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U.S. News lists Yale School of Medicine as one of the most diverse.

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How about this weather?

currently be to grow plants in this state, Connecticut ranks among the nation’s best for birthing babies. A study published by WalletHub yesterday determined as much by using metrics such as delivery cost and OB-GYNsper capita. In case you were wondering.

Me first. Most Yalies, however, hardly have their own lives figured out, much less those of their future children. Never fear, the Office of Career Strategy is here, offering a Graduate School Workshop and a Healthcare Consulting Recruiting Event this evening.

Perks. Incidentally, one reason to consider graduate school is to attend events like tonight’s Party at the Peabody, promotions for which imply that undergraduate students are not welcome.

“Just might crack a smile.”

The online video interview series known as “the bull report” is hosting a live taping of its eighth episode tonight, promising audience members at least a marginal amount of humor. Sounds about right.

For the young folk. Tangled Up in Blue’s Audition Concert will take place tonight in SSS 114, where aspiring folksy folks can learn about joining the band.

Why hack? Find out at the YHack information session tonight at 8 p.m. Fittingly to be held at 17 Hillhouse Ave., the meeting will fittingly bring together the campus’s technology-minded students in one of its most technologyenabled facilities.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2010 The city’s Office of Sustainability announces new plans to install electric car charging stations in three parking garages around downtown. “We want to be a national leader in this emerging industry,” Gov. M. Jodi Rell says in a statement about the initiative.

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you’re afraid of commitment, brace yourself: Come 5 p.m., we’ll be exactly one week away from the end of shopping period. And before you know it, stress over seminar placement will give way to stress over midterm exams. At least the weather will be more tolerable by then; good vibes to all in the meantime.

Reproduce. Tough as it may

Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison gears up for November (re)election.

Eidelson, Stark square off in final week of campaign

The end of the beginning. If

Speaking of which, with everyone complaining about the heat and the humidity, they seem to hardly notice the recent lack of rain (until today, perhaps). Everyone, that is, except for produce farmers around the state, who, according to a Wednesday story by FoxCT, are suffering from an extended drought that now threatens this fall’s harvest. We feel a bit of your pain, California.

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was proud of the way she had handled her dual commitments in City Hall and to her Yale constituents.

“No one can argue that I haven’t put the time and the legwork in the role, but I think the criticism is about where I have spent my time,” she said near the end of the debate.

“I’m proud of the way that we’ve struck that balance [between City

One week before the Ward 1 Democratic primary, the finance reports filed by the campaigns of Fish Stark ’17 and Sarah Eidelson ’12 reveal a vast difference in fundraising power between the candidates.

While Eidelson raised $370, primarily through personal cash donations, Stark raised $3,370 — over nine times Eidelson’s total — through a combination of cash, check and inkind donations. Of Eidelson’s 26 donations, 21 were from Yale students, and all were from Connecticut residents. Stark’s filing, meanwhile, shows a nationwide operation, with donations from Connecticut, Maryland and California. Nine of 62 donors to Stark’s campaign were Yale students.

“We didn’t really start fundraising until people got back to campus because we believe it’s really important that the majority of our contributions are from students,” Eidelson said.

Stark’s largest contributions came from his parents — former U.S. Congressman Fortney “Pete” Stark and his wife, Deborah Roderick Stark — and Charles and Helene Kline of San Leandro, California. The donations from those four individuals totaled $700, nearly double Eidelson’s total.

Just over 75 percent of donations to the Stark campaign were in-state, and

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Ward 1 candidates, Fish Stark ’17 and Sarah Eidelson ’12, exchanged harsh words at a debate this Wednesday.

At Ward 1 debate, Stark goes on offensive

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTERS Just one week before the Democratic primary for Ward 1 alder, the campaign turned negative.

In a crowded Davies Auditorium last night, the two candidates — Fish Stark ’17 and Sarah Eidelson ’12 — met in their first and only public debate before next

Wednesday’s primary. The debate represented a marked shift in tone for the Stark campaign. Previously, his campaign’s rhetoric has been positive and focused on his own policy proposals for change in New Haven. But over the course of the debate, he launched multiple attacks on Eidelson’s record as alder, criticizing her for an alleged lack of involvement on campus.

Eidelson responded by saying she

Blight declines to take position on Calhoun

BY MANASA RAO AND MONICA WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER With his back to a portrait of John C. Calhoun adorning the living room of the Calhoun College Master’s House, history professor David Blight addressed the issue of renaming the college on Wednesday afternoon amid a flurry of renewed scrutiny for the title.

The June shooting in Charleston that killed nine AfricanAmericans embroiled the nation in debates over Confederate symbols and reignited a debate over Calhoun College, named for the 1804 graduate of Yale College who was one of slavery’s fiercest advocates. While Blight took no definitive stance on whether or not to rename the college, he invited the crowd of roughly 50 students and faculty

MH&C announces new hires, online scheduling

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS Yale Health Mental Health & Counseling has hired three new clinicians and will pilot electronic appointment scheduling starting this fall, according to a Wednesday email from Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin.

In a collegewide email Wednesday afternoon, Genecin announced these changes, as well as three additional initiatives that he said will address student concerns about access to and quality of mental health services on campus: a feedback process during students’ first appointments, an update to the MH&C website and the launch of a more comprehensive Student Wellness Project.

Though Genecin’s email referenced a net increase in MH&C clinicians since last year, the current roster of clinicians on the MH&C website actually reflects a decrease in the number listed since Feb. 28. That

roster showed 28 psychologists, psychiatrists or social workers. The current list shows 27. A comparison of the names listed shows that eight clinicians have been removed from the site since February, while seven have been added. Genecin and MH&C chief psychiatrist Lorraine Siggins did not immediately return Wednesday evening emails asking when the website had last been updated or what the net change in clinicians has been.

Even so, for many on campus, the announcement of three new clinicians signals a triumph after months of at times contentious dialogue last spring.

Students active in mental health advocacy said the email demonstrates that the administration is hearing students’ concerns — something that students were less sure of several months ago, said Sreeja Kodali ’18, a member of the campus mental health SEE MH&C PAGE 6

to delve deeper into the story of the person behind the college’s 82-year-old name. According to Blight, in the wake of the recent Charleston tragedy, it is important for students to define their positions and question the purpose of memorialization.

“Memorialization, representing the past, needs to cause pain,” Blight said during the talk. “The past really should trouble us — I don’t want the

past to ever make us feel good.”

Blight added that any decision should be informed by the knowledge of the complete history behind the Calhoun name.

It would be a mistake to simply view Calhoun as a slave owner and a defender of slavery, Blight said — he was an accomplished statesman who wrote extensively on political economy, and given the particular world in which Calhoun grew up, it

would be astonishing for him to not defend slavery, he added.

Still, Blight declined to take an explicit position and noted that the ultimate decisionmakers lie in the University administration.

“As a faculty member, I don’t think I necessarily need to take a stance,” Blight told the News after the tea, highlighting that SEE CALHOUN PAGE 8

Construction of residential colleges sees progress

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Over the summer, the shells of the two new residential colleges, set to open in 2017, have emerged along Prospect Street.

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER In the short span of four months, the buildings that will come to house roughly 800 new students have begun to rise from the mounds of dirt and barren concrete foundations that had previously dominated the Prospect Street site.

After years of planning, delayed starts and hundreds of millions of dollars in fundraising, Yale’s most ambitious capital project in over 50 years is now 10 months underway. Since the project ceremonially broke ground in April, construction has appeared to move quickly, with the shells of the two SEE CONSTRUCTION PAGE 8

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n recent months, campus conversation surrounding race has intensified. Many columns on this page have discussed the two current hot topics: the title of “master” for heads of residential colleges and the possibility of renaming Calhoun College. Many cite the historical, social and cultural contexts of these names. Master comes from the Oxbridge college system, so some people reason that it’s ridiculous to associate it with American slavery. Others suggest that regardless of its academic origins, the word itself is charged with a history of American violence and enslavement.

A more direct relationship is that between Calhoun College and John C. Calhoun, notorious racist.

Over the summer, I began working with the Director of Communications for the Yale University Library system. In the air-conditioned offices of Sterling, I spent hours combing through online databases, finding digital content for pamphlets and social media posts. Basically, I got very good at looking up pictures on the Internet. For the record, this is much harder than it sounds.

Through my job, I learned more about Yale’s history. I knew that we were founded in 1701 because those t-shirts make it hard to forget, and I knew that women weren’t admitted to the college until 1969. I knew that we were named after Elihu Yale, and I knew that Yale University was a big deal. But I’d never thought very critically about the University’s relationship to America’s fraught history.

One July afternoon, when the Huffington Post published an article on why Yale should rename Calhoun College, I engaged in an argument on the infamous Facebook group "Overheard at Yale."

My comment added fuel to digital fire as I suggested that we question how we honor important people who did both great and terrible things. Other students argued that renaming Calhoun would necessitate that we radically reconsider the namesakes of most campus buildings.

I understand the inconvenience of renaming things, but I don’t think Yale will suffer if we stop wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the names of men who perpetuated or committed mass violence. I’m also pretty sure we could just carve new letters into the stone facades that have existed for less than a third of this University’s history. But that’s just me.

Back to Overheard. After engaging in a social media scuffle, I realized that at work that afternoon, I had read about an exhibition on Yale’s relationship to the American South. My job was relevant to my life!

I looked up the online page for the exhibition: Elms and Magnolias, a collection about Yale and the American South that was compiled by the Univer-

sity Library’s Manuscripts & Archives.

The digitized collection includes slideshows of photographs, ADRIANA paintings and letters from MIELE the 18th, 19th and 20th Check centuries.

Elms and yourself Magnolias establishes that despite Yale’s location, Southerners — and the South by extension — are an intrinsic component of Yale’s legacy.

One segment from the online archive stood out to me: "Calhoun served as Congressman, Secretary of War, VicePresident, Secretary of State and Senator during his long tenure in U.S. politics. He is credited for having influenced the political history of the United States more than any other graduate in the first two centuries of Yale’s history. His state rights philosophy was central to the formation of the Southern Confederacy."

On their own, these words don’t imply that Calhoun was the coolest Yale grad ever, but they acknowledge his influence: the breadth and depth of his power and voice. Calhoun’s Yale education empowered him to take on political authority. The site also states that as Secretary of War, Calhoun authorized Jedediah Morse (that name sounds familiar) “to enter the territories occupied by Native Americans and serve as a missionary and observer.” Calhoun was directly involved in the enslavement of one group of people while also furthering the genocide of another. I like to think of him playing whack-a-mole except with racial oppression.

As an institution, Yale has gained influence through its affiliation with men like Calhoun.

This is an unchangeable fact.

Still, as a poet, I’m enchanted by the concept that time is malleable. Through writing, people can address trauma and violence through personal and political histories.

That said, Yale students, faculty and corporation members need to do a better job of engaging with the history of our institution as a place and educator of world citizens.

Former Dean of Admissions, Jeffrey Brenzel '75, told us in our admissions packets that Yale would prepare us to become leaders in the world. I suggest that we question what kinds of leaders we wish to become. Renaming colleges or changing titles won't ever change history, but these changes can mark the University's newer, more complex relationship with its own legacy.

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Microaggressions at Yale.” Yet conservative students’ complaints present an interesting paradox. There is no doubt that progressives endlessly gripe and moan about their alleged victimhood and hurt feelings, identifying myriad microaggressions and tagging dissenters as “haters.” But in response, conservatives are doing an awful lot of griping and moaning themselves about how poorly they are treated and how uncharitably their arguments are received.

