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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013 · VOL. CXXXVI, NO. 47 · yaledailynews.com

HARP ELECTED MAYOR

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Toni Harp ARC ’78 speaks to a crowd of energetic supporters at Kelly’s Restaurant & Bar on Crown Street. She will be inaugurated as the first female mayor of New Haven in January.

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Toni Harp ARC ’78 will be New Haven’s next mayor — and the first female chief executive in the city’s history.

Riding a wave of support from her decisive victory in September’s Democratic primary, Harp surpassed a final hurdle

on Tuesday when she defeated petitioning Independent candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 to become the Elm City’s 50th mayor. The general election concluded a 10-month race that once featured a record seven Democratic candidates.

Harp drew 10,602 votes to Elicker’s 8,865 on Tuesday, securing her claim to the may-

or’s office with 54.66 percent of the vote. When she takes office on Jan. 1, 2014, she will be the city’s first new leader in 20 years, succeeding outgoing mayor John DeStefano Jr. “Together we’ll take on the impossible,” Harp said in victory remarks addressed to nearly 200 supporters crowded into Kelly’s Restaurant and Bar

Eidelson reelected in Ward 1

on Crown Street, as she reiterated the priorities that have defined her candidacy: jobs, education and public safety.

“You will be included. You will have a place at the table.

You will be heard,” she added.

Harp, who has served as a Connecticut state senator for the past 20 years, and as a New Haven alderwoman before that,

ascended to the mayor’s office with broad backing from Democratic leaders across the city and the state, including senior members of Connecticut’s Washington delegation and a vast majority of city lawmakers on the New Haven Board of Aldermen. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy introduced the mayor-elect, hailing her as a

champion of New Haven in the state legislature.

Harp lost no time articulating the historic dimensions of her victory. “Wait, listen, hear that sound. That is the sound of a glass ceiling shattering,” she said to shouts and cheers from the energetic crowd.

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Elicker optimistic in defeat

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER After conceding defeat in Tuesday’s mayoral election, Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 remained resolute in his desire for a redefined New Haven.

Toni Harp ARC ’78 racked up 54.66 percent of the city vote to Elicker’s 45.34 percent on her way to becoming the Elm City’s first female mayor. Elicker’s post-poll party at BAR pizza on Crown Street hosted over 100 campaign team members, volunteers and supporters. Elicker, who ran as an Independent candidate against Democratic Harp and spent the day going to polling places throughout the city to greet voters, entered the restaurant to cheers and chants of his name at around 9 p.m., minutes after the final vote tally had been announced. After congratulating Harp, Elicker used his speech to encourage his supporters to conSEE ELICKER PAGE 4

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Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 lost in the mayoral race with 45 percent of the vote.

Yalies react to election results KATHRYN CRANDALL/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Sarah Eidelson ’12 will serve a second term as Alderwoman for Ward 1.

BY POOJA SALHOTRA AND ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTERS Incumbent Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 overcame Republican challenger Paul Chandler ’14 on Tuesday evening to secure a second term on the Board of Aldermen.

Eidelson won 513 votes to Chandler’s 285 in a ward where registered

De m o c ra ts outnumber registered Republicans eight-and-a-half to one. The race, which saw voter turnout diminish from the 2011 election, ignited a debate over the role of the Ward 1 representative. Defining himself in opposition to Eidelson, Chandler centered his pitch on his status as SEE EIDELSON PAGE 8

BY POOJA SALHOTRA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Amidst last night’s victory parties for newly elected mayor Toni Harp ARC ’78 and Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12, Yale students expressed mixed reactions to the results of an election that altered New Haven’s political landscape.

The municipal elections included a contested aldermanic competition between

incumbent Eidelson and Republican Paul Chandler ’14, in a ward which consists primarily of Yalies. This race between two Yale-affiliates brought a number of students to the Ward 1 polling site at the New Haven Free Public Library, but did not encourage a large voter turnout in areas outside of Ward 1. As of last week, 52.69 percent of eligible student voters at Yale did not plan to vote in the elections, according to a

survey conducted by the News.

Students who did decide to vote in the election said that the results would largely define Yale-New Haven relations.

“This election is perhaps even more important than the presidential election because this will directly shape what goes on in the city,” Elicker supporter Rafi Bildner ’16 said. “It’s the first time in two decades that we have an opportunity to really change city politics and

it could be the most important election that Yale students ever vote in.”

Student volunteers for Eidelson’s campaign also said that the results of the election would impact the city’s trajectory.

Alex Lew ’15, who spent the entire day campaigning for Eidelson, said that by voting, students showed that they care SEE REACTIONS PAGE 8

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OPINION

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A failed GOP project

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Change in Ward 1

he night Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidelson ’12 won her first election in 2011, the energy was almost palpable.

She and fellow candidate Vinay Nayak ’14 had spent months engaging campus in discussion on policy and experience, and most especially on how we, in our role as students, should interface with the New Haven community.

Walking with Eidelson as she left the polls for a post-election party, I remember feeling hopeful for the future of Yalies’ involvement in the Elm City. Something seemed to have genuinely shifted on campus — whether marked by a record high voter turnout of 973 students, or the intense attention paid to the campaigns in the week leading up to Election Day. I felt a sort of resurgence was underway.

On a personal level, Eidelson inspired me. She demonstrated that genuine student involvement in the city is not just something to which we pay lip service, but rather an endeavor worthy of deep commitment — that’s part of the reason I’m now considering living in New Haven after I graduate.

Yet perhaps because of how greatly she inspired me, I found myself disappointed with aspects of her tenure.

Eidelson has done an impressive job as the chair of the Board’s Youth Committee, advancing an agenda to provide the city’s children with safe spaces, afterschool programming and more.

The role she played in shaping charter revision is another example of Eidelson’s accomplishments over the past two years.

But policy leadership only amounted to half of the job description. Being a New Haven alderman requires balancing two focuses: it’s one part policy, one part constituent services. For most of the Elm City’s 30 wards, the latter consists of interfacing with city departments and attending to basic street-level improvements, ranging from sidewalk repairs to noise complaints.

Since we are students, most of these concerns are managed not from the desks of City Hall but instead from the offices of Woodbridge Hall. Since the Ward 1 alderman does not need to concern him or herself with basic infrastructure, constituent services comes instead in the form of engaging students in the city.

In this respect, Eidelson has missed an enormous opportunity. In the past two years, the momentum she built during her first campaign has fizzled.

Eidelson has argued that she has, in fact, been a presence on campus, citing weekly office hours and her work organizing around initiatives like charter revision. But the simple matter is that Yalies don’t share

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this consensus. In a News survey last week, roughly a quarter of students said Eidelson has not engaged the Yale community at all and a majority said she has engaged “somewhat” or “a little.”

This lack of interaction between Ward 1 and our alderman showed itself somewhat in yesterday’s election breakdown.

Eidelson’s vote total of 563 two years ago — when campus liberals were split between two candidates — is actually slightly higher than this year’s 558, when Yalies had only one Democrat on the ballot. The total number of ballots cast this year, 886, is about 10 percent lower than 2011’s sum of 973 Ward 1 votes.

This notion of low engagement is particularly disheartening given Eidelson’s involvement in the city’s organized labor movement, which, quite admirably, prides itself on bringing new participants into the political process. It’s one thing to engage voters in the weeks before the election — it’s much harder, but a much more important task, to continue to engage them in the intervening months. Ward 20 Alderman Delphine Clyburn, for example, spent a few evenings a week continuing to knock on doors throughout her term; why can’t Eidelson do the same?

Much of the philosophy behind Eidelson’s candidacy has focused on the sense that an alderman can best serve Ward 1 by working for the betterment of the city as a whole. While this might seem to free her of any need to focus on constituents in the manner I’ve described, consider just how much New Haven would benefit from having a broader segment of students as passionate about improving the Elm City as Eidelson has been.

Pushing Eidelson to be more involved in Ward 1 isn’t a distraction from the work she’s doing on the Board, but instead a way to enhance it and encourage a campus culture that values engagement with New Haven.

A few weeks ago, I joined Eidelson for a canvass. Beyond discussing her re-election, Eidelson talked with students about the mayoral race, debated the merits of charter revision, explained how she understood Yalies’ obligation to the city. I sensed rumblings of the inspiration I felt in 2011: here was our alderman engaging constituents in a meaningful way, holding conversations about what’s important in New Haven. I’m hoping, for the sake of Ward 1 and the city as a whole, that this is the alderman we have elected.

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rior to last year, the Yale College Republicans’ campus presence was limited to posting links to conservative news articles on Facebook and participating in the annual game of Partisan Pong against the Yale College Democrats. In the fall of 2012, however, a group of students decided to change that. An organization of around 30 to 40 students was put together to support Republican Linda McMahon’s failed campaign for the U.S. Senate. This number paled in comparison to the more than 150 members of the Dems, but still represented a significant shift from the practically nonexistent activism of years past.

The Paul Chandler campaign for Ward 1 alderman was the first big project of the revitalized YCR. Chandler’s candidacy was announced in April, far before Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson announced her bid for reelection. The Chandler campaign immediately took off on social media and was even picked up

by USA Today over the summer.

Unlikely as it seemed, a Republican candidacy was being taken seriously in a ward where 82 percent of students voted democrat in 2012.

I voted for Sarah Eidelson yesterday, and I find it hard to imagine that I will ever vote for a Republican candidate. Still, I understand the value in having a contested race and forcing an incumbent to prove herself worthy of an additional term of office.

The YCR fielding a candi-

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date could have allowed students to have conversations about national partisan issues in the context of the city of New Haven.

Instead, the YCR chose to run a very disappointing

campaign.

Chandler’s campaign focused much of its energy on going negative, even plastering the campus with signs attacking Eidelson.

False information was circulated, including claims that Eidelson did not actually live in New Haven and that she did not speak at board of aldermen meetings.

The campaign also relied heavily on use of anti-union rhetoric, telling voters that Eidelson’s affiliation with Locals 34 and 35 was enough to justify voting for Chandler.

Whenever I spoke to my peers involved in the Chandler campaign, I was given the same rap about why Eidelson was a horrible, union-backed alderwoman.

My questions about Chandler’s policies were generally answered with, “Let me get back to you on that one” or vague statements like “fiscal responsibility” and “supporting public education.”

The only specific Chandler policy that most students picked up was his proposal to build a crosswalk from Phelps Gate to the

New Haven Green, an idea that was promptly ridiculed. Unable to outline a specific platform, the campaign relied on attacking Eidelson instead.

Even more disturbing were the purposeful misconstructions of information that were posted on the campaign website and social media. On Oct. 8, the campaign website falsely claimed that U.S. Senator Rob Portman had endorsed Chandler. This post was removed once it was discovered that Portman had simply taken a photo with Chandler and offered support.

On Monday, the campaign released a statement entitled, “YDN Withdraws Endorsement from Sarah Eidelson” in response to the News’ decision not to endorse a candidate in Ward 1.

The statement implied that the editorial board had endorsed Eidelson in the election and then reversed their decision. The reality was that two years ago an entirely different editorial board endorsed Eidelson over Vinay Nayak. These two endorsements were in no way connected.

The Chandler post went on to quote the editorial, but cut out every criticism of Chandler and praise of Eidelson. To blatantly misrepresent the editorial was a breach of basic campaign honesty. Perhaps the campaign thought that students would not read the editorial for themselves and see the campaign’s inappropriate spin.

Some amount of spin is to be expected of news coming from

any political campaign, including Eidelson’s — but the Chandler campaign went much too far.

The Chandler campaign may have felt that it could not stand a chance in an honest race. That probably is the case. Even with the continuous stream of questionable campaign strategies, Chandler lost to Eidelson by 230 votes.

If the YCR wants to be viewed as a legitimate organization, it needs to start acting in more legitimate ways. Future candidates should run on solid platforms based on specific policy proposals, not scare tactics. They should also refrain from distributing factually inaccurate material, especially when it pertains to the work of their fellow students.

