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Chaider Season. Blue State debuted its fall menu today with seasonal items including Chaider, the Chai Latte and Pumpkin Apple Cider.

A cake for the cake-makers.

Today is Claire’s Corner Copia’s 40th Birthday! New Haven’s favorite spot for birthday cakes is celebrating its own anniversary. Claire and Frank Criscuolo — a nurse and a musician — opened Claire’s Corner Copia on Sept. 17, 1975.

Sweet 15. Zinc Restaurant is currently celebrating is 15th year in New Haven.

The restaurant is donating a portion of its revenue to charity in the name of its customers this week. Additionally, Zinc announced online: “We’ve loved being part of New Haven since opening our doors in 1999. We’ve seen the city welcome freshmen and bid farewell to its seniors each year.

We’ve applauded countless curtain calls at our beloved theaters. We’ve witnessed the growth and transformation of our city from local businesses, to residents to our amazing Farmers Markets.”

And happy birthday to Rory!

Tuesday was the birthday of Alexis Bledel, who played a classic Yalie on “Gilmore Girls.”

Now open. The Blue Dog Cafe in the Hall of Graduate Studies opened this week. The cafe is entirely student-run by Yale Graduate Student Life and located in the McDougal Center Common Room. Now, graduate students can go back to substituting caffeine for sleep.

The Arctic. The MacMillan Center’s Tuesday Trivia question was “Which ocean is the smallest and shallowest?”

The skin Elmo lives in. Lupita Nyong’o DRA ’12 was officially inducted into the trending celebrities club this week with a guest spot on “Sesame Street.” Nyong’o and Elmo discussed their skin, all the different shades it comes in and how they love the skin they’re in.

Imitation is the best form of flattery? The Atlantic

published a piece this week about how Chinese universities are imitating the architecture of Ivy League schools. The Yale look as been present on Chinese campuses since the early 20th century, when the first wave of Gothic influence swept through.

Hoarders: New Haven. A new

exhibit from the New Haven Museum samples goods made in the city from the past 300 years, ranging from clocks to lollipops.

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1990 Columnist Brian McCall ’91 argues that post-Cold War instability poses more of a threat to the U.S. than the Soviets ever did.

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Tensions over dining changes mount

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the scale of the construction could have an unprecedented impact on the local economy. They urged the University to consider all possible means of lifting the city’s prospects as it expands its own footprint.

“There are people in New Haven who have been out of work for some time,” Mayor Toni Harp said. “We would hope that with a multi-million dollar project like this, it could give people new work.”

Contracting with New Haven businesses would improve the entire local economy by giving residents expendable income, Harp added.

For construction to which New Haven is a party — meaning the provision of public funds or other types of subsidies — city policy sets

When Yale Dining workers gathered around a copy of a letter — submitted in the form of a paid advertisement to the News — bemoaning recent changes in the dining halls yesterday, a manager threw the letter out.

Tensions in Yale Dining are boiling over.

Two months after the University moved cold food production to a centralized location — the Culinary Support Center on Winchester Avenue — some Yale Dining workers are up in arms over working in what they describe as a “food factory.” Still, Yale Dining administrators stand by the new center and highlight the many advantages it brings to campus. Union members have expressed concerns over job preservations, working conditions and food quality, some of which were articulated in a letter from Silliman chef Stuart Comen submitted to the News by Local 35 Union as a paid advertisement on Tuesday. Comen’s letter voiced dissatisfaction with the CSC on many counts.

“The past three months in dining halls has been nothing but turmoil,” said one head pantry worker who now works in the CSC, speaking anonymously due to concerns over job security. “It is like they drew the line in the sand and declared war with you. There is an open feeling of hostility between us and them.”

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With many large-scale construction projects looming, Yale holds the power to choose which businesses will benefit.

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES AND ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTERS Major capital projects, such as the multi-million dollar construction of two new residential colleges slated to open in 2017, give Yale the opportunity to influence the New Haven economy in a less direct but no less meaningful way than the voluntary payments it makes each year to the city.

In deciding who will do its construction work, the University has the power to determine which businesses will benefit from some of the most lucrative construction contracts in recent state history.

When Yale President Peter Salovey and Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander ’65 met with the city’s Board

of Alders in March, they indicated city businesses would reap some of the rewards of contracts. Alexander said the University should be pursuing ways to increase the share of contracts that stay within the city: “We have to get more aggressive about this.”

The administrators’ assurance carried significant weight for the city lawmakers, whose predecessors on the Board voted four decades ago to block the University’s previous expansion.

Salovey said the project, slated to begin in earnest in February 2015, would “of course” create local construction jobs.

While University administrators said this week that the project will be consistent with longstanding commitments to employing city residents, New Haven officials said

Politics sway language enrollment

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER While students enrolled in “The Cold War” are learning about the historical arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, students in the Russian department are arming themselves with the language skills for a Cold War redux.

Enrollment in first-year Russian language courses is up approximately 30 percent from last year, forcing the department to open an additional section to accommodate the bump, according to Russian senior lector Julia Titus GRD ’99.

With the way the world is progressing, I think Russian is a really useful language to know.

DAVID SHIMER ’18 “We can certainly attribute it to the changing political situation,” Titus said.

Russian forces began occupying the Crimean Peninsula in February of this year. By March, Russia formally annexed Crimea from Ukranian control, and it still continues to intervene in southern and eastern Ukraine — behavior that led to the downing of a Malaysian Airlines airliner in July. In response, the United States and the European Union announced a series of economic sanctions on Russia, causing further political tension

across the Atlantic.

The Yale curriculum has responded accordingly. In the spring, the Humanities department will offer a class titled “Putin’s Russia and Protest Culture.” Additionally, Thomas Graham ’72, a Jackson Fellow and former senior director for Russia on the National Security Council staff, will teach “U.S., Russia and Eurasian Security,” which he also taught in the spring of 2012.

But not everyone attributes student interest in Russian entirely to political events.

Russian senior lector Constantine Muravnik GRD ’10 acknowledged that while “the current renaissance of the Cold War” is driving enrollment, so is the Russian department’s excellent teaching reputation.

“With the way the world is progressing, I think Russian is a really useful language to know,” said David Shimer ’18, who is currently enrolled in first-year Russian.

But Shimer added that his passion for Cold War history attracted him to the language as well as his interest in current global events.

Emma Goldrick ’17 said she studies Russian because she wants to pursue a career in the energy sector and work with the Russian gas industry.

“As an American in Russia, everyone is second-guessing you,” she said. “But if you speak Russian it’s like, ‘Wow, this chick is legit.’”

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Elm City Market finances bleak

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In critical debt, Elm City Market may become subject to takeover.

BY JIAHUI HU AND J.R. REED CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER Facing $500,000 in rent debt, Elm City Market — one of the few grocery stores in downtown New Haven — awaits the final verdict on how the business will navigate intense financial pressure.

The 2,200–member co-op, which opened in 2011 at 360 State St. has fallen behind on a $3.6 million federally-guaranteed loan from Western Bank, its primary lender. Elm City also received a default notice in May from its landlord, Multi-Employer

Pension Trust, which owns the high-rise apartment building adjacent to the property. In a letter to co-op members this past August, Elm City Market’s Board of Directors outlined their goals for restructuring the organization and tackling the debt, adding that the group was not provided enough capital to effectively launch the business at its inception in 2011.

However, last week the loan committee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s regional office approved a liquidation plan for the co-op — an outlined agenda that ends the current busi-

ness model but leaves the door open for others to take over the business.

Prospective buyers of the Elm City Market will have a 10–day comment period this month to pitch a sale to Webster Bank.

L. Linfield Simon has emerged as the leading prospective bidder for Elm City Market. He heads the RISC Foundation, an economic development investment firm. Simon said he would turn the market into an employee-owned grocery and continue to utilize it as a prisoner re-entry proSEE ELM CITY PAGE 6

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Graduating to a wage gap O

n Monday evening Senate Republicans voted down the Paycheck Fairness Act for the fourth time since 2012, demonstrating once again that it’s okay with them if women and men do equal work without equal pay. But it’s not okay.

The pay gap between men and women is real. It starts with the first job right out of college and it’s widest in many of the highest-paying professions.

There is no time like interview season here at Yale – with résumés falling from the trees and Blue State taken over by coffeechatting recruiters – to soak this in.

Want to go into finance?

Women financial specialists on average earn 66 percent of what their male counterparts earn, according to research by Harvard economist Claudia Goldin.

Want to become a physician?

Male physicians received an average of $12,194 more annually in research grants than their female counterparts with all factors other then gender held identical, according to a 2012 report by Duke and University of Michigan researchers.

Today women are the primary or co-breadwinner in over 60 percent of American families, yet they make 77 cents for each dollar a man makes, a figure that has barely budged over the last decade.

Women with college degrees do slightly better. Women one year out of college were paid 82 cents for every dollar paid to their male peers in 2012, according to a study by the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The average woman would have to work almost twelve years longer to earn the same amount as her male peer.

Earlier this year the Republican National Committee wrote: “There’s a disparity not because female engineers are making less than male engineers at the same company with comparable experience. The disparity exists because a female social worker makes less than a male engineer.” But according to a wide body of research, that’s dead wrong.

It’s been argued that the wage gap exists because women tend to gravitate toward lower paying fields — but Goldin’s data shows that there are significant pay differences between men and women within the same industry.

