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Playwright shares insights

If you have ever wanted to speed date your TA, now

is your chance. GPSCY has announced that Speed Dating resumes this month and even included helpful dating tips in its newsletter on Monday.

“It’s important to smell good, but please don’t be that nimbus cloud sponsored by Axe/Chanel,” the newsletter wrote. The letter also advised participants not to be so down about New Haven as “it could sound like you hate living here.

Which may or may not be true, but try not to fall down the doom-and-gloom well.”

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Shipman steps down

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describing his creative process.

Though academics tend to analyze his characters closely, Stoppard said he does not focus too much on the minutiae. Instead, he lets the characters build themselves.

“I don’t ask myself about a character’s psychological motivations,” he said. “I consider that to be a

Rev. Bruce Shipman resigned from his post as priest-in-charge of the Episcopal Church at Yale on Thursday — two weeks after his remarks in a New York Times letter garnered national media attention for their alleged anti-Semitism.

In an Aug. 21 letter responding to Emory professor Deborah Lipstadt’s Aug. 20 New York Times essay titled “Why Jews Are Worried,” Shipman put forth his idea that Israel’s actions in Gaza contributed to growing anti-Semitism in Europe. He added that stalled peace negotiations and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank were also factors. As a result of the piece, Shipman faced a wave of criticism from those who accused him of making anti-Semitic statements. In an email to the News, Shipman said he resigned because he could not garner sufficient support from his board to survive the adverse publicity.

“Within hours of the publication of my letter … there was an avalanche of angry email that continued for several days,” Shipman wrote. “It was ugly and accompanied by harassing telephone calls to my home … The message to many will be that bullying tactics succeed.”

But Ian Douglas, bishop of Connecticut and president of the board of governors for the Episcopal Church at Yale, said Shipman’s resignation had little to do with the controversy surrounding his writing. Rather, Douglas said Shipman told him it was the result of preexisting challenges within the leadership dynamic of the church.

“It’s not as glamorous a story to hear that Priest-in-Charge Bruce Shipman resigned

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All trees go to heaven. Yale Bowls have given new life to a few more fallen trees from over the summer. Handcarved wooden bowls have been made from a black cherry tree from the West Campus woods, a large elm tree in front of the President’s House on Hillhouse Avenue and wood from the door to SheffieldSterling-Strathcona Hall.

This week in award-winning professors: Two faculty

members from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies received research awards last week. Dean Peter Crane’s work on the evolution of plants received the International Prize for Biology from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, along with a $100,000. Professor Chadwick Oliver received the Host Country Scientific Achievement Award from the International Union of Forest Research Organization, which came with cash as well.

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Tom Stoppard talked about his writing methods and the meaning of his plays to a large audience.

BY HANNAH YANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Monday afternoon, approximately 700 members of the Yale and New Haven community packed into the University Theater to hear renowned playwright Tom Stoppard.

Stoppard, whose play “Arcadia” will be performed by the Yale Rep-

ertory Theatre this fall, is a British playwright whose other works include “The Coast of Utopia” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.” The winner of an Academy Award and four Tony Awards, Stoppard is known for his wit, wordplay and focus on social and political themes such as censorship, justice and human rights.

Stoppard began his lecture by

Designing dreamscapes.

Professor Ming Cho Lee of the Yale School of Drama was featured for his design work in WNPR this week. Now beginning his 45th year of teaching, “Lee sets the scene for future generations of theater designers to discover their voice, offering them a studio to challenge and refine their methods, and a home to dream up new worlds for the American stage,” the piece said.

Alumni, the gift that keeps on giving. Harvard announced

Monday that it has received its largest gift a history, a $350 million donation to benefit its School of Public Health.

The donation came from the Morningside Foundation, led

by Ronnie and Gerald Chan.

The school will be renamed for T.H. Chan, the father of Ronnie and Gerald. The occasion marks the first time Harvard will rename one of its schools for a donor.

The admissions lottery. In a piece titled, “How to Get Into an Ivy League College— Guaranteed,” Bloomberg Businessweek chronicled the case of a Hong Kong CEO who offered a tutoring center up to $1.1 million to get his son into a top university.

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Printing system debuts

BY SARA SEYMOUR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In an effort to become more environmentally friendly at a minimal cost, Yale Printing and Publishing Services has instituted a new printing initiative called BluePrint.

The push to change the printing system — which began last January and was completed over the summer — came from the hopes of YPPS and the University to unify the printing system at Yale in a sustainable way. Yale introduced new physical printers to campus and also implemented new software that aims to reduce paper waste by making students more aware of their paper use. The system will also entirely replace the “Wireless Everywhere. Print Anywhere” kiosks the University piloted last fall.

We want to have one single print management solution on campus for both students and departments to benefit.

JIM MATHEWSON Manager of copier rental and cluster printing, YPPS “The main driving force behind changing the software is the fact that we want to have one single print management solu-

tion on campus for both students and departments to benefit. The University has the same intention in paper-reduction goals. … By choosing to be with a more robust system we are able to accomplish these goals,” said Jim Mathewson, manager of copier rental and cluster printing at YPPS. As part of its effort to become more environmentally minded, YPPS is also loading all printers with Forest Stewardship Council paper, which uses 30 percent recycled material. Jason England, a graphic designer from YPPS who has been integral to the system change, said YPPS is also selling FSC-certified paper at a reduced rate to encourage students to participate in the green initiative.

With the new system printing in black-and-white costs 6 cents per page, while printing in color costs 25 cents.

By using the new PaperCut software Yale is also hoping to streamline the printing process. Previously, Yale’s printers had been functioning on software called UniPrint from Pharos. According to Mathewson, a major difference between UniPrint and PaperCut is that PaperCut is much easier to keep up-to-date along with the rapidly changing technologies of Windows and Macs.

Over the summer around 100 student printers were converted.

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OCS expands resources

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Undergraduate students can now submit their resumes and cover letters for review online.

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER To enhance its accessibility, the Office of Career Strategy is expanding both its walkin hours and online resources for undergraduates.

This year, for the first time, all undergraduate students can submit either a resume or a cover letter to the office — which was known as the Undergraduate Career Services until a name change in mid-August — for review. Within five business days, the office will return students their documents with comments from one of the office’s 11

career advisors. In addition, the office has doubled its daily open hours. Each day from 10 to 4 p.m., two UCS advisors will be present in the office to answer students’ questions during 15-minute walk-in sessions.

Last year, the office hosted open hours from 1–4 p.m.

“One of my core priorities as director has been to make the necessary career resources available to students whenever they need it.

I think both these moves are a step in that direction,” said Jeanine Dames, OCS director and associate dean of Yale College.

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housands of fast-food workers went on oneday strikes in 150 cities last Thursday. Their demand was simple — raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour. These strikes were part of a two-year national movement to raise the minimum wage, and the seventh set of strikes so far.

Yale students, generally speaking, consider themselves Democrats. Sixty-two percent of freshman respondents to the News’ freshman survey said they were either liberal or very liberal. In 2012, 77 percent of Yale students planned on voting for President Obama, according to a survey by the Politic.

Most of these liberally minded students agree that the current minimum wage is too low. But the response of these same students to a $15 minimum wage is often some variation on: “Fifteen? Isn’t that a little too high? That’s a lot of money to be making at McDonald’s!”

This perception, that a $15 per hour salary is somehow too high for a traditionally low-wage job, must be altered.

A worker earning the current federal minimum wage is making around $15,080 a year. Even at a $15 minimum wage, a workers’ annual salary will come out to only around $30,000, ($31,200 with zero vacation time).

On the flip side, the average Yale student’s salary immediately following graduation was almost double that figure, at $59,100 in 2008. And the average mid-career salary of a Yale graduate is $126,000.

Even the median American salary of around $51,000 far eclipses $30,000.

YALE STUDENTS SHOULD STOP THINKING THAT FIFTEEN DOLLARS IS TOO HIGH A MINIMUM WAGE American minimum wage has not adjusted for either inflation or productivity. Had it kept up with inflation over the last 40 years, the minimum wage would be around $11 per hour. Even more staggering — if minimum wage had kept up with productivity it would be $21.72, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Unsurprisingly, pay for earners in the top one percent skyrocketed in the same period. If minimum wage had increased at the same rate as pay for the top one percent,

it would be at around $33 an hour today.

And if those figures alone a r e n ’ t enough to DIANA convince ROSEN you that the miniLooking Left mum wage must be raised, the MIT living wage calculator reveals just how impossible it is to live on today’s minimum wage. The site notes, “A single-mother with two children earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour needs to work 125 hours per week, more hours than there are in a 5-day week, to earn a living wage.”

A common defense of a low minimum wage is that most minimum wage earners are part-time teenagers, coming into work after high school.

While this may have been the case in the past, it is no longer accurate. Less than a third of those earning minimum wage are unmarried with no children. Eighty-eight percent are over 20 years old and 36 percent are over 40. Around 44 percent have some college experience.