All I can tell these so-called “conservatives” is this: Suck it up! And rise above! Especially at such elite universities, where the banner of victimhood is already bandied about by so many, why add yourself to its ranks?

What these conservatives don’t understand is that victimhood should be rejected not just because it’s a nuisance, nor because college students’ grievances are usually exaggerated, nor even because lobbing epithets like “racist” and “sexist” at well-meaning people simply isn’t very nice; no, the victim mentality should be rejected because it makes students stupid and lazy.

Indeed, the problem with dismissive insults is not really that they are “hurtful” or that they shut down debate, though they are and they do; it is just that they are not very enlightening. Calling people names is what children do. It’s easy. What’s hard — and

takes a lot of work — is to charitably acknowledge an argument and then patiently show why it’s wrong.

The other trouble with victimhood is that it inevitably encourages students to see themselves as besieged. That leads to a bunker mentality in which people close themselves off to others’ points of view and eschew substantive debate with people whose intellectual assumptions diverge from their own. This is as true of liberals as it is of conservatives — and it makes everyone dumber. As the archetypal liberal John Stuart Mill once said, "He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."

Finally, conservatives should recognize that they actually do enjoy a small privilege. It’s been said that the term “conservative” lacks coherence, and that there’s no such thing as a political “right.” Although the left, at least among the progressive “knowledge class” that dominates places like Yale, has embraced a standard orthodoxy on a broad range of issues, the right remains deeply factious: Traditionalists, libertarians, evangelical Christians, classical liberals and the rare Tory atheist all line up against the left. But it’s nearly impossible for such disparate factions to impose orthodoxy on one another, so there’s a lot more dissent on the right at Yale. That’s freeing, and ought to be intellectually invigorating.

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Since conservatives aren’t of one mind, they need not prostrate themselves before the lazy platitudes of “structural racism,” “white supremacy,” “the patriarchy” or “post-colonialism.” And since they’re always up against the onslaught of leftleaning campus orthodoxy, conservatives can’t fall back on tired old shibboleths about “tradition” or “liberty” or “free markets.”

They really have to think about what they believe, and learn how to defend their ideas. Arguing for renegade views is challenging, but it hones the mind.

Being called a bigot is intimidating, however, especially since that indiscriminate designation has been elevated to the most egregious modern sin, designed to discredit a person’s concerns and values and to silence even the discussion of inconvenient facts.

Left-leaning students have much to answer for here, undoubtedly.

Yet even so, robust, wide-open debate is not for the faint of heart.

What Yale’s intellectual scene needs most are participants with thicker skins. Rightists should lead in this regard, by refusing to take offense, and by not allowing name-calling to get to them.

Make your case, class of 2019.

Ignore the rabble! That is the way of true liberals, and of free thinkers.

ISAAC COHEN is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at isaac.n.cohen@yale.edu

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ave you noticed that conservatives have been complaining?

Last June, Tal Fortgang, a junior at Princeton who pushed back against the term “white privilege,” complained in TIME that “left-wing academics and their students completely ignore (at best) and marginalize (at worst) students and the rare colleague who disagree with them politically.” Mr. Fortgang went on to list 38 — thirty-eight! — ways that liberal college students enjoy “left-wing privilege” on campus.

Last July, in The Right Way, a conservative magazine at Georgetown University, Amber Athey wrote that “liberal students … have created a toxic and hostile environment for conservatives,” and are “hell bent on silencing conservative viewpoints.” Athey reported that she had been called a “racist,” a “misogynist” and a “rape apologist,” and had been similarly slandered in a Facebook post.

And last spring, Scott Greenberg ’15, in this newspaper, noticed that posts on Yale PostSecret that “make controversial (read: not leftist) political assertions … are usually met with an outpouring of indignation, adhominem attacks and sarcasm.”

In my experience, these complaints are entirely accurate.

Indeed, I was the first microaggressor at Yale to be publicly “named and shamed” on the Facebook group, “Overheard

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his July, the late doctor Oliver Sacks wrote his last column for The New York Times. In February, Sacks had been diagnosed with metastatic cancer. “Times of stress throughout my life have led me to turn, or return, to the physical sciences, a world where there is no life, but also no death …

And now, at this juncture, when death is no longer an abstract concept, but a presence — an alltoo-close, not-to-be-denied presence — I am again surrounding myself, as I did when I was a boy, with metals and minerals, little emblems of eternity.”

Two weeks ago, he died.

I will venture to say that few writers at Yale feel such affection for the physical sciences.

To many, they are a foreign discipline, a frustrating distributional requirement. Yet after more than half a decade of unadulterated humanities, I recently decided to be a doctor.

It would be a lie to say that the “hard” sciences did not daunt me. Yesterday morning, I took my first bio quiz, and sitting in a sea of freshmen in SSS 114, I felt a familiar fear: Would my mind be nimble enough to trade fiction for fission? And would I even enjoy it? Science classes are meant to be dense and horrible, full of facts to absorb and discard.

I am glad to have been so

w r o n g .

Studying chemistry this summer, and biology this semester, I have come across so many parallels NATHAN the KOHRMAN between sciences and the humanAt the seam ities that I have begun to believe that atoms and humans behave with similar volition.

Everyone knows what an atom looks like. It’s an iconic image, emblazoned above every Apple store genius bar, on the walls of every physics classroom, on every episode of Jimmy Neutron.

The center of every atom is comprised of protons and neutrons, while electrons randomly whirr about in orbitals surrounding the atomic nucleus.

Electrons are territorial — only two share every orbital — and additional electrons occupy unfilled shells farther from the center of the atom. Scientists call these peripheral gyrators “valence electrons,” and an atom’s valence electrons dictate the kinds of bonds an atom needs to become stable. Every atom wants to fill their outer orbitals, to steady their core and make their outside whole. Most atoms, like most humans, form connec-

tions.

The strongest bonds between atoms are covalent bonds, in which two or more atoms share their valence electrons. Carbon, for instance, has four valence electrons and wants four more.

Hydrogen has one and needs one. Methane forms when a carbon atom shares its valence electrons with four hydrogen atoms.

The strongest bonds between humans are also the ones in which people share a part of themselves. In this way, methane mirrors the relationship within a family of five; bonds of love form over years of bedtime stories, chores, fights and road trips. Platonic and romantic love are also founded on a sense of mutuality. We share memories and insecurities with our friends and lovers just as carbon and nitrogen form a peptide bond. In doing so, we form bonds not just with one person, but intimate connections to groups and institutions, just as peptide bonds connect atoms and entire amino acids — the building blocks for life.

Not every chemical bond is a strong one. Table salt, or sodium chloride, is held together with ionic bonds; the electron-hungry chlorine takes away sodium’s stray valent electron, leaving the two atoms adjacent, bound together by deficit. These bonds allow salt to form beautiful crys-

tal lattices, but they crumble easily and dissolve completely in water.

Ionic bonds are weak for the same reason that many relationships are weak: One person gives and the other takes. These kinds of relationships take many forms — hookups laced with guilt or exploitive friendships. They seem solid, but eventually fall apart.

These metaphors are not perfect, nor are they closed to contradictory interpretation. I know I look for patterns I want to see.

But it seems the metaphors bridging science and humanity are too numerous and too specific to ignore. We are quick to put our self into intellectual categories, which can obscure how interwoven our understanding of the sciences and the humanities are. There is a reason that we anthropomorphize atoms. Our professors say they “steal” electrons, and “want” to be bound to other atoms, as if they were just like us. Human and atomic behavior invites the same kind of organizational framework. The sciences and the humanities, often seen at odds, are not just like each other. They are fractals of each other.

NATHAN KOHRMAN is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at nathan.kohrman@yale.edu.

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“Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.”

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Yale ranks first, third in different lists trailed by Duke University at number three. This year, the schools shuffled — with Yale topping UPenn, and Duke holding steady at third.

When asked what factors brought Yale to the top of this year’s list, Phelan said that because the top schools are already highly competitive in rankings, even the slightest differences in a couple of very specific categories can make an impact. He noted Yale’s freshman retention and graduation rates as two categories in which there was a “discernible difference,” likely resulting in Yale’s first-place ranking.

The University boasts a freshmen retention rate of 99 percent — the highest of the 1,393 schools on the College Factual list — and a graduation rate of 96.2 percent. In comparison, Penn and Duke have freshmen retention rates of 98 and 97 percent, respectively, with graduation rates of 96 and 94.5 percent.

But while Harvard and Princeton are below Yale on the College Factual list, both topped Yale on the U.S. News & World Report list.

The methodology used by U.S. News & World Report for its rankings incorporates quantitative data — such as retention rates and alumni giving — but it also relies on more qualitative, subjective data in a way that the College Factual rankings do not. For example, U.S. News & World Report calculates “academic peer scores” for colleges, which is based on assessments

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER According to a list of rankings released by College Factual on Tuesday, Yale is the top university in the country. But in a separate ranking, released the following day by U.S. News & World Report, Yale is slated at number three, as usual, right behind Princeton and Harvard.

Bill Phelan, co-founder CEO of College Factual — a website designed to help students and parents in the college-selection process — said the website’s rankings focus purely on data and insights derived from that data, distinguishing it from the more subjective nature of the U.S. News & World Report rankings. College Factual uses information such as freshman retention rates, student loan default rates and graduation rates to compare universities, he added.

Though Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan warned against placing too much weight on college rankings, he did cite Yale’s freshman retention and graduation rates as statistics the University is proud of.

“The thing about rankings is that it’s one person or one group of people’s determination as to what factors are important about a school, so you always have to be careful,” Quinlan said. “But it’s nice to be acknowledged for some of our strengths.”

In 2014, College Factual released rankings with the University of Pennsylvania at number one, followed by Yale, and

given to administrators at peer institutions. According to the U.S. News & World Report website, this assessment “allows top academics — presidents, provosts and deans of admissions — to account for intangibles at peer institutions, such as faculty dedication to teaching.”

Phelan said that although this type of assessment may be appealing in theory, it typically is not useful in practice.

“Think about the president of Yale, and imagine whether the president of Yale is filling out a survey at his desk about his opinion of the other colleges,” Phelan said. “It’s a subjective survey that’s done, and we know that that survey is often done by administrative assistants, so in our case we remove that bias completely.”

Phelan described the assessment as a type of “brand perception,” adding that it would not be advisable to pick the winner of the Super Bowl based on the opinions of the other coaches in the NFL. It is best to let the performance of the colleges and the numbers speak for themselves, he said, rather than including subjective perspectives.

Although the College Factual rankings are known for utilizing more quantitative data, some experts maintain that students will continue to defer to the well-established U.S. News & World Report rankings when assessing schools. U.S. News began ranking colleges in 1983, whereas this is College Factual’s second year releasing full rank-

ings.

Michael Goran, director and founder of IvySelect College Counseling, said that despite College Factual’s unique methodology, U.S. News & World Report is still “the big kahuna” in the college rankings sphere.

“I think it’s going to be hard to knock U.S. News out of the number one spot,” Goran said.

“That being said, when you look at schools and where students are going to apply, the usual line you get from college admissions consultants is to take the rankings with a grain of salt. It may be a good way to start looking at the relative reputations of schools, and to get a handle on schools you may not have thought of or missed, but ultimately it’s just a starting place.”

Goran added that individual qualities make a school stand out to prospective applicants. With Yale, he added, these aspects include the quality of the undergraduate education and the residential college system. Rankings like College Factual and U.S. News & World Report attempt to use a theoretical objective methodology and apply it to a process that — at the end of the day — is subjective to each student, he said.

Five of seven freshmen interviewed said they paid no heed to Yale’s ranking when applying to the University last winter.

