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ARE WE SAFE? CRIME ON AND OFF CAMPUS

SHINE BRIGHT

BRICK-AND-MORTAR

Minerals and gems at the Peabody will sparkle in a new exhibit.

CREPES LAND ON WHITNEY AVE., IN NEW STORE.

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SEE THE SHOWDOWN The Yale Bowl will receive temporary lighting for this year’s H-Y Game.

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CROSS CAMPUS

SOM builds unique identity

“Master”: Out in one college, but not others

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or decades, Yale’s youngest professional school attempted to craft a unique space in management education. With an expanded, state of the art campus and fresh global initiatives, the school might finally be on track to achieving that goal. But on the road to innovation, will it lose track of its small school values? PHOEBE KIMMELMAN reports.

Still Friday. We understand

that many of you have specifically designed your schedules to be class-free on Friday. But if you’re peeved about having to go through your Monday schedule today instead, remember: This is just week one. It’s far too early in the year to be complaining.

After all, a three-day respite looms.

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not gone unnoticed. In 2014, the SOM made its first appearances in the top 10 of the Financial Times and Bloomberg Businessweek business school rankings.

Traditionally, the SOM has been more focused on sending its students into nonprofit work than investment banking. In fact, the SOM is the only school among its peers that is a school of “management,” literally, whereas many other programs have the word “business” in their names. This difference speaks to a historical contrast in approach to business education.

Given the SOM’s unconventional style, the question of whether or not the SOM can stay true to its roots as it attempts to further improve its

Within the red-brick walls of Pierson College, the word “master” is disappearing.

Three weeks after religious studies professor Stephen Davis requested that students in Pierson College stop referring to him as “master,” students say there has been an active shift away from using the term.

Student workers are now officially known as Pierson aides rather than master’s aides, and Davis is addressed as “doctor” or “professor.”

“I’ve never heard of someone using ‘master’ [to address Davis since his announcement],” Stephanie Siow ’17 said. “I heard one person say it and immediately correct herself.”

Four out of five Pierson students interviewed said they have seen a concerted effort among their college peers to stop using the term. But while Davis grounded his request in a criticism of the racial and gendered implications of the word, several students said that Piersonites’ collective efforts to avoid the word may be more out of respect for a beloved college leader, rather than out of ideological agreement.

Siow said she thinks the college community has been largely supportive of Davis’ rationale for the decision, especially since he is a vocal advocate of social justice, both in his academic teachings and in the speakers he selects for the college. But some hypothesized that Davis’ history of social justice advocacy — coupled with his popularity within the college — have made him a well-respected figure who could change

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Open arms, always. We can’t

imagine many freshmen are already jaded, mainly because Yale continues to roll out the “Welcome” mat for their class. The festivities continue tonight with “Mosaic,” the yearly exercise on diversity and its role in campus life.

Until you cry “Uncle.” That’s

how long you can expect to be hounded by upperclassmen at Sunday’s Extracurricular Bazaar, perhaps the year’s most chaotic event. Expect to end up on a whole bunch of new panlists by the end of it all. We’d advise focusing on the groups stationed in front of Payne Whitney to spare yourself the hassle.

Tradition training. In an attempt to bolster school spirit, the University will host “Yale Up!” this weekend to teach freshmen Yale’s traditional songs and chants.

Pep rallies may be so high school, but a hearty “Boola Boola,” nonetheless — maybe someone at the event can actually explain what the phrase means.

Home-court advantage. The

weekend will offer plenty of opportunities to display that school spirit, beginning with this evening’s volleyball home opener. Leading into the game, the Whaling Crew will host a “Grilling and Chilling” event on Old Campus.

“Pay attention to me!”

Normally, it’s the politician who’s begging for the spotlight. Yesterday, however, Gov. Dannel Malloy played second fiddle to a photobombing beluga whale that interrupted a press conference in Mystic, Conn.

Oxygen abounds. The online

scientific community is currently abuzz over the results of a recent School of Forestry & Environmental Studies study that has determined there to be 3 trillion trees on this planet.

Suddenly, that one class about trees is starting to look like a pretty good science credit.

Run. What better way to

celebrate Labor Day than by putting your cardiovascular system to work? The starting gun for the 38th Annual Faxon Law New Haven Road Race will sound at 8:15 a.m. on Monday.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1942 Roughly three-quarters of the class of 1943 reports that they are committed to joining the military upon graduation, with others preparing for other war industry careers.

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The Yale School of Management moved into its new building, Evans Hall, in January 2014.

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER When the Yale School of Management first opened its doors to students in September 1976, a “new order of the ages” was inscribed — literally. The SOM’s shield, officially displayed for the first time upon the arrival of the students, has the phrase written in Latin across it.

UPCLOSE But perhaps more accurate a statement is that the founding of the SOM, Yale’s youngest professional school, signaled a new order for the University. After searching for its place amongst peer institutions for over three decades, in

the last five years the SOM has at last carved out a unique position in higher education.

In 2012, the SOM began its participation with the Global Network for Advanced Management, an international business school partnership founded in 2012 by SOM Dean Edward Snyder. But international partnership was just one component of the SOM’s expansion. The incoming class size has increased substantially: 326 students are in the class of 2017 compared to the 231 who graduated in 2012. And in January of last year, the SOM moved from a series of old mansions on Hillhouse Avenue to a gleaming new building — Evans Hall — worthy of a top-tier business school.

The changes at the school have

Legal battles continue in GHeav case

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Two years after Gourmet Heaven employees filed wage theft complaints with the Connecticut Department of Labor, former owner Chung Cho has repaid the wages that he owed his employees. But for some workers, the litigation continues.

A 2013 CT DOL investigation of the two New Haven Gourmet Heaven locations, now known as Good Nature Market, found that Cho owed over $218,000 in unpaid wages to two dozen employees. In November 2014, a judge in New Haven declared that the court would clear Cho’s record of the wage theft charges if he paid his workers within the next two years. Three months later, all of Cho’s former employees received their final paychecks from him, said Attorney James Bhandary-Alexander, who represents Gourmet Heaven employees.

The federal lawsuit represents the last opportunity for the New Haven workers to recover lost wages.

JAMES BHANDARY-ALEXANDER Attorney for former Gourmet Heaven employees “As a result of the Department of Labor investigation and the criminal case, he paid back all of the money that the Department of Labor found he owed for one twoyear period,” said Bhandary-Alexander.

Connecticut statutes only allow the DOL to recoup lost wages from the two years before a complaint. Bhandary-Alexander speculated that if the DOL could look back SEE GHEAV PAGE 6

2019 by the numbers: Class at Yale

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n Aug. 12, the News sent all incoming freshmen a survey with questions running the gamut from family life to postgraduate plans. This is the fourth in a four-part series on the results.

STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE

and EMMA PLATOFF report.

This February, bundled up against the bitter cold, nearly 100 students stood in front of Woodbridge Hall to protest the student income contribution, which requires students on financial aid to work term-time jobs or use personal savings to help fund their awards.

Sharing their personal stories, the students argued that the requirement divides Yalies along class boundaries, with lower-income students having fewer opportunities to completely participate in academic, extracurricular and social activities because of their need to work toward their contribution.

Higher-income students, meanwhile, do not face such constraints.

“The current system divides Yalies into two classes of students: One group has time to pursue the kind of activities that the Admissions Office displays prominently on its website and in mailers to prospective students. The other must instead work long hours each week to (almost) afford to study alongside their wealthier peers,” reads a report published by the Yale College Council in January to capture student views on financial aid When asked to identify the social issue that they feel most divides the United States, 54 percent of freshmen chose “race.” But further anal-

FINANCIAL AID 91-100 20% Approximately what percentage of your cost of attendance is covered by a Yale financial aid award?

71-90 13% 51-70 6%

25-50 Below 25 7% 5%

ysis shows the second-most popular response, “class,” more directly shades students’ plans for the years ahead.

THE PATH TO YALE

Within the freshman class, race and socioeconomic class were closely connected.

Eighty-two percent of students in the highest-income bracket, with annual family income of over $500,000, identified as Caucasian, while only 8 percent of African-American students fell into the same socioeconomic category.

Twenty percent of the Hispanic population on campus reported an annual family income of less than $40,000, compared to 9 percent of white students from similar households.

Educational attainment was similarly skewed by race: 87 percent of Yale legacies in 2019, for instance, are white, as were 76 percent of the freshmen with siblings in the University community. Revealing a connection to income level, 42 percent of students who will be the first to graduate from college came from

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families with an annual income of less than $40,000. There was only one first-generation survey respondent from a family with an annual income of over $500,000.

Students hailing from the Northeastern United States are the wealthiest incoming freshmen, with 65 percent indicating an annual family income level above $125,000.

On the other end of the spectrum, those from the Southwestern United States or international hometowns reported generous financial aid packages — 29 percent of respondents from each of these areas have over 91 percent of their tuition bill covered by the University.

Freshmen on financial aid were more likely to attend a public high school than their peers, with only 27 percent attending a private school.

Fifty-five percent of students not receiving financial aid attended private school.

And though just 8 percent of students said they chose Yale primarily for because of its affordability, 67 percent of those who did came from SEE SURVEY PAGE 6

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OPINION

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GUEST COLUMNIST J U N YA N C H U A

The invisible Bluebook Y

ale College does not have a core curriculum. Even Yale’s distributional requirements offer diversity.

There is no one course all students are required to take before graduating. The University makes it clear that each student’s education is completely unique — but is it? As the year begins and students trawl through the 2,000 classes in the Bluebook, it is worth thinking about Yale’s “hidden curriculum,” the invisible education that every student receives regardless of what courses they take. To the extent that it prepares students for life in a capitalist society, it is remarkably successful at easing Yale students into the real world.

The first course in Yale’s “hidden curriculum” is an introduction to self-promotional advocacy (almost certainly a Writing credit). Want to get into a popular seminar?

Send an email to the professor waxing lyrical about your interest in the field or boasting about the work you have done in an area. If you want to get into this fraternity or that club, be sure to grab meals with all the people who matter and present yourself as the “right fit” for the group.

When they graduate, Yale students will hone the same skills to rise through the ranks of large bureaucracies, be it the Central Intelligence Agency or the Peace Corps. They will apply the same capacity for self-advocacy in other spheres of life, whether at the parent-teacher meeting to ensure their child isn’t shortchanged, or at the hospital to ensure their rights as patients are protected. Far from being a vessel of impractical knowledge, steeped in the liberal arts, Yale teaches skills that are not just preprofessional, but “transprofessional.”

