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CROSS CAMPUS Still doing laundry. Saybrook’s

obsession with laundry seems run deep: all the way down to their undergarments. Boxers have already been ordered by the Saybrook College Council and are waiting to be claimed in the Saybrook Master’s Office. Orders are currently being taken for “girl’s underwear or sports bras” which carry logos of “Say Bra” and “Underbrook.” With that, Saybrook has secured its reputation as the Victoria’s Secret of residential colleges.

MEN’S HOCKEY 2013 CHAMPIONS RETURN TO ICE

DIGITIZATION

GREEN HALL

COMMON CORE

Undergrad Career Services offers digital workshops

STUDENTS CELEBRATE MANET CLASSICS

New Haven Public Schools embrace new set of standards

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State backs violence prevention DEATHS FROM FIREARMS IN NEW HAVEN 2000–2010

Sex

Race/Ethnicity

Age

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER During University President Peter Salovey’s inaugural address on Sunday, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. looked on from the balcony of Woolsey Hall as Yale’s new president extolled the virtues of the Elm City.

On top, as always. In the Daily

Beast’s recent ranking of the top 20 schools in America based on “sexiness,” Yale ranked seventh. Yale men received a score of 9.06 out of 10 and girls an 8.87 out of 10. The University’s “Trojan Sexual Health rank” came in at a 6. The Daily Beast featured a photograph of students in sexy commencement gowns in their photo gallery, which mostly included photographs of state university students at football games. The only other Ivy League to make the list was Brown University at 19.

Bored of the everyday? Spice

up your life with origami. The undergraduate group Inspire Yale, which organizes various creative projects to drive happiness and social change on campus has turned to the Japanese art of folding paper.

Piles of pretty paper boxes filled with inspirational quotes and candy can now be found in various libraries, common rooms and butteries.

A Halloween Tale. The spirit of Halloween is kinder than you might expect. The young patients at the pediatric wing of the Yale-New Haven hospital celebrated their Halloween this past week when Spirit Halloween Superstores threw a day of celebration for the children. Patients got to dress up as princesses, pirates, superheroes, angels and witches with donations from the chain store.

Liv is back. Various student

groups affiliated with the AfroAmerican Cultural Center have been coming together to host Scandal watching parties.

The regular meetings seem to be just likethose of the West Wing Weekly, only with more intrigue, corruption, sex and, of course, scandal.

Huzzah! Turkey legs, swords,

excessive costumes (and probably a petting zoo) will all play a part in the upcoming weekend for a handful of students. Ezra Stiles College will be taking students to the Connecticut Renaissance Fair, which claims to be an “old world theme park” celebrating “a romantic age forever lost to time.”

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City looks to Salovey We [Yale and New Haven] need a partnership, a partnership characterized by trust.

PETER SALOVEY President, Yale University

BY J. R. REED STAFF REPORTER At a press conference yesterday, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. announced that Connecticut’s State Judicial Branch has awarded the city the second installment of a $750,000 competitive grant to combat youth violence.

In 2012 the Board of Aldermen’s youth services committee chaired

by Sarah Eidelson ’12, began brainstorming ways to reduce youth violence, which led to the Youth Violence Prevention grant program.

Under this initiative, 22 community outreach organizations have received funding — ranging from $9,780 to $50,000 — to stimulate

their youth programming efforts.

State support for the Elm City’s violence prevention program was disbursed in two rounds, with the first $250,000 portion covering February 2013 to June 2013, and the second $500,000 piece running from July 2013 to June 2014. The latter por-

Mirroring former Yale president Richard Levin, who concluded his 1993 inaugural address by calling for a renaissance of the Yale-New Haven relationship, Salovey spoke extensively about the University’s role in the Elm City. Unlike 20 years ago, however, Salovey did not call for a reversal of the relationship, but rather for a continuation of

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Relocation of prisoners spurs local outcry

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER Students, advocacy organizations and faith groups convened downtown on Tuesday morning to decry the transfer of inmates from the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution, which the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) is in the process of transitioning from a women’s prison to a men’s prison.

Activists called the “emergency press conference” in reaction to an anonymous inside tip that alleged 30 inmates had been transferred early.

The transition, which would turn the only federal women’s prison in the Northeast into the 26th federal men’s prison will move many of the 1,120 inmates at Danbury a thousand miles south to a newly constructed women’s correctional facility in

Yale not considering honor code

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER

Aliceville, Alabama. BOP Director Charles Samuels cited overcrowding as the main reason for the transfer in a public letter. No BOP officials were available for comment.

“This shortsighted move will cause severe hardship, harm and pain for the young children of these women, and will hinder and restrict the family bonds and relationships we know are critical to rehabilitation,” Sena-

tor Blumenthal said in a statement on Tuesday. In the release, he said the Department of Justice assured him that no prisoners would be moved until the federal government reopened. The 348 inmates with addresses in the Northeast will be sent to prisons in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, according to a BOP release.