Anthony Geritano ’19 said that while he did take a look at the rankings of top colleges before applying to Yale, the rankings in no way factored into his decision

to apply to the University.

“Yale was the only school ranked even remotely that high that I even applied to, besides Princeton,” Geritano said. “So my decision to come here was not dependent on the rankings.

It’s definitely nice to know that Yale is ranked so highly, but it puts a little pressure on me — not

going to lie — to take advantage of all that’s offered here.”

This year, the rankings of Princeton, Harvard and Yale on the U.S. News & World Report list are exactly the same as last year’s.

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

RANKING COLLEGES ACCORDING TO COLLEGE FACTUAL University of Pennsylvania

Yale

Duke

Rank

2

1

3

Freshman Retention

98.0%

99.0%

97.0%

Graduation Rate

96.0%

96.2%

94.3%

Starting Career Income Boost

$10,896

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Medical school lags in minority enrollment Latino students enrolled than in fall 2014. But the enrollment trend for black students — both domestic and international — has gone in the opposite direction.

Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern said the school is committed to diversifying the healthcare workforce and aims to admit a significant number of URMs. But all medical school administrators interviewed said they were surprised that Yale’s interview rates were so much higher than those at peer institutions.

Dean for Multicultural Affairs at the School of Medicine Forrester Lee MED ’79 said interview rates themselves are not an accurate measure of the school’s commitment to diversity, and the school does not treat them as such.

“We haven’t seen it that way and it’s not a metric we are trying to achieve per se,” he said.

Though Alpern said the school has multiple pipeline programs for URM students, both he and Lee said those strategies are nothing new, having existed for the roughly 20 years Lee has been at the school.

Yale participates in the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program, a national program for URM undergraduate students interested in careers in healthcare.

A significant portion of those who take part in the program apply to the School of Medicine.

Indeed, Anders — who called the article “laughable” and “ironic” — suggested that the school’s problem lies not with interviews, but rather with actually enrolling URMs. She said that Yale should make a greater effort to encourage URMs to feel at home at Yale, right from the day they interview.

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER The Yale School of Medicine interviewed the fourth-highest number of underrepresented medical school applicants in the 2013– 14 application cycle, according to a recent ranking from U.S. News & World Report.

Of the 745 applicants Yale invited to an interview, 239 of them were from groups underrepresented in medicine (URMs) — students of African, Latin American, Native American and Pacific Islander descent. This 32 percent compares to 41.4 percent at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, the highest-ranked medical school in terms of URM interview rates.

Among its peer institutions, Yale was a leader for interviewing URMs. Columbia, for instance, interviewed 20.4 percent URMs, while the University of California San Diego interviewed 30.3 percent and Dartmouth interviewed 30.7 percent. But with only seven black students, 17 Hispanic or Latino students and two Native American students matriculating in this year’s class, questions are being raised about where in the application process Yale is losing URMs. “Sure we’re interviewing them, but are we fighting for them to come?” asked Amber Anders MED ’18, one of the few black women enrolled at the medical school.

“No.” Typically, 17 percent of Yale’s roughly 4,374 applicants are invited to interview between August and February, and admissions decisions are sent in March.

This year, 10 more Hispanic or

According to Robert Rock MED ’17, who is black, there is a relatively smaller pool of competitive minority students applying to medical schools. As a result, those who are competitive are courted by multiple top schools across the nation. From his experience applying to medical schools, while Yale gets minority students to campus for interviews, it is less successful at persuading those students to matriculate.

“I think Yale is not as competitive as it used to be for minority applicants with options,” said Rock, whose decision boiled down to Yale and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.

Jessica Minor MED ’22 GRD ’22 said that meeting URM faculty and being hosted by a current student during the interview process who shares the applicant’s racial background — a process organized by the Student National Medical Association and the Latino Medical Students Association — is a big part of making URMs feel like they are part of the community.

But Anders said Yale does not do as much as other schools. While SNMA organizes URM hosting, she said, it is disappointing that Yale’s administration does not go out of its way to ensure URMs get to be hosted by people who look like them during interview day.

She said that at other schools, the hosting system is a more formalized process.

Roughly 100 students go to Yale’s Second Look weekend each year, an event that allows admitted students to revisit Yale before making a final medical school decision. Activities during the event include sitting in on lectures, attending social events and partic-

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Anders said that a quick glance around a lecture hall on any given day at the school can be disappointing for prospective Yale medical students who are URMs because there are so few other students from the same racial background as them. She added that this sentiment could worsen next year. Since no black women enrolled this year, those who want to be hosted by one during their visit day will find it much harder.

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“It speaks volumes about how my presence, or lack thereof, is valued at the school,” she said.

Rock said he also noticed there were no black women, but said such absences of minority groups is not unusual.

“There was a class with no black male students [a few years before me] and it was a running joke,” he said.

Still, Minor said that in light of recent events — including publicity about sexual harassment at the school and Die In protests highlighting racial inequities in

healthcare — there is pressure for the school to emphasize diversity. During the 2015 Second Look weekend, for instance, student groups, including the Women in Medicine Group and the US Health Justice Collaborative, held a safe space event to talk about identity and diversity.

She said this event, the first of its kind, was very well-attended.

But then again, she said, she does not know if the students who attended ultimately enrolled.

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

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NEWS

“O, this is hire and salary, not revenge .”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH POET, PLAYWRIGHT AND ACTOR

Despite new hire, demand persists for Asian-American Studies

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER The shelves of English professor Sunny Xiang’s fourth-floor office in Linsly-Chittenden Hall are not yet full of books. She has not had the chance to buy a couch for her home, or to meet many of the members of the Asian American Studies Task Force who called on the University to hire specialists in her field.

But her hire has already become a subject of campus debate, with some speculating that it is merely an administrative attempt to placate vocal advocates for expanded Asian American Studies offerings.

Xiang, who came to Yale this semester after spending a year at Florida Atlantic University, arrives on campus at a time of renewed advocacy for an

expanded Asian American Studies program. In the spring, the task force launched a photo campaign titled “No Lux No Veritas,” in which dozens of students were photographed holding up whiteboards with the names of Asian American Studies courses taught at other colleges but not at Yale.

Just last week, more than 100 students packed into History and American Studies professor Mary Lui’s course “Asian American History, 1800–present.”

As a result, Lui, also the master of Timothy Dwight College, said enrollment is at an “all-time high” this year. On the first day of the lecture, room 207 in William L. Harkness Hall was so packed that students sat on the ground and in the doorway. The course has since moved to a larger lecture hall.

Lui’s class is the only Asian

American Studies course offered this semester, despite numerous calls from students for more offerings in the field throughout the past year. In particular, discussion at a conference in the spring, organized by the task force and the Asian American Cultural Center and attended by over 100 students, called further attention to the issue.

Xiang is familiar with this type of student advocacy for ethnic studies, recalling in particular her undergraduate years at Northwestern University, during which a student group celebrated the 10th anniversary of the student hunger strike that brought Asian American Studies to Northwestern.

“The fact that students have been so passionate about wanting [Asian American Studies] is, to me, something that seems

more crucial and more important than any other element,” Xiang said. “It’s actually very exciting to me.”

What happens when we ask for more than just faculty? … Where will [Asian American Studies] at Yale be, in the long-term?

YOON HEE CHANG ’18 Both students and faculty said Xiang’s hire is an important step toward expanding course offerings in Asian American Studies.

But many added that it does not go far enough.

Yoon Hee Chang ’18, the task force’s intercultural outreach cocoordinator, said Xiang’s hire is a “huge step in the right direction” but it is not the end of the story.

“I have my reservations about what administrative intentions might exist behind placating our requests that are the most short-term … especially during an academic year with dwindling course numbers and professors in the ethnic studies programs,” Chang said. “What happens when we ask for more than just faculty? … Where will [Asian American Studies] at Yale be, in the long-term?”

Alexander Zhang ’18, one of the task force’s co-chairs, noted that offering a course in AsianAmerican literature is “not anything radically different,” as the University has offered classes on the subject before. Zhang also

expressed concerns about the limited accessibility of Xiang’s course, “Asian American Literature,” which will be offered as an English Department junior seminar in the spring.

Still, English Department Chair Langdon Hammer ’80 GRD ’89 noted that while the department has offered similar courses before, it has not employed a professor “squarely in the field” prior to Xiang’s hire. Xiang’s colleague in the department, professor Wai Chee Dimock GRD ’82, also expressed excitement about the hire, adding that the department has been searching for an Asian-Americanist for a number of years. “[Xiang] is exactly what we’ve been hoping for,” Dimock said.

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

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“My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.”

FETTY WAP AMERICAN MUSICIAN

Ward 22 alder pushing social media

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER As the Democratic Ward 1 candidates vie for freshman support in the build-up to the primary next Wednesday, Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison is elevating her social media presence in hopes of encouraging her constituency to be more involved in all sections of the city before the November general election.

Students in Morse, Ezra Stiles, Silliman and Timothy Dwight Colleges — along with residents of Swing Space — are zoned into Ward 22, nestled just north of Ward 1 and containing 4,300 people. Though they will not partake in the heated Ward 1 election this fall, hundreds of Yale students may vote for Jeanette Morrison, who, despite running unopposed, has helped bring Yalies closer to the low-income Dixwell community. Engaging with students will become an even more important part of the alder’s responsibilities with the opening of the two new residential colleges, which will ultimately add 800 students into the ward.

“I want to let students know about valuable opportunities to serve on our ward’s Democratic Committee and other public bodies in New Haven,” Morrison wrote in an Aug. 29 email to students of Ward 22.

Since Morrison took office in 2011, students in Ward 22 have joined the Democratic Ward Committee and been more involved than ever before in canvassing. Morrison said engaging with the local community helps supplement the Yale education.

For two years now, a Yale student has occupied one of the

two Ward 22 co-chair positions.

When John Goodman ’14 of Morse College graduated, Maxwell Ulin ’17, a Timothy Dwight resident, was chosen to fill his position.

At Ulin’s suggestion, John Kauffman ’18 and Gabrielle Diaz ’18, both involved with the Yale College Democrats, joined the Ward 22 Democratic Committee last year. They canvassed for Gov. Dannel Malloy in Dixwell and attended meetings with Morrison.

“I found it very valuable to get to know another part of my city beyond campus,” Kauffman said, adding that he appreciated meeting his New Haven neighbors.

“Ward 1 is kind of missing that,” he said.

But Diaz, who is contributing to the Sarah Eidelson ’12 campaign in the Ward 1 aldermanic race, said Yalies in the Ward 22 colleges are no different than the rest of the student body in their political involvement with the city. For Diaz, engagement in Ward 22 is a matter of personal choice, not geographical location.

“I feel like I’m in [downtown] New Haven a little bit more because [my college] is closer, but that’s not the norm for all students,” she said. “I think [my college] Timothy Dwight gives a good opportunity to get out of the Yale bubble, but I don’t think everyone takes advantage of that.”

Diaz added that students who live outside Ward 1 can feel excluded from the more competitive, high-profile election.

According to Ulin, this is why he and some other students are putting just as much effort into Ward 22 as others have in Ward 1.

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Ward 22 contains four residential colleges, Swing Space and the Dixwell and The Hill neighborhoods. tle bubble,” Ulin said. “It was a refreshing experience to be involved in what was actually a real community.”

Through his work with the Dems, Ulin found his way to the Ward 22 co-chair position. With Morrison’s help, Ulin collected emails, registered voters and signed up residents of Dixwell and The Hill — areas with high populations of uninsured people — for government-sponsored healthcare.

Morrison’s last competitive election was in 2011, and her popularity within the ward has solid-

ified her position .

