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“Mind your own business.”

Such is essentially what GOP candidates Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump, both being accomplished executives, have been barking at each other over the past few days as part of emerging campaign beef. Trump brought the fight to the stage on Wednesday night, invoking “Head of Yale Business School” Jeffrey Sonnenfeld’s harsh criticisms of Fiorina’s time as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard.

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Lyon for President. After a wildly successful sophomore campaign, men’s ice hockey goalie Alex Lyon ’17 is preparing to get his name on a few ballots by the end of the year. Anticipating that the Baudette, Minn., native will continue dominating in net, SBNation’s college hockey season preview listed Lyon as the top goalie in the ECAC. We don’t bite. James Bennet

’88, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, will be on campus for a discussion with The Yale Politic exploring his career path, views on the journalism industry and decision not to join the News while at Yale.

Bond that never breaks. The

University will be receiving a little gift on Monday, after discovering that it was due $153 in interest payments for buying a bond originally issued in 1648 by Dutch water authority de Stichtse Rijnlanden. No word yet on how much of that money will be picked up by Yale’s private equity fund managers, though.

Band that never ages. If you’re

still preoccupied with 1985, you’re in luck: The Doobie Brothers are in town, playing at the College Street Music Hall at 7:30 p.m. “This event is all ages,” promotional materials read — not that we’d expect a diversity of generations to be in the crowd tonight.

Incumbent Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 successfully fended off a primary challenge from Fish Stark ’17.

Union-backed candidates sweep primaries

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTERS Six of the eight Democratic primaries across the city resulted in incumbent victories.

In addition to Ward 1 — where incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12 won the Democratic nomination over challenger Fish Stark ’17 — seven other wards held aldermanic primaries Wednesday: Ward 11 (Fair Haven Heights), Ward 12 (Quinnipiac Meadows), Ward 14 (Fair Haven), Ward 18 (Morris Cove), Ward 20 (Newhallville), Ward 28 (Beaver Hills) and Ward 30 (West Rock). UNITE HERE Local 34, Yale’s technical and office workers’ union, had SEE PRIMARIES PAGE 8

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER What many had expected to be a tight race proved to be anything but.

After a seven-month campaign, Fish Stark ’17 suffered a hefty defeat in his bid for the Democratic nomination for Ward 1 alder at the hands of incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12.

Stark garnered only about 35 percent of the vote, after out-fundraising Eidelson by a margin of 10-to-one. Despite the fundraising differences, both candidates spent similar amounts of money on their campaigns.

Stark’s supporters gathered in Wall Street Pizza shortly after 8 p.m., just as results were announced. In his speech to the group of roughly 20 supporters, nearly all of them undergraduates, Stark argued that the campaign was not a complete failure. More importantly, though, Stark vowed to stick to his promise to support the Democratic nominee in the

YNHH sees further cuts

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER In the midst of weathering a $67 million decrease in Medicaid reimbursements, Yale-New Haven Hospital will face another 1.3 percent decrease in revenue, a result of failing to meet readmission rate standards for the fourth year in a row.

Though YNHH’s 1.3 percent reduction is

Sarah Eidelson ’12 on Wednesday beat back a primary challenge from Fish Stark ’17, overcoming the most significant hurdle toward a third term as Ward 1 alder.

Shortly after 8 p.m., when polls at the New Haven Public Library closed, chants of “I believe that we will win” filled a narrow hallway outside the voting area. Exit polls had consistently showed Eidelson in the lead throughout the day. Those polls were quickly confirmed after voting ended, with official results counting 307 votes — 64 percent — for Eidelson compared to 176 for Stark.

The total turnout of 483 voters in the Democratic primary is only a small fraction of eligible voters in the world..

Eidelson now faces a less daunting obstacle in the general election, in the form of Ugonna Eze ’16, a Republican. Ward 1, comprised mainly of Yale students, leans overwhelmingly Democratic, as does New Haven as a whole. In 2013, Paul Chandler ’14 mounted a spirited effort

to unseat Eidelson, but fell short with only 285 votes to Eidelson’s 513.

“There is no misunderstanding the results of this election,” Eidelson said in an interview Wednesday night. “Yale students have been clear about what they want to see, and that consensus is just going to grow leading up to the general election and beyond.”

If reelected in the Nov. 3 general election, Eidelson will serve her third consecutive term as Ward 1 alder. Such a victory would overturn a generation of precedent. For well over two decades, the Ward 1 alder has been either a Yale student or someone who recently graduated.

Voter turnout in Ward 1 was comparable to that in the Morris Cove, Newhallville and Beaver Hills wards, which all had voter turnouts close to 500. The other four wards with primaries all had fewer than 450 constituents cast ballots. Eidelson said she expects the total vote count to increase in the general election as students, particularly freshmen, will have had more time on campus to form SEE EIDELSON PAGE 8

Stark throws weight behind Eidelson general election, effectively throwing his weight behind Eidelson.

“We have a Democratic nominee now,” Stark said in his speech.

“We’ve got to get behind the Democratic nominee and make sure this city keeps moving forward.”

We’ve got to get behind the Democratic nominee and make sure this city keeps moving forward.

FISH STARK ’17 Fmr. alder candidate, Ward 1 Eidelson will face Republican Ugonna Eze ’16 in the general election on Nov. 3. Stark has also said he has no plans to run for a second time in 2017.

In an interview with the News

after his speech, Stark said he believed Eidelson had deployed superior resources, especially in the final days of the campaign.

“I think if you look at the numbers, she had more folks on the doors,” Stark said. “Our team was largely students, people who weren’t professional.”

Still, Stark’s field effort was far from anemic — his team knocked on every door on Old Campus and in the eight residential colleges in Ward 1 on Tuesday. Sergio Lopez-Valdez ’18, Stark’s campaign manager, thanked the campaign’s volunteers for their work and commended Stark on the leadership he had displayed during the campaign.

Stark said he would not characterize the campaign as a failure. Instead, he said the campaign will leave positive traces on the city.

“We have a lot of people on our team and beyond who are talking SEE STARK PAGE 8

Sig Ep brothers will stand trial in suit

the lowest relative penalty that the federal government levies against hospitals that have failed to meet readmission standards, the penalty will still cost the hospital millions of dollars. It comes after the closure of two Yale-New Haven Health System clinics, the upcoming consolidation of two urgent care centers and concerns that job SEE YNHH PAGE 6

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2014 As the University prepares to break ground on the new residential colleges, City Hall continues to push for the construction project to proceed with the objectives of spurring local business and hiring New Haven residents.

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expected, sparks flew during last night’s Republican presidential debate — thanks, in part, to CNN’s seeming desire to actively turn the candidates against each other.

And beyond Ben Carson ’73 speaking third-most frequently on the night, Yale’s fingerprints were everywhere.

conveniently, Sonnenfeld and Trump met face-to-face in the latter’s New York office, where Trump attempted to convince the SOM senior associate dean why he should be president.

Sonnenfeld was joined by ISPS Director Jacob Hacker GRD ’00 and wrote about the conversation for Fortune Magazine on Wednesday.

Men’s soccer team looks to Quinnipiac and Iona for a long-awaited win.

Eidelson bests Stark, easing route to third term

Blue amidst the red. As

All about the hair. Rather

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Yale-New Haven Hospital faces a 1.3 percent decrease in Medicare reimbursements for failing to meet readmission rate standards for the fourth year in a row.

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER For 85 former Yale students and brothers of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, simply being present at the 2011 Harvard-Yale tailgate crash that left one woman dead and two injured may be enough to be held responsible for the accident, a Waterbury superior court judge ruled Wednesday.

Eighty-five students who were members of Yale’s chapter of Sig Ep at the time of the crash, plus the driver of the vehicle, Brendan Ross ’13, who was also a brother, will face a jury trial in December, judge Kari Anne Dooley wrote, denying their March 2015 motion for summary judgment.

The students were all named in a lawsuit filed by Sarah Short SOM ’13, one of the injured women, because they were members of Yale’s chapter of Sig Ep at the time of the crash, which resulted when Ross lost control of a U-Haul truck

while on his way to a fraternity-sanctioned tailgate and collided with a group of pedestrians. Short sued all the active members of Yale’s chapter of Sig Ep at the time because the national Sig Ep fraternity resisted claims of liability, according to an interview early last year with Joel Faxon of the Faxon Law Group, the firm representing Short. Dooley ruled last month that the national fraternity must also proceed to jury trial to determine their responsibility.

Keidel, Weldon & Cunningham LLP, the firm representing the individual members, filed a motion for summary judgment in March, which would have allowed them to bypass a jury trial and have a decision rendered by judge. But Dooley rejected that motion on Wednesday, writing that the defendants — in this case the 84 individual members — had not met the “very heavy burSEE SIG EP PAGE 6

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went to high school in Miami Dade County: the 305, as Pitbull likes to call it. My high school actually gave an honorary degree to Pitbull a couple years after I graduated. Though I wasn’t born in Miami, living there for seven years certainly made me appreciate its pastelitos and Cuban coffee.

Attending high school in Miami after living in New England was hard. I remember telling my mother that I didn’t like the kids at my high school because they were stupid, and it made me think that being smart and bookish was inconsistent with my ethnic identity. I know that such thinking was detrimental. Just because my high school peers didn’t go on to attend elite institutions doesn’t mean they weren’t intelligent. Many of them were born in other countries and did not come from families that understood the American academic system the way the majority of Yale students’ families probably did. They faced cultural, geographic and linguistic barriers.

My high school was over 90 percent Latino, and I had classmates from all corners of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Though the majority of their families spoke Spanish, the racial and ethnic diversity among my Latino peers was astounding. I learned that with each Latino culture came a distinct set of customs, foods and linguistic patterns. Reducing them a single label would be absurd.

According to the United States Census Bureau, 17.1 percent of Americans identified as Hispanic or Latino in 2013. In contrast, only 9 percent of Yale University students identify as Hispanic or Latino, according to the Yale Office of Institutional Research.

