — as an example of her ability to appreciate art that many professionals in the field disdain.

“Many people in the art world think that if something is popular, it can’t possibly be good,” she said. The fact that New York Magazine senior art critic Jerry Saltz, who is Diehl’s friend, expressed contempt for Banksy’s “Ronald McDonald Shoe Shine” only increased her appreciation of the work, she said, strengthening her belief that their contrasting views enhance the effect of the piece.

She expressed a similar view of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., explaining that every member of society — a scholar and a grocery-store owner alike — is able to appreciate the sculpture.

It is an “inclusive” work, she said, much like Banksy’s controversial political manifesto.

Diehl’s unique perspective on art stems from her emphasis on inclusiveness, said Brandon Coley Cox ART ’15, adding that he thinks her multifaceted, populist background has been a crucial factor in molding her views and ideas.

Blackman said he found Diehl’s presence positive and inspirational.

Diehl concluded her lecture by saying that the future of art is in the hands of those in the room, whom she encouraged to persist in their efforts despite potential obstacles. “[Your work] may not be popular with your peers,” she said. “But you will be recognized by those who are of a like mind. You are doing the work of the future.”

Diehl is the 2011 recipient of the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

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

ALEXANDRA SCHMELING/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Carol Diehl worked her way up to the position of managing editor of the New Art Examiner without a college degree.

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FROM THE FRONT Charter changes on the table CHARTER FROM PAGE 1 districts”, and two non-voting “student representatives”. The educational districts have yet to be drawn, but the revised charter stipulates that they should each contain similar numbers of wards.

Commission member Will Ginsberg said that at the end of the drafting process, the commission approved the entire package of proposals for aldermanic consideration, with one dissenting vote: his own. Ginsberg said that he, like many, felt that the composition of the school board was the most important issue on the docket. But he said the city’s educational system will be stronger if the mayor can be held accountable for its performance, and that adding elected seats to the board waters down mayoral accountability.

“National experience suggests to me that communities that have strong mayoral control over their educational systems are better able to rapidly conceive and implement change,” Ginsberg said.

The second proposed revision bundles several changes into one package to avoid asking citizens to vote on each of the many individual changes, according to Ward 22 Alderwoman Jeanette Morrison. The package would require aldermanic approval of mayoral appointees to most boards, commissions and key positions, and would formalize the existence of the Civilian Review Board — a body that investigates complaints against police officers, and currently only exists by special order of the mayor.

Among other changes, the revision would also overhaul the charter to introduce gender-neutral language.

“The charter hasn’t been changed in 40 to 50 years,” said lawyer and former alderman Steve Mednick. “Many provisions of the charter go

back to the 19th century.”

Mednick, who was hired by the city to advise the Charter Review Commission after doing the same for several neighboring towns, called the revised charter “a publicly accessible document.”

Mednick said New Haven’s committee engaged the public to a greater degree than any other charter committee he has advised, a fact he attributed to committee chair and alderman Michael Smart’s decision to hold four public hearings throughout the process, which Mednick described as “very well-attended.” Several ideas, including the addition of two student representatives on the board of education, were brought forth by members of the public.

Both mayoral candidates Toni Harp Arc ’78 and Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 said they planned to vote ‘yes’ on the hybrid school board.

“One of the most frequent complaints I get from parents is that the Board of Education isn’t very responsive,” Elicker said. “By having two elected members on the Board of Education there’s more pressure for the Board of Education to be responsive to the public’s needs.”

Harp said she felt the hybrid board was a good compromise which would give citizens a say in education policy while keeping the mayoral administration accountable.

Harp said she was still considering Question Two, while Elicker declined to comment on how he plans to vote. Both cited the question’s multipart nature as a complicating factor in their decision.

The last attempted charter revision, which would have extended the length of mayoral and aldermanic terms from two to four years, narrowly failed in 2002.

Contact BASSEL HABBAB at bassel.habbab@yale.edu .

Harp pledges to break glass ceiling

160

The number of students that studied abroad in the 2011-2012 academic year

Across study abroad during the academic year, summer programs, internships and research projects, the number of students with international experiences totaled 1,280.