The Ward 1 alder traditionally connects the town and gown portions of New Haven, said Ulin.

But, in Ward 22, the split between Yale and the city is more pronounced. Of the 4,300 people in the ward, over 1,000 are Yale students. There are also five senior centers in Ward 22, and a new multi-million dollar community center called the Q House is opening in 2017, the same year as the new colleges.

“My ward is a microcosm of a little city,” Morrison said. “Some of the richest people in the state

Yale fan loyalty app makes debut

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER With the Yale men’s soccer team competing under a new coach, the volleyball team looking to win its sixth straight Ivy League title and the football team hoping to avenge its loss to Harvard last year, Yale fans have a variety of reasons to flock to the stands this fall.

This year, another incentive may cause attendance numbers to see an increase: free merchandise and food for fans.

At the beginning of the school year, the Yale athletic department unveiled Bulldog Rewards, a new fan loyalty program that rewards fans for attending sporting events and interacting online with Yale teams. Using a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone to mark their presence at venues and social media to share posts, Eli fans can score points that are redeemable at an online store for various prizes, which currently include Yale t-shirts and gift cards to local restaurants.

Associate Athletic Director for Sports Marketing Patrick O’Neill, who is leading the implementation of Bulldog Rewards, said he hopes to increase student support and excitement for Yale teams with the new program. The service, which is powered by fan loyalty company FanMaker, currently has approximately 250 users signed up since its announcement on Aug. 28, O’Neill said.

“Yale students, and our fans in general, are smart fans. When people win, they come out,” O’Neill said. “Unfortunately, we don’t win every time all the time, so we need ways to incentivize folks to come out. Although I think our teams are really competitive … it’s tough to get students and fans out to everywhere. Hopefully, we’ll be able to incentivize fans to go to every event, not just one.”

The online store currently includes two different t-shirts and $25 gift cards to Oaxaca Kitchen, Thali and Thali Too. O’Neill said that restaurants sponsoring Yale athletics have given gift cards for the program, and in the future, users may be

able to earn additional points by checking in at these restaurants.

O’Neill added that the new program is in its “first lap around the track,” and the department is still looking for new prize ideas and different ways to use the various features provided by FanMaker.

“We’ll have some bumps and bruises, but hopefully a year from now we’ll have a good idea of what works and what doesn’t, and what good point values are [for attendance and social media activity],” O’Neill said. “We want feedback, we want people to tell us how it’s going.”

By signing up for Bulldog Rewards, downloading the mobile application and syncing their accounts with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, users can quickly tally 3,500 points, roughly half of the 7,500 points needed for a Yale Athletics t-shirt. Earning more points than that, however, requires attendance at events or regular Yale-themed social media activity.

The mobile application, which has an identical format to that of many other FanMaker applications for college programs, connects with “beacons,” or Bluetooth units, that have been placed around Yale sporting venues. The Yale Bowl, Reese Stadium and Lee Amphitheater will all have beacons installed this fall.

Though the program was established entirely through the athletic department, it has gotten support from the Whaling Crew, Yale’s student fan group. Whaling Crew Communications Director Adam Lowet ’18 said the group has assisted in publicizing the program and encouraging students to begin using the mobile application.

Lowet said that although the Whaling Crew and the athletics department aim to convince as many students as possible to attend Yale sporting events, he believes that Bulldog Rewards is geared more toward students who have already demonstrated some athletic interest but could attend more events throughout the year.

“It does generally target people who are already interested in sports,” Lowet

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Approximately 250 people have signed up for Bulldog Rewards so far.

said. “I think that it’s a little optimistic to say that someone is going to go from attending no sports to attending 20 in a single season.”

Lowet added that he thought the program was a “nice gesture” on the part of Yale Athletics because it shows appreciation to fans who support Yale teams.

Brea Baker ’16, who was fourth on the list of seven-day points leaders as of Wednesday night, said she enjoyed using the application at a Yale volleyball match last weekend and will continue to use it in the future.

Approximately 20 people checked in at that match last weekend, the program’s first event, according to O’Neill.

Baker added that she plans on going to more games this year because of the incentives provided by the program.

Baker has never been to a Yale soccer game, for example, but plans to attend the men’s soccer home opener on Friday — a game worth 350 points in Bulldog Rewards.

“Our athletics teams are under-appreciated and under-supported,” Baker said.

“They work so hard and deserve more people showing up to games just like they do for their friends’ a cappella jams. If it takes 200 points with the hopes of winning some cool stuff to raise awareness, then more power to it. Initially maybe people only show up for the points, but they’ll soon realize how fun [attending athletics events] can be.”

Though the points system is the only feature currently used in the application, O’Neill said that there are other features that can add to the fan experience in games and encourage interaction with the Bulldog Rewards program.

For instance, if users allow the application to push notifications to their phones, the athletic department can offer temporary coupons for concessions or merchandise during a game or send traffic information at the end of games, according to O’Neill.

In addition to encouraging fan engagement, the program will allow the athletic department to determine broad facts about the demographics and interests of its fans, O’Neill said. He added that success of the program, to him, would mean over 2,500 people signed up by the end of the year.

“I think the best way to describe the FanMaker app is that we’re going to be able to put our finger on the pulse of Yale fans,” O’Neill said. “If fans sign up and allow us, we’re going to be able to find out who they are, what their demographics are, and if we push out surveys, we’ll find out what kind of fan they are, what sports they like.”

FanMaker has assisted with loyalty programs for many professional and Division I sports programs, including Colgate, Florida State University and Alabama. It was founded in 2007 as row27.

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

live in my ward and some of the poorest people. You name it, you can find it in Ward 22.”

But the ward’s shape and composition may change. Since each of the 30 wards in New Haven must contain between 4,100 and 4,300 people, Morrison said she expects a redistricting to take place in 2022 after the census shows the spike in population caused by Yale’s two new residential colleges.

Morrison has close ties to college masters and to Yale administrators like Vice President for the Office of New Haven and State

Affairs Bruce Alexander ’65. On the Board of Alders, Morrison has often voted in favor of Yale students. For instance, when Yale asked to buy the portion of Wall Street between York and College Streets, Morrison received a petition from hundreds of Yale students in Ward 22 that recommended she vote yes — and she did.

Morrison was elected the president pro tempore of the Board of Alders in May. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at finnegan.schick@yale.edu .

Dept of Labor returns $6.1mm in unpaid wages

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER Victims of wage theft in Connecticut received a total of $6.1 million in recovered wages during the past fiscal year, the Connecticut Department of Labor announced this week.

The $6.1 million that the State Department of Labor’s Division of Wage and Workplace Standards recovered was split among different types of wage complaints, including not being paid overtime or being paid below the minimum wage of $10.10 per hour. One of the largest categories of recovered wages went to workers who had not been fully compensated for working at public contract construction sites — these workers were repaid over $1.6 million.

“The working women and men who are the backbone of our state should get paid for the jobs they do and receive the wages they rightfully earn,” Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a Sunday press release. “The $6.1 million collected by the Labor Department’s investigation reflects the importance we place on protecting our state’s workforce, as well as lawabiding employers.”

Director of the Wage and Workplace Standards Division Gary Pechie said that the department typically recovers between $4.5 million to $10 million each year.

Employees and former employees who believe they have not been paid adequate wages can fill out complaint forms on the DOL website. Employees at the Wage and Workplace Standards Division evaluate each form individually in order to determine whether the employer’s behavior warrants further investigation. If so, the division sends an investigator to perform an audit on the accused employer, Pechie said.

“If there’s grounds for concern, our strategy is to continuously raise the ante on the employer,” Pechie said. “We present employers ample opportunity to either show why they don’t owe the money or to pay the money without taking legal distinction against them. We’re not a collection agency, we’re an enforcement agency.”

The Department of Labor typically receives roughly 5,000 complaints a year, Pechie said. Pechie estimates that about 55 percent of

them are substantiated while the other 45 percent are dismissed after an investigation.

Pechie also said that accused employers commonly attempt to justify their actions by making attacks on their employee’s personal character, blaming them for negligence, drug habits and otherwise inappropriate behavior on the job.

“Be that as it may, you still need to pay your workers the money you owe them,” Pechie said. “That’s how our legal system works. It can get crazy sometimes, and you get people who would rather go to jail than pay another person $600.”

The working women and men who are the backbone of our state should get paid for the jobs they do.

DANNEL MALLOY Governor, Connecticut He added that investigators often play more of a role in mediating personal disagreements between employers and employees rather than threatening legal action. However, if accusations go to trial, employees can face trial by jury, hefty fines and jail sentences.

In addition to pressing employers to grant employees proper compensation, the Wage and Workplace Standards Division also investigated 253 cases involving labor law violations.

Inspectors issued citations to employers for personnel file violations, permitting night work of minors in manufacturing and mechanical businesses, permitting work of minors at improper work hours, hazardous employment of minors and minors working in prohibited jobs, among other breaches of the law.

“It is especially important to realize the importance of ensuring that all of our laws — be it those pertaining to minimum wage, overtime or child labor — are understood and followed,” Department of Labor Commissioner Sharon Palmer said in a press release.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT

Stark ’17 raises 10 times as much money as Eidelson ’12 CAMPAIGN FILINGS FROM PAGE 1 nearly 70 percent of his donations came from within New Haven. The average donation size to his campaign was roughly $61.

“Of course there are outliers, but in a competitive race, candidates usually raise between $2,500 and $3,500 dollars,” said Alyson Heimer, who serves as administrator on the Democracy Fund, the city’s public campaigning financing body.

However, Heimer added that, at the ward level, the number of supporters willing to canvass and mobilize other voters can be more important than the amount of funds raised.

Stark said the filing reflects the breadth of support that his campaign has enjoyed from across New Haven.

“If you look [in the filing], you will find people who supported a bunch of different mayoral candidates in 2013,” he said. “Not only did we show a lot of contributions from the city — we showed a lot of diversity of contributors.”

The largest donation Eidelson received came out to $75 from Ward 1 resident Kathreen Harrison ’11, an employee of the UNITE HERE union coalition, which also employs Eidelson.

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Despite the disparity in fundraising totals, the two campaigns have similar figures for expenses. Eidelson’s campaign has so far spent $1,730. Only $150 of those expenses have so far been paid; the other $1,580 remain outstanding.

Edgar Avina ’18, the treasurer for Eidelson’s campaign, declined to comment on the campaign’s debt.

He added that Eidelson, who has not yet held any fundraisers, has no plans for any fundraising events in the future.

“We believe that canvassing is the best way to fundraise,” he said.

Stark, meanwhile, has spent $1,850 in his bid for election, leaving his campaign with just under $1,400 in reserves. Both campaigns have spent the bulk of their funds on printing expenses for fliers and t-shirts, with Stark also spending $300 on food for events.

The Ward 1 primary election will take place on Sept.

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Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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MH&C hires new clinicians, though overall roster decreases MH&C FROM PAGE 1 organization Mind Matters.

“Last year, there was a lot of frustration in the student body about how MH&C was run here and the lack of communication or reception on the Yale administration’s side,” she said. “It’s nice that these changes reflect that we’re all on the same side, united for one purpose. [I’m] feeling more united, definitely, than last spring.”

CLINICIANS

If the new hires do constitute a net increase, that would address one of the most significant concerns raised by students about mental health care on campus.

Students previously complained that what they saw as a sparse number of clinicians resulted in long wait times for often urgently needed care.

Genecin added in his email that MH&C will continue to actively recruit clinicians. He did not state how many more the center plans to take on.