Latinos are drastically underrepresented on this campus, and it has made me feel incredibly alone over the last three years.

When I first moved to Miami, friends would tease me because I didn’t have a Miami accent; they called me a “white girl.” Once at Yale, I imitated a Miami girl accent to a few friends and they cringed. “You sound so stupid.

I’m so glad you don’t talk like that,” one of them said. I laughed at the time, but now I’m angry that I associated the Latino voice with unintelligence.

Last week, Ryan Wilson '17 published an op-ed in the Yale Herald discussing blackness at Yale. In his piece, he called for conversations on campus to expand beyond black and white experiences; he asked students to consider the experiences of other ethnic minorities, specifically Asians, indigenous peoples and Latinos. His words resonated with me. Non-white voices are important, and we can’t just reduce the conversation to black versus white.

As an English major, I am often the only underrepresented minority in my departmen-

tal seminars and workshops. Given the lack of Latino faculty on campus, I frequently feel ADRIANA as though I am a Latino MIELE representative. Because Check the majority of the yourself faculty and students at Yale are white, the majority of my courses discuss cultural and sociological histories from a de facto white perspective. Courses that aim to be more critical of colonial and imperialistic narratives are often the exception.

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Changing our spatial vocabulary

ecil John Rhodes arrived in southern Africa in 1870.

He claimed land, constructed mines and established systems of governance, leaving in place the economic and political machinery that would drive two centuries of black exploitation. For 81 years, Rhodes’ bronze replica perched above the rugby fields at the University of Cape Town, blending in with the rest of the university’s venerable architecture.

This past March, a group of UCT students demanded that the statue come down. The students, most of whom are black, criticized a school that, 21 years after apartheid, remained a white space — a zone in which colonial attitudes were preserved in its institutional discrimination against people of color.

From New Haven, I watched as Rhodes Must Fall gathered steam. I was excited by the students’ urgency, but skeptical of their strategy. If the goal was institutional transformation, what good would come from removing a near-forgotten statue? The ideological basis of UCT’s curriculum was inherited from colonial days. Tar-

I am incredibly fortunate to attend a school like Yale, especially as an artist, but creating art is difficult when one feels so isolated. Though I’ve had many professors who offer their sympathy and compassion, they have a limited grasp of my background. I aim to create writing that builds understanding, but this is much easier to do when I can believe that my teachers will read my work as representative of my own experiences and unique voice. While I’ve seen white students write dozens of works about rural America, I often feel that my work about people of color and violence is considered cliché and stereotypical instead of unique and resonant.

When I voice my anger to fellow students and faculty members, I am often told to suck it up.

White American students can write about their cultural experiences without ethnic labels.

Non-white and international students must speak and write with the constant presence of their identities.

At Yale, I’m amazed by the ignorance of my non-Latino peers (white and otherwise).

Throughout my time at Yale, many people have asked me if I am a legal resident of the United States, as though they were somehow entitled to that information. Multiple friends have informed me that I am lucky to be Latina because it makes me more interesting. I don’t want to be a cool fetish; I want to speak and be heard. I want to be taken seriously.

I just want to write.

geting a symbol, I worried, would amount to only spectacle — a move that, though provocative, would divert attention away from the more subtle ways the university maintains white supremacy. It was the same reason I’d never advocated that Calhoun, my residential college, be renamed. It would be dangerous to indict only the settler colonialists or the slave owners.

I moved to Cape Town after graduation this year, leaving the States just as we were collectively re-examining our country’s racial wounds. The South Africa in which I arrived had changed, too. Catalyzed by Rhodes Must Fall, students at universities across the nation began to organize, demanding that colonial and apartheid legacies be uprooted. But the movement also generated changes on the local scale of UCT. We can look to these less visible transformations in understanding what’s at stake in the debate over Calhoun.

Rhodes Must Fall took a statue that most people had stopped noticing and re-activated its symbolic power. The movement urged everybody on cam-

by that institutional identity.

For the majority of college, this desired identity guided my decisions both great and mundane (What clubs to join? What books to read? How to spend my summers?).

Integral to that institutional identity, too, is whiteness. At Yale, white is the mainstream and the norm. It exists in classroom syllabi, in faculty ratios, in polite conversations about diversity and in the advertisements that invite our gaze as we walk down Broadway. Whiteness can determine what metrics and ideals we structure our lives around. But like water that surrounds a fish, it’s hard to name because it’s everywhere.

Say the words “white privilege” and you’ll induce an awkward silence, a shift in topic. When speaking with others about race on campus, I’d often come away with the strange feeling that I was imagining things.

pus, regardless of their position, to consider how Rhodes’s legacy persists in the space of the everyday. To see that South Africa’s colonial past is preserved in not only statues and street names, but also in the academic curriculum, the daily abrasions of social interaction and the invisible rules that determine who “belongs” and who doesn’t.

For many years, we engaged with the name of Calhoun as a historical relic, a souvenir of a past we deemed safely behind us. But interpreting our environment is something we do every minute of our waking day, though not always at a conscious level. Symbols operate on us in subtle and subterranean ways; they argue for certain narratives and for certain ways of inhabiting a space.

When I first learned I’d been assigned to Calhoun College, I didn’t question its namesake.

I grew up in the last Confederate capital of Louisiana, a city whose history of Jim Crow is still played out in its legal system and geography. But already I was too intoxicated by Yale’s legacy of tradition, power and prestige — eager to adopt and be adopted

JOY SHAN is a 2015 graduate of Calhoun College and a Fox International Fellow at the University of Cape Town.

She was Magazine Editor on the Managing Board of 2015. Contact her at joy.s.shan@yale.edu .

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ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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n the first Friday of September, I stood outside of Bingham Hall, surrounded by a few dozen other freshmen. While I recognized about half of the faces from previous orientation activities, the other half were entirely unfamiliar. We had congregated to partake in Mosaic, an orientation event intended both to celebrate and to discuss the varying types of diversity that characterize the class of 2019. I came into Mosaic skeptical that a program developed by the University could highlight diversity while retaining authenticity; I left feeling more comfortable about being a minority at Yale and living with people from all walks of life.

A two-hour exercise that began as the sun retreated, Mosaic was an interactive twopart exercise. First, our freshman counselors read aloud various statements such as “I grew up with over 50 books in my home,” and we would respond by moving in any direction if we felt the statement applied in a meaningful way to our lives. Initially, people scuffled around liberally, but the atmosphere grew more somber as the questions became more pointed. Statements began centering on race, socioeco-

nomic class and sexual orientation. I found myself thinking more deeply with each round of statements.

“I have had my opinions discounted because of my gender.”

A large number of the group, myself included, moved. “I was called names because of my race or ethnicity.” People scattered, and I moved as well. “I went to a school where the language of instruction was not the language I spoke at home.” I stepped forward, bumping into a person who moved backward. “I receive financial aid from Yale.” A sense of solidarity overwhelmed me.

Various segments of the activity were broken up with lighthearted instructions from our FroCos. “Give yourself a cheer,” “High five the person nearest to you” and “Switch places with the person next to you.” Each break seems silly to me now on paper, but as I cheered and high-fived the person next to me, I felt accepted by the larger community. To me, these small moments of enthusiasm served as a powerful symbol of how a storied institution such as Yale can evolve to better represent a changing student body.

Just scanning the headlines of the News’ past articles about the newest class of admitted stu-

dents reveals the great importance we place on diversity in college admissions. It seems diversity ticks upward every year. For the class of 2016: “Yale sees increase in freshman class diversity.” “Class of 2017 boasts socioeconomic, racial diversity,” read the following year’s headline. Then there was the headline, “Yale welcomes diverse freshman class.” My class was welcomed with, “Yield drops, diversity increases for class of 2019.” It’s wonderful that we seem to prioritize vibrancy over our aggregate SAT scores or GPAs. As the incoming freshman classes have become increasingly heterogeneous, the Camp Yale initiatives used to commemorate this diversity have improved as well. In the past, an original theatrical production called Kaleidoscope was held, showcasing student experiences with diversity. However, several freshmen skipped the event, and an email series regarding diversity replaced Kaleidoscope in 2014. These initiatives seem to have been passive attempts at starting a conversation. In contrast, Mosaic engaged everyone, making it very distinctly about our own experiences.

I’m also glad Mosaic was

mandatory. Knowing the entire class of 2019 was hearing and reacting to the same ideas at the same time made the end of Mosaic more meaningful to me.

The group moved as a collective to cliched but nevertheless impactful closing statements: “I am at Yale. I am Yale. We are Yale.”

Later, Mosaic forced me to reflect: Should I not have moved to the statement “I had a job in high school” because, while technically true, working did not pose a significant challenge for me? Should I have moved at the true statements that clearly represented significant personal challenges but that I did not want everyone to immediately know about me?

I considered these questions long after the activity ended.

But in the moment, I merely stood outside Bingham Hall, stepping impulsively in random directions. Sounds of my peers also stepping accompanied every one of my movements. In a practically silent activity, I felt both like I was spoken to by my classmates and as though I was heard.

NITYA RAYAPATI is a freshman in Trumbull College. Contact her at nitya.rayapati@yale.edu .

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“My policy on cake is pro-having it and proeating it.” BORIS JOHNSON MAYOR OF LONDON

CORRECTIONS

At SOM, Murthy emphasizes community

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16

The article “WOMEN’S SOCCER: A dynamic duo develops on the soccer pitch” incorrectly stated that Howser and Whitfield played 25 games together; in fact, they played 20 games together. The article also incorrectly stated the number of goals Griff has assisted Alozie on and the number of goals that Alozie assisted Griff on. They assisted on one and three goals, respectively.

The article “Exhibit highlights papal influence beyond religion” featured photographs of a different exhibit

Endowment returns may be lower in FY2015

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER After witnessing record returns in 2014, the Yale endowment is unlikely to have seen similar growth over the most recent fiscal year, experts agreed.

In the coming weeks, Yale Investments Office will release its performance for the period beginning July 1, 2014 and ending June 30, 2015 — the financial year known as fiscal 2015.