The fight for an increased minimum wage is also a women’s fight — a disproportionate 56 percent of minimum wage earners are women.

Thinking that $15 per hour is “too high” of a salary for low-wage earners is a result of our society’s acceptance of poverty-level wages for a significant segment of society.

These accepted notions need to be challenged, and for that reason the national campaign to raise the minimum wage has been attempting to gain attention for these figures through protests and strikes.

It’s working. Seattle voted to raise its minimum wage to $15 and Massachusetts is raising its minimum wage to $11.

Many cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago, are currently contemplating significant raises to their minimum wages. President Obama raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $10.10 in January, and has advocated for a higher minimum wage all-around.

As students at Yale, we are privileged enough to earn around $60,000 on average when we graduate. But we need to start recognizing how the rest of the country lives and just how low the current minimum wage is. fifteen dollars per hour isn’t too high.

What’s on your plate?

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n Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, he writes of the 10,000hour rule: If you dedicate 10,000 hours of practice to something, you will master it. After reading it, I concluded that one of the only practices to which I have dedicated 10,000 hours is eating. I calculated that after spending roughly two hours eating every day for the past 20 years, I have spent approximately 14,600 hours eating in my lifetime. So according to this aforementioned rule, I have mastered the art of eating. We all probably have.

But eating is more complex than it’s often made out to be — it goes beyond just sitting down to three meals a day.

After taking a class entitled “The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food” with Professor Kelly Brownell my freshman year, my approach to food changed.

Previously, I had never considered the benefits of eating locally and often scoffed at the organic labels I would find at the grocery store. In this class, I learned about pesticides and the harmful chemicals used to preserve our food. I learned about the local farmers that are being put out of business and the negative

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environmental effects of transporting food across the country.

My attitude was changed and I gained an affinity for ALLY farmers marDANIELS kets and farmto-table resTaking the taurants. But for the past Back Ally two years, I’ve been on the meal plan and I haven’t had to put any thought into what I was eating, where the ingredients came from or how it was made.

It was this summer, working and living on a farm, that I learned what it means to eat locally, sustainably and organically. I saw how my approach to eating has been backwards all along.

Ideally, we should all be looking to see what’s ripe and in season before we decide what to cook — but instead, we typically decide what to make and then buy the ingredients. I can’t count the number of times I’ve gotten excited about a given recipe and bought the ingredients with no regard for what season it was or

where the produce came from. I never thought twice about it until this summer when I ate zucchini every day (in any and every conceivable form) for three weeks because that was what was ripe and plentiful on the farm. When the cucumbers were ready, we decided to make tzatziki. When the chickens laid a lot of eggs, we made frittata. When I accidentally dug up a potato while hoeing, we decided to make french fries and when the tomatoes came, we began making sauce and canning it. We actually finished the last jar of last year’s tomato sauce only a few days before harvesting this summer’s tomatoes.

I have never eaten better than I did this summer and that was mainly thanks to the fresh ingredients. My hosts very rarely had to go grocery shopping and the prices for vegetable seeds are incredibly low, making this a very sustainable lifestyle for them.

I know that this lifestyle isn’t suitable for all Yalies — living in an urban space, we don’t always have access or time to source our food sustainably. We do, however, live in walking distance from farmer’s markets and even the Yale Farm. Living off campus, and on a budget, I am finding

it challenging to continue eating the way that I learned this summer, but at the very least I am keeping this approach in mind.

And that is what I urge you to do as well.

DON'T JUST DIG IN — REFLECT ON WHERE YOUR FOOD COMES FROM Educate yourself on what is in season each month and try to stick to that produce. Do not eat strawberries in the winter or imported apples in the fall. These choices will be good for our bodies, they will boost our local economy and they will mitigate harm to the environment. The art of eating doesn’t require 10,000 hours — it just requires adding a bit more thoughtfulness to our approach.

ALLY DANIELS is a junior in Berkeley College. Contact her at alexandra.daniels@yale.edu.

How (not) to say hello

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t happens with enough frequency to make you wonder. You’re on the street, in a dining hall or going to class, and you say “Hi” to someone — only to get a deer-in-the-headlights look or, even more bizarre, a reciprocal “Hey” that’s uttered without eye contact. It’s like greeting a zombie. Sometimes it’s accidental, but often it’s tacitly assumed to be a normal way of greeting an acquaintance.

Well, it’s not. It’s rude and highly abnormal.

For those wondering, I’m not a freshman from the Midwest in the throes of withdrawal because everyone on the East Coast is impersonal. I grew up in New York City, where a smile or an unwarranted greeting can get you assaulted. But that’s a city.

Yale is, ostensibly, a community.

And there’s no reason we should be morphing into neurotic characters from Woody Allen films so early in life.

Many students arrive at Yale on day one already carrying emotional baggage. It’s to be expected that bringing together a large chunk of high school overachievers on one campus results in a pooling of intelligence — and a pooling of predictably similar neuroses. But Yale life, with its toxic brew of pressuring forces, heightens those issues.

A sizeable number of students

arrive on campus already susceptible to stress and a n x i e t y.

When the Yale avaJOHN lanche AROUTIOUNIAN hits, or an unexJohnny Come pected e v e n t Lately catches t h e m off guard, their vulnerability reaches a critical point.

On the very different question of character, objectively bad personality traits — like impatience, condescension, even deceit — aren’t as easily suppressed here as they are in other communities. At Yale, these qualities can run rampant because they are often rewarded: Friends lend their tacit acceptance to groupthink and narrow-mindedness, or allow one another to get away with white lies that cover up for missing commitments. It’s a four-year exercise in low to mid-level personal manipulation, just to keep the machine running smoothly.

Even if people come through Yale’s gates unexposed to these maneuvers, they learn the tricks of the trade pretty soon.

But I suppose the question then becomes: So what? Maybe most Yalies’ ability to connect with people outside this life-on-steroids bubble isn’t improving, but it’s pretty easy to go through post-Yale life never having to leave the bubble. This goes almost without saying for people from elite and upper -middle class backgrounds. But it can also be true for people from low-income backgrounds.

Families and friends, often the only links to the communities left behind, recede into the background as internships, fellowships and exciting job prospects take priority. Summers, and then years, fill up. You’re not the same, and it increasingly feels like they aren’t either.

Faculty and staff are just as susceptible to the perverse incentive structure rewarding self-interested behavior. Professors are not encouraged to foster meaningful relationships with students. They tend to, one the whole, exhibit excessive self-confidence (often necessary for climbing the extremely political and cutthroat academic ladder), condescension and a particularly self-righteous brand of political liberalism.

Maybe it’s a survival mechanism, but it doesn’t make for the best model of academic freedom. Outliers in the faculty are

out there, but they’re increasingly hard to find. Yale and its sister institutions have done a great job of exporting their most recognizable cultural product: academic self-assuredness.

All this raises the question of whether places like Yale should exist, or whether, as William Deresiewicz insists, Ivy League students would be better off attending public universities.

That might be healthier for students, but his argument downplays the role brands have come to play in people’s beliefs about education and future earnings potential. The “best” school will always be the one that will make a student the most money — and that’s not likely to change.

There’s no “what we should do” part of this column. Once people are in this culture, it’s nearly impossible to go back. All I ask is that students spend some time living with people whose lives are ordered differently, instead of studying or rationalizing others’ beliefs from afar. It might help mitigate our problems. And just try, please try, to look people in the eye when saying hello.

JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College.

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Contact him at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu.

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Malloy appeals to college crowd

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER The Yale College Democrats hosted Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy yesterday for their Elections Kick-Off Event — the Dems’ first meeting of the year and Malloy’s first time receiving snaps instead of claps from an audience.

Students filled every seat of the Branford common room and engaged with several levels of local government, as Senator Gary Holder-Winfield and State Representative Robyn Porter prefaced Malloy’s speech with their own thoughts on the role of students in political activism.

The event served to attract new members to the Dems, inform students about local politics and cultivate campus interest in the group’s goal of reelecting Malloy.

I was a young Democrat once.

DANNEL MALLOY Governor, Connecticut “It’s a good introduction to Connecticut politics for freshman and new members,” said Communications Director Lily Sawyer-Kaplan ’17. Dan Malloy will be running against GOP opponent Thomas Foley on Nov. 4 in the Connecticut guberna-

tional election.

“He’s up for re-election this fall and it’s going to be a very tight race,” Sawyer-Kaplan said.

“We wanted to have him come to campus and speak to Yalies about why his re-election is so important and about what he has accomplished.”

Holder-Winfield called students to action with a sense of humor, claiming that he played to the young audience well because he is a “crazy liberal”.

“We not only need you to be out canvasing, to be thinking about this — we need you to do something,” Holder-Winfield said.

Malloy tried to establish what he had in common with students and encouraged them to be vehicles of change.

“I was a young Democrat once,” he said at the beginning of his speech.

The Governor discussed his politics with the crowd, ranging from education policy to his stance on corporate personhood.