Eli Feldman ’16, president of Mind Matters and a member of the Coalition for Mental Health and Wellbeing, said he is optimistic that the new clinicians will help alleviate long wait times.

With 27 clinicians — the number currently listed online — MH&C would have a student-toclinician ratio of 457 to one. That ratio, though higher than it was in February of this year, is significantly lower than the number at several peer institutions: Harvard University has 754 students for each clinician at its mental health clinic. Cornell University’s Counseling and Psychological Services has 793 students for every counselor.

On the other hand, the student-to-clinician ratio at Princeton, where there are 359 students for every provider, is lower than that at Yale.

Though Feldman said hiring more than three new clinicians would have been ideal, he said the quality of the hires is ultimately more important than the number.

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Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin announced several changes to Mental Health & Counseling in an email on Wednesday.

“I would be a little concerned if they came back and hired 10 or 15 more,” he said, noting that the process of finding good clinicians is hard. “If they could add more it would be great, especially with the new colleges. But in my opinion, it is better to wait a week than to get [a clinician] immediately and have a horrible experience.”

ELECTRONIC APPOINTMENTS

In addition, MH&C will allow students to schedule appointments electronically for the first time. The previous policy of scheduling appointments only via telephone left many students playing phone tag with clinicians, students said at a February town hall on mental health.

MH&C will pilot an electronic scheduling program this fall, according to Genecin’s email.

Students will be able to use their computers or cell phones to

securely schedule appointments with their clinicians. While only a limited number of clinicians will take part in the service at first, it will hopefully expand department-wide by the end of the year, Genecin wrote. Students will still be able to schedule appointments via phone call.

Jaclyn Schess ’18 said that online scheduling is a welcome change, as mental health concerns can be exacerbated by difficulties reaching a clinician.

“Anything Yale Health can do to make us better access clinicians is better,” she said.

Students i n te r v i e we d expressed optimism about all the new initiatives, but they highlighted online scheduling and increased clinicians as the most exciting news in Genecin’s email.

All students seeking care at MH&C will now speak with a staff member during their first meeting to discuss their concerns,

treatment preferences and goals before deciding how to move forward and in what format. The change is designed to alleviate students’ previous concerns that if their initial clinicians were not right for them, requesting a different clinician would further delay their next appointment.

It is better to wait a week than to get [a clinician] immediately and have a horrible experience.

ELI FELDMAN ’16 President, Mind Matters Yale College Council Vice President Maddie Bauer ’17, who also sits on Yale Health’s Mental Health & Counseling Advi-

sory Committee — a group of four undergraduates that meets regularly with Genecin — said the conversations will allow students to be more vocal about whether or not their clinicians are right for them. Still, Genecin noted that many students will retain the clinician they meet during their intake appointment.

The MH&C website was upgraded as well to introduce more clarity into its Frequently Asked Questions and make it easier to navigate.

Finally, the office of University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly GoffCrews will introduce a Student Wellness Project that will focus more holistically on wellness, rather than just mental health treatment.

Bauer said she is confident that MH&C will implement a feedback system in the coming weeks to evaluate the effectiveness of

the changes. As a member of the Mental Health Advisory Committee, she said, she has seen how seriously the administration takes student input on this issue.

All students interviewed emphasized their pleasure that the administration has responded in a tangible manner to the concerns raised last spring.

“I am hoping that this will be framed as a positive and will be used as evidence of the fact that Yale does support its students and that people are listening to our concerns,” Schess said. “It worries me that there is a conversation on campus that only looks at the negatives. I think that, especially in mental health, [it’s important to talk] about the positives on campus.”

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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“I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I’m balancing time between my career and my personal life.”

JILL WAGNER AMERICAN ACTRESS

Yale Degree Audit launches college-wide

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Yale students scrambling to figure out their distributional requirements can now look to the Yale Degree Audit, a new tool offered by the University Registrar, for guidance.

The YDA, which was announced in a college-wide email in late August and is now available to all Yale college students, tracks each student’s progress toward the bachelor’s degree and displays which requirements still need to be addressed for every academic year. The registrar’s office piloted the tool for Berkeley College and Morse College students last year, and have decided to extend it to all of Yale College following positive feedback, University Registrar Gabriel Olszewski said.

“Morse and Berkeley students [were] pleased to have an electronic resource that provides access to their academic history as well as tracked distributional requirements,” Olszewski said, adding that no significant changes have been made to the system since the pilot.

The YDA can be found on the “Academics” tab of the Student Information System and offers several different online displays that show checklists of distributional and skills requirements. At the moment, the tool only offers information about the bachelor’s degree requirements, and does not track requirements for specific majors. However, Olszewski believes that the programming of the tool can incorporate these features in the future. However, he added, a significant amount of effort and time will be needed to build major requirements into the system and there are no plans to do so yet.

Morse and Berkeley students interviewed said they found the tool easy to use. Describing the visual aspect of the checklist as effective, they said they found the tool useful.

“Being able to physically see in a visual interface what requirements you have done, and what needs to be done was pretty help-

ful,” Michelle Kelrikh ’17 said. She added that the “Look Ahead” feature, which shows how future course enrollment might apply toward a Yale degree, was particularly useful. With this function, students can enter specific courses and generate a visual report of the distributional requirements remaining.

Others noted the financial benefits of using the YDA. Isabel Hummel ’17, who used the tool over the summer, said it saved her from paying the $40 fee for a transcript request from the Registrar’s Office. The YDA offers a feature that turns the spreadsheet into a PDF document, listing courses taken to fulfill the requirements.

Students [were] pleased to have an electronic resource that provides access to their academic history.

GABRIEL OLSZEWSKI University Registrar Olszewski added that an additional convenience of the YDA is its ability to foster interactions between advisors and advisees, as the tool allows students to share their academic plans with advisors and receive feedback.

Kelrikh, who did not use the YDA with her advisor, said she might have shared it with her advisor if it included major requirement tracking.

While Morse and Berkeley students may be more familiar with the tool, none of the six undergraduates from other colleges interviewed were familiar with the YDA. There are over 2,000 courses offered by Yale College every year.

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

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The Yale Degree Audit is a new tool that allows students to track their progress toward the bachelor’s degree.

$10 million boost for CT biotech

BY LIONEL JIN STAFF REPORTER Connecticut will invest $10 million over three years to help academics translate their basic science research into clinical therapies.

The news was announced

by Connecticut Innovations, a state-affiliated entity that invests in early-stage technologies and startups, on Thursday morning.

The investment will fund PITCH, the Program in Innovative Therapeutics for Connecticut’s Health, an organization that plans to help university faculty move compounds from bench to bedside.

The group, co-led by Yale chemistry professor Craig Crews and University of Connecticut professor Dennis Wright, will also serve as an accelerator for biopharma and biotech startups.

“This collaboration … will have a positive impact on the number of viable discoveries coming from our state,” Gov. Dannel Malloy wrote in a Thursday press release.

“This type of project is why we support the work of the Connect-

icut Bioscience Innovation Fund.”

Researchers at both universities have generated many compounds with promising therapeutic and commercial potential, Crews said. But future investors want to see not just data from petri dish experiments, but also data on drugs’ physiological effects. Those investors will not put their money in companies unless they have confidence in the drugs’ safety and efficacy.

That is where PITCH comes in, explained Crews, principal investigator of the program and executive director of the Yale Center for Molecular Discovery.

“There is a valley of death between basic drug research and its translation into clinical therapeutics,” said Crews, noting that PITCH will bridge that gap.

Yale and UConn are well-positioned to complement each other, said Wright, professor of medicinal chemistry at UConn and founder of two biopharmaceutical companies, Promiliad Biopharma and Synaptic Dynamics.

UConn has protein production facilities and a strong medicinal

chemistry department, while Yale has a strong chemistry department and a long track record of drug development, said Peter Farina, Executive in Residence at Venture Capital firm Canaan Partners and member of PITCH’s External Advisory Board.

“In my mind, this partnership is the most impressive aspect of PITCH,” Wright said. “This is an incredible opportunity to bring together our people and assets to streamline the drug discovery process and make a positive impact on Connecticut’s economy and healthcare.”

The PITCH team is also excited about helping faculty at the two universities get their own companies off the ground, said Crews, who has founded two biotech companies.

Connecticut has been fortunate to be home to big pharmaceutical companies over the past 40 to 50 years, said Susan Froshauer, president and CEO of CURE, Connecticut’s bioscience cluster. But more needs to be done to encourage the establishment of smaller companies developing a

diverse range of new compounds, she said. Not all these companies will succeed, but the ones that do survive will help grow the state’s biotech industry, Froshauer said.

Farina said strong support from the state government has been essential to launching the program.

In a Wednesday night email, Connecticut Innovations Vice President Margaret Cartiera wrote that PITCH was an attractive project because of its potential to bring outside venture investment into Connecticut and to translate the state’s academic biomedical research into new ventures and jobs. “[S]upport for the PITCH initiative should have an immediate impact on the local academic bioscience community,” she said.

Over the next three years, PITCH plans to present at least eight pitches to the venture capital community to secure external investment to fund the new companies.

Contact LIONEL JIN at chentian.jin@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.”

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Similar on policy, Stark, Eidelson focus on style DEBATE FROM PAGE 1

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Stark, top, criticized Eidelson for being absent from campus. Eidelson responded with a defense of her record on the Board of Alders.

Hall and Yale].”

Stark’s criticisms of Eidelson’s performance as alder were simple: He said she has not had a strong enough presence on the Yale campus. In his view, the Ward 1 alder should serve a two-fold role as an organizer of students on campus and a representative for progressive interests on the Board of Alders; he accused Eidelson of having failed in the first of these roles.

Throughout the debate, Stark cited surveys published in the News over the last year that have shown that few students on campus know Eidelson is their alder. In one such survey published last spring, after Eidelson had announced her re-election campaign, only four of 37 students in Ward 1 could identify Eidelson as their alder.

One audience member asked both candidates whether they would pledge to support the winner of the primary in the general election against Republican Ugonna Eze ’16. Stark reiterated his pledge to support the nominee, a pledge he first made when he launched his campaign in March. He said his desire to see a progressive on the Board of Alders outweighs his own desire to serve as alder.

Eidelson, meanwhile, has already filed to run in the general election as an independent if she loses to Stark on Wednesday.

Her refusal to commit to supporting the Democratic nominee leaves the door open to a threeway race that Stark says has the capacity to split the Democratic vote and lead a victory for Eze. Asserting that Ward 1 tradi-

Calhoun master avoids taking sides CALHOUN FROM PAGE 1 the matter is a decision of University President Peter Salovey and the Yale Corporation. It should be made, he added, in consultation with the community of masters, deans and Calhoun residents.

Blight informed the audience that renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass often cited Calhoun in his speeches as a symbol of what he vehemently opposed.

For this reason, Blight worried about the prospect of any kind of erasure, instead inviting all attendees to develop their own criteria regarding memorialization while keeping the power of historical symbols in mind.

For many in the audience, especially current and past Calhoun residents, their college’s name is a highly personal issue beyond the historical narrative that Blight offered.

“I do not think Calhoun College should be renamed,” Calhoun student Taylor Buscemi ’18 said after the tea. “At this point in time, right after the Charleston

incident, people are too aroused by the situation, and I believe we need more time to evaluate the pros and cons of changing the name.”

However, others argued that the name had to be changed to ensure that Yale’s building names project the same values it tries to instill in its students.

Calhoun Associate Master Hans van Dijk said that altering the college’s name was the only way to “fix a mistake.” Erasure is the best option in the discussion, van Dijk added.

Julia Adams, professor of sociology and international and area studies and Master of Calhoun College, said she is delighted that the Yale community is embracing this discussion but declined to take a specific position.