Offered as an uninterrupted, four-year sequence, the second course in Yale’s “hidden curriculum” is about building coalitions and forming blocs.

Returning upperclassmen are living in suites they formed last spring, often through a longdrawn-out process of negotiation, compromise and strategy.

For some, it would have been an acrimonious process. They would have seen the Machiavellian streaks in themselves and in their friends — or people they thought were their friends. Armed with this dexterity, it’s unsurprising so many graduates head to Wall Street or Washington.

We also can’t forget “Theory and Practice of Instrumental Rationality,” the third course in Yale’s invisible Blue-

book. Rather than just throw themselves into something they love, students learn the need to “maximize their utility” by satisfying various academic, social and extracurricular goals. Faculty advisors are narrowly seen as “resources” to further one’s career. Whether you’re researching cancer or building homes in developing countries, these enterprises are all summer opportunities to “build your narrative.” This is obviously a prerequisite to some more advanced courses such as “Getting into Law School” or “Secret Societies.”

We live in a society that rewards managerial capitalism, so it’s a good class to have on your transcript. Prospective employers will be glad to know you will see your colleagues and future subordinates as resources to be exhausted after wealth has been extracted.

They also will know that you’re willing to work long hours on a project far after your interest in it has waned.

To be fair, there are also electives in the “hidden curriculum” that are virtuous. For instance, the Egalitarianism Department would get strong course evaluations. It’s hard to come out of Yale without having a fluency in the language of the Left. You’ll know how to decry the patriarchy or when to check your privilege (everyone has it as you’ll learn after hearing the word ‘intersectionality’ for the first time), even after you graduate from Yale and gather with your roommates at Whole Foods or some other bastion of gentrification.

So what is a Yale student to do about a class he can neither drop nor take Credit/D/ Fail? As we begin the new academic year, I propose we critically challenge and scrutinize the assumptions that form the invisible Bluebook. It’s also important to note that this “hidden curriculum” is relatively values-neutral. The lessons we learn from the invisible Bluebook can be applied for good or evil. Altruism without savvy is often futile. But conversely, acumen without an inner ethical core can lead to unscrupulous enterprise.

Think of your goals outside of Yale’s framework — would you have still held them if you attended a different institution with its own set of invisible courses?

Or, like most of us, you could just ignore the readings, cram for the final exam and get an Aon the “hidden curriculum.”

JUN YAN CHUA is a sophomore in Saybrook College. Contact him at junyan.chua@yale.edu .

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xactly one week ago, I found myself sitting silently in a dark Western Connecticut cabin in the middle of the night. Six teenagers sat cross-legged around me, a freshly brewed college senior, saying one thing they liked about me, each of them gently patting my back or massaging a hand.

Lest you be concerned, I should explain that it was my turn in a game called “Warm and Fuzzies,” a team building exercise more common to the grey cubicles of Corporate America than to the green fields of rural Connecticut.

It was the final night of Harvest — the pre-orientation program where incoming freshmen are plopped onto organic farms to weed fields and camp out for a week — and everyone took a turn in the center of this strange circle, receiving gentle taps and treacly compliments. We were readying ourselves for the Camp Yale awaiting us back in New Haven.

Harvest is one of my favorite times of the year, mostly for its peculiar rituals and regulations, Warm Fuzzies being one of many.

For one, phones are seized on the bus ride to the farm to enforce a live-in-the-moment atmosphere. It is always “Harvest time,” as no watches are allowed.

Along similar lines, questions about college are gently extinguished with responses like, “You’ll AUSTIN four BRYNIARSKI have years to talk about Guns & Yale,” with the underbutter standing that school will happen when it happens, and there’s no need to fret. Everyone anonymously shares their “hopes and fears” on the first night of the trip, and the fears of upperclassman leaders are frequently indistinguishable from those of freshmen.

Of course, there are a lot of games to pass the time, as fieldwork can get tedious. This year, the group of freshmen I was with powered through fields of Brussels sprouts and assorted peppers, all the while playing word games and deconstructing brainteasers. And there was plenty of singing to fill each other’s ears with the beautiful harmony of unnoticeably off-key voices. Days ended with a dip in the pond, a meal procured from a

camp-stove and chatter into the night.

It was with a taste of bittersweetness that, upon our return to New Haven, I realized I would never experience the joy of a Harvest trip again. For a great deal of Yale students, programs like FOOT and Harvest dull some of the sharpness of learning how to be a college student. Freshman year, Harvest was just the pregame I needed to relax a little, to not think about the minutiae that make up college life. Later I would use the trips to once again quell my nerves as an upperclassman leader.

Unlike previous trips, the bittersweetness of this year’s departure from the countryside was tinged with the same anxieties about dramatic change with which I had moved into Bingham Hall. Questions about which classes to take have been joined by uncertainties of career options. As I got to watch a new bunch of freshmen begin their Yale careers rehearsing duets as they plucked cherry tomatoes, I had an unshakeable bellyache about the beginning of the end of my Yale career.

Senior year, in effect, is more or less the Harvest trip before life. At least, this is what I’m telling myself. The rules that make

Harvest special translate nicely (if a little tritely) to the strange bottleneck of the senior year experience that a fourth of the student body is headed toward.

“No phones” is out of the question (we’d all miss Tinder too much), but the sort of livingin-the-moment attitude it elicits might make the constant barrage of yearbook photo reminders and application deadline notifications more manageable.

Mundane tasks are as central to Harvest as they are to school; weeding is not so different from a five-page paper. Both need to be cranked out, but that doesn’t mean they’re any less necessary or important to attaining some end. It’s the people you’ve got around that can make them bearable, even if they can’t sing.

Harvest will remain in my thoughts as this year runs its course and I figure out what I want to do with myself. As corny as a game like Warm and Fuzzies is, it brings together a group of strangers to reflect upon each other and enter a new world more comfortably. I can only hope the same for my own senior year.

AUSTIN BRYNIARSKI is a senior in Calhoun College. His column runs on Fridays. Contact him at austin.bryniarski@yale.edu .

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ugust and September are peculiar. During these two brief months, freshmen shape the personas that they’ll embody for at least the rest of the year — if not longer. Come October, we’ll have a new batch of a cappella superstars, a new cadre of aspiring public servants and, of course, this year’s cohort of finance junkies. I’m sure we’ll hear plenty out of the class of 2019, but three words that will be significantly less common after a couple of weeks will be these: “I don’t know.”

Pretty soon, there’ll be a distinct social pressure for freshmen to appear busy — to seem certain of their place around campus. “I don’t know” will no longer be an acceptable response to, “What are you involved with this year?” Come April, it’ll be an unacceptable answer to, “What are you doing this summer?” By the beginning of sophomore year, anyone who hasn’t decided what to major in will answer “What do you want to major in?” with the same sheepish look and nervous chuckle.

We don’t really grow out of that mentality either. Certainly by senior year, most of us will be searching for internships — or more accurately, return offers.

Why? Because no senior wants to deal with the “embarrassment” of having no answer to “What are you doing after graduation?”

We’re taught to appear poised and

self-assured in interviews — not to admit defeat by uttering those three simple words.

As University of ChiSHREYAS cago Professor TIRUMALA Steven Levitt notes in his Rhyme and popular blog Freakonomics, reason our fear of “I don’t know” even extends into the workforce, but what’s particularly dangerous is that the questions we’re answering no longer concern just us. According to Levitt, we get “incredibly good…at faking like [we] know the answer when [we] have no idea”— after all, no employee wants to display ignorance in front of his or her boss.

It’s a mentality that has led to botched advertising campaigns, product recalls and millions of dollars of lost revenue for companies across the country.

So what’s behind our fear of three otherwise innocuous words? From a young age, we’re taught to fear uncertainty. We’re taught to admire those who have their lives together and to emulate them. Uncertainty is treated as a weakness or vulnerability. While some people make noise about how 18- to 21-year-olds need not have their lives figured out —

about how we don’t need to pick a major or vocation immediately — the reality is that most of us try anyway. When was the last time you heard someone unapologetically answer “I don’t know” to a question at a social gathering?

Such an atmosphere is toxic.

We’re almost incentivized to feel angry or miserable for not having an answer to every tough question in our lives. We’re pressured into making a decision — any decision, just to avoid the embarrassment of uncertainty. Uncertainty might be a frightening experience, but it’s a necessary precursor to exploration and discovery.

The consulting and finance sectors have become hugely popular in part because their application processes are streamlined and early in the academic year. But it prevents students from meaningfully and thoroughly researching their possible postgraduate paths.

Companies know this and capitalize on our fear of uncertainty, of course. Other employers, from tech to Teach For America, have begun copying the finance and consulting recruitment cycles and moving application dates earlier and earlier. I’ve heard of students interviewing for internships that would occur two summers later; the “winternship” that turns into a summer internship is becoming increasingly popular. It’s patently absurd that the pressures to find a job tra-

ditionally faced by juniors and seniors are now creeping into the lives of sophomores and freshmen. We’ll do anything to appear put together.

Consider also the very classes we attend here at Yale. How many of us have hesitated to answer a question for fear of a followup that reveals our ignorance or makes us look silly? How many of us have sat quietly as professors rambled about topics we simply didn’t understand? The reason we don’t speak up is the same reason we begin searching for next summer’s internship before classes even begin in the fall.

We’re afraid of looking unsure of ourselves. We’re afraid of looking stupid.

Let’s reject this culture of faux certainty. It’s perfectly fine not to have an answer every once in a while. To the class of 2019, welcome to Yale; you’ll inevitably be asked some of the very questions I’ve brought up here. Remember that you can say “I don’t have to have an answer” sometimes.

Embrace the uncertainty. Question those canned responses.

Start some genuine conversations. And raise your hand when the professor doesn't make any sense.

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Fridays.

Contact him at shreyas.tirumala@yale.edu .

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“I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it” ELIZABETH TAYLOR ACTRESS

CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, SEPT. 3

Peabody donation funds new gem exhibit

A previous version of the article “Yale receives $11 million boost for lung cancer research” incorrectly identified Toby Hecht as Tony Hecht, and mistakenly referred to her using male pronouns.

A previous version of the article “Candidates react to Local 34 endorsements” incorrectly stated that Fish Stark ’17 has received endorsements from five alders. He has in fact been endorsed by six alders.

ITS to add new security measures

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER In one of the largest steps in recent years to improve campus network safety, Yale Information Technology Services has announced plans to add an additional layer of security to the user login process.