Female business majors are paid $7,000 less than their male counterparts one year out of school, according to a fall 2009 study by the AAUW. Women with professional degrees are also not immune. Female MBAs are paid on average $4,600 less in their first job than men with business degrees, a disparity that grows to $30,000 by midcareer, according to research from the non-profit Catalyst.

Even the most elite schools are impacted by the gender pay gap. Male and female graduates from HarVIVECA vard’s class of MORRIS 2014 reported unequal compensation for Animal their first jobs, Spirits according to a survey by the Harvard Crimson that was published in May. The survey was completed by half of the graduating class.

The Crimson survey found that a “plurality” of women beginning careers in the technology or engineering sectors say they will earn between $50,000 and $69,999, while a “plurality” of men entering the same fields say they will earn between $90,000 and $109,999. Not a single female respondent entering finance said that she would earn $90,000 or more, while 29 percent of men said they would.

Across all industries, 19 percent of men employed immediately after graduating from Harvard in May reported that they will earn a starting salary of $90,000 or more, versus just 4 percent of employed women.

Senator Barbara Boxer spoke for many of us recently when she declared: “If it were reversed, I’d be standing for the men. It’s not right.”

The Paycheck Fairness Act, co-sponsored by our Rep. Rosa DeLauro, is a needed update to the 1963 Equal Pay Act. It would prevent employers from retaliating against employees who inquire about wage practices or share their own wages, establish tougher penalties for cases of pay discrimination, create a grant program to train women on wage negotiation skills and narrow the definition of what is considered a legitimate justification for pay disparities between men and women in the same jobs.

The Paycheck Fairness Act will not fix the gender pay gap problem, but it is certainly a step in the right direction. DeLauro was right to support it, and I hope she will reintroduce it again when its chances of passage are better.

Meanwhile, we all must advocate much more strongly for policies such as pay transparency that help ensure equal pay for equal work. Being aware of the gender pay gap is the first step toward change. Fighting for fairness is the next.

Senate Republicans should be ashamed of their votes on Monday. American women deserve better.

Pinker's false logic I

n a recent article for The New Republic (no doubt inspired by that publication’s nascent affections for controversial and unsubstantiated indictments of elite education), Harvard professor Steven Pinker rightly lambasts the Ivies for perpetuating admissions standards that fall short of pure meritocratic ideals. Students who brave the “murky bottleneck” of selective admissions teams have access to both “an astonishing library system” and “a professoriate with erudition in an astonishing range of topics, including many celebrity teachers and academic rock stars.” I agree wholeheartedly with Pinker that to fill the halls of Ivy League schools with anyone less than the best is an unconscionable waste of tremendous resources.

But I cannot abide by Pinker’s appallingly backwards recommendation that we cultivate meritocracy by relying on the narrowminded, soulless caprice of standardized testing. His disregard for “holistic” admissions demonstrates more than jaded cynicism; it is an endorsement of the exact kind of incoherent, unpragmatic and unmeritocratic pedagogical philosophy that Yale and its peer institutions would do well to shy away from.

Calling standardized testing a “magic measuring stick,” Pinker attempts to downplay the well-documented correlation between socioeconomic status

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(SES) and SAT scores. With maddening obfuscation, he summons the most conservative estimates he can find, which puts SES-SAT correlation at only 0.25 on a –1 to 1 scale. That of course neglects an infinitely more transparent statistic, published earlier this year in The Washington Post: “families earning more than $200,000 a year average a combined score of 1,714, while students from families earning under $20,000 a year average a combined score of 1,326.”

Pinker then attempts to explain away such discrepancies by suggesting that “smarter parents have smarter kids who get higher SAT scores.”

REDUCING ADMISSIONS TO STANDARDIZED TESTING IS IRRESPONSIBLE Think about that for a moment.

Pinker wants to make SATs the number one criterion for admissions on the view that merit is reducible to eugenics. Let’s make the dubious assumption that talent is an entirely hereditary trait.

And the far less controversial

assumption that recipients of an Ivy League degree have an extraordinary advantage in the job market, and that acceptance to Ivy League schools is to be based exclusively on SATs. Under these conditions, Ivy League schools would be complicit in perpetuating a system of socioeconomic inequality essentially predicated on hereditary caste. Far from being a meritocracy, this is positively dystopian.

So by Pinker’s own logic, the claim that SATs are a valid way “to divine the suitability of a student for an elite education, without ethnic bias, undeserved advantages to the wealthy, or pointless gaming of the system” is selfdefeating. Despite his inveighing against Gladwell-esque theories of socioeconomic determinism, he ends up with a repugnantly Darwinian vision of college admissions at odds with our most basic sense of compassion.

Were this vision to become a reality, we would be faced with a moral imperative to dismantle Pinker’s so-called meritocracy. Fortunately, it will never come to that.

For one thing, Pinker and myself probably agree that talent is not necessarily hereditary (and this is one reason SAT scores should play some role in assessing applicant candidacy). But more fundamentally, I think Pinker misunderstands how close we already are to a kind of just meritocracy already.

There are metrics of intellectual and leadership capabilities that are

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These include starting a company in high school, conducting original scientific research, coordinating a political campaign or writing and publishing a textbook. Someone who scores 50 points lower on the SAT because they were composing masterful symphonies should not be penalized for their supposed “lack” of measurable talent. And the reality is these achievements matter far more to society than a 2400 SAT. Maybe this is why Yalies don’t brag about their test scores — they just aren’t significant in light of their peers’ prodigious accomplishments, which actually have the potential to do good in the world.

Achievement cannot be codified so easily by an objective, depersonalized formula, even one that purports to account for grades, essays and other nonstandardized metrics. In any case, the ability to maintain respectable grades and scores while spending eight hours a day practicing music — or working a job to support one’s family — suggests far greater intellect and discipline than what perfect test scores can indicate. Before Pinker lambasts Ivy League students, perhaps he should actually talk to a few of them: about science, about law, about Nietzsche. I think he’d worry less if he did.

AARON SIBARIUM is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu .

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his summer has been one of extraordinary news — of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, of terrorists conquering northern Iraq, of riots in small Midwestern cities. But amid all this we have forgotten that Scotland will stage a referendum on independence September 18, and it looks strangely likely that the United Kingdom, that cherished, ancient institution, may face impending collapse. Despite all its hysteric consternation, Westminster should not resist this prospect, and Scotland ought to vote for secession on Thursday.

Scottish independence is not some misty-eyed fantasy shouted down the Royal Mile by young troublemakers draped in the Cross of St. Andrew and heads full of romantic nationalism.

No, this independence movement, now tied with its opponents in polling, is based on simple electoral politics. A neoliberal consensus has reigned in Westminster for 30 years, even under Labour’s ministry. Scotland wants none of that. The Scottish delegation to Westminster contains 59 MPs and, astonishingly, only one Conservative. Of all of Scotland’s MPs, only one is a member of the governing party in the United Kingdom. Scotland did not elect the current British government. At Holyrood, the seat of the devolved Scottish Par-

liament established in 1999, the Scottish National Party, ideologically devoted to independence and led by the brilliant Alex Salmond, rules with a comfortable majority.

This analysis indicates something fundamental to the nationalist case: that Scotland has reached the point at which its political alignment no longer fits within the United Kingdom’s. This is the single greatest argument for independence.

In the United States, which has a fully federal structure, this might not prove so calamitous, but the United Kingdom has never federalized completely. A separate national identity is a good enough justification for independence; in Scotland, this self-identification as “Scottish” has combined with a mode of political thinking entirely different from that of England. With this confluence of national and political distinctness, it becomes somewhat absurd to suggest that Scotland should remain chained to its southern neighbor, or vice-versa.

Scottish secession would follow an encouraging precedent.

History has taught us that the secession of small nations from large states results from inexorable forces and typically has a positive effect. The relevant comparison here is to colonial America’s secession from the British

Empire — a situation in which the political climate in America vastly differed from that in England. Another comparison might be the long and torturous Irish struggle for home rule, a 50–year drama that has shockingly failed to teach the English the value of letting go. In both cases, secession from the British Empire was politically necessary in the immediate moment and beneficial in the long-term. Scotland in 2014 bears many similarities.

The behavior of the English political class in regard to the referendum is also at issue here.

Ever since the SNP took a majority at Holyrood in 2011, everyone knew a referendum would take place. Westminster assigned two former Labour ministers, Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, to direct the rather moribund “Better Together” antiindependence campaign. None of the three major party leaders involved themselves — that is, not until about a week ago, when a poll showed a two-point lead for the pro-independence side. Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition have since allied to oppose independence, and both have made campaigning trips north of the border. But this is far too little and far too late.

Westminster has behaved with complacency and lackadaisicalness towards the referendum. All

three party leaders began to care only once it began to look like history might remember them as the men who lost the union.

They have utterly neglected a vital debate in an integral part of their country; they have given little thought to the voters up north; and even now their unionist rhetoric rings hollow, tiresome, insincere. This is a stunning failure on the part of David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg, one that ought to indict the entirety of the Westminster establishment. One might question whether they would even be fit to rule the United Kingdom should the results of September 18 turn against them.

Ever since Margaret Thatcher’s ministry, Scotland and England have diverged, nationalistically and politically. We have now reached the point at which it is best for each nation to go their separate ways in mutual amity.

Yes, the union will end, and this may wreak havoc upon the English psyche, but only by secession can the Scots escape rule from a foreign political élite — and create, on their own terms, the nation-state they so emphatically deserve.

NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH is a freshman in Berkeley College.

Contact him at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, SEPT. 12

The WEEKEND article “Zanele Muholi: A Visual Activist” incorrectly stated that Busi Sigasa was a mother. In fact, Muholi was referencing Buhle Msibi, a poet, writer and lesbian mother who also inspired Muholi.

The WEEKEND article “India Awakened” incorrectly stated that HartBeat Ensemble is based in New Haven. In fact, the group hails from Hartford, Conn.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 16

The article “After 6 years, Yale site to be modernized” incorrectly stated the title of University Chief Communications Officer Elizabeth Stauderman ’83 LAW ’04. It also omitted her class year.

Law school pushes student financial literacy

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Yale Law School students will be learning skills such as mortgage management as part of the financial literacy initiative started in 2011.

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER In a little over a month, Yale Law School students will be crowding a classroom to learn how to revamp their wardrobes.

The workshop, called “Dress for Success … For Less” — in which a fashion consultant will show students how to purchase financially savvy business attire — is part of a financial literacy initiative at YLS that was started in 2011. The initiative, which began with one or two workshops per year, is now running around eight workshops per year and seeing roughly 80 students at each event.

New workshops to be offered this year include events that teach students how to manage mortgages and repay loans, the latter being aimed particularly at students who will enter the field of public service after graduation.

YLS Financial Aid Director Jill Stone said that while she does not plan to expand the number of workshops any further in the near future, she does expect the student participation rate to rise even further this year. While the workshops are the most visible element of the initiative, the Financial Aid Office is also aiming to spread awareness about financial literacy through other activities, such as one-on-one consulting sessions, Stone said.

“As a financial aid office we shouldn’t be just about making financial aid awards,” Stone said.

“We should be making sure our student[s] make the best financial choices in the short and long term.”

Stone said both the workshops and one-on-one consulting sessions have been increasing in popularity over the years.

Around 110 students came in to meet with her individually in the 2013-’14 school year, compared to only around 40 the year before.

Stone said the initiative keeps growing in popularity — partly because students are spreading the word and partly because student loan debt is a topic receiving a lot of media attention.

The world of loan repayment is becoming far more complex than it used to be, Stone said, and people need more guidance. This is why, while the Financial Aid Office will come up with new and varied workshops this year, the talk on loan repayment remains a constant.

David Lat LAW ’99 — founder of the online legal publication “Above The Law” — said he thinks financial literacy workshops could be helpful for law students.

“I have been surprised at the number of highly intelligent law students I have met who do not understand how their loans work,” he said.

YLS professor Noah Messing said he got involved in the financial literacy initiatives last year because he thinks it is important for students to think about their financial futures. If they are not careful, financial issues might actually wind up sabotaging some of their career goals, he said.

Messing said the first workshop on savings and money management he led last year attracted over 100 students — a number that exceeded his expectations.

He said he heard gasps from the audience as he explained the difficulty of saving for retirement and the losses one can incur from hiring a financial planner.

He said students at YLS often focus on becoming public leaders and making the world a better place, but rarely think about how to grow their portfolios.

“There’s a wonderful saying that Yale Law School trains students for their last job, and we also do a good job of training them for their first job,” he said.

“But I just worry that we don’t do a good enough job of training them for the long middle.”

YLS professor Robert Burt said he sees how offering students advice about financial planning may be particularly helpful today, when students are far more burdened by educational debts than when he was a student. Burt added, however, that he does not think the advice should be forced on anyone.

Ryan Thoreson LAW ’14 said that during his time at YLS, the Financial Aid Office answered all of his questions quickly and effectively, but that the helpfulness of the financial aid initiative varies on a case-by-case basis.

Of eight students interviewed, five said they had not heard about the financial literacy initiatives.

Graham White LAW ’16 said he has participated in some of the workshops and found them useful.

“Many of us will graduate Yale Law School with a substantial amount of debt, and it can be debilitating if we’re not prepared in advance,” he said.

Harvard Law School Assistant Dean for Student Financial Services Ken Lafler said his office is launching some similar initiatives at Harvard, including a financial literacy website called iGrad, which provides self-guided financial education courses, and workshops called “Money Saving Tips.”

These initiatives parallel a series of similar financial literacy workshops that are being offered to undergraduates by the Yale College Financial Aid Office.

The next session of Messing’s savings workshop is slated for Oct. 7.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .

Student entrepreneurs stay in Elm City

BY POOJA SALHOTRA AND DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Like many Yale students, Benjamin Burke ’15 and Patrick Casey ’15 find the high prices and inefficiencies of local transportation services to Connecticut airports frustrating.

But instead of accepting this reality, the two students spent this past summer at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI) developing an app to connect Yalies travelling to and from the airport.

Burke and Casey are among the growing body of student entrepreneurs developing projects in New Haven. Although Yale is consistently ranked as one of the top five Universities in the country, it isn’t usually considered one of the most friendly to entrepreneurship. According to Forbes 2014 “Most Entrepreneurial University” list, Yale ranks 12th, behind other Ivy League schools like Harvard and Princeton. This ranking may soon change, however. Over the past five to seven years, Yale has redoubled its efforts to promote entrepreneurship both by supporting enterprising Yale students and by promoting economic growth in New Haven.

In his inaugural address last October, President Peter

Salovey said the University should foster economic growth in New Haven “by putting our innovative, entrepreneurial inclinations to work.” Helping students develop startups in the city, Salovey explained, also creates employment opportunities in the Elm City.

Many student entrepreneurship efforts are focused in the YEI: a University-funded institution founded in 2007 to support student ventures.

YEI allows students with business ideas to apply for up to $100,000 from the the YEI Investment Fund, co-invested

by Yale, Connecticut Innovations and First Niagara Bank.

Since YEI’s inception, its student ventures have raised a total of $221 million in investment funds and have created over 480 jobs, said Venture Creation Program Director Margaret Lee ’14. According to YEI co-founder and managing director Jim Boyle, the Institute has experienced tremendous growth over the past few years.

In 2007, only a few dozen students were involved with YEI. Now that number is in the hundreds, he said.

Although YEI is not exclusively for New Haven business ventures, Boyle said it does track how many ventures remain in New Haven and tries to encourage students to remain in New Haven post graduation.

“It does seem like there’s a growing trend of students staying here to start businesses,” said University spokesperson Mike Morand ’87 DIV ’93.

“People recognize that the cost of doing business here compared to New York City is incredibly competitive, but at the same time New Haven has quick access to the capital in New York City.”

It does seem like there’s a growing trend of students staying here to start businesses.

MIKE MORAND ’87 DIV ’93 Spokesperson, Yale University Some, like Yong Zhao GRD ’14, are already preparing to call New Haven home. Zhao is a YEI alum and one of four co-founders of Junzi Kitchen, a high-end Chinese restaurant chain whose aim is to produce healthy, affordable food. With the first Junzi Kitchen set to open in New Haven in spring 2015, Yong said he has found the perfect location for his business.

“I love New Haven because of its balance, style and size.

The city fosters a strong environment for entrepreneurs like

me.”

Still, the Elm City faces a dearth of tech talent compared to other cities, Boyle said. He explained the YEI is working to grow a larger technology program so that new ventures have a talented pool of people to choose from when looking to hire more employees.

Starling Winston Childs III FES ’14, YEI alum and founder of Citiesense, a web-based platform with information about the real estate market, said that he shares these concerns. While Childs greatly appreciates the resources New Haven provides, he said he has had trouble finding local technology staff.

Alexandra Beautyman ’11, who now works for New Haven based startup ActualFood, said that this tech-talent problem is not unique to New Haven but is instead reflective of the overall lack of software developers who are in high demand at any startup company.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of software developers is projected to grow 22 percent from 2012 to 2022, much faster than the average of 11 percent for all occupations.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu and DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

City prepares for Coliseum

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The city is looking to build a four-and-a-half-star hotel on the Coliseum site as part of the New Haven downtown revitalization project.

BY AMANDA MEI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Three companies are vying for the chance to build a fourand-a-half-star hotel on the Coliseum site, as part of a massive development project to revitalize New Haven’s downtown.

The 4.5-acre plot next to the Knights of Columbus Building on Route 34, formerly the site of a sports arena, will host the hotel as well as 200,000 square feet of office space, 1,000 housing units, 76,000 square feet of retail space and a large public square. The City of New Haven has been making preparations for the first phase of the $400 million Coliseum project since last December, when plans were approved by the Board of Alders and presented to international development firm LiveWorkLearnPlay.

“The hotel companies are all global brand names and all very popular in big cities around America, and it will be great for us to have a four star hotel with a big conference area,”

said Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, the city’s economic development administrator under Mayor Toni Harp.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has requested that LiveWorkLearnPlay make a final decision about a hotel company before the state commits $20 million in funds to improving road conditions around the Coliseum site.

Nemerson said the reason for this request was that the governor wanted state funds to have an immediate impact on the state. The road improvement project will involve connecting two sections of Orange Street to create a new intersection at which the hotel can be located.

“We have spent at least half of our time trying to complete the design of that intersection with the state,” Nemerson said.

“They’ve been very actively involved because they’re responsible for the bridge and the highway.”

Since further progress on the Coliseum Project depends on securing state funds for the

intersection, LiveWorkLearnPlay developer Max Reim has agreed to settle on a hotel company in the next few weeks.