Though last year the endowment gained a 20.2 percent investment return — bringing it to a historic nominal high of $23.9 billion — it appears unlikely that Yale and other major institutions will be posting returns of similar magnitude due to the volatile stock market performance faced during the previous 12 months.

[A fall in returns this year] doesn’t mean there is any kind of underperformance or anything wrong.

ANDREW LO ’80 Finance professor, MIT “Last year was a real outlier in terms of returns, and every once in awhile you do get those, and when you do, you ought to enjoy them — but we certainly shouldn’t get used to those returns,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology finance professor Andrew Lo ’80 said. “So it will be reasonable to expect these returns to come down from last year. It doesn’t mean there is any kind of underperformance or anything wrong, it just means we are getting back to a normal state of affairs.”

Lo emphasized that lower returns would not imply underperformance or anything wrong, but instead a reversion to a normal state of affairs. Experts said one of the central causes for the relatively lower market returns is the weaker performance of public equities in the 2015 fiscal year, which may have been a drag on portfolios.

According to the MSCI World index, a stock market index of 23 developed market countries, global equities had a 2.06 percent for the year ending June 30 — more than 22 percentage points lower than the returns posted during the prior fiscal year.

However, William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute, cautioned against relying on the performance of publicly listed equities as the sole indicator for

Yale’s returns. Yale’s portfolio is diversified across multiple asset classes.

“Yale has a combination of a couple things. It has a large allocation to absolute returns, which is supposed to be an allweather strategy so that it can grind out returns in all kinds of markets and protect the endowment from fluctuations,” he said. “The endowment also has a pretty hefty allocation to private capital, and there have been a lot of liquidations coming out of those funds in the last couple of years … so it is hard to tell exactly where this is going … but I would not be surprised if Yale were on the upside of that.”

One industry researcher, who requested anonymity due to company policy, predicted Yale to outperform peer institutions given its large allocation to private equity and its “larger than typical” allocation to real estate investments, which had strong returns in 2015.

He estimated Yale to perform in the 6.6 to 8.6 percent range — significantly higher than the 3.6 percent median return for large endowments for this most recent fiscal year, according to the Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service.

“Yale may be a bit higher than everyone else, but it is certainly going to be in that range,” said School of Management Professor Roger Ibbotson.

Several endowments have already released their numbers for 2015, including the University of Texas Investment Management Company at 3.5 percent, Ohio State at 3.8 percent and the MIT with an investment return of 13.2 percent.

For the 2015 fiscal year, Yale had asset allocation targets of 20 percent invested in absolute returns, 17 percent invested in real estate and 31 percent invested in private equity — its largest allocation among the eight asset classes.

Ibbotson added that private equity tends to perform as a “levered” stock market, which can be both rewarding and risky depending on the market conditions.

“If the market is up, private equity will be a little higher,” Ibbotson said. “And if the market is down, private equity will be a little lower.”

Though the earnings do not include the recent market downturn experienced over the summer, it remains unclear how large of an impact this volatility may have on next year’s returns for the Yale endowment.

Over the past 10 years, Yale has had annual net investment returns of 11 percent.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy MED ’03 SOM ’03 spoke at the School of Management on Wednesday afternoon.

BY MANASA RAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Beginning his presentation with the words, “I’m thrilled to be home,” Surgeon General Vivek Murthy MED ’03 SOM ’03 spoke at the School of Management on Wednesday afternoon.

Murthy, the first U.S. surgeon general of Indian descent, was appointed in November 2013 but faced opposition from a Republican senate until his confirmation in December 2014. Prompted by a series of questions — both from Ann Kurth NUR ’90, who currently teaches at New York University and will become the next dean of the Yale School of Nursing in January 2016, and from audience members — Murthy discussed the importance of community, education and prevention in both the health care system and in the business world.

Highlighting his work with nonprofit organizations and as a practicing physician, Murthy emphasized the importance of building trustful relationships to reach a common end goal.

“With two parents that ran a family medicine practice growing up, I didn’t know much about the medicine at an early age. What I did know was that the [patientdoctor] relationships my par-

ents were building were incredibly important, and I wanted to do the same thing,” Murthy stated.

Murthy added that he loved his time at the School of Medicine and at the SOM because of the strong emphasis on interaction between students of different schools of the University, which reinforced his commitment to community-building.

Health is a common thread that weaves through everything that we do.

VIVEK MURTHY Surgeon general, United States Spurred by this same commitment, at age 17, Murthy cofounded Visions, a program that he said aimed to increase HIV/ AIDS awareness in India through education initiatives. Kurth said this was the first of three nonprofits that Murthy would found over the course of his career.

Kurth highlighted the complex community health issues — including obesity, mental health stigma and substance abuse —

that Murthy will be charged with confronting during his tenure.

Murthy himself said complex problems like these do not necessarily need complicated solutions. He said that as a community, people need to simplify the lens of the problem and build a culture of prevention. According to Murthy, this is divided into three main ideas that include active living, access to good nutrition and emotional wellbeing.

“We spend a majority of resources on treatment but we spend little resources on preventing illnesses in the first place,” he said. “So why don’t we allocate resources into prevention as a whole?”

Addressing an audience primarily composed of SOM students, Murthy emphasized that the responsibility to establish a culture of prevention does not fall solely on health care providers, but also on business leaders.

“People need to understand that their leaders at work and in education comprehend the importance of health,” he said.

“Health is a common thread that weaves through everything that we do.”

If there was one thing that could help health care succeed in the United States, it would not be

money, Murthy said, but rather, collective will. He added that it is possible to allow people to regain a sense of agency in preserving their own health — by convincing them that they are capable of and responsible for improving it.

Students interviewed after the talk agreed with Murthy’s message that health is a collaborative effort that involves both the medical and business industries.

“Health affects absolutely everything we do,” Julie Mariuz NUR ’16 said. “I don’t think that people are aware of that and many times their own health is the last thing they are thinking about.”

Jared Petravicius SOM ’16 said that while he believes collective will is necessary for building a community effort, it needs to be complemented by money. While collective will establishes the impact, he said, money can magnify it. Kendra Berenson SOM ’17 agreed with Murthy, adding that she also believes that collective will is a “thread” and that individuals and communities have both the power and responsibility to make a change.

At 38, Murthy is the youngest surgeon general to serve.

Contact MANASA RAO at manasa.rao@yale.edu .

Claire’s celebrates 40 years as local staple

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Over cupcakes and lemonade, Claire’s Corner Copia celebrated its 40 years in business as a unique local establishment and a model for the dynamic New Haven restaurant industry.

On Wednesday, city officials praised the restaurant and its owner, Claire Criscuolo, as a pioneer in the restaurant industry for cooking healthy, local and sustainable food. Although most restaurants in the U.S. stay open for roughly five to 10 years, according to the National Restaurant Association, Claire’s has occupied the same space since Criscuolo opened the restaurant with her late husband Frank in 1975. Today, as Yale’s University Properties division looks to open more local and regional shops in its storefront properties downtown, city offi-

cials cited Claire’s as an example of a well-run small business with strong ties to the community.

“The words local, organic, sustainable and healthy were not part of the dining lexicon [before Claire’s opened],” Assistant Director for New Haven and State Affairs Lauren Zucker said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

When Claire and Frank Criscuolo turned an old caramel corn shop into a family restaurant, they took up the entire corner of Chapel and College streets. With a four-burner stove and a few pans, Claire’s soups, breads and falafel were instant hits, Kathy Lapia, Criscuolo’s sister-in-law, said in an interview with the News.

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Claire’s Corner Copia has occupied the same space since 1975. City officials called it a pioneer in the local restaurant industry.

chants Association.

“Claire’s recipe for success for the past 40 years make it a staple for anyone downtown,” Mayor Toni Harp said at the event. “You have transformed this street corner into a destination crossroads.”

Criscuolo attributed the success of her restaurant to the quality of food and the continual support of the community.

Although Claire’s has higher prices than other restaurants, Criscuolo said she pays her staff members fair wages and uses healthy ingredients, leading to a strong sense of loyalty among her customers and staff. Some employees at Claire’s have been working there for nearly two decades.

Louis Mangini presented Criscuolo with a congressional record from Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who will honor Claire’s on the floor of the U.S. Congress, thereby putting Claire’s into the Library of Congress Congressional Records.

When Claire’s came to New Haven, Chapel was a blighted street, according to Criscuolo’s brother Jim Lapia. But the shops around Claire’s have changed: A greasy luncheonette that was once next door to Claire’s is now the Italian restaurant Basta, and the New Haven Information Center shares the corner with Claire’s.

City Economic Development Director Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 said New Haven has a large number of small “mom and pop” stores relative to other cities of its size. It is important for a city to feature national chains, like Chipotle and Shake Shack, which draw people to the city, but also to offer regional stores like Thom Brown, Nemerson added.

Over 70 percent of UP’s 90 tenants are local or regional businesses, said Bruce Alexander ’65, the vice president for the Office of New Haven and State Affairs. The retail industry has changed tremendously since Claire’s opened, Alexander added. The popularity of malls and big box stores outside the city has driven many small retailers out of business, he said.

“We have to draw people past the shopping malls,” Alexander said.

Workers in the shops near Claire’s tell a still bleaker story of business in the Elm City.

Kyla Pitruzzello, a bartender at the Owl Shop who has lived in New Haven for 15 years, said New Haven is not a good city for starting a small business because rent prices are too high and Connecticut’s tax incentives are not as good as in other states.

Pitruzzello bemoaned the loss of many locally run businesses over the past 15 years.

Places like the Daily Café, Richter’s Bar and Educated Burgher have all closed down since she came to the city. These empty lots have paved the way for national chains including Panera Bread and most recently Five Guys. The Owl Shop, which Pitruzzello said serves a niche market, is an exception to the trend.

“Some small businesses do alright over here, but it seems to be becoming more commercialized,” Pitruzzello said.

Claire’s is holding an anniversary party today during which the store will give away gifts and prizes.