Beginning Sept. 8, students trying to access Yale’s network and resources while off campus will now undergo multifactor authentication, a process by which users prove their identity — in addition to entering their NetID and password — by responding to a secondary prompt on another device, such as clicking a smartphone screen button or entering a code sent to a mobile phone. Employees and staff have been enrolled in the new security measure in stages since this summer. This change comes as cybersecurity risks have grown in size and sophistication, and, as a result, institutions such as Yale have explored new measures to safeguard their community and data.

“The impetus is that on a regular basis people are losing their account credentials,” Yale’s Chief Information Officer Len Peters said. “So multifactor authentication is being used primarily to reduce or eliminate compromised accounts, and we have already seen a significant decrease in the number of compromised accounts because of this [protection].”

Over the course of three days, users from each of the 12 residential colleges will be placed into the new system, in which students will receive an email to register their mobile device, landline or tablet, which will then be used to authenticate their identity when outside of the Yale network, according to an email sent to students Tuesday.

For users outside the reach of the Yale WiFi network — such as those surfing the web at a local coffee shop or inside an off-campus apartment — this new layer of verification will be required to access resources such as Yale email accounts, logging into the Virtual Private Network or entering the Central Authentication Service.

Peters said that in adopting this measure, Yale is joining a growing number of schools that have implemented similar protections for users, including other Ivy League institutions, Duke, the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“Yale is taking the next step to protect your data and personal information from hackers, identity thieves, criminals and other unauthorized individuals,” Chief Information Security Officer Richard Mikelinich said in a video announcing the new measure.

“Imagine all your important data stored in a bank vault, your password is the combination lock …

Multifactor is the guard standing watch.”

He added that this protection is “fast becoming” a standard in information security not only

for online commerce, but for any place where information is only protected by a single password.

Experts interviewed said this type of additional protection will help decrease the vulnerability of Yale’s systems, which contain sensitive information, whether it is intellectual property, financial records or personal information.

“What you want to do is ensure that no one piece of information gives the criminal the key to the capital,” said Lysa Myers, a security researcher for the information technology security company ESET. “[With multifactor authentication], if [hackers] get someone’s password through phishing or by forcing it, they aren’t able to log in unless they have a second authentication.”

Still, others expressed concern that this type of policy may not be popular with students, who will now face an additional step before getting access to their accounts.

Multifactor authentication is being used primarily to reduce or eliminate compromised accounts.

LEN PETERS Yale Chief Information Officer Fred Cate, former director of the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, explained how “nine times out of 10” better security often leads to greater inconvenience, which makes it difficult for IT professionals to implement these types of safeguards.

“If you say to [users], are you willing to use a more complicated authentication system? Most [users], when it comes down to it, aren’t,” Cate said. “That is where the real challenge will be.”

Kay Teo ’16 said this type of protection is necessary given the threats in cybersecurity.

“It is an essential step because there have been a lot of phishing attacks, especially among the faculty, so it is a good move,” she said.

Peters said he believed students would be receptive to the changes given the amount of attention now being directed towards protecting personal data and account information.

He added that users will have until roughly November to enroll into multifactor authentication before the system requires it.

“We live in a climate where information security is impacting everyone’s lives,” Peters said. “We are in a period where people are very understanding of the necessity of this type of technology.”

According to Yale’s Information Access and Security policy, every Yale NetID password must be changed at least once per calendar year.

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The Peabody received a $4 million donation for the conversion of the museum’s auditorium into a new mineral and gem gallery.

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History is about to welcome a slew of new gems and a space for them to sparkle.

On June 16, the museum announced a $4 million donation from David Friend ’69, founder and executive chair of the online backup service Carbonite, for the purpose of renovating the Peabody’s auditorium into a mineral and gem gallery. The donation, which was several months in the making, will allow the museum to feature more of its mineral and gem collection, some of which is not on display because of space constraints. The exhibit — which is set to be finished in fall 2016 — will open as part of the museum’s 150th anniversary celebration.

“The new hall will feature breathtaking, large specimens

unique in their beauty and grandeur, as well as a rotating series of mineral exhibits on loan from the greatest collections in the world,” said Jay Ague, curator of mineralogy and meteoritics. “I really believe that it will capture the imaginations of the museum’s visitors in a whole new way.”

The auditorium, to be named the David Friend Hall, is located on the third floor of the museum behind the Hall of Minerals, Earth, and Space (HoMES).

According to David Skelly, director of the Peabody, the newly transformed gallery space will function as both an exhibition space and a venue for the over 300 lectures and other events held at the museum every year.

HoMES, which opened in 2008 and is one of the museum’s most popular exhibits, will remain unchanged.

“Once completed, this display

of minerals will be among the world’s finest, and we are honored to offer it to Yale and New Haven,” said Richard Kissel, director of public programs, adding that he was “confident everyone will be touched by their beauty.”

The mineralogy collection was first made possible by the fundraising efforts of Benjamin Silliman in the early 1800s before the Peabody was established.

The $4 million gift will provide for the space renovation, the purchase of new mineral specimens and the creation of mineral displays. It will also allow the museum to create an endowment to support the use of the hall, Skelly said.

Friend could not be reached for comment. Skelly said the museum is grateful to find someone whose interests and knowledge align so well with the museum and its mission. In an

interview with The New Haven Register, Friend said that he became passionate about minerals during his childhood, when he found a blasted rock near his home. He said he hopes the new space will inspire visitors to learn more about how minerals were formed.

“If you ask someone to conjure in their mind an image of a mineral specimen, most would imagine something you can hold in your hand,” Skelly said. “Many of the specimens in the new Hall are absolutely massive and incredibly beautiful. Along with just admiring them for these qualities, they force you to think about how they came to be.”

One of the exhibit’s new specimens is a quartz crystal that weighs at nearly 2,000 pounds.

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

UberUP gains traction

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Uber launched UberUP, the company’s urban partnership program, in New Haven this summer.

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER “No office, no boss” — this phrase appears as a promotional slogan on the website for UberUP, Uber’s urban partnership that launched in New Haven over the summer.

Uber launched the program in conjunction with the Greater New Haven NAACP and the Workforce Alliance of New Haven, a job-training and outreach organization. The program seeks to hire people who live in urban areas and who have a difficult time finding a job in their city. Since Uber introduced the program — which includes local events, skill-building courses and information sessions — Uber drivers and local workforce programs alike have praised the initiative for its entrepreneurbased approach to job pairing.

“We were happy to let our program participants know about Uber, and learn about the opportunities for self employment,” said Tom Long, vice president of

communications for The WorkPlace New Haven.

The WorkPlace, a job training and educational facility, worked in conjunction with the Workforce Alliance of New Haven to hold a promotional event to spread word about the program upon its entrance into the city in late June. Following the event, The WorkPlace has distributed information about UberUP on social media.

The program’s launch in the Elm City is part of a larger citywide effort to combat chronic unemployment in the city. In December 2014, the NAACP’s Greater New Haven branch, the Workforce Alliance and DataHaven compiled a document which concluded that transportation barriers are a major contributor the city’s high unemployment rate.

“When you can’t find or afford transportation to a job interview, job training or place of work, you give it up for a while,” the document states. “This cycle is hard to break, and frequently moves

from one generation to the next, creating a downward spiral of long-term unemployment, poverty and despair.”

Matt Powers, the general manager of Uber Connecticut, said Uber is enthusiastic about serving fringe areas of urban environments, where public transportation is less readily available. He added that he believes the entrepreneurial spirit of Uber was what attracted and has helped sustain the NAACP as a partner for the program.

The local NAACP branch could not be reached for comment.

“We help drive economic development for people who have a hard time finding fulltime employment,” said Powers.

“Transportation is often cited as the number one issue for people seeking jobs.”

The program, whose website boasts an opportunity to “make it easy to earn” and “put life first,” operates by hiring employees as independent contractors.

Technically, Powers said, Uber

does not employ any of its drivers.

An Uber driver in New Haven, who has been working for the company for four months and asked to remain anonymous because he does not have permission to speak to the press, said he picked up Uber as a “part-part time” job after failing to find a full-time position in IT. He said that after Uber takes 40 percent of his earnings and he deducts the costs of car maintenance and gas, his pay ends up averaging around minimum wage. He added that he is confident in the company’s partnership with city programs.

“Uber has always been great worldwide,” he said. “It’s helping people make money where there are big gaps.”

UberUP serves several different cities on the East Coast of the United States, including Baltimore, Boston, Pittsburgh and Raleigh.

Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu .

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SOM grapples with questions of identity UP CLOSE FROM PAGE 1 reputation and culture is more pressing than ever. When asked for an answer, 25 SOM students, faculty members, administrators and alumni stressed two priorities: preventing the school from losing its small community feel, and expanding the school’s global commitment within the framework of the school’s mission “to educate leaders for business and society.”

But whether or not the school is able to deliver on these potentially competing goals is still up for grabs.

KEEPING COMMUNITY

At 10 p.m. the night before she gave her winning speech for SOM student government president, Brittan Berry SOM ’16 was sitting in the cafeteria of Evans Hall, preparing for the next day.

The difference between Evans Hall and the SOM’s previous residence — mansions along Hillhouse Avenue and the Watson Center — can hardly be exaggerated. The former is spacious, airy and filled with technology. The latter was cramped and dark. But Berry said that despite the fact that the SOM has transitioned into a newer and larger physical facility, there has not been a substantial cost to the school’s close-knit culture.

“SOM still remains and continues to remain very intimate,” she said. “We have a small community where people are very passionate about that.”

But not everyone agrees.

According to Tyler Godoff SOM ’16, some students believe the move to new facilities has in fact come with a sacrifice: the tightknit, homey feel associated with the old space.

“There are cultural aspects [of the SOM] that were linked to the old building,” he said. “There’s a long-term planning committee still trying to figure out how to better utilize the [Evans Hall]

space and become more homey.”

In addition, Godoff said that some students think the modern Evans Hall aesthetic is too impersonal, giving the school a “corporate feel” that does not match the SOM ethos.

Aaron Stelson SOM ’14 expressed a similar sentiment, saying that the architecture of Evans Hall clashes with the SOM’s personality, which is known for being very low-key.

“I think of a move to a more corporate-looking building as a step away from [the SOM] being the scrappy school that focuses on issues of equity and social justice that it was known for,” he said.

However, other members of the SOM community interviewed said they thought that the SOM’s larger physical plant actually enables the SOM to stay true to its traditionally small-school feel.

