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CROSS CAMPUS Shipman controversy.

On Sept. 4, the Episcopal Church at Yale announced that Rev. Bruce Shipman — whose letter to the New York Times regarding the IsraeliPalestinian conflict created controversy last month— had resigned from his role as Priest-in-Charge. The church thanked Shipman for his faithfulness, hard work, vision and dedication to Yale students.

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New app aims to cultivate friendships across campus

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Salovey looks to year 2

Grad students beware. A large opossum was seen near GPSCY. The GPA bubble. “Grade Expectations” was the title of a short piece The Economist ran this month examining Ivy League grade inflation.

“The students may be much cleverer than before: The Ivies are no longer gentlemen’s clubs for rich knuckleheads.

But most probably, their marks mean less,” the article read.

One big Democratic family.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and State Sen. Gary Holder-Winfield are dropping by the meeting of the Yale Democrats today.

“Gateway coffee.” A review

of Blue State Coffee’s fall menu in Connecticut Magazine concluded that it was “Gourmet Coffee House Food Perfection.” Menu items included the Smocked Ham Sandwich, the Ranch BLT Sandwich and the vegan Chickpea Salad Sandwich.

The piece also noted that the True Blue coffee was a good “gateway coffee” for those who are not established coffee connoisseurs.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1980 Two unidentified men return a stuffed, former Handsome Dan to associate Athlete Director Joni Barnett’s home following his abduction the previous week from Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

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BeloOsagie ’17 dies Yale student Azeez Belo-Osagie ’17 died last week while on leave from Yale. He was 19 years old.

In an email sent early Friday morning, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway conveyed the news of Belo-Osagie’s death to Yale College students, and urged them to turn to each other for comfort.

“It is my sad duty to tell you that Azeez Belo-Osagie … has died unexpectedly while on leave from Yale,” Holloway wrote. “I share [this news] with you now in the knowledge that Azeez’s friends spanned the entire campus.”

Do tenured professors count as “teachers”? A Washington

Tag for the International Students Organization begins today. Participants are randomly paired with other students. Students can earn one point for each meal with a stranger, plus an extra point for sharing a photo of the lunch online, and the top three scorers towards the end of the semester win prizes.

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BY HANNAH SCHWARZ AND WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTERS

Blood Drive was held this weekend at the Yale Health clinic. Yale Health staff members Anita Shmigelsky and Kim George were first in line to give blood.

Friendship contest. Lunch

Republicans in congressional races look to gubernatorial race

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Post blog piece called Connecticut the “Best State in America,” for teachers at least. Connecticut state teachers are paid a $67,040 base salary on average and more than 80 percent of teachers have a master’s, specialist or doctorate degree.

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In his second year, Salovey plans to focus on preparing for the addition of 800 students and improving teaching and learning.

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER University President Peter Salovey’s first year was a whirlwind — a $250 million gift, a push to raise another $80 million for two new residential colleges, a review and reorganization of Yale’s administrative structure and the appointment of three new deans.

He also had to get used to the job of president itself, which administration officials have described as so

tough that no one could ever be fully prepared for it.

Now, Salovey is facing his “sophomore year,” as he said in an August email. To a great extent, his predecessor Richard Levin’s initiatives will continue to drive conversation on campus. But no longer new to the job, Salovey is looking to embark on his own initiatives to make his mark on Yale.

“There is always a balance to be struck between building on, sustaining and expanding existing pri-

New site seeks to ease TA job insecurity

BY HAILEY WINSTON STAFF REPORTER The two weeks of shopping period, which generally benefit students by allowing them to explore courses before finalizing their schedules, make life much more difficult for a particular part of Yale’s campus — graduate students who must secure teaching fellow positions in order to fund themselves for the semester.

Because undergraduate enrollment is in flux during shopping period, some graduate students do not know if they can receive a teaching position until the enrollment is finalized two weeks into the semester. The current system of assigning teaching fellow positions in mid-September gives rise to long bouts of uncertainty, said Brian Dunican GRD ’15, last year’s Graduate Student Assembly chair.

I would say it’s still in the early stages. It’s a little early to know how it’s going, but no one has been calling on the phone screaming.

LYNN COOLEY Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “Some don’t find out about appointments until after shopping period concludes in September,” Dunican said. “But most people [want to] renew a lease a month or so before, so often we see this tied to a housing concern.”

To mitigate these concerns, the GSA has worked with administrators to launch the Graduate Student Teaching Opportunities website this fall — a site that provides live SEE GRAD STUDENTS PAGE 7

orities and working on more innovative projects,” Salovey said.

You will remember an enormous smile and the loving gentleness he brought to everything he did.

THE 800-STUDENT CHALLENGE

ELIZABETH BRADLEY Master, Branford College

Perhaps the biggest priority currently on Salovey’s desk in Woodbridge Hall is the construction of two new residential colleges. The first expansion of Yale College since the late 1960s, the colleges will increase the student body by some 800 students, or 15 percent.

Less than an hour earlier, Elizabeth Bradley, the master of Branford — Belo-Osagie’s residential college — had sent a similar email only to Branford students, letting them know that her house would be open to all those who

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Freshmen flock to day of service

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Members of the class of 2018 showed up in record numbers to Dwight Hall on Saturday morning for the annual Freshman Day of Service.

This year, 141 freshmen participated in the event — a 33 percent increase from last year. The volunteers cleaned, painted and tutored in around 10 different service sites within the Elm City. Dwight Hall leaders said the high turnout is promising for member groups seeking new volunteers.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway GRD ’95 opened the day of service with a speech urging serviceminded freshmen to spend time in their new host city.

“The fact is, it’s too easy at a place like Yale to just take for granted all of the privileges around you,” Holloway said. “Take the time to acknowledge the people around you, whether it’s on campus or whether it’s going out into the city proper.”

The attendance at the Freshman Day of Service is a good indication of whether the new class will be involved in service throughout their Yale career, said Sterling Johnson ’15, Dwight Hall co-coordinator. This swell in participation is promising for Dwight Hall’s member groups, he said.

“If they’re interested enough to wake up at nine to volunteer, they’re interested enough to join Dwight Hall groups,” Johnson said.

All 10 freshman volunteers interviewed said they want to join a Dwight Hall member group.

The number of participants in the Freshman Day of Service also helps Dwight Hall leaders gauge how many students will apply for the Freshman Leadership Program — a semester-long service program intended to introduce a small group of freshmen to various service sites around New Haven, Johnson said.

The Freshman Leadership Program, which debuted with the class

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Over 140 freshmen participated in this year’s Freshman Day of Service. of 2017, introduces its members to service opportunities around the city and then encourages them to start their own independent service projects.

The class of energetic volunteers got their start this weekend. In most

sites, groups of approximately 10 freshmen were cleaning or revitalizing neglected spaces. They visited a range of sites, including Artspace, Neighborhood Housing Services and SEE DAY OF SERVICE PAGE 7

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Drop out of U.S. News T I omorrow, U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the “Best Colleges” in the United States will go live. Cue the annual freak out.

Every year, right after the nearly unchanging rankings are released, critics across the country condemn the list. And rightfully so. The problems are obvious. “There’s no direct way to measure the quality of an institution — how well a college manages to inform, inspire and challenge its students,” Malcolm Gladwell wrote in The New Yorker in 2011. “So the U.S. News algorithm relies instead on proxies for quality — and the proxies for educational quality turn out to be flimsy at best.”

The largest single factor in the U.S. News algorithm is the ludicrously subjective “academic reputation.” Even the supposedly “objective” variables in the algorithm, such as graduation rates or SAT scores, can be fudged by duplicitous college administrators. (The most recent episode of fraud was at the esteemed Claremont McKenna, though scores of colleges have been caught dishonestly reporting data over the last several decades.) Indeed, the national obsession that follows these rankings gives administrators a reason not only to lie, but also to target absurdly large amounts of students — most of whom the college will then reject — all in an effort to raise yield rates.

In this way, the rankings are beyond misleading; they can actually cause colleges to behave dishonestly and milk additional labor (and an application fee) out of kids the college never wanted in the first place. Some law schools, hoping to raise their place on the list of top law schools, have actually altered their admittance practices, taking more part-time students and fewer full-time students, in an effort to boost their reported GPAs and LSAT scores — which can come only from full-time students.