“I am trying to be agnostic right now to further the conversation. I think that’s my role,” Adams said. “While the debate is happening, I think it’s important that we make the debate as broad and serious as possible. We need to have all the positions out and then consider what should be

done.”

Joking that both the salutation and signature of her position as master have become problematic, she said she encourages the ongoing discussions and hopes that invested individuals will reach out to her to voice their opinions.

At the very conclusion of the tea, Blight moved beyond the immediate controversy surrounding Calhoun and asked attendees to think more broadly about historical symbolism.

“Why ought humanity remember moral nightmares rather than moments of human triumph — moments in which human beings behaved nobly?”

Blight said, quoting the Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit from his book, “The Ethics of Memory.” “But the issue for us to sort out is what humanity ought to remember rather than what is good for humanity to remember.”

Contact MANASA RAO at manasa.rao@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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David Blight, a professor of history, discussed renaming Calhoun at a tea this Wednesday.

tionally has a November election, uncommon in the rest of New Haven where the Democratic primary typically determines the result, she said voters — especially freshmen — should have the benefit of nearly two extra months to decide their views. She said it was “unfair” to expect students to be informed voters by mid-September.

“I have always thought that this election should just be in November, because I think that is the way that we enfranchise the maximum number of students,” she said.

One of the debate’s more heated moments came in response to a question asking whether Ward 1 should exist as a political entity. Stark said it should, but he also said the Ward 1 alder should not take up leadership positions on the Board of Alders, which include president, majority leader and third officer.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for the Ward 1 alder to serve on leadership in the Board of Alders,” he said. Those positions are for New Haveners serving New Haven neighborhoods.”

Eidelson, who was recently unanimously elected as Third Officer on the Board of Alders, pushed back against Stark’s comment.

“I’m a New Haven resident, and I have been for seven years,” she said to applause around the auditorium. She added that her leadership position on the board was a further example of her commitment to service in the city.

Both candidates were asked policy questions concerning police brutality, youth services, student activism and campaign

financing. Eidelson and Stark held the same views on nearly every issue, from agreeing that the city’s Civilian Review Board should be strengthened to hold police officers accountable to bolstering youth services.

Both also supported Fossil Free Yale’s efforts to push Yale to divest from fossil fuels. Stark added that, if elected, he would push for New Haven to divest from fossil fuels as well.

“I don’t think there is any kind of substantive policy difference between the two of us,” Stark said. “The difference is: What are you going to do as Ward 1 alder?”

Eidelson agreed, saying the differences between her and Stark were primarily ones of approach to the role, not of policy.

I don’t think there is any kind of substantive policy difference between the two of us.

FISH STARK ’17 Candidate, Ward 1 In their opening statements, both Eidelson and Stark emphasized the time they have spent in New Haven. Eidelson talked about her experience canvassing for the Community Voter Project across the city; she said observing the community reaction to a shooting in Dixwell sparked her drive for civic involvement.

Stark said he was inspired to run for public office in New Haven

after interacting with community leaders while canvassing — only weeks after he arrived at Yale — for Mayor Toni Harp’s 2013 opponent, Justin Elicker SOM ’10 FES ’10.

Both Eidelson and Stark brought their bases of support to the debate. Among Eidelson’s supporters were alders Brian Wingate, Tyisha Walker, Frank Douglass Jr. and Dolores Colon ’91, along with a strong student contingent clad in bright yellow Eidelson shirts.

For Colon, Fish’s performance in the debate was unconvincing. She said Eidelson heavily engaged students in the effort to reform the Civilian Review Board and criticized Stark for his lack of involvements.

“I don’t remember seeing Mr. Stark until this year,” she said.

“But he has been saying that, for the past four years, ‘We have done this, we have done that.’

What does he mean by that?”

Stark had his own representatives in the audience, many of them members of the Yale College Democrats. But his supporters also included Alders Darryl Brackeen, Jr. Delilah QuezadaCoello and Caroline Ricardo.

Two New Haven Public Schools students and former candidates for student representatives on the Board of Education who have been canvassing for Stark were also there in support.

In addition to the Ward 1 race, seven other aldermanic primaries will take place on Sept. 16.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

Colleges take form along Prospect St.

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Construction of the new colleges is one-fith complete, according to University Spokesman Tom Conroy.

CONSTRUCTION FROM PAGE 1 new colleges now in plain sight along Prospect Street. Despite this progress, what lies behind the fenced-in perimeter of the half-dozenacre property is far less conclusive.

Of the eight on-site construction workers interviewed — ranging from welders to concrete pourers to excavation workers — views on the progress of the construction ranged from cautiously optimistic to outright discouraged.

“The whole project is delayed, mostly in the carpentry and the rebar,” said one worker who asked to remain anonymous given contractual stipulations prohibiting workers from speaking to the press. “I mean we are making headway, but still it may not be done by the date it is supposed to be finished.”

But according to University Spokesman Tom Conroy, at this point the project is approximately 20 percent complete and the two buildings remain on schedule for their fall 2017 opening. Still, he noted, the project has not been without its difficulties.

The project — which is estimated to cost the University over half a billion dollars — was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects.

According to the April 2011 architect renderings, the most recently available designs, the colleges will include features such as three towers, eight courtyards and dormitories to accommodate some 800 new students. The colleges are Yale’s first expansion since women were admitted in 1969.

“One of the largest challenges has been the coordination of logistics on the site,” Conroy wrote in an email. “Orchestrating the flow of people, materials and equipment, in a safe, orderly manner, given the size of the project and the density of buildings on the site has been a constant challenge for the construction manager.”

Conroy said that by the end of the calendar year, the superstructures of the colleges — in short, the frameworks of the buildings — will be completed once the steel beams forming the gabled roofs are put in place. He added that as work on the superstructure continues, mechanical and electrical workers are working on the basement levels of the buildings and will later begin work on the completed floors.

According to one construction worker from the Massachusetts-based firm J. L. Marshall & Sons, a subcontractor tasked to oversee construction of the south college building, the bulk of the work is currently at the “structural stage,” in which the concrete shells of the buildings are reinforced with rebar. Other work currently underway includes excavation, iron welding and electrical and mechanical work.

Still, there was a lack of consensus among the workers interviewed on whether construction was following schedule.

“The pace is going well, we are a little bit behind but we are catching up quick,” said one worker, who also asked to remain anonymous.

“The summer weather has been helpful. Winter was tough. But they never stopped for even a day. All other sites were shut down, and we didn’t stop for a day.”

Another worker, who is tasked with pouring concrete, said the 2017 deadline is ambitious given the scale of the project. He added that as a result, there is a sense that the work is always behind, even though he and other workers have been putting in 65–70 hour weeks. Others, however, voiced optimism about the pace of the construction.

“We are mostly on schedule; there are setbacks here and there, but that is true of any job,” said one ironworker.

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

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NEWS

I remember sitting in a dining hall filled with the world’s best athletes” DALEY THOMPSON ENGLISH ATHLETE

Med School dining hall to reopen, offer to-go items

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER Marigold’s Dining Hall — located at the Yale School of Medicine — is scheduled to reopen next month with a “graband-go” style menu.

Because students have voiced interest in having to-go options over a formal meal plan, Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke SOM ’86 said Marigold’s will adopt a style similar to that of Chipotle — in which students can pick and choose from several food options. Director of Culinary Excellence Ron DeSantis said the new offerings are designed to fit their culinary desires. Shivani Bhatt MED ’21 said previous offerings at Marigold’s were in need of improvement, and she is optimistic about the new approach.

“Having flexibility would be nice, and I think that’s what we’re headed toward,” she said. “You can never have enough places that serve coffee on a hospital campus, so if they have the right options I think it could work really well.”

Bhatt said she and other students had found the quality of food at Marigold’s to be lacking. While some items were popular, the menu as a whole was inconsistent, she said.

But School of Medicine professor and section chief Patrick O’Connor said he and his colleagues enjoyed Marigold’s before it closed for renovation, adding that he is excited for the dining hall to reopen.

“Professors often eat there, and I’ve always found the food and service to be good,” he said. “I know they’ve been renovating the place and I’m looking forward to seeing what the final product looks like.”

DeSantis said new offerings at Marigold’s, based on cuisines from across the world, would be “sophisticated, delicious and customizable.” He added that they would include fresh components and bold flavors, increasing student satisfaction in the process.

Van Dyke said to-go meals will not only provide students with a more satisfactory dining experience, but also fit

their demanding schedules.

“For med students, they spend half their time in the hospital — so they want to eat there,” she said. “The new concepts will provide students with that kind of flexibility.”

Brittany Volpe MED ’16, a student in the Physician Associate Program, said the new approach will be more convenient for students, so she expects interest in Marigold’s to increase among students. Bhatt added that Marigold’s would have to compete with the YaleNew Haven Hospital, which offers its own “grab-and-go” style meals independently.

Though Jayna Whitcomb MED’16 said she would not purchase to-go-style meals because she prefers to cook her own lunch, she said she expects many students to utilize the service.

All six undergraduate students interviewed said they would prefer if Yale Dining also regularly offered “grab-andgo” meals at residential dining halls.

The closest alternative at the moment is a service by which undergraduate students can order packaged meals in advance. Dianne Lake ’16 said she utilized the program when she had to miss lunch for a performance, and she found it to be convenient, adding that Yale Dining should work to increase awareness of the program.

Arabelle Schoenberg ’19 said she had never heard of the service but would be interested in using it — especially because of the demanding schedule she follows as an athlete.

Luke Stringer ’17 said the service is necessary regardless of usage, because the students who use it “really need it.”

“Students have such busy schedules that sometimes they can only have lunch for 10 or 15 minutes, so in that case having a ‘to-go’ option might be more feasible in terms of accommodating students who need increased flexibility,” he said.

Yale College students can eat their meals at 10 locations beyond the residential college dining halls.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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Marigold’s, the dining hall at the Yale School of Medicine, will reopen next month with a new “grab-and-go” style menu.

Church Street South’s future unclear

BY MRINAL KUMAR STAFF REPORTER The end is nigh for the crumbling and hotly debated Church Street South complex, as residents of the building are relocated daily due to unsafe living conditions.

Constructed in 1969, Church Street South is located across from Union Station, making it one of the more accessible and prominent complexes in New Haven. This week, owner Northland Investment Corp. agreed to move six tenants and their families out of the subsidized housing complex and into hotel rooms because of a series of housing violations. In past weeks, 10 households were already made to relocate.

“The property is overrun with decrepit, moldy and dingy buildings that should have been replaced 20 years ago,” said Dolores Colón, who represents Church Street South and the surrounding area as Ward 6 alder. “The people there have been living in unsafe, dangerous apartments.”

Northland bought the property in 2008, during former mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s administration. Northland Chairman of the Board Lawrence Gottesdiener said that remodeling Church Street South was one of DeStefano’s top priorities. DeStefano wanted the property modified into a transit-oriented, mixeduse, mixed-income development at the front door of New Haven.

After spending, according to Gottesdiener, “a couple million dollars and thousands of man hours” on the building through

2011, Gottesdiener and DeStefano reached a tentative agreement to demolish the complex and rebuild it, keeping 20 percent of the apartments “affordable.”

Ultimately, the deal fell through because the administration wanted a greater portion of the development to be reserved for affordable housing. Ever since, the writing has been on the wall for the complex.

“We have been at a loss since 2012,” said Gottesdiener. “We are not experienced subsidized housing developers. We continued running the complex to the best of our ability and put in $5 million — which might be more than the property has ever received. Unfortunately, the buildings are probably obsolete.”