The existence of a Republican group on Yale’s campus is important for a variety of reasons. It provides a space for students who identify as Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic setting. It can also be the steppingstone for important discussions between groups of different ideologies.

However, many of the YCR’s actions in the Chandler campaign were unproductive in terms of furthering campus political discourse. In the future, the organization must learn to operate in a more honest and respectful manner.

DIANA ROSEN is a sophomore in Pierson College. Her columns run on Wednesdays. Contact her at diana.rosen@yale.edu .

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A song for the shore

NICK DEFIESTA is a senior in Berkeley College and a former city editor for the News. Contact him at nick.defiesta@yale.edu .

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t takes a crisis at home to bring our feet back to earth.

Like most Yalies, I spent Hurricane Sandy in the cloistered safety of our fortress-like dormitories. But while some watched the news reports with ambivalence, I watched attentively as the storm made its landfall on my hometown of 19 years, Atlantic City, N.J. Attracted to the casino boom, my Mexican immigrant parents ended up in Atlantic City.

I was born and raised in a tourist town, one whose residents mostly serve, cook and clean for millions of visitors. I grew up in the Jersey working class: My life was a Junot Diaz novel and the setting was Bruce Springsteen’s Jersey Shore.

I left this town in a mad dash for the ivory towers of New Haven and the promises of a life I felt I finally deserved. To understand my audacity and my arrogance you must understand my feelings of yearning. For someone like me, Yale was a getaway ticket: a key to the promised lands my family had spent two decades trying to reach.

But to go from the Jersey

Shore to Yale has not been a smooth journey. The monotony of the daily grind and constant feelings of my insecurity made me long for the aimless walks in my city, the runs on the boardwalk where I would daydream of my future, or the comfort of my small home two blocks from the beach. My first two years were spent languishing in an unbearable loneliness and homesickness, a condition that could not be alleviated by promises that “things would get better.”

Yet no one back home could know. Not my teachers who saw promise in me; not my friends in whose eyes I saw genuine sadness upon our goodbyes; and certainly not my family, who were shouldering an enormous burden in my journey to Yale.

Adventures taken for our own fulfillment are inherently selfish acts. We only stop to consider the life changes occurring within us. We expect order and routine back home. As prodigal sons and daughters, we expect orderly lives and homes to greet us when we return from our journeys. I never once considered the heartache of my fam-

ily. The world was my oyster, but somehow my home was to remain the same.

The storm’s pummeling of my hometown returned to me a perspective I had almost lost. Suddenly, the matters of Yale seemed trivial. My family, neighbors and friends were forced off of our island city, as Governor Christie’s evacuation order left the city to nature’s mercy. I still remember my sister’s desperate phone call, as the shock of the order and its implications crossed her mind for the first time. In a very brutal way, Hurricane Sandy reminded me that I come from a place, one that is populated by loved ones, friends and neighbors. Time did not stop ticking when I left it.

On my Thanksgiving break, I was greeted by a disheveled city. In it reigned a collective melancholy in which I did not share. While my home only suffered flooding and would require some relatively minor renovations, others were less fortunate. I walked past the sight of my neighbors receiving rations from the Red Cross. Garbage and debris went uncollected for

weeks as the city brought its public services back online.

But I knew this recovery would occur without me. Eventually, our homes move on without us. In a similar way, we will learn to face life’s traumas without the immediate comforts of home. For some people in the affected region, a physical home is still not guaranteed: some storm victims remain displaced and many more are still struggling financially.

But Sandy could not destroy my love for my family and friends, my hometown and the difficult lessons learned here.

While our homes are increasingly less ours as we grow up and begin to drift away, it is important to remember that we carry parts of home in our strength, our principles and our memories. A few days after the first anniversary of the disaster, I know some of that Jersey resilience and grit will accompany me as I face my own challenges amidst these ivory towers.

JUAN DIAZ is a junior in Morse College. Contact him at juan.diaz@yale.edu .

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expressed support for ramping up community policing efforts, which have lowered crime rates considerably in the past two years.

Ross, a licensed real estate broker, said he was “disappointed” by the poll numbers and had hoped to perform better.

“It is what it is,” he said.

He attributed the loss to the district’s heavy Democratic leaning, saying that the city’s “Democratic machine” enabled Greenberg to muster 30 to 40 volunteers at all times, while Ross typically had just two.

However, he vowed to continue his involvement in the community and said he would consider running for the Ward 8 seat in the future.

“I’d make sure either I have access to enough volunteers to really do the job well, or that the campaign is financed well enough to be able to pay people,”

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In addition to Sarah Eidelson ’12’s victory in Ward 1, three out of the four other contested races went to union-backed candidates. Democrats Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 and Dolores Colón triumphed over challengers in Wards 8 and 6 respectively, while Ward 25 incumbent Adam Marchand GRD ’99 won his second term on the Board of Aldermen. Democrat Anna Festa fended off a challenge from Republican William Wynn, though Festa is not unionbacked.

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day’s races, all were expected to win by wide margins. Ward 22 Alderwoman Jeanette Morrison defeated Cordelia Thorpe by a margin of 462 to 158, Ward 27 Alderwoman Angela Russell defeated 11-year city resident and challenger Kevin Diggs and Ward 11 Alderwoman Barbara Constantinople won her election in a landslide, garnering 659 votes to independent competitor Patricia DePalma’s 17.

In one of the most hotly contested aldermanic races, second only to Ward 1, Greenberg won 563 total votes to Wooster Square activist and registered Independent candidate Andy Ross’ 276.

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In neighboring Ward 6, Colón received 72 percent of the vote, beating Republican Frank Lobo MED ’92 by a 266-vote margin.

Lobo attributed his loss to the Republican Party’s national “image problem” and the electoral makeup of Ward 6, where there are 20 Democrats registered for every Republican.

“We really started at a tremendous disadvantage,” he said.

“But we estimate that about half of our votes came from Democrats. That’s a sign of hope for the future.”

Ward 6 resident Tanya James said she voted for Colón over Lobo because Colón had taken the time to knock on her door.

In a race for the Ward 10 seat previously held by Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, Democrat Anna Festa won her first term to the Board of Aldermen, the only contested candidate to do so

without union support.

Festa, whose campaign focused primarily on education and crime prevention, said that she was excited about her victory.

Heather Blake-Fiore, a Ward 10 resident, said she chose to vote for Festa because her husband knew her, and she “has a great presence in the neighborhood.”

Wynn, Festa’s opponent, said he felt positive about the election despite his loss, calling it a “learning journey.” This was Wynn’s first run for office, and he said he plans to continue his involvement in city politics.

The newly elected Board of Aldermen will comprise of 30 Democrats.

Contact JR REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu and ABIGAIL BESSLER at abigail.bessler@yale.edu .

City charter revisions pass in landslide

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the first time in over a decade, New Haven voters approved revisions to the city’s charter on Tuesday.

The ballot split revisions to the charter — the city’s guiding document — into two options. The first ballot option, which 82 percent of voters supported, shifts the Board of Education from being entirely appointed by the mayor to a “hybrid” model composed of two elected members, two non-voting student members, four appointed members and the mayor.

One person shouldn’t have so much power. We need more checks and balances.

JEANETTE MORRISON Re-elected alderwoman, Ward 22 The second, which passed by a margin of over 40 percent, included 15 changes of varying importance, from employing the gender-neutral “alder” term for the city council members to allowing noncitizens to sit on city boards and commissions. The revisions to the Board of Education will come into effect Jan. 1, 2016.

“Both questions seemed to have gotten a lot of support,” mayor-elect Toni Harp ARC ’78 said. Before results were tallied, she said she would have been “shocked” if either measure did not pass.

Re-elected Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 said New Haven had the only BOE in the state purely appointed by the mayor.

She added that including student voice on the Board of Education was another reason she supported the measure. Eidelson added that she worked with students to craft a testimony in favor of this change.

Re-elected Ward 22 Alderwoman Jeanette Morrison said that she believed the changes to the Board of Education will give residents of New Haven a greater voice in the future of education.

“One person shouldn’t have so much power,” Morrison said, “We need more checks and balances.”

Fifteen other changes, both large and small, fall under the heading of the second ballot option. The most serious change alters of the balance of power in the city, granting the Board more power by requiring certain positions, such as those on boards and commissions, to receive the approval of the Board of Aldermen. Other notable features include changed educational standards for department heads, formation of a police-oversight Civilian Review Board, enacting an additional civil service exam for New Haven residents and the removal of the mayor from the Board of Zoning Appeals.

But critics of the second referendum challenged the packaging of multiple changes under one yes-no ballot.

Defeated Ward 1 aldermanic candidate Paul Chandler ’14 said that he supported certain changes but he was hesitant about increasing the BOA’s power over mayoral appointments.

Some voters who supported both referenda pointed to the federal government’s model of distributing power across three branches.

Just as presidential appointments must be approved, mayoral appointments should be checked at the local level, said Nicholas Kelly ’17, who voted for the referenda.

Chandler proposed that the city should revise the charter more frequently, vote on the changes individually and educate more voters on the individual proposals.

Many students interviewed outside the voting location agreed they had not been adequately educated on the charter revisions.

“I didn’t even know that the ballot measures were on there,” Eddy Wang ’16 said. “I think they could’ve done a better job reminding me of it.”

The last attempted charter revision narrowly failed in 2002.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu and Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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For the first time in over a decade, New Haven voters approved revisions to the city’s charter on Tuesday.

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FROM THE FRONT

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Harp wins historic victory for mayor

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In Ward 20 — considered a barometer for the rest of the city — mayor-elect Toni Harp ARC ’78 defeated mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 eight to one.

HARP FROM PAGE 1 to celebrate Harp’s victory were city and University leaders, including Board of Aldermen President Jorge Perez and Mike Morand ’87 DIV ’93, Yale’s associate vice president for New Haven and state affairs.

After thanking her two daughters, her son and her late husband, as well as her extensive campaign staff and volunteer team, Harp dwelled on the theme of inclusion that has infused her campaign pitch.

She said addressing the city’s gravest challenges will only be possible by lacing diverse neighborhoods together. Riffing on her campaign’s theme song — Alicia

Keys’ “Girl on Fire” — Harp said the real message is that “we are on fire.”

“The flames of hope for the inclusion of every neighborhood and every citizen engulf us tonight,” she said. “This campaign is behind us, but the real journey has just begun.”

Harp crisscrossed the city on Tuesday, voting alongside her son, Matthew Harp, at 6:30 a.m. before stopping in at polling places in virtually all 30 of the city’s wards. In addition to a few other omissions, Harp did not visit Yale’s Ward 1.

In the end, a total of 19,467 residents voted, not counting absentee ballots. The final tally saw 5,000 more residents

vote than in the primary, which included only registered Democrats.

Harp’s strongest showing was in the northern corner of the city, comprising Dixwell, Newhallville and other strong bases of support for the Democratic-endorsed candidate. Harp outperformed Elicker eight to one in Ward 20, described as a barometer for the rest of the city by Bill Dyson, a former Connecticut State Rep. from the 94th district.

Ward 8 Alderman Michael Smart was elected city/town clerk over 10-year incumbent Ron Smith with 62 percent of the vote, a strong victory for the Democratic candidate running on a ticket with Harp.

Throughout the campaign, Harp touted her breadth of support, contrasting the crosssection of racial and economic groups who flocked to her campaign to Elicker’s concentration of support in East Rock and the East Shore.

Grace Vaughn, a retired emergency room employee at YaleNew Haven Hospital, said she thought Harp’s experience in the state senate qualified her to advance the broad interests of the city, adding that Harp has the clout and the grit to improve the city’s economic position and crack down on crime.

“She’s been invested in New Haven politics for decades,” Charlie Malone, a substitute

teacher in the New Haven Public Schools said after voting at Wilbur Cross High School in Ward 10. “I was drawn to her message about improving equal opportunity in the city, particularly in the schools and for young people.”