These rankings — and their problems — seem inevitable because we, as a nation, are so consumed by them. But there’s a simple way to destroy the hold these rankings have on us. And Yale could do it. Easily.

If Yale simply stopped cooperating with U.S. News, it would monumentally screw the magazine. The rankings rely not just on reputational surveys sent out to college and high school administrators, but also on data that can be obtained only from the schools themselves — average faculty salary, percentage of professors with the highest degree in their fields, how many students were in the top ten percent of their high school class, alumni giving rate and on and on. One reason some colleges have falsified their numbers is that U.S. News cannot independently verify them.

If Yale refused to participate, it would put an invisible

but indelible asterisk next to the rankings of each of the top schools.

(Harvard or Stanford or Princeton SCOTT could do the STERN same thing.)

Yale’s abdiA Stern cation could Perspective profoundly cripple these rankings. It could help stigmatize them and demonstrate to the world just how subjective and, sometimes, how harmful we know them to be. Without Yale’s data, Yale’s “true” ranking would be a constant (and presumably wellpublicized) mystery. This, in turn, would affect all of the other rankings, since Yale is consistently among the top three. The rankings would be forever tarred with their true colors.

Would this hurt Yale in any way? Well, in 1995, Reed College became the first college to refuse to participate with U.S. News (even though it had consistently been one of the list’s top-ranked liberal arts colleges). U.S. News retaliated, capriciously inserting the lowest possible numbers into each of Reed’s missing slots, which caused Reed to drop almost to the bottom of the list. Critics predicted that Reed would lose applicants by the boatload, but instead the number of applicants jumped.

Other colleges toyed with following Reed. St. John’s and Alma College, two other liberal arts institutions, joined the boycott, and even the mighty Stanford — pushed by a forward-thinking senior administrator — decided to stop filling out the subjective peer-ranking survey.

But Stanford never stopped sending U.S. News the crucial university-specific data, and after a few years it started filling out the survey once again. Stanford’s brief experiment demonstrates that it will be hard for top-rated colleges to stop providing the data that allow them to remain at the top. They are simply scared of facing retaliation from high school seniors.

Reed’s experiment demonstrates that this fear is largely unfounded.

As Colin Diver, then president of Reed College, wrote in The Atlantic in 2005, ten years after Reed stopped providing data, “Before I came to Reed, I thought I understood two things about college rankings: that they were terrible, and that they were irresistible. I have since learned that I was wrong about one of them.”

When you see these rankings tomorrow, roll your eyes. And hope that the Yale administration can break its addiction to seeing its name at the top.

SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His columns run on Mondays. Contact him at scott. stern@yale.edu .

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GUEST COLUMNIST CODY POMERANZ

Make Cr/D/F mandatory

t’s shopping period. You’re about to hand in your schedule.

Some for the first time, others for the third, the fifth or the seventh. There’s one class that makes you uneasy. Maybe the subject is new to you. Maybe you’re trying to challenge yourself more by taking a higher level course. Regardless of your situation, you have the Credit/D/Fail option at your disposal. Do you use it?

Over the course of our four years here, we are often encouraged to use our Cr/D/F. We hear it in our freshman addresses and senior advising meetings, from professors like George Chauncey ’77 GRD ’89 and Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84. Amar, after all, reminds his students that he made use of Cr/D/F while he was a Yale undergraduate. We are told to broaden our academic horizons, to take risks, to challenge ourselves with diverse and rigorous courses.

Yet students often attach a stigma to the Cr/D/F option.

Instead of trying out new or challenging classes as the University intends for us to do, we seem to take a twisted pride in not using Cr/D/F. “I've just never felt the need to use one” is an oft-repeated remark. Another one goes along

the lines of: “Why would I use it if I’m going to do all the work and get an A anyway?”

Of course, this attitude doesn’t just pertain to academics: Yalies often seem to display a certain sense of shame in seeking help and take pride in pretending we don’t need any. From tutoring to mental health services, we refuse available resources in order to give our peers the impression that we are independently thriving and separate ourselves from the pack that isn’t — not unlike our attraction to application-based majors or clubs solely because of their selectivity.

Even when students do use the Cr/D/F option, we are often afraid to admit it. We couch the admission in qualifiers and excuses. “If I had known ahead of time …” or “I thought it would be more difficult …” Some of us worry that there is no point in taking a class Cr/D/F if we know we will get a good grade anyway. But this ignores a fundamental benefit of the option: the ability to enjoy learning without the stress of trying to remember everything. Taking a class Cr/D/F and getting an A does not mean you’ve wasted a class. It means you engaged the material with a primary motivation of curiosity rather than achievement.

The University is to blame for some of the flaws in the system.

Yale should allow students to use Cr/D/F for distributional requirements. Under the current system, Yale gives students the incentive to take gut courses instead of more rigorous options. Instead of taking “An Issues Approach to Biology,” some Humanities students might take actual Biology. Instead of searching for the least challenging writing credits, some STEM students might take a creative writing or poetry course. By prohibiting the use of Cr/D/F for distributional requirements, Yale is counteracting its own stated goal of academic exploration.

The University should consider making use of Cr/D/F mandatory — this provision would encourage students to go beyond their academic comfort zones and might reduce the stigma attached to the Cr/D/F option.

There are, of course, some practical concerns in making Cr/D/F mandatory, such as the views of graduate/professional schools and employers, or eligibility for academic honors and scholarships. But if Yale makes a clear change in its policy, these parties will follow suit and acknowledge Cr/D/F as a part of every Yale

student’s academic experience, just as they take into account the quarter system at Stanford or Northwestern, the block plan at Colorado College, grade deflation at the University of Chicago or the sophomore summer at Dartmouth.

A Cr/D/F requirement is no different than the University’s distributional credit requirement. When we enter Yale, we are reminded time and again about the value of a liberal arts education. But academic exploration often becomes increasingly difficult after freshman year. A Cr/D/F requirement would relieve pressure on upperclassmen to choose career over curiosity, ensuring that the treasured benefits of a liberal arts education span the full four years of a Yale student’s experience.

By making Cr/D/F optional, Yale has indulged the worst tendencies of its students. And if the administration feels so strongly that this option would increase intellectual diversity and stimulation, it should make Cr/D/F use mandatory.

CODY POMERANZ is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at cody.pomeranz@yale.edu.

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More than 100,000 students in Connecticut still don’t have access to the high-quality education they need and WRITE TO US deserve. That is truly a topic worthy of All letters submitted for examination and “rethinking.” publication must include the Diana Rosen’s column (“Rethink author’s name, phone number Charter Schools,” Aug. 29) discounts and description of Yale both history and progress in its asserUniversity affiliation. Please tion that the expansion of all state charlimit letters to 250 words. ter schools should be “re-evaluated” based on the singular, egregious situThe Yale Daily News reserves ation at FUSE. Public charter schools the right to edit letters throughout the state support a thorbefore publication. E-mail ough investigation into the issues at is the preferred method of FUSE; it is inaccurate and unfair to submission. paint all of the state’s public charter schools with the same broad brush.

In 1999, Amistad Academy opened its doors in New Haven. A public charter, Amistad Academy today ranks among the top five schools in Connecticut for English Language Learner student performance. Its graduates, who go on to Achievement First Amistad High, are the highest-performing African-American and low-income high school students in Connecticut according to the recent ConnCAN report cards. At AF Amistad High, 100 percent of graduating seniors gain acceptance to college. Achievement First has grown to serve 11 schools in Connecticut because of its track record of student academic progress and overwhelming parental demand. To insinuate otherwise is to ignore the facts.

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quality choices for families in our most historically underserved communities. New Haven is also home to Common Ground High School, which the state named a “School of Distinction” because of its students’ strong academic progress. The school inspires many of its graduates to study science, with one-third pursuing an environmental field of study in college. Schools like these are vital to our community.

All of us must do more to serve students — especially African-American and Latino students — in a state where the quality of a student’s education is all too often determined by his race or class. Connecticut has one of the widest achievement gaps in the country.

This must change.

In order for change to happen, those with influence and power should find ways to support successful schools, instead of looking for ways to hinder them.

CANDICE DORMON Sep. 4 The writer is associate director of New Haven Community Engagement at Achievement First.

On the Shipman controversy Deborah Lipstadt’s New York Times op-ed on growing expression of anti-Semitism in Europe and Yale Episcopal Reverend Bruce Shipman’s letter in response have generated important discussion of difficult issues. Expression and acts of anti-Semitism are influenced by the

interplay of three types of individuals and organizations: 1) strongly and actively anti-Semitic; 2) weakly and quietly anti-Semitic; and 3) not anti-Semitic.