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

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“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.�

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE

SOM sees record female enrollment

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER As the School of Management strives to stake a reputation as one of the leading business schools in the world, recent recruitment efforts have brought record numbers of women to campus.

All three degrees offered by the SOM — the MBA, Master of Advanced Management and Executive MBA — saw record numbers of women matriculate this fall. Two degree programs also saw significant jumps in their female populations from 2014 to 2015. Female enrollment in the MAM jumped from 26 percent to 39 percent of the entering class, and female enrollment in the EMBA jumped from 23 percent to 41 percent. These numbers also cast the SOM as far ahead of their global peer institutions in terms of female enrollment, according to data collected

by The Financial Times.

SOM administrators and admissions directors credited the increases to the business school’s growing attractiveness among top candidates, as well as to outreach efforts specifically targeted at female applicants. “Clearly SOM is on the move,� said SOM Associate Dean David Bach. “When your application volume grows, your ability to focus your recruiting efforts in a way that boosts diversity is greater.�

Bach added that compared to the SOM’s peer institutions both domestically and worldwide, the SOM is one of the few that can claim an EMBA program that tops 40 percent women. According to data collected by The Financial Times on the world’s leading business schools in 2014, fewer than 10 of the top 100 had higher percentages of women than the SOM does now. Most that did, moreover, are in China or France.

At the time of the data collection, the SOM’s EMBA program could not be considered due to its small size, leaving Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business with the highest percentage among American schools at 37 percent.

Putting female applicants in touch with alumnae helps address questions that go beyond

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The Yale School of Management saw record female enrollment in all three of its degree programs. those male applicants might ask, Bach said, adding that the SOM also participates in broader efforts like a White House initiative to increase the percentages of women at top business schools.

Melissa Fogerty, deputy director for admissions, said that bringing in female faculty members and alumnae events also increases the exposure students get to successful female leaders.

Fogerty noted that it is rare to find a 50–50 balance between men and women among leading business schools. “As much as we would like to see that, that’s not the reality of

the full MBA market right now,� she said.

Fogerty added that the MBA program’s 25-percent jump in applications last year has helped increase the caliber of female students brought in to the SOM. Valerie Belanger, director of the MAM, said she makes a concerted effort to address questions that may specifically concern female applicants during her various recruitment trips and engagements with prospective students. Whether they are questions concerning applicants’ spouses or children, Belanger said it can be helpful to have a

woman on the ground recruiting.

Belanger added that it can be particularly challenging to recruit women for the MAM — a oneyear program for Global Network MBA graduates — because she is recruiting from an applicant pool that is male-dominated. “Across the board the percentage of women in business schools is around 30 percent or less of the student population,� she said, “so we face an added challenge in recruiting women for the MAM, as our students are drawn from the post-MBA population.�

Laura Fletcher SOM ’16 and Margarita Nachevnik SOM ’16,

co-leaders of the group Women in Management, said that beyond creating strong female bonds within SOM, there must be some attention put towards engaging male allies. Fletcher added that there is no way to change the culture of a school within engaging all members of the community. “Even once we increase the number of women period, how are we increasing the number of women of color, LGBT women, transgender women?� Fletcher said. “We’ve been trying to work more closely this year with other advocacy groups because there are so many intersections.�

D’Andre Carr SOM ’16 said the SOM does foster an environment that is politically and socially progressive, which may draw more underrepresented groups like women. Carr said that if business schools in general want to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups, business schools need to start engaging students at the undergraduate level.

A total of 462 students matriculated at SOM for the 2015–16 academic year.

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

With new app, Yalies help users find friends

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER When Serena Candelaria ’14 moved to London after graduation, she knew no one. She said she tried to make friends, but she found it difficult. She wondered if there was an easier way to connect with people, perhaps with the aid of technology.

A year later, she is one of six Yalies in charge of the startup Fives, a company whose eponymous phone application is meant to facilitate meaningful social interactions over commonly enjoyed activities. The app’s interface and structure is similar to those of the app Tinder. The

app user searches for an activity, then chooses a public location for the activity to take place and finally records his or her availability. The app then pairs the user with three to five other likeminded people who want to participate in the same activity. “In this time of connectivity, when we just look at our phone screens, it doesn’t make sense if all the connectivity ends there,� said Candelaria, now the press officer for Fives. “There has to be a way for that to extend to the real world.�

Candelaria said the app will be useful to young professionals in larger cities who often find it difficult to meet new people

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outside of their current social circles. When her Yale friends found themselves connecting with people at parties, they usually turned out to just be a Yalie they had not met in their time at school. Beyond expanding usersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; social circles, the app is meant to encourage users to explore new activities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once we become comfortable in our friend group, we stop challenging ourselves to try new activities,â&#x20AC;? Candelaria said.

Kai Chen â&#x20AC;&#x2122;14, the CEO and founder of Fives, said he moved to New York because he wanted to meet people from diverse backgrounds. But he only ended up hanging out with other Yale

alumni or employees of McKinsey, where he worked.

Once we become comfortable in our friend group, we stop challenging ourselves to try new activities.

SERENA CANDELARIA â&#x20AC;&#x2122;14 In the long term, the Fives team hopes to expand not only nationwide â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to cities such as

New York, D.C., Miami and San Francisco â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but also internationally. Next week Chen plans on traveling to China to speak with entrepreneurs and businessmen about marketing Fives.

Chen said Fives will be launching the app for the general public by the end of 2015. The company will first target younger users, including college students and recent college graduates, and later will expand to older populations.

John Pham â&#x20AC;&#x2122;14, chief product officer, said the app will help local businesses as well as users.

Once users choose certain activities, the app can drive users to certain locations around the city.

After gathering sufficient data, which Fives can analyze to better understand consumer behavior, the company will sell that information to interested businesses.

Other entrepreuners have asked Chen whether an exclusively platonic social app could work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sex sells,â&#x20AC;? they reminded him he said. But he and his teammates said they think people are looking for more than romantic partners, and that their app can fill that gap.

Fives groups are always made of up to four to five users.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience.

It supersedes all other courts.”

MAHATMA GANDHI INDIAN INDEPENDENCE LEADER

Eighty-five Sig Ep brothers to stand trial over tailgate accident SIG EP FROM PAGE 1 den” of proving a lack of material fact in the case.

“Although the … individual member defendants argue that the plaintiffs rely solely upon ‘mere membership’ [as a basis for liability, thus] rendering summary judgment as to them appropriate, such is clearly not the case,” she wrote.

In this matter, plaintiff intends on expanding liability exponentially to innocent bystanders.

JEREMY PLATEK Attorney at Keidel, Weldon & Cunningham In the same decision, Dooley denied a separate motion for summary judgment by Patrick Dolan ’13, who was president of Sig Ep at the time and also named as one of the 85 defendants.

Dooley said the plaintiffs had convincingly demonstrated a number of relationships between

Ross and the other fraternity members that would allow the matter to go to court. Namely, she wrote, the fact that some members were on the fraternity’s executive board — which planned the tailgate — as well as the presence of some members in the U-Haul truck, and even the fact that members had participated in the tailgate itself, established enough material fact for the matter to go before a jury.

In the original motion for summary judgment, Jeremy Platek, an attorney with Keidel, Weldon & Cunningham, wrote that Short’s lawsuit against the individual students was unfounded, as membership alone in an organization did not render them responsible for another brother’s actions.

“In this matter, plaintiff intends on expanding liability exponentially to innocent bystanders,” Platek wrote.

Christopher Weldon, a partner with Keidel, Weldon & Cunningham, said his firm does not comment on pending legislation. Eric Smith, an attorney with Faxon Law Group, could not be reached for comment Wednesday evening.

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

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Eighty-five former members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity will stand trial for being present at the 2011 Harvard-Yale tailgate crash.

Readmission rates unfair metric, YNHH employees say YNHH FROM PAGE 1

YALE DAILY NEWS

Readmission rates are one of several measures introduced by the 2010 Affordable Care Act to compare the quality of care at hospitals.

vacancies will be left unfilled. Together, the state and federal payment reductions are squeezing the system’s already narrow profit margins.

Readmission rates are one of several measures, introduced by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, to compare quality of care at hospitals. Together with mortality rates and the prevalence of hospital acquired infections, the federal government penalizes hospitals that fare poorly by docking their Medicare reimbursement payments. But experts worry that readmission rates are a misled metric that penalize the hospitals caring for the sickest patients.

“We in the hospital world have a concern here that much of what is being neglected in these readmission rates is patient acuity,” said Thomas Balcezak, vice president for performance management and YNHH associate chief of staff. “We think this penalizes hospitals across the country that are caring for higher risk patients.”

According to Mary Cooper, chief quality officer at the Connecticut Hospital Association, readmission rates had been used to measure the quality of Connecticut hospitals long before the measure was included in the ACA. Before the measure was put in place, hospitals could profit from high readmission rates, said Harlan Krumholz ’80, director of the YNHH Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation.

The measure works against that perverse incentive. Though hospitals were not trying to increase readmission rates before the legislation was passed, investing time and effort into reducing the rate made hospitals lose money, Krumholz said.

“In the old system, the economics created a negative incentive,” Krumholz said. “We thought that if we produce the measure and make it publicly reported, it would make the business case for people to invest in it.”

But according to Cooper, the patient

mix in Connecticut’s 29 hospitals, 28 of which were penalized for high readmission rates, might actually make hospitals that care for a greater portion of highrisk patients more likely to be penalized.

Cooper said Connecticut has a high number of low-income areas, where access to primary healthcare can be limited. She said low-income patients also struggle to receive continuous care because medications in plans with high deductibles — which are growing in popularity — are more expensive.

She said such patients are more likely to experience preventable readmissions, regardless of the hospital’s quality.

Yale Medical Group Chief Medical Officer Ronald Vender MED ’77 said that YNHH is a hospital that sees a lot of these such patients.

“YNHH is one of the most complex hospitals in the country and is dramatically different than a facility like the Hebrew Home,” Vender said, referring to the only Connecticut hospital that avoided the penalty. “That is like comparing Yale University to a community college in rural Iowa.”