New sustainability efforts in place SUSTAINABILITY FROM PAGE 1 tal causes is to target behavioral change as a means to change attitudes.

Salovey encouraged the community to embrace behavioral changes. “Fake it ’till you make it,” he added.

Executive Director of Yale Dining Rafi Taherian said the plan aims to increase plant-based food offerings in the dining halls 15 percent by June 2016 and ensure that 37 percent of the food offerings are local, eco-sensitive, humane or fair. Taherian said he anticipates the increased offerings will lead to behavioral modifications among students.

“We plan to seduce our students with plant-based foods, not mandate change,” he said.

Yet exactly how administrators will motivate behavioral change remains unclear. Senior Adviser to the President Martha Highsmith said she hopes to employ social media and promote environmental initiatives in the residential colleges. Echoing Salovey’s remarks, she added that efforts to create behavioral change will draw on research about social norms, specifically trying to understand how the prominent members of the community can influence others.

The University met 34 of the 43 goals in the 2010–2013 sustainability plan, said sustainability program manager Keri EnrightKato. Although the 2010–2013 plan aimed for a 25 percent reduction in paper use, the University only managed a 7.3 percent reduction below 2010 levels, she said. The University only just slightly failed to reach its 25 percent waste reduction goal, coming in at a 24.4 percent decrease.

In recycling, the University surpassed its 26 percent recycling rate goal by 2.1 percent, and in energy use, achieved a 5 percent reduction rate, surpassing its 4

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The University’s Office of Sustainability unveiled new environmental goals for 2013–’16 to the Yale community on Thursday. percent reduction goal. EnrightKato said the University now gets more of its paper from sustainable sources, with 74 percent of procured paper consisting of 30 percent recycled content and 21 percent consisting of 50 percent recycled content.

According to Highsmith, much of the success comes from the fact that sustainability at Yale is no longer the domain of solely a single office — while the Office of Sustainability previously worked in a more isolated manner, it now is “embedded” within the community in a leadership role, helping schools and museums find solutions for the unique problems they face.

On Monday, the School of Medicine released its own sustainability plan — similar plans from other schools will be

released in the upcoming weeks.

These individualized plans allow schools to tailor the University initiatives to their own needs, said assistant director at the Office of Sustainability Melissa Goodall. Within each school, Goodall emphasized that administrators, faculty and students will be engaged in environmental initiatives.

“That’s the authentically sexy thing about this plan,” Goodall said. “We’re going to work with all constituencies in an equal way.”

A final progress report on the 2010–2013 Sustainability Strategic Plan will be released in the upcoming weeks.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

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HARP FROM PAGE 1 East Rock Elks Lodge. “Ladies and gentlemen, glass can be broken.”

Before the Wednesday afternoon event, Harp said she thinks city residents are by and large enthusiastic about the prospect of a female mayor. She added that she has encountered young girls on the campaign trail who profess their admiration for her even though they cannot vote.

Gary Tinney, vice president of the northeastern U.S. chapter of the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters, offered the official endorsement. With over 90 chapters and 5,100 service personnel, the advocacy group will offer whatever assistance it can in the final five days of the campaign, Tinney promised.

Harp had already won the endorsement of the New Haven Firebirds — a coalition of minority firefighters in New Haven and Hamden — as well as the New Haven Fire Union, Local 825. Firebirds President Michael Neal and Local 825 President Jimmy Kottage both attended Wednesday’s event.

Female firefighters from New Haven and New York City spoke about the importance of a diverse workforce, praising Harp as an empathetic leader and an ally in the struggle for equal opportunity.

“Everything that we do in the fire service, we do it right alongside our male co-workers,” said Erika Bogan, a Woodbridge Avenuebased NHFD firefighter. “The only difference is that we are pre-judged and labeled just because of our gender.”

Because they are more “nurturing” than their male counterparts, Bogan said women are more adept at caring for children or pregnant women during fire accidents.