Containment of anti-Semitism depends on the will and effort of the not anti-Semitic individuals and groups within a society. When this moderate and moderating segment of society is quieted, discouraged or otherwise disempowered, the strongly and actively anti-Semitic element is emboldened, more active and able to engender anti-Semitic activity by weakly anti-Semitic elements.

Lipstadt’s op-ed fails to appreciate the way actions by the Israeli government and military dangerously weaken the critically important containment of anti-Semitism by moderate elements. Focus on the actions of strongly anti-Semitic elements, and failure to appreciate the broader social dynamics that govern the spread of anti-Semitic expression and action, makes it impossible to effectively address the problem. Reverend Shipman’s letter to the Times describes actions by Israel that undermine the ability of moderate elements to contain extreme ones. The subsequent attacks on Reverend Shipman further undermine the containment process and exacerbate the problem they seek to limit.

BRUCE E. WEXLER Sep. 3 The writer is a professor emeritus of psychiatry.

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New Haven residents approve of Yale construction

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New Haven residents and city officials support Yale’s intention to break ground on two new residential colleges next year, a project that offers potential economic growth for the city.

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER New Haven residents and city officials are embracing Yale’s plan to break ground on two new residential colleges next year — in sharp contrast with the city’s reaction when the University unveiled a similar project 42 years ago.

This past June, University President Peter Salovey announced that the University had reached its $500 million fundraising goal for the new residential colleges. This announcement, along with site approvals the University has already received from the Board of Alders and the City Planning Commission, clears the way for Yale to begin construction early next year. Although individual city departments, such as the Department of Transportation, Traffic & Parking, must still approve the site plans, City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said that all major hurdles for construction have been cleared and the plans will most likely go forward.

Grotheer, along with several local residents and other city officials, said the project will serve as an impetus for economic growth and financially benefit the city of New Haven. Former Mayor and current New Haven resident John DeStefano Jr. said that because New Haven’s economy is rooted in “knowledge-based enterprises,” growing the city’s principal research institution will increase economic activity.

Perhaps most directly impacted by the expansion will be residents of Ward 22, where the two new residential colleges will join four other colleges already situated in the ward, which also includes the Dixwell neighborhood.

Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison said she and her constituents are excited about the expansion because the construction will create new job opportunities for local residents and the influx of 800 additional students will drive up business for local stores and restaurants.

“We all know living here in Ward 22 that we live by the Uni-

versity, and the University is constantly expanding in a variety of ways,” Morrison said. “It comes with the territory.”

Forty-two years ago, when the University put forward yet another expansion plan, New Haven residents were not nearly as keen on the project. In 1972, Yale developed a plan to construct two new colleges in order to accommodate a growing student body. By the fall of 1972, the University had already made headway with the plans: Yale had received a $15 million gift from John Hay Whitney ’26 to fund construction, and an architectural firm had drawn models of the new colleges that would be built near Whitney Avenue and Grove Street. But on March 5, 1973, the New Haven Board of Alders voted 15–10 against a change in zoning that the University needed before beginning construction.

The change would have switched the construction site from commercial use to private use. Because the University did not pay taxes on its private prop-

New Haven installs thousands of LED lights

BY MICHELLE LIU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The first LED lights in New Haven were installed on Newhallville’s Lilac Street in 2012, and since then, the environmentally friendly lights have been quickly spreading through the streets of New Haven.

The engineering department at city hall is partway through replacing approximately 11,000 lights across the city. The endeavor’s goals are threefold: to reduce energy consumption, cost and crime.

“The overall goal of the program is to effectively save the city money in the long term by replacing all of our sodium alloy fixtures with LED lights,” said transit chief Doug Hausladen 04.

Sustainability project manager Giovanni Zinn ’05 said LEDs use over 50 percent less electricity on a kilowatt-hour basis than New Haven’s former streetlights. The new lights have a 10-year warranty, further reducing the city’s maintenance costs, and are considered to be more reliable than the sodium alloy lights used before.

The total cost of the streetlight program is $2.1 million, funded in part by the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund. The city also received help from United Illuminating Company.

Both Hausladen and Zinn said that the new lights would pay for themselves in three years because they city will save hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in electricity costs.

Zinn added that the LED lights fit into Mayor Toni Harp’s plans for a 20 percent reduction in electric energy consumption by 2018.

“This is actually a decent chunk of that,” Zinn said.

According to Zinn, the lights enhance public safety because they are brighter and a higher color rendering index that enables the human eye to perceive colors without distortion.

For Jacob Anbinder ’14, the initiative is imperative to fostering trust between the city and its residents. Through New Haven Action, Anbinder and Drew Morrison ’14 presented urban planning proposals to community leaders in the Dixwell neighborhood in 2012 — one of

which was LED lighting.

“New Haven needs to take steps to convince residents, particularly in neighborhoods of lower socioeconomic status, that the government cares about them and they have a stake in their neighborhood,” Anbinder said. “I think LED lights do that whether or not they actually contribute to reduced crime, because they are proof that the city cares about quality of life.”

Whether LED lights truly do reduce crime is uncertain, according to some: while certain cities like Los Angeles have noted declines in crime after their own LED streetlight installations, Anbinder said an analysis from a few years ago suggests that the evidence is split.

Hausladen, however, said that the first installation of LEDs on Lilac Street significantly reduced crime over the course of a year.

The program began with Project Lighten Up, led by the Christian Community Coalition, which urged the city to install 11 street lights across Lilac to dissuade crime. The collaboration between the community group and the city government was viewed as a success, especially as New Haven realized the cost efficiency of replacing the street lamps, Zinn said.

The first phase of the initiative, which is now complete, spans some 3,600 lamps across the city, including parts of Yale’s campus.

Zinn said the feedback he has received from community members has been positive. He added that some have even requested more lights or participated in discussions about where lights should be placed.

“Residents actually call us up and thank us for putting lights on their street because it makes the streetscape not only brighter but also more evenly lit,” Zinn said. “The quality of the lighting makes people feel safer and more secure at night.”

Los Angeles, Calif. and Portland, Ore. are currently replacing their existing street lights with LED lights as well.

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

erties, some alders said that the expansion would put a financial strain on the city.

In March 1973, the News quoted Alder Edward Piazza saying the expansion would have “no positive effects on the city.” In the same paper, Alder Alan DeLyle criticized the University for failing to include the city in the development process.

“There was never any community participation or input.

We asked a lot of questions, but in reality we never got [any] answers,” DeLyle said.

In explaining the difference between the city’s response to expansion four decades ago and the response today, several University and city representatives pointed to an evolved town-gown relationship. While the University and the city were once seen as separate entities, everyone interviewed said that the two are now considered interdependent.

“That rejection began a long reversal in the history of the relationship between city and university which, despite many differences and natural tensions,

now sensibly and practically understand that their fortunes are inextricably tied,” Special Assistant to the President and Jonathan Edwards Master Penelope Laurans said in an email.

When the University first proposed building two new colleges in the 1970s, the biggest employers in the city included Winchester Repeating Arms Company and Candee Rubber, history professor and New Haven resident Jay Gitlin ’71 MUS ’74 GRD ’02 noted. But now, Yale tops that list providing over 12,000 fulltime jobs including 4,000 to New Haven residents, according to the Office of New Haven and State Affairs.

This growing influence means that the city and University must “work things out” when discussing development proposals that influence both Yale and the city, Gitlin said.

In line with this interdependency between town and gown, the University has involved the city in planning the new residential colleges. Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs

Bruce Alexander ’65 said that Yale has kept the city informed about its plans and has remained open and responsive to concerns city officials have expressed.

For example, after hearing about the construction plans, Alder Morrison was concerned that the construction workers would occupy parking spaces in the already congested streets near in her ward. In response, the University reassured her that it will have the construction workers park on Yale-owned property instead of the streets, Morrison said.

She added she has been pleased with the way the University has communicated with her and kept Dixwell residents informed. No Dixwell residents have complained about Yale’s expansion since the University first announced the plans, she added.

The two new colleges will be located just north of Grove Street Cemetery.