Though Nikhil Bumb SOM ’14 was only at Evans Hall for a few months before graduating, he said that because the building has large lecture halls and conference spaces, it can accommodate many of the large events that SOM students previously had to travel to other parts of campus for. Evans Hall’s size enables the SOM community to feel more close-knit because it is more self-contained, he said.

“People tend to hang around school now, so it is much more likely for everyone to be in the same building,” said SOM Deputy Dean Andrew Metrick. “There are more interactions between students and faculty.”

SOM Senior Associate Dean Anjani Jain said both students and faculty members are involved in long-term efforts to make Evans Hall feel more intimate. In particular, he said, these efforts have included keeping more plants around the building and teaming up with the Yale University Art Gallery to display artwork physically and virtually

on screens around the building.

But SOM Deputy Director of Admissions Melissa Fogerty said that a feeling of campus intimacy goes beyond just the physical plant. Upon entry to the SOM, students are placed into “cohorts,” groups that travel through the first year core curriculum together and form a micro-community for students new to the school.

In previous years, each cohort has typically had around 70 students, but as the class size has increased over the last few years, the administration has taken into consideration the toll on cohort structure. Consequently, she said, the SOM will be adding an additional cohort so that these groups will be able to stay at a similar size. For the 2015–16 academic year, there will be five cohorts in total.

D’Andre Carr SOM ’16 said the addition of the fifth cohort gives reason to believe that the administration is taking the right steps to maintain the SOM’s small and “collegiate” atmosphere and culture.

Similarly, Jain said the increase in the number of cohorts is part of an effort to make the SOM feel smaller. Because incoming class sizes have increased over the last several years, creating more cohorts makes the size of each cohort smaller.

“Last year, sections [had] 80 to 82 students, and that was not the best way to engage students in discussions,” he said. “Now classroom discussions can be more intimate.”

EXPANDING THE GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

According to SOM Associate Dean David Bach, the SOM is aiming to become the most global U.S. business school.

Since the introduction of the GNAM in 2012, the SOM has expanded its opportunities for students to study globally, from attending Global Network Weeks

— weeklong programs hosted by participating schools — to fulfilling a Global Studies requirement. Most recently, Bach said, the SOM is planning to run a two-week management program at the Yale Center Beijing for college students and recent graduates in China who may be interested in pursuing MBAs. But even with its global footprint established, Bach said the most difficult work in making the SOM a distinctively global institution has yet to come.

“We have great working relationships with 26 other business schools, usually as additional options for our students, online global network courses, case competitions across the global network and network-based collaboration,” he said. “Now comes the hard part, which is: How do we make this part of the everyday experience of [the] SOM.” Bach said a preliminary step towards achieving this goal is including more non-U.S. cases in the core curriculum. However, he said, the real way to incorporate the GNAM into the daily SOM experience is by finding ways to connect student-led clubs and organizations at the SOM to their counterparts at other network schools.

Similarly, Snyder said that continuing connections with students from other schools within the network is a priority.

“I think [SOM] students enjoy the interactions with other students from the network,” Snyder said. “But for many students that’s a pretty isolated event, and their main sources of engagement while they’re students are with other students at the SOM and with other students at Yale, and less frequently students throughout the network.”

SOM Director of Global Initiatives Camino de Paz said that as the SOM continues to try and expand its global footprint, there will be a wider array of global network courses offered to SOM students in the fall and spring.

This will give them more opportunities to fulfill their Global Studies requirement, she said.

De Paz also said members of the administration are hoping to incorporate student leaders in discussions about expanding global initiatives as a way to gauge student interest.

Jain said he has been working with Bach to introduce a new course with a global studies bent into the SOM’s core curriculum.

Students enrolled in the class, which will be taught for the first time this spring, will work alongside students at two other GNAM schools, EGADE Business School and HEC Paris, in “global virtual teams” to complete a project, which will be assigned in the spring. Jain said the course is intended to give students exposure to the challenges of working on a global business project, since they will have to overcome geographic and language barriers as well as time differences to work with their teammates.

Felix Ayarza SOM ’17 said the beauty of the SOM’s approach to international experience is that it does not necessarily require a big commitment on the part of the student: SOM students can go abroad for as little as a week or 10 days, or as long as a semester.

But Katy Mixter SOM ’17 said that although most students appreciate the effort the SOM has made to incorporate international opportunities into the curriculum, there is still more that the school can do on this front.

In particular, she said it would be helpful to include more opportunities for students who are from the U.S. to work abroad.

“I notice that most students looking to work ‘abroad’ are international students looking to work in the U.S.,” she said. “I think we can also place a greater emphasis on helping U.S. students get rewarding internships abroad as this will fully round out the school’s international offerings.”

Mixter also said professors should more actively prompt students to talk about their experiences working or living abroad. Additionally, she suggested that the administration further incorporate students in the SOM’s Masters of Advanced Management Program — a oneyear curriculum based at the SOM for students who graduated from other business schools in the GNAM — into the MBA social culture.

“I think the more global we are, the better,” said Andres Spinel SOM ’16. “I would even push it a little bit further and have [the

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SOM professor Jim Baron, who led the search for a new SOM dean in 2012, said he is surprised at how valuable the GNAM has become to the SOM. Baron said he originally thought the SOM’s involvement in the GNAM would be mostly a public relations asset but has since been impressed by what it has contributed to the school.

In addition to continuing students’ global outreach, SOM Director of Community and Inclusion Tiffany Gooden said the SOM is working to increase the number of international students.

To this point, Fogerty said the SOM saw an increased number of applications from international students last year.

Indeed, Perry Pickei SPH ’17, a student in the interdisciplinary health care management program, said he has noticed a strong international presence at the SOM. While in a behavioral economics class on Wednesday, Pickei said he noticed many different accents in the classroom, which he said speaks to the international diversity that the SOM offers.

Ryan Anson SOM ’17 also said that even though he is new to the school and has not yet been able to explore the school’s options abroad, he has valued the international presence on the New Haven campus.

Jay Tansey SOM ’16 said he attributes this increased interest from international students to the SOM’s improved reputation in recent years.

“Yale has always been a big name that has a lot of notoriety internationally, but as [the] SOM continues to climb in the rankings and that brand itself is growing, I think it enables us as a school to attract more diverse candidates,” he said.

“FOR BUSINESS AND SOCIETY”

The SOM’s global agenda ushered in many changes for students — the GNAM, in particular, significantly expanded the range of opportunities for MBA candidates, both on campus and abroad. Students can now take online courses where they can interact with other MBA students from across the globe, and participate in “Global Network Weeks” — weeklong programs at business schools in member locations worldwide.

Bach said the SOM’s global involvement is an instrumental part of interpreting the school’s mission — to educate leaders for business and society — in a contemporary context.

“Globalization over the last three to four years isn’t at odds with the mission. It provides a broader playing field for students and faculty to give substance to the mission,” he said.

“Global strategy provides a new context to think about business and society.”

As the SOM continues to grow, Mixter said it is all the more important to maintain this focus on education for business and society. She said the SOM’s commitment to its original mission provides it with a comparative advantage over other business schools and sets it apart in a positive way.

Similarly, Stacy Blackman, who founded an MBA admissions consulting company, Stacy Blackman Consulting, said the

SOM’s key to success will not be to compete with some of its better-known peers but to capitalize on what makes it different from most business schools.

“Yale SOM has the potential to be considered one of the very top, not by chasing the tail of a [Harvard Business School], but by building on who Yale SOM is,” she said. “This is what I feel it has been doing very successfully.”

But Jeremy Shinewald, the president and founder of mbaMission, another MBA admissions consulting firm, said he has seen a “transformation” from the SOM that was traditionally nonprofit focused to the SOM today, which he said no longer fits that stereotype.

Similarly, Stelson said the SOM is less focused on training students for public sector work than it once was.

“I do think there is a tendency to shift away from people going into types of employment that may be less lucrative and more focused on issues of equity in our country in particular,” he said.

“There is still a large portion of people who care about that, but it doesn’t seem to be frontand-center in the vision and the direction that Dean Snyder is taking [the SOM] in.”

But Jain said there is no evidence in the SOM’s employment data to support a trend either toward or away from careers in government and nonprofit work.

He said that although the question deserves long-term study, current data does not indicate any significant change in where student interests lie.

Berry said that although the SOM is trying to move away from the stereotype that it is just focused on nonprofit work, it is not trying to market itself as a business school that encourages for-profit career paths. Rather, she said, the school is making a push to be known as an institution that provides resources for all future career interests.

SOM Director of Entrepreneurship Kyle Jensen also touched on the SOM’s evolution, while explaining how the fledgling entrepreneurship program that he heads is becoming more innovative while maintaining a sense of individuality particular to the SOM. Although many business schools offer entrepreneurship classes, Jensen said many students at the SOM have special interests to which the entrepreneurship program will try to cater. For example, he said, SOM students tend to have a deep interest in social entrepreneurship, which has inspired faculty members to craft curricula that satisfy this interest. Further, he said that as the entrepreneurship program continues to develop, the SOM will have to contemplate what entrepreneurship really means in the context of its mission.

“As we grow, and we’re sure to grow rapidly in terms of these offerings and in terms of the culture of entrepreneurship at Yale, the challenge will be narrowing the opportunities we have: How do we uniquely define Yale in terms of universities that excel at entrepreneurship, and what does the Yale brand of entrepreneurship mean?”

And then he paused. “I’m not sure if it’s the kind of thing that we’ll have an answer to that is set in stone,” he said. “But we will all spend a great deal of time thinking about it.”

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

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New grad dorms on Elm Street to displace Broadway parking

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Finding a place to park is challenging enough for people who work in the Broadway shopping district, but when Yale’s newly approved 73-foot-tall apartment building fills one of the area’s only available lots, parking may become even harder.

New Haven’s Board of Zoning Appeals voted unanimously on July 14 to permit Yale to begin work on the Elm Street lot adjacent to Tyco Printing. The site, which will contain dozens of graduate student dorms, will partially offset the loss of rooms from the 2017 renovation of the Hall of Graduate Studies. But the board also exempted Yale from building any new parking spaces, despite the city’s recommendation that 145 spaces be built to accommodate the new apartments and nearby retail stores. “It’s a crazy intersection [of Elm Street, Broadway and York Street] which adds a lot of excitement and color to the area,� said City Economic Development Director Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, adding that New Haven sees the Broadway shopping district as similar to the Harvard Square area in Cambridge. “It’s going to be an exciting, congested, busy place. Our strategy is to let Yale go wild and build what they want.�

For years, the city has been slowly changing its zoning laws to permit more mixedretail space — locations with residential and retail tenants. With the new apartment building, the first two floors of which are planned to be retail space, Yale is bringing exactly this type of mixed-retail space to Elm Street.