Malloy also rallied students around the issue of minimum wage. He noted that during his term, he helped Connecticut become the first state to raise minimum wage to $10.10.

He added that students working minimum wage jobs do so out of necessity. Students responded with enthusiastic snapping.

The Governor fielded questions from nine students that

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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy addressed the Yale College Democrats at their first meeting to inspire support for his re-election campaign. ranged from the electoral college’s impact on his past elections to state funding for autism research.

Freshman students interviewed were enthusiastic about

the event and Malloy’s speech.

“I was inspired by it,” Graham Ambrose ’18 said. “It was a great balance of candor and humor — he didn’t take himself too seriously.”

2014 World Fellows settle in

Current Dems member Jackson Beck ’17 said he thought Malloy was “amazing” and that the Governor’s visit made him excited to go out and campaign because the issues at hand affect

The World Fellows are 18 professionals from around the globe who arrive to the Yale campus for a four-month session.

BY STAPHANY HOU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Eighteen unique professionals from around the globe arrived on campus this month to take part in the 2014 World Fellows program.

Every year since 2002, the program has invited unique professionals from a variety of fields and countries to New Haven for a four-month session in which they have intensive academic discussions and also take part in campus events. The fellows this year are leaders in areas ranging from engineering to movie production to politics. Members of the group include a Tunisian peace activist, an environmental lawyer and a former minister of culture of Colombia.

The fellows were selected for the opportunity from a pool of around 4,000 applicants. The number of applications grew substantially from last year, when 2,500 applications were received.

“It’s great to be in a place where you’re in an ocean of ideas,” said World Fellow Parmesh Shahani, who leads the Godrej India Culture Lab in Bombay, a group that works at the intersection of academia, business and creative industries.

While at Yale, all the fellows participate in seminars together, where they

debate ideas and share their professional experiences. Professional differences dissolve in these seminars, Shahani said.

“When you’re in a room together, there’s magic and an electric current,” he said. “I know that I will have the other fellows to count on as family.”

Mara Revkin GRD ’20, a graduate student and is an associate World Fellow, said that the dialogue between fellows is an opportunity to break out of the “specialized silos” in which they all normally work.

Aside from taking seminars specifically crafted for them, the fellows also have the opportunity to audit ordinary Yale classes. Shahani is currently auditing professor Robert Shiller’s “Behavioral and Institutional Economics” lecture and African American studies professor Hazel Carby’s seminar entitled “Imagined Futures.”

Shu “George” Chen, an award-winning journalist from Hong Kong, is focusing on U.S.-China relations.

“Many rich Chinese are leaving the country, and I’m keen to know more about the political and economic reasons behind this trend,” Chen said.

Outside of their formal academic activities, World Fellows often join in on “storytelling sessions” with one another. Though the contents of these sessions are private, Chen said

he believes the meetings build strong mutual trust.

The World Fellows also plan on contributing to Yale’s intellectual diversity. Over the course of their fourmonth stay, the fellows will give talks and make various public appearances in New Haven and surrounding cities. Shahani, for example, is giving several talks on Yale’s campus in the next few months and is also looking to host an LGBT film festival featuring celebrated contemporary LGBT films from India.

Shahani noted that he is also excited to engage in other parts of New Haven.

Chen said he is enjoying the “green land” of the city.

“In Hong Kong and China, air pollution is a big problem nowadays and we don’t usually see clear, blue skies as often as people do here,” Chen said.

“Can you imagine that? Fresh air and blue skies are almost luxuries to me.”

The current group of fellows joins 239 past World Fellows who have passed through Yale.

The 18 World Fellows will host an official World Fellows night on Sept. 18 at the Afro-American Cultural Center to introduce the community to the group and their talents.

Contact STAPHANY HOU at staphany.hou@yale.edu .

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

Yale honors high school teachers

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the whole country.

Malloy has served as governor since 2011.

Though incoming freshmen may already feel high school was a lifetime ago, many still took time this summer to thank the teachers who made their journey to Yale possible.

Last week, the Yale Admissions Office announced the recipients of the 2014 Educator Award, an award given by Yale to high school teachers and counselors who are nominated by incoming freshmen for the impact they had on their students’ lives. Out of 306 nominees, 53 teachers and 30 counselors won this year’s award.

While winners received engraved desk sets and congratulatory letters by mail, several interviewed said the emotional reward was the best part of the prize.

Dean of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said the Yale Educator Award was created in 2006 out of a “desire to recognize teachers and counselors who play a critical role in helping students reach their academic and personal goals.”

After soliciting nominations from the freshmen by email in June, a small committee of admissions officers — usually with the help of a student summer employee — selects the winners, basing the decisions heavily on the freshmen’s nomination letters, he said.

The number of winners ranges between 75 and 100, Quinlan said.

“When selecting winners, we look for educators whose presence in a student’s academic life was truly meaningful,” he said. “We are also interested in recognizing educators from schools that do not typically send students to Yale.”

Quinlan said the award has been given to teachers from many different types of high schools.

Winning teachers and counselors interviewed said they considered the recognition a great honor.

Misti Gossett-Thrower — a counselor from the York International School in Thornton, Colorado who was nominated by Viviana Andazola ’18 — said she sees her position as a school counselor not as a job but as an opportunity to impact future leaders.

“The award is an incredible honor that validates the years of guidance provided not only for Viviana, but for all students,” she said.

Paola Suchsland — a Spanish teacher at Valencia High School in Placentia, California who was nominated by Daniel Hamidi ’18 — said she heard about the nomination and the award on the first day of school when she got a text message from Hamidi with the news. She burst into tears.

Suchsland, who said she continues teaching even with a three-yearold and six-month-old at home because she sees “so much potential and intelligence” in her students, said

that this recognition from Hamidi and Yale made the demands of her job seem worthwhile.

She added that the award also means a lot to her father, who immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico 25 years ago looking for a better life for Suchsland, her mother and her siblings.

“When I told him about this award, he got really emotional and started crying,” she said. “This award is also for him, for his hard work.”

Hamidi said he screamed with excitement when he found out that Suchsland had won, adding that it was an “incredibly gratifying feeling” to know that Yale had formally recognized a teacher who had done so much for him.

Katherine Campbell — a social studies teacher at Eagle River High School in Eagle River, Arkansas, who was nominated by Taylor Holshouser ’18 — said she felt most moved by the lasting impact she had had on her student.

The award is an incredible honor that validates the years of guidance provided not only for Viviana, but for all students.

MISTI GOSSETT-THROWER counselor, York International School “It was an enormous pleasure for me to get this award, not only because Yale is such a stellar institution, but because I sent one of the best students I’ve ever had, and he didn’t forget where he came from,” she said. “Often the students who earn the top grades seldom think to stop and say thank you — let alone do it in the beginning of [their] college career when [there are] so many challenges and fun to be had.”

Still, Katie Watson ’18 said she was disappointed that Yale only recognized counselors and academic instructors this year rather than including other kinds of high school mentors.

Watson said she nominated an art teacher she credits with her acceptance to Yale.

“She is the person that shaped my education, pushed me to take risks and supported me whether I succeeded or failed,” she said. “I was upset to find that she wasn’t chosen for an educator award, and that the array of selected instructors were purely academic, with no representation of the arts.”

There are 1,361 students in the class of 2018.

Contact GABRIELLA BORTER at gabriella.borter@yale.edu .

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“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW PLAYWRIGHT AND LSE FOUNDER

Ex-governor on trial for campaign finance breaches

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER John G. Rowland was a valuable asset to the 2012 congressional campaign of Lisa WilsonFoley SPH ’88 — fundraising, contacting delegates, preparing her for debates and managing all genres of crises.

The only snag was that the exgovernor was not being compensated for this work. Instead, he was being paid for a sham consulting position with a nursing home company owned by the candidate’s husband, according to Brian Foley SPH ’81, the company’s owner and the government’s key witness in its corruption case against Rowland. The case, which resumed Monday, is being tried in U.S. District Court in New Haven.

The government is accusing Rowland — who served 10 months in prison on a corruption conviction after resigning as governor in 2004 — of violating federal election law by twice conspiring to conceal political consulting activities.

In September 2011, Rowland offered to advise Wilson-Foley in her campaign for the 5th congressional district, a district he had represented two decades prior.

The ex-governor had made a similar pitch two years earlier to Mark Greenberg, who is running for the seat for the third time in six years this fall, Greenberg testified last week. He said he rebuffed the offer.

The Foleys, on the other hand, were interested in what Rowland could do for them. As a former congressman from the district and a stalwart of the Republican Party in Connecticut, Rowland offered a service too good to turn down. But in some circles — and particularly with the news media, Foley testified — the ex-governor was toxic. The Simsbury couple was worried that putting him on the campaign’s payroll would doom Wilson-Foley’s chances.

Two days after Rowland made his pitch to the candidate and her

husband in an hour-long meeting in the lobby of a Farmington hotel, the idea struck Foley: “I may have something for Mr. Rowland at Apple,” he recalled telling his wife, referring to Apple Rehab, the health care company he operates in Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Foley, 62, testified Monday that he knew at the time the arrangement was “illegal,” designed to conceal campaign expenditures from the Federal Elections Commission. The couple has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from those dealings.