About a hundred other inmates have already been moved to other facilities including drug rehabili-

tation institutions.

As it stands, over 400 noncitizens housed at the prison will be sent to various institutions across the country, including Alabama, Minnesota and California without consideration of their places of residence.

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Parents discuss public school

BY POOJA SALHOTRA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Over 100 New Haven Public School district supervisors, parents and students gathered in East Rock School’s cafeteria Wednesday evening to learn about a supplemental education program and to voice their concerns about the district’s public school education system.

Over a year after a cheating scandal wreaked havoc at Harvard, Yale’s rival school is considering implementing an honor code.

The institution of an honor code would put Harvard in line with schools such as Princeton and the University of Virginia, both of which boast long-standing honor codes as centerpieces of their intellectual communities. A subcommittee of Harvard College’s Committee on Academic Integrity began drafting the college’s first-ever honor code earlier this month, according to the Crimson. Yale, meanwhile, has never had a comparable honor system. Though the University reported 30 charges of academic dishonesty in spring 2013, Yale College Dean Mary Miller said the University is not actively seeking to implement an honor code.

“Quite honestly, we expect nothing less than academic honesty,” Miller said. “Students have agreed by matriculation to abide by the rules.”

Yale students are expected to have read the undergraduate regulations and follow them, she said, adding that this informal

Through Title I — the largest federal education program in the country — the U.S. government appropriates billions of dollars each year to provide supplemental educational services to low-income students and those failing to meet state academic standards. This year, Title I granted $9 million to NHPS, and that money is funding programs in 25 schools throughout the district. At Wednesday’s district-wide annual meeting, parents

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Parents must be involved in their students’ education in order for children to succeed.

PARRIS LEE Title I parent

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Parents spoke out about their need for more involvement in school policy.

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OPINION

.COMMENT “Leslie was a kind-hearted soul” 'THE VETERINARY WELLNESS CENTER' ON yaledailynews.com/opinion

GUEST COLUMNIST ANDREA VILLENA

GUEST COLUMNIST ABHIK SEN

Restructuring leadership E

arlier this year, I received an email informing me of mandatory leadership training sessions for the heads of registered student organizations. I was looking forward to the workshops, particularly the one focused on the psychology of hazing. But having attended one last week, I came away with a different perspective.

The mandatory workshops are geared toward promoting “a respectful, safe campus climate,” Dean Marichal Gentry told the News, and they focus on event planning and hazing. But these workshops are emblematic of the administration’s misguided attempt at generating a positive campus culture. The highly staged setting of these sessions is not conducive to productive conversation and present an infantilizing approach at teaching students how to be safe, effective leaders. Furthermore, they’re not structured in a way that deals directly with the specific concerns of the different types of undergraduate organizations.

The facilitators did a great job, considering the circumstances they were in. But several significant changes to the structure and script of these workshops could make better use of their skills and the participants’ time.

The Office of Student Affairs, which coordinates these sessions, should work on reducing the number of students in each, as well as segregating the kinds of undergraduate organizations present. At my session, we had representatives from the Yale Globalist and Kappa Kappa Gamma alongside students from organizations I didn’t even know existed, like the Anime Society and the Multiverse Undergraduate and Science-Fiction Association. The crossover was minimal, and the leaders had very little in common in terms of the events our organizations hold.

Though my workshop was initially supposed to be focused on hazing, the topic was switched to event planning after a quick survey revealed that only five or so out of over 20 students in the room held initiations for their organizations. To put it succinctly: It was awkward. We entered into a very scripted dialogue centered on basic questions like: What makes an event good or bad? The questions were often met with long periods of silence — students in the room did not seem willing to engage.

Perhaps the demographics of my workshop contributed to the awkwardness; some of the students I spoke with who attended different sessions had more engaging experiences. But for all of us, the general takeaway was that we learned little that we hadn’t already known.

There was a weird subliminal message to the whole thing.

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I could tell that the workshop facilitators were trying to get at something deeper than just “events” and “leadership.”

Maybe they were trying to promote the administration’s policies on alcohol, or maybe they were making grander statements about issues of consent at campus events. Whatever message they were trying to convey, they didn’t say it directly but instead used vague terms about problems that might arise at an event like “weird vibes.” Furthermore, “events” was used as a blanket term for anything that an organization might plan: a rager, a conference, a lecture or a game night. Open dialogue was dead on arrival as we tried to follow whatever vague guidelines had been set for the conversation.

The better part of the workshop was devoted to discussing hypothetical scenarios, which only added to the staged feeling of the session. One group had to give suggestions on how to improve a hypothetical event called “Pups and Pussies,” an animal adoption fundraiser that was charging a $5 entrance fee except for attendants dressed up in sexy animal costumes. I almost wish such an event were being held by an organization on campus — the public shaming that would arise out of that situation would ultimately be a more effective teaching tool than the stilted conversation we endured.