Construction on the Coliseum site will begin next spring or summer and proceed in two phases. The first phase will build restaurants, shops and apartments in addition to the flagship hotel, and will cost around $150 million. The second phase, set to begin in 2016, will construct offices and more housing units by 2020.

Nemerson said another challenge to the project is securing government funding to allow LiveWorkLearnPlay to develop affordable housing because the original proposal called for 20 percent affordable housing.

The city has high hopes for the long-term benefits of the Coliseum Project. The new developments will attract up to 35 businesses and 20 seasonal firms by 2016 and create about 2,800 full time jobs. The project’s two phases will also yield around 4,700 construction jobs.

Brian Wingate, Alder for

Ward 29, said he supports the project for its potential to create more jobs, as well as space for people from many different places.

The development complex will also allow New Haven to gain a bigger share of the meeting business by attracting more people from the Yale Medical School, Yale-New Haven Hospital and corporations like Alexion Pharmaceuticals, according to Nemerson.

“New Haven has a very special role in the region because we are a place that jobs will be created,” Nemerson said. “The downtown has to be something that will attract even more investment and more people from around the world because that’s what great cities do.”

Although the Coliseum Project was set in motion by the administration of former Mayor John DeStefano, Jr., the administration of Mayor Harp has pledged its support for the project since last year.

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

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Unions displeased with changes to dining operations UNIONS FROM PAGE 1 Nevertheless, Yale Dining administrators adamantly defended their decision to migrate cold food production to the CSC. “We made an operational decision that was in the best interest of the University and earlier this year we engaged Local 35 representatives in discussions regarding the new Center,” Executive Director of Yale Dining Rafi Taherian wrote in an email. “Staff have approached me expressing their support of this change. We built a bright, modern, safe, wellequipped space that will allow our dining staff to work at its very best.”

He noted that in large-scale food operations, it is common and often most efficient to centralize a portion of the food preparation, citing the Yale Bakery as a long-standing example.

Director of Culinary Excellence Ron DeSantis said he stands by the quality of the food being produced in the CSC, adding that some workers’ characterizations of the CSC as a “food factory” are baseless.

“A food factory does not bring in pallets and pallets of fresh produce everyday. It does not use 49 percent produce purchased regionally.” DeSantis said. “The food that we prepare is food I would serve anywhere, and if I thought I would be working or be part of a food factory, I would have stayed at the Culinary Institute of America.”

DeSantis said he is happy to sit down and talk with Yale Dining employees about the changes, which he said reflect industry standards at even the highestlevel catering operations.

He met with Comen recently to make adjustments to menus, he said, and was surprised that Comen did not raise the strongly held beliefs in his letter dur-

ing that conversation. Taherian added that Comen had not even visited the CSC before writing the heavily critical letter.

“It was not accurate and I do not think it was fair,” DeSantis said.

Several Yale Dining employees, though, said that the change has led to a decline in the quality of food. The anonymous head pantry worker said it is aggravating that Yale Dining is trying to portray food as “fresher than ever before” when this is not the case. She added that when preparing food for 4,000 students in a central location, it is impossible to give the same level of care and attention as when preparing for 150 to 200 students in one dining hall.

A second head pantry worker said that fresh chicken breast used to be roast and cut every morning in the dining halls, but that chicken salad is now made from frozen pieces of Tyson chicken.

DeSantis argued however, that frozen products make up a minimum of food production and the majority of ingredients remain fresh.

Comen said he thinks delicate items — including roasted vegetables and potato salad — should be made inside the dining hall to preserve quality, rather than transported across campus in tubs. He described the sweet potato salad that entered his kitchens from the CSC as “soggy” and not up to the standards he feels comfortable serving to the students.

“I used to go around the country praising Yale Dining and how we do everything in-house and make everything fresh,” Comen said. “I can’t say that now, except [we] slice a few tomatoes and red onions.”

But he conceded that centralized cold production does make things more efficient, citing

improvements in items like hummus, salad dressing and Israeli couscous salad.

While the consequences of the CSC creation may be felt by Yale students in the quality of pasta salads, the stakes for Yale Dining workers — who are members of Yale’s Local 35 union — are much higher. Though Yale Dining administrators claimed the CSC posed no threat to union jobs, workers and union leaders alike suggested that the change will lead to a shrunken and less skilled workforce at the University.

The primary example of this, said Local 35 President Bob Proto, is the gradual reduction of head pantry workers, who traditionally oversaw cold food production inside residential dining halls. According to Proto, the University informed the union that it intends to do away with most of these positions over time through attrition.

However, DeSantis said that the jobs of current head pantry workers are not in jeopardy, and that a certain number of the positions will still remain.

Even so, head pantry workers at the CSC say their positions, formerly managerial roles, have become dulled down to a series of repetitive jobs.

“That is a de-skilling of the workforce,” said Proto. “When you don’t have folks to do highquality work and all you need to do is get folks to deliver fast food or pre-cut food, it lessens the skill level while at the same time reducing quality.”

Several former head pantry workers described the change as a major disruption in their lives that was made with little warning. According to the first anonymous head pantry worker, some workers displaced by the CSC were only given 10-minute slots for meetings with their managers, in which they were presented

Future of Market uncertain

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Elm City Market has fallen behind on a $3.6 million loan from Western Bank.

ELM CITY FROM PAGE 1 gram. No other buyers have publicly stated their interest in the business.

In a statement issued this past Saturday, the Elm City Market’s Board of Directors said they were deeply disappointed by the news of the liquidation plan. The Board recently met and voted unanimously to accept a rescue proposal by a national non-profit group, the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), which pledged to take over management and provide additional financing to find a sustainable path for the co-op. However, NCGA withdrew the deal when Webster still had not decided whether to accept the non-profit’s offer after two weeks of negotiations.

If the liquidation plan proceeds as approved and the store’s assets are sold, Elm City Market’s Board of Directors said there will be “many losers.”

“While jobs may be saved and the city may still have a market, it comes at an extremely high cost — a cost which we believe could have been avoided,” the Board said. “We are saddened that it may cease to be a community-owned co-op and are incredibly thankful for the outpouring of support from our member-owners this week.”

The board added that, if a foreclosure were to take place, it would cost taxpayers $3 million, since the USDA is legally obligated to cover 80 percent of Webster Bank’s losses from their loan

on which the Elm City Market has defaulted. Webster Bank would lose the remaining 20 percent of the loan, leaving numerous creditors unpaid.

After the USDA’s approval of the liquidation plan, it is now up to the lender, Western Bank, to put the plan into action, according to the Program Director of USDA’s Regional Rural Development State Office Jennifer Lerch,.

“This is not something that comes out of left field for anyone,” Lerch said. “But, in the black and white financial picture, some businesses cannot operate under a certain debt load, and that’s no reflection on their mission or operation.

The debt load is just too high.”

She added that the liquidation plan will likely include selling the co-op, but that under new ownership the Elm City Market may remain open, which would save about 80 jobs. Webster Bank’s Vice President of Corporate and Government Communications Sarah Barr said in an e-mail that the bank is still working through all of the details of the plan and hopes to soon arrive at a solution that keeps the market open.

“Going into drafting this plan, our strategy sought to keep the market open and the employees employed,” Lerch said. “That’s not something that we require in the liquidation of businesses, but that’s our mission — economic development and initiatives that support rural economies and preserve jobs.”

Lerch also said that USDA origi-

nally supported the opening of the grocery store in 2011 and the local community provided tremendous support for the project.

While some students believe Elm City Market expensive, many say it caters to a significant portion of Yale’s campus, especially students who live off-campus in the Chapel St. shopping district.

Before Elm City Market came to downtown, Stop & Shop on Whalley Avenue was the grocery store of choice for students.

Of 20 students interviewed, 10 said they have visited Elm City Market and 14 agreed that there is a shortage of grocery stores in New Haven.

Hayley Byrnes ’16 said there are few grocery stores a walkable distance from central campus other than Elm City Market.

“Elm City is the only one that I can think of that has such a wide variety of products,” Byrnes said.

“If it closes, I can’t really think of where I could get fresh produce in a convenient way.”

But other students interviewed, including Valerie Eisenson ’15, said that the grocery store is not critical, adding that she prefers Stop & Shop to Elm City Market, because of its affordability and wider selection.

Elm City co-op members pay a single $200 fee that can be paid in monthly installments.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu and J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

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Several Yale dining employees say food quality has declined since some preparation has been moved off campus. with a list of options for their new job in Yale Dining.

Ultimately, workers suggested that a major part of the issue is a lack of communication between University administrators and Yale Dining management.

“I don’t think this is the world’s worst idea,” the second anonymous pantry worker said. “If they consulted with us and they wanted to try to do this … and came up with a plan, and maybe did it in stages and did it gradually to ask our opinion to make it better, it may have been okay.”

The changes in Yale Dining

come on the heels of budget cuts that have significantly strained the relationship between the University and Yale’s unions, Local 34 and Local 35.

Several workers said problems with the CSC have only further raised tensions.

“It is a tough fight right now and the union feels as though we are not being listened to,” Comen said.

Proto said that after Comen’s letter was published, undergraduates have been “pouring in” support to Yale’s unions.

Local 35 will push to reverse the decision to move cold food

production to the CSC, Proto said, adding that the focus will also turn to the upper echelons of the administration.

“We’ll focus attention on Peter Salovey,” said Proto. “It’s under his watch that these shortsighted corporate decisions are being made in Yale Dining.”

