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About 20 miles East of Yale on the I-95 lies a cluster of towns that, while geographically proximate to the county’s urban core, look and feel worlds away from New Haven.

In the communities that abut the shoreline — Madison, Branford and Guilford — beach properties abound.

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Union members and leaders will gather on the steps of Sterling Memorial Library at noon today with balloons and birthday cake to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first clerical and technical workers’ strike at Yale. But they will also be bringing major new grievances against the University, as Yale’s unions — Local 34 and Local 35 — have recently found themselves increasingly at odds with University administrators.

After 10 years of unprecedented cooperation between labor leaders and the Yale administration, which Local 34 President Laurie Kennington described as a time of “peace and prosperity,” the relationship between the two entities has entered a state of renewed contention.

For the last five years, however, the University has consistently trimmed its operating budget — a move that union members say has led to more work being distributed amongst fewer people. Additionally, the relocation of cold food production to the centralized Culinary Support Center this summer and the continued administrative resistance to graduate student unionization have further strained Yale’s relationship with the two unions.

Union leaders said they expect at least 100 members to congregate in front of Sterling today to both celebrate the unions’ history

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Deresiewicz is on campus for a Master’s Tea. Making meese. You might

be having a dry spell at the moment, but the moose in Connecticut are single and ready to mingle. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has advised motorists to watch out for increased moose activity because moose mating season runs from now through the end of next month. The state’s moose population is still relatively small, at 100, so please leave the moose lovers be.

Unbeetable. Red velvet

cupcakes are back at Claire’s Corner Copia. And yes, they are flavored with organic beet’s for anyone who doubted Claires commitment to serving the most hipster food this side of Book Trader.

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Democrat Alex Taubes LAW ’15 is running for the 101st District seat in the Conn. General Assembly House of Representatives.

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wo Yalies — a current law school student and a graduate of the forestry school — are making first-time bids for elected office at the outskirts of New Haven County, in prosperous towns where blue and red, democrats and Republicans, are outnumbered by a purple block of swing voters. This is the first story in a three-part series. ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER reports.

World War III. The Office of

International Students & Scholars is hosting game night tonight. Risk is likely to take on a whole different flavor when played in a room full of internationals.

Up in smoke. The BAR and

Caseus crossover pizza last night was “Smoke Show” — a smoke box barbecue pizza with smoked tomatoes and crispy chicken skins.

Surprise paintball! Cornell

students have been getting hit by paintballs in a series of drive-by’s in Ithaca according to IvyGate. The only description of the culprit is that his vehicle is a dark colored sedan. The case has been taken on by the local police, though no students have been seriously injured.

“So even if other Ivies might make fun of Cornell for its rustic sensibilities, at least Ithaca has crime statistics that would make Yale jealous,” according to IvyGate.

Parking lot to become grad housing

BY HAILEY WINSTON STAFF REPORTER In a massive transformation, the vacant parking lot next to Tyco Printing on Elm Street will become home to suite-style apartments for dozens of graduate and professional students.

The Graduate & Professional Student Housing Committee, which brings together administrators and graduate student representatives, has worked to revitalize the empty space by developing new Yale-owned apartments for graduate students, Deputy Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Janet Lindner said. Specific plans and timeline for the project are still in the development stages, Lindner added.

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The parking lot on Elm Street next to Tyco Printing will be turned into housing for graduate and professional students.

Where the cultured were.

The Brentano String Quartet performed Tuesday night in the Morse Recital Hall.

Questions on Yale pesticide use persist

Sisters from another Ivy League school. During

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Princeton’s sorority recruitment process this year, two hundred and eight-three women participated. Princeton also has chapters of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Alpha Gamma and Pi Phi. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

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Some New Haven residents fear the repercussions of Yale’s use of pesticides, even if used in legal amounts.

After a long battle with Yale’s administration, some New Haven residents are still questioning the University’s use of pesticides, which they said have infiltrated surrounding neighborhoods.

Laura Cahn, who lives on Cleveland Avenue bordering Yale’s athletic fields, has been leading efforts against the University’s pesticide use for several years. Cahn said that in the past Yale has sprayed athletic fields, residential college sidewalks, city sidewalks and tree beds with pesticides. This year she noticed pesticides were being sprayed on either side of Central Avenue and that the workers were not wearing any

protective gear. Cahn and other neighbors are concerned that these chemicals are jeopardizing local water and posing public health threats to neighbors, workers and students.

“I’ve smelled that smell before,” Cahn said about the pesticides which she said were sprayed this past August.

The University said Yale’s actions are legal. According to University Spokesman Tom Conroy, Yale only uses approved products and methods and that there have been no violations of environmental regulations.

Even if the University is using approved amounts of pesticides, small mistakes in their application could lead to problems for the environment, said Joel SEE PESTICIDES PAGE 8

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We’re not selling out I

t is that special time of year again: job recruitment season. Seniors scurry about from job fair to information session to coffee chat, exhausted, confused and desperate for employment. And, as we all know, the majority of job fairs, information sessions and coffee chats they attend will be with firms in consulting and finance.

I wish I could write a column decrying this unfortunate societal fact; it practically writes itself. But I cannot because: a) it would be deeply hypocritical (I most likely will be working for a hedge fund next year) and b) I do not really think it is all that bad, or at least not bad in the way people usually describe.

I think the reason so many of us feel vaguely uncomfortable with taking a job in consulting or finance, and why some choose to publicly decry it, is the sense that in doing so we are selling out. For many of us the mantra of our lives has been to follow our passions. There are certain activities, we are told, which will bring unique meaning to our lives and that should guide our choices of employment.

But many of my peers and I are discovering that we do not have any obvious passions.

Or rather, our passions do not transfer easily to employment.

There are some jobs we know we do not want to do for various reasons and perhaps we have far-flung aspirations for positions we want to hold when we are 50, but neither of these provide much guidance as to what we want to do for the first few years after graduation. Finance and consulting firms take advantage of this uncertainty and provide a structured transition into adult life.

Taking one of these jobs is not selling out because, for the most part, we have nothing to sell.

We are not turning our backs on our loves. The popular conception of passion — as some inherent quality that presents itself and then guides one’s life — is not the whole story. Passion is developed. People learn to find meaning in their work, and their lives more generally, and in the process attain fulfillment. Few people grow up passionate about accounting, or sales, or indeed finance or consulting, and yet thousands of people lead meaningful lives in those very professions.

A job in finance or consulting provides an opportunity to develop passions relevant to the working world. They can teach you to love working with a team, or the excitement of delivering a product, or the thrill of speaking in public. I do not think these industries are uniquely well suited to the development of these passions, but then they are not uniquely flawed either.

Combine that with the fact that they are readily available, they pay well and open other doors, and it makes sense that so many

seniors will flock to these jobs. I certainly think they are as well suited to the task as most other jobs in the ISA private secQASIM tor.

A job in The finance or consulting, Passerby indeed really any job right out of college, should be viewed as an opportunity for self-creation. It gives us the chance to craft our passions, to discover what motivates our work. That will then inform our adult lives.

Of course, there is a downside to the ubiquity of finance and consulting on campus. These industries carry with them a level of prestige and some students seek to use that prestige as a proxy for passion. Instead of looking at these jobs as opportunities to discover what they enjoy, what they dislike and what excites them in the working world, these students view them as the first steps to an illdefined career of acclaim, in which content is secondary to popular regard.

When that is the case, finance and consulting become crutches that we lean upon instead of standing on our own two feet.

They hinder our development.

This, I believe, is the real danger of these jobs. They are not much worse, nor much better, than most first jobs out of college. But they open the path to a seductive complacency. Just as a Yale education means nothing if all you got from it was the name, two years at Bain or Goldman is a waste if all it ends up being is a line on your resume.

We are responsible for shaping our lives. It is an intimidating task, but one that must be taken on. Our careers are a way to do that. We are extremely fortunate to have the chance to work in competitive industries.

We should not feel guilt taking advantage of these opportunities but we cannot waste them in the pursuit prestige.

ISA QASIM is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at isa.qasim@yale.edu .

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Beat the FOMO I

can’t remember the first time I heard the term FOMO, but I remember silently remarking upon how accurate it was — and how shamefully relevant it was to my life. Whether scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed or catching up with friends on a Sunday morning after a night of staying in, FOMO certainly has a presence in my life at Yale.

The acronym has now become somewhat ubiquitous, standing for “fear of missing out.” It describes the social anxieties we feel when we, for whatever reason, are unable to attend certain events and gatherings. I’ve always thought of myself as a secure person, generally unfazed by quotidian social dramas. Yet I definitely feel the effects of FOMO, when I get uneasy about missing the most trivial events.

For me, and probably for most of us, FOMO was at its strongest freshman year. Every event was a chance to find new friends, and so everything I missed resonated as an opportunity lost. As a junior I have a close-knit group

of friends and I know that staying in to study on a weekend won’t affect that (and for the record, I also now know ALLY that friendDANIELS ships aren’t fostered at Taking the Toad’s). But still, every Back Ally so often I get that nagging anxiety, that little voice telling me this weekend, that party, that one dinner I missed was the very best of the year.

For the next two weekends, I will be out of town for family obligations and for whatever reason that is causing me angst.

I feel confident in my relationships, so what is causing this anxiety? I think it’s a sense, one not entirely warranted, that the weekends are the only time to truly let go and catch up with friends.