Bogan is one of 11 women among more than 300 service members in the New Haven Fire Department. The New York Fire Department, with a force of 10,500 firefighters, employs just 35 females, said New York firefighter Regina Wilson. Despite female firefighters’ role in relief efforts following 9/11, Wilson added, women like her are erased from narratives of the tragedy.

“No one would ever know that women were down at ground zero,” she said. “It was never portrayed that way. We were there … I smelled the smoke.”

Following the endorsement event, Harp traveled down Dixwell Avenue to join Ward 22 Alderman Jeanette Morrison for a meet-andgreet with Yale students on Cross Campus.

Roughly 15 students gathered to hear Harp pitch her vision for a more thriving New Haven.

“I believe that New Haven is going to be the ship that lifts all of Connecticut,” Harp said, describing education and jobs as the principal needs of currently underserved portions of the population.

Echoing Morrison’s call to Yale students to get involved in city politics, Harp asked the students assembled to lend their skills to the betterment of the city. Lucy Gubernick ’14 said she supports Harp because she sees her message as resonating with a broad array of New Haven residents.

Harp clinched September’s Democratic primary with just under 50 percent of the vote, followed by Elicker with 23 percent.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu and MATTHEW NUSSBAUM at matthew.nussbaum@yale.edu .

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“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.” JANE AUSTEN ENGLISH NOVELIST

US denies spying on UN

BY PETER JAMES SPIELMANN ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations said Wednesday it has received assurances from the U.S. government that U.N. communications networks “are not and will not be monitored”

by American intelligence agencies. But chief U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky would not comment on whether the world body had been monitored in the past, as reported recently by the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Nesirky said the United Nations had been in contact with Washington about the reports that surfaced two months ago and has received a U.S. guarantee of no current or future eavesdropping.

“Back in August when these reports first surfaced, we said we would be in touch with the relevant authorities,” he said.

“And I can tell you that we were indeed in touch with the U.S. authorities. I understand that the U.S. authorities have given assurance that the United

Nations communications are not and will not be monitored.”

Nesirky would not elaborate on whether spying had taken place and declined to answer related questions. For emphasis, he held up a piece of paper that said: “No comment.”

A U.S. official told The Associated Press that “The United States is not conducting electronic surveillance targeting the United Nations headquarters in New York.” The official, who was not authorized to be named, spoke on condition of anonym-

New police scrutiny in Beijing

BY CHRISTOPHER BODEEN AND ISOLDA MORILLO ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — In a dusty outdoor curio market in China’s capital, traders from the minority Uighur community gathered Wednesday to swap stories about the omnipresent harassment they say they suffer at the hands of the police.

That scrutiny has only intensified after this week’s deadly vehicle attack at Tiananmen Square in which Uighurs are the prime suspects.

Before the day ended, five suspects had been arrested on suspicion of involvement in Monday’s audacious attack, which a police statement described as carefully planned terrorism strike — Beijing’s first in recent history. Police also said knives, iron rods, gasoline and a flag with religious slogans were found in the vehicle used in the suicide attack.

Since the attack, police “come to search us every day. We don’t know why. Our IDs are checked every day, and we don’t know what is happening,” said Ali Rozi, 28, a Uighur trader at the sprawling Panijayuan market.

“We have trouble every day, but we haven’t done anything,” said Rozi, who is from Kashgar, the capital of Xinjiang province where most Uighurs live.

Militants from the Muslim Uighur community have been fighting a low-intensity insurgency against Chinese rule in Xinjiang for years. Recent clashes,

including an attack on a police station, have left at least 56 people dead this year. The government typically calls the incidents terrorist attacks.

The police scrutiny of the Uighurs in Beijing highlights the years of discrimination that have fueled Uighur demands for independence for their northwestern homeland of Xinjiang. Many Uighurs say they face routine discrimination, irksome restrictions on their culture and Muslim religion, and economic disenfranchisement that has left them largely poor even as China’s economy booms.

I am … upset. They crashed a car, and we end up being harassed by police every day now.