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College social media app spreads to Yale

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER During their freshman year, two Princeton students — Michael Pinsky and Vaidhy Murti — happened to sit next to each other to watch a Yankees game. Neither expected the chance encounter to turn into a business venture that would reach colleges all across the country.

Pinsky and Murti, along with a team of around a dozen other students, launched their brainchild — a social media website and app called Friendsy — at Princeton in May 2013.

Since then, Friendsy has spread to 40 schools across the country — including Yale, which saw the arrival of the app last week.

Any user with a Yale NetID can create an account and make connections with fellow students for friendships, hookups or dates.

“We wanted to make something that would help people branch out of their friend circle with other people on their campuses,” Pinsky said. “You can click on different buttons, like friends, hook up or date, and if the other person clicks the same button back for you, both parties get notified.”

Friendsy launched at Yale on Sep. 1 and saw 200 people registering in the first 24 hours.

As of Sunday night, over 250 Yale students had registered for a Friendsy account. Pinsky said those users have made more than 150 mutual matches with each other.

After setting up their accounts, students are asked to create a profile with information including their major, class year and hometown. From there, they can start making connections with other students. But Friendsy has other uses too — the site contains a “murmur” page where users can post quotes heard around campus, and students are also allowed to browse the profiles of all other Friendsy users at Yale.

“One person wrote to us and said they found their soul mate through Friendsy,” Pinsky said. “What more could you really want in an app? That’s why we do this.”

Friendsy does a good job of pulling various benefits from other sites and

apps to create one complete product, said Aaron Troncoso ’17, who went to high school with Pinsky and has helped promote the app through Yale’s various Facebook groups.

Troncoso called Friendsy an interesting concept because it “unites the anonymity of apps like Tinder with the social media stuff of Facebook.”

Lillian Bitner ’17 said she checks her account often for messages from other users. But despite its appeal, Bitner says it is hard to make connections when relatively few students are on the site.

“I think if more people joined, it would make the site a lot more interesting,” Bitner said. She added that the app seems to still have a number of technical flaws, as it often crashes on her phone.

But students have not joined the

app just because of its promotion at Yale. Yombe Fonkeu ’15 said that a friend from New York City told him about Friendsy when students at Colombia started connecting through the site.

Pinsky, Murti and the rest of the Friendsy team say they hope to continue working on the app after graduation.

“From an idea we managed to create something that has made a positive impact on peoples’ lives,” Murti said.

“Knowing that people are using it and the fact that we love what we do — that actually makes it so much fun.”

Friendsy is available for both iPhone and Android, and it also exists in website form.

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

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“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”

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After Stratton, dissenting caucus hunts for identity

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Rarely do substantive disagreements impede consensus on New Haven’s Board of Alders, where 30 Democratic lawmakers have little trouble finding common ground. Yet beneath procedural objections lie deeply felt divisions — a legislative disunion that members of a once-vocal yet now-dwindling opposition bloc say persists despite the exit of their outspoken leader.

When Mike Stratton, a trial lawyer and former alder, resigned from the Board in June, he left behind a small set of disgruntled lawmakers whom he had helped organize, just six months earlier, into the People’s Caucus. The dissenting coalition debuted in January, mere days into the new term, promising allegiance to the people alone.

Three of its members — Stratton, East Rock’s Anna Festa and Quinnipiac Meadows’ Richard Spears — were five days into their first terms at the time, losing no time declaring their independence from Democratic leadership and unions representing clerical, technical, maintenance and service workers at Yale. They were joined by three well-tried lawmakers, two of whom once counted themselves among the labor-backed majority.

The Caucus came out swinging, staging a guerrilla press conference in the city clerk’s office and drawing more than 70 residents to its kick-off meeting.

But as the term wore on, and as debates over the budget raised the stakes of dissension, what seemed like collective opposition became the battle of Stratton alone. Frequently sparring with his colleagues, he crusaded to slash school spending and impose fiscal discipline.

Then Stratton, 49, resigned in June amid private unrest

that went public when police announced they were reinvestigating a domestic dispute between Stratton and his 20-year-old girlfriend. The former alder will appear in court this week on charges of assault and breach of peace.

With Stratton having been the People’s Caucus most public face, the coalition was left on shaky ground by summer’s end.

The most recent indication that opposition voices remain came last week when Claudette Robinson-Thorpe, alder for Beaver Hills and a founding member of the Caucus, delayed the passage of a development act set to go to city-wide referendum on Nov. 4.

“No,” she said repeatedly, denying unanimous consent — an expedited means of approving certain legislation — for several items on the agenda.

The incident revealed how low the stakes of this brand of opposition are. The act — called the City and Town Development Act, which re-passed every few years with residents’ approval — was ultimately endorsed unanimously two days later, at a special Board meeting whose agenda featured the single item.

“I support the principle of the City and Town Development Act but strongly object to the timeliness and process that all too often takes place,” Robinson-Thorpe said, noting she had not received advanced warning about the vote and so could not have been expected to make an informed decision.

Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison said that was nonsense.

She said the special meeting was “wasting [her] time” — that pending legislation is forecast in notes she prepares from every meeting between Board leadership and the mayor. But Robinson-Thorpe said she had not received these. The culprit was

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Six members remain in the dissenting People’s Caucus, despite Mike Stratton’s June resignation from the Board of Alders. the city’s faulty email system, alders on both sides decided.

But Spears, nine months into his first term representing the Quinnipiac Meadows neighborhood, said Robinson-Thorpe’s dissent was significant as part of a larger effort to challenge Board procedure.

“Right now it’s a monopoly,” he said. “They say it’s done in leadership and that’s that.

There’s no need to share the information in a timely manner because they know they have at least 16 members who will vote with the machine no matter what.”

The lack of term limits on leadership positions, including president and majority leader, amplifies the problem, Spears said: The same individuals have

Republicans looking to Gov’s race

BY ABIGAIL BESSLER STAFF REPORTER Connecticut has turned steadily more blue over the past several years, with every statewide seat now held by a Democrat.

But as Republican candidate Tom Foley leads the polls against Gov. Dannel Malloy, some Republicans in the state are expressing optimism about winning back House seats.

“We have a very good chance for Republican pickups,” said state Sen. John McKinney, who came in second to Foley in the Republican primary earlier this summer. “I definitely think that [Foley] running strong on the top of the ticket is going to help our congressional candidates.”

Potential pickups for Republicans, McKinney said, are Connecticut’s fourth and fifth districts. In the fourth district, Democratic incumbent Jim Himes faces Dan Debicella, a former State Senator with name recognition after his run for Himes’ seat in 2010. In that election, Himes won by seven percentage points.

In the traditionally contested fifth district, Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty faces a greater challenge, running against twotime candidate Mark Greenberg in her first re-election campaign without the presidential coattails she rode on two years ago, when she won by just three percentage points.

McKinney, who described races in the fourth and fifth districts as “extremely competitive,” said low enthusiasm among Democrats

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for Malloy could lead to low turnout among voters. In a Quinnipiac University poll from May, Malloy had a 46 percent approval rating. A recent CBS News/New York Times poll shows Foley having a seven-point lead.

Even if Malloy’s polling improves, Republicans have historically benefited from lower voter turnout during non-presidential election years, according to Gary Rose, chair of the politics department at Sacred Heart University. Rose said a higher percentage of midterm election voters are older and white, demographics that tend to lean Republican.

“Nationwide I think we are going to see a good year for Republicans,” Rose said. “That could affect a district like the fifth.”

Rose, who lives in the fifth district, said with more and more people voting along party lines, Foley’s lead could significantly help Greenberg. And even though Esty has already raised nearly $2 million for her campaign, Rose predicts that Greenberg will amass a war chest of his own.

Greenberg and Debicella were recently declared “young gun” candidates by the National Republican Campaign Committee, and McKinney predicts large amounts of outside money going into the two districts.

But Devon Puglia, a Connecticut Democratic Party spokesman, said the suggestion that voters will back the Republican candidates because of the “young gun” label was “ludicrous.”

“This is a headline-generating

ploy that avoids any discussion of real issues,” Puglia said, calling Greenberg a “failed tea-party backed candidate.”

Puglia said he does not think Tom Foley will inspire Republicans to turn out to vote in large numbers, pointing to the fact that Republican primary turnout this summer was at its lowest since 1986.