Employees of nearby stores like Maison Mathis, Tyco Printing and Trailblazer may be the ones most impacted by the exemption and the displacement of the parking spaces. The Tyco Printing delivery van parks in the lot, and one lot employee said the lot is almost at full capacity five times a week, adding that Yale students buy spaces there for months at a time. Street parking has a two-hour limit, and for workers trying to save money, finding cheap parking often drives them outside the Broadway area.

Eddie Raymond, who works in the adja-

cent Trailblazer store, said that after the new apartments arrive, “driving through Broadway will be a complete nightmare.�

Some employees at Maison Mathis, a cafe on Elm Street, park in the lot of Stop and Shop and walk to work each morning — a nine-minute trip according to Google Maps. “Everywhere is a walk. We don’t park anywhere close,� said Maison Mathis employee Cameron Wright.

Our concern is that all the employee parking and all the institutional parking will be taken out of that zone.

MATTHEW NEMERSON SOM ’80 City Economic Development Director Yale’s journey from blueprints to Zoning Board approval was not without pushback and protest from the city, however. In February, a staff report from Deputy Director of Zoning Tom Talbot recommended that the board deny Yale’s request for an exemption from replacing parking spaces, among other concerns.

Even though the University received a formal exemption from adding parking spaces, Nemerson said the city still wants to make sure Yale has an organized plan to create off-site parking. According to Nemerson, Yale is planning to expand the parking lot outside the UPS store on Dixwell Avenue to create more open-access parking. However, even that possibility is not ideal, Elm Street employees said, because the parking would be much farther away. “Our concern is that all the employee parking and all the institutional parking will be taken out of that zone so that all [that there is] is one-to two-hour parking,�

Nemerson said. “Why would [Yale] want employees to be competing with customers?�

Contact FINNEGAN SHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

Alders talk homelessness

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Alders and community members met in City Hall last night to discuss two new policies that could change how New Haven approaches social issues in coming years.

Chief among the issues that the City Services and Environmental Policy Committee addressed last night were proposed organizational changes to the Environmental Advisory Council and the installation of “donation meters� in the city. The meters, shaped like regular parking meters, would allow residents to make donations to United Way to relieve homelessness in the city.

Doug Hausladen ’04, the city’s transportation and parking director, said the idea for donation meters in New Haven began about a year ago, when he held a workshop with the alders regarding the proposal. Ward 7 Alder Abby Roth said homelessness — especially on the New Haven Green — has been a worsening problem in the city; an article in the New Haven Independent over the summer detailed how panhandlers have become more aggressive in recent years.

According to Win Davis, executive director of the Town Green Special Services District, who has worked with Hausladen on the donation meters, the project is intended to provide alternative outlets for people to donate to the homeless. “This is not a condemnation of panhandling, because it’s legal,�

Davis said. “We’re just trying to let people know of other ways to express their generosity.�

Hausladen said the city plans on placing the meters in hightraffic, high-visibility spots. He named the corner of College and Chapel Streets as one potential location and the interior of the New Haven Free Public Library as

another. Davis also said the Town Green plans to produce informational brochures about the meters. He handed out sample brochures from Burlington, Vermont, which also has donation meters, to the alders.

The proposed agreement with IPS Group Inc. — the company that currently supplies the city’s parking meters — will cost the city nothing, Hausladen said.

IPS will provide the 10 donation meters for no charge and will also cover all transaction costs involved the donation process.

Money donated to the meters, he said, will be directly deposited in a United Way fund to combat homelessness.

Roth expressed hope that the meters will combat panhandling in the downtown area by reducing incentives for panhandlers.

In response to a question from Ward 13 Alder Rosa Santana at the meeting, Hausladen said the city will be legally responsible for the meters and will handle installation, but IPS will provide new meters to replace damaged ones.

Before discussing the donation meters, the committee considered the night’s first order of business: proposed changes to the structure of the city’s Environmental Advisory Board. City Engineer Giovanni Zinn ’05 told the News that the changes to the ordinance governing the Environmental Advisory Council will make the board more residentbased and less administrative. “The major change has been a radical shift in the composition of the group,� Zinn said. “Previously, it was very departmentheavy, without a whole lot of residents.�

The proposed changes would give six city residents positions on the board, with three administrators — including Zinn himself — holding non-voting positions.

One or two alders will also sit on the council.

Zinn said the effort to reform the council began after a group of city residents approached Mayor Toni Harp asking for the city to make changes to the board’s composition. Harp then formed a task force to investigate how the council could be revitalized and made a vocal part of efforts to increase sustainability in the city.

Santana, who was filling in as chair of the committee for Ward 18 Alder Salvatore DeCola, said she used to sit on the council. At the time, it was composed primarily of city staff, and she said she “didn’t have any say� on the board. “Hopefully, this time, city residents will be able to give their opinions, and in conjunction with the city work to develop environmental policy,� she said.

Roughly five members of the public spoke in favor of the proposed changes to the council.

Laura Kahn, a co-chair of Harp’s task force on the council, said she hoped the Board of Alders would approve the changes so that the council can begin work as soon as possible.

Kevin McCarthy, a former staffer for the state’s energy and sustainability legislative committees, said his experience working in Hartford made him think that the language of the ordinance should be kept simple and flexible, so that the alders are not forced to revisit it every few years.

Zinn said he expects the council to work with area universities — including Yale and the University of New Haven — to develop environmental and sustainability policy.

With both pieces of legislation passed in committee, they will go to the full Board of Alders, which will vote on the motions in the coming weeks.

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

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“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”

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Pierson shifts away from use of “master” title MASTER FROM PAGE 1 the vocabularies even of students who did not take issue with the word.

“Even if people disagree with him for whatever reason, I think for most people the important thing is that he is our head of our residential college, and we respect him and respect his deci-

sion,” Grace Brody ’16 said. “If he asks us to do something, we’re going to do it.”

Megan Ruan ’17, a Pierson aide, compared students’ decisions to support Davis’ announcement to people rallying behind a family member: Whether or not Pierson students agreed with the rationale, she said, they would be more likely to defend his deci-

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In recent weeks, Pierson College has seen a shift away from the use of the term “master.”

sion than the average Yale student would.

Even if students still used the word to refer to traditions like “Master’s Teas” out of habit, Simone Seiver ’17 said, they would not use it to refer to Davis to his face, out of respect.

The shift in terminology has made its way onto the College’s website as well, where the “Master’s Office” page has been renamed the “Pierson College Office” page, and Davis and his wife are called the “heads of college.”

But while Pierson’s culture may be shifting, in the other colleges — where masters have not made final decisions about the use of the title — students have continued calling their college leaders “master,” largely out of habit, they said.

The other 11 colleges’ websites remain unchanged, and 14 of 16 non-Pierson students interviewed said they continue to call their college heads by the “master” title and have not heard others do anything different. Most added that they would make an effort to move away from the title if their college leader asked them to, but did not themselves see a reason to make the switch.

Similarly, four of six master’s aides interviewed said they continue to use the title and have not been referred to by any other word.

“Honestly, there have been

no differences whatsoever,” said Jerry Cui ’16, head Morse master’s aide. “We refer to [Catherine Panter-Brick] as Master Panter-Brick, refer to ourselves as master’s aides, and everyone else seems fine referring to us as such.”

Davenport Master’s Aide Kori Baij ’16 said she still calls herself by that title, although she said it is more out of habit than any stance on the issue. Still, she noted that there have been some subtle shifts away from the term within Davenport. During a recent meeting of her college’s aides, she said, some of the group’s paperwork referred to them as “Davenport aides,” while others photocopied from previous years still said “master’s aides.”

But Lucas Riccardi ’17, another aide in Davenport, said he has made a conscious effort to stop using the word, both by addressing Davenport College Master Richard Schottenfeld by “doctor” rather than “master” and telling new students that he works as an aide in his “college office.”

“I understand my job as an aide differently now out of respect to those who feel uncomfortable with the title,” Riccardi said.

“Supportive shifts in discourse start with these small changes in our language and attitude.”

The Council of Masters is set to meet this afternoon to discuss the title, though Yale College Dean

Freshman expectations reflect class divides SURVEY FROM PAGE 1 households earning less than $80,000 a year.

“Yale was a top choice for me,” Dominic Schnabel ’19, a low-income student from Claremont, California, said. “It was the cheapest option for me.”

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MAKING IT WORK

In July, The Atlantic published an article titled “Rich Kids Study English.” In the piece, writer Joe Pinsker explained that “kids from lower-income families tend toward more ‘useful’ majors,” often in the STEM fields, while students from more privileged backgrounds generally “flock to history, English and performing arts.” As members of the class of 2019 begin considering their majors, the patterns identified by Pinsker appear to hold true at Yale: 40 percent of students interested in pursuing a single major in the humanities came from families earning $250,000 per year or more.

Among students in the highest income bracket, 18 percent expressed interest in pursuing a single major in the humanities — a rate 5 percent higher than that of the entire class. Only 6 percent of those in the lowest income bracket reported a similar preference for a humanities major. For both groups, however, STEM majors were the most popular option, at 48 percent and 74 percent for the highest- and lowest-income brackets, respectively.

The split between wealthy and poorer students extended beyond academic interests, also affecting students’ levels of comfort at the as they begin their college careers. Among students in the below-$40,000 income bracket, 32 percent claimed to feel unprepared for the academic workload at Yale. Only 18 percent of students from the $500,000-plus income bracket expressed the same concern.

“When you come from a low-income background, you don’t feel like you have the same entitlement to access certain resources that should be available to all students,” said Nicole Chavez ’19, a Questbridge Scholar who graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall, the preparatory boarding school.

After her years at Choate, Chavez said

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tribute in their own way to the community, however they chose to, and do well in classes,” said Charles Kenney ’19, who does not receive financial aid and will not work a student job. “That’s what students should be expected to do.”

Survey results also revealed splits in expectations for extracurricular and social activities at Yale. Sixty-three percent of students who wish to join a fraternity or sorority, for example, do not receive any financial aid, and 80 percent of those from the highest income bracket said they anticipate drinking alcohol during college, a percentage twice that of students from the lowest income bracket.

POSITIONED FOR THE FUTURE

Students on financial aid expressed concerns about being able to dedicate time to finding summer and post-graduate employment, while also working on campus. Already considering their postYale careers, students from low-income backgrounds most frequently listed medical, business or law school as their ideal destination after graduation, with very few opting for professions in the arts or education.