ROZI URA IMU In Monday’s incident, a sports utility vehicle barreled through crowds and burst into flames near the portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate. Three of the car’s occupants and two bystanders were killed, and dozens were injured in the strike at the capital’s political heart, where China’s Communist Party leaders live and work.

The incident is the first such attack outside Xinjiang in years,

and among the most ambitious given the high-profile target.

An attack in one of the eastern population centers is “something that the Chinese authorities have been worried about for a long time,” said University of Michigan expert Philip Potter.

“Once this threshold has been crossed, it is a difficult thing to constrain,” Potter said, predicting tighter surveillance and scrutiny of Uighurs in eastern cities.

Rozi Ura Imu, a 48-year-old trader in jade and other precious stones from the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, condemned the attack, but said it didn’t justify the harsher treatment by authorities.

“I am also upset. They crashed a car, and we end up being harassed by police every day now, saying that we Xinjiang people are like that,” Rozi said, standing at the gate of the Panijayuan market, which has thousands of stalls featuring crafts from regions throughout China: rows of statues and furniture, bins of beads and trinkets, cases of books and scrolls.

Uighurs are a Turkic Central Asian people related to Uzbeks, Khazaks and other groups. With their slightly European features and heavy accents, most are immediately recognizable as distinct from China’s ethnic Han majority.

The 9 million Uighurs now make up about 43 percent of the population in Xinjiang, a region more than twice the size of Texas where they used to dominate.

ity.

It was not clear whether foreign U.N. missions in New York could be monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies.

Former U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, who held the post at the United Nations from 2005-2006, would not comment on “what may or may not have gone on in the past” because he’s no longer in government.

“That said, it seems to me that the United Nations and everybody walking through

the U.N. building are perfectly legitimate intelligence targets, and I think any decision by any president to say we are not going to eavesdrop on U.N. headquarters is a mistake,” he told the AP. “There’s nothing in the U.S. Constitution that says you may not eavesdrop on the U.N.,” Bolton said. “Silence and a deeply emphasized ‘No comment’ is how you should deal with all these intelligence questions.”

Der Spiegel reported that documents it obtained from

Israel plans over 1,500 homes

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Omar Masoud, left, who was arrested in May 1993 for killing an Israeli lawyer is greeted by his neighbor.

BY JOSEF FEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Israel announced plans Wednesday to build more than 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, dealing a setback to newly relaunched peace efforts hours after it had freed a group of long-serving Palestinian prisoners.

It’s [the settlement plans] a message … that Israel is a state that doesn’t abide by international law.

NABIL ADU RDENEH Spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

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Chinese police have been checking IDs of Uighur vendors every day since Wednesday’s vehicle attack in Beijing.

The construction plans drew angry condemnations from Palestinian officials, who accused Israel of undermining the U.S.-led talks by expanding settlements on the lands where they hope to establish an independent state. U.N. Secretary General Ban Kimoon also condemned the Israeli decision, and Washington said it would not create a “positive environment” for the negotiations.

Israel had freed the 26 Palestinian prisoners as part of a U.S.-brokered agreement to restart the talks. The construction was meant to blunt anger over the release of the prisoners, all of whom had been convicted of murder in the deaths of Israelis.

Israel’s Interior Ministry said 1,500 apartments would be built in Ramat Shlomo, a large settlement in East Jerusalem, the section of the holy city claimed by the Palestinians as their capital. It also announced plans for archae-

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U.S. leaker Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency secretly monitored the U.N.’s internal video conferencing system by decrypting it last year.

Der Spiegel quoted an NSA document as saying that within three weeks, the number of decoded communications had increased from 12 to 458. Der Spiegel also reported that the NSA installed bugs in the European Union’s office building in Washington and infiltrated the EU’s computer network.

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ology and tourism projects near the Old City, home to Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy sites.

Israel first announced the Ramat Shlomo plan in 2010 during a visit to Israel by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, sparking a diplomatic rift with Washington that took months to mend.

Wednesday’s decision is the final approval needed, and construction can begin immediately, officials said.