At Yale, our weekdays are jampacked with classes, meetings and practices. Everybody has her own schedule and extracurricular activities. We often have a sense that we can’t afford to set aside time to simply hang out so it can be easy to go an entire day without seeing some of our closest friends. Even with my roommates, it is rare for all of us to be awake in our apartment at the same time because we are on such different schedules. With all of our varying classes and activities, it is easiest for us to rely on the weekend to see each other and catch up.

All too often, we try to separate our social life from our academics; we study hard on weekdays so that when we are finished we can spend time with our friends without having to worry about work. But there is no good reason for this harsh divide we draw between our hangout time and our studies. In fact, it’s not healthy for us to act as though our academic and social modes are so distinct.

College affords us the freedom to build our own schedules, moving beyond the strict routines of high school. And we should take full advantage of that freedom by integrating work and play, finding a balance between the two. Rather than reserving weekends for socializing, we can carve out time for friends in our daily routines. Go to the gym or the library together, take time to share meals and sacrifice half an hour of sleep to catch up with roommates at the end of the day.

Rather than getting upset about missing the next few weekends at school, I’m going to make a conscious effort to beat the FOMO. After all, I’m realizing I’m not missing out on my only chance to connect with friends — those opportunities come every day. If we build our schedules with more intention and thought, there’s no reason to ever feel we’re missing out.

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

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Stifling our cuisine

The full-page ad in last Tuesday’s News in which Chef Stu Comen laments the centralization of food preparation is indeed alarming, not just for the future of dining hall excellence but for what this kind of corporate thinking might point to in educational policy. It is true that centralization and standardization help assure a certain level of quality. If we are talking about soup preparation, then centralization might help assure that one particular chef in a certain college does not oversalt or overpepper the soup to his particular taste, thus rendering it inedible by many. But the same centralization stymies invention, individuality, creativity and personality — whether in food preparation or education.

We have seen that “common core” can help schools that were failing students rise to a certain level of minimal competence. But the same common core can stifle the spirit of teachers and students alike, keeping teachers from adding works of literature, for example, that do not conform to the same, dull round that has been centrally determined. Bill Gates’ Big History Project similarly has the ability, if it is not strictly imposed, of offering a more thoughtful approach to some fundamental questions; but if mandated, the Big Project can easily become a Big Mistake, of monstrous proportions and consequences.

There is a line, not perhaps a direct budget line, but a line of reasoning, that connects centralized food preparation to Internet instruction and cost-saving devices such as large lecture courses.

And there is an irony that our students, who prize their right to “shop” their courses, are finding that there is no longer any reason to shop their dining halls now that the salad bar is the same wherever they go.

As a member of the English Department, I am particularly grateful to my extraordinary colleague Janice Carlisle for insuring that all sections of English 114 adhere to certain minimum standards in the teaching of composition; but I am ever so much more grateful for her protecting the right of each instructor to shape the syllabus and assignments to his or her own taste and vision. Once we eliminate the analogous combination of virtues from the dining halls, the intellectual fare may be next in line.

LESLIE BRISMAN Sep. 16 The writer is a professor of English.

On climate, now or never As the U.N. Climate Summit 2014 begins, xpectations are running high on whether we will be able to achieve a new global climate agreement.

But even with the impressive range of countries represented at the summit, skepticism remains.

I do not entirely blame those who have lost hope in the U.N. climate negotiations. So far, the U.N. climate talks have missed just about every deadline.

The developed nations promised two decades ago to halt their rise in GHG emissions but carbon levels continue to rise. Next we were promised a sequel to Kyoto in 2009 and the Copenhagen talks failed.

Now we have a 2015 deadline to get a binding agreement that will enter into force after the extension of the Kyoto expires in 2020.

But who’s to say that the buck won’t be passed on again!

In this globally relevant time period, I will try my hardest to look for hope.

Here are signs of hope: First, an interesting act on part of the UN Secretary General has been to extend invitations to several business leaders and CEOs. These companies will be keeping a close eye on environmental policy outcomes, making this important Summit not only a political gathering but also a conglomeration industries and corporations.

Second, another interesting development in

the talks is the birth of a new negotiating alliance from Latin America and the Caribbean. Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama and Guatemala and several island nations like Maldives have turned on the heat on the larger nations. These countries have emerged as an important bloc that stimulates the otherwise selective discussions.

Third, the participation of young people in the negotiations has been extremely encouraging. As observers, trackers, advisers, activists or media reporters, young people have kept the pressure on!

The creation of the Arab Youth Climate Movement along with several other regional movements makes me believe that all is not yet lost. There is much to do and the road to Paris has just begun but I have no doubt that our spirit and energy shall fuel these talks.

The rhetoric is high, but then so are the stakes.

The lives and livelihoods of millions will be on the table in New York and Paris.

RIDDHIMA YADAV Sep. 18 The writer is a freshman in Ezra Stiles College.

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The article “Yalies storm streets to protest climate change” misspelled the name of Yale Student Environmental Coalition President Daniel Leibovic.

City leaders reaffirm support for YouthStat

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER Flanked by leaders from New Haven’s police, fire, education and parks departments, Mayor Toni Harp reflected on the success of the city’s antiviolence youth programs over the past year in a Tuesday afternoon press conference.

Harp and New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman led a joint press conference at the New Haven Police Department’s Union Avenue headquarters to discuss the role of initiatives like YouthStat in the overall drop in violent crime since 2011.

Also on hand were New Haven Fire Department Chief Allyn Wright, New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries ’95, Youth Services Director Jason Bartlett and Parks, Recreation and Trees Director Rebecca Bombero — each of whom spoke about the specific program backed by their respective departments.

“There are signs of progress to report and reasons to be very hopeful,” Harp said. “It is very important for city residents — those who work here — business owners and visitors to be aware of this encouraging trend.

All credit for this progress goes to the idea of community-based policing.”

Harp focused on decreases in three areas of crime — shooting homicides, non-fatal shootings and shots fired — as indicators that the Elm City’s streets have grown safer under Esserman’s watch. The latter two metrics have both dropped consistently between 2011 and 2014, while homicides have settled near half the 2011 total of 25 over the past three years.

In addition to Esserman’s overall approach to policing, Harp cited the collaboration across departments and with the private sector as critical factors in the city’s progress.

“It’s numbers, but for us, it’s names — it’s not statistics, it’s stories,” Esserman said. “But every category in crime is down in the city. For a city to thrive … it must be safe and it must be sacred, and we are moving in that direction.”

Harries also provided a set of numbers, detailing the performance of the city’s YouthStat program, which launched in April to engage at-risk youth and to connect them to beneficial

opportunities in order to prevent them from slipping into a life of crime.

Three hundred thirty-three students have entered the program, 200 of whom remain in constant contact with YouthStat directors at the request of their parents, Harries said. He added that more than 100 enrolled in summer activities through the city’s resources, and Bartlett said that 88 were connected to jobs in the same way.

Harries went on to say that the mission driving these programs is a desire to engage youth who might be coerced into illegal activity if they remained idle for an extended period of time over the summer — the same thinking that prompted some city schools to remain open beyond their normal operating hours.

Michael Steers, a regional administrator for the Connecticut Department of Children and Families, emphasized the innovative nature of YouthStat programs as a key driver of its success.

“The Mayor’s leadership has brought YouthStat to New Haven and it has really, in my experience and knowledge, been cutting edge,” Steers said. “It mirrors, in many ways, the practice changes that we’re trying to bring to the department, and we’re very excited.”

Despite the reach of YouthStat and its constituent initiatives, Harp said that all costs remained within the original city budget.

Wright and other members of the fire department were active in the mentorship opportunities offered through the program, participating in door-to-door canvassing efforts to directly engage local youth, efforts that were supplemented by programs offering athletic avenues to participants.

He went a step further, offering his personal help to any child who feels in danger.

“I want everyone to know that a fire department is never closed, and if any kid is in danger or feels that he’s in harm’s way … we will have an open door for him and make sure that it is safe for him until we get the necessary help,” Wright said.

So far in 2014, there have been 11 fatal shootings, 46 non-fatal shootings and 133 shots fired in New Haven.

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

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“Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants” features live ants, model ants, a robotic ant and close-up photography.

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday evening, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, best known for its nearly hundred foot dinosaurs, welcomed some of the tiniest creatures in the animal kingdom to its newest exhibit, “Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants.”

A welcome reception saw a crowd of over 40 people at the newest temporary exhibition, just an hour after the curators made the final touches to some of the displays.

Although the traveling exhibit was curated by the Smithsonian and focuses on close-up photography of ants, nearly all of the display cases contain additional materials from the Peabody, including both live and model ants. While the live specimen displays presented some challenges to the curators, Director of Public Programs Richard Kissel said he could not be happier with how the displays turned out.

“Sometimes our exhibits are focusing on something that’s entirely exotic to people or something they have never experienced,” said Peabody Director David Skelly.

“Everyone knows what an ant is, and, to me, natural history museums are about curiosity. Almost every child has an experience with an insect

early on in their lives, it is one of the first foreign life forms people first come into contact with.”

The exhibit features pictures of just some of the over 20,000 ant species that hail from all corners of the globe.

Also on display are aluminum molds of real ant nests, ant predator specimens and live Connecticut ants.

Everyone knows what an ant is, and, to me, natural history museums are about curiosity.

DAVID SKELLY Director, Peabody Museum of Natural History Bringing the live specimens into the exhibit posed a challenge to the curators, said Larry Gall, head of computer systems at the Peabody.

