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Drimal ’13 wrote a guest column for the News in Dec. 2012 about the phenomenon of Snapchat. Drimal recently made a short cameo in the new video introducing Snapchat Stories. According to her 2012 column, her username is Chaoticklowy, and “I accept silly faces, hungover stares and of course, formal invites.” Snaps to that.
MONOGAMY IS THE HOOK-UP CULTURE A MYTH?
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Scientists experiment with crowdsourcing
crowd sourcing services in April 2012. For innovative research that requires little funding and needs to be completed in a shorter time frame, crowd-sourcing provides an attractive alternative to traditional methods. But this funding route can also
Though many students and alumni hoped for immediate change in the field of athletic recruitment when new University President Peter Salovey took office this year, they may have to keep waiting. Since Salovey was announced last spring as Yale’s next president, some members of the Yale community have voiced desires for Salovey to reverse former President Richard Levin’s downsizing of the number of recruited athletes accepted to Yale. But administrators interviewed said that the current levels of athletic recruits at Yale will likely remain constant for the near future, though there is potential for future change. At the moment, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said, Salovey and Athletics Director Tom Beckett — along with the Admissions Office — are comfortable with the number of student athletes on campus. Quinlan added that the number of student athletes at Yale is comparable to those of Yale’s peer institutions. “The number of student athletes on each Ivy League campus is managed by each Ivy League school and then distributed among the teams,” Quinlan said, adding that none of the eight schools actually fills all of the 230 recruited athlete seats that the Ivy League allocates to each school. Athletic recruitment numbers have been a heated topic of discussion at Yale since Levin cut the number of slots eight years ago, cre-
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is doing more than growing vegetables this weekend. The 7th Annual Jack Hitt Pig Roast will be held at the farm on Friday afternoon to mark the start of symposium on food and urbanization. The menu consists of roasted pig paired with a salsa made from the farm’s green tomatoes.
A series of unfortunate events. In a saga not even
Lemony Snicket could dream up, a flash food of sorts devastated Saybrook College Wednesday evening. Six floors of Saybrook were flooded or partially flooded in Entryway H after a fire valve was turned on. Firemen were quickly called to the scene to turn off the leak, but water continued to flood the entryway, spilling out of the ground floor door. The incident occurred in close proximity to the college’s library, common room and dining hall, and rumors have suggested that the flood was no accident. Count Olaf? Aunt Josephine? Esme Squalor? Hindy 500. No far is too far to go for art, not even thousands of miles on foot. Greg Hindy ’13 has completed around 1,600 miles so far as part of his performance art project. Hindy took a vow of silence for one year and is walking a 6,000-mile route while taking photographs. Many boxes of 4 x 5 film have been mailed home for safekeeping so far, according to his father. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1963 A campus-wide contest searches for the “leading swinger on campus,” a man with an “irrefutable reputation for the fairer sex” in the first Smooch Contest. The contest is sponsored by a large manufacturing firm at colleges around the country. Yale’s contest is hosted by the News.
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Increasing budget cuts have forced researchers to find alternative funding for their projects. BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER Labs at Yale are researching mosquito sterilization and the abilities of rubber-decomposing fungus, all without grants. As grants from federal organizations like the National Institutes of Health become increasingly diffi-
cult to secure, researchers at Yale and across the nation are turning to a new source of support. Crowd sourcing websites — which allow fundraisers to post projects online and solicit funds from donors across the world — are gaining an increasing foothold. The website Microryza has raised about $400,000 since it started offering
Students stay positive
CEID promotes engineering at Yale
CALHOUN HAPPINESS PROJECT REMEMBERS WOODARD, PROMOTES POSITIVE THINKING BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Tuesday, the Calhoun Happiness Project held a meeting to reflect on the passing of Calhoun Dean Leslie Woodard. The Calhoun Happiness Project consists of a group of Calhoun students who meet monthly to discuss chapters of Gretchen Rubin’s book “The Happiness Project.” They also strive to move forward the positive psychology movement — a recent branch of psychology that takes an optimistic view of the human experience and emphasizes reacting positively to difficult life events. This week, the group met for a personal discussion about how acknowledging suffering helps people move forward in positive way, led by Calhoun resident fellow Margarita Mooney ’95. Happiness Project member Calvin Harrison ’17 said this week’s meeting differed significantly from the group’s usual structure as students reflected on
the life and impact of their dean, who passed away unexpectedly on Monday afternoon. “[Mooney] left it open to the floor for anyone to talk,” he said. “We talked about purpose in life, and [how] that’s not necessarily tied to your career. It was a really good way to remember [Dean Woodard] and support each other.” In general, students in the group meet regularly to motivate one another to keep resolutions and to write down what they are thankful for in gratitude journals. Mooney, who is new to Yale this year, conducts sociology research by interviewing families across the country about the transformative nature of suffering. She began the Calhoun Happiness Project this fall in an effort to educate students on the sociology of positive psychology while also helping them with their daily lives. “Dr. Mooney is good at conSEE HAPPINESS PAGE 4
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Slumdog Millionaire. For Jeopardy!’s 30th anniversary, the show is holding a Battle of the Decades Fan Favorites voting competition. The winner will join 44 other former contestants on a Battle of the Decades tournament in 2014. Yalies not as wellversed in trivia may be able to live vicariously through Ryan Chaffee ’99. Chaffee is up for the win in the voting competition: he was a fourtime champion in 2009. “I have loved Jeopardy! my entire life, and this has all been the fulfillment of a lifelong dream,” Chaffee told the News.
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Carolina Rivera ’16, Christina Bradley ’16 and Monica DiLeo ’16, members of the Calhoun Happiness Project, advocate positive psychology.
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With a multitude of resources at the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design at their disposal, students of all backgrounds are encouraged to pursue all of their ideas and projects.
STUDENT IDEAS SPROUT AT AN INCREASINGLY MORE ACCESSIBLE CEID BY JENNIFER GERSTEN STAFF REPORTER To access the 3D printers at the Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design (CEID), all economics major and Design for America (DFA) member Paul Singer ’16 has to do is swipe his Yale ID at the door. The year-old CEID has already become essential to technology-oriented student groups. DFA, which utilizes design techniques to address social issues, depends on its space and cutting-edge tools for developing their ideas. All six students interviewed praised the CEID for being accessible not only to engineering majors, but to anyone at Yale hoping to explore its 3D printers, laser cutters, metal shop, large meeting spaces and other facilities. “Now we have a visible place on the main
street, with glass walls and the light shining in, where students have been able to foster a community of learning and collaboration,” said School of Engineering Deputy Dean Vincent Wilczynski. Since opening in September 2012, over 1,300 students have taken the online quiz and orientation required of prospective members and have gained 24/7 swipe access. Sixtyfive percent of members are undergraduates — 48 percent of whom are majoring in STEMrelated fields. But 55 percent are either undeclared or majoring in the social sciences and humanities. President of the on-campus beekeepng organization Yale Bee Space (YBS) Glen Meyerowitz ’14 said the CEID is an excellent SEE CEID PAGE 4
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’m feeling the sort of incapacitation triggered by a big meal, that moment of staring at the last bite of dessert, realizing you just can’t manage another morsel. Midterms have brought me to this point. Instead of downing a bit of apple pie with vanilla ice cream, this afternoon I coped with the post-exam thoughtless state by avoiding any sort of substantive work, focusing on crafting a loose interpretation of a rhinoceros costume for a French oral. In other words: So done.
IN THE MIDST OF MIDTERM BLUES, I WONDER: WHAT'S THE POINT OF SCHOLARSHIP ANYWAY? Though I’m currently in Intro to the Human Brain, I haven’t yet learned whether my cerebrum induces this state of complete mental shutdown as a safety precaution, as some sort of reboot or if this feeling is in fact the fermentation period when all the information I’ve crammed in the past few days is truly processed into stored knowledge. Regardless, I can’t help but feel that in the absorption of all this material I’ve somehow missed the point a bit. Emanuele Castano and David Comer Kidd, researchers at the New School, recently conducted a study finding that participants performed better on tests measuring empathy and emotional intelligence after reading literary fiction. In that particular study, they did not find the same positive effects to be true when reading nonfiction and other genres. But I would argue that this capacity for emotional intelligence is not only enhanced by literary fiction, but also by good scholarship. Empathy is the cross-discipline lesson learned through scholarly pursuits — the true takeaway from an education to a far greater extent than the mental database of slides and facts I built in preparation for my midterms. A few days ago over lunch, I spoke with a friend regarding her personal turnoff from a career in academia. She expressed her aversion toward
spending her career writing secondary sources. She wants to produce work that feels new, that feels like it’s hers. I understood her point and her apprehension. Yet in the moment, I couldn’t put a finger on why I find secondary scholarship so rewarding for the self and important outside of the context of the academic community. Now, I’ve realized the answer is empathy. An academic approach to material asks the student to engage in the imagining of an other and this other’s motivations and objectives, much like understanding the characters in a work of literary fiction influenced the emotional intelligence of subjects in the New School’s study. To understand how a particular scientist developed a theory, or why an artist chose a certain shade of green, the student must see it through the eyes of its creator. This requires empathy. To me, midterm exams ask the student to do the precise opposite. You go into a room ready to deposit weeks of knowledge onto the pages of a blue book. You want to get down conclusions, concretions and objective facts — in short, the Right Answer. Unfortunately, process generally lies outside the bounds of the Right Answer, and it’s process that leads to empathy. Ultimately, empathy carries more value than most Right Answers. To learn empathy from my coursework, I can’t only study to know, but to understand why this information reached my academic orbit, what it meant to its author and what its value is outside the walls of Davies or SSS. I look forward to emerging from my current pitiful, unthinking state and renewing my quest to mine empathy from my scholarly experiences. When we can better understand the other behind our course packets, labs and textbooks we can also better understand each other. Empathy brings warmth to human interaction. In the coming weeks, these blue skied, unseasonably temperate days will fade and we will have to turn to each other to escape the chill. Start cramming now for these upcoming empathy midterms.
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But how many Americans even knew, or cared, that they were there? It wasn’t always like MARISSA this. Back in John MEDANSKY 1962, F. Kennedy delivered an Little Fables impassioned speech at Rice University. The man from Boston on a stage in Houston said those Florida rockets were a national project — a grand endeavor would “organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.” Spaceflight, he suggested, would make us great. “We choose to go to the moon,” he told the crowd, his voice forceful and firm. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” He was right; sending men to the moon proved no easy task. In 1967, early tragedy marred the Apollo program when, during an otherwise routine test, an unforgiving fire killed its first mission’s three-person crew. Apollo 13 had its problems, and even Scott Carpenter’s voyage faced technical malfunctions.