In addition to cold food preparation, the CSC also houses Yale Bakery and Yale Catering.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” SCOTT ADAMS AMERICAN CARTOONIST

CHE faces uncertain future

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER In the light of recent changes to New Haven Public Schools’ health education, Yale’s Community Health Educators are seeking a new role within the schools.

Until last year, New Haven’s public schools lacked a comprehensive health curriculum that covered social development and sexual health. However, prompted by state-mandated health education requirements, the district adopted a more comprehensive health education curriculum, prompting leaders in CHE to rethink their role within the schools.

“We want to make sure we are as supportive of New Haven and the rollout as possible as well as making sure that students are receiving an adequate health education,” said Katie Rich ’16, CHE co-coordinator. “We want to be there for them and make sure that students are receiving a health education, whether that’s our workshops or the new health model.”

Starting last year in its elementary schools, NHPS adopted the Michigan Model for Health, a curriculum covering a variety of health issues such as nutrition, drug abuse and emotional health, said Sue Peters, New Haven Public Schools’ director of student health centers. But CHE only works within New Haven’s public middle and high schools, so its operations were initially unaffected.

This year, teachers are introducing the new curriculum to the middle schools for the first time, beginning the shift in CHE’s relationship with the schools. The curriculum will be introduced to high schools next year.

Previously, health education was spread across different departments within the schools and complemented by CHE’s workshops, Peters said. Nutrition was covered in physical education and the science department taught body systems, Peters said. Students in five of 10 New Haven high schools and 10 to 12 middle schools also receive instruction from CHE workshops, according to CHE cocoordinator Valerie Eisenson ’15.

But unlike the previous system, the new curriculum provides a standardized health education covering a wider variety of top-

YaleMakes seeks to promote creativity

ics for all students in the district, Peters said.

When CHE initially became involved with New Haven Public Schools, student volunteers mainly presented workshops on social development and sexual health, Peters said. CHE served as a valuable part of New Haven’s health education, but the lessons had a narrow focus, she said.

“They certainly never expected to be the only health education that kids got,” Peters said. “The Community Health Educators developed a lot of lessons themselves, but it’s not the same as a comprehensive, sequential health education system.”

Students feel a little more comfortable asking questions with us than maybe with their science teacher.

VALERIE EISENSON ’15 Co-coordinator, Community Health Educators CHE’s role within the school district remains ambiguous, though this year CHE’s efforts in the middle school will be centered on helping teachers introduce the new curriculum, not teaching, Eisenson said.

While Peters was optimistic about CHE’s continuing importance to New Haven Public Schools, she added that the biggest challenge is figuring out how to fit workshops or supplementary discussions into a busy school year.

CHE’s leaders are also working with the district to maintain the peer-to-peer tone generated by student-led workshops, Rich said.

“Students feel a little more comfortable asking questions with us than maybe with their science teacher, especially with sensitive topics,” Eisenson said. “The Board of Ed sees that as really important.”

Last year Community Health Educators led workshops in 24 New Haven high schools and middle schools, reaching out to over 2,000 students.

Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

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YaleMakes is a new campus group that brings students together to create projects that spread happiness and creativity on campus.

BY MRINAL KUMAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This year, a new organization seeks to bring together students to work on creative projects in a relaxed, lowpressure environment.

Founded by Cameron Yick ’17, YaleMakes held its first meeting in the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) on Saturday.

The idea for the club grew out of Yick’s involvement with the Calhoun Happiness Project, a group of Calhoun students who began meeting monthly last year to discuss chapters of Gretchen Rubin’s book about positive psychology, “The Happiness Project.” Yick said he hopes YaleMakes extends the Happiness Project’s mission of promoting happiness and creativity among members of the Yale community.

“I’d like to establish a community of people who wouldn’t otherwise be meeting regularly to just be creative around each other and have fun in doing so,” Yick said. “Ideally, a really cool idea

comes out of it, but that’s not the point. That can never be the point. If that’s the point then there’s pressure and whatnot.”

At Saturday’s meeting, around 12 students met in the CEID to discuss potential projects for the semester.

Proposals ranged from tactile poetry to user interface work on mobile devices. The group also worked on designing a logo for YaleMakes.

In the CEID, which opened in September 2012, students can work on projects like woodworking and graphic design with the help of resources such as 3-D printers and the CEID metal shop.

Yick, an aspiring electrical engineering major, said he believes aesthetics are an important but often undervalued component of his area of study. When he realized that he was not getting the sort of design experience he was looking for from a class, he decided to create YaleMakes.

The class of 2018 also played a role in the founding of the club.

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Over the summer, Yick built a website for the freshman class that included a page where students could describe projects they were interested in working on at Yale.

“I was looking at the interests of the freshmen who entered the talent database that I built, and it seemed like there were a fair amount of people that were interested in doing design, but not necessarily for competition or for a business,” he said.

Yick also spoke about how the club would encourage more collaboration between STEM and arts people, all of whom are interested in designing things effectively.

Megan Valentine ’16, who attended the first meeting on Saturday, echoed this sentiment, citing her interdepartmental major — computing and the arts — as an example of the importance of a collaborative effort between aesthetics and engineering.

Another key aspect of the club is its laid-back, positive environment.

“Making things makes a lot

of people happy,” Yick said.

Artem Osherov ’17, a suite mate of Yick’s who also attended the first meeting, said he hopes YaleMakes will provide a set meeting time for people to come together and express their creativity. He added that members are also under no pressure to commit to coming to meetings every week.

Calvin Harrison ’17, a founding member of the Calhoun Happiness Project who is not involved in YaleMakes, said he thinks the idea of YaleMakes is really interesting and has the potential to open up design as a hobby to many people.

“That being said, I feel like so much of Yale is about being awesome at everything you do, so I worry that this pursuit of [creative flow] could turn into a counterproductive search for perfection,” Harrison said.

YaleMakes meets every Saturday morning in the CEID from 10 p.m. to 12 p.m.

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

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“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.� MILTON BERLE AMERICAN COMEDIAN AND ACTOR

Contracts could boost employment in city NEW COLLEGES FROM PAGE 1

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The University plans on meeting the city’s labor standards for construction, which dictate that 25 percent of jobs go to New Haven residents, 25 percent to minorities and 7 percent to women. itoring mechanism to ensure compliance. She offered the services of the city’s own Commission on Equal Opportunities.

In addition to the benefit of construction jobs, the project will also substantially increase the reimbursement the city receives from the state under Payment in Lieu of Taxes, which reimburses municipalities for nontaxable land.

Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81,

Russian sees increased numbers LANGUAGES FROM PAGE 1 recent years, with spikes following major geopolitical events. Introductory Turkish, for example, saw a climb from an enrollment of three students in 2003 to seven in 2009 and 11 by 2014. In 2012 — the year after an incident where a Turkish ship was attacked by Israeli forces, leading to political tensions between Turkey, Israel and the US — enrollment spiked to 15.

But Turkish lector Etem Erol said he doubts the climb has anything to do with geopolitics, noting that half the students are learning Turkish in order to work with Ottoman archives.

Fiona Lowenstein ’16, a History major who studies Turkish, said that although she originally pursued Turkish because of its unique historical position at the center of so many empires, she eventually became interested in its current political sit-

uation. “We seen a lot more articles and think pieces about Turkey in the past few years,� she said. “It’s reached a boiling point.�

We’ve seen a lot more articles and think pieces about Turkey in the past few years. It’s reached a boiling point.

FIONA LOWENSTEIN ’16 History major, Yale College Yale also reintroduced Ukrainian courses this year through video conferencing technology from Columbia University.

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for as many of New Haven’s subcontractors as possible by requiring that a large scope of work be broken down into smaller “packages,� Bollier said.

Harp said she hopes whichever lead contractor the University chooses has experience complying with minority and small business hiring standards. She added that if Yale is serious about meeting city-recommended percentages, it should create a mon-

OPINION.

a series of standards, including a percentage of construction jobs that must go to city residents, minorities and women.

The city also requires a certain percentage of the value of contracts and subcontracts to go to firms owned by women, African-Americans and HispanicAmericans, as well as to small businesses located within New Haven.

With full rights to the site and the requisite zoning allowances, Yale is not compelled to follow these rules. Still, the University plans to voluntarily meet the city’s standards, which Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, the city’s economic development administrator, said require that 25 percent of the jobs go to New Haven residents, 25 percent to minorities and roughly 7 percent to women.

Yale has typically not bound itself to the requirement about contractors and subcontractors.

Indeed when it comes to the lead construction manager, the University plans to select a larger, regional firm, according to Associate Vice President of Facilities John Bollier. Nemerson said he would like to see the University move toward a commitment to distributing contracts to city businesses, and not just jobs to residents. Still, Bollier said that the University’s construction efforts seek to positively impact the city and its community. “We strive to have our construction program benefit New Haven and its residents,� he said. “We have met or exceeded city guidelines in the past for New Haven resident and minority hiring and expect to be able to do so for the colleges.�

Additionally, the bid process for the subcontractors who will directly implement the work was designed to afford opportunities

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the city’s economic development administrator, said the colleges represent the new mayoral administration’s “first big Yale project,� a learning opportunity for the city and the largest employer in town. Because of that identity, Yale should do as much as it can to support local employment, said Brian Wingate, vice president of Local 35 Union and a member of the Board of Alders’ community develop-

ment committee. “If Yale University wanted to show its true commitment across the lines of race and class — and really help minorities and businesses — it would use this project to put people here to work,�

Wingate said, calling for a transparent partnership with contractors that sets high expectations for inclusion of minority and New Haven contractors.