Despite the opposition to the metric, measuring readmission does give hospitals incentive to improve, said Krumholz. YNHH in particular, he said, has made a good number of improvements.

The hospital has created partnerships with community health centers, for instance, and has increased its focus on chronic health conditions, Cooper said.

As YNHH proceeds to outline its budget for the next fiscal year, administrators are thinking about what the numbers may mean for the hospital’s employees.

“We need to be fiscally responsible but we also have to be responsible to our employees,” Balcezak said. “Doing both together can be a challenge.”

Based in Connecticut, YNHHS also includes hospitals and health services in New York and Rhode Island.

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

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“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.” WALTER BAGEHOT BRITISH JOURNALIST

Ambassador program enters 10th year

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER This year marks the 10th anniversary of the University’s student ambassador program, which has grown in scale and scope since the program’s launch in 2005.

The program sends current Yale students to high schools across the nation, in hopes of reaching communities and schools that have not traditionally heard about Yale. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan, who created the program in the fall of 2005, emphasized the initiative’s success in reaching high school juniors and convincing them to apply to Yale.

“I can’t imagine trying to do the work that we do and having the conversations with high school students and parents that we have without the ambassador program,” Quinlan said.

“It’s become a central part of our outreach effort.”

Since its inauguration in 2005, Director of Outreach and Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07 said the program has expanded from 130 student ambassadors to 319 during the 2014–15 academic

year, and from 1,500 estimated student attendees to 8,411.

Dunn described the expansion as a “major, exciting increase” in not only the number of student participants, but also in the number of schools reached and high school students with whom the University has connected.

In recent years, the program has really been a data success story, Dunn said. Though it is logistically challenging to assign ambassadors to address 700 schools across the country, he added, the office has enlisted admissions officers to assist with ambassador assignments in certain states, since admissions officers have specialized knowledge about specific geographic areas.

“What I’ve been able to do is equip my colleagues with really good data that we have about where we’re likely to see highachieving, and high-achieving low-income students in these high schools,” Dunn said.

Dunn said this has resulted in a greater number of assignments to student ambassadors to schools in their areas, and had a positive effect on the retention of the program.

Jesus Caro ’16, a participant

in the program, said he applied because very few students from his high school in California believe they are qualified to apply to schools like Yale. Most of them know very little about the school aside from the name, Caro said, and he thought the ambassador program would be the perfect way to change that.

“It’s fulfilling to start a visit with students only knowing Yale by name and ending with at least a few of them convinced to apply and excited for what it has to offer,” Caro said.

Carter Guensler, a current freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who was admitted to Yale, said the University’s most effective tactic in convincing him to apply was the student ambassador visit to his high school. “[The ambassador] sure did know how to do his job — great, funny stories, wonderful delivery — he really convinced me that I want to be at Yale for the next four years,” Guensler said.

However, Guensler declined the University’s offer to take a prestigious merit scholarship at UNC — the Morehead-Cain.

Though the Admissions Office was unsuccessful in yielding

Guensler, Dunn said the student ambassador program can often play a role in convincing students to attend Yale, particularly if they have already been accepted by the time an ambassador visits their school.

Still, Dunn said the program’s success in yielding students, and in convincing them to apply, is hard to quantitatively measure.

This is because most of the student ambassadors talk to juniors when they visit high schools, and the Admissions Office has never tried to connect multiple years of data. “Qualitatively, we see applications where students answer the ‘Why Yale’ question by saying they met an ambassador at their school,” Dunn said.

“But there’s not really a good quantitative case yet in terms of how the visits actually translate into applications.”

But Caro said the program is still a great way to educate students about Yale — particularly students who underestimate their potential to attend toptier universities. He also said receiving payment was an added bonus, making participating in the program a “no brainer” to him.

“I think it makes all the dif-

GRAPH TOTAL NUMBER OF ATTENDEES ’14–’15

8,411

’13–’14

8,406

’12–’13

6,591

’11–’12

4,472

ference when someone with your same educational and economic background — for the most part — tells you ‘I got in, so what makes you think you don’t have a chance?’” Caro said.

Last year, student ambassadors visited schools in 46 different U.S. states.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

GRAPH STUDENT AMBASSADORS & SCHOOLS VISITED ’14–’15

’14–’15

319

’13–’14

290

’12–’13

280

’11–’12

207

722

’13–’14

597

’12–’13

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442

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Yale alum creates new fellowship for student entrepreneurs

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER As an 18-year-old senior at Yale, Nick Slavin ’02 started Bulldog Exploration Co., an oil production company. Now, he hopes to use his expertise to guide the next generation of innovators on college campuses around the world.

Slavin, who has since founded an energy and sustainabilityoriented venture capital fund, is launching a new fellowship program for student entrepreneurs in colleges and graduate schools.

Unlike other programs, Slavin Fellows are expected to be current students, and this year, the fellowship plans to choose three to five inaugural fellows. Winners of the fellowship will receive a $2,500 scholarship and mentorship from a community of entrepreneurs organized by Slavin.

“One challenge that student entrepreneurs face is having so many life options and having to make important choices with limited information and experience,” Slavin said. “Part of the foundation’s value to fellows will be offering a guiding hand to students and evaluate options for their company and their life.”

Slavin said the idea for Bulldog Exploration came rather unexpectedly from his senior project in the economics major about barriers to entry in oil exploration and production. After interviewing industry executives for the thesis, he realized that he had learned enough to build an exploration and production company from scratch. He started to work on a business plan and a private placement memorandum alongside his thesis. After attracting enough investors, Slavin launched the company in 2001.

Ambassador Ryozo Kato

For the next 10 years, he built the company into an onshore oil exploration firm that operated in Texas and Louisiana.

I started my first company as a college student at a time when there wasn’t a lot of support for student entrepreneurs.

NICK SLAVIN ’02 Creator, Slavin Fellowship What makes Slavin’s story more remarkable is that, at the time, student-created startups were far more of an anomaly then than they are today.

“I started my first company as

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a college student at a time when there wasn’t a lot of support for student entrepreneurs,” he said.

His experience as a student entrepreneur with little support is a driving motivation for the creation of the fellowship, he said. Slavin said that though college campuses now benefit from more support, citing programs such as the Yale Entrepreneurial Society and the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, he believes students with brilliant ideas are often not attracted to these programs.

The Slavin Fellowship, launched through the Slavin Family Foundation, targets “entrepreneurial students who do not wish to drop out of school,” according to Jeff Andrews ART ’94, special advisor to the foundation.

“In my opinion, the oftenheard choice between obtaining

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a traditional university education and pursuing the entrepreneurial spirit is a false one,” he said.

Slavin said many entrepreneurs have dropped out of school, including a successful Thiel Fellow who now works with. However, he said, he wants to show that this is not the only option. A large part of the fellowship’s goal is to help fellows balance their school life with their entrepreneurial ventures, a common challenge for student entrepreneurs, School of Management professor Olav Sorenson said.

Sorenson serves on the fellowship’s Board of Advisors.

Sorenson notes that the fellowship, which has no special quota for Yale students, would complement the growing interest in entrepreneurship on campus. He said the SOM has made a large push in promoting the startup climate by add-

ing courses on entrepreneurship and hosting a wide range of seminars and activities. However, these activities and connections remain largely local, and the Slavin Fellowship would give Yale entrepreneurs a broader network.

“Students interested in starting their own ventures often find themselves torn between classes, paying for school and pursuing their entrepreneurial passions,” he said.

He added that the fellowship could help ease that tension. For example, the small scholarship that fellows receive can free up time for ventures, which otherwise might be spent on an oncampus job.

The fellowship is intended to last for one year.

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

Koichi Hamada

The Arc of Post-World War II Japanese Diplomacy:

a conversation

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FROM THE FRONT Eidelson looks to general election EIDELSON FROM PAGE 1 opinions on relevant issues in New Haven.

Eidelson’s victory follows a major surge in campaigning over the past week. Her campaign, which had been marked by low fundraising and a lack of major events, kicked into high gear in the last days of the election, with Eidelson announcing endorsements from city officials including Mayor Toni Harp, state Sen. Martin Looney, and a majority of the Board of Alders.

The surge in Eidelson’s campaign peaked yesterday, with Eidelson and several of her supporters stationed at the New Haven Free Public Library, Ward 1’s polling place. Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison, who said she supports Eidelson because she believes the incumbent can move the city’s youth agenda forward, was asked on two separate occasions to exit the library after violating the city’s law prohibiting canvassers from stepping within 75 feet of the polling area. In a separate instance, other members of Eidelson’s campaign were asked to vacate the premises.

Other supporters at the polling station included Hill Alder Dolores Colon ’91. Colon defended Eidelson against criticism that she has not been present on campus during her last two terms as alder — a charge Stark frequently leveled during her campaign — saying that Eidelson has been closely involved with financial aid reform on campus and was active in campaigning for Gov. Dannel Malloy last fall.

To that end, Eidelson said after the election that her plans for next term, if elected, would

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”

HENRY DAVID THOREAU AMERICAN AUTHOR AND POET

Stark: Ward 1 needs a Dem

include bridging the town-gown divide. “[My vision] includes Yale doing more to make New Haven stronger,” Eidelson said. “It includes working towards a city where all young people can thrive, where no one is living in fear when they go out of their homes.”

Now that the campaign has officially passed the primary, Eze is beginning to ramp up his operation. Eze added that his campaign team is focusing on hosting events and meet-andgreets, as well as continuing to have conversations with Ward 1 voters about engagement in New Haven.

“Sarah’s was a win of disengagement, incredibly low turnout,” Eze said in an interview with the News. “We were ready for either outcome tonight. I feel confident, and I look forward to a fruitful debate.”

Looking ahead to the general election, Eidelson supporter and Dwight Alder Frank Douglass Jr. said he was “not at all” worried. Still, he emphasized that Eidelson’s victory in November is not guaranteed.