At first, the planners hoped to create an eight foot long ant farm, but it soon became apparent that local ants could not dig a colony of that size so quickly. Next, the curators looked to put the ants behind a Plexiglass display, though they were unsure whether a colony could thrive in the environment. While Peabody

staff located three ant species that perform well in the Plexiglass conditions, they are still searching for the best fit.

The exhibit also marks the second time that the Peabody used a 3-D printer to recreate an object for an exhibit. With the help of Trevor Williams, a systems administrator at the Yale School of Architecture, the curators created ant models scaled to 100 times their natural size. Using 3-D printing to create objects is much more time efficient and accurate than traditional sculpting methods, and will likely become standard practice at the museum, according to Laura Friedman, an exhibit designer at the Peabody.

The exhibit does not officially open to the public until Saturday, when scavenger hunts, puppet shows, hatmaking, ant-featured games will take place throughout the museum. Included in the festivities is the opportunity to snack on ants and crickets, some covered in chocolate and some raw, said Josue Irizarry, Peabody events coordinator and camp director.

On Saturday, visitors will also play with a robotic ant created by Yale undergraduates in an engineering class last semester. The model is aimed to help children to learn about how ants use chemical communication —

and not eyesight — to navigate their environments.

The museum has developed an hour long program for local students that teach some basic topics in evolutionary biology, such as adaptations and their social behavior, said David Heiser, head of education and outreach at the Peabody.

Howie Xu ’17, who works in the discovery room at the Peabody, said he thinks the exhibit complements the Peabody’s permanent Discovery Room, which contains a popular display of live leafcutter ants.

Peabody entomologist and exhibit lead curator Leonard Munstermann said he does not know how the public will respond to the exhibit but recalled audiences’ reactions to “Invasion of the Bloodsuckers,” a 2011 exhibit about blood-sucking bugs, which he said captured the imagination of some while repulsing others.

“The human race is of course doomed to extinction in 20 to 50 thousand years, and you know, it’s a toss-up whether the ants or the termites will take over when that happens” Munstermann said.

The exhibit, which is located on the first floor of the museum, closes on Jan. 4.

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

Yale eyes federal financial aid legislation

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER As lawmakers in Washington, D.C. gear up to potentially pass new legislation on federal student aid, universities across the country — including Yale — are paying close attention.

The Higher Education Act is a landmark piece of legislation that was first signed into law under President Lyndon Johnson, governing the administration of federal student aid programs such as Pell Grants. The act, which was last amended in 2008 and is up for reauthorization after it expires at the end of 2014, determines how federal dollars are awarded to colleges and students, touching on areas ranging from loan limits to accreditation — though the funds themselves are provided by Congress’s Appropriations Committees.

Yale and other universities are taking an active interest in seeing that the act is reauthorized soon, and with a number of specific reforms.

“Yale would like very much to see the Higher Education Act reauthorized. The debate about reauthorization is still at an early

stage,” said University Associate Vice President for State and Federal Relations Richard Jacob, adding that the reauthorization process typically takes three to five years.

Barry Toiv, the vice president for public affairs at the Association of American Universities, said he is confident that an HEA reauthorization bill will be passed, but the timeline for it cannot be predicted.

Proposals on how to reform the act have proliferated, with ideas ranging from holding colleges more accountable for costs and outcomes, to providing more counseling for federal student loan borrowers.

Yale is looking to ensure the authorization of federal financial aid programs such as Pell Grants and Federal Work Study. The University also has an interest in expanding federal financial support for graduate and professional students, who typically pay higher interest rates on their loans than undergraduates, Jacob said.

Other priorities for Yale include restoring the funding for international and area studies programs — which was cut in fiscal year 2012 — and streamlining the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

While the push for new legislation in Washington occurs at a high level, its impact will ultimately be felt by students. For instance, Matt Glover ‘15 said that the FAFSA form was “outdated” and difficult to fill out.

“It’s hard to figure out what the form is asking for in a lot of instances,” Glover said.

Lastly, Jacob added, the University is prioritizing a review of federal higher education regulations and their associated costs.

Dianne Miller, Cornell’s director of federal relations identified similar priorities, adding that Cornell is actively lobbying on the HEA and plans to “step up [its] activity as Congress becomes more fully engaged on the issue.”

But in Washington, nothing moves quickly. The act is unlikely to be reauthorized by the time Congress leaves for the holidays on Dec. 12.

Several education professionals who are following the reauthorization of the act suggested that the field of higher education can be unusually fertile ground for bipartisanship in Washington. But rather than attempt to reform the act in one omni-

bus bill, they said, Washington’s focus has shifted to reform through a piecemeal approach.

“Many issues in higher education attract bipartisan support, so there really shouldn’t be a reason to not achieve most of the policy goals being advanced,” said Dennis Cariello, the higher education legal practice group leader at law firm DLA Piper.

“Also, Education and Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline’s process of passing smaller higher education bills — as opposed to a massive omnibus reauthorization — does a good job of focusing on areas in which everyone agrees.”

Cariello said there seems to be “real consensus” on the need to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the form that students must fill out to receive federal financial aid.

On the other hand, some lawmakers have argued that a piecemeal approach will not do enough to lower the cost of higher education.

“We must move quickly and decisively to make college more accessible and affordable, to increase oversight and quality assurance of colleges and loan

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President Lyndon Johnson signed the Higher Education Act into law. servicers, and to promote new and innovative practices that can reduce student loan debt,” U.S. Rep. George Miller of California said in a statement over the summer. “And this can only happen through a full-scale rewrite of the Higher Education Act.” And despite opportunities for cooperation, partisan polarization in Washington could ultimately derail efforts at major

reforms. According to Toiv, the issue is “just one more barrier to overcome for what has become a very complex legislative package.”

The Higher Education Act was first signed into law on Nov. 8, 1965.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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“If it weren’t for electricity, we’d all be watching television by candlelight.”

GEORGE GOBEL AMERICAN COMEDIAN

LabCandy surpasses fundraising goal

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER When Olivia Pavco-Giaccia ’16 packed her bags for her junior year at Yale, her focus hardly revolved around cardboard boxes and rolling suitcases. Instead, Pavco-Giaccia’s attention was on the launch of the first Kickstarter campaign for her startup, LabCandy, which designs and produces fashionable lab gear meant to inspire young girls to pursue the sciences.

By the time Pavco-Giaccia was fully unpacked three days later in late August, LabCandy had met it’s initial fundraising goal of $20,000. In three week’s time, that number would hit over $30,000.

“We got our Kickstarter page together, pressed ‘go’ and held our breath,” Pavco-Giaccia said of the launch.

What began as a venture at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute in January 2013 has grasped the attention of young girls worldwide. The LabCandy line consists of a colorful lab coat, a pair of do-it-yourself goggles, and a storybook entitled “Ava and the Copper Key.” The children’s story — which Pavco-Giaccia wrote herself — tells the tale of a girl who uses science to solve a challenge. At the back of each storybook is a “recipe card” so that young readers can conduct the same experiments Ava uses in the book in their own homes.

Pavco-Giaccia said LabCandy products aim to change the stereotype around “what a scientist looks like,” adding that the line was inspired by her own experience as young student with few female scientists to look up to.

The $31,035 raised through

the Kickstarter campaign came through 304 backers, and PavcoGiaccia said that orders for LabCandy gear have come from as far away as Australia and Japan.

Before launching her campaign, Pavco-Giaccia said she spent months researching and talking to manufacturers to determine exactly how LabCandy products were going to be produced.

“You can’t really launch until you know exactly who is making your products because if you don’t know that, then you don’t know how to price things,” Pavco-Giaccia said.

For much of the summer, Pavco-Giaccia visited shops and manufacturers in New York’s garment district, testing out different textiles and fabrics for the lab coat before arriving at the right thickness and texture.

Then followed nailing down the designs and sizing of the coat itself.

In addition to the physical gear, Pavco-Giaccia said she originally sought a professional illustrator to bring Ava and her story into full color. When that plan hit a dead end, Pavco-Giaccia said she did what has become a common maneuver when it comes to LabCandy: reaching out on social media.

A simple Facebook post is what led her to Emily Monjaraz ’14. After Monjaraz submitted a test drawing for the storybook, Pavco-Giaccia said the two clicked.

“I was lucky that I had that connection and that I found her,” Pavco-Giaccia said. “It is amazing being surrounded by cool and intelligent people who are passionate about what they do and are good at what they do.”

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Through the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute in January 2013, Olivia Pavco-Giaccia ’16 started LabCandy, a line of fashionable lab gear for young girls.

Monjaraz said she wanted to join the LabCandy team because she appreciated the idea that girls could also be portrayed as scientists. Unlike existing book series like the “American Girl” series, Monjaraz said LabCandy helps to create a more well-

rounded image of what young girls can be.

Alena Gribskov, Program Director at the YEI, said it was “definitely impressive” that LabCandy managed to raised $20,000 in three days. Gribskov added that YEI programs are

meant to support Yale students taking on business endeavors they are passionate about.

Though the target age for LabCandy customers stops at third grade, Gribskov is undeterred.

“I can’t wait to get my Lab-

Candy gear,” she said.

According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 24 percent of STEM related jobs are occupied by women.

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

Negativity dominates gov. race

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER According to campaign ads blaring in living rooms across Connecticut, incumbent Gov. Dannel Malloy is “angry” for no apparent reason, while his opponent, Republican Tom Foley, is a “radical” right-winger.