Reverend Scott Marks, a co-

founder of the Connecticut Center for a New Economy and leader of the activist umbrella organization New Haven Rising, echoed Wingate’s call, saying the city is in a “jobs crisis.�

The new colleges are entirely donor-funded.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu and ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”

LEROY “SATCHEL” PAGE PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER

W. soccer pummels peacocks

Five fencing crowns under coach FENCING COACH FROM PAGE 12

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Midfielder Sarah McCauley ’18 (No. 19) scored twice as Yale won 5–2 yesterday.

W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 The start of the second half saw many more substitutions for Yale, this time including the goalkeeper, as Elise Wilcox ’15 took to guarding the goal.

The Elis were off to another quick start as Gavin and forward Karina Kovalcik ’17 assisted defender Ana Keusch ’16 on a goal, raising the score to 4–0 at 49:39. Keusch’s shot struck the crossbar, bouncing off the post and into the goal.

The rest of the game went poorly for St. Peter’s, with multiple fouls marring the second half, as well as many missed shots by the Peacocks. At 63:44, the beating took a turn for the worst,

when one of the St. Peter’s defenders knocked the ball into her own goal, increasing Yale’s margin to 5–0.

Twenty-five more minutes of play saw many more Yale substitutions and many more shots on goal for the Elis.

The bright spot of the game for St. Peter’s came with only a minute and a half left, when Carlee Conzalez scored to keep St. Peter’s from being shut out.

After such a sound victory, the Bulldogs are looking ahead to their game at Hofstra on Friday, Sept. 19, Yale’s first out-of-state game of the season.

Ames said that a little more focus will be needed at Hofstra, as they will have the home field advantage, though the Bulldogs’ mindsets will be the

same as they have been for the past games.

The Elis also have their first Ivy League game coming up next week, when they face off against Princeton at Reese Stadium.

“We have [two] games before Princeton and are working on one game at a time,” Gavin said. “We are playing to win every game and hope that by the time Ivy League play comes around we will be comfortable with each other and the system we are using.”

The Bulldogs head to Hofstra on Friday for a 7:00 p.m. kick-off.

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

Former Elis talk Olympics BROADCAST FROM PAGE 12 and the Golf Channel and a former two-sport varsity athlete, discussed how Yale provided opportunities for academic and athletic pursuits. Vaccaro, a researcher for NBC Sports and NBCSN, also described how working as a broadcaster for WYBC exposed him to a wide variety of athletics and helped to develop his skills as a sports reporter.

“For a kid coming out of high school, to be able to match what I knew were fantastic academics with the ability to compete at the highest level, [it] was really an exciting time for me,” Litner said.

The men also noted the vast changes that have impacted the sports industry in recent years. Diamond, the head of NBC’s coverage of the Olympic Games and a 14-time Emmy winner, recalled that coverage for the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria totaled 43 and a half hours, while the most recent Win-

ter Olympics in Sochi generated 1,539 hours across seven networks. Thomas Ketchum ’72, the head of the Mory’s Speaker series, added that more than 215 million viewers watched NBC’s coverage of the 2012 Olympics in London.

In preparation for Sochi, NBC sent over 1,000 workers and a team of 25 sports researchers to Russia, according to Diamond, who also noted that the network now employs a group of full-time workers responsible for coverage of the Games. This stands in stark contrast to coverage during the 1970s, when the network team consisted of little more than a few reporters and a single researcher, Diamond said.

The expansion in the sheer volume of coverage of the Games and other sporting events is in part related to the development of social media as a platform for sports reporting, Vaccaro said. He added that these platforms not only enable networks like NBC to provide more content to viewers, but they also allow

spectators to provide their own input.

“Social media and Twitter have given a lot more information for us to evaluate,” Vaccaro said.

He noted that Twitter offers an opportunity for the creation of a sort of global corps of reporters, but added that the information they need to provide often must be verified before it can be used in an official broadcast.

Bryan Herbert ’18 said that he attended the discussion to learn about NBC and its Olympic coverage.

“This was a great opportunity to learn about the Olympics … and see how they took their Yale education and extended that into their careers,” Herbert said.

Before the conclusion of the event, the panelists once again referred to the “enormous institutional value” of athletics at Yale and expressed their hopes for the upcoming Harvard-Yale game.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .

year and did not have the appropriate equipment.

He stores and takes care of all of the team’s equipment, he said, because his students should not need to think about fencing when they are not in the Yale fencing room.

“I ask, from October 15 to March, for two hours a day, you come to fencing and forget everything else,” Harutunian said. “At 6:15, you leave, and unplug from fencing. [Take care of] your studies, social life, whatever else in your life, because that’s your profession and future. Your parents are paying for education, not fencing.”

During those two hours a day, Harutunian runs practices with as much intensity and energy as the fencers themselves, captain Hugh O’Cinneide ’15 said.

Above all else, O’Cinneide said that Harutunian has taught him when to draw the line between a lighthearted tone and serious one.

“His coaching has really given a boost to my love of the sport, because he is so passionate about it,” O’Cinneide said.

Harutunian’s philosophy for coaching has certainly proved successful. His women’s team has won three NCAA titles, all between 1982 and 1985, while the men’s team won a championship each in foil and sabre in the early 1990s. “[Harutunian] has made my experience on the Women’s Fencing team one of the best parts about my four years at Yale,” women’s captain Lauren Miller ’15 said in an email. “His longstanding dedication to the team means a lot to us and our alumni and I know that we wouldn’t have the team we have today without him.”

Just 11 years after his immigration to America, he began working with its national team, eventually coaching in the 1984 Olympic games.

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CROSS-COUNTRY FROM PAGE 12 the men with a second-place finish overall with a time of 24:26, while Duncan Tomlin ’14 placed fourth overall and freshman standout Cameron Stannish ’18 came in fifth.

McGowan attributed part of the team’s success to the fact it didn’t lose many contributing members from last season.

The team returned seven of its top eight runners, including its whole top five. He added that he was pleasantly surprised that freshmen Stannish and Hale Ross placed in Yale’s top seven.

Head coach Paul Harkins said the team believes in itself more than it has in the past. “[Confidence] used to be an issue when we’d step to line,” Harkins said. “But now the team is realizing it can go head-tohead with teams in our league.”

Members of the women’s team were equally pleased with the effort, and rose from No. 13 to No. 7 in the NCAA DivisionI Cross-Country team rankings for the northeast region. The jump was the second-largest of any team this week.

Kira Garry ’15 set the pace for the Bulldogs, coming in first overall with a time of 17:32. The next runner was right on her heels, coming in just over 0.06 seconds behind.

“We were definitely the underdogs,” Garry said. “Harvard and Princeton didn’t expect us to do anything. My coach and I had talked about going for the win, and I felt confident and believed I could do it.”

KIRA GARRY ’15 Runner, Yale women’s cross-country team

Three Yale alumni who currently work in sports broadcasting at NBC spoke at a panel discussion yesterday.

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

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My coach and I had talked about going for the win, and I felt confident and believed I could do it.

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success at Yale — over 500 wins in 44 years — despite many of his most successful athletes never having touched a piece of fencing equipment before college. One notable example, David Jacobson ’74, was a football player in high school before Harutunian approached him at Payne Whitney Gym in his freshman year at Yale.

Harutunian told him to report to the fencing room the next day to try the sport. Jacobson proceeded to earn allAmerican honors in fencing and join the American national team.

As much as Harutunian’s former students owe him for his teachings in fencing, he also has much for which to thank them, as it was one of Harutunian’s pupils who brought him to Yale in the first place.

Harutunian moved to the United States in 1966 to become a conversational Russian instructor at Harvard. Howard Daniel ’66 was Harutunian’s graduate student. After discovering Harutunian’s coaching talent and Yale’s need for a revitalized fencing program, he decided to connect the future coach to Yale.

Harutunian visited the campus and was awestruck by its beauty, especially the size of the Yale fencing room despite the small membership of the team. In 1970, after three years of coaching at Brandeis, he was eventually offered the fencing job at Yale.

Forty-four years later, the former Harvard instructor remains one of the greatest supports of Yale as an institution. He frequently referred to past and present administrators as “brilliant,” picking out one name, A. Bartlett Giamatti, as the best Yale president he has witnessed. Giamatti’s picture also hangs on the filled walls of Harutunian’s office.

The Yale fencing team’s season starts Nov. 7 at Penn State.

Rounding out Yale’s top five for the women were Sami Glass ’18, Emily Waligurski ’17, Emily Stark ’16 and Dana Klein ’15, who placed sixth, eleventh, fourteenth and fifteenth overall, respectively.

With the new season, the team graduated four seniors, but

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The women’s cross-country team came in second place this weekend, ahead of arch-rival Harvard. gained thirteen freshmen. Team captain Hannah Alpert ’15 was unsure of how the team gained so many recruiting spots, but added it would be crucial this season to integrate the freshmen.

“We knew coming in that we had good freshman, but this was first chance to go all out, and we had three freshmen in the top seven,” Alpert said. “It wasn’t necessarily unexpected [that they performed well], we just didn’t know what to expect.”