The Yale College Republicans plan to canvass on weekends in support of House candidates like Debicella, according to Austin Schaefer ’15, the group’s former president who grew up in Connecticut’s fourth district. Schaefer said unseating Himes would be a “pretty big challenge,” and said he does not think Foley’s lead would have a huge impact on Republican congressional candidates’ odds given how Democratic-leaning the state has become.

Connecticut was formerly a swing state, but Rose said that changed as moderates began to perceive the Republican Party as more socially conservative and as the demographics of the state changed to include more Hispanic and African American voters. The first, second and third districts in Connecticut generally vote Democratic.

New Haven, part of the third district, has over 50,000 registered Democrats but just 2,500 registered Republicans according to April data from the New Haven Registrar of Voters.

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been deciding the city’s priorities for years.

Perez defended the length of his tenure — 27 years as an alder, 7 nonconsecutive years as president — by saying the Board is well-served by members who know the ropes.

“It takes a while to move up the ranks in any legislative body,” he said.

Spears said the dissenting People’s Caucus is still alive, though “maybe not as brass and bold” as it was under Stratton’s leadership. He said five or six members of the Board still align themselves around certain issues, such as giving individual wards more independence in setting funding priorities.

Keenly aware that five individuals have little power among

30, Spears said the group is trying to bring in new members, including some who are now on the fence. By aligning with the Caucus, Festa said, alders can feel empowered to use their own “individual voices.”

“You don’t have to go with the norm,” she said. “You can vote on your own.”

Local 35 Vice-President Brian Wingate, who represents part of Beaver Hills as alder in Ward 29, took umbrage at the suggestion that certain alders care more than others about the people.

“Not only am I a union member, but I’m also a taxpaying resident and a citizen of the city of New Haven,” Wingate said, adding that it “wasn’t wise for these members to separate themselves along these lines.”

For its part, the mayor’s staff offered measured words about the People’s Caucus, whose policy initiatives have largely targeted Harp and her running mate, City Clerk Michael Smart.

Tomas Reyes, her chief of staff, applauded Stratton for bringing to light neglected city issues.

Harp’s new liaison to the Board, Joe Rodriguez, said he will work with every alder — and every caucus — to strengthen the mayor’s agenda.

Stratton, meanwhile, is keeping the coalition at arm’s length.

“No,” he said in response to a request for comment, “staying away from Board politics.”

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

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FROM THE FRONT Salovey looks ahead

“If ‘Requiem for a Dream’ didn’t work out, they would have called me a ‘one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump.’”

DARREN ARONOFSKY DIRECTOR OF “BLACK SWAN”

Belo-Osagie mourned BELO-OSAGIE FROM PAGE 1 wanted to come. She added that she had no additional information to report.

“For those of you who had the pleasure of knowing Azeez, you will remember an enormous smile and the loving gentleness he brought to everything he did,” Bradley wrote.

Belo-Osagie — who was born in Nigeria and lived in London — was involved with international student groups on campus, including the Yale African Students Association and the Yale European Undergraduates. He was also a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Students discussed and remembered Belo-Osagie at Bradley’s house Friday night.

The gathering then moved to the college’s main courtyard, where students lit candles in remembrance of Belo-Osagie.

“He was a tremendously friendly, open and fun-loving person with a warm and gentle way,” Bradley said. “We will all miss him dearly.”

Students interviewed said they will remember Belo-Osagie as a loving, kind and supportive friend.

Alicia Lovelace ’17, a friend of Belo-Osagie who lived near him in Vanderbilt Hall freshman year, described him as “just a

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Students and Salovey agree that encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship must be a priority.

SALOVEY FROM PAGE 1 In June, the University completed its $500 million fundraising project for the colleges, which will be entirely funded by donors. But those funds alone — while enough for bricks and mortar — will not be enough to complete the vision, first set out over a decade ago, for a larger Yale College.

To do that, Salovey has to ensure that there is enough financial aid for 800 more students.

“Building our financial aid, especially as we anticipate the arrival of 800 additional students, will remain a priority,” Salovey said.

When asked about specific fundraising goals or strategies, however, University Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill said that her office is “still working out the details.”

Yale’s current financial aid budget is $117 million per year. If the University were to keep the average financial award constant for the 800 new students, it would, in theory, have to be prepared to distribute an additional $17.55 million in financial aid per year by 2017, when the new students will arrive.

Salovey added that the push for financial aid is just part of a broader conversation — one that is occurring both at Yale and nationwide — about access to higher education for students from all walks of life.

In addition to financial aid, the University is facing many other challenges caused by the creation of two new colleges.

Among them is the question of integrating the new colleges, which are far removed from the traditional physical footprint of Yale College, into campus life.

Although administrators claim that the Yale College faculty, which grew significantly in the years leading up to the 2008 recession, has enough teachers to accommodate the 800 new students, the University will still need to contend with greater staffing needs. Additional challenges may include lecture-hall capacity and the number of discussion sections and teaching assistants.

Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith said that newly appointed Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, along with Salovey and Admissions Dean Jeremiah Quinlan, will play key roles in the expansion.

“We have about 18 months to really figure out the nuts and bolts of what’s going to be needed to open up those colleges,” Holloway said. “That really is the big agenda item.”

MORE LEARNERS, BETTER TEACHERS

While preparing for the influx of 800 more students, Salovey has also expressed an interest in making substantial improvements to teaching and learning at the University.

Yale, like all research universities, faces a dual mandate: to expand knowledge through groundbreaking scholarship and to pass that knowledge on to a new generation of students. At times, administration officials and students alike acknowledge, these mandates come into conflict when the best researchers fail to be the best teachers.

In promoting the launch of a new center for teaching and learning, Salovey — who himself won two teaching awards before moving into the University’s administration — has sought to bring the matter into focus.

“Teaching and learning are clearly a focus with the launch of the new University-wide Center for Teaching and Learning under the direction of Deputy Provost and Vice President for West Campus Planning and Program Development,” Salovey said.

The center, which will consolidate tutoring resources and provide instructional support for graduate students and faculty, will include the Teaching Center, the Graduate and Yale College Writing Center, the Center for Language Study, the Science and Quantitative Reasoning Center, the Center for Scientific Teaching, Educational Technologies and Yale Online. Provost Benjamin Polak announced the launch of the center in late August.

“This will provide graduate students and faculty with better opportunities for improving their teaching and incorporating new technologies into the classroom,” Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley said.

Highsmith added that the center “holds much promise for offering a wide array of resourcing and support for teaching across campus.”

ENGAGING STUDENTS

Students i n te rv i ewe d expressed a broad array of hopes for Salovey’s second year, ranging from more engagement with students to a closer examination of the University’s approach to sexual misconduct.

“I think the whole idea of sexual climate is something everyone needs to work on,” Sarah Wilkins ’18 said.

Others expressed more specific hopes.

Ann Sarnak ’17, for instance, said she hopes Salovey expands his Africa initiative, which he first discussed during last October’s inaugural address.

“I would be really excited if

we started to see more initiatives and joint programs on campus come out of that,” Sarnak said.

Kevin Sullivan ’18, meanwhile, said he would like to see Salovey focus more on environmental issues. At the same time, Sophia Charan ’16 said Salovey should work to improve campus resources for mental health.

Many students, though, had little familiarity with Salovey’s policies and even fewer opinions on them. For many of these students, the default hope was for an ever-more visible president.

“I got an email last week from Holloway about lunch,” said one student, referencing an opportunity for some students to eat with the new Yale College dean.

“I’d like to see the same kind of engagement from Salovey.”

Still, many said they thought Salovey had made substantial strides in building a more accessible administration.

“This administration is already fairly accessible, thanks to the outgoing nature of the personnel at the upper levels of the university,” said Professor Wai Chee Dimock GRD ’82.

“Every indication is that this trend will continue.”

AN ENTREPRENEURIAL YALE

One area in which Salovey and some students align, though, is entrepreneurship. Since discussing it in his inaugural address last October, Salovey has consistently expressed an interest in encouraging innovation at Yale and in New Haven.

“We must nurture innovation and entrepreneurship among our students and our faculty, as I mentioned in my inaugural address last year,” Salovey said. “I expect to work with my colleagues to find new ways to support our entrepreneurs and innovators, whose ideas improve people’s lives.”

He did not comment on exactly how he plans to do that.

Alan Zhang ’16 echoed Salovey’s focus on innovation, but did so with more urgency than the University president.