I cannot speak to the nature of the hazing workshop I have yet to attend, but my friends who have already been told me it’s much of the same. Perhaps facilitators should look to Cornell University’s model of hazing education. Its hazing website presents an honest, upfront take on the issue, exposing the hidden procedures in such a way that removes the allure of secrecy that often accompanies hazing.

Students are not opposed to being educated on how to be better leaders — just take a look at the popularity of classes like “Leadership” and “Grand Strategy.”

And it’s nice that the administration is providing resources that deal with the more concrete aspects of leadership: planning events, using social media and the like. But when such resources become vehicles for a problematic approach to curbing drinking or improving campus culture, students are turned off and the likelihood of making a prolonged impact is markedly decreased.

All students at Yale have proven their capacity to lead — the administration must engage with us head-on in a way that does not condescend or underestimate our conception of appropriate behavior.

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Revelation and collaboration

t doesn’t take long for new arrivals in New Haven to realize that this city is dangerously divided. For those lucky enough to be a part of it, Yale is a feast for the body and mind. But fear and despair stalk many of the streets that lie just beyond the campus.

Look a little further, and you see bickering politicians in Washington, D.C., who brought the government to a standstill for the sake of a few partisan brownie points.

Not too long ago, the financial crisis and the misery it brought to ordinary Americans as well as people around the world was a brutal reminder that in the age of globalization most problems in one town or country have a cause or effect in another. It is clear that if this new world is to work better, the old ways of doing things must change.

History teaches us that change works best when it involves the many and not just the few. As our problems become shared, so must our pursuit of the solutions. But this job is too important to be left to governments alone, or the private sector or even the not-forprofit world. It needs all of them to work together. And that’s where the Yale World Fellows program

comes in.

Every fall semester, Yale brings together a dozen or so accomplished mid-career practitioners and professionals from different countries and walks of life for an intense four-month leadership boot camp: the World Fellows program. The goal is to transform the capacity of the Fellows to make the world a better place in their own unique ways. By throwing open the doors to every department at Yale, letting ideas and imagination roam free, and by kneading a bunch of strangers into a close-knit family within a few weeks, the program turns the Fellows into collaborative catalysts for change — all of whom are enriched not just by their shared experience of lectures and seminars at Yale but also by the University’s commitment to the liberal arts ethos.

In a seminar with the World Fellows, Rodrigo Canales, professor at the School of Management, said that the private sector can do everything except the forbidden. The state, on the other hand, can do only what it has been sanctioned to do, he said. It is a nobrainer, therefore, that to solve some of the biggest challenges

the world faces, all of us — states and markets, countries and communities, institutions and individuals — will have to work a little more collaboratively with each other.

NORTH AND SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, MUST WORK TOGETHER Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, mentioned in one of his classes the other day that we might be living in an “age of moderate scarcity.” What he meant, I believe, is that the world may have enough to meet the needs of all its inhabitants but not enough to meet all their wants.

Should that be true, the West and the rest will have to collaborate more and compete less to make the best use of the world’s finite resources.

Last weekend, while bicycling to the Sleeping Giant woods in Hamden with the World Fel-

low from China, I was struck by an epiphany of sorts: What were the odds of someone from India teaming up with a person from China to go cycling? Leaving aside the World Fellows program, I would wager that the odds are one in 2.5 billion — the combined population of the two most populous countries in the world. But if more Chinese and Indians could cycle together, it might just make the difference between a catastrophic future and a more sustainable one for us all.

During that bicycle trip, I was reminded of what professor Charles Hill had said in his lecture the previous day on lux et veritas, or light and truth, and the role both of those terms play in our lives. Light is reason, which can be taught in the classroom or learned from a book. Truth is more akin to revelation, he said, which often unfolds through shared experience. Sometimes as Yale students.

Sometimes as a team of Nobel Prize-winning researchers. And sometimes as Yale World Fellows.

ABHIK SEN is a 2013 Yale World Fellow and a Managing Editor with The Economist Group. Contact him at abhik.sen@yale.edu .

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ANDREA VILLENA is a junior in Trumbull College. Contact her at andrea.villena@yale.edu .

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n Monday, the Henry C. Lee Institute announced its latest round of Arnold Markle awards, which are given to recognize achievement in the realm of law enforcement, criminal justice, forensic science and other similar areas. This year, the Law Enforcement award went to New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman.

Two years ago, Esserman would not have had a shot at the award — in fact, he wasn’t even working in New Haven. But his selection signals his transformation from a relative outsider, appointed through a murky selection process, to a pivotal community savior.

Until November 2011, city cops were led by Frank Limon, a transplant from Chicago who had been brought in to tackle the city’s narcotics trafficking and gang problems. He was to replace retiring James Lewis, who donned the chief’s uniform for a relatively short 20 months in an effort to implement federal anti-corruption recommendations.

But Limon — who had served in the city for just 19 months, less than half of the four years stipulated by his contract — was

rumored to have missed his family back in the Windy City, and clashed with Mayor John DeStefano Jr. over management of the department. At the same time, the Elm City’s homicide count was at 27 by mid-October, and would rise to a two-decade high of 36 by the end of the year.