Ofir Akunis, a lawmaker from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, said construction also had been approved for several West Bank settlements.

“The building in Judea and Samaria will continue and be intensified,” said Akunis, using the biblical terms for the West Bank.

In addition, he told parliament that Netanyahu had given orders to “advance plans” for more than 2,000 homes in a longer list of settlements across the West Bank.

While these projects still need additional bureaucratic approvals, they are especially provocative because several of the settlements are deep inside the West Bank and almost certainly would have to be dismantled as part of a peace deal.

Israel captured East Jerusalem, along with the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in the 1967 SixDay War. The Palestinians seek all three areas for a future state.

The Palestinians, along with virtually all of the international community, consider the settlements to be illegal or illegitimate.

Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, condemned the settlement plans, saying they were “destructive to the peace efforts and will only lead to more tensions.”

“It’s a message to the international community that Israel is a state that doesn’t abide by international law and continues to put obstacles in the way of peace,” he said.

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Venue subject to change. Open to the general public. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Rm. 207.

2:00 p.m. Guided Tour of the Cushing Center. Named for Yale College Graduate Dr. Harvey Cushing, the Center includes more than 400 specimen jars of patients’ brains and tumors, Cushing’s surgical illustrations, personal diaries, black and white patient photographs, memorabilia, as well as historical anatomical and medical materials. Open to the general public. Sterling Hall of Medicine, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library (333 Cedar St.).

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8:00 p.m. Yale Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale. Guest conductor Krzysztof Penderecki will join the largest performing group at the Yale School of Music for an evening performance.

Pieces will include “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima,” an original Penderecki composition. Open to the general public.

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“You don’t just accidentally show up in the World Series.” DEREK JETER SHORTSTOP, NEW YORK YANKEES

Women’s soccer faces Lions

Elis head to the Big Apple

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Yale is 2–1–1 in the Ivy League heading into Saturday’s game against Columbia.

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The women’s soccer team is 2–0–1 in its last three games and is 7–5–1 overall on the season.

WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 into every game, every practice, and the goal is to win. The game against Penn was unfortunate for us because the calls didn’t fall our way, but we put that behind us, and we keep moving.”

The Bulldogs introduced a new 3–5–2 formation in last week’s 1–1 tie against Penn, and they will use this formation against Columbia.

“I think it puts more pressure on our defenders … but that pressure is taken away by the numbers we have up in the midfield,” midfielder Frannie Coxe ’15 said. “Games are won or lost in the midfield, so if we’re able to control that area of the field, the number of defenders shouldn’t matter.”

Coxed said that playing five midfielders will help create more opportunities to attack the opposing teams’ defenses.

Midfielder Meredith Speck ’15 added that the 3–5–2 formation plays to the team’s strengths because of injuries the defense has faced this year.

The Yale offense has not seen significant success since the team’s 4–0

win at Marist over two weeks ago, but forward Melissa Gavin ’15 remains second in the Ancient Eight with nine goals and 21 points.

The biggest challenge for the Elis may be the Lions’ offense, whose total of 25 goals is tied for second in the Ivy League. Yale is second-worst in the conference with 22 goals against and worst in the league with 1.64 goals against per game.

Every single girl on our team is a competitor, and we want to win.

SHANNON MCSWEENEY ’14 Captain, Women’s soccer team Columbia forward Beverly Leon is the team’s leading attacker with seven goals and 20 points this season, third best in the Ivy League. Those numbers are fourth and third best in the Ivy League, respectively. Three of her goals came in the Lions’ most recent

YCC talks athletics YCC ATHELTICS FROM PAGE 12 ideas to mitigate the gap such as the football team’s recent effort to integrate junior athletes into their residential colleges by recommending they remain in oncampus housing.

“We’re working together to help bridge any gaps that may exist between student-athletes and non-athletes,” Avraham said. “We wanted to use this forum as an opportunity to brainstorm.”

We’re working together to help bridge any gaps that may exist between student-athletes and nonathletes.

DANNY AVRAHAM ‘15 President, Yale College Council Several committee members proposed creating forum discussions relating various academic disciplines to athletics.