Suggesting that the University shift far more of its resources to STEM fields, Zhang said that “we’re not going to survive in this high-tech area unless we change.”

Zhang said changes would include putting more resources into supporting entrepreneurship and computer science. But at the broadest level, he said, Salovey needs to encourage Yale students to be less risk-averse at Yale and beyond.

Salovey took office on July 1, 2013.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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Azeez Belo-Osagie ’17, who died last week while on leave, was remembered by many friends and colleagues Friday evening at a vigil in Branford College. really loyal and good friend.”

She recalled frequently walking into his suite in Vanderbilt Entryway D last year, always finding him sitting on his futon and ready to listen to anyone who needed him.

“The ways in which he affected my life cannot be quantified at the moment, or probably ever,” Holly Robinson ’17, another friend of Belo-Osagie, said in an email. “All I can say is that he was, and is, loved.”

Echoing Robinson, Kate

Simon ’17 said in an email that Belo-Osagie brought “an unquantifiable amount of joy and laughter to everyone he knew.”

Many members of SAE attended a mass on Friday in remembrance of their friend and fraternity brother BeloOsagie.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu and WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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“I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.” TENZIN GYATSO DALAI LAMA

GSA seeks to improve shopping for TAs

Freshman day of service sees record numbers DAY OF SERVICE FROM PAGE 1 Tower One — an apartment and assisted living community.

“It was a good way to get into New Haven and get outside of the Yale bubble,” said Daniela Brighenti ’18, who volunteered at Tower One. Sending volunteers through the day of service allows Dwight Hall to maintain relationships with old sites as well as forge new ones, said Peter Crumlish DIV ’09, Dwight Hall executive director. Assessments from Tower One, new to Dwight Hall this year, will determine how the organization works with the living community in the future.

It was a good way to get into New Haven and get outside of the Yale bubble.

YDN

Graduate students often do not know whether they have secured teaching fellow positions until ater the end of Shopping Period, leading to anxiety about housing.

GRAD STUDENTS FROM PAGE 1 information about teaching fellow opportunities from various academic departments, allowing graduate students to apply for positions outside of their home departments.

The site will disseminate information about hard-to-fill and lastminute opportunities broadly and quickly, alerting graduate students as soon as a position becomes available, said GSA chair Joori Park GRD ’17.

“There are currently only limited opportunities listed, as only a few departments are participating in this trial rollout, but we anticipate all departments taking advantage of the site in the future academic terms,” Park said in an email to graduate students.

The creation of the site is also part of the GSA’s efforts to create a single platform to assign teaching fellow positions across departments, Park said.

Lynn Cooley, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, called the project “very active.”

“I would say it’s still in the early stages,” she said. “It’s a little early to know how it’s going, but no one has been calling on the phone screaming.”

Dean Plummer, a senior business analyst for the University, assisted Cooley and other deans in creating the site. He said he aimed to find a software application that could be quickly and inexpensively modified to support the needs of graduate students and academic departments.

Approximately 20 applications

have been received through the site for 10 to 15 postings so far, said Judith Hackman, associate dean of Yale College and director of the teaching fellow program.

“It was kind of a last-minute thing,” she said. “I think it will rev up next semester.”

Administrators intend to survey departments and students who have used the site this fall to see which elements they found useful and which aspects can be improved for the spring term, Plummer said.

In addition to creating easier access to teaching positions, the GSA plans to advocate for guaranteed funding for graduate students through their sixth year or a guarantee of funding before the start of term, Dunican said. The late assign-

DANIELA BRIGHENTI ’18

ment of teaching fellow position currently poses a special issue for graduate students pursuing more than five years of study as funding is not guaranteed to students by Yale wafter their fifth year.

“In reality, when we look at the numbers, most people get teaching positions,” Dunican said. “What’s causing a major stress is that some don’t find out until after shopping period.”

The home page of the new site features a dashboard that provides the status of applications submitted, as well as opportunity alerts and a search menu with categorized opportunities.

“We’re a university, but we’re also a city.

We’re all residents of the city and we all have a role to play building the community together,” Crumlish said. “We hope that as soon as we introduce [the freshmen] to the work we’re going to do, they’ll get excited and join Dwight Hall,” Crumlish said.

The day of service also marks the beginning of the relationship between Dwight Hall and Beacon Self-Directed Learning — a center that provides resources for homeschooled teenagers. Following the day of service, the organization hopes to attract Yale tutors through connections with Dwight Hall, said Catherine Shannon, executive director of Beacon SelfDirected Learning. The nonprofit is currently in its second full year of operation.

Dwight Hall manages over 90 member groups in its education, social justice, international and public health networks.

Contact HAILEY WINSTON at hailey.winston@yale.edu .

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 2:00 p.m. Data Mining Library Collections for the Humanities. Yale humanities subject librarians will show early work on two “data-mining” projects. The Robots Reading Vogue project explores the possibilities of machine learning on a large fully digitized serial collection with page-level markup. The Asakawa Epistolary Network project is an experiment in the creation of a mid-sized network dataset by extracting the date, location, and sender/recipient of the letters of early 20th-century Yale librarian and faculty member Kan’ichi Asakawa. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall.

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Josh Evans ’12 and professor Paul Freedman will speak about broadening taste, the gastronomic value of insects, and exploring the edible potential of the Nordic region. Saint Anthony’s Hall (483 College St.).

4:00 p.m. A Talk with Charles Bolden. The Politic and the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization present a talk with Charles Bolden, head of NASA and former astronaut. He will discuss the future of the U.S. space program and its impact on international relations. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 102.

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lthough the events of Ferguson, Mo. — involving the shooting and killing of 18 year-old Michael Brown by a police officer — took place nearly a month ago, its aftershocks are still being felt all over the country. On Friday, nearly 200 students stood on the steps outside of Sterling Memorial Library and imitated his stance at the time of his death: “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” Contributing photographer KAREN YANG and photography editor SARA MILLLER captured this moment.

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KELLY JOHNSON ’16 VOLLEYBALL The junior setter was named to the 2014 Yale Invitational All-Tournament Team for her performances against Minnesota, Albany and Boston College this weekend. Johnson, who hails from Palos Verdes, Calif., recorded 12 kills in Yale’s win over Albany.

“I was already so excited to just be playing, and to score on top of that made it all surreal.”

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The Bulldog volleyball team posted a 1–2 record at the Yale Invitational this weekend, topping Albany but falling to Boston College and No. 18 Minnesota.

Young Elis lead charge

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER The volleyball team topped Albany but fell to Minnesota and Boston College in three energypacked home matches this weekend at the Yale Invitational.

Fans filled up the John J. Lee Amphitheater at the Payne Whitney Gym to watch the Bulldogs (1–2, 0–0 Ivy) battle the Gophers, the Great Danes and the Eagles. Minnesota (4–1, 0–0 Big Ten) swept Yale in three tight games on Friday night. Albany (1–4, 0–0 America East) beat Boston College (3–3, 0–0 ACC) in the first matchup of the invitational, and Yale defeated Albany 3-1 on Saturday afternoon but lost 3–0 to Boston College in the evening. Both Albany and Boston College lost to Minnesota.

“I think [the tournament] was a mixed bag,” said assistant coach Kevin Laseau. “But we’ve only practiced for 10 days, and, despite the 10 days, there was still a lot of positive action on the court. We just need to do more.”

The highlight for the team was Saturday’s win against the Great Danes, Laseau said. Yale lost its first set against Albany but came back from 0–1 and won the next three. The third set was especially intense, as Yale won on the 26th point. Playing in just her third match for Yale, freshman outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 had seven kills in the third set

BY SYDNEY GLOVER STAFF REPORTER The younger players of the Yale women’s soccer team started off the season spectacularly, with a freshman and a sophomore scoring the two goals that took down the Quinnipiac Bobcats on Friday.

WOMEN’S SOCCER Those goals proved to be the difference, as Yale topped its crosstown rival 2–0 at Yale’s Reese Stadium.

“As our season opener, I know we were all happy with the result and I think everyone worked really hard and showed how much effort we are willing to put in for the team,” said

defender Carlin Hudson ’18. “But there’s always room for improvement.”

Yale’s offense started strong, with forward Melissa Gavin ’15 nearly scoring in the first five minutes of the game. But Quinnipiac immediately responded, taking the ball down the field and trying for a shot that just sailed over the top right corner of the goal in the first 10 minutes.