Yet these challenges inspired the moments of ingenuity Kennedy predicted, and came to characterize the project’s hopeful spirit. In a 1968 telecast, the astronauts of Apollo 8 read the opening lines of Genesis in lunar orbit. Commander Frank Borman ended the Dec. 24 broadcast with a Christmas message from the crew — “God bless all of you, on the good Earth” — that Walter Cronkite later told PBS brought tears to his eyes. When Borman returned home to Earth, he received a telegram from a stranger. It read simply: “You saved 1968.” In an age of revolutions, spaceflight was a salve. And what historical event is more worthy of mythology than two men — dots against the vastness of space — playing golf on the moon? Images of space walks and lunar landings were the impossible made real. Today, few politicians speak of space exploration with the sense of possibility and progress Kennedy evoked. Some point to the specter of the space shuttle explosions — the second, in 2003, still in recent memory. Others dismiss spaceflight as fanciful. During the last presidential election, when Newt Gingrich spoke of a “moon base” and missions to Mars, Jon Stewart gave his plan the “Daily Show” skewer, suggesting the
former Speaker should tap Ron Paul as “first ambassador to Moonlandia.” On either side of the aisle, some Republicans lawmakers cite NASA as proof of a bloated federal budget. It strikes me as somewhat ironic that NASA, once a testament to sustained national cooperation, has come to symbolize the gridlock of government shutdown. Today’s entrenched partisanship has shattered the visionary spirit that once galvanized the national consciousness. The space program gave the nation a common goal so large that it demanded visionary and thoughtful leadership. The Apollo 8 astronauts — cognizant of the trust the nation had placed in them — fretted for hours before broadcasting their message from space. Now, our leaders add noise, not clarity to public discourse — perhaps best exemplified by a recent rendition of “Green Eggs and Ham.” Back in Houston, Kennedy told the nation that the path to space would not be easy. Now partisan politics has all but closed that road. Still, the power of visionary dreams is real — and the next moon is waiting to be found. MARISSA MEDANSKY is a junior in Morse College and a former opinion editor of the News. Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .
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ast week, my father emailed me the obituary of Scott Carpenter, who died Oct. 10 at the age of 88. Carpenter was among the seven astronauts chosen to participate in Project Mercury, NASA’s first human spaceflight program. In 1962, when Carpenter became the second man to orbit Earth, Dad was an infant. But seven years later, when Neil Armstrong took that leap, my father sat transfixed before the television, developing an enthusiasm for spaceflight he would pass to me. Childhood movie nights meant “Apollo 13” and “The Right Stuff,” or episodes of “American Experience” and “From the Earth to the Moon.” This enthusiasm for the space program has become increasingly anachronistic. Today’s space program elicits widespread disinterest, and most members of NASA’s devoted, if trim, fan base hide in the shadows until disaster strikes. This past month, duty called when the government shutdown gutted the agency’s operating budget, almost entirely halting scientific research and educational outreach. In September, before the crisis, President Obama assured the nation that the two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station would still receive government services.
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o die without finding love seems to most romantics a tragic fate. But thankfully, that would be a much more difficult fate to achieve than it might have been in past generations. With the aid of technological tools like Tinder and Screw Me Yale, it’s now easier than ever to meet and interact with others who are looking for a special someone. The battle today is less about finding love and more about discerning what type of love you hope to attain. Theorists have identified many different forms of love. Psychologist Robert Sternberg has a triangular theory of love that places intimacy in one corner, passion in another and commitment in the third. These all combine in various ways to form hybrid types of love and romantic relationships. But before the mixing and matching of these components began, two kinds of love existed: passionate and companionate. While passionate love can provide a brief high and a rush of sexual attraction, it is typically more short-lived than the affectionate care and emotional support that is provided by companionate love. So which is it that we should be pursuing — passionate or companionate? Passionate love seems to be the likely winner. We see it in movies as leading characters like “The Notebook’s” Allie and Noah say their last proclamations
of “I love you” and die simultaneously in each other’s arms. We document it in works like “Pride & Prejudice,” “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “Romeo and Juliet.” We sing about it, talk about it and are exposed to it as soon as we are introduced to fairy tales and Prince Charmings and happily ever afters.
WHERE IS THE LOVE? While the feeling of passionate love should be experienced at some point in life, it is companionate love that can bring greater satisfaction in the long run. Companionate love involves mutual understanding, care and long-term compatibility between two people. While perhaps less dependent on sex, this form of love is a selfless one that fosters loyalty and creates a steady unity capable of withstanding time. And this type of relationship won’t necessarily be lacking in physical attraction as well. When pursuing romantic relationships, people have to decide whether they’re seeking passionate or companionate love — each requires a different sort of approach. Apps like Tinder, FaceMate and Pure base romantic pur-
suits predominantly on appearances and sexual attraction, and should be avoided by those seeking companionship. Tinder states in its advertisement on iTunes that, “It’s the new way to meet people,” insidiously suggesting that it is simply providing a new medium for achieving what traditional dating once did. In reality, the superficial nature of apps like Tinder offer only a path to shallow hookups at worst and ephemeral passion at best. Despite what its marketing team says, it will never overtake substantive conversation as “the way to meet people.” But in a culture where the desire for immediate gratification conflates with the Apple gizmo age, people might easily fall prey to this advertising and find the type of love they really seek is at odds with the means promised to get them there. People have developed even quirkier, purely sexual methods for pursuing romantic relations that are likely to result in only short-lived passion. For example, some people are now mimicking a mating tactic used by cats and dogs by participating in pheromone parties, a trend catching on amongst singles. Singles sleep in a T-shirt for a few days straight, stuff them in Ziploc bags that are placed in the freezer to retain their natural scent and then bring them to a gathering. Participants at the party then sniff the various
t-shirts and select their mates based on the scent they prefer. But can smell tell us anything about the personality characteristics of a mate? Can olfaction be the substitute for a meaningful first conversation? Romantics looking for lasting partnerships need not worry; there are still outlets that have a very different approach from the ones listed above. Apart from the old fashioned practice of getting to know a stranger over a cup of coffee, there are campus dating services like YaleStation Dating, a website that works through the use of compatibility surveys rather than the appearancebased tactic that Tinder uses. Those of you who are less Internet-savvy can try out your conversational skills during a few quick rounds of speed dating. Yale events like Screw and Last Chance Dance show no signs of yielding to iPhone apps. We are all trying to satisfy a need when pursuing a partner. It is important to identify whether we are trying to quell a momentary urge to be swept off of our feet, or a deeper desire to create a fortified, emotionally satisfying bond. The sooner we draw the distinction between our various desires, the closer we will come to finding our perfect match. IDA TSUTSUMI ACUNA is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact her at ida.tsutsumiacuna@yale.edu .
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD “People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”
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n my suite, we joke that my roommate and I never sleep. It’s true; we don’t sleep a whole lot. We actually decided we’d be good roommates because we always saw each other in the library at 2:45 a.m. Sometimes we shared a couch. My mother, when I explain my daily routine, usually sighs and tells me I need more “balance” in my life. “OK, Mom,” is my response. “Balance” and I have been around the block. The end of my freshman year wasn’t a pretty sight. My Google Calendar bulged. Black-blue circles sat permanently under my eyes, and I slept a couple of nights on the futon in the common room with the sole intention of preventing myself from feeling so comfortable that I slept through class. This all culminated in one — or I should say, two — head-reeling days in which I stayed awake for a total of 41 hours. Madness, you might be thinking. Sheer madness. Or you might be thinking: That sounds like something I would do.
WHO SAYS I CAN'T STAY UP UNTIL 3 IN THE MORNING? I’m sure I’m not the only one whose Gcal resembles elaborate bathroom tiling. Not everyone pulls all-nighters regularly, but, let’s face it, some do. Over the summer, I decided the madness was over. Next year, I resolved, I will get eight hours of sleep a night. I will eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. I will not start any new extracurriculars. I will go for long walks! I will be so damn balanced. I will be perfectly serene and I will make those scales hang perfectly straight. So I did. And I was miserable. This is not how serenity is supposed to work, I fumed as I declined another extracurricular invitation and set my alarm for 8 a.m. When I overslept, I felt guilty. When I stayed up until 3:00 a.m. discussing metascience with my friends, I felt guilty. When I sat staring out the window instead of reading, I felt guilty. When I missed lunch to finish a paper and plan a cappella rehearsals and lingered too long in the Yale Bookstore, I felt guilty for not feeling guilty enough. Still, I tried to make everything fit. When I had the opportunity to join a new extracurricular activity, I wavered and put it on the scales. Did they tip? What if I join but drop my fifth class to
make up for it? No, no, better not join the group. Look at the scales. They’re leaning … they’re leaning … Which is when the scales just fell apart, because I wasn’t using the right scales. Yes, I tried to sleep more and work less and eat more regularly, and all of these were good things, on their own. But I was forcing myself to adhere to some definition of balance that I’d memorized in middle school health textbooks. It didn’t allow for late-night bacon-egg-and-cheese sandwiches or listening to the 2 a.m. whispers of the library. So I scrapped the scales. Instead of questioning how many hours of sleep I would get a night, I started asking: Will I go to sleep excited for tomorrow? Will I go to sleep knowing I learned something today? And most importantly, will I wake up feeling guilty? Or feeling fulfilled? Rhythm is important; as a musician, I will be the first to embrace that. But routine? Routine can become monotony, and as Josh Foer wrote, “Monotony collapses time.” And yes, sleep and food and rest are important. But don’t let anyone tell you what balance means. Balance comes from within, from feeling that you are where you are meant to be, sitting with a friend in the basement talking about mythological elements of Genesis — or whatever it is you like talking about. And don’t worry that it’s 3:00 am, and you might sleep through breakfast. And no, I don’t advocate filling your Gcal with endless meetings. Fill it with real color, and yes, that could mean empty space. Don’t be busy for the sake of it; be busy because you’re doing what you love and if you walk away from it the scales will tip because there’s something missing. It’s not all about balancing out the hours in your day — it’s about balancing out the different parts of yourself, the passions that make you whole. Perhaps my mother is right. I wouldn’t call my life — or a typical Yalie’s life — balanced in the traditional sense. But it’s balanced for me, and that’s what matters. A few weekends ago, my roommate and I went to a party, to the gym and to the library, in that order. And sure, it’s madness, sheer madness. But somehow, it fits on the scales, and they keep rocking, back and forth, until we stumble back to our room in fits of giggles at our crazy, wonderful lives. LUCY FLEMING is a sophomore in Saybrook College. Contact her at lucy.fleming@yale.edu .