One proposal suggested a panel discussion between psychologists and athletes regarding the mental stresses undergone by a soccer player throughout a game. The goal of such events

would be to draw together a diverse group of students to promote interdisciplinary learning.

Calls for a committee to bridge the gaps between the voices of student athletes and the administration have been around, but until now have not been addressed the founder of The Whaling Crew Andrew Sobotka ’15 said.

“It’s about time that something like this exists,” Sobotka said. “Because there is really no athletic representation in the YCC, I think that it is going to work in favor of both the YCC and the athletics community.”

Me m b e rs o f t h e YCC expressed similar excitement to gain yet another aspect of input on student life.

Maia Eliscovich ’16, YCC student life chair, noted her enthusiasm for the recently established subcommittee.

“I’m excited to create a platform where athletes can be heard and we can solve general problems to create a more cooperative atmosphere.”

The newly formed committee will meet on a monthly basis.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM AND WESLEY YIIN at ashton.wackym@yale.edu and wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

matchups against Princeton and Dartmouth. “[Columbia] play[s] very [directly], and they really work to get the ball over the top,” McSweeney said. “We like to put the ball on the ground and play it around, whereas they play a little bit more of a long ball. Our biggest goal is to keep the ball on the ground, work it through our midfield and use combinations in order to get around them.”

This week, the Bulldogs have been preparing for Columbia’s offense by scrimmaging against themselves, with one side playing according to the Lions’ style of play and the other practicing its defense against it. McSweeney said that this is a typical practice strategy for the team.

After the Columbia game, the Elis will travel back to New Haven to play Brown on Friday , Nov. 8, in their final home game and the last game that will count toward Ivy League rankings.

Yale and Columbia will square off in the Big Apple on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg. cameron@yale.edu .

Armbrust ’14 also tallied a goal and midfielder Pablo Espinola ’16 added his first collegiate point, assisting on Bond’s goal.

“The win was exactly what we needed to have momentum going into Saturday,” Brown said. “We were the better team on the field and that showed on the scoreboard. It was also nice to see the depth of the team show[ing]. We had some different guys come on the field and have a great impact on the game.”

Yale’s offense has picked up in its last two contests. It has produced two goals, better than any other two-game stretch this season. Forwards Cameron Kirdzik ’17 and Peter Jacobson ’14 lead the offense for the Bulldogs as each has scored four goals. Fellow striker Henry Albrecht ’17 has also been crucial to the Elis’ attack with three assists and one goal on the season.

On the opposite end of the field, Brown and the rest of Yale’s defense have been a cohesive unit. Excluding the loss to Penn, Brown has not surrendered a goal since Oct. 5 against Harvard.

While Brown has not played in every other game since that date, the rest of the defense has also proved stout, surrendering a paltry four goals in six contests.

The Bulldogs will need to be firing on all cylinders going into their matchup in New York as the Lions rank second in the Ivy League in both goals scored and goals against.

Columbia has three players who have scored more than four goals on the season. Midfielder David Najem, who leads the Lions in points, has scored four goals and provided six assists, the latter of which is good for second in the Ancient

Eight. The Bulldogs will need to be wary of the senior midfielder’s creative and goal scoring threat.

Saturday night’s contest has major Ivy League implications for the Bulldogs, who are currently only three points behind conference-leader Penn.

With the exception of Princeton, whose seven points match that of Elis, Yale’s two remaining Ancient Eight contests are against teams with worse records than its own. On the other hand, the Quakers still have to play both Princeton and second-placed Harvard.

A loss to Columbia would almost certainly leave Yale out of contention for its first Ivy Championship in men’s soccer since 2005.

“This is essentially a must win game for both teams,” defender Nick Alers ’14 said. “We know that if we want to keep ourselves in contention, this is a game we have to come away with. We’re expecting another tough game but we have to play confidently.”

Columbia’s home turf has been a fortress this season with the Lions posting an imposing 12–4 goal differential at Rocco B. Commisso Soccer Stadium.