It was in this environment that DeStefano, exactly two years ago tomorrow, announced that Esserman, the then-top cop of Providence, R.I., would be brought back to lead the department. In the early 1990s Esserman had served under former chief Nick Pastore, who resigned after admitting to fathering a child with a convicted prostitute.

He is regarded as one of the architects of New Haven’s community policing strategy, which encourages officers to walk beats and pushes cops to engage more with the neighborhoods they police.

That philosophy allegedly helped bring down crime rates 20 years ago. But when Esserman was appointed chief, people questioned whether he could perform the same miracle.

Given the environment of constantly changing police chiefs and increasing numbers of vio-

lent crime, as well as the relatively opaque process of Limon’s departure and Esserman’s subsequent appointment, many in the city were skeptical.

But two years later, the majority of those voices have been quelled. At this point, Esserman has served longer than the two police chiefs who preceded him and has shown no intention of leaving any time soon. Violent crime as a whole has fallen since 2011 — even though experts warn against reading too much into any one statistic — and the New Haven Police Department has worked toward improving partnerships with groups like the University’s police force, the Yale Child Study Center and neighborhood management groups.

At a July debate between five mayoral candidates, there wasn’t a whole lot they agreed on; in fact, the group fell into one of the feistiest squabbles of the campaign.

But when the mayoral hopefuls were asked what departments heads they would keep, all five responded by naming Esserman, a sign of how the police chief has largely earned the city’s trust.

At a Monday Yale Law School forum, Esserman spoke about the

causes of urban violence, demonstrating that he understood the complex mix of factors that can lead to a shooting: poverty, intergroup dynamics, a justice system that is not truly blind. Yet he also spoke about his personal relationship with the sort of tragedy that so regularly strikes New Haven and other cities across America.

He’s tired, he says; tired of the violence that seems to be the same story every night. For two decades, he explains, he’s visited every shooting scene and emergency room, and has attended — and paid for — far more than his fair share of funerals. But still, he keeps working.

That he has received the law enforcement award just two years after his arrival is a testament to this tiredness. While his tenure is far from perfect, Esserman is the police chief New Haven needs right now, and he deserves both his award and our ongoing support as he works to better the Elm City.

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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NEWS

“It is not enough to know your craft — you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.” EDOUARD MANET FRENCH PAINTER

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15

The article “School breaks ground” misstated the amount Yale had invested in a construction project at Common Ground High School as $10,000. Yale actually made a $15,000 contribution.

The article “Duke professor analyzes Proust” misspelled the name of the narrator of “In Search of Lost Time” as “Marcele.” It should have said “Marcel.”

Five students embark on new law Ph.D.

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER This semester, five students set foot on campus as the first-ever U.S. candidates for a Ph.D. in law.

The new three-year Yale Law School Ph.D. program, which was launched in July 2012 and enrolled its inaugural class this fall, is the nation’s first-ever Ph.D. program in law. A total of 82 students applied to the program earlier this year, vying for five spots, which were ultimately given to three students with Yale law degrees, one from Harvard and one from Michigan. The new degree marks a significant effort to professionalize legal scholarship.

“Yale has always been a leading law school in terms of the future of legal scholarship,” said Law School professor Tom Tyler. “This is a further step in the direction of professionalizing the study of law.”

Law Ph.D. candidates take a programspecific seminar in law, taught by Tyler and Bruce Ackerman LAW ’69, that is specifically designed for the Ph.D. program. They also enroll in a variety of other courses in both the Law School and the Graduate School.

Tyler said legal scholars need to go beyond the application of legal rules and think about the nature of those rules to gain a deeper understanding of law. The new program formalizes this practice, Tyler said, but more importantly, it follows a wider trend of establishing professional formation for fields such as law and business. Tyler said that offering a Ph.D. in law is analogous to establishing a school for business and management, as both of these practices used to be based on experience and apprenticeship before they involved formal training programs.

In a Tuesday email to Law School alumni, Yale Law School Dean Robert Post said that when he launched the program last summer, new law professors had experienced “disturbing turmoil” in the market. The Ph.D. program was designed with the aim of making entry-level candidates as competitive as possible, Post said.

Ackerman said that he is sure the Ph.D. candidates will be competitive for employers, but that his real goal in teaching the seminar goes beyond sim-

ply making the students competitive candidates in their career fields.

“I’m actually driven by the need to help the next generation of scholars speak to the foundational questions of how we should respond to the issues of this time,” he said.

From its creation last year, some legal scholars have criticized the program, claiming that law is a field best approached from multiple perspectives rather than viewed as an autonomous discipline. But students and faculty interviewed said they enjoy the targeted nature of the program, though some aspects could potentially be improved in future years.

Kerry Monroe GRD ’16, one of the five Ph.D. candidates, said she appreciates the institutional support that the program offers — a kind of guidance that is often lacking in the fellowships offered by other law schools across the country. Monroe also said she would not have been interested in getting a Ph.D. in a different field.