Foley is testifying for the government as part of a cooperation agreement he signed that could factor into his sentencing.

When Foley wrote to Rowland to offer this alternative, the exgovernor emailed back, “I get it,” according to messages displayed Monday in court.

Foley testified that the reply signaled acknowledgement that he would “hire him for Apple, and he’s really working for the campaign.” Foley said he concealed the arrangement further by having his attorney, Christopher Shelton, pay Rowland, rather than compensating him out of the company’s regular funds. He testified that, for two years, he never put in writing Rowland’s function as a campaign consultant.

“I understood that would be a smoking gun,” he said. Rowland’s contract went through multiple edits to scrub it of language that, in Foley’s view, would have tied him to the campaign. On paper, Foley said, the ex-governor was employed to provide feedback on management decisions and consult him on “union avoidance” among staff at his nursing homes.

He was paid $5,000 a month, beginning in October 2011.

In one email to Foley, the exgovernor asked if using the name of Rowland’s consulting firm, JGR Associates, would offer additional “cover.”

When Assistant U.S. Attorney Liam Brennan LAW ’07 asked Foley what he understood

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The U.S. District Court in New Haven will try ex-governor John G. Rowland for violating federal election law. “cover” to mean, the health care executive said it meant “cover for the fact that I really am paying him for working on the campaign.”

“We felt it would never be discovered,” Foley added. Meanwhile, Rowland’s services were crucial, more so than those of any other campaign staffers, he testified: “Mr. Rowland came up with most of the ideas.”

When questions were raised in December about Rowland’s involvement in the campaign, advisors scrambled to prepare a press statement distinguishing the ex-governor’s work for Apple and his “20-year friend-

ship” with the Foleys, according to a statement projected during direct examination of Foley.

Foley testified that another red flag appeared when Rowland asked for a renegotiation of his contract. The two men were speaking by phone when Rowland said, “how about a $10,000 bonus if Lisa wins the convention?” Foley testified.

Foley said he responded by pretending “static on the phone” prevented him from hearing properly, at which point Rowland “chuckled and never brought it up again,” he testified.

Rowland’s defense attorney, Reid H. Weingarten, attempted to

Apartments open in former gun factory

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER A building that was once part of New Haven’s largest industrial complex is slated to open next month as the first housing unit in Science Park.

Known as Winchester Lofts, the 158 rental apartments are opening in the abandoned buildings of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, an American rifle company whose factory occupied 75 acres of land and employed hundreds of New Haven residents for much of the 20th century. Today, those 75 acres are part of Science Park, an area that Yale and the city have jointly worked to redevelop into a business center. Although this area, located just west of Yale’s science hill, now boasts research labs, biotech companies and notable startups such as Higher One, it has yet to see any residential complexes.

Developers said the Winchester Lofts will begin to fill that void, while contributing more generally to the city’s need for more affordable housing.

“We think that doing something productive with the old gun factory building will bring life and energy to that neighborhood,” said Erik Johnson, executive director of the Livable City Initiative — a housing department that has worked with the developers of Winchester Lofts.

Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander

’65 added that the lofts will bring in 24-hour activity to Science Park, which so far has only been active during working hours.

The land where the new lofts are located is owned by the Science Park Development Corporation, a nonprofit established in 1981 by the city, Yale and the Olin corporation — the rifle factory’s previous owner. The SPDC’s Board of Directors, on which Alexander sits, manages the nonprofit and can set rules about how the land in Science Park should be developed.

President of the Corporation David Silverstone said the group decided to add a housing unit to Science Park in part to address New Haven’s low vacancy rate — a rate that he said was lower than any other city with a population above 100,000 last year.

“It’s getting harder and harder to find an apartment in New Haven,” Silverstone said. “With its location right near downtown and Yale, we thought this site would be a great opportunity for new housing.”

Silverstone said the Corporation mandated that whoever rented the space now occupied by the Winchester Lofts transform it into a housing unit with approximately 160 units, 20 percent of which should be “affordable,” meaning they would be priced below market value and would reserved for low-income residents.

While city developers applauded the addition of lower-priced hous-

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Science Park’s first housing complex, Winchester Lofts, is set to open next month.

ing targeted at low-income families, those lofts have so far been “undersubscribed,” Johnson said. The complex is currently still under renovation, but Forest City Enterprises — the development firm leading the project — has opened a model apartment and a leasing office where potential renters can visit the property and sign a lease. Johnson explained that based on his conversations with the developers, there has been less interest in the affordable housing units than in the unaffordable units.

He did not know exactly how many affordable and unaffordable units have already been leased, but he noted that Newhallville residents have expressed concern over the apartment’s prices, simply because they are unaware that some units are priced below market value.

“There have been comments from some people living in the neighborhood [near Winchester Lofts] that the rents are going to be too high,” Johnson said. “People have not challenged that perception to actually see that there is affordable housing available.”

When the loft development was just beginning in 2013, the News reported that several NewhallvilleDixwell residents expressed discontent about the new lofts, both because of their prices and because the residents felt neglected in the development process. One resident told the News that offering 20 percent of lowpriced housing was not enough — she said it should be at least 50 percent.

In addition to putting in place affordable housing, Forest City developers are required to maintain the historic façade or the building through the renovation process because the space is part of a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Senior Vice President of Forest City Abe Naperstek said the new building maintains the original site’s “historical character,” for example, by replicating windows, restoring a mural that has been in the building since the 1930s and not putting in place modern construction staples like drop ceilings.

The complex will open in phases, with the first set of lofts opening on Oct. 1 of this year and the final set opening in early January.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

paint Foley as obsessed with his wife’s political ambitions, willing to contravene the law and put his family members and friends at risk to enrich her campaign.

In cross-examination, Foley admitted not only to unlawfully putting $500,000 of his own money into his wife’s campaign but to making informal arrangements with his sister, nephew, niece and best friend from seventh grade that prompted each to donate the maximum $7,500.

Foley said he found a way to return the favor, paying their bills or finding others ways to “make them whole.”

He also moved money from his

children’s accounts — into which he has pumped “many, many millions of dollars” — into his wife’s campaign chest, Foley told jurors.

When asked if he willingly put his family and himself at risk of criminal wrongdoing for the sake of his wife’s campaign, Foley replied, “I guess I did, yes.”

Andrew Roraback ’83, a state legislator, ultimately clinched the Republican nomination in 2012, only to fall to Democrat Elizabeth Esty LAW ’85 in the general election.

Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Antiviolence program gains funding, loses leader

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER With its New Haven coordinator set to resign his post, Project Longevity rallied behind an announcement that the state would back it with a revised, million-dollar budget line this year.

To account for the antiviolence program’s expansion to Bridgeport and Hartford, Gov. Dannel Malloy decided to increase funding for Project Longevity to $1 million, from the approximately $500,000 it received in its first two years. Previously the funding was used primarily to support New Haven’s Longevity branch.

“Overall, the reductions in homicides and shootings in [Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven] are a clear indication that Project Longevity is, in part, making an impact on the gun violence as it intended to do,” said Bridgeport project director and interim state coordinator Charlie Grady.

Malloy’s criminal justice advisor Mike Lawlor cited year-to-date statistics as evidence that Project Longevity has been successful in its specific goal of reducing the number of people shot and killed in gang shootings: from 2013 to 2014, shootings dropped from 197 to 170. Still, he emphasized that the scope of the operation is limited to a particular area of criminal violence, gang shootings, and that it should not be expected to reduce other crimes.

Much of the program is built around collecting groups of at-risk youth and warning them that any individual’s missteps will result in strict penalties for everyone who has been warned by the police. They are then offered resources, such as housing, economic, education and health services, to help them avoid a future of crime. It is these resources that will benefit most from the state’s demonstrated financial support, Grady said.

“The funding that has been improved is going to make a massive impact on day-to-day operations,” Grady added. “Once we start to actually get hands on those funds and implement new services, we should be able to move this program ahead.”

The program will also fund coordinator salaries and research collaboratives with institutions such as the University of New Haven.

Still, Project Longevity will face a period of transition as it loses one of its founding leaders, with New Haven director William Mathis announcing his resignation from Longevity on Aug. 29.

Mathis will continue to serve in his position through Friday. Though he said he plans to continue to be active in the city’s antiviolence push, he said that widening philosophical gaps drove him to resign.

“I am more interested in what I believe is a comprehensive community initiative in which the people are equal partners and not just in presentation,” Mathis said. “Still, I am going to continue around criminal justice and neighborhood safety. This is a life of work for me.”

Mathis, who has been director since the program’s 2012 inception, added that the administrative aspect of the program sometimes prevents the types of relationships that are central to the success of the program.

Lawlor agreed that the balance between the program’s bureaucratic and community elements can be a tough one to strike, but he remains confident that public officials have managed to shape the program appropriately.