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t is amazing to see the complexity and fullness of our schedules at Yale. Our university is a remarkably rich place, full of a spectrum of student organizations, tantalizing talks, celebrity appearances and innumerable other events of every type. One needs only to look at the bulletin boards around campus or the Gcal of the person sitting in front of him in lecture to find evidence of the extensive planning and organizing that goes on here. Yet, amidst all of this finery, these sparkling appearances, this relentless intellectual stimulation, I have to wonder if we haven’t gone a little too far. We have a campus culture that is rooted in being busy, and sometimes this can be problematic. Learning requires reflection, just as body function requires sleep — and oftentimes both are overlooked here. I am not lashing out against the laudable work of student organizations, departments and residential colleges. I simply believe that it is healthy for ourselves and our community to be aware of the need for emotional and temporal space, which is essential if we are to reflect, digest and act spontaneously. My dean once said that no matter how hard you try, you won’t be able to experience more than 5 percent of what Yale has to offer. So why shoot for the 6 percent? Is there not merit in doing a few things deeply, rather than many things superficially? In a campus so full of youthful energy, we may get the impression that as students, we are resilient and able to heap commitments upon ourselves. This attitude can be harmful. Life, especially in college, is a delicate balance between work and leisure, obligation and desire, other and self. When we stress this balance by piling on commitments as individuals, we constrain ourselves to the professional roles that we set. We become singers and writers first, and friends and neighbors second. Given the oft-repeated saying, “Work hard, play hard,” it is easy to see where this culture of busyness comes from. Everybody seems to always be doing something. Idle time is perceived as time wasted. Whether we consciously think it or not, this mentality
is misguided. Empty time and thought-space is necessary for a healthy lifestyle and learning environment. No matter what pressures we feel or goals we set, time for ourselves must be a bottom line. Any other use of it would be wasteful.
BE PEOPLE FIRST, STUDENTS SECOND When October Break, a relatively new fixture in the Yale academic calendar, arrives, Yale students and faculty will have the opportunity to enjoy some of this scheduled space — whether at home, traveling, or on campus. For those staying here, this is the perfect time to make use of some of the green spaces in New Haven. We are surrounded by a refreshing number of secluded, beautiful spots. One has only to venture into a residential college courtyard; one of our libraries or galleries; Marsh Botanical Gardens; or my personal favorite, the Sterling Courtyard (currently closed for construction), to find a convenient place for quiet reflection. For others this place of reflection can be found on the sports field, or in a concert hall or common room. Whatever the method, we should become more aware of what we consider “doing too much” — and how our placement of this limit can effect others beyond ourselves by contributing to a culture of hurriedness. In the late 19th century, planners such as Frederick Law Olmsted pioneered the concept of the parkway. It was believed that designing parks along transportation corridors would extend their benefits to a wider geographic area. Even today, this principle is used to promote slower driving, as more scenic roadways discourage drivers from hurrying. Similarly, it is easy to become stuck on the speedway of Yale, looking ever forward. But if we take the time to notice our surroundings, we may find ourselves easing off the gas pedal — and noticing others beside us. ETHAN KYZIVAT is a junior in Morse College. Contact him at ethan.kyzivat@yale.edu .
ompared to 50 years ago, Yale has made leaps and strides in opening up this institution to people of all backgrounds. For anyone who denies this, just look at the fact that just a few decades ago, women weren’t even allowed as undergraduates. But to anyone who argues that we’re done fighting for diversity — that we’ve come far enough — I say no. In fact, it doesn’t take too much effort to recognize that the average Yale student still comes from rather similar upbringings. Reading the column title, it’s not too hard to guess that I’m ethnically Asian; my last name is Kim, after all. But while I may be ethnically Asian, I consider myself a full-blooded American. I’m a Hoosier born and raised; for the many people who’ve never heard that term before, it means I’m from Indiana. Yes, Indiana — the “fly-over” state that’s kind of close to Chicago. You know, the one next to the Great Lakes? No? OK, well I can’t blame you, because in a place that emphasizes all aspects of diversity, there seems to be a lack of students from these “unimportant” (read: not California, New York or New England) states. While, yes, all 50 states are represented in the student body — and yes, while states such as New York or California are heavily populated — no one can argue that there’s a proportional representation of students from across the United States here at Yale. Just because these larger, more prominent states are recognized as hubs of culture doesn’t mean that places like Indiana aren’t.
INCREASE MIDWEST RECRUITMENT EFFORTS Respecting different cultures and backgrounds means representing all cultures, not just some. And while places in Middle America like Indiana, with its country music, farms and corn — so much corn — may not seem cultivated in the “refined” sense, they still have culture nonetheless. These “fly-over” states are often mocked and ridiculed for being unsophisticated, boring and backward, but for me and many others, these places are home. It’s a place with its own special history, traditions and habits that I wouldn’t trade for the world. I’ve been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel, and while I have certainly learned a lot from experiencing other cities and countries, I’ve also learned to more greatly appreciate the culture I come from. The first time I came back from a summer spent in the bustling, impersonal metropolis of Seoul, I realized how much I missed home; yet, I found myself missing not only the familiarity of it, but something more. I missed its pace of life, the tightness of its community, and the values and priorities it held dearly. After stepping outside and recalibrating, I now noticed aspects of my own culture that I held dear, but had never particularly noted before. Many would say that these states and small towns hold antiquated values; and while this may be true, I believe that it makes these values all the more unique, and all the more important to represent in a culture that is shifting away from these values. These fly-over states are places that can teach everyone a little something about small town friendliness, community, trust, and corn. And this goes for all cultures; each one has its own gems and quirks that make it unique. None are superior to any other. The pool of motivated and brilliant students in these states is not lacking. Many are simply dissuaded by the sheer difficulty of obtaining information on applying to selective schools such as Yale. In a small town where schools don’t bother to establish a presence, many students don’t fully understand the admissions process, and lack the resources to effectively learn about it. By increasing the number of admissions officers dedicated to these states, we would be able to increase our outreach to these demographics. An extended hand is all we need. In a place where we’re supposed to discover ourselves and integrate other people’s values into our own being, we can’t afford to neglect the flyover states. We need to actively strive to include a wider range of people in our community so we can learn to incorporate and internalize the best parts of each culture that every person brings with him. We may have come a long way in terms of diversity, but we’re nowhere close to being done. It’s only with open ears and open eyes that we can truly move forward, and that means embracing and accepting all types of people — regardless of race, economic status or where they call “home.” Even if home is some small town nestled away in a state you occasionally forget exists. LEO KIM is a freshman in Trumbull College. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .
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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” HUNTER S. THOMPSON AMERICAN JOURNALIST
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field. “Frankly, there are some sports where, if you don’t have the numbers, then you just can’t compete,” said Andrew Sobotka ’15, who compiled a recommendation on athletics last spring for a Yale College Council report to Salovey and has actively called for Yale to develop a more welcoming environment for athletes. Sobotka added that swimming and track and field are two sports that seem to be particularly disadvantaged by having significantly fewer members than teams at Yale’s peer institutions. Though the University’s recruitment caps have not significantly impacted Yale’s football team, captain Beau Palin ’14 said he believes that tight athletic recruitment policies in general can handicap the progress of a sports program and prevent it from reaching a level of excellence that Yale expects in every field.
Calhoun project promotes positivity
Throughout Levin’s presidency, some alumni attributed Yale’s lack of success in athletics to Levin’s recruitment changes. Neal Brendel ’76, who was a member of the wrestling team during his time at Yale, said that he believes the University has not made the same serious commitment to finding athletically and academically gifted students as other schools like Princeton, where his son now wrestles. Brendel added that he thinks the Levin administration overlooked student athletes’ tendency to be loyal alumni and donate to the University after graduation. Though the Yale administration will not raise the number of athletes at Yale in the immediate future, William Morse ’64 GRD ’74, a former Yale hockey player and former Yale admissions officer, said Salovey may decide to raise the number in a few years. Morse — who sat on the board of
directors of the Yale Alumni Fund last year — said Salovey may look favorably upon raising Yale’s inhouse athletic quota if athletes on campus demonstrate more leadership at Yale and contribute more to campus outside of their teams. Recalling a March 12 conference call, Morse said Salovey indicated to the alumni on the call that he would potentially raise the recruitment number if current athletes become better integrated with the broader Yale community and respond well to the leadership initiatives implemented by the athletic department. According to Morse, Salovey brought up the fact that athletes are currently four times more likely than the typical Yale student to appear in front of a disciplinary committee as one metric by which athletes can improve. Yale has already begun rolling out leadership opportunities for athletic teams — an initiative
that Salovey emphasized in his inaugural address this weekend. The Kiphuth Leadership Academy, which was founded in 2005 and has expanded in recent years, trains sophomore and junior athletes to become better leaders in their communities. Stanley McChrystal, a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute and a retired army general, also holds leadership sessions with the football team’s rising seniors. In April, Salovey told the News that he was still grappling with the question of how to promote better integration between athletes and non-athletes. He pointed to football head coach Tony Reno’s encouragement of football team members to live in their residential colleges as an example of how athletes can better integrate with the non-athletic community at Yale. When looking at applications from student athletes, Quinlan said the Admissions Office not
only considers the candidate’s athletic and academic abilities, but also their potential contributions to Yale’s larger social and intellectual life. “One of the things I’m looking for when I’m looking at athletes is [if they will be] somebody who is going to contribute outside their teams,” Quinlan said. “Are they going to be living in the colleges, will they be a freshman counselor, will they be great roommates? Athletes can and should contribute more to Yale’s broader environment.” During Levin’s presidency from 1993 to 2013, the number of recruited athletes at Yale declined from 18 to 13 percent of the student body. Ashton Wackym contributed reporting. Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .
CEID supports student projects
HAPPINESS FROM PAGE 1 necting [Rubin’s] book with things that we go through day-to-day at Yale,” said Carolina Rivera ’16, a member of the group. Mooney taught a course on a similar issue when she was a professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. While her course was based more on texts than discussion, it introduced the concepts of sociology and positive psychology to students. Mooney said she hopes the new project at Yale will help students foster positive relationships with others, adding that the project is different from her past work because it involves people coming together to strive for collective happiness in their lives. The Calhoun Happiness Project is loosely related to Mooney’s past research, which addresses the concept of suffering and how different individuals have reacted to extreme suffering in their lives. “I started off thinking suffering is something you had to get rid of,” Mooney said. “[People] can transform it into something meaningful and something that inspires them to be better people, but they can’t get rid of it. This is part of a problem with our popular culture. They think that positive psychology means you’ll never feel bad again. There’s nothing wrong with negative emotions — the question is, what’s your response?” Though the Calhoun Happiness Project has not worked with other student wellness groups at Yale that are spreading the beliefs of positive psychology, the group’s members said they hope to spread the message of the project to the greater student body. Mooney said she is starting to find out about other campus organizations that spread a similar message, adding that she would like to team up with other groups to promote positive psychology even further. The idea that achievement alone is not enough to bring happiness to students is “a message that Yale students probably need to hear,” she said. Currently, the project plans on hosting study breaks for Calhoun students, as well as a Secret Santa exchange within the college. Mooney also plans on launching a new kind of happiness project in the spring, which will be focused on applying positive psychology and positive sociology to transform communities. Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .
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The Center for Engineering Innovation and Design is home to the projects of many students and groups, including the Yale Bee Space. CEID FROM PAGE 1 resource for students who, like many YBS members, might lack a background in engineering. “If someone doesn’t know what a mill or a lathe is, they can still come in here and learn how to make things,” Meyerowitz said. Meyerowitz emphasized that the CEID allows students from all majors to learn from each other as they work on projects using the CEID’s numerous resources. He said that he will personally lead workshops for YBS members on using the CEID’s design software, with which the YBS plans to invent more efficient beekeeping technologies. Singer said that before students use more complex equipment like the laser cutter and three 3D printers, the CEID puts them through training in the form of online and in-person tutorials. Additionally, the CEID has two, more sophisticated 3D printers, which students can use with permission, he added. Students in engineering fields have also benefitted from the CEID. Nathaniel Knapp ’14, a co-president of Engineers Without Borders, said that the group would use the
CEID’s lab space to develop a portable device for testing the bacterial content of water samples. “Having the CEID there encourages us to do more hands-on activities instead of just talking about project design,” Knapp said. “I think the CEID clearly demonstrates to any prospective engineering students that Yale is fully committed to giving them everything they need. It’s made the engineering major a lot more visible [here].” Wilczynski said that engineering projects were formerly spread out over campus, hidden in labs that agreed to house them. Now, he said, students use the CEID as a central area to “feed off each other” and use its resources to dramatically improve their capabilities. Among the groups that have used the CEID to complete their projects is Bulldogs Racing, whose design won Overall Best Hybrid in the 2013 Formula Hybrid International competition. Field Rogers ’15, who recently became a member of the CEID, said that she was struck not only by the center’s technological offerings, but also by the willingness of CEID staff members to help students with their projects.
“It feels so absolutely accessible,” she said. “I feel like you can ask them about anything and they’ll take your ideas seriously.” CEID design aide Alex Carillo ’16 said the center is bringing a “making culture” to Yale. “I can’t even imagine what peo-
ple did before the CEID,” he said. “If kids want to do something here, they can.” The CEID cost $6.5 million to develop. Contact JENNIFER GERSTEN at jennifer.gersten@yale.edu .
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“Baseball is our game: the American game. I connect it with our national character.” WALT WHITMAN AMERICAN POET
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Aldermen discuss low income housing
THURSDAY, OCT. 17
The column “A well deserved prize” misstated the number of homicides in New Haven in 2011 as 36. It should have said 34.
Yale appoints new Sustainability Director BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER After two months without a director, Yale’s Office of Sustainability will soon have a new leader in Virginia Chapman. Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith and Associate Vice President for Facilities John Bollier announced Chapman’s appointment in a Thursday email to the Yale community. In the same email, Highsmith and Bollier announced the creation of the Sustainability Advisory Council, a faculty-led group tasked with integrating different approaches to sustainability throughout the University and advising University President Peter Salovey on ways that Yale can be a global leader on environmental issues. Chapman’s appointment, the creation of the new council and the continuation of current initiatives will renew Yale’s commitment to sustainability, Highsmith and Bollier said. In her new role, Chapman will oversee an office charged with coordinating environmental sustainability efforts — from both policy and operational perspectives — across the University. Chapman, who will step into her new role on Nov. 18, currently serves as the Director of Facilities Sustainable Initiatives. “Under [Chapman’s] leadership, the Office of Sustainability will continue its close partnerships with dining, purchasing, finance and business operations, transportations, the professional schools, and other key academic and administrative units across campus,” Highsmith and Bollier said in the email. Chapman did not respond to repeated requests for comment Thursday. Highsmith and Bollier said Chapman has been a “key participant” in sustainability efforts at Yale. She previously worked on “green” laboratory renovations at the Yale School of Medicine and led the committee that established Yale’s “Sustainable Design Requirements,” which provide guidelines for future Yale buildings. Chapman also served on the Advisory Committee for Environmental Management, a committee that pushed for more emphasis on sustainability at Yale. In 2005, the committee was instrumental in establishing the Office of Sustainability. The office has been without a leader since mid-August, when
former director Julie Newman left to become director of sustainability at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Newman had served as Yale’s first sustainability director since 2004. Unlike many offices at Yale, students play a significant role in the Office of Sustainability, where they can work as paid staff members alongside permanent employees, largely through the Sustainability Service Corps, a cohort of 26 students that aims to expand a culture of sustainability throughout Yale.
I honestly didn’t even know we hired a new director. LANDON ACRICHE ’15 Sustainability coordinator, Saybrook College Carlos Gould ’15, who leads the group’s efforts on energy issues, said that to his knowledge, members of the Sustainability Corps had no role in Chapman’s selection. Most office staff members and students involved did not respond to requests for comment, and two students said members of the group are not supposed to speak to the media about the office. Still, one member said the new director would have little impact on his day-today work. “I honestly didn’t even know we hired a new director,” said Landon Acriche ’15, the Saybrook sustainability coordinator, in an email to the News, adding that the recent lack of a director has not affected his work. Nevertheless, Landon said he hopes the Office under Chapman’s leadership will consider moving forward on several initiatives to improve sustainability and heighten the office’s profile at Yale. Among these, he said, are developing a compost plant on campus, improving the cleanliness of the fuel source at the Yale Power Plant, expanding collaboration with New Haven officials and reaching out to more members of the Yale community. Thirty-two students from Yale College and the University’s graduate and professional schools also work in the office as research assistants. Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .
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The Board of Aldermen considered ways to optimize tax breaks for low-income housing Thursday. BY NICOLE NG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At a Board of Aldermen committee meeting last night, the Low Income, Supportive and Affordable Housing Tax Abatement Working Group (LISHTA) presented its final report and recommendations regarding low-income housing tax breaks. The proposal comprises the city’s efforts to establish a comprehensive policy for affordable housing tax breaks, after concerns over the lack of a standard policy arose in 2011. The report defines how the Board of Aldermen will review abatement requests and the policy for new and existing abatements, which incentivizes property owners to develop low-income housing. Challenges remain however in creating a fair tax structure model, said Ward 8 Alderman Michael Smart. As a result, the Joint Tax Abatement-Aldermanic Affairs Committee voted unanimously to hire a consulting firm to develop a model for the tax abatement structure. “I think certainly they’re going to have to get some realistic calculations and a model that they can understand, that’s going to work for the city and the taxpayers,” said Ward 8 Alderman Michael Smart, the chair of LISHTA. “We don’t want to give out abatements that are going to be on the backs of tax payers, that they’re going to have to foot the bill for.” In November 2011, Mayor John DeStefano Jr., called for a moratorium on granting tax abatement agreements for affordable housing due to budget constraints and a lack of consistent policy. The fol-
lowing month, The Board of Aldermen established LISHTA to research and develop a comprehensive and standard policy for affordable housing tax breaks. “The goal was to create a standardized process where the board could review applications for abatement, and secondly create transparency and accountability, [and] third to try and quantify and standardize the benefits, all with goal of trying to ensure there’s sincere effort in place to pursuit and develop low affordable housing,” said LISHTA committe member Erik Johnson.
Certainly they’re going to have to get some realistic calculations and a model that they can understand. MICHAEL SMART Alderman, Ward 8 In the first part of its proposal, LISHTA recommended the establishment of a standard application for housing projects seeking tax breaks. The report states that no tax abatement requests are to be considered without an application. Johnson said that this was in response to requests that there was not a uniform standard to apply, and to ensure that the Board of Aldermen and the general public understand what is required of developers. What remained unclear, however, was
the exact structure and model for both new and existing tax abatements. Concerns remain over the calculations of the tax policy, as well as how abatements will be applied to existing property owners without contracts and to new owners seeking tax abatements, said Joyner. During the hearing, Joyner said that for some existing abatement agreements, tax rates would in fact drop, placing a greater burden on taxpayers themselves. The committee was unable to come up with a model that would mitigate these issues. In response, Ward 4 Alderman Andrea Jackson Brooks put forward a motion to hire a consulting firm to find a way to resolve the problems that the committee raised. The consulting firm will work with LISHTA to calculate the benefits and costs of the city’s tax abatement policy, as well as formulate a clear model that suits the city’s goals, according to Smart. Both the committee and LISHTA hope to have a resolved policy by the end of the year. “I think we’re 80 percent there, but that’s the most important component, really making sure,” Smart said. “It’s irresponsible to pass legislation you don’t understand. If you make a mistake and you pass something that’s not going to work, who’s going to pay?” New Haven currently has 30 tax abatement requests that total losses of $4 million dollars a year in revenue, according to Smart. LISHTA began researching in the Spring of 2012 and completed its findings in January of 2013. Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .
Gilbert talks freedom, baseball BY GREG CAMERON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Dan Gilbert GRD ’08 thinks America’s pastime can also be a case study for American culture. Gilbert spent more than seven years at Yale working on his Ph.D., and came back to the Elm City yesterday to discuss his book, “Expanding the Strike Zone: Baseball in the Age of Free Agency,” at the Hall of Graduate Studies. The book, which began as Gilbert’s American Studies dissertation, connects a cultural shift among Major League ballplayers to the development of modern free agency and the rise of the MLB’s recruitment in the Dominican Republic. Gilbert discussed the term “free agency” not just as a technical term for players without a team contract, but also as the “agency” of Major League and Dominican baseball players to have power over their baseball careers. “I was interested in these early moments of militancy in the newly organized Players Association and what they revealed about the idiosyncratic form of unions, with the players finding collective power by organizing around the sale of their own images,” Gilbert said in his talk. Prior to 1975, the MLB’s reserve clause gave players no say over what team they played for, even after their contracts expired. Teams could renew contracts and trade players at will regardless of how many years the player had been on the team, Gilbert said. Gilbert said that the MLB Players Association, led by Marvin Miller, pushed for players to have control over their future after their contracts expired. The association saw no success for years, but finally an arbitration court ruled in the players’ favor after two players played for the entire 1975 season without a contract. MLB’s arbitrator named the two players free agents, officially ending the reserve clause and allowing players to
become free agents after playing a full year without a contract. Gilbert noted the connection between the free agency decision and player representation in baseball that occurred at the same time. He added that players in the 1970s became more independent by creating their own public images and marketing themselves. “The generation of ballplayers who struggled to create the existing free agency did so by refusing to allow team owners, sports writers and television announcers to confine them to prescribed identities,” Gilbert said. “The stances that they took … in the press box were signposts of a new brand of baseball.” He used the example of Reggie Jackson, who marketed himself to other teams with an “electrifying” personality on the field in the 1970s. Jackson even called himself a “cocky, money-making machine” in one of his own memoirs. Gilbert also discussed Curt Flood, who helped the movement toward free agency in 1969 by suing the commissioner of baseball after he was forcibly traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. Flood lost his case at the Supreme Court, but Gilbert said that he helped create the success that players achieved six years later. In the second part of his talk, Gilbert explained a shift in agency that went on in the Dominican Republic in the same time period. In the 1970s, MLB team owners started using Dominican baseball academies, which were designed to train prospects and recruit them to the Major Leagues. Gilbert explained the development of academies as an effort by the MLB to expand its “territory” in the world and control the market for players. “United States interests had exerted considerable influence in Dominican baseball,” Gilbert said. Gilbert noted that Dominican players were torn between the desire to play in
their hometown league and to make it big overseas in America. The MLB increasingly limited the “agency” of Dominican players to play where they wanted to play. When the commissioner of baseball discovered in 1962 that the Dominican government planned three exhibition games against Cuba, he warned that Major League players would be fined for playing in the game. Gilbert took the talk’s attendees through the history of the MLB’s influence in the Dominican Republic, including case studies of players such as Juan Marichal, Felipe Alou and Julián Javier. He explained how each of these three figures took a stand against the MLB’s increasing influence and restored some of the agency to Dominican baseball players. “The period from the ’50s to the ’70s was defined by Dominican ballplayers building power for and within national baseball institutions,” Gilbert said. “While they were also engaged with their fellow Major Leaguers in the struggle for free agency in the States, that generation carved out the terrain of agency with and within Dominican national baseball.” Gilbert began research for his dissertation in 2004 and finished the book in 2008. Michael Denning, a professor in the American Studies Department and Gilbert’s director for the dissertation, said that he thinks the book is going to change how people think about the history of baseball. “[Gilbert] not only opened up a kind of scholarship in sports, but I think he’s taken the thinking about baseball outside the U.S. context,” Denning said. “And [he’s put] together the history of baseball in the U.S. with … the industry of baseball in different parts of the world, which I think is really outstanding.” The book was published on Aug. 31. Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.” NIELS BOHR DANISH PHYSICIST
Amidst budget cuts, science appeals to public SCIENCE FUNDING FROM PAGE 1 be a frustrating reminder of how challenging securing federal grants has become in recent years. Deputy provost for science and technology Steve Girvin said the University acknowledges the changing fiscal climate and is preparing to adapt to new sources of funding support. The Office of Research Administation recently met with the crowd-sourcing organization Kickstarter to help formulate a University wide policy for crowdsourcing. “It’s all about figuring out how to connect research to potential,” said professor of ecology David Skelly. “It’s a Wild West.”
NICHE FUNDING
Since 2003, funding from the National Institutes of Health — the nation’s largest biomedical research supporter — has decreased by an average of 1.9 percent per year at an inflation adjusted rate. With pursestrings so tight, researchers are proposing more conservative projects to these organizations in the hope of attracting funding, said professor of chemistry Richard Baxter. Crowd-sourcing fits into a funding niche — smaller amounts of money directed at innovative projects. “[Crowd sourcing] is different,” he said. “If I applied to NIH to do research, it would be for a large sum of money, and it would be reviewed by a small number of people in the field. But we’re not telling them the new ideas we have.” Crowd sourcing covers a diverse range of subject areas. In Baxter’s lab, researchers are crowd-sourcing to fund a chemist on a project examining how to chemically sterilize male mosquitoes to prevent malaria transmission — a line of inquiry not yet explored. In the lab of professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Scott Strobel, crowd funding is supporting research on altering a fungus protein so it can recognize and break down the chemical structure of synthesized rubber. Skelly and his team successfully funded a project looking into how the hormone estrogen enters the ecosystem, supported both by external grants and and $5,500 on the crowd-sourcing site Petridish. While federal grants may take
months to write and even more to undergo the review process, crowd sourcing is a much more rapid process, said professor of ecology David Skelly. The rapid pace of crowd sourcing is especially useful for graduate students who feel time pressure to finish up their research and for seniors before they graduate, he said. Both Microryza and Petridish require projects to have a fundraising deadline. Microryza recommends only 30 days, and Strobel Lab researcher Michelle Chen MD ’14, said the short deadline conveys a sense of urgency to potential donors. Researchers are not the only ones benefiting from the crowdsourcing movement. Kaury Kucera GRD ’10, a post doctoral researcher who works in the Strobel Lab, said researchers have to rid the proposals of technical jargon and conduct “elevator pitches” to the public to attract funding online. On the other hand, taxpayer dollars go to support federal grants and the public sees none of the decision making process. Even after the initial donation, communication between the researcher and donors continue. Microryza encourages researchers to post “Lab Notes,” detailing what they’ve been doing and have accomplished to keep donors informed of their work. In addition to the information flow from researchers to donors, Baxter said he’s continually inspired when people discover the research online. One person from Pakistan and another from Germany contacted him to tell him how interesting they found his research. A high school student who worked in his lab this past summer is now raising money from his chess club for the mosquito sterilization research, he added. Skelly said he is humbled when the public donates to his research. “There’s no other comparable way to show an undergraduate that this is a project worth doing,” he said.
FUNDING INSECURITIES
Although Microryza has funded 57 projects in the last 17 months, researchers enter the process unsure whether they will leave with even a dollar: if the fundraising goal is not reached before deadline, the pledges are returned to the
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donors and the researchers get nothing. Jacob Marcus ’14, the Yale senior whose mosquito sterilization research is being funded through Microryza, said he is not feeling optimistic about his project’s prospects. With 25 days remaining, and $405 out of an expected $6,000 raised, the project is only 6% funded. While he started with high expectations for the project, he said he has been “let down” so far. Although Ryan Boyko GRD ’18 was able to raise over the $8,000 needed for his research, which focused on tracking ancient dog populations in Africa, he said he’s “ambivalent” about the novel funding source. “How many people are actually going to go out of their way to look up these projects once a week, and then have another $100 to spare every week?” Boyko said. “It’s kind of sad that you have to make a website and hit up family and friends for funding,” he said. According to Kucera, some researchers see the need to communicate effectively with the public as “low brow.” “Because there’s such prestige to receiving large grants, there’s a mentality that if I have to ask the public for money, I might not be doing that well,” she said. While he thinks engaging the public in science research and encouraging scientists to learn how to communicate the relevancy of their research are important goals, Boyko doesn’t see this social media and communication focus as wholly positive. He spent hours devoted to making a compelling video, which took time away from the research itself, he said. To Boyko, the idea that independent start-up companies, as opposed to larger established companies, could create a sustainable business model through crowd-sourcing, which requires a lot of time and effort to initiate and monitor, is hard to fathom. “People with that amount of skill can be doing different things; it can’t be anyone’s full time job,” he said. “More and more science is going to have be oriented [to crowd-sourcing] as budgets for major science funding are flat or declining,” Skelly said. Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu.
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The number of hours John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played in the first round of Wimbledon 2010.
The match, the longest in tennis history, spanned three days before Isner won 70-68.
New Haven Open to stay in the Elm City BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER After months of negotiation, Connecticut’s Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) voted unanimously on Thursday night to keep the New Haven Open at Yale’s Connecticut Tennis Center in the Elm City, spelling good news for regional tennis fans and local businesses alike. The United States Tennis Association (USTA), which helps oversee the New Haven Open Women’s Professional Tennis Tournament, reached an agreement to sell the tournament and move it to Winston-Salem, N.C., where the Association of Tennis Professionals holds a men’s event during the same week in August. But the Association rejected the deal, offering Connecticut a chance to
purchase the rights to keep the event in New Haven instead. For the past several months, top state officials, including Governor Dannel Malloy’s Chief of Staff Mark Ojakian and Office of Policy and Management Secretary Ben Barnes, have lobbied the CRDA, an organization that heads projects to attract major sporting events to the state, to approve keeping the tournament in New Haven. The CRDA voted to pay $618,000 for the rights to the event, arguing that the investment would reap greater economic returns for the city and the state. “Economic development for our urban environments, and the state as a whole, is a fundamental component of the state’s agenda, and we view the New Haven Open as another chapter in bolstering this effort,” Malloy said in a
statement last week. “We know that Connecticut is a great state for women’s sports, and this is another fantastic way to ensure that continues to be the case in 2014 and beyond.”
We get a lot of the players and coaches from the tournament, and a lot of visitors that are in town solely for the event. ERIN GUILD Restaurant manager, Claire’s Corner Copia CRDA Director of Marketing and Public Relations Ter-
ryl Mitchell Smith said the CRDA Board decided to approve the purchase because the Open is a great economic driver, not only for the New Haven area, but for the state as a whole. In fact, a 2008 study revealed that the tournament has delivered $26 million in revenue for the state, spurring 300 jobs and $1.1 million in tax revenue. Employees at four local businesses, including Claire’s Corner Copia, all said their establishments all see a notable increase in foot traffic during the Open. “It’s really great for our business,” Claire’s restaurant manager Erin Guild said. “We get a lot of the players and coaches from the tournament, and a lot of visitors that are in town solely for the event.” Anne Worcester, the tournament’s director, could not be reached for comment. In an inter-
view with the Waterbury Republican-American last week, she said she was happy that the state has recognized the tournament’s economic value and role in making the state a more interesting place to live, work and visit. Barnes added in a press release that the tournament is a part of the state’s “cultural fabric,” along with its other major sporting events, restaurants and arts venues. “If Connecticut is to remain attractive for economic development, it’s important to keep and nurture these amenities,” he said. For the past eight years, the event has experienced a steady drop in attendance and revenue. In 2013, fewer than 46 thousand visitors attended the New Haven Open, the tournament’s secondlowest showing in its 16-year history. Still, Worcester told the
Waterbury Republican-American last week that she was encouraged that the tournament actually sold more tickets this past August than in 2012. The tournament’s sponsors also showed more active involvement in 2013 than in the years before, she added. First Niagara, Aetna, American Express, Yale University and the Yale-New Haven Hospital have all signed agreements to renew their sponsorships in light of the state’s continued support of the event. With State support, especially in improving facilities, Worcester said she is confident the event will continue to improve and grow. Next year’s tournament is slated to run from Aug. 15-23, 2014. Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .
Gitlin talks history of minority activism BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Over the past 50 years, the push to create a more inclusive campus at Yale came from minority students themselves, according to history professor Jay Gitlin ’71 MUS ’74 GRD ’02. On Thursday evening, Gitlin spoke to about 30 members of the Yale community about the history of minority groups and student activism at Yale. In his talk, which was hosted by the Yale Historical Review, Gitlin drew from his own experiences as a Yale student and from a research paper that Jasmine Zhuang ’13 originally wrote for Gitlin’s “Yale in America” course that was later published in the Review. In relation to college admissions, the notion of “diversity” has changed significantly in recent decades, Gitlin said. “Diversity is itself a concept, a moving target. It changes over time,” Gitlin said, adding that Yale’s version of diversity used to be primarily based on admitting students from different states and countries. When Gitlin was a student, he said that he felt he had to hide the fact that he was Jewish because so few Jews attended Yale. In the 1960s, the University had the lowest percentage of Jews of the Ivy League school — around 10 percent — according to Marvin Arons ’48, a guest of Gitlin’s who participated in the talk. Even when the Admissions Office began to accept applicants from different minority groups, the lack of high populations and support structures at the University made minority students feel isolated and socially ostracized. Gitlin said an institution needs a “critical mass” of any minority group in order to prevent members of that group from feeling like token representatives and enable them to form a supportive community. “We have made a mistake as Americans of thinking equality as the same thing as equivalency,” Gitlin said. External forces that led the
University to transform its approach toward minority students included World War II and the civil right movement of the 1960s, Gitlin said. Gitlin added that he was personally affected by these events — for example, the G.I. Bill enabled his father to attend Yale, and the Black Panther trial took place in New Haven during his senior year.
We have made a mistake as Americans of thinking equality as the same thing as equivalency. JAY GITLIN Professor, Department of History Under the leadership of former Director of Undergraduate Admissions R. Inslee Clark Jr. in the 1960s, the Admissions Office was restaffed and began to reach out to more public schools. Over the next few decades, during the tenure of former University President Kingman Brewster Jr., Yale moved toward a need-blind admission policy and began to provide more financial aid than ever before. The percentage of legacy students dropped by almost half. Still, Zhaung’s paper stressed that students led the movement for a more diverse and welcoming campus, Gitlin said. Students founded cultural houses for different minority groups such as the Black Student Alliance, which is now known as the Afro-American Cultural Center, and the AsianAmerican Students Association, which is now known as the Asian-American Cultural Center. In response to student pressure for more diversity, the administration established a Minority Recruitment Committee, which Sam Chauncey ’57, a former secretary to the president who remains a Davenport fellow today, helped form. Assistant deanships that focused on the student experiences of minority groups were
also created. While Arons said the cultural houses often created a form of segregation instead of making minority students more comfortable with the rest of the student body, Gitlin disagreed. “You’re here because it’s an opportunity to become a Yale person and then go back to your community,” Gitlin said. “I don’t think the associate deans or cultural houses are there for segregation. [They] are there so people can have a little relief, so they can speak in a comfortable way [and] so they don’t always have to be ‘others.’” Gitlin said he thinks the cultural houses allowed minorities to engage with one another and discuss ways to improve the Yale experience for people with similar backgrounds. During the question and answer session that followed the talk, Gitlin and audience members discussed how socioeconomic status has entered the diversity discussion. Gitlin referenced University President Peter Salovey’s freshman address this fall, in which Salovey confronted the issue of socioeconomic diversity directly in a highly public setting. Ivonne Gonzalez ’16, who attended Gitlin’s talk, said she found the fact that a dialogue on diversity has existed at Yale for decades fascinating. “It’s really comforting to see someone else has done it in the past,” she said. Gonzalez said Yale still faces challenges in incorporating students from different backgrounds, though she commended programs such as Freshman Scholars at Yale — a summer program designed to ease the transition from high school to college for approximately 30 selected incoming freshmen — that provide extra assistance for students coming from different backgrounds. Zhuang’s paper can be found on the Yale Historical Review website. Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .
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Professor Gitlin discussed the history of minority admissions at Yale at a Pierson College Master’s Tea Thursday.
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SPORTS MEN’S HOCKEY PREVIEW Same ice, more buzz BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER As the men’s hockey team approaches the new season, the dust on its 2013 National Championship trophy is starting to settle. But the luster surrounding the hockey team after its triumph over Quinnipiac last spring still shines, elevating the stature not only of the hockey program but also of Yale athletics in general. “Certainly winning the championship was a great thrill for all of us,” said athletic director Tom Beckett. “It brought incredible attention to Yale athletics and it’s a source of great pride for all of us. We have had a great number of alums from all over the world mention how proud and exited they are. It clearly raised the sense of Yale pride around the globe in terms of those who got the word or followed the team. It was very inspiring for all of us.” While the national title — the Bulldogs’ first in any sport since 1951 — came as a great surprise to
many observers, most within the men’s hockey organization view the title as only the first of many for head coach Keith Allain ’80. The Malcom G. Chase Head Coach of Hockey arrived in 2006 with the intention of growing the program and winning championships. In 2008-2009, during just his third season with the Bulldogs, Allain helped Yale to a 24 win season that included ECAC regular season and tournament championships, a No. 5 national ranking and Yale’s first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1998. In the next season, 20092010, Allain’s squad became the first Yale team to repeat as ECAC regular champions, added an Ivy League title and earned the program’s first NCAA tournament win under the coach. The next year brought further success, as the 2010-2011 team became the first Yale team to be voted No. 1 nationally and held its position atop college hockey for two months. The Elis went on to win an ECAC tournament
championship before again prevailing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. From 2008-2011, Allain’s Yale teams had the best combined winning percentage in all of college hockey in that time span, and the program’s upward progression could clearly be seen. Bulldog faithful hope that the 2013 trophy hoist in Pittsburgh, PA on April 13 will be the first of many for Allain and Yale hockey. Bulldog faithfuls hope that the 2013 trophy hoist in Pittsburgh, PA on April 13 was only the first of many for Allain and Yale hockey. “Did we expect to win a national championship? I think if you ask coach Allain his feeling, he does expect that,” Beckett said. “It was a dream come true, certainly for me and I think for everybody that knows the program and who knows coach Allain. For him it was what he believes in; he believes the team is capable of extraordinary things and he expects them to [achieve them]. That’s why he’s the great coach that he is.”
The internal belief in the program and its consistent success has made men’s hockey one of the most popular sports at Yale. Tickets to games at Ingalls Rink sell out as quickly as many professional events and regularly feature a sold out crowd. The student section can regularly be seen overflowing with excited and passionate fans. Additionally, Yale All-Access has seen an increase in viewership of Eli home games, which YAA streams online, according to broadcaster Adlon Adams ’15. “The hockey games are absolutely my favorite sport to watch at Yale,” Jon Karp ’16 said. “The student section at Ingalls is definitely the loudest of any sport at Yale and the team always puts on a great performance.” The Bulldogs should expect the crowds to get larger and louder as the team’s success continues. The excitement around the men’s hockey team has not only helped Yale spirit but also athletic recruiting.
Beckett noted that 2013 championship, along with the recent success of teams like women’s volleyball, men’s lacrosse, coed sailing and heavyweight crew, has helped elevate Yale in the eyes of many students looking for a school that combines the greatest in academic and athletic excellence. Allain added that while the championship has not automatically translated into hockey players wanting to come to Yale, it makes the program a much easier to sell to potential studentathletes. “All of us want what we do to be important to the people around us,” Allain said. “I think the atmosphere might be a little bit heightened now and I think it’s really cool that people care about Yale hockey.” Allain was quick to point out that this season poses a very different challenge than last year. While the goal remains to win the national title, the 2012-2013 triumph will not be mentioned at
all by the players and coaches. The hockey program’s concentration on growth has put this year’s team in a great position to continue having success. Yale’s experience in defense and depth at forward, combined with Allain’s and the rest of the coaching staff’s tutelage, should provide students, alumni and fans alike another exciting season on the ice. Going into a new season at Ingalls Rink may be business as usual for the men’s hockey team, but the whole New Haven hockey community is buzzing in anticipation for this season’s home opener November 1 against St. Lawrence. “We have absolutely noticed the uptick in interest,” defenseman Tommy Fallen ’15 said. “If anybody were to know us personally, you’d know that we certainly don’t mind buzz.” Yale takes on Ontario Tech in an exhibition game this Saturday at Ingalls Rink at 7:00 PM. Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu.
ECAC BREAKDOWN TEAM-BY-TEAM ANALYSIS The men’s hockey team kicks off its season this weekend with an exhibition game on Saturday against Ontario Tech. The Bulldogs enter the season with high expectations: ECAC coaches ranked the Elis to finish first in the conference this year. But head coach Keith Allain’s squad will face strident opposition in league this season, as other ECAC squads will be gunning to knock the Bulldogs’ off their throne. Here, you will find a breakdown of Yale’s conference competition. Each team’s overall record, ECAC record and final rank in the ECAC is listed beside its name; underneath each team’s logo is its head coach, his years of experience at the school and his record at the listed school.
COLGATE 21st [328-331NOV. JAN. FEB. MAR.
CLARKDART@ YALE DART-
This year’s Raiders squad will be a very young club. Not only were three of Colgate’s top four scorers last year freshmen, but coach Don Vaughn brought in nine recruits in the class of 2017, including Calgary Flames draft choice Tim Harrison. After finishing eleventh in the ECAC in 2012-’13, conference coaches picked the Raiders to finish ninth this year. If Colgate can maintain its top power play conversion percentage and get improved play from their goaltenders, who finished last in conference play in save percentage, they could threaten to break into the top half of the ECAC this year.
@ RPI BOSTON YALE @ YALE
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OCT. HARVARD NOV. @ UNION JAN. @ MAR. @ YALE
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19th [347-198NOV. QUINNINOV. BU @ MSG JAN. @ YALE FEB. DART-
3rd [17–26–11] NOV. NOV. JAN. MAR.
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Princeton finished last season with the second-worst offense in the league, scoring just 2.32 goals per game. If the Tigers hope to change that, they will rely on preseason all-league senior forward Andrew Calof, who was second team all-league last year and has led Princeton in scoring for the last three seasons. Losing starting goalie Mike Condon will be tough, as will the loss of defenseman Michael Sdao. ECAC coaches do not seem to believe in the Tigers, picking them to finish eleventh. Princeton’s first game is in the Liberty Hockey Invitational, where it will play Dartmouth on Oct. 25.