“I fell in love with the subject matter,” she said. “So it doesn’t make a lot of sense for me to study something else.”` But Monroe said that she fears that she will not have enough time to write her dissertation in three years, because of all the courses that are required. Likewise, Rory Van Loo GRD ’16, another law Ph.D. candidate, said that a fourth year might be a helpful option for some students.

Tyler and Ackerman said they are open to proposals about expanding the length of the program — but they added that they want to wait and see how the project unfolds over the next few years.

Ackerman said he would like to expand the program by admitting more students and merging with the Law School’s J.S.D. program for international students.

“We want to have a critical mass of scholars, both national and international,” Ackerman said. Assistant Dean for Yale Law School Graduate Programs Gordon Silverstein said that there are no plans to expand the program in the foreseeable future.

The application deadline for the next cohort of law Ph.D. candidates is Dec. 15.

City residents to teach Free Skool

BY EDDY WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the past year, the New Haven Free Skool has offered city residents free classes on topics ranging from art therapy to bike maintenance and Mexican salad-making. In its next session, the Free Skool hopes to teach residents one more skill: how to run Free Skools of their own.

The school, which is operated by the local organization People’s Arts Collective (PAC) and funded through a Mayor’s Community Arts Grant, has offered three multi-week sessions so far, each featuring a wide range of eclectic free courses open to the public and taught by volunteers. In their November session, the school’s directors hope to coach other residents through the process of running its many programs. Their goal, according to PAC Founder Kenneth Reveiz, is to give others a hands-on opportunity to learn how to run similar programs.

On Oct. 5th, Reveiz hosted a workshop titled “Running Your Own Free Skool: Lessons and Encouragement,” which was attended by more than a dozen people. Reveiz said that those who attended the workshop will be

in charge of running the Free Skool in November, coordinating classes and advertising them to the larger community.

“This session is much more about developing leaders on a smaller scale and group initiative,” Reveiz said. “it’s a real training ground.”

This session is much more about developing leaders on a smaller scale and group initiative.

KENNETH REVEIZ Founder, People’s Arts Collective Marc DeWitt ’15, who attended the “Running Your Own Free Skool” workshop, said that he wanted to run November’s Skool session because he was inspired by PAC’s founding principles of openness. He said he has sought input from New Haven residents themselves about what classes they want to see in the November session in what Reveiz describes as a “grassroots process.”

“We go out with a clipboard and notebook to the New Haven Green, introduce ourselves and the People’s Art Collective and ask [people] what they want to see happen in the space,” DeWitt said.

He said basic English, math, and Spanish classes were the most common suggestions, and this upcoming session’s planners are taking them into consideration. The schedule for the November session will be finalized in the coming weeks.

Shannon McNeil, who is planning the November session alongside DeWitt, will also participate as an instructor. She said she will teach a course on the resources available for children with autism, based on her experiences with her three-year-old autistic son.

“Not a lot of people know about many of the programs that changed my son’s ability to learn and function in a classroom or a social situation,” McNeil said.

The most recent Free Skool session, held from mid-July to midAugust, attracted around 250 students.

Contact EDDY WANG at chen-eddy.wang@yale.edu .

Exhibit responds to Manet’s work

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

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An exhibition at 32 Edgewood marks the 150th anniversay of Edouard Manet’s beautiful — and scandalous — “Olympia,” and “Dejeuner sur l’herbe.”

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER

JENNIFER LU/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

This fall, five students are enrolled in the Law School’s inaugural Ph.D. program in law.

A century and a half after Edouard Manet’s art sparked the modernist movement, his works are still inspiring artistic innovation.

A new exhibit at the School of Art’s Green Hall Gallery titled “For Ed: Splendor in the Grass with Olympic Lad and Lass” opened last week to mark the 150th anniversary of the completion of Manet’s masterpieces “Olympia” and “Dejeuner sur l’herbe.” The exhibit, which had its opening reception yesterday evening, features work by Yale undergraduates and School of Art students, alumni and faculty. “For Ed” is largely a response to the two Manet paintings, said Associate Dean of the School of Art Samuel Messer.

He added that the exhibit is related to “Lunch with Olympia,” another exhibit inspired by Manet’s art that is currently on at the school’s 32 Edgewood Ave. gallery. “[For Ed] is the students saying, ‘If the famous artists can do it, we can do it, too,’” Messer said.

The works on display include photographs, paintings, videos, a giant paper maché sculpture, a hanging rope that viewers are encouraged to cut with scissors and a sports jersey placed next to a screen playing cat videos, among other pieces.

Johanna Flato ’14, a humanities and art double major in the painting concentration, made pillows covered with Astroturf and grass prints for the exhibit. Flato emphasized the

timelessness of the themes in the two Manet paintings — themes that include bodies, landscapes and their objectification. She said her work aims to evoke the idea of the naked body that dominates “Olympia.”