The two 30-second spots — “Angry Dan” and “Radical” — highlight a national trend: Campaign ads this midterm season are more negative than in 2012 and 2010. Nationwide, according to a report published last week by the Wesleyan Media Project, 44 percent of ads in gubernatorial races are negative, compared to 34 percent in 2010. Of the four ads on Malloy’s campaign YouTube channel, two attack Foley. Of Foley’s 10 ads published on YouTube, four deride Malloy.

The reason for this trend is simple, said Ron Schurin, the associate professor of American Government and Politics at the University of Connecticut.

“Everyone criticizes negative advertising, but it works,” Schurin said. “They wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work.”

At the same time, an influx of outside spending has led to still more ads blanketing the airwaves. Connecticut’s campaign finance laws require political action committees (PACs) that support candidates for state office to have a state voter as treasurer. Thus, several national groups have established Connecticut-based offshoots.

The Republican Governors Association has already donated over $2 million to a PAC called Grow Connecticut, which has purchased television, radio, direct mail and web ads, supporting Foley’s candidacy.

The Democratic Governors Association has donated $1.25 million to Connecticut Forward. The pro-Malloy group has also received millions from the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Schurin said all of the ads he has

seen sponsored by outside groups are negative.

Spokespeople for both campaigns defended their ads. Mark Bergman, a spokesman for the Malloy campaign, said the ads present voters with two competing visions for the future of Connecticut.

Chris Cooper, a spokesman for Foley, said the team never runs ads that exclusively attack Malloy.

Instead, several of his ads, including “Angry Dan,” begin with a narrator criticizing Malloy while ominous black and white photos of the governor flash, but at about the 15-second mark, the gloom lifts and Foley appears, intently listening to professionals in various fields.

“They’re called contrast pieces and what they’re designed to do is show the governor’s record and show a positive record for how to move forward,” Cooper said.

Everyone criticizes negative adverstising, but it works.

They wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work.

RON SCHURIN Associate professor, University of Connecticut Tomas Albergo ’16, who is taking the semester off and living at home in Guilford, said he has seen many negative ads on local cable networks. Albergo believes the ads make it more difficult for voters to make an informed decision in November.

“Though there have been character or evidence ads supporting either candidate, they seem to be drowned by the constant negativity,” Albergo said. “Instead of doing extra research to learn more, one has to do it for a base understanding.”

The Wesleyan Media Project report showed that over 1,300 pro-Malloy ads have aired in Connecticut, compared to just under 600 pro-Foley ads. Nationwide, in gubernatorial

races there were about 5,000 more pro-Republican than pro-Democrat ads.

Despite the advertising advantage he currently enjoys — in part because of outside spending — Bergman said that Malloy favors campaign finance restrictions.

“We don’t have control over what outside groups do in the state,” Bergman said.

Though the race is already tense, it could take on an even more rancorous tone in the final push to Election Day, Schurin said. He thinks groups could be waiting to dump money into the state to sway voters just before they head to the polls.

Recent filings with the State Elections Enforcement Commission show that more PACs may be joining the Connecticut fray. While Connecticut Forward and Grow Connecticut have been active for months, pro-Malloy Common Sense Connecticut filed its first independent expenditure report on Sept. 19. The group is funded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s national PAC, Americans for Responsible Solutions, which funds politicians who support gun control measures such as universal background checks.

Treasurer of Common Sense Connecticut Susan Voigt said she was contacted a few weeks ago about becoming the PAC’s treasurer.

Though she runs the local PAC, her role is primarily to approve expenditures dictated by national donors, she said.

Voigt said she is still waiting to see whether massive outside spending negatively impacts the Democratic process.

“It really depends on what happens with the money,” Voigt said. “I do think though that this political system is going to be as good as we can make it.”

Nationally, about 30 percent of all campaign ads were sponsored by interest group, according to a report by the Wesleyan Media Project.

Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

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Gov. Dannel Malloy (above) and Republican Tom Foleyhave been the subject of many attack ads.

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“Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.” SAMUEL GOMPERS AMERICAN LABOR LEADER

Grad students hope for more campus housing HOUSING FROM PAGE 1

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The housing initiative would provide more graduate students with on-campus housing, with suite styles comparable to the residential colleges’.

ing for grad students and the University will certainly announce plans once they’re in place and approved,” said Lindner, who led the Committee alongside Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kim Goff-Crews ’83 LAW ’86.

At the start of the last academic year, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) worked with the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) to aggregate feedback from students about housing options on and off-campus. In general, students voiced concerns about being treated poorly by some New Haven landlords and expressed the need for additional Yale-sponsored housing, said Lauren Tilton GRD ’16, who serves as the GPSS Advocacy Chair.

“I think there’s general excitement that we might be able to offer more options for housing so that students don’t feel like they have to settle with landlords who don’t seem committed to their properties or their tenants,” Tilton said.

The housing committee has worked to add apartment-style units in the site of the parking lot, unlike the current dormstyle housing available in the Hall of Graduate Students (HGS). Wendy Xiao GRD ’17, who serves as Chair of the GSA Facilities and Healthcare Committee, has recommended that units in the new apartments be suite-style, complete with kitchens, four

bedrooms, two bathrooms and a central living area.

This design, Tilton added, will help to create a better sense of community within the building itself through suite-style spaces that facilitate all graduate student living needs.

“When you have a good place to live and like where you live, it’s one less stressor in their life,” Tilton said. “For undergrads, the colleges are your space, and we want grad students to have that too.”

While some graduate students prefer off-campus housing, others students desire the convenience of the on-campus experience, according to Joori Park GRD ’17 Chair of the Graduate Student Assembly.

New on-campus units will cater specifically to students who prefer to live on campus, such as many international students who may not have the option of looking at apartments before moving to New Haven, Park said.

The reliability and convenient location that come with University-sponsored housing is crucial for them, Park added.

“There’s no one solution for graduate students,” Park said. “But the Graduate and Professional student dormitory on Elm Street is a step in the right direction.”

Currently, the only Yale-sponsored housing for graduate students near central campus is located in HGS, which houses 168 students.

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

Two alums fight to paint shoreline blue SHORELINE FROM PAGE 1 acres of farmland and marshes, miles of hiking trails and flocks of hawks and falcons. Historic homes line Route 1, the main thoroughfare running through these towns.

Even the homes that do not boast historical landmark status are large and remote from their neighbors, dotting backwoods roads and cul-de-sacs. Notables ranging from Jim Calhoun, the retired head coach of the University of Connecticut’s powerhouse men’s basketball team, to Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of the New York Times, have vacation homes here.

The quiet charm of these shoreline communities belies the fervor with which two Yalies, both Democrats, are mounting first-time bids for elected office in overlapping districts along the coast.

Ted Kennedy Jr. FES ’91, a health care lawyer and scion of the most famous political family in U.S. history, is running for Connecticut state senate in the 12th District, which includes Madison, Branford, North Branford, Guilford, Durham and Killingworth.

Kennedy faces Republican businessman Bruce Wilson Jr. in the race to replace Edward Meyer ’57 LAW ’61, who is resigning his seat after a decade on the job.

Even with Meyer’s resignation, Yale Law School may not lose representation on the shoreline. Not if Alex Taubes LAW ’15 — a 25-year-old, champion collegiate debater and Democrat — can wrest the 101st House District from incumbent state rep. Noreen Kokoruda, 67.

A Republican, Kokoruda has represented the district, which includes Madison and part of Durham, since 2011. Before that, she served 14 years on Madison’s Board of Selectmen.

Gary Rose, who chairs the department of government and politics at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, said a Democratic victory in these towns would solidify a broader shift in partisan politics in the state.

Conventional wisdom holds that Connecticut is sharply divided between urban blue — New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford — and suburban red — Darien, Greenwich and New Canaan.

That view overlooks creeping progressivism, Rose said, pointing in particular to swing towns that line the shoreline on the outskirts of New Haven.

For the most part, these are wealthy communities. Madison’s median family income is $125,199, the 22nd most prosperous in the state. Yet there are residents who feel the weight of unemployment; these towns are not impervious to economic trends that have sacked cities like New Haven and Hartford.

“The recession officially ended five years ago,” Kennedy said, but for the average person, it does not feel that way.

Because that sentiment prevails among voters, the candidates are in the precarious position of trying to motivate their base while distancing themselves from the Democrat at the top of the ticket.

On a late August weekend, in a two-room-warehouse-turnedDemocratic-headquarters in Madison, Jean Fischer, who was nearing her 84th birthday at the time, was picking up call sheets to make calls for Taubes. On the sheets — prepared in VoteBuilder, an online voter database system marketed as “the indispensible tool for winning elections” — one column was struck through in red Sharpie: the instruction to ask voters about Governor Dannel Malloy.

“He’s going to do badly here,” Taubes said of the governor, who is up for reelection against Tom Foley, a Greenwich businessman and Republican. “We don’t ask people about Malloy.”

Two weekends later, Kennedy offered a similar appraisal, though his words were less blunt: “I think it’s going to be a close race.”

Instead of state party affiliation, then, these two candidates are emphasizing their local roots. Taubes was raised in Madison, and Kennedy, who turns 53 on Friday, has lived in the area for about 30 years. Twenty of them were spent in Branford, his current home.

They are also glued to the campaign trail, insisting on faceto-face interactions with voters. Kennedy said he learned this brand of politics from his father, the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy.