“It’s very much a tightrope,” Lawlor said. “It has to have a lot of local flexibility, but it’s also really important to keep people focused on the one and only goal of this initiative: to stop people from shooting each other for group and gang-involved reasons.”

As the program continues to develop, those involved with its expansion said they will turn to Mathis’ work in New Haven to model successful pushes in Longevity’s other constituent cities.

Tiana Hercules, the Hartford project manager, said that while Mathis’ resignation will not necessarily slow down progress in her city, his work to advance the project at the outset was instrumental to its ability to take hold throughout Connecticut.

In addition to Mathis’ position, the project is seeking a state director to replace Grady and allow him to focus on running the Bridgeport program.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“I don’t do things for the response or the controversy. I just live my life.” RIHANNA SINGER

After controversy, Episcopal priest resigns SHIPMAN FROM PAGE 1 because of institutional dynamics within the Episcopal Church at Yale and not the debates related to Israel and Palestine — but it’s the truth,” Douglas said.

Douglas added that he is personally “dismayed” that some individuals and organizations have tried to politicize Shipman’s resignation instead of accepting it as a decision made because of challenging relationships between Shipman and certain members of the board.

Much of Shipman’s work this year involved institutional changes and revisions in the church’s goals and directions, Douglas said. He contributed positively to the Episcopal community at Yale, Douglas added — but some of Shipman’s strategic ideas conflicted with those

of others.

Douglas said he did not feel that Shipman was forced out of his position as priest-in-charge.

However, Douglas acknowledged that the events of the past two weeks indeed “sharpened the dynamics” of the interactions between Douglas and board members.

Still, Shipman disagreed, saying that the lack of support from the board surrounding the recent controversy directly led to his resignation.

The controversy surrounding Shipman’s remarks has generated disapproval from other religious figures on Yale’s campus.

Last month, Leah Cohen, director of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life, said in a statement to the Washington Post that the Slifka Center is against anti-Semitism and hatred of

EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT YALE

Rev. Shipman, pictured above, made controversial comments that provoked a national response in a recent letter to The New York Times.

any kind, adding that those who spread these ideas stands in the way of the Center’s mission.

University Chaplain Sharon Kugler said in an email that Shipman’s opinions have been “a source of concern and pain for many, both within and outside of our campus community.” She added that the recent controversy has distracted from Yale Religious Ministries’ work to foster respect and mutual understanding among people of different faiths and cultures.

“Our primary focus now is to move forward with renewed and reanimated resolve to nurture a truly welcoming and supportive community for faculty, staff and students of all faiths,” she said.

Regarding his initial statements in the Times, Shipman told the News in August that he simply believes there is a correlation between increased antiSemitic violence and the events taking place in Israel, Palestine and Gaza.

He added that he should have mentioned these views in his original letter to the Times.

“My patriotism runs deep, as does my love for Israel and Palestine and for the two peoples locked in a tragic fight over the land,” he said. “If I seemed to suggest in my letter that only Jews who actively oppose present Israeli policies have a right to feel safe, that was not my intention nor is it my belief …

Nothing done in Israel or Palestine justifies the disturbing rise in anti-Semitism in Europe or elsewhere.”

Yale sent a statement to the Washington Post last week that noted that Shipman was not employed by the University or the Chaplain’s office, effectively distancing itself from the situation.

Of 30 students interviewed on Monday, only nine knew of Shipman’s resignation. Eli Feld-

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The Episcopal Church at Yale is a university chaplaincy that was established in 1869. man ’16 said he thinks that David Bernstein, a professor at the George Mason University School of Law who first attacked Shipman’s statements in a blog post on the Washington Post, had overstated his case. Still, Feldman believes Shipman had to leave his post, either through firing or resignation.

Simon Brewer ’16 said he did not find Shipman’s statements in the New York Times to be antiSemitic, while Cole Aronson

’18 said Shipman’s initial statements were “classic anti-Semitism.”

Scott Remer ’16 said he questions whether Shipman intended to be anti-Semitic. He added that the fact that Shipman resigned reflects negatively on the University’s policy towards free speech.

Students recognize that “the Yale name” brings with it some responsibility, said Zach Young ’17. Young said that while he

believes in free speech, Shipman should not have used his position of power to endorse his own views.

Shipman holds degrees from Carleton College and Oxford and served 14 months of his appointment as temporary leader of the Episcopal Church at Yale.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu and WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

OCS grows online offerings OCS FROM PAGE 1 These new initiatives come at a time when the University is centralizing its career services.

OCS now serves not only undergraduates, but also students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Dames said she is excited by the online resume and cover letter submission system because it will make OCS accessible for the first time to select groups of students.

“Now that we’re also catering to graduate students, we have to realize that a lot of these students aren’t on campus or are actually doing research in the field during the school year,” she said.

She added that the digitalization of career resources will ensure these students can still solicit guidance even when they are not in New Haven.

Kenneth Koopmans, director of employment programs and deputy director of OCS, echoed Dames’ sentiment, adding that other groups such as undergraduates who are studying abroad or alumni can similarly benefit from the new initiatives.

Both Koopmans and Dames said the online resume and cover letter system actually saves the office time because advisors often need fewer than the allocated 15 minutes to evaluate a student’s resume and cover letter.

Since the office introduced the online resume and cover letter checking system at the beginning of September, Koopmans said the types of conversations advisors are having during the open hour sessions are changing.

“Students used to come to the walk-in sessions with a resume in hand and we’d just run through it,” he said.

Now, it is increasingly frequent for advisors to have more nuanced conversations with students about exploring different careers or what majors to consider, he said. Because many students consider OCS — which is located on 55 Whitney Ave. — distant from the heart of campus, Koopmans said he especially hopes that more students who live far away from the office will use its digital services.

As the office’s technological

capabilities grow, Dames said the office will increasingly look to digitalize the more formulaic aspects of career services and reserve face-to-face time for more holistic conversations.

Both Dames and Koopmans said the office introduced morning walk-in hours this September to make OCS accessible for students whose extracurricular or academic commitments often make it difficult for them to attend walk-in hours. Koopmans said anecdotal evidence suggests students who major in one of the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines or are on an athletic team have the most difficult schedules for attending afternoon advising sessions.

I’d probably still want to see someone in person for my resume because that’s a very important document to get right.

EUN SUNG YANG ’14 Still, four of five upperclassmen interviewed did not know about OCS’s online resume check system and all five students did not know OCS’s walkin hours were any different from last year. But all students said they supported these efforts and expressed similar hope that the extended walk-in hours would lessen waiting times and be more convenient for students with challenging schedules.

Attila Yaman ’16 said that as a soccer player, it is difficult for him to utilize OCS’s resources in the afternoon because his practices are frequently scheduled then. Because walk-in appointments are on a first-come, firstserve basis, he added that it did not make sense for him to risk being late to practice and not even have the chance to get the help he needed.

Clare Curran ’15, who has already used both the online service and the office’s expanded office hours, said she found the advisor’s in-person comments

significantly more helpful than the notes she received when she submitted her resume online for advice.

“I’d probably still want to see someone in person for my resume because that’s a very important document to get right,” said Eun Sung Yang ’14, a second-semester senior.

It is more likely that she’ll use the online submissions system for specific cover letters, she added.

Mao Shihui ’15 said she found the digital feedback for her resume helpful. Although she is pleased with the progress OCS has made in becoming more helpful for students, she said she hopes the office will listen to the main criticism it has received from students for being too focused on finance and consulting. Although she said this is ideal for her because she wants to work on Wall Street, Shihui said many of her friends complain that there are not as many jobs in other industries such as journalism or nonprofit work.

According to internal data compiled by OCS, 302 students have visited the office in the first five weeks of this year, roughly a 50 percent surge from the first five weeks of last year, when 202 students met with an advisor.

Koopmans said the office is tracking the data carefully to ensure that the office is well equipped to handle student demand. Both Dames and Koopmans said OCS will request more resources from the University if it becomes clear the office cannot adequately address the needs of the rising number of students that are seeking its services.

“Although we’re monitoring the numbers very carefully, I think we need to collect more data before we conclude whether this growth will continue through the year,” he said.

Dames said she is looking to publicize these moves by working with the athletic department and spreading the message through a meeting with team captains in the near future.

During the first five weeks of 2012, 236 students met with an OCS advisor.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander.”

T.E. LAWRENCE BRITISH ARMY OFFICER

Yale overhauls printing

Yale Institute of Sacred Music presents

SLOW DANCING Outdoor public art installation by

david michalek

PRINTING FROM PAGE 1 tive, new color multifunctional devices — previously only available in major public locations around campus — were installed in all of the residential college clusters.

Though the overall transition has gone smoothly, there have been some obstacles along the way, England said. Many students who previously used the old printing queues have not been seeing their printing jobs when they go to the devices, he said.

Students interviewed on campus varied widely on how they felt about the changes. Some students felt that the changeover was relatively easy, but others noted confusion.