Andy Clifford, an employee of the Art School who installs art in the school’s two galleries, created a piece that uses an algorithm to find the viewer’s eyes and project them on a wall. Clifford said his work aims to respond to the gaze of the main figure in “Olympia,” which he said he found striking.

“You’re disembodied — it’s like there’s someone staring back at you,” he said.

Clifford, who also helped hang the “Lunch with Olympia” exhibit at the 32 Edgewood Gallery, said he noticed that the pieces at the Green Hall Gallery feature more literal responses to the Manet paintings than those at 32 Edgewood. Witnessing “For Ed” come together has made him more interested in the literal reinterpretations of a work of art and in how altering one aspect of a piece can result in a new work, he said.

Flato said she began working on her pillows before “Lunch with Olympia” opened.

“Some of the pieces [in Green Hall] are continuations of specific thoughts [in 32 Edgewood]” she said.

“But I see both exhibits as a collective response to certain ideas.”

Wesley Chavis ’14, an art major in the painting concentration, said he approached his work for the exhibit as an independent project and only

later explored its relationship to the Manet paintings. His drawing features a figure that stretches across two panels, one of which has a split piece of bread attached to it. He said that the figure represents Mary Magdalene and that the bread — which serves to sustain life — symbolizes God.

You’re disembodied — it’s like there’s someone staring back you [in Manet’s “Olympia”].

ANDY CLIFFORD Employee, Yale Art School Flato said that though many pieces in “For Ed” respond to different aspects of Manet’s work, all works featured in the exhibit somehow address the naked woman in “Olympia.”

Chavis said that “For Ed” includes the works of renowned artists such as Kenny Rivero, Chie Fueki and Awol Erizku. Flato said she has enjoyed seeing the students’ pieces hang next to the works of established artists.

“The exhibit is about mixing up and re-representing,” she said.

“For Ed: Splendor in the Grass with Olympia Lad and Lass” is on display until Nov. 22.

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

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FROM THE FRONT Harries answers questions SUPERINTENDENT FROM PAGE 1 learned about one mandate of the Title I program: parent involvement.

“The Title I law recognizes the importance of partnerships between parents and schools and sees parent involvement as a crucial aspect of student achievement,” Title I Parent Liaison Parris Lee said. “Parents must be involved in their students’ education in order for children to succeed.”

In a PowerPoint presentation, Lee introduced parents to the goals of Title I and talked about the after-school programs, tutors, books and other school equipment funded by the program. Title I focuses on math, science and literacy, offering informational and hands-on workshops for both parents and students outside the normal school day.

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Parents discussed ways in which New Haven Public Schools might better prepare their children for college and the job market.

Several parents interviewed said that before the meeting, they were not aware of what Title I was, but that they decided to attend the event to find out how they could get more involved in their children’s education. Teresa Bethea, who found out about Title I through a summer workshop, said that she thinks parents can greatly influence their children through involvement in education.

“Parents need to be active in their kids lives. It helps reduce crime and ensures that kids have stuff to do after school,” Bethea said.

After the Title I presentation, New Haven Public School Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 took up the microphone for his “Superintendent Night Out,” an initiative he started this school year to learn about parents’ ideas and concerns about education.

“It’s mostly about listening,” he said.

After introducing himself, Harries asked the audience to consider three questions about New Haven public school education: What are the district’s strengths? What concerns do you have? How do we keep this conversation going?

The audience spent 10 minutes discussing these questions in groups, bringing up issues ranging from bullying and school uniforms to vocational training and parent outreach. One parent, Twana Hargett Taft, said that many parents are not involved in their children’s education because they are not even aware of Title I. She said the school district must do a better job of advertising the program to parents at all schools. Other parents agreed, pointing out how social media can be

used to enhance parent outreach.

Sundiata Keitazulu, a former candidate in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary and a parent, said that the biggest issue with New Haven Public School education is that it does not prepare children for jobs. Schools need to be teaching students skills that they can apply beyond an academic level, he said.

“Every student is not going to college, and you have to address that issue,” Keitazulu said. “We should start working with Yale University and start an apprenticeship program that teaches vocational skills and prepares our children for the real world.”

The next Superintendent Night Out will be at Columbus School on Oct. 29.

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

Activists protest prison move PRISON FROM PAGE 1 Divinity School’s Seminarians for a Democratic Society, attracted a small crowd of about 25 people.

“I think they’re going to be forced to changed their minds if we can keep our legislators pushing,” said Barbara Fair, who organized the demonstration and cofounded the grassroots advocacy organization My Brother’s Keeper.

At the very least, she said, they hope to see more public oversight on deciding where inmates will be transferred. Fair said that this was just the “first of many steps.”

In August, Connecticut Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal — along with nine other regional senators — sent a letter to the BOP questioning their decision to “place [the inmates] out of reach of their families and loved ones,” and requesting more information on the matter. The letter that the Senators sent in August managed to delay the transfer for a couple months, but BOP Director Samuels sent a letter dated Sept. 27 insisting that the move is “indeed in the best interest of all inmates in the BOP.” The senators fired back another letter on Oct. 4 suggesting that the BOP’s measures to relocate the 348 Northeastern inmates to Philadelphia and West Virginia was

Of students of the class of 2006 that immediately enrolled, only 22.8 percent completed college within six years.