Elicker, a two-term alderman who remained in the race after coming in second in the four-way Democratic primary, mounted a serious general election challenge, trailing Harp by just eight percentage points in Tuesday’s race.

At a Tuesday night gathering at Crown Street’s BAR Pizza, Elicker congratulated Harp and said the values of his campaign — policy-driven solutions and clean government — outlast this

election.

Harp praised her opponent’s campaign ideas and said, “he has a great future ahead of him.”

Harp also paid homage to her soon-to-be predecessor, thanking DeStefano for his 20 years at the helm of the city.

“He did the best that he knew how to do on behalf of this city, and we should all be grateful for that, because we are a good city,” Harp said.

Harp first came to New Haven in 1977 to pursue a degree in urban planning at the Yale School of Architecture.

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

Elicker bows out, promises to stay involved ELICKER FROM PAGE 1 tinue working for a better New Haven.

“So much of this campaign isn’t about this election. But it’s about redefining New Haven and redefining our government,” Elicker said. “We have successfully done that, and, as we move forward, I know that you will join me in pushing more on this political system.”

Over the past several months, the Elicker campaign took a grassroots approach to engage citizens of the community who had previously not been involved in political issues, Elicker said in his speech. This approach included an emphasis on public financing and managed to generate enough momentum in its closing days to garner significantly more votes than most had predicted. In the city’s September Democratic primary, Elicker collected only 23.21 percent of the vote, less than half of Harp’s 49.77 percent.

Though Elicker could not specify any plans for the immediate future of his political career, he said that he will take an active role in promoting some of the ideas championed by his campaign over the past few weeks.

“I’m obviously sticking around New Haven,” Elicker said. “I’m going to continue to be involved. I love this city.”

Elicker proceeded to thank his campaign team, starting with his donors, who Elicker said helped drive “the most

impressive [fundraising] campaign this city has ever seen.”

Additionally, Elicker expressed his gratitude to Kermit Carolina, principal of Hillhouse High School and former fellow mayoral candidate, for endorsing him.

There are so many more people that are starting to contribute to this city because of your efforts.

JUSTIN ELICKER FES ’10 SOM ’10 Defeated mayoral candidate Elicker made his way through various other members of the campaign, field office leaders, his campaign manager and his family before thanking his wife as he momentarily choked back tears.

“The fact that so many people believed in this campaign is so powerful, not just to me,” Elicker said, “but to this city because there are so many more people that are starting to contribute to this city because of your efforts.”

Drew Morrison ’14, who spearheaded Yale for Elicker, the student campaign group in charge of garnering student support, said he was disappointed with the results of the election, but was pleased to see how close the final vote tally ended up being. Morrison attributed the surge in Elicker

support to his clear plans for the city’s future and the values with which he conducted his campaign.

“There’s another coalition in town that’s emerging,” Morrison said about the Elicker support in the polls. “It’s a progressive coalition, it’s a grassroots coalition. This has been a very impressive result for Justin.”

When asked about what he would like to see out of Harp as she takes office, Morrison said that he would first like for the new mayor to surround herself with fair and competent people, adding that he did not feel her campaign team to be honorable, citing potential voter fraud with absentee ballots in Ward 8.

J.R. Logan, a 33-year old New Haven resident who volunteered for the Elicker campaign, said he admired Elicker for sticking through what he called “impossible odds.” Logan also said that he’d like to see Harp reach out to and accommodate Elicker supporters, who Logan said demonstrated their significance to the community.

Kathryn Sylvester, another Elicker supporter expressed concern that Harp’s victory means that “the same old machine” will remain in power.

But while Elicker has lost the opportunity to lead the city himself, he said he still sees an opportunity for the ideas he promoted to come to fruition under Harp if citizens remain persistent.

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

BRIANNA LOO/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 addressed and thanked supporters at BAR nightclub.

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New manuscripts arrive at Beinecke

The article “Through cultural house, students practice Asian cooking,” misidentified the gender of Luming Chen ’14.“ MONDAY, NOV. 4

An earlier version of the men’s hockey headline said that Yale split its games this past weekend. Yale tied St. Lawrence on Friday, Nov. 1 and defeated Clarkson 6–3 on Saturday.

YCC to push for Credit/D/Fail changes

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite the Yale College Council’s efforts, the Credit/D/Fail policy is unlikely to change in the near future.

The YCC aims to get the conversion deadline from Credit/D/ Fail to the standard letter grade option pushed back by two weeks, according to YCC President Danny Avraham. Though the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing has rejected that proposal for the past two years, Avraham said the YCC is now trying to get Credit/D/Fail on the agenda for a meeting of the Teaching, Learning and Advising Standing Committee.

This year, he said, the YCC will not offer specific recommendations as it did in previous years.

Instead, the plan is to submit a broader review of the Credit/D/ Fail policy so that the administration itself can determine which reforms would be most optimal.

Still, administrators interviewed questioned whether moving the deadline back would be a wise decision, and members of the Teaching, Learning and Advising Standing Committee were uncertain whether their committee has jurisdiction over Credit/D/Fail.

Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs George Levesque, who sits on the committee, said the issue falls under the purview of the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing. The Teaching, Learning and Advising Standing Committee has not discussed Credit/D/Fail during the past year, said history and religious studies professor Harry Stout, who chairs the committee.

The purpose of the Credit/D/ Fail conversion deadline is to allow students time to get a sense of how they are faring in a particular course, Dean of Academic Affairs Mark Schenker, chair of the Committee on Academic Honor and Standing, said in a Monday email.

“Reasonable people can disagree as to how deep into the term that deadline should be set,” he said, adding that he believes a deadline at the end of the 9th or 10th week of the term is “late enough.”

But Avraham said the Credit/D/ Fail deadline should be postponed because the current conversion date does not allow students to explore new disciplines without the immediate concern of grading.

The later deadline would allow students to make more educated

decisions on whether or not to take a course for a letter grade, he said.

“With the current deadline, you don’t receive much feedback,” Avraham said. “We think that if the date could be pushed a little bit farther, it would give more students the opportunity to see how they’re improving.”

Dean of Yale College Mary Miller said she suspects students often use Credit/D/Fail to cover their bases in the first few weeks of school but opt for letter grades once they have received feedback that gives them confidence in their ability to do well in the course.

Reasonable people can disagree [when] in the term that deadline should be set MARK SCHENKE Dean of Academic Affairs Miller added that pushing back the conversion deadline may in fact weaken the pressure on faculty to assess students’ progress earlier in the term.

Eleven of 19 students interviewed said they support pushing back the conversion deadline for Credit/D/Fail.

Aaron Gertler ’15 said that the Credit/D/Fail option is a “clear boon” since it allows students to take courses that they would not normally feel comfortable trying.

He said that he supports pushing back the deadline, adding that students who take advantage of the opportunity to learn something new should be rewarded for exploring new fields rather than punished by having to stress about the grading option they chose.

“Part of the joy [of taking a course Credit/D/Fail] is getting to do something extremely challenging,” he said.

Margaret Ott ’16 said though she has never finished a semester with a Credit/D/Fail course, she appreciates having the option and definitely plans to use it. She said she sees no reason not to extend the deadline.

Students are allowed to take four classes with the Credit/D/ Fail option during their time at Yale.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID and WESLEY YIIN at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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Thanks to a generous loan from retired Professor of Medieval English Literature Toshiyuki Takamiya, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library now holds the largest collection of Middle English manuscripts outside of Britain.

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the weeks following the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s 50th anniversary, the library has another cause for celebration — a new and extensive collection of one-of-a-kind original medieval manuscripts.

After a presentation ceremony on Oct. 19, the Beinecke became home to 51 Middle English manuscripts, including three manuscripts of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” several original prayer rolls and a Wycliffite Bible. The collection — which comes as a long-term loan from Toshiyuki Takamiya, a retired professor of medieval English literature at the University of Keio in Japan — also includes an assortment of chronicles and histories, in addition to religious and mystical writings.

“It’s a real coup for Yale, making Beinecke the largest collection of Middle English manuscripts outside of Britain,” said Ian Cornelius, an English assistant professor at Yale.

Due to the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes in Japan, Cornelius said, Takamiya decided that the Beinecke would be an ideal repository for his private col-

lection of manuscripts. Cornelius added that Yale’s reputation for being a strong center for medieval studies also appealed to Takamiya.

According to Raymond Clemens, curator of the Early Books and Manuscripts collection in the Beinecke, the loan is open-ended.

Though Takamiya retains official ownership of the collection, the Beinecke will hold the collection in its building until Takamiya asks for its return.

Before the new loan, Yale did not possess any originals of Chaucer’s works. Now, with several copies of “Canterbury Tales” and other smaller documents signed by the author, the University holds more Chaucer works than any other institution in the country, Clemens said.

Among the Chaucer works now in the Beinecke’s possession are the Devonshire “Canterbury Tales” manuscript — a richly illuminated, expensive edition of the complete tales — and a smaller edition that Clemens said contains slightly racier stories, dubbed “the English gentleman’s book” by Takamiya.

English professor Ardis Butterfield said that of the 83 original “Canterbury Tales” manuscripts in the world, roughly 57 are com-

plete. The ordering of the stories also varies from manuscript to manuscript.

“Looking at all the different groups and types of manuscripts that contain the ‘Canterbury Tales’ is one way of puzzling through some of the ways in which [Chaucer] put the whole collection together,” Butterfield said.

“It’s very much a work that he was revising and rethinking.”

Takamiya’s loan to the Beinecke also includes a scientific treatise written by Chaucer. Though many people do not think of Chaucer as a scientific writer, Cornelius said, his scientific work was widely copied in the 15th century.

The new collection can also be used to compare historical changes in language and religion — for example, it boasts a manuscript of William Langland’s poem “Piers Plowman” from around 1550, which can be compared with Beinecke’s print editions of the poem from 1550, and also an earlier manuscript of the poem, to understand the ways in which the text has been updated.

“There’s been a lot of work on the print copy from 1550 about the extent to which it’s a Protestant version of this medieval Catholic text,” Cornelius said. “Some of

those same questions could now be posed to the manuscript copy.”

Butterfield said she believes that research at Yale will benefit from the new collection. One of the major projects at Yale with regard to Chaucer manuscripts is the study of ink colors, she said, as color changes can indicate specific scribes or later alterations that were made in the text.

Students at Yale said they are excited by the Takamiya collection. Julia Mattison ’14 said that her senior thesis, which examines 14th- and 15th-century book-binding practices, will utilize almost all of the manuscripts in the collection.

“I think that’s the exciting thing about manuscripts — even after all this time, they still have a huge number of secrets,” Butterfield said.

Other manuscripts in the collection include a prayer roll composed in Latin and English, Nicholas Love’s “Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ,” Walter Hilton’s “Scale of the Perfection” and a fragment of John Lydgate’s “Fall of Princes.”

Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .

Former HP CEO champions small businesses

BY HAILEY WINSTON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At a talk sponsored by the William F. Buckley Jr. Program, Carly Fiorina spoke about the crushing effect of increasingly complex government regulations on small businesses.

A former chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, former California Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate and prominent philanthropist, Fiorina said she worked her way up in the business world from her start as a typist for a small company.

Addressing a crowd of roughly 50 members of the Yale and New Haven communities on Tuesday in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Fiorina said the U.S. government has become unwieldy and is limiting the potential of the American economy.

“I believe the reason that our economy is sort of in a flat line right now … is because we are crushing the entrepreneurial spirit of this country,” Fiorina said. “There’s a structural problem that we have created in my opinion through excessive regulation, unbelievably complicated bureaucracies, excessively complex tax code and a government that just keeps growing and growing and growing.”

More small businesses are failing and fewer are starting now

than any time in the last 40 years, she said.