Sophomore midfielder Geny Decker ’17 proved to be a nightmare for the Bobcats throughout the game. With 26 minutes left in the first half, Decker passed to an open Gavin, resulting in another near goal for Yale. A minute later, after a Bulldog corner kick, Hudson scored with assists from senior Frannie Coxe ’15

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and senior Muriel Battaglia ’15.

“I think I was the most excited I’ve ever been,” Hudson said about scoring the goal. “I was already so excited to just be playing, and to score on top of that made it all surreal. It really was a dream come true.”

Yale continued to be strong on offense, led by Gavin and Decker, until an injury caused Decker to fall.

With less than fifteen minutes left in the first quarter, Quinnipiac defender Joanna Proctor delivered a blow to Deckers’s leg, earning the Bobcat a yellow card and causing Decker to be taken to the sidelines. Forward Paula Hagopian ’16 entered the vacant spot.

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Defender Carlin Hudson ’18 (No. 22) scored in the 20th minute to put Yale up 1–0 against Quinnipiac on Friday night.

against the Great Danes. Her hitting accuracy for the match was .325.

The Elis overpowered Albany but came up short against Boston College, even though Albany was the winner in its matchup with the Eagles.

Laseau attributed the loss to excellent play by Boston College as well as a rough evening for Yale.

“There were some things that needed work on our side of the net, and we know that,” he said.

According to Laseau, there were areas to improve upon in every match, including the match won against Albany. He said no one match was “complete.” This season is Laseau’s fifth with the Bulldogs, and he spoke from experience when he said the team grows stronger with each practice as the season progresses.

He also commended the Bulldogs on a tough fight against Minnesota, ranked 18th in the nation. Yale kept up with the Gophers nearly point for point in the first and third sets, which had scores of 25–23 and 25–19, respectively.

Despite the weekend’s split matches, several Yale women showed their prowess on the court and achieved personal triumphs. For her performance, setter Kelly Johnson ’16 was named to the All-Tournament

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Defender Henry Flugstad-Clarke’s ’17 (No. 19) tied the game 1–1 with a header in the 85th minute.

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s soccer team got out on the pitch for its season opener against Sacred Heart on Friday, and then stayed out there.

MEN’S SOCCER With the game deadlocked at one goal apiece after regulation, the Bulldogs (0–0–1, 0–0–0 Ivy) played 20 minutes of extra time to draw the Pioneers (0–2–1, 0–0–0 Northeast Conference) 1–1 on Sept. 5.

Both teams struggled to finish on an afternoon rife with scoring opportunities. Yale fired 19 shots, seven of which

were on goal, while Sacred Heart put forth a similar mark with 18 total shots and seven on target. Despite the shooting numbers, both teams were unable to break onto the scoreboard until the second half. Yale came close twice, with a brace of shots smacking off the posts in the opening 45 minutes.

Furthermore, good goalkeeping ruled much of the afternoon, as both keepers finished with six saves on the day.

“The defense was solid,” Conner Lachenbruch ’15 said, reflecting on Yale’s stiff pressure inside its own half.

The deadlock finally broke in the 66th minute, as one of the Pioneers’ SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE B3

GAMES THAT NO. 18 MINNESOTA LOST AT THE YALE INVITATIONAL THIS WEEKEND. The Golden Gophers dropped two games to Boston College, but swept Yale and Albany at the tournament hosted by the Bulldog volleyball team.

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“In my opinion, I’ve had the greatest job in the world.” DEREK JETER NEW YORK YANKEES SHORTSTOP

Landy ’15 sails to new heights

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The coed and women’s sailing teams won two of the three national championship meets in which they competed last summer.

LANDY FROM PAGE B4 ily guarantee captainship, so it’s exciting that they have that much faith in me.”

Landy added that winning college sailor of the year has helped him lead the team. With the amount of success he has experienced, Landy provides good advice to his teammates.

A number of Landy’s teammates praised his talent and lead-

ership.

“He is so dedicated to the sport, and therefore is not only very knowledgeable about how to make his own boat go fast, but also consistently helping his teammates progress in sailing at his incredible pace,” Marly Isler ’16 said. “We are lucky as a team to have Graham as captain because he is an exceptional competitor and invaluable teammate.”

Another sailor, Charlotte Belling ’16, said that she believes Landy is capable of leading the team to a very competitive level.

Although the team lost six seniors to graduation, the Elis return many of the same sailors from last year’s title-winning group.

“This year our team can defend our national championships,” Landy said. “I know it’s a lofty goal, but I think we returned a lot

of the same players so it’s definitely a possibility. … It’s difficult after a successful season to do it again, but I think that’s one of the fun challenges in sports, so we’ll get to have a chance to do that.”

A strong group of five freshmen will play a key role in the team’s efforts to remain on top.

Landy said that the fall is a good opportunity for the freshmen to become integrated with the team and adapt to collegiate sailing.

The fall season is also a time for the team to adjust to new pairings, new venues and new types of racing while building a strong team dynamic, according to Belling.

“We will be working very hard to build a steady momentum and hopefully keep that up throughout the year,” Belling said. “If we want to be the best, we must use this fall to find our strengths and weaknesses as a team so we can

enter the spring ready for our big events.”

With Landy leading the way, the sailing team looks to have another successful year. This weekend marks the beginning of the team’s title defense, with the Bulldogs competing at three regattas including the 42nd Harry Anderson Trophy at Yale.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

Field hockey shows fight versus Hofstra FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 was the first game for the Bulldogs in 2014.

“I was proud of the way we came out, especially the play, the intensity, and the way we stuck to the game plan,” head coach Pam Stuper said. “It was the first game. There was anxiety, excitement and pressure.”

The squad will get another chance at victory tonight in the rescheduled matchup against Sacred Heart.

Stuper was pleased with the team’s results for this game being the team’s first time on the field, but she said that she recognized a need for some minor changes before today’s game.

“There are simple things that we needed to do,” Stuper said. “We want to play our game differently on the attacking end and capitalize on how we play in the circle.”

Although there may be minor adjustments, the team does intend to pursue a similar style of play, Stuper said.

Stuper and the players added that several freshmen made an impact during the game.

“From the freshmen to the seniors, everyone played well and gave it their all,” Reinwald said. “Our freshmen all played well and heavily contributed to the game. It’s hard when we play an opponent that has already played three games, but we came together and worked hard to play a good game.”

The team is ready to even out its record tonight.

According to captain Nicole Wells ’16, the team is all about both physical and mental preparation and being in the present.

“Every moment on the field against Hofstra will be absorbed in order to better our play,” Wells said. “We are not ones to dwell in the negatives of the past. Once the game against Sacred Heart begins, that is where we are on Johnson Field. All momentum is shifted towards doing whatever it takes to win in that one game.”

With two games under its belt, the squad will take on two new opponents for its Alumnae Weekend, beginning on Saturday, Sept.

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“[Derek Jeter is] an idol for me in terms of how he’s well-respected in the game, from not just his teammates, but his opponents.”

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Volleyball tops Albany

Elis tame Bobcats

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Midfielder Geneva Decker ’17 (No. 18) notched Yale’s second goal of the night on Saturday against Quinnipiac.

WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B1 scoring came with only 12 minutes left in the opening frame.

Taking advantage of a corner kick, Bobcat Amanda Barroca nearly scored, but Yale goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15 came up with the save.

The rest of the half was marked by fouls on both sides, with Yale earning two and Quinnipiac’s Jessica Fontaine ’17 earning a yellow card.

After halftime, Decker reentered, and the team continued to wreak havoc on the Bobcat defense. Another yellow card went to Quinnipiac, this time to forward Christina Cesarini ’15 five minutes into the second half.

Moments later, Decker took a shot that just barely sailed over the net.

She made up for the miss a few minutes later, however, when an assist from Coxe allowed her to kick the ball into the goal from only a few feet away.

Even with their strong lead, the Elis continued their relentless offensive strategy. Coxe set herself up for a scoring opportunity by lobbing the ball over a Bobcat defender’s head to get closer to the goal, but her shot was just off.

Quinnipiac’s offense was stronger in the second half, and a shot by Cesarini was saved by Rachel Ames ’16, who took over the position of goalkeeper for the second half of the game. Between her and Wilcox’s goalkeeping, the two girls combined for a shutout.

“Elise and I always strive to get shutouts for the team, so any save made, whether big or small, gets us that much closer to our goal.