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DARTMOUTH 17th [234-226NOV. ST. DEC. @ YALE JAN. CORNELL MAR. COLGATE
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The best player in the nation may very well skate for the Saints this season in the form of senior forward Greg Carey. Carey led the country in goals scored last year with 28, including 14 power play goals, and he hopes to improve upon last year’s season, where he was selected as a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award. St. Lawrence also boasts Carey’s younger brother, Matt, who sat out last season due to an eligibility issue. The biggest question for the Saints will be how they replace the high-scoring duo of Kyle Flanagan and George Hughes. Forward Jeremy Wick and defenseman Justin Baker, both forwards, will look to serve even bigger roles than last year. Despite residing just outside the top 20 nationally, St. Lawrence was voted to finish tenth in the ECAC, signaling the depth of the conference in 2013-’14.
OCT. @UMASSNOV. YALE JAN. RPI FEB. @ YALE
UNION 3rd [48–21–12] NOV. DEC. DEC. FEB.
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Union was one of six teams to pick up a first place vote in the preseason conference coaches’ poll, but though the No. 16 Dutchmen are the defending ECAC Tournament champions, this year’s outlook lost a bit of luster in the offseason. Two stars of last year’s team, goaltender Troy Grosenick and forward Josh Jooris, elected to sign with NHL teams rather than try to lift Union to a third consecutive NCAA Tournament. Losing those two, along with the graduations of forwards Wayne Simpson and Kyle Bodie, means that the hyper-efficient Union offense could have a rough acclimation period. But preseason all-league defenseman Shayne Gostibehere, a second team CCM Hockey All-America selection last year, should help bolster the Dutchmen defense.
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1. Yale 2. RPI 3. Union
1. Yale 2. RPI 3. Quinnipiac
4. St. Lawrence 5. Cornell
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The Bobcats enter the season at No. 14 in the national polls, an unfamiliar place for the team, which spent much of 2012-’13 perched at the top spot. Despite losing 4-0 to Yale in the national championship game, Quinnipiac returns with another stacked team this year. A recruiting class highlighted by NHL selections Connor Clifton and Peter Quenneville will certainly help the Bobcats recover from losing nine senior skaters. A tenth senior’s presence will be missed the most, however: goaltender Eric Hartzell, who was last year’s USA Hockey Player of the Year and a first team All-American. Quinnipiac’s season is already underway, as the Bobcats made the trek to Alaska for the Kendall Hockey Classic this past weekend, where they split a pair of games against Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Fairbanks.
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The ECAC stands to be a wide-open league this season, and no team better represents that feeling than Dartmouth. The Big Green finished fifth in the conference last year, boasting one of the top penalty-killing units in the league, and they return their top scorer, junior Tyler Sikura, and both of their major goaltenders from a year ago. Yet they are picked to finish seventh in the coaches’ poll, collecting just a single first place vote. This pessimism may be rooted in the loss of Matt Lindblad, who elected to sign an NHL contract after last season in lieu of completing his eligibility. Dartmouth coach Bob Gaudet will also face a dilemma in goal, where senior Cab Morris and sophomore Charles Grant both received extensive playing time a year ago.
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Clarkson was picked to finish last in the conference by the ECAC coaches, but at the very least, the Golden Knights’ experience will help the squad stay competitive. They lost just three senior skaters and return 14 of their 15 leading scorers. The Golden Knights hope that their young players can produce in concert with last year’s leading scorer Allan McPherson to improve an offense that finished ninth in goals per game in the ECAC. Also of note for Clarkson is the battle for the job in net, where freshman Steve Perry and sophomore Greg Lewis have each started two games thus far.
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Despite their ninth place conference finish last year, the Big Red are looking up this year and start the season ranked No. 19 nationally. The squad was one of six teams to garner at least one first place vote in the ECAC coaches’ poll, and much of the reason for that optimism rests on the shoulders of its veteran corps. Preseason all-league defenseman Joakim Ryan, who led the team with 20 assists last year, was a late-round draft selection by the San Jose Sharks in 2012, and he looks to kick-start a Cornell offense that finished tenth in the ECAC last year. Fellow juniors Brian Ferlin, Joel Lowry and John McCarron, who along with Ryan represent four of the team’s top five scorers from last season, will also need to step their game up if Cornell hopes to live up to its national ranking. The Big Red open their schedule against York University of Canada on Oct. 19.
PRINCETON
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RPI, ranked No. 17 in the preseason, finished second in the ECAC behind Quinnipiac last season, and second is right where the coaches picked them for this season. Much of this year’s outlook is based upon the fantastic debut season of goaltender Jason Kasdorf last year, who as a true freshman had a .935 save percentage, second in the conference. Nine of the Engineers’ top ten scorers from a year ago return, surely a good sign: they finished third in goals per game in conference play. With such little turnover, Rensselaer and head coach Seth Appert can rely on experience and existing team chemistry to improve their lot in the conference.
The Bears can credit much of their seventh-place finish last season to then-sophomore Matt Lorito, who finished second in the conference with 22 goals. His play will lead a Brown attack that returns its top five scorers from a year ago. The Bears, however, will be moving forward without stalwart goaltender Anthony Borelli, who graduated last year. Senior Marco De Filippo is the only other goaltender who started a game for the Bears last year, but he struggled as the starter in 2012-’13 before being replaced by Borelli. The first test for the men from Providence will be in their season opener, when they take on the defending national champions in the Liberty Hockey Invitational in Newark, New Jersey on Oct. 25.
CORNELL
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Though the Crimson lost three of their four leading goal scorers from last season, they will be able to rely on their recent recruits to carry them this year, as the team has been predicted to finish in the top half of the coaches’ poll. Two of their top four point scorers from a year ago, Brian Hart and Jimmy Vesey, will combine with an incoming freshman class that features two players, Sean Malone and Alexander Kerfoot, that have already been selected in the NHL Draft. Still, they will need to bolster a defense that had the worst goals-against-average in the conference last year if they hope to improve on their last-place ECAC finish in 2012-2013. To that end, four players return from a year-long hiatus due to the Harvard cheating scandal, including star net-minder Steve Michalek.
RENSSELAER 8th [81–122–26]
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“If the student-athletes want to be paid, they have to find someplace else to play.” ROBIN HARRIS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, IVY LEAGUE
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Football: Keys vs. Fordham BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER
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Yale will host the No. 8 Fordham Rams tomorrow. Fordham has started the season with seven straight wins. FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 The Bulldog defense has been stellar thus far. The Elis rank first in the Ivy League in scoring defense, allowing just 18.8 points per game. Yale is also holding its opponents below 200 passing yards per game. This week, however, Yale may face the best quarterback they will see all year: Fordham’s Michael Nebrich, who leads the FCS with a 74.2 percent completion percentage. Nebrich has also rushed for 393 yards this year. “We have a bend but don’t break mentality,” defensive
lineman Jeff Schmittgens ’15 said. “We’re still trying to put a complete game together.” The Fordham offense, which averages 40 points a game, is also one of the most formidable units that the Bulldogs will face this season. The Rams have averaged nearly 80 plays per game. But Yale’s quick-moving offense may bode well for the defense’s chances. “We’re always going up against our fast-paced offense in practice,” Schmittgens said. “Our young guys are making an impact.” One big component of Yale’s team this year has been the
rushing attack, spearheaded by running back Tyler Varga ’15. Varga has averaged 128 yards per game, ranking seventh in the FCS. But the real challenge for the Bulldogs this week will be passing the ball against the stout Fordham defense. The Rams have allowed just 178.3 passing yards per game en route to their best start since 1930. It will be crucial for Yale’s no-huddle offense to put itself in more manageable third down situations. The Elis converted just seven of 17 third down attempts last week. “The plays we made in the first three week … we just
didn’t make them [against Dartmouth],” Reno said. “We lost the turnover battle and didn’t do great on first down.” A solid team atmosphere, led by captain Beau Palin ’14, has been an instrumental part of the team’s success. Schmittgens described Palin as the hardest worker on the team, and Reno called the squad the tightest team he has been around. “Everyone’s gotta pull an oar on the boat,” Reno said. Saturday’s game kicks off at noon at the Yale Bowl. Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .
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The women’s soccer team has scored 19 goals through 11 games this season.
is itching to return to action. “I’m extremely motivated to get back because every remaining game is a must-win, no exceptions,” Coxe said. Coxe will be a game-time decision, though she said she’s optimistic about her chances. With all these factors in play, Meredith is understandably con-
cerned heading into Saturday’s make-or-break matchup. “I’m more nervous about this game than a turkey before Thanksgiving,” Meredith said. Kickoff is slated for 6:30 p.m. at Reese Stadium. Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .
Yale to face Big Red ourselves in those tough nonconference games,” defender Nick Alers ’14 said. “It’s nice to finally get some wins to reflect the good things we’ve been doing. We know we still have a lot more to prove though.” The Bulldogs have slowly been picking up steam with improving offense and defense in the latter half of the season. Behind goalkeeper Blake Brown’s ’15 stellar performance, the Elis had their first shutout last Saturday against Dartmouth. On the offensive end, the Elis have scored a combined four goals in their last three games after scoring just three total goals in the five games before that. Forwards Cameron Kirdzik ’17 and Peter Jacobson ’14 have been
Yale’s offense has disheartened its opponents this season — when the Bulldogs start to score, their opponents have shut down. While the Yale offense scored first against Cal Poly in their first-ever West Coast contest, the Bulldogs were shutout in the second quarter before opening the floodgates in the third and fourth quarters with three unanswered scores to take
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the Elis’ main scoring threats, netting seven of the team’s 11 goals thus far. Kirdzik, who leads the Ivy League in shots, scored his third goal of the season against Dartmouth last weekend and was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Oct. 7, for his efforts. The Elis could be involved in another low scoring affair on Saturday. The Bulldogs have featured in seven games that were decided by one or fewer goals. Cornell has had a similar stat line with every single one of its games thus far decided by the same margin. Six of the Big Red’s 12 games this season have gone into overtime. Much of this is due to the Big Red’s stingy defense, which has conceded the fewest goals in the Ivy League. Cornell has used all three of their goalkeepers to help keep five clean sheets.
However, the Cornell offense has not been prolific thus far and is tied with Yale with the secondfewest goals in the Ivy League. The Bulldogs have conceded only three total goals in four games at Reese Stadium this season and will need a complete performance on both offense and defense in order to overcome a talented Big Red squad. “Leadership has been a key part of the team’s recent results,” Tompkins said. “Our seniors have created a hard-working, neversay-die mindset and the benefits have shown themselves late in games.” Yale takes on Cornell at Reese Stadium this Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .
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Playing a ranked team is always difficult, but Yale has done it this season and won, traveling on the road to take down Cal Poly two weeks ago. One of the most important aspects in beating a talented team is ensuring that both the defense and offense play as cohesive units and mistakes are avoided. The Bulldogs will, as head coach Tony Reno would say, need to control the controllables, and focus on details such as not turning over the ball. The difference between good teams and great teams is that good teams will let mistakes slip past and great teams will make you pay for them. The small benefits of holding on to the football just a little bit tighter and taking the extra step to make the tackle will accumulate over the game on Saturday. Between Yale and Fordham, the team that does the fundamentals best will come out on top tomorrow. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
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Elis ready to strike whatever decisions the coaching staff makes.” Whoever Meredith chooses will have to fend off Cornell forward Caroline Growney, whose five goals have paced the Big Red so far this year. Growney is a big reason why Cornell is off to its best start since 2003, when the team boasted a 7–3–2 mark. Meredith said he is wary that Yale may overlook Cornell, though, due to the Big Red’s lopsided loss to Harvard. “We can’t do what Harvard did because we have different weapons,” Meredith said. “We can’t take them lightly because of the Harvard score. We have to look at the Columbia score when Cornell won and showed how confident a team they are.” The last two games between Cornell and Yale have been close, with each game decided by just one goal. The Bulldogs, however, have escaped with victories each of the past two seasons over the Big Red. Notably absent from action for the past two Bulldog games has been midfielder Frannie Coxe ’15, who has been suffering from an undisclosed injury. But despite the injury, she is still tied for the Ivy League lead with six assists. With all that is at stake in the Cornell game, Coxe said that she
Tomorrow at noon, the Bulldogs (3–1, 1–1 Ivy) will face the No. 8 Fordham Rams (7–0, 2–0 Patriot), a team that averages 40.6 points per game. For the Elis to stop the potent Fordham offense, they must force the run. The Rams’ hyper-productive attack is led by junior quarterback Michael Neibrich, who boasts a 74 percent completion rate — the best in the FCS. Neibrich, who is on the watch list for the Peyton award, has passed for a total of 62 percent of the Rams’ 3,487 total offensive yards this season. But the Eli defense is more than capable of shutting down a productive passing offense. Against Cornell, the Bulldogs forced quarterback Jeff Mathews, 2011 Ivy League Player of the year, to scramble frequently, and the team effectively contained the Cornell passing offense. In addition, Yale’s run-stuffing linebackers have held opponents to an average of 18.8 points per game, just under half of what Fordham has accumulated on the scoreboard each week on average.
the game. At the helm of Yale’s driving offense is tailback Tyler Varga ’15, who averaged 2.8 possessions per drive against Colgate in the first game of the season and had two drives with 6 possessions in the first quarter to start the game. Varga also powered through the Colgate defense at the end of the game with two drives with four possessions, a drive with six possessions and a drive with two possessions. By keeping the ball on the ground and grinding down the Fordham defense, Yale will be able to progress up the field.
Currently, Yale sits comfortably atop the Ivy League standings with a perfect 5–0 record. Three spots below the Elis, Cornell and Columbia are entangled in a four-way tie with Penn and Princeton. In the competitive Ivy League conference, however, records are not always the best indicator of ability. “Both teams are very strong this year,” said middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16. “We’re going to have to come out strong and with a lot of energy.” Last year, Yale was able to sweep Cornell in straight sets without much difficulty, averaging a spectacular 0.333 hitting percentage for the match. After a moderately competitive first set, during which Cornell managed to narrow the deficit to three, the Elis comfortably won the next two sets by double digits. Captain Kendall Polan ’14 was particularly effective. She completed her third straight triple-double, producing 14 kills, 21 assists, and 17 digs on a scorching 0.480 hitting percentage. Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 added eight kills and 23 assists, while libero Maddie
Rudnick ’15 led the team with 18 digs. Against Columbia, a diversified offense and a tough defense led the Elis to victory. Yale boasted six players with seven or more kills and four with 14 or more digs.
Both teams are very strong this year. We’re going to have to come out strong and with a lot of energy. JESSE EBNER ’16 Middle blocker, Volleyball team After a lackluster first set, in which the Lions fell to the Bulldogs 25–14, the Elis were pushed to their limits in sets two and three. In the second set, the Elis overcame a 20–18 deficit with the help of Polan and Johnson. Polan assisted on two straight kills to tie the set at 20 before blocking a kill attempt by Columbia’s leading scorer to take the lead. Johnson was then subbed in and she assisted on four kills as
the Elis came from behind to win 25–22. In the final set, the Bulldogs held a small lead, but had to fend off a late run by the Lions to complete the sweep. This time the Elis are on a roll once more — they have lost just two of their last 17 sets — but Ebner said playing on the road always poses a challenge. “[It’s difficult] preparing yourself in the same way you would at home,” Ebner said. “You’re not in your own space; you’re in the hotel or [on] the bus for the whole day, so it’s hard to get yourself mentally fit.” The team is well aware of the trials and tribulations that come with playing away from home. But, as always, the Bulldogs are ready and willing to rise to the occasion. “We will have some great matches this weekend,” said outside hitter Erica Reetz ’14. “It’s our first full Ivy weekend on the road, so it’ll be a great challenge for us to deliver away from our home court and home crowd. The Elis will take on Cornell today at 5 p.m. Contact DIONIS JAHJAGA at dionis.jahjaga@yale.edu .
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@ Cornell
7 p.m.
Women’s Ice Hockey
vs. Sacred Heart
7 p.m.
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3:30 p.m.
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6:30 p.m.
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@ Columbia
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Bulldogs to butt heads with Rams BY GRANT BRONSDON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a tough road loss to Dartmouth, the Yale football team takes on perhaps its toughest foe of the season tomorrow, playing host to the No. 8 Fordham Rams.
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ence play, the Bulldogs have thrived in their two Ancient Eight showdowns thus far. A third win on Saturday would be further gratification for a Yale squad that went through tough games and disappointing losses before starting Ivy League play two weeks ago. “We definitely learned a lot about
The Bulldogs (3–1, 1–1 Ivy) take a one week respite from Ivy League play, but consistent with his manner all year, head coach Tony Reno has remained focused on Fordham (7-0, 2-0 Patriot) all week—and has made sure that the rest of his team has done so as well. “I’m not concerned about anything more than Fordham right now,” Reno said after the Dartmouth game. “I’m the reason [the players] don’t think about anything further than today,” he added in an interview on Tuesday. Last week’s game against the Big Green was a tough loss to swallow. Despite taking a seven-point lead in the third quarter, the Bulldogs were unable to hold on to the victory, letting Dartmouth halfback Dominick Pierre run roughshod over the Eli defense to the tune of 167 yards. “Dartmouth had great field position in the second half, and [they had] possession for more than 20 minutes,” Reno said. “That’s a controllable area for the team.”
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The Bulldogs have scored last-minute goals in their past two Ivy League games to stay undefeated in the Ancient Eight. BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER With a win against Cornell, the Bulldogs could move to 3–0 in the Ivy League for the first time in head coach Brian Tompkins’s career and extend their lead atop the conference standings. “I am pleased with the mindset and work ethic of the team,” Tomp-
kins said. “They have shown great belief in what they are doing and that will continue to be critical in the weeks ahead.” Yale (3–7–0, 2–0–0 Ivy) beat Dartmouth 1–0 in double overtime last Saturday night in another thrilling matchup at Reese Stadium. Tomorrow, The Elis will shift their starting time to late afternoon, but will still look to impress the crowds.
Cornell (6–3–3, 0–2–0) comes to Yale on the back of a four-game winless streak, which includes a 2–1 double overtime loss to Harvard on Oct. 12 and more recently a 0–0 double overtime tie with Colgate on Oct. 15. While other strong teams like Dartmouth and Columbia have struggled in Ivy League play despite their strong results in non-confer-
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Women’s soccer will face Cornell tomorrow night fresh off of a 4–0 win at Marist on Monday, Oct. 14.
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Middle blocker McHaney Carter ’14 leads the team with 37 total blocks this season and is fifth with 72 kills. BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER After an impressive 5–0 homestand, the Yale volleyball team (11–3, 5–0 Ivy) is back on the road.
VOLLEYBALL The Elis will take on the Big Red (6–9, 2–3) today in Ithaca, N.Y. before heading down to Manhattan to match up with the Lions (4–10, 2–3).
As they approach the two-year anniversary of their last conference game loss, the Bulldogs face added pressure to continue their improbable winning streak. But according to middle blocker McHaney Carter ’14, the team’s focus is always on the next match. “It’s definitely a one game at a time mentality,” Carter said. “We go into every match wanting to win, but we definitely look at each team separately.” SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 11
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BY JAMES BADAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Both Cornell and Yale will look to end a two-game Ivy League losing streak in Saturday night’s women’s soccer game.
WOMEN’S SOCCER Despite the similarities in conference records, the teams had vastly different results in their last games. Yale (6–5–0, 1–2–0 Ivy) just had its best victory of the season, a 4–0 dismantling of Marist on Monday night, whereas Cornell (7–4–1, 1–2–0) will look to pick itself up after falling to Harvard in a 7–2 rout.
In the victory over Marist, the Bulldogs jumped ahead of the Red Foxes and entered the halftime break up 2–0. Quick starts have not been part of Yale’s repertoire this year. Monday was Yale’s first time starting the second half with a lead since a win against Towson on Sept. 15. Forward Melissa Gavin ’15 will be expected to make things happen for the Eli offense if they wish to jump ahead early once again. She has scored nine of Yale’s 19 goals this season, making her the conference’s leading scorer thus far. Perhaps the most important aspect of Monday’s win was Yale’s defensive effort. Head coach Rudy Meredith said that he lamented the fact that Yale has been giving up far too many goals this
season. The shutout was the team’s third of the season and the first since Sept. 18 against Hartford. Goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15 earned the win on Monday night, but as has been the case all season, the starting goalie on Saturday will be decided after the week’s practices conclude. In conference play, goalie Rachel Ames ’16 has been the preferred option. Ames has been in net for all but half of the three Ivy games played. “I can’t speak for the whole team, but from my perspective, each goalkeeper has done plenty this season to warrant starting,” midfielder Geny Decker ’17 said. “We are all behind SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 11
RANK THAT THE YALE MEN’S ICE HOCKEY TEAM IS PREDICTED TO FINISH IN THE ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL. The Bulldogs received four first place votes to finish ahead of secondplace Rensselear. Yale was picked to finish second in the media pre-season poll behind the Engineers.