“It’s not that it’s hard to use right now … but that there hasn’t been any widespread information about how to use the system, which is sort of confusing,” said Ammar Saeed ’17. “At the end of the day this system has the potential to be easier to use, but the student body doesn’t know enough about it yet.”

Many students interviewed did not know that there was a change in the printing system — or were only vaguely aware that anything was different.

Zhao said the toughest part of the transition has been the communication to students and other users regarding the new system.

“While BluePrint overall works in a very similar way to the previous print system, there are still changes that students must make before BluePrint will work properly,” said Zhao.

When freshmen arrived on campus last month, the Student Technology Collaborative offered a workshop to help introduce them to the new PaperCut system.

YPPS is also open to students’ questions and concerns. England said the department is aiming to be more transparent and userfriendly, and that it is doing its best to make printing as sustainable and accessible as possible.

YPPS’s expected future developments include establishing mobile printing and kiosk printing on campus by the middle of 2015.

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

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Stoppard addresses packed University Theatre STOPPARD FROM PAGE 1 given which comes free if you’ve been thinking about the play in the right way.”

Furthermore, he said he believes a large component of the characters is left up to an actor’s interpretation.

He added that there is no particular quality that he looks for in

an actor.

“I tend to disappoint people when they ask, ‘What do you look for in an actor?’ and I respond with, ‘Clarity of utterance,’” he said, eliciting laughs from the audience.

Stoppard talked about his first professional play, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.”

He said he learned from hear-

ing other people’s interpretations of his play that there was not one definitive answer to the question of its meaning.

“One learns that the subjective response to a piece of art has its own validity,” he said.

Stoppard said the plot of “Rosencrantz” is simple: Nobody tells the two main characters what is going on, and they end up dead.

In some ways, he said, the plot could be interpreted to have larger implications for the human condition.

“Nobody tells us what’s going on and we end up dead. In some ways, it’s about us,” he said. “[Still,] I don’t have a hidden agenda, my plays are about what they seem to be about.”

When asked if he learned any-

thing about his own play “Arcadia” from watching current rehearsals at the Yale Repertory Theatre, Stoppard said the experience was more of a reminder of the complex relationship between playwright and actor.

He added that he is “constantly amazed” by the new interpretations he sees of his plays.

After Stoppard’s lecture,

audience members had the opportunity to ask questions.

When one audience member asked about the wit and humor in his playwriting, Stoppard mentioned that most foreign translations of his work do not receive as much laughter, and that he always found this oddly gratifying because it indicated that there is some nuance in his writing that cannot be easily translated.

I don’t have a hidden agenda, my plays are about what they seem to be about.

TOM STOPPARD Playwright Stoppard’s lecture, which lasted about an hour, elicited laughter and enthusiasm from audience members throughout.

“I loved that there were four generations of folks enjoying the same playwright,” said Diane Komp, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine. “I’ve known his work since the ’70s — look around, and you have all these different people, and they all get it. It’s amazing.”

Claire Criscuolo, a New Haven resident, summed up the lecture when she said the audience “proved tonight that live theater can still pack a house.”

Marina Horiates ’15 said she thought the talk was excellent.

“I’m so happy my friends and I managed to get into the theater and hear him speak,” she said.

Stoppard’s most recent work, “The Hard Problem,” will debut at the National Theatre in London in January.

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Stoppard ‘s talk lived up to the level of wit displayed in his plays, drawing laughter and vocal enthusiasm from the audience at various points.

Contact HANNAH YANG at hannah.yang@yale.edu.

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SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS RAY RICE The Baltimore Ravens cut Rice after TMZ released graphic video of the star running back knocking his wife, Janay Palmer, unconscious.

After the Ravens released Rice, the NFL followed suit by suspending him indefinitely.

Elis unable to pioneer a win FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 for almost the entire first half, until Sacred Heart scored two goals in quick succession at the 29 and 31-minute marks.

The Bulldogs entered halftime down by two goals, but hoping to score a few of their own in the second half.

“It was definitely a tough first half, but our team mentality is to always push through in adversity,” back Noelle Villa ’16 said. “Halftime is an opportunity to regroup and get back on the same page, which I think we accomplished.”

Coming out of the half, Sacred Heart scored once more, increasing its lead to three.

Fifty-three minutes in, Yale answered with a goal of its own as forward Jessie Accurso ’15 found the back of the net.

“My reaction to the first goal was pure excitement,” Villa said. “It just fueled us and kept us fighting.”

After Accurso’s goal, the Bulldogs took the offensive and kept possession for the majority of the game from then on.

With less than 10 minutes remaining, the squad called a time-out. When play resumed, the Bulldogs took three consecutive shots on goal, scoring when an attempt by captain Nicole Wells ’16 got past Sacred Heart goalie Mary Alte-

peter.

“In my two years of Yale field hockey so far I can easily say that the second half [against Sacred Heart] was one of, if not the best, halves that I’ve ever played with the team,” Wells said. “It’s a fire that we need to have from the start of the game, but the season is quite young.”

Despite the last-minute goal

by Wells, the team could not manage to even out the score, even with several more shots on goal in the final minutes, and fell to Sacred Heart 3–2.

This loss gives the Bulldogs an 0–2 record, but the players are still positive about the season’s potential, noting that both Hofstra and Sacred Heart had already played several games before arriving to face the Yale squad.

“Our offensive push is definitely present this year, but we just need to capitalize on the opportunities we create for ourselves,” Wells said. “We have definitely seen improvements this game from the last one, so there’s no reason to hang our heads.”

The next games for the team will be at home versus Quinnipiac on Sept. 13 and California on Sept. 14 for the team’s Alumnae weekend.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

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Yesterday’s game against Sacred Heart was postponed from Sept. 6 due to inclement weather.

Johnson ’16 sets

Yale up for success Q&A FROM PAGE 12 improvement. As a team, I think we had moments where we realized our potential for how good we can be, but we still have a lot of hard work ahead of us. it like being one of the older QWhat’s players on the team this year, as a junior?

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It’s crazy to think that I am already a junior; the past two seasons have gone by in a flash. With that in mind, I’ve realized how grateful I am to be a part of such an unbelievable program with a group of girls that are my best friends.

QWhat’s your pre-game ritual?

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We always have a dance party with the same playlist of songs. It’s so much fun and always pumps us up for the game. But besides that, I always drink an iced coffee before each home match; my addiction to Starbucks is probably not healthy.

are your personal goals for QWhat practice and games for this season?

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For practice I just try to block out whatever else might be going on in my life and use that time to get better.

Practices are great because I can forget about the stress from school or anything else and play the sport I love with people I love for a few hours every day.

For games, I want our team to be able to learn from our performance each time we step on the court and use that to improve for the next match.

M. golf under investigation

received honors within QYou’ve the Ivy League since your fresh-

man year, including Rookie of the Year, Player of the Week twice and firstteam all-Ivy twice. Recently, you were selected to the all-Tournament team at the Yale Invitational. Do these honors motivate you or distract you on the court?

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I am beyond grateful to have received those honors, but none of them would have been possible without my teammates. We compete every day and push each other to become better.

said you were excited to see QYou Kelsey Crawford ’18, the other set-

ter, become a leader throughout her Yale career. From a setter’s perspective, what have you seen from her so far?

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Kelsey played awesome this weekend. I love her presence on the court. She is vocal, supportive and makes smart decisions. This weekend, she demonstrated her leadership skills that are crucial in being a great setter.

you tell me a bit about the QCould Yale-Harvard rivalry in volleyball, specifically? Is the team pumped to battle Harvard this season?

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Absolutely. We are always pumped to play Harvard. They have a great program, and every year the games between us are a battle and insanely competitive.

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

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Despite facing an ongoing NCAA investigation, the men’s golf team will likely be cleared to begin its season this weekend.

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Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 had 12 kills and 15 digs to lead Yale over Albany on Sat., Sept. 6.

Senior Associate Athletics Director for Compliance. But Yale’s current director of compliance, Dan Silverman, determined the trip to be a violation when a person outside of Yale brought it to his attention last week.

Silverman is leading Yale’s role in the investigation.

Silverman said that no relevant compliance rules have changed since the team began the annual fundraiser.

“They can attend these fundraisers year round, they can sell raffle tickets, they can travel, they have their expenses covered, but they can’t participate in the golf [without paying greens fees],” Sheehan said. “It wasn’t a competition, just a friendly round.”

The donation required of the players will likely range from 85 to 285 dollars, Sheehan said. Many players on the team plan to donate to the ALS Association, the coach added, as well as the Human Rights Watch and First Tee of Chicago.

Those penalties have not been confirmed, however, as the NCAA has full discretion and is still delib-

erating. Sheehan said the sums of money may turn out to be less than the amounts currently expected by the team.

“The NCAA office has been good about helping us through this process and making it easier on us,” Davenport said. “Originally we wouldn’t have been eligible to play in a scrimmage this [past] weekend, and they’ve tried to accommodate us as best as they can.”