With a young staff schooled in the Obama-style ground game, Taubes thinks he will win by out-

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Ted Kennedy Jr. FES ’91, a health care lawyer, is running for the 12th District seat in the Connecticut state senate. working his opponent. At the Connecticut Democratic State Convention in May, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy took Taubes aside for a lesson in local politics, the young candidate recalled.

“You’re running for state rep … you’re the same age I was when I first ran,” Taubes recalled the first-term senator from Connecticut telling him. “I have one piece of advice: knock on doors.”

At each door, Taubes and Kennedy are telling personal stories that, while otherwise considerably different, both feature chapters at Yale and in New Haven.

For Taubes, attending law school at Yale meant the chance to do clinic work in New Haven.

The summer after his first year, he worked on economic development in the city, an experience he said shaped his understanding of inequality and economic stagnation. He would later offer thenmayoral candidate Toni Harp advice before debates. Last fall’s

election, he said, informed his decision to return to his parents’ house at the beginning of the year and run for office in his hometown. Harp, unlike her opponent, was “of New Haven,” he said. He wanted similarly deep ties to the community he would be asking to elect him.

Kennedy’s schooling, political and otherwise, spans Connecticut and Massachusetts, the latter state’s political history all but synonymous with his last name.

He broke with his family’s predilection for Harvard and went to college at Wesleyan instead. He would return to Connecticut several years later for master’s work in New Haven at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Abjuring politics for years, Kennedy is now entering the family business — but in Connecticut and on a more local scale than has been Kennedy tradition.

Still, there is fanfare. At the

candidate’s announcement this spring, at a local public library in Branford, guests held signs that read, “Finally!”

There was scarcely a stop on Kennedy’s Saturday tour of Branford, Madison and Guilford in which he went unrecognized.

Some greeted him as they would a celebrity, saying they had seen his picture in the paper when he was a kid. Others began rattling off demands, presuming his victory.

“Forgive me for recognizing you — you’re not exactly incognito,” Beverly Keener, a vendor at the Dudley Farm in Guilford, told the candidate.

This excitement will cause Democratic voters to turn out in droves, Taubes predicted. Even if voters have lost faith in the governor, he said, their support for shoreline Democrats reveals a deeper optimism about Connecticut’s future — a trust that economic conditions will improve with continued investment.

Fischer, who has nearly 60 years on the candidate for whom she was making calls, put it more simply. The race is about whether these towns will become more like Greenwich and the rest of Fairfield County, or whether they will remain accessible to mixedincome people, perhaps even those coming from the county’s urban core, New Haven.

“He’s up against real hard stuff,” she said, assessing Taubes’ chances.

She had little patience for being interviewed, turning instead to her candidate, coaching him on his message, on vote-pulling and on self-promotion. Stand in front of the table to shake voters’ hands, she told him.

Leaning forward, Taubes rested his clasped hands on his knees and listened.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

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“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.”

MALCOLM X AFRICAN-AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Downtown Ithaca incubator opens doors to entrepreneurs CORNELL

BY TYLER ALICEA University administrators, local officials and entrepreneurs gathered in downtown Ithaca early Monday morning to celebrate the grand opening of “Rev: Ithaca Startup Works,” a new business incubator supported in part by Cornell.

The downtown business incubator opened its doors Monday at 314 East State St. in the Carey Building, nearly nine months after administrators of Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College — which are operating the incubator together — addressed members of the media in the construction space, bare with wires hanging from the ceiling.

“Those of you who were here in January remember the bare spaces, the dangling wires,” said Tom Rochon, president of Ithaca College. “I came in [before construction began] and almost wanted to find the real space where we would be standing.”

However, when administrators spoke of the space Monday, they lauded the work of all of the partners involved in the collaboration.

“I believe this is the first time that all three institutions have come together in supporting a visionary vision such as this,” said Carl Haynes, president of Tompkins Cortland Community College.

Rev, a part of the Southern Tier Innovation Hot Spot economic development program, earned its funding from the New York State Regional Economic Development Council in 2013 and is currently housing four startups.

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Administrators from Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College, as well as local officials and entrepreneurs, gathered for the opening of the new downtown incubator.

Businesses that “graduate” from the incubator will be eligible to apply for additional benefits through the START-UP N.Y. program that provides tax-free zones for businesses that form and remain in the state.

The space — located downtown rather than on campus, meaning the property is not tax-exempt — will help benefit the local community, according to Mayor Svante Myrick ‘09, who thanked Cornell President David Skorton for push-

ing to have the incubator located downtown.

Myrick added that entrepreneurs working out of the space will have access to stores and restaurants in downtown Ithaca, which he says will help boost the local economy.

Rochon echoched Myrick’s sentiments regarding the incubator, which is open to all members of the community.

“Ithaca used to make things.

You don’t always remember that.

The world valued the things that we made and the result was great jobs for the people who lived in Ithaca and in this region,” Rochon said. “We still make things, but there’s a need to do so much more.”

The incubator will also house the Southern Tier Hardware Accelerator, a program that will allow for companies to create prototypes of their products, according to Tom Schryver ‘93 MBA ‘02, executive director for new venture

advancement at Cornell.

Skorton said that the entrepreneurial space will help attract students, faculty and staff to the region to work at the three institutions.

“When we hire new faculty members, they often come from outside the Tompkins County region. A vibrant local economy helps us attract and retain those faculty members and their spouses and their partners,” Skorton said.

“A strong economy also makes the

area attractive for students and the staff members that make the institutions what they are.”

Haynes and Rochon also thanked Skorton, who they said was responsible for first arranging the joint-collaboration between the institutions. Rochon added that he thinks President Skorton’s involvement with Rev will become part of his legacy when he leaves to become the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution next year.

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Top firm to represent university

BY CHITRA MARTI STAFF WRITER The University hired an important law firm last week to represent it in a mental health lawsuit in which a student was allegedly forced to withdraw following a suicide attempt. The student, who is unnamed in court filings, sued the University in March and is representing himself.

The University is being represented by William F. Maderer, of the firm Saiber LLC, and Ryan E. San George, federal court documents show. Maderer and San George will also be representing the seven individuals named as defendants in the case, including Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey, Executive Director of University Health Services John Kolligian and University President Emerita Shirley Tilghman.

Neither Maderer nor San George responded to requests for comment.

Maderer has represented the University in the past, most notably in a case in which University admission officials allegedly used applicants’ personal information to gain access to their admission decisions from Yale back in 2002. Then-Associate Dean and Director of Admission Stephen LeMenager used applicants’ names, birth dates and social security numbers from

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their Princeton admissions files in order to get into the Yale system and see the outcomes of their appli-

cations there.

Although Tilghman maintained at the time that there was no evidence that LeMenager intended to do anything other than test the security of Yale’s website, she also said, “Violations of basic ethical principles of privacy and confidentiality are especially serious in a university that teaches these principles and counts them among its core values.”

In that case, as a result, LeMenager resigned. Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon also retired later that year.

Maderer is a managing member at Saiber, specializing in fields such as higher education law and white collar criminal defense. His profile notes that in the past he had been retained by “a prominent university to conduct independent investigation regarding allegations of improper access to computer systems and files.”

Maderer has also written several publications, most recently “Ensure You Have Safeguards for Charged Students” and “Uphold Conduct Codes While Respecting Students’ Free Speech

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Rights” earlier this year.

In this particular case, a student alleged that he was forced to leave the University following a suicide attempt. The student initially filed a complaint with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights and later sued the University and seven top officials for disability discrimination.

Princeton sought to protect itself from adverse publicity or liability.

COURT DOCUMENTS Princeton mental health lawsuit The student is seeking appropriate compensatory and punitive damages, as well as “injunctive relief” to prevent the defendants from discriminating on the basis of disability against the student or anyone else.

“As a direct result of [Princeton University’s] actions, he has experienced extreme embarrassment, continuing stress and mental anguish, as well as outof-pocket expenses, foregone wages and reputational injury,” the court documents read.

“Instead [of caring for the student’s best interests], Princeton sought to protect itself from adverse publicity or liability.”

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“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.”

JOSEPH STALIN FORMER PREMIER OF THE SOVIET UNION

Pesticide use on Yale fields under fire by some

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Some critics urge the University to become a role model in pesticide-free land maintenance altogether.

PESTICIDES FROM PAGE 1 Bader, the national coordinator for Aquatic Animal Health.

“While the science shown to the public says that the use of proper amounts of pesticides are not harmful and produce the desired results, every year there is improper application,” Bader said.

Moreover post-application rain frequently flushes pes-

ticides into the watershed, impacting wildlife and threatening public health, Bader added.

Bader said more science is needed both to better understand the effects of chemicals on public health and the surrounding ecosystems and to explore alternative, less risky methods of maintaining lawns and fields.

Jeanne Dubino, Cahn’s neigh-

bor was less critical of Yale. She said Yale has responded to her concerns by using fewer pesticides and informing neighbors of which pesticides it uses.

Yet Dubino said she is still concerned that pesticides, though considered safe now, will have unforeseen consequences.

Dubino said she would ultimately like to see Yale stop using pesticides all together.

As one of the world’s leading

universities, Dubino said Yale should ban pesticides in order to be a role model in environmental policy.

In the meantime, Cahn said she would like Yale to inform neighbors before they apply pesticides and to post pesticide flags on each gate in the neighborhood.