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Every student is not going to college, and you have to address that issue.

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not sustainable and that sending non-citizens across the country was a “troubling” approach.

The Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, whose advocacy chair Nia Holston ‘15 spoke at the demonstration, has been working on a letter-writing campaign to push legislators to oppose the transfer.

BOP Director Charles Samuels said in a public letter an effort would be made to keep the 348 inmates with addresses in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic in the area. The senators and activists who opposed the move have often referenced the effect further separation would have on the inmates’ children. Fifty-nine percent of the women in Danbury have children under 21, the Connecticut Mirror reported on Oct. 4, 2013.

“When you separate mothers from their children, it causes deep trauma,” Fair said.

Beatrice Codianni, a former Danbury inmate and the Program Director of Reentry Central, a criminal justice advocacy website, said that maintaining contact with their families and communities offers inmates a positive path toward reentry into society.

“When you talk to people who are incarcerated, you empathize with the importance of [community and family] relationships to

starting over,” said Jessica Garland ’15, a member of the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project.

In the long run, inmates’ proximity to their families is good for communities with high crime rates, Codianni said.

“Keeping families close to their loved ones in prison reduces recidivism and increases public safety,” she said. “It’s a ripple effect.”

Many activists interviewed argue that a better solution to prison overcrowding would be to take non-violent offenders out of the BOP entirely and pursue alternative methods of confinement, such as house arrest or rehabilitation.

Fair said this should spur a larger debate on whether or not excessively punitive punishments for certain offenses like drug possession are beneficial to society.

“There are ways to handle social problems other than locking people away for all these years and tearing apart these families,” she said.

There are eight federal women’s prisons in the Southeast, seven in the Southwest and two in the Midwest.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu.

tion of the grant was officially awarded to the city yesterday.

“The new initiative aims to prevent violence among youth before it even begins and is one more tactic we are employing to achieve the city’s top public safety goal: reducing violence,” DeStefano said during his press conference. He noted the city’s other outreach efforts including community policing, the Shooting Task Force and Street Outreach workers.

In early 2012, the Board of Aldermen spearheaded a Comprehensive Youth Agenda to steer the city’s youth away from violence by funding organizations in the city that support youth development. The initiative came in the wake of a violent 2011 calendar year, when 34 homicides were committed in New Haven. Of those 34 people killed, half of them were 25 and under, according to City-Data.com.

In 2013, members of the Board of Aldermen’s Youth Services Committee joined forces with the city’s Community Services Administration, United Way of Greater New Haven and New Haven Public Schools to tackle the problem of youth violence plaguing the city. These entities collaborated with the mayoral office to develop the Youth Violence Prevention grant program. Though the grant program has already issued funding to youth organizations around the city, now the Elm City has garnered the financial support of the state.

Organizations, such as New Haven Family Alliance, which promotes parent education and skill building, and the Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Program, which offers high school and college planning services, underwent a competitive application process and proved their that services yield results before they acquired funding. With these grants, the groups will employ the strategies identified by

the CDC as critical in preventing youth violence — pro-social interventions, mentorship programs and youth job training and readiness skills programs.

Providing pro-social experiences and helping people handle their emotional distress without showing aggression, will be particularly effective in the city’s efforts to prevent youth violence,said City Hall spokeswoman Anna Mariotti.

The new initiative aims to prevent violence among youth before it even begins.

JOHN DESTEFANO JR. Mayor, New Haven “I think learning how to deal with anger or uncomfortable situations without resorting to violence will be greatly beneficial,” Mariotti said.

“There is no one variable that will make everything perfect, but this plan is a step in the right direction.”

Eidelson released a statement calling the support for the initiative an “essential step forward.” She said the Board of Aldermen will continue to prioritize its Comprehensive Youth Agenda in order to strengthen adolescent services citywide, since youth violence remains high in New Haven.

“We were thrilled to be able to fund programs that do such extraordinary work in our community,” Eidelson said.

According to DataHaven’s 2013 Greater New Haven Community Index, between 2000 and 2010, assault was the cause of 32 percent of total deaths among all men aged 15–34 in the New Haven area.

Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu

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“Death is no more than passing from one room into another.” HELEN KELLER

NHPS switches testing

UCS expands digital resources

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER

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The Smarter Balance Test, which is more closely aligned the Common Core State Standards, may replace the Connecticut Mastery Test in New Haven schools beginning in 2014.

BY ISABELLE TAFT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New Haven Public Schools are on the verge of adopting new standardized tests in order to accommodate the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a set of English Language Arts and Mathematics standards adopted by 45 states including Connecticut in 2010.