Alers noted that while the game will certainly be tough, especially for some of the younger players, the team already has one away Ivy League contest under its belt. Yale’s Oct. 26 match with Penn will certainly help to set the Elis’ expectations going into the match, Alers said.

Last year in New Haven, the Bulldogs came back to tie the Lions 1–1 thanks to Albrecht’s effort in the 70th minute.

Yale plays Columbia this Saturday at 7:00 p.m. in New York.

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

ECAC season starts

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No. 32 Jaimie Leonoff ’15 is 12th in the nation with a 0.929 save percentage.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 ward Tara Tomimoto ’14 got the Bulldogs on the board with an early goal in the sixth minute — her first since coming back from an injury after more than a year’s absence — but Saints’ forward Abby McRae had a hat trick to lead her team to victory.

This year, the Saints come into the game having lost three of their last four, but goalie Jaimie Leonoff ’15 said that the Elis are determined not to overlook them.

“Their ranking is not reflective of their skill, just like ours isn’t really reflective of our skill,” Leonoff said. “They’ve had a tough schedule.”

The Saints have already played against three top 10 schools, No. 3 Cornell, Clarkson and No. 6 Boston College, and have dropped a total of five games to them.

The Elis are no strangers to top-ranked competition themselves, having recently lost a close game against Boston College 4–3. Despite coming up just short against the Eagles, the Bulldogs remain focused on improving as a team.

“There are no moral victories,” forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 said. “We played well against both teams, but we’re not satisfied with the loss. We have to keep working hard.”

On Saturday, the Bulldogs will travel north to Potsdam, N.Y., to take on national powerhouse Clarkson University (6–2–1, 1–1–0). The Elis will attempt to respond to Clarkson’s impressive combination of size, physicality and speed, according to Leonoff. “[Speed] is probably one of our biggest strengths as a team,” Leonoff said. “That’s

one thing we’ll definitely focus on.”

Last year, the Elis lost both games to the Golden Knights. Yale fell 4–1 on the road on Nov. 9, 2012, then dropped a 1–0 decision at home on Jan. 12.

Yale gave up three goals in the first period on the road last November, including two in the first five-and-a-half minutes, but the Elis remain confident that they can compete against anyone.

“All of us think we’re more than capable of coming out of this weekend with four points,” Ferrara said. “Both games are going to be a good test for us; hopefully, we come out with the win.”

The Elis will play St. Lawrence on Friday at 7 p.m.

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

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ELISE WILCOX ’15 WOMEN’S SOCCER Earlier this week, Wilcox was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll because of her efforts in Yale’s 1–1 tie against Penn on Saturday. The Seattle, Wash. native allowed only one goal — a controversial penalty kick — in 110 minutes of regulation and overtime action.

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CRAIG BRESLOW ’02 BOSTON RED SOX With Boston’s World Series-clinching Game-Six victory over the St. Louis Cardinals last night, the postseason of Red Sox pitcher Breslow ended. Although the Yale alum had a tough World Series, he managed to post a 2.45 ERA over 7.1 innings in the postseason.

“We’re good enough to beat any team in the [Ivy] league.

MAX MCKIERNAN ’14 MEN’S SOCCER

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Bulldogs tussle with Lions

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER After Tuesday’s 2–0 win over CCSU, the men’s soccer team travels to New York this weekend looking to close the gap at the top of the Ivy League table.

The Elis (4–9–1, 2–1–1 Ivy) are currently three points off of first place Penn and need a win in order to stay in the running for the Ancient Eight title. While Columbia (7–4–2, 1–1–2 Ivy) has struggled in conference play, it will represent a tough test for the Bulldogs.

The Lions are undefeated at home with a 4–0–2 record and boast a high scoring attack despite their poor Ivy League performance.

“Columbia is a good team,” captain and midfielder Max McKiernan ’14 said. “I know they have some really good players in their program so it should be a battle.

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We’re good enough to beat any team in the league. We just need to compete and execute for 90 minutes, and we’ll definitely have to do that if we want to get out of New York with a win.”