Although supporters of both candidates showed enthusiasm, several voters said they cast their ballots with ambivalence.

“I’m not super enthused about either candidate,” Sweyn Venderbush ’18 said immediately after casting a vote for Eidelson. “But I think Sarah has some sort of proven track record working with New Haven politicians.”

Jiahui Hu and Michelle Liu contributed reporting.

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

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Fish Stark ’17 was unsuccessful in his bid to unseat incumbent Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12.

Like Stark, Hochman said he will support Eidelson in the general election — possibly even canvassing for her in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, Stark said he was pleased with the way he had run his campaign, despite its ultimate failure on Election Day. “I think we ran a clean campaign that followed the letter and spirit of the law,” he said. “We ran a campaign that was about this city, that was about increasing awareness of the city.”

He added that Eidelson had begun to talk about involving students in New Haven over the course of the campaign — something he said she hadn’t discussed

STARK FROM PAGE 1 about the city in ways they weren’t before,” he said. “I think we built momentum.”

Josh Hochman ’18, an organizer and canvasser for the Stark campaign, echoed that sentiment. He said that, as a result of the campaign, many of his friends have begun to talk about the role of Yale in New Haven in ways that they had not considered previously.

Hochman added that the lopsided results came as something of a surprise. He had expected a tight race, a message he had made clear to students he met while canvassing.

STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12 and her campaign team were stationed outside the New Haven Free Public Library, the polling place for the Ward 1 primary election yesterday.

in the past. He described Eidelson’s rhetoric about building student power and holding Yale and the Yale Corporation accountable for its actions in New Haven as “inspiring.”

Parts of Stark’s message appear to have rubbed off on at least a few voters, too — especially the freshmen to whom the campaign made a concerted outreach effort. Clark Burnett ’19, who said he voted for Stark, said he saw an “energy” in Stark’s campaign about student involvement in the city.

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“I’m very proud of the support of Local 34,” Beaver Hills’ victor Jill Marks said. “It was definitely a positive moment for me when they decided to support my candidacy.”

Marks defeated Claudette Robinson-Thorpe, who had the support of Mayor Toni Harp and State Senator Gary Winfield, by a margin of 64 votes in the closest race of the day.

The atmosphere at Hillhouse High School, Ward 28’s polling place, was noticeably tense.

Marks and Robinson-Thorpe each set up camp outside the high school and made last minute efforts to convince voters to vote for them as they headed to the polls. All Ward 28 voters interviewed declined to comment on whom they supported, noting that they knew both candidates well.

“I’m being a little bombarded by my opponent here, but it is what it is,” Robinson-Thorpe said during voting hours.

Shortly after results were revealed in Ward 1, Dwight Alder Frank Douglass, Jr. declared to Eidelson that Marks had won in Beaver Hills. His announcement was met with cheers and applause.

“I’ve known Jill Marks for many years,” said Westville alder Adam Marchand GRD ’99, who spent the day canvassing for the Ward 28 challenger in Beaver Hills. “She’s hardworking and passionate and always puts the people of the city first.”

Douglass told the News that he looks forward to engaging with Marks’ perspective on bolstering youth services in the city.

With the board’s support, she will bring the change that the city needs, Douglass said.

While the race in Beaver Hills was the closest, the other race in which a challenger bested an incumbent candidate was the most lopsided victory in the city.

In Quinnipiac Meadows, Gerald Antunes, who has formerly served as Quinnipiac Meadows alder, topped incumbent Richard Spears by 167 votes to 39, taking over 81 percent of the total vote.

Quinnipiac Meadows also saw the second lowest voter turnout, with only 206 residents casting ballots. The lowest turnout of the day was in the West Rock primary between incumbent Carlton Staggers and challenger Robert Anderson. Only 98 people showed up to the polls.

In Fair Haven, challenger Thomas Burwell was unable to alter the landscape from the 2013 Democratic primary and once again lost to incumbent Santiago Berrios-Bones.

“I will continue pushing for the same issues that I have been pushing to this point,” Berrios-Bones said. “Those issues include safety, schooling and youth.”

The Board of Alders needs someone with a different opinion, more energy and a mind of his own, Fair Haven resident and Burwell supporter Joan Forte said. She added that the current board has too large a share of union-backed alders.

“If everyone is the same and says the same things, it’s not interesting at all,” Forte said.

Other primary winners include Barbara Constantinople against Robert Lee in Fair Haven Heights, Salvatore DeCola in Morris Cove, Delphine Clyburn in Newhallville and Carlton Staggers in West Rock — all of whom are incumbents.

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AROUND THE IVIES

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.”

BILL SHANKLY SCOTTISH FOOTBALLER AND MANAGER

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Safety for the safety: rule changes protect football players

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Many of the new NCAA football rules are designed to prevent dangerous contact situations.

BY CHASE LEVITT The field might be a bit safer for Columbia football players this year, following changes to the NCAA rules this summer.

As the National Football League continues to deal with the fallout from the sport’s prevalence of head injuries, the NCAA adopted a series of regulations aimed at protecting its college players.

In the past few years, the college league has made a number of revisions to prevent head and neck injuries. And Columbia has its own history of concerns with player safety: A group of players wrote — and then retracted— a letter that alleged then-head coach Pete Mangurian downplayed concussions. Mangurian denied the allegations.

One of the more prominent new rules is a 15-yard unsportsmanlike foul, which officials will implement when players pull or push opponents off piles.

“Really, what that rule is trying to prevent is two things: spearing, in which the defensive player is leading with their head, which can potentially lead to a significant catastrophic neck injury,” said Harvard head athletic trainer Brant Berkstresser, who recently completed a term as chair of the NCAA Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sport

Committee. “The other thing is obviously the hit on the defenseless player, COLUMBIA which can lead to all sorts of injuries. But from that standpoint, the biggest thing you’re trying to prevent is that head injury.”

Besides the negative yardage, this new foul regulation provides extra incentive to avoid such action. Columbia football head coach Al Bagnoli noted the importance of this rule change, emphasizing that one rule has the potential to eliminate a player from a game.

In addition, medical observers will now be stationed at games as part of an experimental rule to discern potential head and neck injuries in players. If observers notice a possible injury, they will notify game officials, who will stop the game for the player to be removed for an evaluation by the team’s medical staff.

“I think that’s one of the most important things that we’re now able to do,” Berkstresser said.

In March, the NFL announced a similar rule that will allow an independent certified athletic trainer at each game to call a medical timeout when a player

seems disoriented to require the player to undergo a medical evaluation.

“I think everything is a trickledown from the NFL,” Bagnoli said. “I think this is just the evolution of an NFL rule now into college, just to try to ensure the safety of a player to the greatest degree that we can.”

Players are also now prohibited from wearing non-standard facemasks. These facemasks — Bane-like shields that offer additional coverage to the player’s face — provide a narrower spacing between helmet bars.

The change follows the lead of the NFL, which banned nonstandard facemasks in June 2014 after a study administered for the league by the University of New Hampshire suggested that the added weight on helmets could fatigue neck extensors, create head-down posture during contact, increase rotational acceleration after impact and negatively affect the helmet’s structural integrity during impact certification tests.

The study also revealed that the additional material of the facemasks might create a false sense of security that could lead players to make riskier or more dangerous plays.

Other rules include: When a helmet comes off a defensive player in a half’s final minute, the

game clock will be run off by 10 seconds and the play clock will be reset to 40 seconds, rather than the original 25 seconds.

Players with illegal equipment issues will now be required to leave the field for at least one play and until the equipment is rectified. However, if a team uses a timeout and the equipment is fixed during such time, the player can return without missing a play.

If the play clock reaches 25 seconds before the ball is ready, the clock will be reset to 40 seconds.

A similar rule was previously in effect, but it only reset the play clock when it reached 20 seconds.

An eighth officiator, a center judge, will be allowed at the discretion of a conference or school.

Teams will have at least 22 minutes to warm up before kickoff, but can mutually agree to shorten the time length.

Initial sideline warnings will be issued when team personnel leave their designated team bench area.

Rules that protect players are becoming more common in college football.

In 2011, the Ivy League announced a reduction to the allowable number of full-contact practices per year. According to the policy, teams are limited to two full-contact days per week in-season, which at the time of implementation was a 60 percent

reduction from the NCAA limit.

The maximum number of full-contact spring practices was reduced by one as part of the policy, resulting in a decrease of 12 percent from the previous Ancient Eight limit and 42 percent from the NCAA limit . During the preseason, players can now only wear pads during both sessions of two-a-days one day a week.

“I think that really … grabbed a lot of attention to a lot of people and was really the starting point for a lot of other conferences and organizations to try to look at how can we reduce potential head exposures among our student athletes in the sport of football,” said Berkstresser, a member of the Ivy League Ad Hoc Concussion Committee that recommended the rule changes.

In 2013, the Pac-12 Conference followed with a policy to reduce contact practices, reducing the maximum number of full contact practices per week during the regular season and spring practices to two. In the preseason, only one practice of two-a-days could have full contact.

The following year, the NCAA released a series of contact practice guidelines that advised teams to reduce their number of held live contact practices below the allowable limit. During the inseason, postseason, and bowl

practices, the guidelines advise only two live contact practices per week.

During the preseason, a team can have up to 12 live contact practices, but a maximum of four within one week. Only three of the practices, however, are to have live contact devoted to over half the practice time, and live contact is to be restricted to one practice of two-a-days.

For spring practices, the guidelines call for a maximum of three live contact practices to devote more than half of the allotted time to live contact and for a maximum of eight live contact practices in total. These practices are restricted to a maximum of twice per week, and may not occur on adjacent days.

“I think everyone is buying into the new exercise, and everyone is buying into the severity of the issue, and I think everybody is buying into overall player safety, and not just head related traumas, but overall safety issues,” Bagnoli said. “I think everybody is on board with it.”

Bagnoli said he expects the rules to continue evolving in favor of player safety.

“I think you can just see a natural reduction of full out contact and I don’t know how much more they’re going to do, but my hunch would be it’s going to get refined even more.”