After the meet, both teams said they are looking to decrease time between runners’ finishing times, specifically within the top seven. Members of both teams also said they were looking to improve their pack-running skills, which help with pacing during meets.

Women’s head coach Amy Gosztyla added that the women’s team’s biggest weakness

is age, as the squad is heavily made up of underclassmen. Both teams noted there was much room for improvement, but that both teams have the potential to achieve their goals.

Alpert said she hopes the team will continue to rise in the rankings and place in the top half of the Ivy League Cross-Country Championships in November.

McGowan echoed the same sentiment, though a bit bolder.

“We haven’t won the Championships since 1942, and this is probably the best chance to win it,” he said. “We’ve also never been to nationals and can change that this year.”

Both teams will next compete at the Iona Meet of Champions at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, N.Y. on Sept. 20.

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

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ARTS & CULTURE Yale Cabaret opens new season

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The Yale Cabaret, which serves as the Yale School of Drama’s theater for ambitious and experimental works, will begin its 18-show season this Saturday, with “Look Up, Speak Nicely, and Don’t Twiddle Your Fingers All The Time.”

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER The Yale Cabaret’s new season will aim to stage Yale School of Drama students’ most ambitious theatrical ideas.

The Cabaret’s season opens this Thursday with the first of 18 shows — a student-written play titled “Look Up, Speak Nicely, and Don’t Twiddle Your Fingers All The Time,” by Emily Zemba DRA ’15. After taking their positions as the Cabaret’s new artistic directors last Spring, Hugh Farrell DRA ’15, Tyler Kieffer DRA ’15 and Will Rucker DRA ’15 developed a vision for the 2014-’15 season that revolves around the phrase ‘Make happen the make-believe,’ a slogan that appears on Cabaret posters around campus. Farrell said he

and his team hope to stage plays that are open to interpretation and changes throughout the production process, noting that several plays were not even fully written when the team chose to include them in the upcoming season.

“I never want to see a proposal where the producers already know what kind of show they will have at the end of the process,” Farrell said. “We want to be surprised.”

Rucker said that the phrase ‘Make happen the make-believe’ reflects the Cabaret directors’ challenge to the YSD community to propose productions that require complex stage designs.

He described “Look Up” as an encounter between Alice in Wonderland and the reality TV series “Toddlers and Tiaras.”

Rucker added that second show of the season — titled “Don’t Be Too Surprised” — will feature talking corpses in addition to other supernatural elements.

The Cabaret doesn’t belong to us. It belongs to New Haven, to the community, to the people who have been coming for 30 years.

MOLLY HENNIGHAUSEN DRA ’15 Managing director, The Yale Cabaret Farrell, Kieffer and Rucker

said that one of their main goals for the Cabaret is to provide opportunities for YSD students to take on roles outside of their academic disciplines.

Kieffer explained that none of the cast members in “Don’t Be Too Surprised” are students in the YSD’s acting department.

Molly Hennighausen DRA ’15, the Cabaret’s managing director, added that the director for “Look Up,” Ato Blankson-Wood DRA ’15, has never directed a production before.

Beyond their artistic vision, the Cabaret’s leaders said they are looking to significantly reform the Cabaret’s business model. Hennighausen explained that recent budget cuts across the University have led to a $40,000 decrease in the amount of funding Yale

provides to the Cabaret, noting that the organization is now completely self-funded. Kieffer said that most of the funding from the University has traditionally been used to pay student staff members who work as waiters and ushers among other positions, adding that these student staffers will see a decrease in their work-study hours. In addition to overhauling the Cabaret’s kitchen services, Hennighausen said she also aims to compensate for the budget cuts by partnering with local businesses such as Allegra, a design, printing and mailing service. She noted that such partnerships are part of an effort to foster long-term relationships between the Cabaret and the local community.

“The Cabaret doesn’t belong

to us,” Hennighausen said. “It belongs to New Haven, to the community, to the people who have been coming for 30 years.”

Over the summer, the Cabaret building underwent renovations in preparation for the upcoming season. A large speaker system has been installed in the lobby area, where the lighting system can emit light in a range of different colors. Farrell said that the team wanted an interior design that is easily manipulated, as they plan to change it every week to fit the themes in the featured show.

Performances of “Look Up, Speak Nicely, and Don’t Twiddle Your Fingers All The Time” will run through Sept. 20.

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

Art historian talks femininity in Reynolds

BY ERIC LIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Speaking in front of a crowd of 100 at the Yale Center for British Art on Tuesday, art historian Mark Hallett discussed mythological elements and ideals of femininity in Joshua Reynolds’ paintings.

As part of the release of his new book titled “Reynolds: Portraiture in Action,” Hallett, who specializes in British art from 1650 to 1850, analyzed three paintings of women by Reynolds.

The three portraits, painted between 1761 and 1764, all showed aristocratic women as young maidens placed in a mythologically charged setting, Hallett said. Combining his analysis of the paintings with poems and plays that informed Reynolds’ art, Hallett presented such portraits as public spectacles that defined personal reputation and feminine virtues in the Georgian world of the British elite.

“These are pictures which really tell a story,” said Hallett, who serves as director of studies for the Paul Mellon Centre in London, a sister institution to the Yale Center for British Art. Beginning with a portrait of Lady Elizabeth Keppel, Hallett spoke about the tension between modesty and eroticism. Keppel, a bridesmaid to the wedding of King George III, was portrayed as embodying the ideal of a woman on the edge of maturity, Hallett said. The presence of Hymen, the Greek god of marriage, suggests “tenderness and sexual expectation,” while her black servant was a source of familiarity, Hallett added.

The second portrait discussed in the lecture showed Lady Sarah Lennox, also a bridesmaid, capture as she pours liba-

tions into a tripod to the three Graces.

A companion piece and mirror image of the painting of Elizabeth Keppel, the second portrait exhibits some of the same dynamics as the first painting, though in a more theatrical manner, Hallett said. Just as Lennox looked up to the divine Graces as embodiments of marriage, so the viewers looked up to Lennox as a symbol for the feminine ideal, Hallett added.

The last piece Hallett discussed was a portrait of another woman, Mrs. Hale.

Whereas Hale points to a background of Dionysiac revelry, she also walks away from the scene, walking towards the viewer. Hallett noted the tension between sexual pleasure and feminine purity that animates the painting.

Hallett said he specifically chose to talk about portraiture of these three women because of their complex mythological aspects. As women at the time did not have a public role, Hallett said Reynolds deliberately placed them in a mythological context because “this was a way to put them in a much more animated setting.”

The audience at the lecture praised Hallett’s subtle analysis of the paintings through a historical and social lens. Kerstin Pahl, a Ph.D student in art history who came from Kings College in London to attend the lecture, said she particularly appreciated Hallett’s attention to detail and the complexity of his insights.

“I haven’t heard such in-depth analysis,” Pahl said.

Mark Hallett became Director of Studies of the Paul Mellon Centre in 2012.

Contact ERIC LIN at eric.v.lin@yale.edu .

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Art historian Mark Hallett spoke at the Yale Center for British Art on Tuesday about the mythological paintings of Joshua Reynolds.

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“It is literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

GAO XINGJIAN CHINESE NOVELIST

Students speed date with literary prizewinners

BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER At this year’s edition of the Windham-Campbell Prize Festival, students were offered the opportunity to interact with the winners of the literary award in a more relaxed and intimate setting.

The event, dubbed “Literary Speed Dating,” brought together all eight prizewinning writers as well as students and community members in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Tuesday evening. Attendees, divided into groups of approximately 12 each, were given the chance to converse informally with the writers on a range of topics — from opinions on particular literary genres to career advice for aspiring writers. At the close of each 10-minute “speed dating” cycle, groups rotated tables until everyone had a chance to speak with each prizewinner.

“You’re asking them a question directly across the table rather than with a microphone across a large audience,” said Michael Kelleher, the Program Director of the WindhamCampbell Prizes. “It’s much more of an intimate experience with the writer.”

Organized by a committee of undergraduates working with Kelleher, “Literary Speed Dating” was intended to be an entirely novel type of literary event at Yale, according to Joy Shan ’15, a magazine editor for the News and member of the committee. One of the committee’s major objectives, she added, was to move away from the more typical “panel” structure and towards a “less stuffy, less literary” model that would allow students to “talk to writers as people, rather than as academics or historians.”

“We were trying to work out a way to make the conventional panel format of an event more interesting, interactive and fun, particularly for an undergraduate audience who only ever experience visiting speakers through a Q&A or panel in which they can’t really participate,” said Eleanor Michotte ’15, who was also on the organizing committee. “We wanted a strong participatory element.”

The event was intended to be very informal and relaxed, in the hopes that students might feel more at ease and willing to participate, whether actively posing questions or simply listening, organizers said.

Kelleher also stressed the importance of the less formal

atmosphere and small-group dynamic of “Literary Speed Dating,” suggesting that the intimate setting could attract students from a diversity of academic backgrounds and interests.

“We wanted this to be an event that political science majors, engineering students, American studies majors [and] undecided students would all attend,” Shan explained. “Books like these and writers like these are meant to be read by everyone — not just people who are writing senior English theses.”

Michotte added that “Literary Speed Dating” was different from the other events offered during the Windham-Campbell festival — and, more broadly, among literary circles at Yale — for its interactive, student-run nature and its breadth of focus.