Knowing that we successfully played our role for the team feels awesome and I hope we continue to take some of the stress off of the rest of the team by doing our job,” Ames said.

The rest of the game was in Yale’s favor as freshman Sarah McCauley ’18 took two shots

and captain Meredith Speck ’15 served in a corner kick at the end of regulation.

Though they had a fantastic start to the season, the Bulldogs still have skills to improve upon, according to Hudson.

“We can only get better as we all get more used to playing with one another and get into a rhythm,” Hudson added.

The Elis visit Sacred Heart on Tuesday at 7 p.m. and then take on Western Kentucky and Manhattan in this weekend’s Yale Classic. Play begins on Friday at 7:30 p.m.

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Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 (No. 11) was named to the Yale Invitational All-Tournament team this past weekend.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B1 team along with star players from Minnesota, Albany and Boston College.

“I feel very honored to have been chosen,” she said. “I am incredibly lucky to play for such a talented team. We compete and push each other every day to get better, and I think that is what makes [Yale] great.”

Captain Mollie Rogers ’15 led the team with nine kills against Minnesota. Freshman setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 made an impactful debut with key assists during the weekend, including 10 in the first set versus Minnesota.

This weekend, the Eli women will participate in the Villanova Classic. The tournament includes Kansas, Penn State and Villanova. Yale’s Friday opponent will be the Kansas Jayhawks.

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Bulldogs tie Sacred Heart in first game MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B1 long-range strikes finally hit home. Mahmoud Kafel took two quick dribbles before connecting on a 25-yard wonder goal that he fired inside the far post and beyond keeper Ryan Simpson’s ’17 grasp to give Sacred Heart the lead.

With the game suddenly in Sacred Heart’s control, the Bulldogs were forced to regroup.

Head coach Brian Tompkins made a pair of substitutions in the 68th minute, hoping to force an offensive breakthrough by bringing on two seasoned attackers, Peter Ambiel ’15 and Henos Musie ’16. Yale’s attack, despite Tompkins’s adjustments, seemed unable to break through until a goal from an unexpected scorer in the 85th minute saved the match for the Bulldogs. Defender Henry Flugstad-Clarke ’17 scored his first career goal for the Bulldogs to knot the score at 1–1, heading home a free kick and beating a staunch Sacred Heart defense in Yale’s hour of need.

“I thought that the team showed [that it will be] much stronger offensively than we have in past years and proved that we will be a threat in the air this year,” Max Cook ’17 said after the match.

The goal forced the match into an exhausting double overtime struggle neither side was able to find the back of the net once more.

Ultimately, the hotly contested match ended level after a grueling 110 minutes of play.

“I thought the game went well, but it was unfortunate to not get the result we wanted,” Josh Totte ’18 said. “We had a ton of chances, hit the post three times, and in my opinion did enough to win the game. Unfortunately we had a couple unlucky breaks and didn’t come away with the win, but its great to have a positive start to the season.”

Yale’s next match is at home against Iona on Tuesday, Sept. 9.

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Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

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“It will never be fair, and I mean never, to ask anybody to replace [Derek Jeter].”

JOE TORRE HALL OF FAME MANAGER

Field hockey falls short

Landy ’15 steers Elis

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Field hockey will play its second game of the season tonight at home.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite preparation and practice, the opening weekend for the field hockey team was marked by disappointment.

FIELD HOCKEY The first game of the weekend was a home match against Sacred Heart this past Saturday, which was postponed until tonight due to severe weather conditions.

On Sunday, the Bulldogs fell to Hofstra 2–1 in Yale’s first action of the season.

Sunday’s game remained scoreless for

the first 25 minutes until Hofstra player Charlotte Loehr put the first point on the board. A pivotal moment of the game followed shortly after in the first half, when Yale goalkeeper Heather Schlesier ’15 saved a penalty stroke, containing Hofstra to only a one-goal lead at the half.

“Heather really re-energized the team,” midfielder and back Emmy Reinwald ’17 said. “She anchors the team and is great at bring us all together, especially when we’re down.”

Other players also remarked on the importance of this save in keeping Yale in the game.

Hofstra scored its second goal at the

51-minute mark, but Yale would be down two for just a few minutes, as midfielder Kelsey Nolan ’17 closed the gap with the Bulldogs’ first goal of the season.

“It felt like we won the high school championship,” Nolan said about scoring the goal on Sunday.

Although the game ended in a 2–1 defeat, the team was satisfied with its performance, according to the players and coach.

The team had a positive outlook on the game, noting that Hofstra had already played three games this season, while this SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE B2

The coed and women’s sailing teams start their seasons this weekend.

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER Yale, named the best allaround team in college sailing last year, is about to begin a busy fall schedule comprised of 31 regattas. Leading the coed team is senior captain Graham Landy ’15, the reigning college sailor of the year.

SAILING Landy has consistently been one of the team’s top sailors since arriving on campus three years ago. He earned New Eng-

land Rookie of the Year honors as a freshman, first-team all-New England Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association recognition as a sophomore and the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association’s College Sailor of the Year award as a junior.

Now he can add being captain to his long list of accomplishments.

“I was very excited when my teammates selected me to be one of the leaders,” Landy said. “While I performed well as a sailor, it doesn’t necessarSEE LANDY PAGE B2

Conneely ’16 talks new players, offense

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER The women’s soccer team opened its season this past weekend against Quinnipiac, winning with a score of 2–0.

The squad will next take the field this weekend when it hosts the Yale Classic. The News sat down with midfielder Shannon Conneely ’16 to discuss the game, her team and the upcoming season. do you take away from QWhat your opening win and how

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Getting the win on Friday was obviously very exciting and was a good way to set the tone for the rest of the season.

We had a positive result, but the game also highlighted some things we need to work on that weren’t as evident when we just play against each other in practice. There’s definitely room for improvement, but we needed that win for our confidence.

are your hopes for QWhat the offense this season with

so many weapons like Melissa Gavin ’15 and Paula Hagobian ’16 at the team’s disposal, in addition to Meredith Speck ’15 playing a more offensive role?

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Being able to put Meredith in a more offensive role this year will be a huge asset for the team. She, Melissa and Paula have worked really well together in the past because they each bring something different and special to the game, and now that we can afford to have the three of them up front together full time, we will pose a much

more offensive threat than in the past.

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How would you rate the new players on the team and their performance so far?

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The idea of ten new players was honestly pretty intimidating at first, and we weren’t sure how they were going to affect the team chemistry, but their contributions have been nothing but positive so far. They bring a whole new level of competitiveness to practice, and their work ethics are incredible. Each of the new players who played Friday had a significant impact on the game, with one of them, Carlin Hudson ’18, even scoring her first collegiate goal.

I am excited to see how they help the team grow.

would you describe the QHow identity of this year’s team?

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This year’s team has the same goals as the teams I have played for previously, which is to win the Ivy League championship and make the program better. What I think has changed the most is our mentality and attitude toward each game: we no longer just want to win, we expect to win, and that has shaped our practices and our on-field behavior. Anything besides a positive result is unacceptable, and that has really motivated us to get the best out of each session and make each other better.

game(s) are you lookQWhat ing forward to the most this

season? Are you excited for the Yale Classic or more amped for

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Each time you get to play for Yale is exciting and we all look forward to putting on our jerseys, and though the Yale Classic will be fun and a challenge, nothing compares to that first Ivy game against Princeton.

That game sets the tone for our run at the championship and it arguably makes or breaks our season. The level of excitement in the weeks leading up to that game is incredible, and I know we are all especially looking forward to it this year with how well we have been playing in preseason and in the first game.

have had a tough offQYou season after suffering a knee

injury. How has your recovery been and what have you learned from the process?

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The road to recovery after my surgery has been long and frustrating, but all of the effort I have put in to get better will definitely be worth it when I do get to play again, hopefully in the next week or so. I have spent the past nine months away from soccer, and I would say that I learned how much I love it. Watching from the sidelines will never be the same as actually being in the game, and I really missed that in the spring.

I didn’t realize how big of a part of my life it was until I couldn’t play anymore, and I am so happy I am going to have the opportunity to play again. It also made me appreciate my teammates more and I want to make the best of my time on the field with them. They’re a special group and it’s an honor to play my favorite game with them.

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

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Midfielder Shannon Conneely ’16 (No. 23) started six games for the women’s soccer team last season.