Fields in Branford and Cheshire have already banned pesticides, according to Jerry Silbert, the head of the Water-

shed Partnership and consultant in the conversion of Branford and Cheshire.

Though in the beginning pesticide-free field maintenance is more expensive than using such chemicals, the cost is offset in the end, Silbert said. He explained that while pesticidefree methods require more grass seeds, that cost is offset because the grass does not need to be mowed as often.

“Many people used to pesticides don’t want to switch [but] if people are motivated to do it correctly … you can get very few weeds without pesticides.”

As of now the EPA does not mandate the companies disclose the inert ingredients in their products unless they are considered “hazardous”.

Contact MARTHA LONGLEY at martha.longley@yale.edu .

Unions celebrate strike anniversary UNIONS FROM PAGE 1 and make a statement to administrators.

“I’m hoping that Yale sits back and realizes that we’re here to stay,” said Local 35 President Bob Proto. “We’ve lived in a combative relationship and we’ve lived in a collaborative relationship, and it is way better to work things out.”

Still, union members also said they hope today’s event will remind administrators in Woodbridge Hall of the benefits of working together.

“I hope they’ll come by and get some birthday cake,” Kennington said.

MOUNTING TENSION

University President Peter Salovey was just beginning his fourth year as a graduate student in Yale’s Psychology department when Local 34 workers first went on strike in late September 1984.

In contrast, nearly all of Salovey’s tenure in the Yale administration has been spent a period of relative peace between Yale and its unions. It is a peace that Salovey said he intends to keep.

“I value the contributions of all of Yale’s staff. I would like to continue building on the good relations between the University, Local 34 and Local 35 over the past few years,” Salovey said earlier this month.

But despite Salovey’s intentions, union members have grown increasingly dissatisfied in recent months. Their frustrations, already building up from the recent half-decade of budget cuts, have grown more acute since the reorganization of Yale Dining this summer.

“In the past few years it seems like we were sort of parting with Yale,” said Local 35 Vice President Frank Douglass, who also serves on the New Haven Board of Alders.

“They are taking a turn backwards

in time, creating a very hostile relationship with the unions.”

Last week, the unions filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that the University had committed unfair labor practices — the first time the union has made such a move since 2011.

In response to the complaint, University Spokesman Tom Conroy quickly replied that it was without merit, and that the changes to Yale Dining had been thoroughly discussed with employees.

But according to Yale Dining worker Samone Davis, the University has alienated many of its employees by making unilateral decisions about their employment. Although Local 35’s 2012 contract prevents the University from firing its members or lowering their wages, several dining hall staff were disappointed in the University for deciding to alter people’s jobs without consultation.

“For some people at Yale who don’t come to the dining room, it’s a business decision,” Stiles and Morse chef Ernest Ber said about the CSC. “On paper, the numbers have to add up. But for us, its more than numbers.”

A UNITED FRONT

Though the organizational changes in Yale Dining only impact Local 35 jobs, the closely aligned unions have taken the change as an affront to both groups.

“A threat to one of us is a threat to all of us,” said Maureen Jones, a vice president and founder of Local 34. Proto said he hopes the administration recognizes that neither of the two unions will “look from a distance” at the problems impacting the other.

Kennington said she feels that the dining hall changes, while disrespecting Local 35, also are a threat to the white- and pink-col-

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Tomorrow, Union members will gather on the steps of Sterling to celebrate and to protest. lar unions on campus. She added that “the way the University treats Local 35 is the way they treat us.”

Union leaders interviewed yesterday made no mention of striking, but they pointed out the collective manpower of Local 35, Local 35 and the Graduate Employees and Students Organization, the graduate student union that is not currently recognized by the University. Though the administration currently disagrees with GESO’s argument that graduate students are employees of Yale, the group recently petitioned for recognition with over 1,000 graduate students signing their names in support.

Currently, there are 4,813 members of Local 34 and Local 35 working at Yale — nearly the size of the University’s undergraduate population.

“The University in the past has underestimated our commitment to each other because they were banking on how different we are,” Proto said. “That didn’t pan out well for them.”

Proto added that “the jury is still out” on whether or not Salovey has made enough of an effort to engage with the unions.

Still, Proto said there is still room for a compromise.

“In his short time as president there’s been a couple of bumps in

the road,” said Proto. “But we still are hopeful that the senior administration, along with Peter Salovey, can figure out a way to interact with us as we’ve done in the past to problem-solve.”

University Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander ’65 said he felt a turning point for the relationship between Yale and its unions came in 2006, when he sat down with Proto and agreed to “turn over a new leaf” for the benefit of all individuals involved in labor matters at Yale.

While employees have expressed frustrations about the current tension with administrators, many also recognized

that Yale remains among the best places for local residents to work.

“The wages the union negotiates for us are much higher,” Ber said. “For me to find the same benefit package on the street would be very hard.”

Local 34 and Local 35 are both part of the Federation of University Employees, a coalition of labor unions in New Haven that represents thousands of workers at Yale and Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu and POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 12:30 p.m. Gallery Talk, Side by Side: “Horace Pippin and Charles Sheeler.” Keely Orgeman, acting assistant curator of American paintings and sculpture, offers a close examination of the newly-acquired painting “Saturday Night Bath” (1945) by the self-taught African-American artist Horace Pippin and leads a discussion on the artist’s rise to prominence in the art world. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

6:00 p.m. George Marshall: “Communicating Beyond Your Constituency.” George Marshall is the founder of the Climate Outreach Information Network, a charity specializing in public engagement around climate change. His new book challenges the bipartisan divide on climate change as a social artifice and argues that we can and must find ways of thinking that overcome barriers of politics and worldview. Yale Law School (127 Wall St.), Rm. 127.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 7:00 p.m. “The Lusty Men” (1952). Former rodeo star Robert Mitchum, disabled by a series of accidents, hobbles back to his Oklahoma hometown in hopes of replenishing his bank account.

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“Have you guys ever seen a flock of ducks flying in perfect formation? It’s beautiful. Pretty awesome the way they all stick together.”

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Elis to face Princeton W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 14 “Princeton will be a tough game, like every Ivy opponent,” goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 said. “Currently there are no Ivy rankings because we haven’t started Ivy play, but they are normally toward the top of the group. I expect them to show up with the same heart, intensity and drive that we will.”

Last season, Yale went 2-4-1 in the Ivy League and finished fifth. Princeton went 1–5–1 and finished seventh. As conference games determine the Ivy League champion, every game is crucial for the Elis.

Playing Princeton will set the tone for the rest of the conference games.

The Bulldogs are coming off of a tough schedule of five games in nine days.

Those five games resulted in

two losses, the only defeats for the Elis so far this season. The set of games also included a huge 2–1 win over Hofstra last Friday, which according to players has kept the squad in good spirits heading into the heightened emotions of the first Ivy League game.

“There are a lot more emotions in an Ivy League game than non-conference games. We’re all pretty evenly matched so the games are always exciting,” forward Melissa Gavin ’15 said.

Ames added that Ivy League games heighten the contests’ intensity, as the games are crucial to the team’s success at the end of the season.

This season has been the best start for the Elis in over eight years, and a large part of their success has come from improved skill and new

coaches, as well as a closeknit group dynamic. Many of the players have commented on how well the squad has meshed this year, especially with such a large class of freshmen. Players said that practices will not change significantly heading into Ivy League play, although the team will fine tune its approach to different opponents.

“Practice will change in the sense that we will be preparing for Princeton’s specific style of play. Each team we encounter plays differently and has different strengths that we need to get accustomed to before facing them,” Ames said.

The Bulldogs will face off against Princeton on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. in Reese Stadium.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

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The men’s soccer team will face Quinnipiac on the road this Friday.

MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 14 Unfortunately for the Elis, Quinnipiac has proven itself the far more capable scoring side this season. The Bobcats have put up six goals in seven games, including a 2–0 victory over Yale’s Ancient Eight opponent, Columbia. Furthermore, Quinnipiac dismantled Providence in a 3–1 win in which the Bobcats were denied goals on just five of their total shots. The Bobcat offense is highly balanced in its scoring, with all six goals coming from different players.

This means that the Elis can-

not afford to concentrate their defensive efforts on shutting down just one superstar striker or midfielder. Instead, the Bulldog backline will be forced to contend with a myriad of Bobcat scoring options.

However, if Yale is to finally break its scoring drought, the Quinnipiac match may be one of its best chances to do so. The Bobcats have conceded 10 goals in 7 games this season, including a 3–0 defeat to Northern Illinois. Despite their impressive scoring clip, the Bobcats have shown defensive vulnerabilities in accruing their 1.38 goals

against per game average, a mark that Yale’s defense bests by conceding, on average, just one goal per game.

“We always enjoy our games against our city rivals and they are generally close, tough battles,” Tompkins said. “After the past weekend when we played well but came away with little to show for it we want to get a good result on Friday.”

Yale will head to Quinnipiac for a 4:00 p.m. kick-off on Friday.

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

The women’s soccer team has jumped out to a winning start to the season, posting a 5–2 record.

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XC strong at Meet of Champs CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE 14 enjoyed a great start to the season but remains firmly grounded.

“I’d love to have the opportunity to race at pre-nationals and to run at the [Ivy League Championships],” Ross said. “But, at the end of the day you can only race your best, train your hardest, and you don’t want to put yourself in a position where you’re trying to compete with your teammates.”

In contrast to the men, the majority of the women’s team competed in the race, though standouts Kira

Garry ’15 and Emily Stark ’16 were absent.