“I hope I’m not forced into a situation where I have to pursue a job just for the sake of money,” Chavez said. “It concerns me, as a student who comes from a lowincome background.”

But much as they successfully navigated through a complicated path to Yale, these students will eventually emerge from their time at the University with a Yale diploma to their name, the rights and responsibilities of which Vice President Joe Biden discussed on Class Day. In his address, Biden encouraged the class of 2015 to take advantage of their newfound opportunity.

“Don’t forget about what doesn’t come from this prestigious diploma,” Biden said in May. “Regardless of academic or social background, those who had the most success and were most respected were the ones who never confused academic credentials and societal sophistication with gravitas and judgement.”

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

ing on a post on the popular Facebook group “Overheard at Yale” that she was in “complete agreement” with his decision.

But Zhong, who himself does not see anything wrong with the title, noted it is difficult to use an alternative title for his college head when no replacement has been given.

Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis also sent a message about the issue to his college on Monday. Although he noted that he personally prefers to be called by his first name, he also cautioned against focusing too much on the issue of racially charged words to the exclusion of combating the underlying issues of race, poverty and inequality.

He reiterated those concerns during a Thursday interview with the News.

“Part of the reason I have not been interested in talking to the [News] about this in the past is that I think Yalies have more important things to talk about: free speech on campus, socioeconomic inequality, the undergraduate curriculum,” Christakis said.

“What are the sources of political activism that are worth your effort in your generation? Surely you can do better than the titles of officials at your University.”

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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she has largely overcome such mental hurdles. But the difficulties may endure for hundreds of low-income students coming to Yale this year as they confront far more than course selection.

For many of the 271 respondents planning to seek an on-campus job as part of a student income contribution requirement, social opportunities may be comparatively limited.

“I’m worried about it more and more — what if I have friends that say, ‘Oh, let’s go to New York City for a day,’ and I’m sitting there like, ‘I really don’t have the money,’” Schnabel said. “I’m concerned about going forward and having to opt out of social times.”

In the aggregate, freshmen were divided on the student income contribution issue. Less than half of the respondents who will work a part-time job disputed the fairness of a student income contribution. Meanwhile, students who will not have to seek employment felt more strongly that the contribution unfairly hindered lower-income students, with 55 percent stating they would eliminate the requirement.

“I don’t think any student should be expected to do anything other than con-

Jonathan Holloway said he does not expect the issue to be resolved this week.

In the meantime, several college masters have sent messages to their college communities telling students to use whatever term of address they prefer.

“I don’t wish anyone to have to hedge or have any self-consciousness about what to call me.

Many already address me as Master Laurans as a form of natural habit, and for them the title has taken on the resonances of college life. But I also have answered to many other titles during my time at Yale, and others of you already have called me Dr. Laurans, Professor Laurans, Master L or Dr. L.,” Jonathan Edwards College Master Penelope Laurans wrote in an Aug. 28 email to her college. “Please use what feels right to you.”

Jonathan Edwards student Sarah Kim ’17 said she was “relieved” by Laurans’ email, both because she would be allowed to call Laurans the title she was accustomed to and because it welcomed discussion.

Dale Zhong ’19, a student in Trumbull, said his master, psychology professor Margaret Clark, told students she personally dislikes the title, but has allowed them to call her whatever they prefer pending a final consensus from the Council of Masters. Clark came out in support of Davis’ decision early, comment-

10 years, they might have found over $1 million in lost wages.

Six former Gourmet Heaven employees who cooperated with the DOL and became the targets of retaliation from Cho as a result are still seeking compensation, Bhandary-Alexander said. Cho fired four of the six workers and his managers cut hours for another, said Unidad Latina en Accion leader John Lugo. Federal statutes, such as those enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, grant these workers additional compensation from Cho, said Bhandary-Alexander.

A motion submitted to the court revealed that the six employees are asking for $125,000 total in their settlement proposal.

At a hearing planned for Oct. 2, a federal judge will determine whether she approves of the proposed settlement plan. If not, the judge will order Bhandary-Alexander to propose a new settlement. If a reasonable settlement cannot be reached, the judge will order the matter to trial.

“The federal lawsuit represents the last opportunity for the New Haven workers to recover lost wages,” BhandaryAlexander said.

Although the employees may soon receive additional com-

pensation, the litigation comes with unintended consequences, Lugo said. The six workers continuing litigation against Cho have all been turned away from employment opportunities once employers discovered that they had filed litigation against their ex-employer, Lugo said.

Lugo added that the six former Gourmet Heaven employees are currently employed, but not in permanent jobs.

One of the six workers participating in the lawsuit, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid present and future employers from discovering his participation, said he looks forward to settling and moving forward.

“I’m looking for better jobs and people who pay their workers well,” he said. “I do not want any more problems with the restaurant owners.”

Cho continues to face litigation from workers at his Gourmet Heaven locations in Providence, Rhode Island, located near Brown University. In June, employees from the Providence location claiming wage theft gathered in front of Cho’s Woodbridge, Connecticut home to protest.

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“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW PLAYWRIGHT

Crepe truck opens store Atticus hires new manager

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER

BY MRINAL KUMAR STAFF REPORTER

Whitney Avenue has a sweet new addition.

After over a year in business, New Haven-based crepe truck Crepes Choupette has opened a brick-and-mortar location. At the restaurant’s grand opening yesterday evening at 24 Whitney Ave., a crowd of 40 New Haven residents and Yale students thronged the crepe machines, where employees layered fig jam over brie and topped Nutella crepes with fresh fruit. Crepes Choupette began with owner Adil Chokairy selling crepes from a cart — which included both a kitchen station and bicycle attachment — at the corner of College and Wall Streets in June 2014. Choupette Creperie and Cafe, which had been expected to open at the end of May, served crepes and wine to customers for free yesterday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., as local musician Adam Matlock played French tunes on an accordion in the corner.

“The goal is for people to have fun and enjoy themselves,” Chokairy said.

Despite the opening of the storefront, the cart will remain in business.

Net Impact, an undergraduate social entrepreneurship organization that bestowed upon Chokairy a 0 percent interest loan from microfunding organization Kiva Zip, helped provide several additional crepe machines, which are featured in the storefront. Alessando Luciano ’18, Net Impact’s consulting chair, said that social media advertising and Chokairy’s one-onone interactions with customers helped Crepes Choupette meet its funding goals to open up the brick-and-mortar location.

Chokairy’s ability to turn professional relationships into personal friendships is consistent with his business outlook, Luciano said, adding that Chokairy runs Crepes Choupette not from a profit-based outlook but rather from a desire to be handson with his job.

The line for crepes extended past the door out onto the sidewalk, which both Luciano and Matlock said boded well for business. The restaurant’s

A change in management and a push toward local produce has shaken up the prices, but not the popularity, of Atticus Bookstore and Cafe on Chapel Street.

Atticus, a New Haven staple since 1976, has a new manager in Robert Marcarelli, who replaced Ben Gaffney over the summer. Marcarelli, who affectionately refers to Atticus as “New Haven’s soup, sandwich, and salad mecca,” has made an immediate impact by eliminating well-known menu items, increasing the presence of allnatural food and redefining staff roles.

“Atticus has always been such a New Haven institution, but it is time to bring in some more Connecticut influences,” said Marcarelli.

To this end, Marcarelli, who has experience as both a restaurant consultant and an executive chef at restaurants including Elis Brick Oven Pizza in Hamden, has made a host of changes to Atticus’ food and beverage selection. Beers are now sourced only from Connecticut breweries, much of the produce is obtained from New Haven farms and new menu items include line-caught tuna and hormone-free turkey.

Marcarelli will also make adjustments to the menu every quarter, based on the seasonality of ingredients.

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Choupette Creperie and Cafe, located at 24 Whitney Ave., opened for business yesterday evening. warmly lit interior drew compliments from attendees, who noted its authentic decor and resulting ambiance.

“The space is a really nice place for students to interact with each other,” Ivy Wanta ’17 said.

Evelyn Davis ’17 said the new location seems like a natural outgrowth from the cart. Davis cited strong community support for the business, noting that this support lent a “joyful, non-sterile” atmosphere not found at similar establishments like Maison Mathis.

Students, including Nemo

active with the menu than we used to be,” said Marcarelli.

“We like to learn about our food, and teach our staff about our food and where it comes from.”

Sebastian Torres, who has worked at Atticus for 15 years, the most of any current employee, said the new management has led to better communication between employees. Each staff member now has a more specific role, creating a more efficient system of task management, Torres said.

With more high-end products came higher prices, Marcarelli conceded, citing the Cobb Salad as an example.

The addition of Cato Corner blue cheese, which sells for $26 a pound, has pushed the price of the salad to $14.50, the most expensive item on the menu. Atticus has also transitioned to using premium coffee beans, which has resulted in an increase in the price of a cup of coffee, from $1.25 in the spring to $2.

Marcarelli and Torres said they have not seen a decline in business owing to the uptick in prices. But the removal of several classic menu items has caused disappointment, especially among student patrons, Torres said: The tomato panino, an Atticus staple, has been removed from the menu, much to the chagrin of Yalies.

Rachel Alderman, a New Haven resident and an Atticus regular, said she had not noticed a change, noting that

her favorite menu items are still available.

Alex Kronman ’17 agreed. “I like the black bean soup,” he said.

“As long as they keep that, I’m good. That’s the staple for me.”

While Marcarelli made changes to the cafe, the bookstore of Atticus remained untouched, according to assistant bookstore manager Mandy Dorso.

Marcarelli explained that this was an intentional move.

“Eating surrounded by books has a charm of its own,” he said.

“There’s no need for a change in the format, because it’s great as it is.”

While Marcarelli bemoaned the fact that profit margins for restaurants are not where they used to be 15 years ago, he explained that adjustment and renewal is essential to succeeding in the food industry.

Specifically, Atticus now makes a much greater effort to attract students — the restaurant hosts promotions on campus and distributes coupons and virtual gift bags.

“There used to be an attitude towards students of ‘you can’t bring your computer in here,’” said Marcarelli. “But now we’re much more lenient. We let people come in with computers and do their work. We’re much more welcoming.”

Customers, however, are still not allowed to bring books from the store to the tables.

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Blackburn ’16, living in Timothy Dwight College, which is less than a block from the storefront, said they were especially excited about the opening.