While large companies can afford to pay lawyers to sort through tax codes and find loopholes in legislation, small businesses suffer because they do not have the necessary resources to grapple with complex regulations, Fiorina said. She added that this negatively affects the economy because small businesses innovate at a rate seven times that of large corporations.

Fiorina said she learned from her own business experience that big, centralized bureaucracies are ineffective, inefficient and prone to corruption. While complex bureaucracies spend nearly 50 percent of their time just on communication, she said that decentralized decision-making would allow the government to respond quickly to new developments. Though technology has simplified and improved access to information, government regulations have moved in the opposite direction, she said.

Fiorina dropped out of law school at 23 and began working as an administrative assistant.

Though the job, which involved answering phones, was humble, she said it taught her many lessons about business. Anyone can make a difference in the way a business runs, she added.

“This is the only country

on the face of the earth where a young woman who is a law school drop out and a secretary can become the CEO of the largest technology company in the world,” she said. “This is the only place in the world still where it matters less who you are, where you come from, what you look like, what your last name is — it matters more where you want to go.”

Fiorina said entrepreneurism has defined the U.S. economy since its beginning. Americans want to pursue their ambitions, start small businesses and grow those businesses into large, successful ones, she said.

She advised Yale students to worry less about comparing starting salaries, adding that anything is possible if they take advantage of opportunities and pursue meaningful work.

Students interviewed said they found Fiorina’s discussion of entrepreneurship engaging.

“I really thought it was important that she harped on issues of entrepreneurship, particularly in a country that is still reeling from one of the greatest economic downturns it’s ever seen,” Zach Young ’17 said.

Young added that, although he does not believe small businesses are necessarily the country’s largest job creators, the government should be more thoughtful about

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Carly Fiorina, chairwoman of the board of Good 360, spoke on the negative effects government regulations have on small businesses. new regulations and their potential repercussions for entrepreneurs.

Josh Altman ’17 said he thinks Fiorina generalized certain claims about the effects of government on small businesses. Nevertheless, he said Fiorina presented helpful advice for Yale students nervous about starting careers upon graduation, he said.

Fiorina chairs the board of Good 360, an organization that helps companies donate excess merchandise to charity.

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

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“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction in the life of the nation, is very close to the center of a nation’s purpose.” JOHN F. KENNEDY US PRESIDENT

JFK exhibit explores Kennedy, the public

Theater studies majors experiment

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER

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The photography exhibition “A Great Crowd Had Gathered: JFK in the 1960s,” on view at the Yale University Art Gallery, showcases pieces that present John F. Kennedy through the lens of American public.

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER A new exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery commemorates John F. Kennedy through a series of photographs, only one of which shows his face directly.

“A Great Crowd Had Gathered: JFK in the 1960s,” which opened at the YUAG last Friday, examines Kennedy through the lens of the American public, said Marisa Nakasone, the exhibit’s curator.

The show features works by photographers Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Robert H. Jackson and Garry Winogrand, as well as wire photos, photos used in the Warren Commission and stills from the Zapruder film — a sequence shot by civilian Abraham Zapruder that

inadvertently captured Kennedy’s assassination. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination, which took place in 1963.

“Kennedy served as the embodiment of who we wanted to be as a nation,” Nakasone said, adding that this aspect of the president contributed greatly to the sense of loss the country felt in the wake of his death.

The phrase that serves as the title of the exhibit, “A Great Crowd Had Gathered,” comes from “James Connolly,” a ballad about an Irish rebel who dies in combat. Nakasone explained that the phrase also appears in the Bible. She said both sources of the text are fitting because Kennedy came to serve as an iconic, symbolic, almost Jesuslike figure in the eyes of the Ameri-

can public.

All photographs but the one that directly depicts the president’s face belong to the YUAG’s permanent photography collection. The photos are displayed mostly in chronological order, beginning with a photo of the Democratic convention of 1960 and ending with a photo of spectators at the launch of the Apollo 11 in 1969. Markers on the wall note the year photos were taken as well as the key political events of that year.

The majority of the photos in the exhibit address the public response to Kennedy’s assassination.

Though many of the photos in the exhibit — such as the wire photos of Lyndon B. Johnson’s swearing-in on Air Force One or Winogrand’s shot of Kennedy’s acceptance speech at the

Convention — are widely known, the works on display view Kennedy “obliquely,” Nakasone said.

Even the convention photo, she explained, shows the nominee’s face only as it appears on a television screen, and also depicts a whiskey bottle, a timer and an ashtray tucked behind Kennedy’s podium.

Many of photos in the exhibit come from the YUAG’s extensive collection of Lee Friedlander’s work, which Nakasone said set the tone for the Kennedy exhibit. Nakasone said she has felt overwhelmed by the abundance of repetitive, staged, official-looking photos of Kennedy that have become ubiquitous this year, and that her frustration inspired her to create “A Great Crowd Had Gathered.”

Artist talks time and painting

BY LEAH MOTZKIN STAFF REPORTER Artist Sam Messer ART ’82 began his talk at the School of Art on Tuesday afternoon by reading the definitions of the words “gaze,” “present,” “space” and “sensation.”

In his artist’s talk entitled “On Time and Painting,” Messer, a Brooklyn-based painter as well as professor and associate dean at the School of Art, challenged his listeners to realize that every painting has multiple meanings. He went on to discuss different periods in his own career, highlighting the way he depicts the passage of time in his work. As each painting has multiple meanings, he said, so can each artist pursue many alternative paths.

Messer argued that people are among the most inspiring subjects for a painting, adding that he has found that painting is a great way to meet new people. He emphasized to the audience the capacity of a human subject to capture life’s poignant moments.

The artist spoke at length about his relationship with American artist John Serl.

Serl and Messer met when the former was 96, and Messer eventually painted a series of portraits of Serl. Serl’s art was noted for containing narratives, Messer said, adding that his own portraits of Serl tell a narrative when viewed together — tracing their friendship from its beginning through Serl’s death at age 99.

Messer also described an etching he did of author Jonathan Safran Foer. While his portrayal of Serl occupied many different canvases, Messer said, he worked continuously for several years on one plate of Foer, which he frequently altered by either adding new elements or erasing existing ones. While both series portray the passage of time, he explained, the portraits of Serl allow him to trace the evolution of his style while the etching of Foer does not. The etching, the artist said, “holds cumulative time.”

Hannah Flato ’14, one of Messer’s students who attended the talk, said she found the talk fascinating. She noted that she often does not have the opportunity to hear him speak about his own art during class, which is part of the reason why she enjoyed the lecture.

“As a professor, he’s really mindful about the use of time and process,” Flato said.

“That’s why he’s such an amazing professor and painter.”

Every day upon entering class, Flato recalled, Messer had his students paint everything they saw outside of a window onto a single canvas, altering their works on a daily basis. While she found the exercise to be therapeutic and enjoyed seeing the work evolve, she said she could also discern Messer’s own artistic process in the assignment.

William Freedberg ’16, another student who attended the talk, said he found it “bizarre,” as Messer did not explicitly address the notion of time even though he used it as a framework throughout the talk.

“He approached the topic obliquely — he started with a theory-heavy but terse discussion of the gaze, and then addressed time in painting tangentially through a couple of different topics.”

Senior administrative assistant at the School of Art Kris Mandelbaum said that Messer’s talk was part of a new series of presentations created this year by the director of the Painting Department at the School of Art. The presentations aim to provide faculty members at the school with a platform to showcase their own work in a conversational manner.

Messer’s art is displayed in a number of public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Contact LEAH MOTZKIN at leah.motzkin@yale.edu .

This August, the YUAG published a book of Friedlander’s photos of Kennedy entitled, “JFK: A Photographic Memoir.” The book features 48 photographs, which Friedlander donated to the YUAG after the book’s release, according to the YUAG’s Director of Publications and Editorial Services Tiffany Sprague.

“The JFK myth is in a way subverted by these pictures,” Sprague said.

The stills from the silent film of Zapruder featured in the exhibit were originally part of a color film, but were edited to be in black and white and were enlarged before their release in Life magazine, Nakasone said.

“There are so many layers of remove,” Nakasone said. “It’s the

public trying to understand what happened, but the authenticity of the evidence is questionable.”

A pair of photographs used in the Warren Commission’s investigation of the assassination includes both a photo of an armed Lee Harvey Oswald and a photo of his gun beside a tape measure. Nakasone explained that the photo of Oswald, which she said has a surreal quality to it, fueled conspiracy theories.

“The public saw room for doubt in this photo,” she said, adding that the pair of photos demonstrates the both conjectural and evidentiary roles photography took on in the assassination’s aftermath.

She also spoke about the way in which the exhibit depicts the commodifying of grief that took place as part of the public’s mourning

Artist Sam Messer gave his first in a series of talks this afternoon at the School of Art. Titled “On Time and Painting,” Messer gave insight into his own creative process.

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Students perform in last April’s “Orlando,” a Theater Studies senior project. such a peculiar storyline performed at Yale, adding that he had also never dealt with overtly romantic themes in any of his earlier performances.

Christine Shaw ’14, who wrote and acted in her project “The Water Play,” which was put on last month, said she had never written a full-length play before her senior project. After spending the summer of 2012 attending an acting program in Italy that focused on European mime techniques, Shaw said she was frustrated with her inability to document the work she did that summer. As a result, she decided to base “The Water Play” on short, comedic skits she performed as part of the program.

For three students interviewed, the set design of their production also raised technical challenges they had never faced before. Freeburg and Kramer said that “Wander” will require a background that creates the effect of illusion to complement the “magic” element of the production. But Freeburg noted that this task is incredibly difficult because he has never designed such a set before and is not aware of any existing formal guidelines on how

to create one. Eden Ohayon ’14, who performed August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” in her own kitchen as her senior project, said the Undergraduate Production Office raised some concerns with her production because of the unique venue.

Theater studies Director of Undergraduate Studies Dominika Laster said that over the past several years, senior projects have become more diverse in terms of the methods students use to explore their interests. Sterling Professor of Theater and English Joseph Roach said he has been working with his advisee, Clio Contogenis ’14, on incorporating large amounts of multimedia technology in a modernized adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” that features a cast of only two actors. Shaw, on the other hand, said her production contained no advanced technology because it was heavily influenced by her mime training, which focuses primarily on human interactions with physical — not virtual — objects.

Though no seniors interviewed said they could name any direct similarities between the pool of senior project productions for this year, Irene Casey

’14 said she thinks that most students select productions that will pose an unfamiliar challenge. Spencer Klavan ’14, who is working with Casey and Maggie Ditre ’14 on a performance of Paul Rudnick ’77’s play “Valhalla” for their project, said they chose the play because it is set in two entirely different worlds — the kingdom of Ludwig of Bavaria and Texas in the 1940s — which make the piece extremely difficult to stage. He added that the desire to be challenged pushed him and Casey to extreme ends, recalling a time when they spent hours in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library pulling random plays off the shelves, hoping they would find a piece that fit their objective. Lounsbury explained that he came up with the idea for his production after conducting numerous Google searches for pieces with uncommon storylines.

The next performance of a senior project production will be this Thursday’s showing of “Bent” by Martin Sherman at the Whitney Theater.

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

Music lecturer promotes community outreach

Contact HELEN ROUNER at helen.rouner@yale.edu .

‘Bent’ explores love, hardship

BY NICOLE NG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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of figures like JFK, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. Some photos depict children marching while holding images of all three dead leaders’ faces pasted together.

Other photos show collectable memorial objects, such as JFK memorial postcards sold in Dallas.

Nakasone said the exhibit points out the extent to which the American people identify with Kennedy, citing a photograph that features a portrait of John and Jackie Kennedy sitting among portraits of ordinary couples at their proms or weddings in a photo shop’s window.

“A Great Crowd Had Gathered: JFK in the 1960s” will be on display through March 30.