Students at the event, she said, had the opportunity to ask questions ranging from “how to begin in a particular field” to “how to ‘find one’s voice’ as a writer.” “[Traditional] panels can make it seem like writers — even writers like these, who are so young — are these huge people, and that we have to change the way we talk when we engage with them. I hope that this event will remind us that writers are people,” Shan concluded.

The Donald Windham-Sandy Campbell Literature Prizes are awarded each spring in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and drama.

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

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The “Literary Speed Dating” event allowed students to get to know all of the Windham-Campbell Prize winners in small groups.

Fiction writer discusses writing influences

BY PIERRE ORTLIEB STAFF REPORTER Award-winning Pakistani writer Nadeem Aslam spoke about the political dimensions of his writing during a Master’s Tea given to about 30 attendees in Trumbull College on Tuesday.

Aslam, who came to campus this week to receive the Windham Campbell Award in fiction for his 2013 book “The Blind Man’s Garden,” used the opportunity to address the manner in which he formulates his works, as well as discuss the political and emotional influences in his four books. Although the writer focuses specifically on fiction, he said his works draw heavily from geopolitical events, and he aims to rectify through writing the evils he perceives in the world.

“My work is my way of saying to the wicked and unjust: You think you got away with it? In the book you will be put on trial and I will judge you,” said Aslam, who has lived in the United Kingdom since the age of 14.

Aslam, who considers himself to be the “least imaginative person in the world,” said much of his writing is informed by the tragedies that he sees in the news, adding that such programs are the most devastating yet at the same time the most inspiring TV content. Literature provides the perfect platform to express the wildest passions and most burning hatred governing human lives, Aslam said.

“Some things which may make mountains crumble, paper can hold up,” he said.

While this endeavour does torment him, giving him “nightmares” before and after writing, Aslam said he believes that commenting on the world that surrounds him is an obligation, “a debt which [he] must pay.” The novelist said that having been given the privilege of existence — which he called “the most beautiful phenomenon” — he has a duty to experience it and catalog his stories and memories in his work, however difficult that might be.

My work is a way of saying to the wicked and unjust: you think you got away with it?

NADEEM ASLAM Pakistani novelist Audience members expressed admiration and marvel at Aslam’s lyrical style.

“He writes the most beautiful prose I have ever read about the experiences inside his world,” said Eli Westerman ’18, speaking in praise of Aslam’s ability to craft fiction from real political occurrences. Westerman added that listening to the Aslam’s speech helped him put the author’s “mystical” writing in perspective. Another attendee, Meiryum Ali ’16 echoed this sentiment, noting that while she usually doesn’t use the word ‘enchanting’ to describe anyone, she would use it for Aslam.

The aura that surrounds Aslam may be a product of his peculiar working habits; for instance, the novelist said he writes exclusively at night, waking up at 11 p.m. and working from then on.

“I used to live next to some very noisy people … so while they were being noisy [during the day] I would sleep with earplugs in,” Aslam said, adding that the silence and absence of distractions working past dusk affords him are “very rich.” Yet writing for hours on end can take its toll, he said, as the lack of feedback that an author receives can be disconcerting. Ordinary employees will receive criticism or praise at their workplace on a regular basis, which is often not the case for writers, he said. Because of the solitary nature of his writing, Aslam said he frequently finds himself questioning his own existence. As a result, whenever he attends public events such as the master’s tea, he is often taken aback by having readers speak to him about his work.

“I ask myself, ‘How do you know I exist? How do you know about this character?’” Aslam said.

Ultimately, though, he finds the work of a writer to be “reassuring:” when faced with a situation which he can do little to change, Aslam said he always has the option of writing about it.

The Windham Campbell prizes are awarded annually by Beinecke Library and include a $150,000 grant for each recipient.

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

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Nadeem Aslam received the Windham Campbell Award in fiction for his novel, “The Blind Man’s Garden.”

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Elis strut past Peacocks WOMEN’S SOCCER

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Midfielder Geneva Decker ’17 (No. 18) scored to help Yale beat St. Peter’s 5–1 last night.

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a heated overtime battle against Manhattan on Sunday that resulted in the first loss on the season, the Yale women’s soccer team came back with a vengeance against St. Peter’s on Tuesday night, taking down the

Peacocks 5–1.

Three different Elis got in for the five-goal game, which was the largest margin of victory for the Yale squad in two years.

The Bulldogs did not play St. Peter’s last year, so scouting reports were essential heading into the game.

“Whenever we play a team,

our coaches watch film of them beforehand,” forward Melissa Gavin ’15 said.

The game started with a bang for the Bulldogs, with rookie midfielder Sarah McCauley ’18 scoring off an assist from Gavin only four minutes into the game.

McCauley, who scored the winning goal against Western Ken-

Harutunian starts 45th year as coach

tucky on Friday, Sept. 12, showed her skills as a newcomer to the team. She scored again just ten minutes later, this time assisted by both Gavin and Shannon Conneely ’16. At 14:04, the Elis were already ahead by two.

Scoring that early in the game gave St. Peter’s plenty of time to strike back, so the Bulldogs

stayed grounded. Yale took multiple shots on goal and corner kicks before the entire starting lineup except the goalkeeper, Rachel Ames ’16, was switched out.

For the rest of the first half, the Bulldogs kept applying pressure, taking ten shots compared to one

by St. Peter’s. One of the shots

resulted in another Yale goal, this time by midfielder Geny Decker ’17. Midfielder Frannie Coxe ’15 passed the ball to Decker, who sunk the shot into the right side of the net, increasing Yale’s score to three with another half still to play.

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Alums talk broadcasting experience

BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As the sole owner of broadcasting rights in the United States, NBC has been exclusively responsible for bringing the Olympic Games to American fans since 2000. Last night, three Yale graduates, now executives at NBC, participated in a panel discussion regarding the effort that

goes into coordinating such massive broadcasting events.

The discussion, which included John Litner ’85, Ron Vaccaro ’04 and Peter Diamond ’74, focused on both the men’s individual experiences at Yale and their subsequent contributions to NBC. Hosted by the Mory’s Speaker series and held at the Sterling Memorial Library, the event was moderated by Jack

Ford ’72, a former Yale football player and current journalist, documentary producer, teacher, author and trial lawyer.

All four began by discussing the profound influence their time at Yale — especially their involvement with Yale athletics — had on their later careers. Litner, head of NBC Sports Regional Networks SEE BROADCASTING PAGE 8

XC beats Harvard

BY ROHAN NAIK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Henry Harutunian will enter his 45th year as coach of the Yale fencing team this year.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Seeing Yale fencing coach Henry Harutunian in person, one might think he was 60 or 65. Hearing his booming voice speak about his love for Yale, he might sound 40, and watching the energy with which he conducts practice five days a week, he would seem around 18 to 22, the age of his fencing students.

Never would one guess that Harutunian is about to turn 82 — the exact age of Payne Whitney Gymnasium — and is now entering his 45th year as the head of the Yale fencing program. His tenure at the helm spans seven

Yale presidencies, five NCAA fencing titles for Yale and the entire length of the women’s fencing program, which he himself created in 1974.

The former American Olympic coach credits his job at Yale, which he willingly works at from 5:30 a.m. to after 6:30 p.m. each day, for keeping him young over the years. A religious man who hails from Armenia, he said that it is important to enjoy the years that God has given him.

“For me, everything comes naturally,” Harutunian said.

“I just like life, I like young people. My life is my team.”

Harutunian’s office, the only room on the seventh floor

of Payne Whitney Gymnasium other than the fencing room, is an organized mess that encapsulates his life: busy and loaded with memories.

Nearly one hundred photos of his past teams and the children of his alumni hang behind his desk, while a complete fencing workshop — all the equipment of his team, tools for building the weapons and even a sewing machine for fencing outfits — is dispersed around the office.

Harutunian is currently in the midst of using his tools to make an épée from scratch for Dillon Lew ’16, who is switching from foil to epee this SEE FENCING COACH PAGE 8

STAT OF THE DAY 4

Running at the Course at Yale, the men’s and women’s cross-country teams open their new seasons against some old, familiar foes.

CROSS COUNTRY

ANNA SOPHIA-HARLING/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The men’s cross-country team beat Harvard, but finished one point behind Princeton at this weekend’s meet.

The Elis hosted Harvard and Princeton in the annual HYP meet. In addition to beginning the season, the event also marked Princeton’s return to the meet — the first time since 2011 for the women and 1998 for the men.

Both Yale teams placed second, beating Harvard by considerable margins, but falling to Princeton. The men finished the 8-kilometer meet with 32 points,

just one point shy of Princeton’s 31, while Harvard trailed far behind with 68 points. In their 5-kilometer race, the women also defeated Harvard by a large margin — 47 points compared to Harvard’s 68 — though the Elis finished well behind Princeton, which finished with 21 points.

“The first meet can never tell you how the season is going to go, but we couldn’t have asked for better,” men’s captain John McGowan ’15 said. “It was the first time we’ve beaten Harvard since I’ve been here. We lost to Princeton by a point, but they’re ranked nationally, so we can’t complain.”

Kevin Dooney ’16 led SEE XC PAGE 8

THE WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM’S MARGIN OF VICTORY OVER SAINT PETER’S LAST NIGHT. Forward Sarah McCauley ’18 scored the Elis’ first two goals of the games, while midfielder Geneva Decker ’17 and defender Ana Keusch ’16 also scored. Yale’s last goal in the 5—1 victory came via an own goal.