The women too saw a strong freshmen presence, as Dana Klein ’18 set the pace for the Bulldogs. She placed 10th overall with a 6-kilometer time of 22:46.77. Rounding out the top five were Kelli Reagan ’18, Samantha Glass ’18, Emily Waligurski ’17 and Katherine Raphael ’18, who placed 16th, 18th, 20th and 26th, respectively.

Klein, who had ran the course in high school said that the race gave her a confidence boost, and she credited the team strategy of pack

running with helping her turn in an impressive performance.

“It felt really great to just know that all the work I’ve put in and the coaching has worked out,” she said.

“As a freshman you feel like you’re at the bottom of the pack, so it was definitely surprising.”

The women were able to gain revenge on Princeton from the first meet, soundly beating them with 86 points to Princeton’s 141, though Princeton ran only freshmen.

The women were bested only by Brown, as the Bears finished with a total of 38 points and four runners in

the top 10.

“We ran most of our team, and as [Princeton] ran just freshmen, it’s not really the same,” said captain Hannah Alpert ’15. “[What] we found out was that Brown was really good, which we weren’t expecting.

They’re going to be a bigger factor than we thought, so [they’re] definitely someone to keep our eye on.”

Both teams will next compete at the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh University on Oct. 4.

Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 14 as leaders this year. Crawford is averaging 9.90 assists per set, second in the Ivy League behind Princeton sophomore Lauren Miller. On Friday, the Yale women will travel to Providence to battle the Brown Bears in their first conference game of the year. The Bulldogs have been 51–5 in Ivy play since the 2010 season. The News caught up with Crawford to discuss the season thus far. did it feel to be named Ivy League QHow Rookie of the Week for the second week in a row?

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It is very exciting to be named Ivy League Rookie of the Week. We work really hard in practice, and awards like these just help show that hard work we put in everyday.

a freshman, do you have any mentors QAs on the team this year? Who do you look up to?

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As a freshman, I look up to everyone because this is a team sport, and everyone plays an important role in influencing the team’s dynamic.

has been the highlight of the season QWhat so far?

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The highlight of the season so far has been being with my teammates.

QHow have you gelled with the team so far?

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My teammates are all super nice and supportive. Everyone genuinely cares about each other while still having a competitive attitude.

team has been playing a series of away QThe games and will continue to do so. How do you adjust from weekend to weekend?

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The away games have actually been good because [they force] me to be ahead on all of my homework and studying. They have taught me the essence of time management.

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The men’s cross-country team finished in seventh place at the Iona Meet of Champions this weekend.

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

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ARTS & CULTURE Yale Rep’s ‘Arcadia’ to fuse art and science

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Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia will begin next Friday at the University Theater.

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER For its first show of the 2014– ’15 season, the Yale Repertory Theatre will present a marriage of science and art as it stages one of the most widely known plays of the last two decades.

Described by the Rep as a “ravishingly romantic timetraveling masterpiece,” “Arcadia” by Tom Stoppard begins next Friday at the University Theatre. Yale School of Drama Dean James Bundy DRA ’95, who also serves as the Rep’s artistic director, will direct the production. Bundy said he believes “Arcadia” will provide audiences with an appealing combination of humor and romance, adding that the play’s popularity serves as a contrast to the other shows in the season, three of which are world premieres.

“Yale Rep audiences have loved Tom Stoppard’s work in the past,”

Bundy said. “It’s important to balance new and canonical work throughout the year.”

“Arcadia” contains two storylines, one of which is set in the early 19th century while the other is set in the late 20th century. The former follows the relationship between a precocious 13-yearold student named Thomasina Coverly and her tutor, named Septimus Hodge. The latter plot line centers on a writer named Hannah Jarvis and a professor named Bernard Nightingale, both of whom are conducting research at the estate where Thomasina once lived.

Rebekah Brockman, who plays Thomasina in the production, described her character as having an “unfiltered” personality and frequently questioning the world around her. She noted that her approach to the part is largely inspired by a line from the play’s script that reads “It’s the wanting to know that makes us mat-

ter.”

The show will feature original choreography by Yale Dance Studies Director Emily Coates ’06 GRD ’11 and original music compositions by Yale School of Drama professor Matthew Suttor. Coates and Suttor said their primary challenge has been to create music and movement that is artistically creative as well as historically accurate.

Suttor said that the play’s two storylines, which are set nearly 200 years apart, create opportunities to compose music in a variety of styles. He explained that one piece in the play is a reworking of a waltz by 19th-century composer Franz Schubert while another contains harmonies that match those in the Rolling Stones song “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” Coates said her choreographic approach involved extensive research into the history of the waltz in England during the 19th century,

and the final scene in the play features a party at which Thomasina asks Septimus to teach her how to waltz.

Bundy also emphasized the interplay between scientific concepts and artistic themes in the play, which he believes makes the play particularly relevant at Yale, where such disciplines have co-existed in the Univer-

sity’s liberal arts curriculum for centuries. Coates said the play reminded her of a course she cotaught with Physics professor Sarah Demers last fall titled “The Physics of Dance.” Suttor said he thinks that there are many more similarities between the scientific and artistic professions than one may expect, noting that the play illuminates a number of

these connections.

“As a species, we have been badly served by the idea that scientific thinking and creative thinking are separate entities,” Suttor said.

The last performance of “Arcadia” will be held on Oct. 25.

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

YCBA curator challenges notions of sculpture

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER Martina Droth, associate director of research and curator of sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, challenged conventional categorizations of sculpture in a Tuesday lecture at the Center.

In a gallery talk accompanying the exhibit “Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837– 1901,” Droth argued that replicas are often just as valuable as the original pieces. She explained that when new technologies led to innovative ways of replicating sculptures, copies of classical works became more prevalent — but have generally been perceived as less valuable then the original sculptures. Today, original pieces are valued as works of craftsmanship and replicas are seen as products of industry, but this distinction was not present in the Victorian era, she said.

“It’s a mistake to think of mass production as mutually exclusive from craft,” Droth said.

This division has also shaped the way sculpture is studied, Droth explained, mentioning that historically, works of silver, earthenware or ivory have been considered decorative arts while marble sculpture pieces have been studied separately and have generally been perceived as more valuable.

Droth explained that wealthy collectors purchased these less expensive replicas because they thought of them as “objects of

invention,” adding that Queen Victoria herself owned both the original marble version of a work and its earthenware copy. Such historical examples make us think differently about the idea and purpose of reproduction, she said. “[The replica] isn’t meant as a stand-in,” she explained. “The two works have value in their own right.”

Reproduction is a loaded term. ‘Greek Slave’ seems to gain more power the more it is reproduced and the more famous it becomes.

MARTINA DROTH Associate director of research and curator of sculpture, Yale Center for British Art Droth also explained how the new innovations were an opportunity to showcase the prowess of the manufacturing companies producing the replicas, and, by implication, show Britain to be a modern and successful nation.

One sculpture in the exhibit, Hiram Powers’s “Greek Slave”, has been copied several times — another of the six copies is on display across the street in the Yale University Art Gallery. These reproductions do not reduce the significance of the original, but

rather enhance it, Droth said.

“Reproduction is a loaded term,” she said. “‘Greek Slave’ seems to gain more power the more it is reproduced and the more famous it becomes.”

The lecture was followed by a brief but lively discussion between Droth and audience members, who asked questions about the various media of sculpture showcased in the exhibit and the artistic and historical relevance of the works.

Several audience members said they enjoyed the talk, describing it as “terrific” and “very educational.” One New Haven resident noted that she appreciates the wide range of lectures offered by the YCBA. The exhibit itself has been at the Center since early September, and will remain on display until the end of November. In February, it will be put up at the Tate Britain, an art museum in London, where it will remainw until the end of May. Droth’s Tuesday talk came as a part of the YCBA’s “Art in Context” series of gallery talks led by faculty, staff and visiting scholars on selected Tuesdays. Linda Friedlander, curator of education at the YCBA, said the lecture’s turnout of more than 50 people was impressive, and larger than the audiences “Art in Context” usually sees.

The next “Art in Context” talk will be held in the YCBA on Sept.

30.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

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“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”

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Yale Dance Theater to celebrate Alvin Ailey

BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER This spring, Yale Dance Theater and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) group are seeking to provide students with a venue for exploring Ailey’s legacy.

“Inheriting Ailey” celebrates the work of dancer Alvin Ailey, who championed African-American expressive forms while simultaneously embracing multiculturalism. It will be conducted by the YDT in partnership with the Ailey Company. For the project, AAADT is licensing excerpts from “Blues Suite” — one of its pieces from the 1950s. The joint venture will also involve Matthew Rushing, a current AAADT dancerchoreographer, and Renee Robinson, a long-time AAADT dancer.

Rushing will be choreographing a new piece specifically for the YDT, and Robinson, who danced with Ailey himself, will be teaching regular “Horton Technique” classes. These will teach the foundational modern dance technique that Ailey used — as a way of further exposing them to his aesthetic.

“This year we are shifting our focus to this distinct strand of African-American concert dance of the 20th century through the Ailey legacy, and looking at the ways that it has evolved in the hands of a younger disciple — Matthew Rushing — in the 21st,” said Emily Coates, the Director of the Dance Studies Curriculum at Yale. “The comparative lens is really important.”

Coates explained that the YDT will need to consider Ailey’s “dual vision” of inviting collaboration among a range of dancers and choreographers while at the same time specifically encouraging African-American ones.