Months before facing the challenges of life after graduation, many seniors in the theater studies major are already braving uncharted territory within their own senior projects.

Twenty-four out of 25 senior theater studies majors are pursuing a performance-type approach to their senior essay this academic year. All seven seniors interviewed said that a major element of their production was entirely unknown to them before the start of the project. Andrew Freeburg ’14, a student in the major, noted that instead of presenting a type of production he is familiar with, he and many of his peers are applying their skills to performance areas beyond their comfort zones.

“Instead of doing what we have practiced, we are doing weird stuff that we have never tried before,” Freeburg said. “We owe it to ourselves and to the program to do something novel.”

Freeburg will be working as the production designer on the same senior project production as Jen Kramer ’14, another theater studies major. The performance, titled “Wander,” will stage the plot through a series of magic acts, Kramer said. She noted that she does not recall any senior projects from past years that have directly explored magic in performance. The project’s adviser, associate professor of theater studies Deb Margolin, said she had never advised a magician prior to this production. Freeburg said he has never worked on a magic-based production and barely understands how magic works in general, adding that this project is so original that not even the University administrators overseeing it know how to approach the production process.

“I wanted to do something unprecedented both for me and ideally for theater at Yale,” Freeburg said.

Connor Lounsbury ’14 said he also wanted to stage a type of show not usually seen at Yale while exploring themes they have never grappled with before.

He said he eventually decided on acting in a production of Martin Sherman’s “Bent,” which premiered last Friday, a play that centers on the love between two gay men in the Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust. Lounsbury said he has never seen a play with

Martin Sherman’s play “Bent” traces the persecution of homosexuals under the Third Reich — and evolves into a love story that testifies to humanity’s endurance.

“Bent,” the senior project for Connor Lounsbury ’14, opened at the Whitney Humanities Center’s Whitney Theater last Friday. The play, which is being directed

by Molly Houlahan ’14 and produced by Emma Hills ’14, follows the life of a gay man named Max living in Berlin in the 1940s. Max (Lounsbury), and his lover, played by Cody Kahoe ’15, are pursued by the Gestapo and are sent to the Dachau concentration camp, where Max falls in love with another man.

“You expect a Holocaust story to be deep, indulgent, grotesque, violent and awful,” Houlahan said. “[“Bent”] focuses on the human and emphasizes the love story in the context of this brutality, as opposed to just brutality.”

When “Bent” was first produced in 1979, Sherman was one of the few individuals to shed light on the Nazis’ persecution of homosexuals. But both Houlahan and Lounsbury emphasized that though the storyline takes place in a concentration camp, at the play’s heart are the love story, and the differ-

ent ways in which individuals discover themselves and each other.

Houlahan described Max’s development throughout “Bent” as a “journey of opening up to love.” At Dachau, Max meets a gay-rights activist named Horst, played by Tim Creavin ’15. As survivor having trouble expressing his love, Max learns to navigate his inner turmoil and realizes that staying alive may not be the most important thing, Lounsbury said.

Despite the dehumanizing situation the characters find themselves in, Houlahan said, humanity, love and faith triumph.

Hill said that it is often easy to produce a Holocaust play that emphasizes the horrors of that period to the point where the characters themselves are overshadowed.

Unlike other, more realistic plays, Houlahan said “Bent” is “abstract, surrealist and lyrical,” pushing the boundaries of art and language. Hill added that this style helps emphasize the moments in the play that highlight human emotions.

As the play progresses, the relationship between Max and Horst becomes defined by conversation and imagination, Houlahan explained.

The two cannot touch or look at each other while performing menial camp work under the watch of the Nazis, but

they can talk to each other as well as think about each other.

“Language and realism degenerate and devolve as they land in the camp,” Houlahan said. “By the time they are in the concentration camp, things are no longer literal. They’re almost occupying space where words have infinite power and create things.”

The set also captures the abstract nature of the play, she said, as it features a webbing of cables and wires as well as fabric of different shapes.

In addition to its intellectual and artistic features, Houlahan said that the play may appeal to Yale students because she thinks the University’s gay community will show interest in the story.

Lounsbury said he thinks many students will be able to relate to the aspect of the plot that deals with love, adding that Max “does a lot of things a 21-year old at Yale might do.”

“It’s a really amazing production: beautiful, sad, horribly depressing, but it’s really powerful,” Hill said. “There’s something very empowering about seeing a show that leaves you drained.”

“Bent” will run at the Whitney Theater through Saturday.

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .

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Visiting lecturer at the School of Music Sebastian Ruth is the founder and director of Community MusicWorks and involved with Music in Schools Initiative in New Haven.

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER Ever since musician Sebastian Ruth joined the School of Music as a visiting lecturer this fall, his broad portfolio of work in community outreach through music has proven a strong asset to the Music School’s community.

Ruth has been nationally recognized for his work as founder and director of Community MusicWorks — a public service group that allows musicians to help urban communities in Providence, R.I. through outreach to the city’s children and their families.

In 2010, Ruth and Community MusicWorks were awarded the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by first lady Michelle Obama and Ruth received the esteemed MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

“What impresses me so much about [Ruth] is he asks why we should do this… That, to me, is a really important question,” Yale School of Music Dean Michael Yaffe said.

He added that Ruth requires his students to consider how their music can impact communities beyond the concert hall. As visiting lecturer, Ruth currently teaches a course titled “Music and Service” and works with students participating in the Music in Schools Initiative, which supports music education in New Haven public schools. Ruth’s extensive experience in using music as a mechanism for social change provides a new perspective to the community at the School of Music trying to effect such change in New Haven, according to School of Music administrators interviewed.

School of Music manager of communications Dana Astmann said Ruth’s broad insight into the role of music education in the lives of younger students allows him to provide concrete ideas about how to improve urban communities in the Elm City. She added that Ruth’s experience in creating change through music is an asset to the school because he is familiar with different methods’ effectiveness.

In class, Ruth asks his students to think creatively about the various roles music can play in a community, Yaffe said, adding that Ruth inspires his students to grapple with ideas musicians are usually not asked to consider. For example, his students are required to read philosophy and think about music’s function in society. Ruben Rodriguez Ferreira, the lead teacher for the Music in Schools Initiative, said he thinks Ruth is a role model for students.

“It always helps … to have someone who’s young and dedicated to bring that in and focus on the things that are working, and that can effect real and positive change,” Astmann said.

Ruth’s work in Providence demonstrates the way his music has impacted his surrounding community, Yaffe said. As a member of the Providence String Quartet, Ruth played experimental concerts in an abandoned house, seeking to raise the audience’s awareness that the house needed renovation.

Astmann said the School of Music administrators always hope some students will undertake work like Ruth’s after they graduate and that Ruth will inspire their pursuits. Using music as a community service tool is not only beneficial to the targeted communities, she said, but it also provides students with a life-changing opportunity. She added that many School of Music students who participate in music-based service say teaching music in New Haven public schools has influenced their lives and perspectives. Inspiring public school students to develop an appreciation for music can positively affect a community because music is a powerful language, Yaffe noted. “[It’s] a way to connect to other people,” Yaffe said. “Music has the potential to be a unifying force between diverse individuals in a community.”

Community MusicWorks was founded in 1997.

Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .

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“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction in the life of the nation, is very close to the center of a nation’s purpose.” JOHN F. KENNEDY US PRESIDENT

JFK exhibit explores Kennedy, the public

Theater studies majors experiment

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER

IHNA MANGUNDAYAO/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The photography exhibition “A Great Crowd Had Gathered: JFK in the 1960s,” on view at the Yale University Art Gallery, showcases pieces that present John F. Kennedy through the lens of American public.

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER A new exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery commemorates John F. Kennedy through a series of photographs, only one of which shows his face directly.

“A Great Crowd Had Gathered: JFK in the 1960s,” which opened at the YUAG last Friday, examines Kennedy through the lens of the American public, said Marisa Nakasone, the exhibit’s curator.

The show features works by photographers Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Robert H. Jackson and Garry Winogrand, as well as wire photos, photos used in the Warren Commission and stills from the Zapruder film — a sequence shot by civilian Abraham Zapruder that

inadvertently captured Kennedy’s assassination. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination, which took place in 1963.

“Kennedy served as the embodiment of who we wanted to be as a nation,” Nakasone said, adding that this aspect of the president contributed greatly to the sense of loss the country felt in the wake of his death.

The phrase that serves as the title of the exhibit, “A Great Crowd Had Gathered,” comes from “James Connolly,” a ballad about an Irish rebel who dies in combat. Nakasone explained that the phrase also appears in the Bible. She said both sources of the text are fitting because Kennedy came to serve as an iconic, symbolic, almost Jesuslike figure in the eyes of the Ameri-

can public.

All photographs but the one that directly depicts the president’s face belong to the YUAG’s permanent photography collection. The photos are displayed mostly in chronological order, beginning with a photo of the Democratic convention of 1960 and ending with a photo of spectators at the launch of the Apollo 11 in 1969. Markers on the wall note the year photos were taken as well as the key political events of that year.

The majority of the photos in the exhibit address the public response to Kennedy’s assassination.

Though many of the photos in the exhibit — such as the wire photos of Lyndon B. Johnson’s swearing-in on Air Force One or Winogrand’s shot of Kennedy’s acceptance speech at the

Convention — are widely known, the works on display view Kennedy “obliquely,” Nakasone said.

Even the convention photo, she explained, shows the nominee’s face only as it appears on a television screen, and also depicts a whiskey bottle, a timer and an ashtray tucked behind Kennedy’s podium.

Many of photos in the exhibit come from the YUAG’s extensive collection of Lee Friedlander’s work, which Nakasone said set the tone for the Kennedy exhibit. Nakasone said she has felt overwhelmed by the abundance of repetitive, staged, official-looking photos of Kennedy that have become ubiquitous this year, and that her frustration inspired her to create “A Great Crowd Had Gathered.”

Artist talks time and painting

BY LEAH MOTZKIN STAFF REPORTER Artist Sam Messer ART ’82 began his talk at the School of Art on Tuesday afternoon by reading the definitions of the words “gaze,” “present,” “space” and “sensation.”

In his artist’s talk entitled “On Time and Painting,” Messer, a Brooklyn-based painter as well as professor and associate dean at the School of Art, challenged his listeners to realize that every painting has multiple meanings. He went on to discuss different periods in his own career, highlighting the way he depicts the passage of time in his work. As each painting has multiple meanings, he said, so can each artist pursue many alternative paths.

Messer argued that people are among the most inspiring subjects for a painting, adding that he has found that painting is a great way to meet new people. He emphasized to the audience the capacity of a human subject to capture life’s poignant moments.

The artist spoke at length about his relationship with American artist John Serl.

Serl and Messer met when the former was 96, and Messer eventually painted a series of portraits of Serl. Serl’s art was noted for containing narratives, Messer said, adding that his own portraits of Serl tell a narrative when viewed together — tracing their friendship from its beginning through Serl’s death at age 99.

Messer also described an etching he did of author Jonathan Safran Foer. While his portrayal of Serl occupied many different canvases, Messer said, he worked continuously for several years on one plate of Foer, which he frequently altered by either adding new elements or erasing existing ones. While both series portray the passage of time, he explained, the portraits of Serl allow him to trace the evolution of his style while the etching of Foer does not. The etching, the artist said, “holds cumulative time.”

Hannah Flato ’14, one of Messer’s students who attended the talk, said she found the talk fascinating. She noted that she often does not have the opportunity to hear him speak about his own art during class, which is part of the reason why she enjoyed the lecture.

“As a professor, he’s really mindful about the use of time and process,” Flato said.

“That’s why he’s such an amazing professor and painter.”

Every day upon entering class, Flato recalled, Messer had his students paint everything they saw outside of a window onto a single canvas, altering their works on a daily basis. While she found the exercise to be therapeutic and enjoyed seeing the work evolve, she said she could also discern Messer’s own artistic process in the assignment.