According to New Haven resident Paul Tynan, the new storefront contributes to the diversity and fine cuisine of the city.

“It would be nice to see more small businesses like this in the area,” Tynan said.

The Choupette Creperie and Cafe will be open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day.

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Atticus Bookstore and Cafe on Chapel Street has come under new management this summer.

YPD investigates summer thefts

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER The Yale Police Department is continuing to investigate a series of thefts targeting Yale Summer Session students between June and August.

In the first two weeks of June, Master of Yale Summer Session and Dean of Morse College Joel Silverman sent three emails to Yale Summer Session students, counselors and staff alerting them of thefts on campus.

Although the YPD has recovered several of the stolen items and arrested one individual, the department is still investigating all thefts and expects additional arrests soon, Assistant Chief of the Yale Police Department Michael Patten said in an email to the News. The stolen items included students’ personal electronic devices which were left unattended in unlocked rooms.

“Although crime can and does happen on any college campus, students can help reduce crime by realizing that thieves are opportunists and security is a shared responsibility,” Patten said.

The first of the three thefts reported to the campus community occurred in Morse College on June 2. The thief entered a student’s room through a door that was propped open with a hanger and stole the student’s laptop, phone and money, according to an email Silverman sent out following the incident.

Six days later, on June 8, a burglar entered the bedroom of a student in Ezra Stiles College because the doors were propped open with a hanger. The student’s jewelry and camera were stolen. The third theft occurred a week later, when another student in Ezra Stiles left his door open and had his laptop, cell phone and wallet stolen. Silverman said in his email that the YPD suspected that the thief in the third crime could be a member of the community.

“Like last Monday’s theft in Morse College, today’s crime would have been prevented had the suite door and bedroom door been closed and locked,” Silverman’s email read.

Silverman could not be reached for comment.

Although all four students interviewed who stayed on cam-

pus during Yale Summer Session said they found out about the thefts, none felt significantly worried or concerned about their security. All four students added that crime on campus might increase during the summer because fewer students are around.

“The whole [Yale] area is a lot less populated during the summer, which may also act as a crime deterrent during the year,” said Brandon Hudik ’17, a Yale Summer Session counselor.

Patten highlighted that even though regular classes end in May, thousands of people attend summer programs at the University, so keeping the campus safe is a year-round priority. He added that students can play a crucial role in reducing crime by taking advantage of the security systems and procedures that Yale has in place.

The Yale Summer Session Student Handbook states that students should keep their room doors locked and their windows secured.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

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Old Bowl to get a new field FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 we’ll add lights in parking areas where needed.”

According to Associate Director of Athletics Sports Publicity Steve Conn, the Ivy League Office approached Yale with NBC’s request to push kickoff back by an hour and a half. As a result, much of the second half will be played in darkness.

NBC told the league that NBC would cover the cost of the lights, Conn said, after being reminded that the Bowl currently lacks them.

Musco Sports Lighting will be working with NBC Sports to install the temporary lighting, Beckett said.

Scottie Rodgers, associate executive director of communications and external relations at the Ivy League, declined to comment on the ongoing discussions between NBC Sports and Yale Athletics.

Jason Van Wyk, the communications coordinator at Musco, said NBC and Musco had previously communicated about the lights. Van Wyk added, however, that Musco reached out earlier this year to follow up on the project but has yet to receive any new information from NBC. Additionally, the Hartford Courant reported on Aug. 18 that the renovation will include adding a 65-foot-high protective bubble roof and replacing the field’s grass with turf. The roof and turf will protect the field throughout harsh Connecticut winters and turn it into a year-round facility available for use by other teams, including soccer and lacrosse. These changes, football head coach Tony Reno told the Courant, will allow more students to play games in the Bowl.

It also opens up the possibility of renting the Bowl out for non-athletic events. Construction for the

Bulldogs prep for Pioneers, Knights M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12

when the exterior retaining wall and many of the portals were updated and the scoreboards replaced.

with the help of sports psychologist Brian Cain.

Cain has worked with several other Yale sports teams, including the football, baseball, field hockey and women’s swimming and diving teams. His focus has been to establish core values for the program and help the team come together to ensure success. In addition to these sessions, the team has developed many common goals — among them, focusing on winning one game at a time — to help ensure that they are approaching each day with the right attitude.

Yale’s first opponent, Sacred Heart (0–1– 1, 0–0–0 Northeast), enters the season also hoping to rebound from a disastrous 2014. The Pioneers went winless over 18 games last year, tying just twice, including against the Bulldogs in Yale’s season opener.

The weekend will continue with Sunday’s match against Fairleigh Dickinson (0–2–0, 0–0–0 Northeast), where the Bulldogs will hope to redeem themselves after last season’s 3–1 loss. The Knights lost a pair of 3–0 games last weekend against Lehigh and Lafayette, mustering just four shots on goal in the two games combined.

However, despite the seemingly beatable opponents, players stressed that hard work and playing as a united group will be the determining factors in the team’s success, especially as the Ivy League season approaches.

“I think we will surprise a lot of teams with our work ethic and desire to prove ourselves after last year’s season,” midfielder and forward Josh Totte ’18 said. “The whole team is really excited to get after it.”

Both Friday and Sunday’s matches kick off at 7 p.m.

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The renovations could potentially include a turf field and a 65-foot-high protective bubble roof. proposed changes would not begin until after the football season and would not be complete until 2016.

However, the Yale Athletics Department declined to comment on the purported changes, stating

that the project is still under review.

Beckett was able to confirm that this review process will occur throughout the fall.

The Yale Bowl last underwent a renovation before the 2006 season,

Sisters highlight incoming class

First matches of season for Yale VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 setter Kelly Johnson ’16 said. “It forces us not only to play our best physically but also to play smart against teams that may be bigger or faster than us.”

For the team’s five freshmen, the Yale Invitational marks their first chance to don the Bulldog uniform. The Eli recruiting class, which includes five promising players, was rated as a “High Honorable Mention” by PrepVolleyball.com.

Perhaps the most impressive of the new players is libero Kate Swanson ’19. The freshman from Rancho Santa Fe, California, was named to the 2014 FirstTeam Under Armour All-American Team and was also named the Libero of the Year by Daily Prep Talk, a high school volleyball website.

“We have five freshmen who are all very talented,” middle

blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 said. “Our lineup is still up in the air, but I have no doubt that their class will have a big impact on this team.”

Beyond those fresh faces, several Yale players may find special significance in this weekend’s games. For outside hitter Megan Rasmussen ’18, a Houston native, playing Rice provides a rare chance to face a team from close to home.

Additionally, 11 of Yale’s 18 players hail from California. Not only do the Bulldogs host UC Santa Barbara this weekend, but they head to San Francisco to face two more California schools — San Francisco and Cal State Fullerton — in two weeks.

Most importantly, though, this weekend marks the beginning of the end for the Elis’ senior class. After three consecutive Ivy championships and NCAA berths, the team’s five seniors face their final chance to take a

step further in the national picture and to boost the program’s long-term reputation.

Despite those lofty goals, the seniors’ veteran presence ensures that the team’s younger talent does not get caught looking too far ahead.

“I am so proud and honored to be a part of a program that has won six consecutive Ivy titles, and this history certainly adds confidence to our team’s mission,” Fuller said. “However, we pride ourselves on being able to wipe the slate clean at the beginning of each season and start fresh with new determination to win a title.”

Yale faces Rhode Island on Friday night at 7 p.m. and hosts UC Santa Barbara and Rice at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, respectively.

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Yale retains two of its top four scorers from last season, when the Elis finished 3–14.

FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 is the two-time All-Ivy second team midfielder Nicole Wells ’16, a staff reporter for the News, there are a total of six returning players who played at least 11 games last season. Yale will retain two of the team’s top four scorers in Wells and forward and midfielder Carol Middough ’18, who scored a combined seven of the team’s 21 goals last season.

New additions to the team include seven freshmen, the biggest class on the team and the biggest incoming class in the last 12 years.

The three Toffoloni sisters — Evagelia, Katerina and Nikoletta, all class of 2019 — have made three appearances at the USA Field Hockey’s National Festival and will be supporting the Bulldogs in a variety of positions.

“My goal for this season is to be the best player I can be individually and for the team,” forward Evagelia Toffoloni ’19 said. “I want to leave everything on the field for each game.

I’ve been working a lot on my positioning on the field and making the transition from high school to [Division I] athletics.”

With the graduation of goalkeeper Heather Schlesier ’15, Yale will be putting a fresh face in the net. Either Emilie Katz ’17 or Chaney Kalinich ’19 will suit up for the Elis. Yale will also be seeing a lot of new players in the forward position. Alyssa Weiss ’17 is the only upperclassman, but sophomores Catherine Kurtin ’18 and Middough will bring more experience amongst several freshman forwards.

According to Comizio, the ratio of underclassmen to upperclassmen is not something the team is worried about.

“I think it has created a great team chemistry in which we are all close and supportive,” Comizio said.

The 17-game season kicks off at Johnson Field when the Elis take on Sacred Heart on Saturday. The Pioneers opened their own season on Aug. 28 with an overtime win against Villanova, but they ended up splitting the weekend after being defeated by Vermont.

The opening weekend continues with a visit to Quinnipiac, which has already been outscored 6–1 in its first two games of the season, both losses. The Bobcats will take on No. 1 UConn on Friday before facing the Bulldogs.

“The team is focused, and we’re giving everything we have on and off the field,” back Emmy Reinwald ’17 said. “Sacred Heart and Qpac always give us good competition so they’ll both be a real test this weekend. We’re excited to finally play games and to start the season off against local opponents.”

Yale does not begin Ivy League play until Sept. 26 when the Elis will face Harvard on their alumnae day. Last season, the Bulldogs won fewer than three Ivy League games for the first time since 2008.

Saturday’s game will begin at 12 p.m. at Johnson Field.

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YALE DAILY NEWS · FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

NEWS

“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.”

JOHN LOCKE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER

Developer to cultivate downtown space unused for decades

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER Stamford developer Randy Salvatore announced plans this August to create five new properties stretching across four blocks in the Hill-to-Downtown neighborhood — the area linking the train station and Church Street South.

Salvatore, who is also currently completing the Novella apartment complex at the corner of Chapel and Howe Streets, is spearheading this new project with his firm, RMS Companies.

The developer and his associates announced the plans for the project at a meeting Wednesday, Aug. 19th at the Wilson Branch Library on Washington Avenue. Current plans for development include both commercial and residential buildings, including the construction of approximately 100 apartments along Gold Street, the tearing down of the Welch Annex to make way for 80,000 square feet of commercial offices and bioscience facilities, and the construction of additional commer-

cial facilities atop a surface lot on Church Street.