Yale slipped up in heartbreaking fashion in its last Ivy League outing, falling to Penn 3–2 in OT. But the team rebounded with a win on Tuesday against Central Connecticut State University that featured a full 90 minutes of dominant play. The Elis held CCSU without a shot on target the whole game and scored on both sides of halftime to secure victory.

Facing CCSU, goalkeeper Blake Brown ’15 secured his third shutout of the season while defender Keith Bond ’16 scored the first goal of his Yale career with a beautiful top corner effort. Midfielder Scott SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 11

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The Elis ended a two-game losing streak with a 2–0 win over Central Connecticut State on Tuesday.

YCC Athletics subcommittee forms

BY ASHTON WACKYM AND WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last night, the Yale College Council Athletics subcommittee, a new forum added to the YCC, met for the first time.

The YCC sent campus-wide emails inviting Yale students to participate in yesterday evening’s inaugural meeting. The new committee is comprised of members of the athletic community, YCC representatives and non-athletes who are interested in the future of Yale’s athletic program and want to improve communications between athletes and the YCC. “The idea is to have a set forum to have on a consistent basis where YCC will be gaining perspective from student athletes on issues that the YCC will be pursuing,” YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 said.

In the committee’s first meeting, members addressed the issue of student attendance at

athletic events. According to several student athletes, not all transportation to games or matches is publicized, and thus fan attendance is dependent on word of mouth.

A proposed solution, already in the works with the administration according to Avraham, is to incentivize game attendance.

The YCC has proposed having students swipe in to games and, after a certain number of games have been attended, students will be rewarded with various prizes. A similar system has successfully been implemented in other universities, Avraham said.

The YCC subcommittee on athletics also touched on the issue of a growing divide between athletes and non-athletes on campus, which Avraham said is a source of concern for students and the administration.

The committee discussed SEE YCC ATHELTICS PAGE 11

Bulldogs look to stay hot

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No. 4 Paula Hagiopian ’16 scored Yale’s lone goal in a 1–1 tie at Penn this weekend.

BY GREG CAMERON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With just three games remaining on its schedule, the women’s soccer team is coming into its game at Columbia this Saturday with considerable momentum.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The Bulldogs (7–5–1, 2–2–1 Ivy) are 2–0–1 in their last three games and have outscored their opponents 6–1 in that

span. The Lions (7–5–3, 0–3–2) fell 4–2 to Dartmouth last Saturday and have yet to pick up a win in Ancient Eight play.

“We’ve really come together as a team,” captain Shannon McSweeney ’14 said.

“Our practices have been really effective and we work hard; we have fun together.”

Though last week’s 1–1 tie against Penn put the Elis out of contention for the Ivy League title, they still have something to play for.

A win would move the Elis above Dartmouth in the conference standings if the

Big Green fell to the Harvard Crimson, who are undefeated in Ivy League play.

Yale would then be in fourth place in the conference behind Harvard, Penn and Brown.

For McSweeney, Ivy League contention has no effect how the team approaches each game.

“Every single girl on our team is a competitor, and we want to win,” McSweeney said. “It’s a matter of our pride. We go SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 11

Yale takes on No. 5 Clarkson

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER There will be no rest for the weary Bulldogs. After losing a pair of nail-biters against No. 6 Boston College and Boston University, the Yale women’s ice hockey team will have its hands full against St. Lawrence and No. 5 Clarkson this weekend.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Elis (0–2–0, 0–0–0 ECAC) will head to Canton, N.Y., on Friday to match up against St. Lawrence (2–6–0, 1–1–0).

The Elis lost to St. Lawrence 5–1 twice last season. In the Nov. 11, 2012, matchup last season, forSEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 11

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The women’s ice hockey team will stay on the road this weekend to face St. Lawrence and Clarkson.

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NATIONALLY-RANKED TEAMS THAT THE WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY TEAM WILL FACE THROUGH ITS FIRST FOUR GAMES. Yale fell 4–3 to No. 6 Boston College in its season opener Oct. 19 and will travel to face No. 5 Clarkson on Saturday.