Indeed, for the first time the YDT will be witnessing — and participating in — the creation of an entirely new work, dancers said.

YDT member Naomi Roselaar ’17 explained that YDT typically uses choreography that has been performed many times all around the world. In this case, however, she said that the group will be learning an entirely new choreog-

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The Yale Dance Theater and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theaterare working to celebrate the work of Ailey, a champion of multiculturalism and expressive form in dance. raphy — a new experience for the group.

“This is the first time a choreographer is coming in and putting his ideas directly on our bodies, rather than having us learning and performing something that has been established elsewhere with other dancers,” Roselaar said.

Another YDT dancer Karlanna Lewis LAW ’15 explained that choreography is “a give and take between the choreographer and the dancers,” adding that

this year, YDT members will be directly involved in the process of creation.

The spring 2015 project will be also differ from past projects in that it will feature a full-length performance. In the past, Roselaar explained, performances have been more about appreciating the “process” than displaying a “final product,” attempting to show audiences the various steps that go into the creation of a particular piece. This year, however,

the focus will likely shift to the performance itself. Lewis noted that the YDT usually performs excerpts from different pieces and tries to showcase the variety of styles in the choreographer’s repertoire, but added that this year, the project will take the form of “a show [one] might go to at Lincoln Center.”

The performance may incorporate live 20th-century folk music, Coates said, explaining that Rushing envisions a “mul-

tifaceted” spectacle that will involve participants from a variety of disciplines. Coates highlighted a number of connections between the piece and the research of Yale faculty members, including Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, whose newly-published book “Jim Crow Wisdom” mentions the Ailey Company and the “Blues Suite” piece. “[AAADT] is one of the first groups you learn about when you’re a young dancer and trying

to look for something other than ballet,” Holly Taylor ’17, another YDT member, said. “They really have a kind of ‘celebrity-status’ as well as a strong artistic record.

These are people I’ve admired from afar, and really the epitome of what a strong artistic voice is.”

Auditions for Yale Dance Theatre’s “Inheriting Ailey” will be held Sept. 24, 2015.

Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .

Art school exhibit showcases summer projects

BY PIERRE ORTLIEB STAFF REPORTER “School’s In”— a new exhibit showcasing work by undergraduate art majors and participants of the Yale/Norfolk and Auvillar summer art programs — is intended to give the young artists a glimpse into the art profession as they enter their last year at Yale.

The show, which opened on Friday and is on display at the School of Art’s Green Hall Gallery, demonstrates the wide range of artistic experiences students were able to gather over the summer, according to Andrew Wagner ’15, whose work is included in the

show. Sam Messer, assistant dean of the School of Art, explained that the exhibit gives students a chance to engage in academic and artistic self-reflection as they put their independent summer work in the context of the art produced by their peers. The show also allows students to gain insight into the life of an artist outside of the classroom, Messer added.

“What they are putting up consists of sources close to their own interests, and that is not from New Haven,” Messer said. “They are going outside of where they are to make work and in a sense bring it back.”

The show aims to highlight the experiences of Yale’s art under-

graduates at various summer art programs, organizers said.

Wagner, who attended the Norfolk program organized by the Yale School of Art, noted that such programs allow students to exclusively focus on their art; they are given their own studios and typically concentrate on nothing but the artistic expression of their ideas. The Norfolk Program, which takes place on an estate in northern Connecticut, allows students to take classes in a variety of disciplines, including printmaking, photography and painting. The intensive program enables participants to employ their creativity without any distractions.

“You don’t do much else besides eat, sleep and make art on the estate,” Wagner said.

Having the show is a nice way to be able to take a moment to look back on the work you’ve made.

ANDREW WAGNER ’15 The result, Wagner noted, is that participants engage in artistic experimentation and produce high-quality art. Wag-

ner explained that his summer pieces are interdisciplinary in nature, consisting of interactive elements which explore the relationship between artist and audience. One example, he said, is a sleeping bag-shaped object made up of two life-sized photographs of Wagner stitched together and lined with pink fabric, which audience members can slip into.

Yonadav Greenwood ’15, who also has work on display at the show, noted that while some of the showcased pieces are indicative of the exhibit’s exploratory nature, the show is largely heterogeneous and has “no overriding theme.”

Messer also said that an important aspect of being an artist is

finding your own audience rather than creating work for a preconceived group of spectators as is often done in the classroom. The exhibit encourages young artists to do this while also allowing them to bring novel ideas and concepts into their academic environment, he said.

“Having the show is a nice way to be able to take a moment to look back on the work you’ve made, to think about what’s best, and to reflect on what has already happened, for the future,” Wagner said.

The show will run until Oct. 6.

Contact PIERRE ORTLIEB at pierre.ortlieb@yale.edu .

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A new exhibit, “School’s In,” has been put up in the Green Hall Gallery, featuring pieces by undergraduates and participants of the Yale/Norfolk and Auvillar summer programs.

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“It felt really great to just know that all the work I’ve put in and the coaching has worked out.”

DANA KLEIN ’18

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YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 · yaledailynews.com

M. soccer hunts for win MEN’S SOCCER

Yale begins conference slate

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As the halfway point of the season approaches, the Yale women’s soccer team will face its biggest challenge yet, taking on its first Ivy League opponent, the Princeton Tigers, on Saturday.

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In the past five years, the Elis have won two of the five match ups against the Tigers, including a 3–2 overtime victory last year. Princeton posted stellar 7–0 conference season two years ago and have placed in the middle or towards the top of the pack in the Ivy League over the last five years.

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The men’s soccer team will look for its first victory of the season this weekend.

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER After drawing blanks in four straight games, the men’s soccer team (0–4–2, 0–0–0 Ivy) will enter Friday’s showdown with Quinnipiac University (2–4–1, 0–0–0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) looking to get its offense off the ground.

With just two games remaining before their Ivy

League opener at Harvard, the Elis will be try to snag their elusive first win at Quinnipiac on Friday, Sept. 26, and put their 380-minute scoring drought behind them. The Elis have scored just two goals all season, but have managed to out shoot their opponents in half of their games thus far. Ultimately, finishing woes have been the downfall of Yale’s non-conference campaign thus far, preventing the

men’s soccer squad from capitalizing on big opportunities inside the opposing third.

“We feel that we are playing really good ball but are just lacking concentration in that final third [of the pitch],” midfielder and forward Josh Totte ’18 said. “Once that piece comes together, well, that’s really exciting to think about.”

Fortunately for Yale, the Bulldogs are coming off of a loss in which they put forth

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one of their best offensive halves all season, out-shooting Central Connecticut State University by eight strikes in the second half.

“The players are still thinking positively and know that our fortunes will change and that the goal dam will finally burst,” head coach Brian Tompkins said in a Sunday evening email.

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The women’s soccer team will host Princeton at Reese Stadium on Saturday to open its Ivy League season.

Bulldogs strong in NY

BY ROHAN NAIK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After finishing second to Princeton in their first meets of the season, the men’s and women’s cross-country teams were back in action at the 20th Annual Iona Meet of Champions in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, N.Y. this past weekend.

CROSS COUNTRY Both teams had solid showings, even with the top performers on each team taking a break from competition to rest. The women’s team placed second out a field of 20, while the men earned seventh out of 23 teams. Captain John McGowan ’15

said that running the course now gave Yale experience that could prove useful later this year.

“We’ll run [at Van Cortlandt] again at regionals, though that’s a slightly different [10-kilometer] course, while this was an 8-kilometer,” McGowan said. “It gave everyone a chance to run the course for when we’re trying to get to nationals later in the year.”

Adam Houston ’18, who first heard of Van Cortlandt Park as a high school freshman in Seattle, said the course—which celebrates its 102nd anniversary this fall —is legendary. He added that Van Cortlandt is unique due to its varied topography. It alternates between flat surfaces and many hills, includ-

ing the famous cemetery hill, which lies at the end of course and presents a challenge due to its steepness and placement.

Only six men competed in the race, and while none placed in the top twenty, there was still a strong performance from the underclassmen.

Hale Ross ’18 led the way for the Bulldogs, finishing 24th with a time of 26:29.09. Fellow freshmen Ryan Brady and Houston followed, earning 26th and 28th, respectively — all three Elis finished in a five-second span.

Ross, who rounded off the Bulldogs top seven at the first meet, has SEE CROSS COUNTRY PAGE 10

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The volleyball team will begin its Ivy League season on Friday at Brown.

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER By attacking the net with doubledoubles in games against Cal State Fullerton and Georgetown over the weekend, freshman setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 began to prove herself as a dynamic addition to the volleyball team. She was named Ivy League

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Rookie of Week for the second straight time for putting up 42 assists and 11 digs against the Titans and 46 assists and 10 digs against the Hoyas.

The Bulldogs (4–5, 0–0 Ivy)—who have won the Ivy championship the past four years—lost their star setter and three-time Ivy League Player of the Year Kendall Polan ’14 to graduation last year, but Crawford and fellow setter Kelly Johnson ’16 have emerged SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 10

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The women’s cross-country team finished second only to Brown at the Iona Meet of Champions this weekend.

PLACE OUT OF 20 TEAMS THAT THE WOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY TEAM FINISHED AT THE IONA MEET OF CHAMPIONS. The Bulldogs were the runners-up in their second-straight meet, this one on Saturday, Sept. 20 in historic Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, N.Y.