According to Salvatore, he and RMS Companies are building off a plan developed by Ward 6 Alder Dolores Colon and other community members who attended public meetings over the past few years.

“We’re here to develop specific plans and flesh out general concepts found in the community plan,” said Salvatore. “For instance, if they wanted an apartment building constructed, we would develop the building itself, what the facade would look like, how many units are in there, etc.”

The specifics of the project are still under consideration, and Salvatore said he intends to solicit advice from the Downtown-toHill community as he continues the project.

“We’re trying to work with the community, we’re not going in there with a plan and saying ‘we’re trying to do this,’” said Stephanie Odenath, senior director of strategy and development at RMS Companies. “We want to get a feel for what New Haven residents

would want before we begin.”

Salvatore said he would prefer to hire within New Haven, noting that he would like to hire 100 percent New Haven residents if there are enough qualified people available.

The Hill-to-Downtown neighborhood was isolated from its surrounding neighborhoods when the Route 34/Oak Street connector — a section of freeway that begins at the junction of Interstate 95 and Interstate 91 and ends at York Street — was constructed 50 years ago. The neighborhood has remained undeveloped and underused compared to the downtown and Hill neighborhoods.

Salvatore’s effort is not the first attempt to develop the neighborhood. In 1989, officials entered into a Land Disposition Agreement to give the land to Hartford developer John Schnip for his $360 million project Downtown South Hill North/Washington Center. However, the project was never completed.

Salvatore plans to bring the current proposal before the Board of Alders within the next 30 days.

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Randy Salvatore has announced plans to create five new properties in the Hill-to-Downtown neighborhood.

For the project to go forward, the alders would have to prematurely expire the 1989 Land Disposition Agreement, which was originally due to end in 2025.

“There will be multiple phases to the project,” Salvatore said. “In particular, the construction of the biotech and bioscience facilities would require us to acquire a tenant.”

Assuming that the alders sup-

port the project, Salvatore hopes to begin immediately on the apartments, which he said could be completed within 10 to 12 months.

Latoya Cowan, the economic development officer for the city, said that New Haven has been partnering with Salvatore and the Economic Development Corporation to organize platforms through which community members could

offer feedback on the proposal.

In addition, Salvatore said New Haven developer Cliff Winkel, who has been involved with the Downtown-to-Hill development project in the past, will collaborate with and advise RMS Companies on the process of implementing the project day-to-day.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” WILLIAM OSLER CANADIAN PHYSICIAN

Med school gears up to fill Cancer Center, Smilow directorships

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER Six years after the Smilow Cancer Hospital opened its doors, its founding physician-in-chief, Thomas Lynch ’82 MED ’86, has left to lead 2,900 faculty physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital. The School of Medicine will soon begin a nationwide search for his successor.

Lynch, who directed the Yale Cancer Center for six years, became chairman and CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization on Tuesday.

Peter Schulam, chair of urology at the School of Medicine, will serve as interim director of the Cancer Center and interim Physician-inChief of Smilow Cancer Hospital until a successor is named. Dean of the School of Medicine Rob-

ert Alpern said he hopes that the vacancy will be filled by the end of Spring.

“Hopefully, we will accomplish this during the academic year,” he said. “Quality is more important than speed.”

Lynch said he will have no part in the selection process. Alpern is currently in the process of assembling a committee to lead the search.

Candidates will typically send in a CV, and those who advance to the later stages of selection will also send in a vision statement, outlining what they hope to do in the role. Alpern said applicants can enter the selection process in different ways, including being recommended by the search committee, faculty members or the search firm used by the school to identify candidates. Candidates

can also self-nominate.

Alpern, who expects between 20 and 40 candidates, said all applicants are screened by a search firm, which then sends a summary and the candidate’s CV to the committee. The search committee decides on which candidates to interview after reviewing this information. Interviews frequently involve spending a day or two on Yale’s campus. Those who get through the first round of interviews are invited back for a second round. Two or three final candidates may come for a third visit.

Lynch said he expects the candidates for his replacement will be very strong. He said it would be ideal for the candidate to have a background in both the research and clinical realms.

“It doesn’t have to be a doctor,

but I think it should be,” he said.

Lynch said he would like to see his replacement continue to invest in research, citing Chief of Medical Oncology Roy Herbst’s successful application for an $11 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. He added that he would prefer his replacement to be found in time for the summer, so that the individual has time to prepare the Comprehensive Cancer Center grant proposal, a fiveyear grant that supports the cancer center and must be renewed in two years. The proposal will take about a year to prepare, he said.

While Alpern has not yet formed the selection committee, he said the school’s recent increased emphasis on diversity will be reflected in the committee’s composition. In a May 29 email to the School of Medicine

community, Alpern announced a series of initiatives to advance minority leadership, including the introduction of a chief diversity officer.

Hopefully, we will accomplish [this search] during the academic year.

Quality is more important than speed.

ROBERT ALPERN Dean, School of Medicine Lynch said he expects a broad scope of candidates to apply for his role. He said that, though the

two leadership positions that he filled could be occupied by two separate people, he would prefer that only one person is chosen to lead both the clinical and research sides of cancer care. Both Alpern and Schulam said they would prefer a single successor, but Schulam said in a Thursday email that Lynch was a unique leader and “capable of leading both the research and clinical missions.”

He added that Alpern and the hospital will “need to determine whether they can identify a single candidate for both roles.”

The Yale Cancer Center is one of only 40 comprehensive cancer centers in the nation, as determined by the National Cancer Institute.

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

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BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER

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The historic Yale Bowl, which celebrated its centennial last season, is set to undergo several changes this year.

Most notably, temporary lights will be installed in order to provide lighting during this year’s Game, which is slated to kick off at 2:30 p.m., later than usual. In addition, other changes will make the bowl more usable during the winter months.

“We’ll be asked to turn on all of the lights in our facilities around the Bowl, so that would be Johnson Field, and we have lights on our practice fields, and Clint Frank Field has lights, so we’ll turn on all of our lights in Reese Stadium, et cetera,” Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said. “And SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

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The Yale Bowl, which opened in 1914, was most recently renovated in 2006. This year, temporary lights will be installed to ensure that the Game, which is set to start later in the day, is visible.

Elis hit the road to start 2015

Field hockey reloads for new season

BY MADDIE WUELFING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s soccer team has been counting down the days until its first game, but today marks the start of the Bulldogs’ non-conference schedule. They will travel to Sacred Heart to take on the Pioneers in their first match of the season on Friday, followed by another away game against Fairleigh Dickinson on Sunday.

abilities and overall fitness.

“He wants Yale soccer to be the hardest working team in the Ivy League,” midfielder Jimmy Kochanski ’19 said.

“That not only includes work through effort, but also paying attention to the tiny details to

get them right.”

Stannard’s approach to the game is not the only aspect of the Yale soccer program that is different from years past.

According to Kochanski, players have been wearing heart monitors to evaluate their fit-

ness and to ensure that they can hold up to the demands of a 90-minute match.

In addition, players have been paying special attention to the mental side of the game SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 8

MEN’S SOCCER Though the Bulldogs are just one year removed from a dismal 1–13–3 2014 campaign, which marked the fewest wins for any Yale men’s soccer team since 1922, when the Elis played just six games, there is reason to be optimistic this season with the arrival of a new head coach, Kylie Stannard.

“Nobody was satisfied with last season, and it’s so clear that this year the team is getting after it every single day, hungry for results,” midfielder Saul Downie ’18 said.

Stannard, who came from the successful Michigan State soccer program, has brought many new tactics to improve his players both on and off the field.

Among Stannard’s main areas of focus are his players’ fundamental skills, technical

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An incoming class of seven freshmen is the largest group to join the Bulldogs in the last 12 years.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER The Yale field hockey team opens its season this weekend as a very different squad than when it last played on Johnson Field.

FIELD HOCKEY A young roster and key returning players will try to revitalize the program after a disappointing 3–14 season last fall.

The Bulldogs will have their first chance to bounce back from the 2014 season with a pair of games against local rivals Sacred Heart

and Quinnipiac on Saturday and Sunday.

“I think we have been working really hard in preseason and are excited for what we can do this year,” back Kiwi Comizio ’18 said.

“Obviously after our season last year we would love to come out of this weekend with two wins to have a good start to the season.”

The 19-player roster is led by head coach Pam Stuper, who returns for her 11th season with the Elis, and Noelle Villa ’16, who serves as captain and back. While the only other senior on the team SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 8

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The Elis won just one game in 2014, a 1–0 overtime victory over Temple.

Volleyball starts with Yale Invitational

BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER For last season’s Yale volleyball team, the valuable experience gained from a daunting non-conference schedule led to a smooth successful run through the Ivy League slate.

VOLLEYBALL This year, however, the Bulldogs look to better last year’s 5–6 out-of-league mark, and that task begins with the Yale Invita-

tional this weekend. Yale hosts Rhode Island (2–1, 0–0 Atlantic 10) on Friday night and both UC Santa Barbara (2–1, 0–0 Big West) and Rice (3–1, 0–0 Conference USA) on Saturday, making for an exhausting and challenging two days of tournament play.

“Playing non-conference teams in preseason is a great way to try out the strategies and techniques we’ve been preparing all summer,” captain and outside hitter Karlee Fuller ’16 said. “Of course every game matters and we are doing all that we can to

win, but these games also provide an opportunity for us to figure out our best system before we enter the conference matches.”

The Elis have failed to win their home tournament in the past four years, but they went undefeated on the opening weekend in the four years before that, winning the invitational every year from 2007 to 2010. Just as Yale aims to extend its Ivy League championship streak, it hopes to start a new run of non-conference domination.

Defeating these three teams

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will be no easy task, however.

All three opponents have been back on campus and practicing for longer than the Bulldogs, and while this weekend’s tournament marks Yale’s first competitive games, its foes have all competed in other neutral-site games over the past weeks.

“It’s great to play against teams that are nationally ranked higher than us and have practiced more because it challenges us right off the bat,” three-time All-Ivy SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 8

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The Bulldogs have not won the Yale Invitational since 2010.

THE NUMBER OF SISTERS THAT ARE JOINING THE FIELD HOCKEY TEAM AS FRESHMEN. The Toffoloni sisters — Evagelia, Katerina and Nikoletta — are part of the largest set of freshman recruits in the past 12 years.