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As Khurana meets with final clubs, he has many options

BY NOAH DELWICHE AND THEODORE DELWICHE As sophomores wine and dine at Harvard’s male and female final clubs this month as part of a decades-old selection ritual— the punch process—Harvard administrators will also gather to meet with the elite unrecognized groups.

But unlike the stream of sophomores eager for entry into the clubs, College officials have their own agenda.

On Thursday, administrators will join graduate board leaders of Harvard’s final clubs for a meeting, one highly anticipated among circles of club members. Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana is expected to attend, according to a final club graduate board president who will go to the meeting.

The meeting is not out of character for the Harvard College administration; representatives from the Harvard Office of Student Life routinely meet with final club leaders, despite the

groups’ officially unrecognized status.

But this meeting comes at a time of swirlHARVARD ing uncertainty about the future of the final clubs. As the groups face mounting scrutiny from administrators, they have hosted fewer parties, and one all-male club has moved to go coed.

Khurana, for his part, has been working on a set of recommendations about campus social life and unrecognized social organizations, and both he and Harvard University President Drew G. Faust have made clear that “nothing” is off the table in terms of their willingness or ability to regulate them.

It is unclear what topics the group will address on Thursday.

Although he declined to discuss Thursday’s meeting in an interview last week, Khurana has said that he will eventually discuss his

recommendations with stakeholders. He has declined to say what they include.

According to some legal experts, though, he has many options if he wants to influence the groups.

Experts said this week that Harvard can reasonably argue that it has the power to make the clubs essentially defunct. While administrators have not said that they want to eliminate the groups, if they chose to do so, the University would have a relatively strong backing in court, lawyers said.

According to Gregory F. Hauser, an attorney and alumnus of the fraternity Delta Chi who has represented fraternities, the fact that the relationship between private universities and their students is essentially contractual gives the colleges a lot of leeway. Private institutions have the power to impose restrictions on joining certain organizations as a condition of enrollment, he said.

In 2014, Amherst College in

Massachusetts did just that, prohibiting student participation “in off-campus fraternities and sororities and fraternity-like and sorority-like organizations,” according to its undergraduate policies.

Hauser said courts have not settled just how far such regulations can go, but he predicted that Harvard could successfully defend a policy banning students from joining final clubs.

“Because they limit their membership to Harvard students, because their activities are centered on the status of the members as Harvard students, I suspect a court would probably uphold a ruling by Harvard,” Hauser said.

The limitations on how strictly universities like Harvard can regulate their students’ private activities depend on whether the action in question is in sync with the larger institution’s mission, he added.

Khurana, for his part, has made clear his stance that single-gender organizations are not

“appropriate” for the College.

He also suggested in an interview last week that he is working with unrecognized social organizations to brainstorm “a different kind of relationship with the College that’s not just an unrecognized status.”

Harvey A. Silverglate, an attorney who has advised Harvard students facing Administrative Board investigations, said he disagrees with the idea of Harvard becoming more involved in students’ private lives. But he nonetheless agreed that Harvard could place restrictions on final clubs.

“Harvard could issue a rule that disallows its students from joining these clubs or any clubs which have gender exclusive policies,” Silverglate said.

Using anti-sex discrimination law Title IX as a means to control the groups, though, might prove more difficult, according to Hauser and Peter F. Lake ’81, a professor at Stetson University College of Law and an expert in higher education law. They were both skeptical of the legal

backing of using the law to further regulate or pressure singlegender social organizations to go co-ed.

“If you are using Title IX as sort of a weapon to control the groups, it’s probably not what Title IX is intended for,” Lake said.

Still, legal experts agreed that the final clubs, whether through irate almuni or more formal litigation, would probably challenge any regulation that barred students from joining them.

Hauser said final club leaders could pour through Harvard’s handbook to see if a new regulation constitutes a breach in contract. Silverglate suggested that the clubs might also argue that restrictions on membership violate freedom of association protections in the state constitution, although he questioned whether they would have a high chance of succeeding in court.

Regardless of what Harvard could legally accomplish, however, a more fundamental question remains, experts say.

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“I think when you’re winning, your uniforms are cool.” SHAUN ALEXANDER 2005 NFL MVP

Steinberg battles back VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 the type of person to be tentative; she was willing to go in there and be her best coming in freshman year.”

Last September, however, Steinberg was warming up with the rest of the team for a preseason game against Villanova when she crossed with another player, diving for the same ball. As Steinberg’s right hand collided with her teammate’s arm, she felt two of her fingers being jammed back into her hand.

Later, Steinberg discovered that she had broken two bones in her hand and would need surgery to heal the injury.

“I have two metal plates in my hand and some screws,” Steinberg said as she pointed to a quarter-sized scar on her right hand. “[I] don’t set off metal detectors, though.”

Steinberg’s injury left her out of commission for the remainder of the season, stranding her on the sidelines while her teammates fought their way to an Ivy League crown and an NCAA Tournament berth.

Despite her injury, Steinberg remained an integral part of the team dynamic and community last year by attending practices and games, keeping score during drills and preparing to rejoin the Bulldogs on the court once healthy.

Amid the physical therapy and visits to Yale Health that consumed Steinberg’s two months of recovery, she found that there was also a certain benefit in observing the game from a new perspective on the sidelines.

“You see the game in a whole different realm,” Steinberg said.

“I think that is really helping me

this season and will help me in the future, because there are so many things that I couldn’t see before because I had so much tunnel vision being on the court.”

Steinberg’s teammates agree that her play this season has surpassed the already high level of her freshman year.

“Her blocking has certainly improved,” Feeley said. “She seems like a very similar player in a good way … she’s worked on technique but hasn’t declined at all from her injury.”

Steinberg particularly excelled in last Friday’s victory over Albany.

The junior recorded 13 kills and 10 digs in Yale’s 3–1 win, finishing second and third on the team in those two categories. She also recorded eight kills in the Elis’ 3–2 loss to Rice on Sept. 5.

While her exact role on the team has not yet been determined, Steinberg’s leadership and versatility will no doubt serve the Bulldogs well. Injuries and a lack of depth hurt Yale in Steinberg’s absence last season, and her return along with the emergence of a talented freshman class should help to stave off similar issues in 2015.

For now, Steinberg is just glad to be back on the court.

“I am really happy about this team,” she said. “I think we are all working so hard, and every single practice is so competitive.”

Yale heads out west this weekend for the San Francisco Challenge, where it will face the University of San Francisco, North Dakota State and Cal State Fullerton.

Contact MIRANDA ESCOBAR at miranda.escobar@yale.edu and JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

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The Bulldogs won their fifth straight Ivy League championship in 2014.

Rain, mud dampen Elis’ chances FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 the outcome we would have liked, it was a solid effort that we can continue to build on,” captain Noelle Villa ’16 said.

While American’s (4–2, 0–0 Patriot) offense was unable to get going throughout the game, the Eagles created more scoring chances than the visiting Bulldogs. Yet goalkeeper Emilie Katz ’17 maintained a strong performance, totaling eight saves. Katz was beaten, however, roughly 20 minutes into the second half when freshman standout Rafaela Rubas put away an unassisted goal. Rubas has been on a scoring tear of late, scoring all five of her goals this year in American’s past four games.

The rain was constant and the game was temporarily postponed due to lightning shortly after Rubas’s goal. Even after play resumed, the Elis remained unable to find the back of the net.

“We came out strong against a tough opponent and grew together as a team at American,” Reese said. “Even though we had to play in the midst of a torrential downpour, we pushed though, worked together and cheered each other on.”

Villa was pleased with the way she and her fellow defenders battled against the Eagles.

She added that the score was not indicative of the teams’ performance and the Bulldogs’ energy and defense made the matchup against American their best-played game yet.

Yale defender Kiwi Comizio ’18 agreed with Villa, adding that the team implemented their strategy and level of play from practice well.

Yale seeks to replace stars are ready to play,” Clemons said.

“Grant, Deon and Tyler were great players, but this new year brings the same preparation and expectation of being the best offense we can be.”

Bo Hines ’18 also caught passes last year, but in a different uniform. The transfer from North Carolina State, who led the Wolfpack in both receptions and yards as a true freshman, will be suiting up in navy on Saturday. Hines, a state track champion who runs a 4.41 40-yard-dash, could potentially fill Randall or Wallace’s role in the slot or on the perimeter.

The wide receivers will be joined by a trio of tight ends — Stephen Buric ’16, Leo Haenni ’17 and Sebastian Little ’16 — who fought injuries last season.

“We expect [the wide receivers] to be a very good group,” Reno said.

“It’s kind of like the running back position, where there’s a relative unknown on how good our offense will be, because our guys haven’t proven anything in games yet.”

However, when it comes to the depth chart, the running back situation is more clear cut. Come Saturday, it will be Candler Rich ’17 lining up behind Roberts.

Rich, who backed up Varga in all 10 games last season, racked up 502 yards and two touchdowns on 67 carries in 2014. He managed 7.5 yards per carry, an especially impressive statistic when viewed alongside Varga’s 6.1 average — and a school record with a minimum of 65 carries.

Furthermore, Rich has packed

on 15 pounds in the offseason, according to Reno, giving the 5’11” tailback a little more power behind his runs.

“I think Candler’s going to get the lion’s share of the carries,” Reno said. “I also think that it’s very important to have other backs who can play. We will have that, we’ll have two or three tailbacks who can play, maybe four like we did last year.”

Behind Rich are DeShawn Salter ’18, converted wide receiver Austin Reuland ’16, Andrew Johnson ’18, Daniel Debner ’19 and Kyle Ellerson ’19. Kick returner Jamal Locke ’18 is also listed at running back after spending last season at the cornerback position.

Reno stressed that despite the loss of Varga, he does not foresee the Yale team dramatically changing its offensive style. Despite putting up more yards through the air than on the ground in 2014, the Bulldogs averaged 46.2 rushes per contest compared to just 37.5 passing attempts.