William Freedberg ’16, another student who attended the talk, said he found it “bizarre,” as Messer did not explicitly address the notion of time even though he used it as a framework throughout the talk.

“He approached the topic obliquely — he started with a theory-heavy but terse discussion of the gaze, and then addressed time in painting tangentially through a couple of different topics.”

Senior administrative assistant at the School of Art Kris Mandelbaum said that Messer’s talk was part of a new series of presentations created this year by the director of the Painting Department at the School of Art. The presentations aim to provide faculty members at the school with a platform to showcase their own work in a conversational manner.

Messer’s art is displayed in a number of public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Contact LEAH MOTZKIN at leah.motzkin@yale.edu .

This August, the YUAG published a book of Friedlander’s photos of Kennedy entitled, “JFK: A Photographic Memoir.” The book features 48 photographs, which Friedlander donated to the YUAG after the book’s release, according to the YUAG’s Director of Publications and Editorial Services Tiffany Sprague.

“The JFK myth is in a way subverted by these pictures,” Sprague said.

The stills from the silent film of Zapruder featured in the exhibit were originally part of a color film, but were edited to be in black and white and were enlarged before their release in Life magazine, Nakasone said.

“There are so many layers of remove,” Nakasone said. “It’s the

public trying to understand what happened, but the authenticity of the evidence is questionable.”

A pair of photographs used in the Warren Commission’s investigation of the assassination includes both a photo of an armed Lee Harvey Oswald and a photo of his gun beside a tape measure. Nakasone explained that the photo of Oswald, which she said has a surreal quality to it, fueled conspiracy theories.

“The public saw room for doubt in this photo,” she said, adding that the pair of photos demonstrates the both conjectural and evidentiary roles photography took on in the assassination’s aftermath.

She also spoke about the way in which the exhibit depicts the commodifying of grief that took place as part of the public’s mourning

Artist Sam Messer gave his first in a series of talks this afternoon at the School of Art. Titled “On Time and Painting,” Messer gave insight into his own creative process.

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Students perform in last April’s “Orlando,” a Theater Studies senior project. such a peculiar storyline performed at Yale, adding that he had also never dealt with overtly romantic themes in any of his earlier performances.

Christine Shaw ’14, who wrote and acted in her project “The Water Play,” which was put on last month, said she had never written a full-length play before her senior project. After spending the summer of 2012 attending an acting program in Italy that focused on European mime techniques, Shaw said she was frustrated with her inability to document the work she did that summer. As a result, she decided to base “The Water Play” on short, comedic skits she performed as part of the program.

For three students interviewed, the set design of their production also raised technical challenges they had never faced before. Freeburg and Kramer said that “Wander” will require a background that creates the effect of illusion to complement the “magic” element of the production. But Freeburg noted that this task is incredibly difficult because he has never designed such a set before and is not aware of any existing formal guidelines on how

to create one. Eden Ohayon ’14, who performed August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” in her own kitchen as her senior project, said the Undergraduate Production Office raised some concerns with her production because of the unique venue.

Theater studies Director of Undergraduate Studies Dominika Laster said that over the past several years, senior projects have become more diverse in terms of the methods students use to explore their interests. Sterling Professor of Theater and English Joseph Roach said he has been working with his advisee, Clio Contogenis ’14, on incorporating large amounts of multimedia technology in a modernized adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” that features a cast of only two actors. Shaw, on the other hand, said her production contained no advanced technology because it was heavily influenced by her mime training, which focuses primarily on human interactions with physical — not virtual — objects.

Though no seniors interviewed said they could name any direct similarities between the pool of senior project productions for this year, Irene Casey

’14 said she thinks that most students select productions that will pose an unfamiliar challenge. Spencer Klavan ’14, who is working with Casey and Maggie Ditre ’14 on a performance of Paul Rudnick ’77’s play “Valhalla” for their project, said they chose the play because it is set in two entirely different worlds — the kingdom of Ludwig of Bavaria and Texas in the 1940s — which make the piece extremely difficult to stage. He added that the desire to be challenged pushed him and Casey to extreme ends, recalling a time when they spent hours in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library pulling random plays off the shelves, hoping they would find a piece that fit their objective. Lounsbury explained that he came up with the idea for his production after conducting numerous Google searches for pieces with uncommon storylines.

The next performance of a senior project production will be this Thursday’s showing of “Bent” by Martin Sherman at the Whitney Theater.

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

Music lecturer promotes community outreach

Contact HELEN ROUNER at helen.rouner@yale.edu .

‘Bent’ explores love, hardship

BY NICOLE NG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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of figures like JFK, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. Some photos depict children marching while holding images of all three dead leaders’ faces pasted together.

Other photos show collectable memorial objects, such as JFK memorial postcards sold in Dallas.

Nakasone said the exhibit points out the extent to which the American people identify with Kennedy, citing a photograph that features a portrait of John and Jackie Kennedy sitting among portraits of ordinary couples at their proms or weddings in a photo shop’s window.

“A Great Crowd Had Gathered: JFK in the 1960s” will be on display through March 30.

Months before facing the challenges of life after graduation, many seniors in the theater studies major are already braving uncharted territory within their own senior projects.

Twenty-four out of 25 senior theater studies majors are pursuing a performance-type approach to their senior essay this academic year. All seven seniors interviewed said that a major element of their production was entirely unknown to them before the start of the project. Andrew Freeburg ’14, a student in the major, noted that instead of presenting a type of production he is familiar with, he and many of his peers are applying their skills to performance areas beyond their comfort zones.

“Instead of doing what we have practiced, we are doing weird stuff that we have never tried before,” Freeburg said. “We owe it to ourselves and to the program to do something novel.”

Freeburg will be working as the production designer on the same senior project production as Jen Kramer ’14, another theater studies major. The performance, titled “Wander,” will stage the plot through a series of magic acts, Kramer said. She noted that she does not recall any senior projects from past years that have directly explored magic in performance. The project’s adviser, associate professor of theater studies Deb Margolin, said she had never advised a magician prior to this production. Freeburg said he has never worked on a magic-based production and barely understands how magic works in general, adding that this project is so original that not even the University administrators overseeing it know how to approach the production process.

“I wanted to do something unprecedented both for me and ideally for theater at Yale,” Freeburg said.

Connor Lounsbury ’14 said he also wanted to stage a type of show not usually seen at Yale while exploring themes they have never grappled with before.

He said he eventually decided on acting in a production of Martin Sherman’s “Bent,” which premiered last Friday, a play that centers on the love between two gay men in the Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust. Lounsbury said he has never seen a play with

Martin Sherman’s play “Bent” traces the persecution of homosexuals under the Third Reich — and evolves into a love story that testifies to humanity’s endurance.

“Bent,” the senior project for Connor Lounsbury ’14, opened at the Whitney Humanities Center’s Whitney Theater last Friday. The play, which is being directed

by Molly Houlahan ’14 and produced by Emma Hills ’14, follows the life of a gay man named Max living in Berlin in the 1940s. Max (Lounsbury), and his lover, played by Cody Kahoe ’15, are pursued by the Gestapo and are sent to the Dachau concentration camp, where Max falls in love with another man.

“You expect a Holocaust story to be deep, indulgent, grotesque, violent and awful,” Houlahan said. “[“Bent”] focuses on the human and emphasizes the love story in the context of this brutality, as opposed to just brutality.”

When “Bent” was first produced in 1979, Sherman was one of the few individuals to shed light on the Nazis’ persecution of homosexuals. But both Houlahan and Lounsbury emphasized that though the storyline takes place in a concentration camp, at the play’s heart are the love story, and the differ-

ent ways in which individuals discover themselves and each other.

Houlahan described Max’s development throughout “Bent” as a “journey of opening up to love.” At Dachau, Max meets a gay-rights activist named Horst, played by Tim Creavin ’15. As survivor having trouble expressing his love, Max learns to navigate his inner turmoil and realizes that staying alive may not be the most important thing, Lounsbury said.

Despite the dehumanizing situation the characters find themselves in, Houlahan said, humanity, love and faith triumph.

Hill said that it is often easy to produce a Holocaust play that emphasizes the horrors of that period to the point where the characters themselves are overshadowed.

Unlike other, more realistic plays, Houlahan said “Bent” is “abstract, surrealist and lyrical,” pushing the boundaries of art and language. Hill added that this style helps emphasize the moments in the play that highlight human emotions.

As the play progresses, the relationship between Max and Horst becomes defined by conversation and imagination, Houlahan explained.

The two cannot touch or look at each other while performing menial camp work under the watch of the Nazis, but

they can talk to each other as well as think about each other.

“Language and realism degenerate and devolve as they land in the camp,” Houlahan said. “By the time they are in the concentration camp, things are no longer literal. They’re almost occupying space where words have infinite power and create things.”

The set also captures the abstract nature of the play, she said, as it features a webbing of cables and wires as well as fabric of different shapes.

In addition to its intellectual and artistic features, Houlahan said that the play may appeal to Yale students because she thinks the University’s gay community will show interest in the story.

Lounsbury said he thinks many students will be able to relate to the aspect of the plot that deals with love, adding that Max “does a lot of things a 21-year old at Yale might do.”

“It’s a really amazing production: beautiful, sad, horribly depressing, but it’s really powerful,” Hill said. “There’s something very empowering about seeing a show that leaves you drained.”

“Bent” will run at the Whitney Theater through Saturday.

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .

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Visiting lecturer at the School of Music Sebastian Ruth is the founder and director of Community MusicWorks and involved with Music in Schools Initiative in New Haven.

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER Ever since musician Sebastian Ruth joined the School of Music as a visiting lecturer this fall, his broad portfolio of work in community outreach through music has proven a strong asset to the Music School’s community.

Ruth has been nationally recognized for his work as founder and director of Community MusicWorks — a public service group that allows musicians to help urban communities in Providence, R.I. through outreach to the city’s children and their families.

In 2010, Ruth and Community MusicWorks were awarded the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by first lady Michelle Obama and Ruth received the esteemed MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

“What impresses me so much about [Ruth] is he asks why we should do this… That, to me, is a really important question,” Yale School of Music Dean Michael Yaffe said.

He added that Ruth requires his students to consider how their music can impact communities beyond the concert hall. As visiting lecturer, Ruth currently teaches a course titled “Music and Service” and works with students participating in the Music in Schools Initiative, which supports music education in New Haven public schools. Ruth’s extensive experience in using music as a mechanism for social change provides a new perspective to the community at the School of Music trying to effect such change in New Haven, according to School of Music administrators interviewed.

School of Music manager of communications Dana Astmann said Ruth’s broad insight into the role of music education in the lives of younger students allows him to provide concrete ideas about how to improve urban communities in the Elm City. She added that Ruth’s experience in creating change through music is an asset to the school because he is familiar with different methods’ effectiveness.

In class, Ruth asks his students to think creatively about the various roles music can play in a community, Yaffe said, adding that Ruth inspires his students to grapple with ideas musicians are usually not asked to consider. For example, his students are required to read philosophy and think about music’s function in society. Ruben Rodriguez Ferreira, the lead teacher for the Music in Schools Initiative, said he thinks Ruth is a role model for students.

“It always helps … to have someone who’s young and dedicated to bring that in and focus on the things that are working, and that can effect real and positive change,” Astmann said.

Ruth’s work in Providence demonstrates the way his music has impacted his surrounding community, Yaffe said. As a member of the Providence String Quartet, Ruth played experimental concerts in an abandoned house, seeking to raise the audience’s awareness that the house needed renovation.

Astmann said the School of Music administrators always hope some students will undertake work like Ruth’s after they graduate and that Ruth will inspire their pursuits. Using music as a community service tool is not only beneficial to the targeted communities, she said, but it also provides students with a life-changing opportunity. She added that many School of Music students who participate in music-based service say teaching music in New Haven public schools has influenced their lives and perspectives. Inspiring public school students to develop an appreciation for music can positively affect a community because music is a powerful language, Yaffe noted. “[It’s] a way to connect to other people,” Yaffe said. “Music has the potential to be a unifying force between diverse individuals in a community.”