The team’s main goal is to confirm its eligibility before the annual Doc Gimmler Tournament begins on Friday in New York, according to Davenport.

Though the team has not heard the final result yet, that seems likely as the situation is “completely resolving itself,” Sheehan said.

The team does not know how the ruling will impact a similar trip to Nantucket in the future, but Davenport said that the players will likely fight to maintain the tradition by having the players cover the costs that had been provided improperly in the past.

“It’s a short trip, so it’s affordable, but if you account for all costs,

especially in the freshman year, it’s enough money that it requires us to make a decision on whether it’s something that we’ll continue doing,” Davenport said.

Davenport said that news of the violation last Thursday was initially stressful for the team because the players did not know what the magnitude of the penalties would be.

Now confident that the penalty will most likely be a donation, the team is more relaxed.

“Players have done a very good job of leaving it off the golf course,” Davenport said. “Everyone has handled it very maturely.”

The team did seem to be focused during its home scrimmage against Cambridge this past weekend, easily defeating the British squad 16–0.

Jonathan Lai ’17 shot a 65 at the event, and Joe Willis ’16 did the same in a team qualifier last week.

Yale placed second at the Ivy League Championship last season, finishing with a national rank of No. 71.

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

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Contagion helps explain value of art

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER

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The study’s findings indicate that people tend to attach a special kind of significance to original works of art.

A new study by researchers at the Yale School of Management explores why we value an original piece of artwork so much more than an exact duplicate.

While it is common knowledge that an original is worth far more than a perfect forgery, it remained unclear what psychological factors distinguish work from fake.

To probe this question, the study investigated whether people understood artwork to be more like humans or generic tools, and found that it landed somewhere in the middle of the spectrum — people believe that artwork, like humans, cannot be recreated, because it then loses part of its creator’s essence. The findings have implications beyond the art world, extending to markets for luxury goods or celebrity memorabilia, said George Newman GRD ’08, study lead author and SOM professor.

“It’s [an effect] we see crossculturally, and it’s shared across many different people from many different cultures of many different ages,” Newman said.

The research was an exploration of the idea of “identity continuity,” the study of what makes something the same over time.

Newman and co-researchers at SOM and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business investigated how people perceive identity continuity in relation to artwork, and in particular whether a piece of artwork is considered to be as valuable if it is destroyed and then replicated.

In the first experiment, researchers presented 37 participants with a scenario in which a man created a mold, poured plastic into the mold, and later realized that the product was deteriorating and had to be recreated using the same mold. Some of the participants were then told that the original had been a piece of art; others were told that it had been a tool. When asked whether or not the resulting duplicate was the same as the original, participants who had been told the object was a tool were far more likely to agree than those who considered the original a work of art.

This finding suggests that humans understand artwork as fundamentally special, said Rosanna Smith GRD ’18, a study coauthor. The second experiment aimed to explain this phenomenon: What is it about artwork that makes it more irreplaceable than a hammer or a trash can?

“When you recreate that artwork, every molecule is still there, so what’s missing?” Smith said.

To address this question, the research team posed three potential explanations for the uniqueness of artwork: that the artist transferred a part of his or her essence to the piece, the idea of individual creativity, or the idea of sentimentality. The study used an online survey of 303 adults to evaluate which of these hypotheses the participants deemed most important.

The results showed that people significantly valued the essence of the creator over any factors

of creativity or sentimentality, Smith said. This finding suggests a common belief in “magical contagion,” in which a piece of the artist’s essence has been transferred to the artwork and cannot be duplicated.

“The object comes to embody, in a pretty literal sense, a piece of the creator,” Newman said.

“A piece of the person is literally rubbed off on the object.”

These findings may have implications for the business world, Smith said. The contagion effect seems to defy the economic idea of humans as rational actors, since certain objects are valued at such high rates that cannot be explained by their material value, he explained. The finding adds more nuance to our understanding of how buyers make decisions, she said.

The idea of placing value on the intangible quality of essence spans cultures and ages, Newman said, adding that anthropologists and sociologists have researched the topic for the last century. While an explanation for this belief is still under investigation, there does seem to be a “core cognitive faculty” at play, he said.

“Seeing how we value objects can help us understand how we see ourselves as well,” Smith said.

“We seem to prize people’s souls and uniquenesses at a very high rate.”

The study was published in the journal Topics in Cognitive Science on Aug. 27.

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

Smoking, education link emerges early

BY MRINAL KUMAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The link between higher education and smoking rates emerges well before students step onto a college campus.

Though previous research has demonstrated that adults with college degrees are less likely to smoke than those without, it was unclear what contributed to this split. To investigate these mechanisms, study author and Yale sociology professor Vida Maralani analyzed an existing data set tracking a group of youths from adolescence to adulthood. Maralani found that the relationship between education and smoking in later life can be predicted as early as age 12.

“If I take a randomly selected person and I give them more education, what about them will change?”

Maralani asked. “The reason you smoke has nothing to do with your education.”

To investigate the link between smoking and education, Maralani analyzed Add Health, a federally funded national longitudinal study of children who were in grades 7-12 in 1994. It tracks the children’s health and risk behaviors over 14 years, and has been used as a data resource for over 10,000 researchers.

The study found that most adult smokers started smoking before age 20, and among daily adult smokers 71 percent began smoking daily by age 18. Maralani concluded that school policies, peer groups and health expectations from teen years are among the characteristics that can serve as early indicators of future smoking.

The study also pinpointed a number of adolescent risk factors for subsequent smoking. Having a best friend who used marijuana in grades seven through nine increases the likelihood of adulthood smoking by 30 percent, while having a parent who has ever smoked increases the odds of smoking in adulthood by 80 percent. Students at schools that ban faculty from smoking on campus have 33 percent lower chance of smoking in adulthood than those attending schools without this regulation.

For Maralani, this large group of risk factors that emerge before higher education disproves a causal relationship between education and smoking.

“People who go on to get a college degree smoke less than people who didn’t finish high school,” Maralani said.

“But all the difference happens before these kids are 19.”

Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, a professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine who was not involved in the study, said the study’s use of the well-known Add Health database helps validate its conclusions. Yet, as with all longitudinal databases, she said Add Health cannot control for all potentially relevant factors. For instance, the study did not consider genetic factors, which are known to contribute to subjects’ risk for substance abuse.

Krishnan-Sarin said that future research on this topic lies in developing programs that help children avoid the known risk factors for adulthood smoking.

The research shifts the focus from educational checkpoints like high school and college diplomas to factors earlier in development, said Fred Pampel, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder who was not involved in the research.

“Should we force a kid to sit in school for another year and hope he doesn’t smoke? That I don’t think is going to work,” Maralani said. “Should we instead think of a school policy at age ten that teaches kids better decision-making skills? That I think might work.”

Beyond decision-making skills, schools should try to teach the skills that families current do, such as selfesteem, optimism and self-control, Maralani said.

According to a 2011 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 443,000 Americans die prematurely each year from smoking or the effects of secondhand smoke.

Contact MRINAL KUMAR at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu .

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According to the study, the majority of adult smokers started before the age of 20 (often reaching a daily habit by 18).

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Dentists may lower obesity rates

BY AMANDA MEI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health (SPH) may have opened up a new area in obesity research — the dentist’s office.

Their study, based on data compiled from national sources by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, established a correlation between the concentration of dentists and adult obesity rates in U.S. counties. For every additional dentist per 10,000 people in a county, the researchers noted a 1 percent drop in adult obesity rates. The findings suggest that dentists can play a key role in obesity prevention, said Jessica Holzer, study lead author and Hofstra University professor who conducted the research while a postdoctoral fellow at the SPH. “The simple fact that there was this relationship was striking,” Holzer said. “There could potentially be a role that dentists could play in targeting or limiting obesity.”

The simple fact that there was this relationship was striking.

JESSICA HOLZER Study lead author, Hofstra University professor Holzer, along with SPH coauthors Maureen Canavan and Elizabeth Bradley, initiated the study after looking at measures of county-level obesity rates and other factors related to health, which were made publicly available as part of the Robert Wood Johnson County Health Rankings and Roadmaps program.

They chose dentist prevalence as their variable of interest because it had never before been studied in conjunction with obesity rates.

The researchers analyzed the effects of dentists while controlling for factors that previously correlated with obesity, including sociodemographic factors like education and income levels, as well as measures of the built environment, such as the number of recreational facilities and fast-food restaurants in a county. They also controlled for the observation that geographically proximate counties have similar obesity rates, as well as do counties within the same state.

Even when controlling for these factors, the researchers discovered that greater numbers of dentist offices correlated with lower rates of obesity. The effect was even more pronounced in counties with more primary care physicians, where each additional physician per 10,000 citizens resulted in a 1.7 percent decrease in obesity rates. Dentist prevalence also correlated with significantly lower obesity rates in counties where more than one quarter of children live in poverty.

“We found the first initial step of an association between higher prevalence of dentists and lower rates of obesity,” Canavan said. “Now we can really try to look and understand what is the causal relationship.”