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued a letter of default to Northland, essentially putting the group on a deadline to bring living conditions up to standard.

Northland receives roughly $3 million a year in Section 8 rent subsidies from the federal government.

Laurence Grotheer, spokesman for City Hall, said the administration was pleased that the federal government has finally stepped in.

“City inspectors have been monitoring substandard conditions all along and the city has been working to bring those apartments into compliance,” said Grotheer. “The city is pleased that the federal government has stepped in, because they have more leverage considering they have been making direct payments to the property

owner.”

Northland is also under fire from attorney Amy Marx LAW ’00 of the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, who is representing some of the tenants. Marx could not be reached for comment.

Both the administration and Northland agree that the tenants are the top priority.

“We’re a little bit stuck between repairing an obsolete building and building consensus for demolition and relocation, but we can’t focus on that right now,” said Gottesdiener. “Right now our only interest is in the health and safety of the residents.

And in that regard … we’re making a substantial financial commitment in the form of relocating quite a few.”

Grotheer echoed the sentiment, saying that Harp’s top priority is the residents.

Despite the crisis, Gottesdiener insisted that he does not regret the investment. He said that his goal — to build a stateof-the-art residence in New Haven — has remained the same.

“It’s hard to say what’s going to happen a year down the road,” he said. “I think the best result would be shut down the location and relocate the residents in a staged process and start to replace the existing building.

There is considerable work to be done.”

Church Street South has 301 apartments, about 280 of which were occupied before the relocations began.

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

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SPORTS

“Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.” SERENA WILLIAMS 21-TIME GRAND SLAM TITLE WINNER

Tennis opens at Penn Classic TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 ships this summer, so it’s important for us to get our fitness back. We’ve been hitting a lot of balls and trying to get our competitive spirit going.”

Ziqi Wang ’18 echoed Brown, adding that team now has official practices for four hours a day, with a particular emphasis on enhancing physical fitness. According to Wang, the players are exceptionally well-prepared in terms of fitness, thanks to the practices.

In their upcoming season opener, the Bulldogs hope to ride on their momentum from last season, which included a number of impressive wins. According to members from last season’s team, a highlight was defeating Northeast Region No. 6 Brown.

This year’s squad features several returning first-team All-Ivy players, led

by Tyler Lu ’17, who finished his sophomore season ranked No. 8 in the Northeast Region. Going 13–1 in singles record last spring, Lu defeated Harvard’s Denis Nguyen, who is ranked No. 38 nationally, as well as won the Connecticut State Championship without dropping a single set.

Joining Lu in the returning first-team All-Ivy selection are Stefan Doehler ’18 and Fedor Andrienko ’18, a duo that posted a 24–6 overall record and topped the Ivy League, defeating Princeton’s nationally ranked No. 1 teams in the process. Doehler, who was also named Division I Rookie of the Year for the Northeast

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Region, enjoyed a successful singles campaign as well, going 22–11 and defeating Brown’s No. 2 player Brandon Yeoh in the season finale.

In the prior season, Lu had earned the same recognition after an impressive rookie campaign in the 2013–14 season.

The highly anticipated incoming class will also make their collegiate debuts at this three-day event.

“The freshmen are the most talented class we have,” Brown said. “All three have a great chance to make both the singles and doubles lineup, and their work ethic has been inspiring to the rest of the team.”

A blue-chip recruit from Germantown, Maryland, Dennis Wang ’19 ranked as high as No. 3 nationally and finished his junior campaign with a regional championship and Maryland state tournament finalist title under his belt. Joining Wang are Charlie Adams ’19 and Nathan Brown ’19, both of who won state champions during their junior campaigns.

The Bulldogs also won several accolades that attest to their success off the courts last season. The team earned the All-Academic Team title as a unit and had nine out of 12 players earn Scholar-Athlete recognition, which requires a grade point average of 3.5 or above throughout the season.

The first match will take place this Friday in Philadelphia.

leaders for the Bulldogs include Jonathan Lai ’17 and Li Wang ’17. Last season, Lai (+14) finished in the top 20 at the Ivy League Championship.

Willis (+13) shot one stroke better than Lai to cap the Bulldog season, while Wang completes the solid trio of proven players for Yale.

According to Lai, there will be competition among the Bulldogs each week to determine the top-four positions for tournament play each week.

The other returning players vying for the four starting positions include Will Bernstein ’18, Henry Cassriel ’18, Nick McNiff ’17 and James Park ’17.

“We have a good fall schedule coming up and we are excited to see how we will stack up against other talented teams,” Lai said.

In addition to the returning golfers, Jake Leffew ’19, Eoin Leonard ’19 and James Nicholas ’19 will be joining the team this fall. Nicholas brings the most unexpected background to the tee box as he will also be competing on the gridiron for the Bulldogs as a member of the football team.

“I’m very excited to compete again. I have been waiting all summer to play for the Yale golf team, and I am sure that everyone who is going to play this weekend is very excited too,” Lai said.

The Doc Glimmer takes place at the Bethpage Red Golf Course in Farmingdale, New York.

Contact JULIA YAO at julia.yao@yale.edu .

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .

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Yale, you were known for regularly QAtbreaking tackles, staying on your feet

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It still works. It is a little more difficult, so you have to make sure that when you get an opportunity, you capitalize on it, because you don’t get as many chances in the game to make things happen. You just have to be ready when you get the chance.

I mean that in the sense that the game is faster and that there’s a smaller margin of error, but also because I don’t get as many reps on the field. It’s still football; it’s still what I’ve been doing for my whole life.

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I’ll definitely be contributing on all of the special teams, and you might see me in the backfield a little bit as well backing up Frank Gore. We have a couple days here to figure things out and make final depth changes, things like that. I definitely think that there’s a possibility that I’ll get time in the backfield on Sunday.

Obviously it’s cool, definitely, but I feel more of a sense of accomplishment than anything, because this is now the last level of football that there is.

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The men’s golf team will begin their season with the annual Doc Gimmler hosted

by St. John’s in Farmingdale, N.Y.

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it been like playing alongside QWhat’s the other running backs, especially

schemes and everything on a weekly basis.

I just want to get better every day in practice, stay healthy. I think more long-term, my goal is to say at the end of the season that I’m a better football player than I was when I came in here. That’ll help me stay in the league, and that’ll allow me to help us win football games.

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It’s been really cool. We can all learn from each other. Frank is obviously an 11-year veteran, so he has more experience than all of us combined. It’s been cool to see what he does on the field and try to make yourself a better football player.

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Yeah, I’ve been trained that way for the last three years. I don’t really have a choice. It’s a good way to do it.

many of us [on campus] have QFinally, fantasy football drafts coming up, and your name has come up a few times. Could you make a case for why someone might want to draft you?

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(Laughs) I feel like I’m a versatile player. Especially in the back returning kicks, I can add value there. I catch the ball in the backfield well, so if I’m in there as a third down back, I can tack on the receiving yards. They might use me in short yardage situations, so if we’re at the goal line, you might see me with the ball.

A few people at Yale have mentioned [fantasy drafts] to me. It’s kind of cool to even see that people can do that. We’re all in Madden too. It’s pretty cool.

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

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Varga broke the Yale single season record with 26 total touchdowns — 22 on the ground and four through the air.

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The Elis have scored 10 goals over their first four contests for a 2.5 goals per game average.

W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 14 goalkeeper to burst past them, taking the ball with her. Nearly seven minutes into the game, Alozie found space and slid the ball into an empty net to put the Elis up 1–0.

Alozie’s second goal came off of an assist from Grossman.

Alozie boxed out the defender and connected with the free kick in the box. Her header sent the ball into the bottom corner, netting Yale’s second goal at 12:17.

Two early goals helped the Bulldogs dictate the tempo for the rest of the game. They played strong possession soccer, building up from the back and exploding into the front, which prevented the Pioneers from retaliating. The Bulldogs’ control of the game was reflected in the game’s statistics — the Elis put up 10 shots to Sacred Heart’s three.

“We knew we could prevent it from being a physical battle if we played the ball on the floor,” midfielder Fran Steele ’19 said.

“We did this successfully which meant that we dominated from the beginning and had a lot of possession.”

Steele went on to praise Alozie, saying that she always provided angles of support or made runs onto the back line.

The tactic, she said, effectively

stretched the opposition.

The praise was well-earned, especially with Alozie finding her third goal 16 minutes into the second half to notch her first career hat trick with the Bulldogs. A clean turn with the ball following a pass from defender Fallon Sheridan ’19 set Alozie up to tear past the last defender and blast a shot to the outside post for her third goal of the game.

The fourth goal came late in the second half when Steele sent a free kick into the box. After bouncing around, it met the foot of midfielder Shannon Conneely ’16, who sent it sailing over the keeper’s head.

The strong offense was matched by an equally impressive defense. Goalie Rachel Ames ’16 made six saves to maintain the clean sheet, and the defenders were able to hold back the Pioneers’ attacks. Furlong said this game was a real demonstration of the team’s ability.

“I think this really showed that we are strong on all parts of the field,” Furlong said.

The women’s soccer team will next take to the field when they take on Villanova for their first away game of the season. Kickoff is at 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 11.

Contact ANDRÉ MONTEIRO at andre.monteiro@yale.edu .

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Gutmann visits Penn Wharton China Center for the first time

BY BRYN FERGUSON AND CAROLINE SIMON Six months after the Penn Wharton China Center kicked off in Beijing, the opening celebrations will conclude with a gala and discussion forum featuring distinguished guests from around the world.

Thursday’s Silfen Forum, the first to ever be held outside of Penn’s campus, will be moderated by Penn President Amy Gutmann and will feature General Colin Powell, former U.S. secretary of state; Li Zhaoxing, former foreign minister of China; Zhang Xin, CEO and co-founder of SOHO China; and Howard Marks, cochairman of Oaktree Capital Management.

The conversation will focus on Sino-U.S. relations in the 21st century in the areas of business, technology, finance and higher education, as well as the importance of cross-cultural collaboration in solving the greatest challenges of modern times.

“This Silfen Forum will get a huge amount of attention, I’m sure, in any case. But all the more so because of what’s happening in the world,” Gutmann said, referring to the recent economic downturn in China that’s affected global markets.

The forum will be followed by a gala on Thursday evening, with around 600 guests.

Gutmann noted that relations with China have always been important to the University.

“Engagement in China has been a long-term priority for Penn, and connections between Penn and China date back to 1823,”

Gutmann said. “And to d a y, thousands of Chinese students call Penn home.”

PENN Secondyear Wharton MBA and Beijingnative Michael Chen visited the Penn Wharton China Center this summer and was excited to see Penn living up to its goal of promoting collaboration between the two nations.

“I can see the dedication from Penn,” Chen said. “Last year we had the Global Forum in Beijing, and this is one of the most important events for Wharton. Now we have the physical facility. [Penn] not only puts a lot of money in there, but they put a lot of the commitment.”

Other events during the week include a class for MBA students focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation, symposiums hosted by the Perelman School of Medicine and events hosted by the School of Dental Medicine and the School of Design. Nine of Penn’s 12 deans will visit PWCC throughout the week.

The events will also include a dedication of PWCC, featuring a familiar Penn symbol replicated halfway across the globe.

“We are going to have a Benjamin Franklin ‘Ben on the Bench’ statue that is going to be unveiled at the center,” PWCC Director John Zhang said. “The reason why we want to have this piece is this is very sentimental. Many people who study at Penn have their picture taken on the bench. So it’s to

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Penn Global Executive Director Amy Gadsden at the Penn Wharton China Center, where UPenn President Amy Gutmann will be visiting later this week. remind them about their experience at Penn.”