Community MusicWorks was founded in 1997.

Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

558

The number of votes cast for Sarah Eidelson in Tuesday’s Ward 1 election

Eidelson reclaims Ward 1 seat WARD 1 FROM PAGE 1 a current student and his commitment to immediate quality of life issues in the ward. In contrast, Eidelson said her long-term and citywide efforts to improve opportunities for New Haven youth represent more important priorities for the Ward 1 alderman.

“Thank you for believing in me and this city,” Eidelson said following the 8:30 p.m. announcement of election returns at the New Haven Free Public Library. “I feel so hopeful that we are going to keep fighting and that we are actually going to change things here.”

Eidelson’s volunteers — roughly 30 of whom erupted in cheers as news of their candidate’s victory was announced — said their superior vote-pulling operation on Election Day clinched a victory for the incumbent.

There is an immense amount of work ahead, and I feel really hopeful knowing that the team will be there.

SARAH EIDELSON ’12 Re-elected alderwoman, Ward 1

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Re-elected Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 appealed to voters through her work on youth issues and focus on what she hopes to accomplish in her second term.

Both campaigns said throughout the day that they anticipated a close race, expectations belied

by Chandler’s steep loss. Eidelson came away with 63 percent of the vote to Chandler’s 37.

Chandler and roughly 20 of his supporters awaited election returns in Trumbull College, falling into a hushed silence when news of the loss reached them.

Still, Chandler said he was proud of the amount of excitement and support his campaign generated.

“The fact that we did as well as we did is a testament to how hard you guys worked,” Chandler said.

“We have to congratulate Sarah obviously … she’s a fantastic candidate. I hope she takes some of our suggestions and ideas into

account in her next term in office.

“I still emphatically believe I’d be the best person for the job,” he added.

Chandler Campaign Spokesperson Amalia Halikias ’15 said Chandler came closer to victory than anyone expected given the dominance of Democratic voters in the ward.

Eidelson did not emphasize party affiliation on the campaign trail, nor did she comment on her opponent’s candidacy, instead focusing on what she hopes to accomplish in another term.

“There is an immense amount of work ahead, and I feel really hopeful knowing that the team will be there and that so many students are ready and really demonstrated a true choice to be New Haven residents and to con-

tribute to making New Haven the city we want to live in,” Eidelson said following a brief victory speech delivered through tears.

Sterling Johnson ’15, Eidelson’s campaign treasurer, said the incumbent’s victory signals students’ willingness to look beyond Eidelson’s status as an alumnus rather than a current student and to consider the broader issues affecting permanent residents and Yale students alike.

Many students said they voted solely based on which candidate managed to reach them at their dorm-room door. Others emphasized Eidelson’s work on youth issues over the past two years or Chandler’s engagement on campus and promise to shake up a Board currently comprised exclusively of Democrats.

Chandler entered the race last spring at the urging of the Yale College Republicans, who selected him from a field of interested students to provide a Republican voice in local politics.

During the course of the campaign, Chandler sought to portray the election as a decision between a union-backed incumbent and an independent-minded challenger, rather than between a Democrat and a Republican. He accused Eidelson of voting in lockstep with a majority of aldermen who won election in 2011 with the backing of Yale’s UNITE HERE unions, Locals 34 and 35.

But Eidelson said her employment as a graphic designer with Local 34 bears no influence on her voting decisions on the Board.

Eleanor Marshall ’16 said

Eidelson’s work with the unions is one factor that motivated her to support the incumbent, adding that she appreciates Eidelson’s work with the entire city as opposed to a sole focus on Yale’s grounds.

Nneoma Ahuruonye ’15 said her choice came down to experience, praising the progress she said Eidelson has already made on youth violence prevention and youth spaces.

Ayanna Watande ’15 and Megan Murphy ’16 both said they were drawn to Chandler as an alternative to the Board’s predominance of Democratic — and unionbacked — aldermen. Though she is a registered Democrat, Murphy said the Republican’s commitment to improved bike lanes and other constituent services made

her cross party lines to support Chandler.

In advance of the election, Eidelson drew considerable support from her colleagues on the Board, including Alderwoman Jeanette Morrison in Ward 22, which neighbors Ward 1 and includes four of the 12 residential colleges. Eidelson was also backed by the Yale College Democrats.

In addition to chairing the Youth Services Committee, Eidelson also sits on the Human Services and Legislation Committees.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

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

Student turnout, reactions mixed REACTIONS FROM PAGE 1 about city politics, and added that Eidelson’s win would allow the city to continue to improve on issues related to Yale, including community policing and safety.

While student voters in Ward 1 said they had a direct stake in the elections, many students living in the four residential colleges outside of Ward 1 decided not to vote and said they were unaware of the results post-election.

Timothy Dwight, Silliman, Morse and Ezra Stiles colleges are in Ward 22.

Austen James ’17, who lives in Silliman College, said she had

the impression that the only race that would impact Yale students was that between Eidelson and Chandler. She decided not to vote because she would not be able to voice an opinion for either of the Ward 1 candidates.

Lauren Mellor-Crummey, ’14, who lives off-campus in Ward 7 said that even though she is registered to vote in CT, she chose not to participate in the municipal elections, since Yalies are largely focused on the contested Ward 1 race.

“I don’t feel connected to local politics because I don’t live in Ward 1,” Mellor-Crummey said.

While students involved in campaign efforts said the elec-

tion results would critically impact Yalies, several students interviewed post-election questioned whether having new city leaders would have a visible impact on students.

Simon Schaitkin ’17 said that in his two months as a Yale student, he has yet to have a conversation about how city policies impact student life. Schaitkin said that he did not think he knew enough about the candidates to make an educated endorsement.

Eidelson won 513 votes while Chandler received 285.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

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Many students had mixed reactions to the election process, citing disconnect from city politics.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 12:00 p.m. “Slaveholder Power and the Demographic Imagination: Freedom and Bondage in Jeffersonian America.”

The contradictions of Jeffersonian political culture and its legacies for American democracy will be examined in this talk by Padraig Riley, assistant professor of history at Dalhousie University. Part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. 230 Prospect (230 Prospect St.), Rm. 101.

6:30 p.m. “Elia Zenghelis: Architectural Projects for Greece, 1890s and After.” Visiting professor Elia Zenghelis will present his speculative architectural projects for Greece as well as the pedagogical premise of his design-studio agenda at the School of Architecture. School of Architecture (180 York St.), Smith Conference Rm.

SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7 4:30 p.m. Fireside Chat: Social Entrepreneurship in China.

Come for a talk by Rachel Wasser ’04, co-founder of Teach for America. Since its inception, the organization has placed more than 200 U.S. and Chinese graduates as teachers in high-poverty communities, reaching more than 30,000 children in need.

Register in advance. Yale-China Association (442 Temple St.).

6:30 p.m. Harmony in Action at New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Music Haven’s “Harmony in Action” student orchestra will perform before the New Haven Symphony plays. Woolsey Hall Rotunda (500 College St.).

8:00 p.m. Q&A with Rep. Pete Stark. The Yale Humanist Society welcomes Pete Stark, who will discuss his contributions as a national leader on healthcare, a progressive, and a non-theist.

William L. Harkness Hall. (100 Wall St.). Rm. 119.

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SPORTS

“My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I’ve never lost a match.” ARLEN SPECTER FORMER U.S. SENATOR

Harshbarger perserveres

Net uncertainty

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No. 30 Patrick Spano ’17 has been in goal for both of Yale’s wins so far this season.

MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12

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Yale was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct when the entire team left the sidelines to celebrate the first touchdown for No. 34 Tate Harshbarger ’14 on Saturday.

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 numerous administrators and players before he was finally pointed to the Ray Tompkins House, where he was able leave a highlight reel with the coaches.

Harshbarger was not just a leader in the moment when he scored; he has proven himself a leader on Yale campus and with the football program, according to Reno.

Each week, the Bulldogs elect a senior leader who helps lead the team both vocally and through his actions during the week leading up to the game. This past week, Harshbarger was elected the team’s senior leader and talked to his team right before the Columbia game.

“I stressed how much football means to me and wanted to make sure everyone was looking inside to find what it was that motivated them,” Harshbarger said.

In addition to addressing the team before kickoff, Harshbarger joined Reno and Palin at the front of the pack as they lead the Bulldogs into

the Yale Bowl.

Off the field, Harshbarger has inspired teammates by working multiple jobs. He worked as a Communication and Consent Educator and is a freshman counselor.

“He’s a guy that shows great resilience and energizes those around him with his energy and hard work,” Palin said.

Harshbarger faced a long journey to the end zone last Saturday. After making 256 tackles as a linebacker in high school and being voted his high school’s athlete of the year as a senior, he hit a roadblock in his freshman campaign at Yale. In his very first JV game as a Bulldog on Halloween night, Harshbarger broke both his right fibula and tibia and was out for the season.

“I was standing right behind him and I heard it pop,” Palin said.

After months of rest and recovery, however, he was able to return by the spring of his freshman year, only to trip over another hurdle in his sophomore season.

In the spring of his sophomore year, Harshbarger suffered an MCL tear that set him back about six weeks.

Harshbarger’s resilience has motivated his teammates just as much as his leadership and accomplishments have, Reno said.

“He’s one of the hardest working guys on the team,” Reno said. “Guys look at him as an important member for everything.”

More than half way through his senior season, Harshbarger said he is grateful to be a part of the Bulldog family.

“It’s been great to be involved with such a great group of people who give so much day-in and day-out,” Harshbarger said. “It’s inspiring to be around them and it’s been a pleasure being on the team and giving myself to the cause. It’s become a family here at Yale.”

Harshbarger is an economics major in Branford College and said that he is considering law school next year.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

Hockey Haven COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 take advantage of it.

Some people argue that competitive success alone is enough for any team to become popular at Yale, but I disagree. Plenty of teams have achieved impressive success without receiving much recognition. The women’s volleyball team has claimed three straight Ivy League championships. The men’s lacrosse team has won back-to-back Ivy League tournaments. Yet neither of these teams can routinely convert their success on the field into sold-out crowds.

It is true that the hockey team has an NCAA title to its name and has been consistently ranked as one of the best in the country over the past few seasons. But other teams have matched and even exceeded those impressive accomplishments. The coed and women’s sailing teams are both currently ranked number one in the country. Both the men’s and women’s crew teams have won national titles within the last five years.

Clearly, athletic accomplishment alone is not enough to attract student and community support: The men’s hockey team has benefited from a combination of unique factors.

This doesn’t mean it is impossible to increase the profile of sports at Yale. Online

communities have played a crucial part in making hockey the number one sport at Yale and they could help other teams as well. The Whaling Crew, a student-run organization that sends out weekly updates on all sports at Yale, is one way for fans to organize themselves and sponsor events outside the scope of Yale Athletics.

But student support is only one part of the equation. Support from outside the confines of the current Yale student body is just as important.

The “Yale Men’s Hockey” group on Facebook has over 200 members scattered across the country. Some have been following the team for years while others have just recently discovered the joys of Yale hockey.

The group is an opportunity for people to share news and updates, organize trips for away games and keep track of players who have graduated.

And just like Yalies, many of the group members try to make it to the Whale as often as they can. Taking advantage of these online groups and forums may be the way to go for teams who want more publicity and recognition.

Support for Yale sports does not have to be limited to just the student body. With less than 6,000 undergraduates, it is unlikely that we will ever be able to achieve the same level of enthusiasm for athletics

seen at national juggernauts like Michigan and Texas. But with the support of alumni, residents of New Haven and other regional fans, Yale sports could play a much bigger role on campus and in the local community.