While the study identifies dentists as potentially valuable players in obesity prevention, the researchers can only speculate about the mechanisms behind the correlation between dentists and obesity, Canavan said.

Holzer and Canavan posted a few explanations. People who go to the dentist, for example, may be more proactive in terms of health and less likely to consume sugar and become obese. Alternatively, dentists could be making a positive impact on their patients’ well-being by promoting healthy behaviors.

Jeannette Ickovics, a SPH professor who was not involved

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in the study, said the results are important because they identified factors that may lower the risk of obesity in individuals.

Although the study, which appears in the Sept. 1 issue of the Journal of the American Dental

Association, establishd a correlational rather than a causal relationship, Canavan said it opens up new possibilities in obesity research, including studies of individual patients and dentists, longitudinal studies of commu-

nities over time and intervention studies where dentists actively educate their patients about obesity.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity affects 34.9 percent of

adults in the U.S. and accounts for approximately $147 billion dollars in health care costs per year.

Contact AMANDA MEI at amanda.mei@yale.edu .

Research suggests new consciousness hub

BY MICHELLE LIU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Hal Blumenfeld is a professor of neurology, neurobiology and neurosurgery at the Yale School of Medicine. In July, Blumenfeld published an editorial entitled “A master switch for consciousness?” in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior. Previous research has established that the thalamus, a region of the brain responsible for coordinating higher cognitive actions, is crucial for consciousness. Now, Blumenfeld writes about research suggesting that a second region, including the insula and claustrum, may also play a role. The News talked with Blumenfeld to discussed the finding and its potential implications.

QWhat defines consciousness?

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Consciousness is a collection of activities. It’s basically the level of arousal — how awake you are, how attentive you are and how aware you are of yourself and of the world around you. you explain how researchQCan ers attempt to measure as

abstract a concept as consciousness?

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You can measure that by testing whether someone can do basic responses to questions and commands, which tells you how alert someone is. You can test someone’s attention by seeing if they can respond to specific things in their world as opposed to others, and you can test awareness by asking people to describe experiences they’ve had after they’ve occurred. mentioned that the findQYou ings in your editorial might

reveal a second master switch of consciousness. Can you explain how the first master switch works?

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The first master switch is in the deep parts of the brain — in the brainstem, in the thalamus, so that’s what controls our sleep and wake cycles. If someone has a stroke or brain damage in those parts of the brain you go into a coma, so those are very wellknown and understood areas. This

new area that they stimulated electrically in this one patient produced unconsciousness, and it’s in the claustrum and the insula. The question is [whether] stimulation of that area also [is] a switch of consciousness separately, or is it just that by stimulating that area, you’re somehow having a remote or long-range effect on the first switch in the brainstem and in the thalamus and turning it off? You know that can happen because, for example, when people have seizures in the temporal lobe, which is not in the brainstem or the thalamus, that can switch off the brainstem and thalamus and cause loss of consciousness. Even though the seizure itself doesn’t come from that area, it can throw that master switch. It’s not clear if that second area does the same thing or not. It’s possible that it’s actually truly a new separate and independent master switch. might temporal lobe seiQHow zures trigger the first switch?

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The work from our lab shows that temporal lobe seizures do cause loss of consciousness that cause people to stare and not respond. Usually, a problem in a small region of the brain is expected to disrupt that part of the brain. For example, it might cause a problem with memory or emotions, but that’s not what happens.

In temporal seizures people turn into what looks like a sleepwalking state, where they can’t respond at all: it’s just staring and having some chewing movements, or rubbing their shirt a little bit. It’s a mystery — why does that happen? We found by doing studies in patients with temporal epilepsy through brain imaging, and also by doing some neurology investigation in animal models, that what happens is the temporal lobe seizure invades the deep parts of the brain and by doing that, it turns off the master switch in the brainstem and thalamus, and that causes the rest of the brain to get shut off and go into a deep sleep-like state, which causes loss of consciousness. did write that the posQYou sible second master switch needs to be confirmed in further

patients, and its mechanisms further explored. What might be some of the challenges faced in furthering this research?

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The biggest challenge is that not every patient with epilepsy happens to have an electrode in that spot. We only put electrodes there when people need it for clinical reasons. If we could do brain imaging, that would be ideal, [but] that’s very challenging to do with the electrodes in place. The problem right now is that the study is only limited to the electrodes where we happen to be able to record during the stimulation. It’s just a limited sample of the brain, but if we could actually take a picture of the whole brain while this stimulus is going on we could really get a much better understanding of whether this is throwing the first master switch, or whether it’s operating independently, or whether it’s affecting one side of the brain or both sides of the brain. A lot of those questions we don’t have answers to could really be answered with functional brain imaging approaches. are the practical impliQWhat cations of this finding of a potential second master switch?

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Understanding consciousness is very important because when people have problems with consciousness such as epilepsy, that’s when people lose control of their car if they’re driving, that’s when people lose the ability to concentrate in school or in work, or injure themselves, and it can even be fatal. Also, understanding consciousness is critical not just for transient things like seizures, but also for disorders like head injury, or stroke, or Alzheimer’s disease. [In these], consciousness eventually becomes severely impaired, so coming up with a better understanding of the brain networks that turn off consciousness can teach us ways to turn consciousness back on and prevent these problems for people, for people to have better quality of life.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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FRANNIE COXE ’15 WOMEN’S SOCCER The San Clemente, Calif. native earned Ivy League honor roll recognition this week for her performance in the Bulldogs’ 2–0 win over crosstown rival Quinnipiac. Cox, a midfielder, recorded two assists in the contest, Yale’s season opener.

CARLIN HUDSON ’18 WOMEN’S SOCCER Hudson joined Coxe on the Ivy League honor roll this week for her contribution to the Elis’ victory. In the first collegiate game of her career, the freshman striker scored in the 20th minute to put the Bulldogs ahead of the Bobcats for good.

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“The bottom line for everyone on the team is that we understand there was a mixup, and [the NCAA is] going to do everything that [it] can to help us give back what we owe.”

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The men’s golf team is under investigation by the NCAA for improperly receiving benefits on its annual fundraising trip.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s golf team is currently under investigation by the NCAA for receiving improper benefits during its annual preseason fundraising trip to Nantucket. Players on the team will

likely be required to level the balance by donating money to a charity of their choice, according to men’s golf head coach Colin Sheehan ’97.

For years, the men’s golf program has covered all expenses for the players participating in the two and a half-day trip, includ-

ing transportation, lodging and the greens fees for one recreational round of golf. The NCAA determined that the coverage of greens fees for all players was a violation of NCAA compliance rules, according to Sheehan. The coverage of all other expenses for incoming freshmen were also

ruled to be a violation, as freshmen are not officially studentathletes during the trip.

“The bottom line for everyone on the team is that we understand there was a mix-up, and [the NCAA is] going to do everything that [it] can to help us give back what we owe, either mon-

Late rally comes up short

BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

etarily or with community service,” said captain Will Davenport ’15. “As long as it doesn’t affect our tournament eligibility, that’s the bottom line for us.”

The team’s trip to Nantucket is a fundraiser for the Yale Golf Association, which covers many of the team’s operating costs.

Yale alumni from the area promote the event and play the round of golf with the players, Sheehan said.

Sheehan said that the team had initially cleared the trip with Amy Backus, the former SEE MEN’S GOLF PAGE 8

Johnson makes all-Tourney team

Yale field hockey has once again fallen one goal short of victory.

FIELD HOCKEY The Elis (0–2, 0–0 Ivy) closed their opening weekend with a 3–2 loss against Sacred Heart (2–2, 0–0 Mid Atlantic Athletic Conference) last night.

The match, originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 6, was postponed due to severe weather conditions and lightning. Before the game, players said that they were ready for the chance to play a night game.

The second half was one of ... the best halves that I’ve ever played with the team.

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Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 was named to the 2014 Yale Invitational all-Tournament team.

NICOLE WELLS ’16

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER

“It was a surprise,” midfielder Kelsey Nolan ’17 said. “I haven’t had a game postponed due to weather before, but I am excited to play under the lights.”

The game remained scoreless

Volleyball setter Kelly Johnson ’16 was named to the Yale Invitational all-Tournament team after her performance in matches against Minnesota, Albany and Boston College. She was among the team leaders in kills, assists, digs and blocks. The News sat down with Johnson to discuss the set-

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The field hockey team battled but lost to Sacred Heart 3–2 yesterday evening.

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ter’s reflections from the weekend and the Bulldogs’ goals for the season. would you describe your perQHow formance over the weekend?

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I thought it was a solid weekend, but there is always room for SEE Q&A PAGE 8

GOALS SCORED BY YALE IN THE FINAL 20 MINUTES OF THE FIELD HOCKEY TEAM’S GAME AGAINST SACRED HEART LAST NIGHT. The tallies closed Yale’s deficit to only a goal, but were not enough to overcome the Pioneer advantage, as Sacred Heart won 3–2.