Zhang also emphasized the importance of Gutmann’s visit to the success of PWCC. “Our leadership has really done a lot of good thinking about how

we can make Penn the premier university in the world and the premier training ground for future leaders,” he said. “So that’s why I think the trip for [UPenn] President Gutmann to go to China is very significant. It’s not only a

morale booster — everybody will feel good about about the president coming in. We are really looking forward to this event.”

Current Penn students who have visited the center so far have felt at home. Wharton senior

Aaron Goldstein’s visit to Beijing during spring break coincided with the opening of the PWCC. “I think the space is beautiful, and it’s definitely going to help bring the Penn and Wharton names to China and help them

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Faust puts final clubs on notice

BY THEODORE DELWICHE

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Harvard Law School informed its students of Title IX policy changes on Aug. 28, after being finalized over the summer.

BY ANDREW DUEHREN In addition to predictable changes that come with every new school year — new classes, perhaps a new place to live — Harvard Law School students are also adjusting to a major policy change that rolled out over the summer: the new process their school is using to investigate and hear sexual harassment cases.

The procedures, which differ significantly from the approach in place at other Harvard schools, are the product of months of debate among faculty members who pushed for the Law School to adopt the unique model after they raised concerns about Harvard’s protection of the due process rights of the accused. Under the Law School’s new system, an adjudicatory panel of non-Harvard affiliated professionals will rule on violations of Harvard’s University-wide sexual harassment policy, potentially after a hearing. The Law School will provide students involved in a case with an attorney if requested.

Now, with the new process in place, Law School a d m i n i s t ra tors are beginning to educate their students on HARVARD the intricate and sometimes complex new process.

So far, students — the body directly affected by the change — seem mostly unaware of what it entails.

Harvard Law School informed its students of Title IX policy changes on Aug. 28, after being finalized over the summer.

Last semester, before the new process had been fully implemented, Law students interviewed largely said they were not familiar with the specific changes to the school’s procedures.

“At this point, I guess, the procedures themselves were mostly the brainchild of the faculty,” Robert K. Fountain, a law school student and organizer for student group Harvard Talks Title IX, said last semester.

Months later, students are similarly unsure of the new process’s implications. Administrators finalized the new procedures over the summer, and on Aug. 28, they emailed the full law school student body informing them of the change. An email, though, may not have been enough to communicate it to everyone, as several students interviewed said they are still not familiar with the procedures that now apply to them.

“This was before school started, so I wasn’t really checking email,” said Faye E. Maison, a third-year Law student.

Leland S. Shelton, also a third-year Law student, said that he does not know many specifics about the new procedures, but he is hopeful that they will help address the problem of campus sexual assault.

“I still haven’t really formed an opinion on those rules. What I do hope is that the new sexual assault policy will curb the sexual assaults that happen on Harvard’s campus, including the law school’s,” he said.

In her most extensive public comments to date on the topic of singlegender social clubs at the College, Harvard University President Drew Faust put Harvard’s final clubs on notice Tuesday. She said in an interview that she and Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana are weighing options to address issues of exclusivity, sexual assault and alcohol use that she associated with the clubs.

“I know [Khurana has] been meeting with them and I have discussed with him the concerns that he’s expressed,” Faust said in an interview in her Massachusetts Hall corner office. “You know we’ve had a lot of concerns about alcohol and final clubs, safety in final clubs, we’ve worried a lot about sexual assault in final clubs, and so I think a lot of these issues that are very much at the heart of our considerations about undergraduate life have a special valence and relationship to the final clubs.”

The comments come in Faust’s eighth year as president, but during a time when the clubs are under increased scrutiny from students and administrators alike. At least two final clubs hosted parties over Labor Day weekend — the Spee Club and the Phoenix S.K. Club — but others seemed to have their doors closed for much of it, and the Fox Club is continuing to enforce a membersonly policy. Other clubs have discussed adopting such a policy with “more frequency” in recent years, according to Fly Graduate Board President John Powers.

Undergraduate presidents of several all-male final clubs could not be reached or declined to comment on Tuesday night.

Harvard does not officially recognize final clubs or Greek organizations, but many flourish outside of the University’s gates, leading College officials to keep up some relationship with the organizations, which are a social focal point for hundreds of students. In the past year, that relationship has become increasingly precarious as Khurana has ramped up criticism of final clubs, meeting with undergraduate and graduate board members behind the scenes.

He has also publicly reprimanded the clubs at times, including last spring when the Spee Club circulated a party invitation that some women on campus deemed sexist.

Faust confirmed that Khurana has been meeting with club representatives and said she has been in close consultation with him. When it comes to final clubs, Khurana’s stance is clear: “The

College continues to support the idea that … single-gendered organizations are not appropriate for the College,” he said last HARVARD spring.

Faust did not go so far as to flat-out denounce single-gender social organizations on Tuesday, but she explicitly questioned whether the clubs fit into Harvard’s undergraduate social scene.

“If we’re going to talk about reaching out beyond who we are, to embrace difference and discomfort ourselves and include people very different from ourselves in the lives we lead, and make a community that embraces the wide range of people here at the College, I think those ideals are sitting uneasily with the segregation of certain groups, the self-segregation of certain groups into final clubs,” she said.

Harvard severed official ties with its all-male final clubs in 1984, and to this day, it remains unaffiliated with them and the five female final clubs, five fraternities and four sororities that Harvard students populate. Students, though, are still allowed to join them, unlike at Amherst, which prohibited students from being part of fraternities, sororities, or equivalents in 2014.

Faust did not rule out the possibility of Harvard pursuing a similar action, but said the current conversations with the clubs are “in the mode of trying to come to outcomes that represent the students themselves taking responsibility for the future that we all, I think, together, want to see.”

Last year, Harvard’s unrecognized social scene showed only signs of growth, as a record number of women rushed Harvard’s sororities, students added a new fraternity, and the male and female final clubs put up for entry, or “punched,” new classes.

Khurana is scheduled to meet with final club graduate board leaders later in the month, according to Powers, who is also a former Crimson sports editor.

It remains unclear what the group will discuss. For the time being, though, Faust has made it clear she is behind her College dean.

“As we broaden the reach of the College to individuals from much more diverse economic backgrounds, as we emphasize the need for inclusion of all groups, to have certain groups that can dispense privilege and advantage in very significant ways that exclude individuals from membership is very troubling,” she said.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 8:30 AM 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony. The Yale Student Veterans Council, in conjunction with Yale ROTC, will pay tribute to those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, including at least 11 Yale Alumni. The ceremony will include participation in the national moment of silence, as directed by the president of the United States. Beinecke Plaza.

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KELLY WIRTH ’19 HONORED BY THE IVY LEAGUE Wirth, a freshman from Moraga, Calif., posted 22 kills and 14 digs in two matches over the weekend. She was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll as a result.

KYLE KENAGY ’19 SCORING GOALS LEFT AND RIGHT The Yale men’s soccer team scored just two goals in its two losses last weekend — but Kenagy had both of them and was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll for his exploits.

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Varga ’15 shares NFL story

Bulldogs garner second shutout win

BY ANDRÉ MONTEIRO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Coming off of a close victory against UMass last Sunday, the women’s soccer program picked up their second win of the season in a 4–0 domination over Sacred Heart (2–4–0, 0–0–0 Northeast) on Tuesday night.

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With two Colts running backs having sustained injuries, Tyler Varga ’15 could potentially get carries on Sunday.

Eric Johnson ’01 and Nate Lawrie ’04 appeared for the New Orleans Saints and the Cincinnati Bengals, respectively. Varga spoke with the News about his journey to the Indianapolis Colts’ final roster, his experiences in the NFL and his fantasy football prospects.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Though former Yale star Tyler Varga ’15 went unselected in this spring’s NFL Draft, he managed to last through training camp with the Indianapolis Colts, surviving the roster crunch from 90 to 53 players. If he plays on Sunday, he will be the first Bulldog to appear in an NFL game since 2008 when tight ends

you signed in May, the ultiQSince mate goal has been to make the

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Strong freshman class to lead men’s tennis

pretty exciting. I told everybody right afterwards, got in touch with the guys back at school, from the team and the coaching staff back at Yale. They were really excited. We had Sunday off, Monday we had our first practice, and [Tuesday] was our off day as well. It’s just been cool to see your hard work pay off.

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The team started off strong with forward Michelle Alozie ’19 putting up two goals within the first 13 minutes of the game.

The early lead allowed the Bulldogs (2–2–0, 0–0–0 Ivy) complete control and let the team play at their own pace, shutting down Sacred Heart’s attempts at a comeback. Comfortably slotting in two more in the second half, the Elis finished the game strong to earn their second shutout of the season. Midfielder Maggie Furlong ’18 said the team’s ability to successfully make the changes advised by their coach helped them secure the victory.

“Our coach went through the goals for the game and what we needed to focus on especially,” Furlong said.

Head coach Rudy Meredith let the team know they needed to play as a unit offensively and defensively as well as win their battles to loose balls. When they stepped onto the field, Furlong said, the Bulldogs addressed all of the points discussed in the locker room.

Tuesday night’s game was an example of the team’s developing chemistry, an especially important point given that over half the starters are freshmen.

“We are definitely a young team, but we are beginning to mesh well,” said captain Ally Grossman ’16.

To start off the scoring on Tuesday night, Alozie capitalized on a moment of confusion between a Sacred Heart defender and the SEE W. SOCCER PAGE 10

Golf tees up for 2015–16 season

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER After finishing fifth in the Ivy League Championship at the conclusion of last season, the Yale men’s golf team will tee off again this weekend at the Doc Glimmer, a season-opening tournament hosted annually by St. John’s University.

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this season with a highly touted freshman crew. Strong singles and doubles returning players will combine with new faces for a revamped fall tennis season. Furthermore, the Bulldogs have spent much of their time since returning to campus conditioning and bringing the team into top physical form.

“We have had a very tough first week … [the team has] been doing a ton of fitness and trying to get back into shape,” captain Jason Brown ’16 said.

“A few of us were working at intern-

Although the Elis will be without recently graduated top performers Thomas Greenhalgh ’15 and Will Davenport ’15, this year’s team does feature players with a variety of experience levels and talented underclassmen.

After Davenport’s graduation, he handed his role of captain over to Joe Willis ’16, the team’s lone senior. At the end of last season, Willis was selected as a member of the 2014–2015 Division I PING All-Region Team for the Northeast for the second consecutive year.

He has been a steady performer for the Bulldogs as evidenced by his tie for 12th place in his first Ivy League Championship and his ninth-place finish in the same tournament as a sophomore — a season in which he was awarded second-team All-Ivy honors.

“As captain, I want to encourage my teammates to reach their full potential and foster a strong sense of camaraderie amongst the team,” Willis said. “It is a close-knit group already and I think it will only get better this year.”

Along with Willis, the returning

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According to captain Jason Brown ’16, all three freshmen on the men’s tennis team have a chance to make both the singles and doubles lineup.

BY JULIA YAO STAFF REPORTER The men’s tennis team, which ranked eighth among all Division I teams in the Northeast Region at the end of the 2014–15 season, will embark on its 2015 fall season at the Penn Classic, a threeday event slated to run from this Friday to Sunday.

TENNIS The Elis finished in the middle of the pack last season but are heading into

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Three freshmen will join two sophomores, four juniors and one senior on this year’s men’s golf roster.

THE NUMBER OF GOALS MICHELLE ALOZIE ’19 HAS SCORED IN HER FIRST FOUR GAMES AS A BULLDOG. Alozie leads the Elis in both goals and points, with four and 10, respectively.