Why is this important at all? Wouldn’t the resources we spent every year on athletics be better spent elsewhere?

Maybe, maybe not. But this line of thinking ignores the potential benefits a vibrant athletics program would offer.

For many people, sports are more than just a game. They are a way for strangers from different backgrounds to find common ground. Just look at the Yale hockey group on Facebook. If not for hockey, most people in the group probably would never have made such an intimate connection with Yale.

I often hear people talking about the importance of integrating Yale into New Haven.

But this will remain a difficult task if we cannot find something in common with members of the local community. I am not saying that sports are a panacea for the town-gown problems we face, but they offer a chance for us to reach out and expand what it means to be a part of the Yale community.

JIMIN HE is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at jimin.he@yale.edu .

in order to get more playing time.

Wilson, the only Yale goalie with any collegiate experience, played in five games last year when starting goalie Jeff Malcolm ’13 suffered a knee injury and recorded a 0.849 save percentage.

Both Lyon and Spano were recruited in the hopes that one of them could replace Malcolm, but last year’s starter left some tough shoes to fill. Malcolm was named the Most Outstanding Goaltender of last year’s Frozen Four and signed with the New York Rangers this summer.

“Malcolm obviously played really well down the stretch … but it’s a different year and a different team,” Spano said. “I don’t think we have any added pressure to do what he did.”

Though Lyon started the season opener against Brown, he allowed three goals in a 4-1 loss — one goal came while the Bulldogs had an empty net. Spano started the next night and recorded a 3-2 victory, notching 22 saves of his own.

“I’ve been getting more and more comfortable as the season has gone on,” Spano said.

The next weekend saw a similar pattern. Lyon again allowed three goals, this time in a 3–3 tie against

St. Lawrence, but he showed flashes of brilliance in a scoreless overtime period. Spano, meanwhile, was again helped by a prolific Eli offense on Saturday and picked up a 6–3 win over Clarkson.

Spano has made starts in each Saturday game while Lyon has started the first game of each weekend, but Lyon said he recognizes that the job is currently up for grabs.

“It’s the kind of situation where you have to earn the spot,” Lyon said. “[Head coach Keith Allain ’80] is all about earning your ice time, and I knew that coming in.”

So far, however, the two have turned in nearly identical numbers between the pipes. Their save percentages differ by one one-thousandth of a point, with Spano edging out Lyon 0.904 to 0.903, and while Lyon has allowed 2.91 goals per game, he is right next to Spano, who is allowing 2.50.

Yale’s offense hit its stride last weekend, scoring nine combined goals in the Bulldogs’ two matchups, and Hayden said that production on offense can really help take the stress off of a goalie.

“One thing Coach [Allain] says is that offense is the best defense,” Hayden said. “So the more we can keep the puck in the oppos-

ing zone, the better. Working as a unit and communicating with the goalie will always help, too.”

This weekend’s games will prove a further test for both the Elis and the freshman goalies, with road games at Princeton and No. 5 Quinnipiac. The Bobcats have won eight straight games and have two of the top-10 point scorers in the nation in forwards Sam Anas and Kellen Jones.

“Quinnipiac is a very hostile place for us to play, but I don’t think that changes the way we’ll prepare,” Spano said. “If we win, it’s a little sweeter of a victory.”

Though Hayden said he did not know who was starting this weekend, he said it will not affect the team’s success.

“All of our goalies are competitive in practice,” Hayden said.

“Regardless, we’ll have a good guy in net.”

Lyon agreed, saying that though the competition does not affect how he plays in games, it adds pressure to perform every day in practice and to be more diligent.

The Bulldogs have not lost to Princeton, their opponent on Friday, in their last 12 regular season matchups.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

Squash reloads SQUASH FROM PAGE 12 a second place finish in 2011-’12.

“Our senior class, one of the most talented we’ve ever had, won the championship their freshman year,” Blatchford said in an email. “It would be awesome if we could win it again for them this year.”

Early on in the season, the women’s team is showing potential to accomplish that goal.

The top three for the Elis women will consist of Hay, who returns from injury, Shihui Mao ’15 and Millie Tomlinson ’14, who won the Intercollegiate Singles in her freshman year and finished last year’s season ranked third nationally.

Newcomer Jenny Scherl ’17 will make an impact for the Bulldogs early on with a position on the starting ladder. Before Yale, Scherl was ranked eighth nationally in the US Squash junior under-19 rankings.

“Overall, the women are deeper than last year with this freshman class and the loss of only two seniors in the top ten,” Talbott said.

The men’s team will need to rebuild after losing top senior players Hywel Robinson ’13, Kenny Chan ’13 and Richard Dodd ’13, but the Elis are already seeing significant talent in their freshman class.

Kah Wah Cheong ’17, TJ Dembinski ’17 and Liam McClintock ’17 will all be playing in the top six for Yale this year, according to Talbott.

“We have a really great freshman class who can fill [last year’s seniors’] shoes and hopefully improve on them,” captain Eric Caine ’14 said.

Sam Fenwick ’16, Neil Martin ’14 and Zac Leman ’16 will also be key contributors for the Bulldogs.

At the end of last season, they were ranked 16th, 26th and 31st in the nation, respectively.

Despite the success of last season’s underclassmen, Talbott said that the loss of key seniors will have an impact on the team.

“This year’s team is less experienced [than last year’s team] and would look to be a little less talented,” Talbott said. “But based on fall practice, this group is not far-off. Our expectations

have increased in the last month since practice began.”

All of the Ancient Eight squads will compete in the Ivy Scrimmages, a tournament that the Bulldogs will host at Payne Whitney Gym this weekend.

Because every Ivy League team is near the top of the national rankings, the tournament is a way for the Bulldogs to see how they match up against other teams and to examine the strengths and weaknesses of each player on their ladder.

“Ivy Scrimmages are just what they sound like, they’re scrimmages,” Caine said. “Obviously every time we step on the court we’re trying to win, but realistically it’s more of an opportunity to get out there and show how hard we’ve worked and how good of a team we are this year. The results are secondary.”

The Yale men will open against Columbia at 10 a.m. on Saturday, while the women begin the scrimmages against Cornell at 12:30 p.m.

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

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The men’s squash team finished fourth at the Collegiate Squash Association Team Championships last season.

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KENDALL POLAN ’14 SETTER, VOLLEYBALL The senior setter from Cardiff, CA made the Ivy League honor roll this week after starring in contests at Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend.

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Harshbarger a leader

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BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Three-and-a-half years ago, a future freshman walk-on stood by the sidelines of the Yale football practice field three different mornings, asking where he could find then head coach Tom Williams. Last weekend, the entire football team rushed the field when tailback Tate Harshbarger ’14 scored his first career touchdown against Columbia at the Yale Bowl.

Harshbarger, who was raised in the Midwest and graduated from El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, Calif., was not recruited to play any sport at Yale.

Harshbarger’s primary responsibility is to be the scout offense running back, according to head coach Tony Reno. Each week, he runs the next opponents’ offense in practice in order to help Yale’s defense prepare. As a result, he takes a constant beating in practice.

“He gets killed every Tuesday, and I’ve never heard him complain,” captain Beau Palin ’14 said.

The tailback stands at five-foot-nineinches, 153 pounds, but regularly lines up against the Bulldogs’ hardest hitters in practice on “Tackle Tuesdays,” or as he calls them, “Tackle Tate Tuesdays.”

Harshbarger played his first three seasons with the JV program. Despite taking just six snaps with the varsity, all against Columbia on Saturday, teammates said he was an inspiration to the Elis.

“To see him go out and get a reward for his hard work that he’s been doing for the past three-and-a-half years was truly spectacular and that’s why you saw so many guys rally around his success when he got into the end zone,” said running back Kahlil Keys ’15. “We were really truly ecstatic to see that happen.”

Although an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty was assessed to the Bulldogs, head coach Tony Reno said it is a penalty the Bulldogs “would take 100 times.”

The walk-on process started for Harshbarger during Bulldog Days. After arriving on campus, Harshbarger said he talked to SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 11

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Last Friday night capped off the end of an incredible journey for the Yale men’s hockey team. Seven months after taking down three number one seeds en route to an NCAA tournament title, the Bulldogs unveiled their first national championship banner. Not surprisingly, students and members of the local community flooded Ingalls Rink to show their support.

Over the past few seasons, the Yale hockey team has seen its stardom skyrocket. It is now rare to see the Whale not filled to maximum capacity on game nights. While sports will probably never become the centerpiece of student life at Yale, it might be possible for other teams to attempt to replicate the hockey team’s level of popularity and rapport with the city of New Haven.

Of course, not all sports are created equal, and Yale hockey has a few unique advantages. Hockey is fast-paced and spectator-friendly. The action is non-stop and play is rarely interrupted. It is not hard for someone who has never seen an ice rink before to follow the game. A general consensus among many of my friends is that hockey is simply more exciting than other sports.

Unlike a majority of athletic events here, hockey is always a nighttime event. This gives students a chance to make the games a part of their weekend schedule, instead of something they need to go out of the way for. While I would love to attend an evening football game, the lack of overhead lighting at the Yale Bowl makes this a distant pipe dream.

It also doesn’t hurt that in contrast to most of Yale’s athletic facilities, Ingalls Rink is fairly close to the center of the campus. Though there is free transportation to and from the athletic fields, few people seem to know the schedule well enough to

On just his sixth varsity snap, tailback Tate Harshbarger ’14 took the handoff and ran 14 yards for a touchdown.

Squash freshmen show potential

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Question mark between the pipes

BY GREG CAMERON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Revitalized by new talent, both the men’s and women’s squash teams look to improve on their results from last season.

SQUASH Although the Elis men graduated three key seniors from the top of their ladder, three freshmen in the top six will be able to make an immediate impact for Yale. The women’s team, however, faces less of a burden, having lost just two seniors from its top ten.

Last season, the men’s team secured a fourth place finish at the Collegiate Squash Association Team Championships, while the women’s team, affected by the injury of No. 2 player Kim Hay ’14, placed fifth.

“The expectations of the teams were high, and overall neither finish was satisfying and [was] a bit disappointing for both teams,” said head coach David Talbott in an email to the News.

Georgia Blatchford ’16 said that last year’s finish was particularly disappointing for the Elis women because the team has historically been one of the top in the nation.

Most recently, the Bulldogs won the CSA Championship in the 2010-’11 season and earned SEE SQUASH PAGE 11

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No. 34 Alex Lyon has an impressive 0.903 save percentage in his two starts between the pipes.

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER Coming into the 2013-’14 season, it was apparent that the Yale men’s hockey team was in search of a goaltender.

But four games into the year, the Bulldogs still do not know who will start their next game in the net.

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The women’s squash team finished fifth at the Collegiate Squash Association Team Championships last season.

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A pair of freshmen, Alex Lyon ’17 and Patrick Spano ’17, have each started two games for the Elis (2–1–1, 1–0–1 ECAC), while a third goalie, Connor Wilson ’15, played in the exhibition game against

Ontario Tech.

“All of us are comfortable no matter who’s playing [in goal],” said forward John Hayden ’17 said. “They’re all capable of very strong goaltending.”

All three netminders bring oodles of experience in goal to Yale. Lyon played the previous two seasons in the United States Hockey League (USHL) before coming to Yale. In his first campaign with the Omaha Lancers, he was selected to the USHL AllRookie team; last year, he was named to the All-USHL second team.

The other freshman goalie, Spano, took a much more

complicated path to New Haven. He spent the first part of last season in the USHL, playing for the Youngstown Phantoms. Halfway through the year, he was traded to the Cowichan Valley Capitals of the British Columbia Hockey League for future considerations.

“Now that I’m at Yale, I don’t have to worry about being traded,” Spano said.

Spano added that he was not seeing much ice time with the Phantoms, as Maine recruit Sean Romeo played in goal for Youngstown. Spano was traded to Cowichan Valley SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 11

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