“We’re the tightest we’ve ever been,” captain Cole Champion ’16 said. “We’re competing at the highest level. But like Coach said, we have a lot of open spots that are waiting to be filled.”

The Yale football team kicks off its 2015 season at Colgate on Saturday at 1 p.m.

James Badas and Greg Cameron contributed reporting.

Contact WILL REID at william.reid@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Yale preps for Quinnipiac

“I think we played our best game so far [on Saturday], executing everything we worked on in practice with a high intensity,” Comizio said.

The Bulldogs will need to stay positive as they turn their attention to a tough upcoming two-game weekend.

Bryant University visits Johnson Field on Friday for a game that was originally scheduled to be played at Bryant but was recently moved to New Haven. The Bulldogs (1–5, 0–0 Metro Atlantic) will arrive at Yale having lost their last two games to two of Yale’s Ivy League rivals, Harvard and Brown. Harvard defeated Bryant 5–2 on Sept. 7, and five days later, Bryant trekked to Providence and lost in overtime to the Bears.

After the game versus Bryant, the Elis must face the daunting task of matching up against the No. 2 Syracuse Orange at home on Sunday.

Led by first team All-American forward and Syracuse’s 2015 Female Athlete of the Year Emma Russell, the Orange (5–0, 1–0 Atlantic Coast) will face No. 10 Boston College on Saturday before taking on Yale the next day. Syracuse has outscored its opponents 18–4 in this young season and will look to remain in top form against both B.C. and the Elis.

“Both Bryant and Syracuse will be strong opponents,” Villa said. “If — and when — we go into this weekend with a strong mentality and high spirit, we’ll be successful in our play.”

Yale hosts Bryant on Friday at 7 p.m. and Syracuse on Sunday at 2 p.m.

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

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The last time the Elis faced Quinnipiac, they fell to the Bobcats in a heartbreaking 1–0 overtime loss.

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Following Saturday’s shutout loss to American, the Bulldogs have now scored just three goals in three games.

of the game.

Head coach Kylie Stannard described Quinnipiac as a very attacking-oriented team, and said that Yale would strategize by catching the Bobcats on breakaways and counterattacking.

“When teams play like that, they expose themselves a little bit, and we’ll try to look to attack quickly once we win the ball,” Stannard said.

The Quinnipiac team is also unique in that its team boasts a plethora of international players, who hail from as far away as New Zealand and Trinidad.

Still, Simpson maintained that a global roster does not intimidate the Bulldogs.

“It doesn’t matter where they’re from and doesn’t matter how good they are,” he said. “We don’t look at anything more than their jersey number and how they played in the previous game.”

After Saturday’s match, the

Bulldogs will travel on Wednesday to New Rochelle, New York to take on Quinnipiac’s conference foe, Iona (3–2–1, 0–0–0 MAAC).

The Gaels finished runner-up in conference play to Quinnipiac last season, but unlike the Bobcats, they seem to be adjusting well to the loss of their star player, forward Ignacio Maganto, who was drafted to the L.A. Galaxy of Major League Soccer after last season. The Gaels are not deficient in the attacking department without Maganto, as they average 1.5 goals per game this season.

Similar to the last Quinnipiac game, Yale seemed to have a good shot at beating Iona in the two teams’ last contest, even going ahead within the first 30 seconds.

However, as was the theme last season, Yale managed to squander the lead and lose 2–1.

Still, the Bulldogs are optimistic for upcoming matchup, believing that the opponent’s characteristic play meshes well

with their own. “[Iona’s] playing style actually complements us because they’re a big, tall team that does well on set pieces,” Simpson said. “But we haven’t given up a goal on set pieces yet and we’re a bit quicker, a little bit smaller and we can move the ball a little bit better.”

Ultimately, no matter the results so far, the season is still young and all teams, according to Stannard, currently face the same challenge of defining themselves.

“All of these teams, both Quinnipiac and Iona and ourselves are still trying to figure themselves out — which are the best groups of players working together within the lineups?”

Stannard said.

Kickoff against Quinnipiac is at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Wednesday’s game against Iona begins at 4:30 p.m.

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 10:00 AM Japanese Engraving Demonstration. Master engraver and swordsmith Fukudome Fusayuki will demonstrate the beautiful art of engraving Japanese characters onto small rectangular metal plates with hammer and chisel. Free with Yale ID. Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.).

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Open spots to fill on offense

BY WILL REID AND MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER On Saturday, second-team All-Ivy quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 will return to the field with a record-setting season behind him. Three of the Yale football team’s top four scorers in 2014, however, will not be joining him on offense.

Among those graduated are three of the most prolific players in recent history: running back Tyler Varga ’15, along with wide receivers Grant Wallace ’15 and former captain Deon Randall ’15. Their numbers contributed to Yale’s Football Championship Subdivision-leading offense, which averaged 41.1 points and 571.5 yards per game.

“We’ve got a lot of question marks we got to answer,” head coach Tony Reno said. “I think first when you look at our team, you lost a lot of production …

There are a lot of good players who aren’t here.”

Wallace and Randall were key weapons for Roberts in the passing game, with the two combining for 154 receptions, 2,068 receiving yards and 11 touchdowns. Both were named to the All-Ivy First Team, and both also rank in the topfour in Yale’s career reception list, with Randall at No. 1 with 219 career catches.

Meanwhile, Varga, now of the National Football League’s Indianapolis Colts, won the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year award after setting a

school record with 26 total touchdowns.

“Obviously last year Tyler had an extraordinary year,” Reno said. “Two other guys go in that same conversation, Deon Randall and Grant Wallace. There’s a ton of offensive production in those three guys. In the running game, Tyler had the ability to understand our concepts, run with great pace and he really finished runs.”

Now, with Varga playing in Indianapolis, Wallace scouting for the Miami Dolphins and Randall working at a Los Angeles-based investment bank, younger Bulldogs have the opportunity to step into larger roles. In order to make up for this lost production, Yale’s offense will need to find the trio’s combined 349.1 yards per game from other contributors.

Supporting those young players will be both an experienced offensive line as well as a familiar face under center. Roberts’ return, Reno said, has provided continuity for the offense and allowed receivers who played sparingly last season to develop in the offseason.

Robert Clemons III ’17, whose 2014 numbers put him right behind Wallace and Randall, is currently the most experienced wide receiver on the roster. He is joined by 12 other wideouts, including three — Ross Drwal ’18, Michael Siragusa ’17 and Myles Gaines ’17 — who caught at least one pass in a game last season.

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Wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15 caught 81 passes in 2014, third-best in Yale history.

Elis fall in rain-soaked contest

BY DREW SEMLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Both literally and figuratively, the Yale field hockey team’s game Saturday against American University was muddy, as driving rain stunted the Elis’ offense and helped give the Eagles a 1–0 win.

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In the Elis’ 1–0 loss to American, Yale’s offense sputtered, with just two shots on goal and only six shots total.

Playing in less-than-ideal conditions, neither team was able to generate abundant scoring opportunities. Forward and midfielder Carol Middough ’18 had the Bulldogs’ only two shots on goal, and Yale’s offense, which has tallied just three goals through three games, was stifled by a talented young Eagles defense.

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After hiatus, Steinberg ’17 returns to court

BY MIRANDA ESCOBAR AND JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER Over the past five years, the Yale volleyball team has been a model of consistency and success, winning the Ivy League title each season. But for outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17, the past few seasons have been a bit more tumultuous.

VOLLEYBALL Steinberg excelled for the Bulldogs as a freshman, but she seriously injured herself during the 2014 preseason and missed every game last year. Now, as a junior, Steinberg looks to regain her form and take on a major role on the team, both on and off the court.

In 2013, Steinberg put together an impressive rookie campaign that saw her rewarded with a spot on the All-Ivy second team. She finished sixth in hitting percentage and eighth in kills among all Ivy League players while winning multiple conference Player and Rookie of the Week awards.

“Brittani came in freshman year and straight off the bat was a huge player for us,” middle blocker Lucy Tashman ’17 said. “She definitely stepped up.”

Middle blocker Claire Feeley ’16 agreed, saying that Steinberg was a big part of the team as a freshman.

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Bulldogs look to notch first win

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Over the next few days, the Yale men’s soccer team will have a familiar goal in its matches against Quinnipiac University and Iona College: to finally win.

MEN’S SOCCER After last weekend’s two losses to the University of California Santa Barbara and Temple, Yale’s winless streak now extends to 10 games, the same number of games it took Yale to finally net a win last season. Goalkeeper Ryan Simpson ’17 recognized the parallels between this year’s start and last year’s record, but asserted that despite the similar results, the Bulldogs are actually playing much better than what their record sug-

gests. He credited this to their high fitness base, a component missing from the past year’s campaign.

Nicky Downs ’19, a midfielder who was not part of last year’s unsuccessful squad, viewed training as unaffected by the losses.

“You have to stick to what you’ve been doing, trust in the preparation and keep doing the little things right — preparing well, eating right, getting enough rest and then training hard,” Downs said.

On Saturday, Yale will attempt to translate this practical regimen to results as it takes on local rival Quinnipiac (0–4–1, 0–0–0 Metro Atlantic) for its second home game of the season. Though the Bobcats are defending Metro Atlantic Conference regular season champions, a title they have won for three years straight, it seems that their extraordinary suc-

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cess has hit an impasse.

For the first time in four years, the Bobcats are playing without goalkeeper Borja Angoitia, who was named to last season’s Eastern College Athletic Conference’s All-Star Team, and forward Machel Baker, who played a part in 22 of the team’s 26 goals last season. Both players graduated last year and their presence has been sorely missed, as Quinnipiac has just two goals and zero wins in five matches this season, a far cry from the 13-game unbeaten streak that highlighted last season.

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Outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17 missed the entire 2014 season due to two broken bones in her hand.

RANK, IN TOTAL YARDAGE, OF THE YALE FOOTBALL OFFENSE IN THE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SUBDIVISION. But without three All-Ivy standouts, the Bulldogs need to replace 349.1 of their nation-best 571.5 yards per game.