At a Board of Education meeting Tuesday night, the board accepted plans to ask Connecticut’s Department of Education to administer the Smarter Balanced Test in 2014, as opposed to the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT), which the district has used for years. The Smarter Balanced Test is aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Last year, the first in which the CCSS were fully implemented in grades three through eight, the district continued using the CMT. The percentage of students scoring at goal — or at the highest level of achievement — across all grade levels and in all subjects fell by 2.2 percentage points, to 40 percent. State and local officials attributed the decline to the adoption of the new CSSS, which do not cover all the material that is tested on the CMT. “Half the things that are tested on the math CMT aren’t even taught in third grade under the CCSS,” said Imma Canelli, NHPS’s assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, who presented at Tues-

day’s BOE meeting.

New Haven mirrored a statewide trend: scores on the 2013 CMT, released in August, dropped statewide and across all grade levels tested.

However, the Elm City saw unusually steep declines in third grade math scores, with 29.9 percent scoring at goal compared to 41.7 percent last year. Statewide, the number of third graders scoring at goal in math dropped about five percentage points.

Scores on the Connecticut Academic Performance Test, administered to 10th graders, rose slightly across the state.

Connecticut will not require school districts to administer tests aligned to the CCSS until 2015, but administrators in New Haven have decided that due to the curricular difference between the two tests, the district should move earlier to the Smarter Balance Tests (SBT). Canelli said New Haven will administer the SBT in 2014 as long as Connecticut receives a waiver from the federal government to give districts in Connecticut the choice to implement the new test.

In spite of the startling decline in CMT scores, teachers and administrators are not concerned, Canelli said. The CCSS are more rigorous than the old standards and will result in improved college readiness for students, despite the initial decline in scores, said Kelly Donnelly, director of communications for the Connecticut Department of Education.

“Our previous set of standards

could be characterized as a mile wide and an inch deep, whereas the Common Core covers fewer topics, but in greater depth,” Donnelly said.

Canelli said the gap between the standards and the test was particularly wide in third grade math — the grade level that saw the steepest decline in scores. She added that she is not worried because students performed well on the aspects of the test that were a part of the school’s curriculum.

Our previous set of standards could be characterized as a mile wide and an inch deep.

KELLY DONNELLY Director of communications, Connecticut Department of Education The challenge for teachers last year was transitioning to the new, more rigorous standards while also trying to prepare their students for tests based on the old standards, middle school science teacher Kaitlin Renkosiak told the News in an email. Renkosiak, who teaches at the Wexler-Grant School, added that she found herself performing a balancing act between standards and test prep, because “it’s not a remotely close alignment.”

If New Haven adopts the Smarter Balance Tests this year, teachers in

other subjects will be relieved from the job of trying to prepare students to take the CMT, Renkosiak said. But the state will continue using the CMT to test fifth and eighth graders in science because alternative tests have not yet been developed, she added.

Renkosiak said she will focus on teaching the new standards over test preparation.

“A teacher should never ‘teach to a test,’ but rather should ‘teach to a skill,’” Renkosiak said. “And this is exactly what I plan on doing in my classroom this year.”

Elizabeth Carroll, director of education studies at Yale College, said that although the CCSS were welldesigned and more rigorous than previous standards, she is concerned that they were rolled out too quickly and with too little support for teachers during the transition period. Carroll also cautioned that when the SBT is first administered, whether this happens in 2014 or in 2015, scores may be low due to teachers’ and students’ lack of experience with the test, and because of the new, more rigorous standards.

“The students haven’t dramatically changed but the way we’re measuring them has,” Carroll said.

The standards will be fully implemented statewide during the 2014– 2015 school year.

The theme of death united two seemingly disparate fields — art and bioethics — during a Wednesday talk at the Yale University Art Gallery.

The lecture, titled “Art, Empathy and Morality: Exploring the Intersection of Art and Bioethics,” was led by YUAG curatorial fellow Tanya Pohrt and Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics director Stephen Latham. Pohrt and Latham discussed the way art objects that explore the theme of death can illuminate certain bioethical issues.

Latham explained that the partnership between the Gallery and the Center for Bioethics began after the success of a Yale summer course titled “Empathy and the Practice of Medicine,” which used objects from the Gallery to tackle medicinerelated themes.

The aim of the talk was to “us[e] art as a lens through which to consider issues of morality surrounding death and dying,” Pohrt said. During the lecture, Pohrt and Latham analyzed three YUAG pieces that portray death, highlighting the fact that the way people commemorate the deceased has evolved since the 18th century.

One of the pieces the lecturers discussed was American sculptor William Henry Rinehart’s “Sleeping Children” — a rendering of two cherubic figures in smooth white mar-

ble. The pair of toddlers, seemingly in a state of peaceful sleep, portrays innocence, Pohrt said, adding that they represent an “idealization of death.” Latham likened the sculpture to the “death portraits” nowadays taken at neonatal intensive care units, intensive care units that specialize in the care of ill or premature newborn children.

The talk also featured a discussion of two mourning miniatures from the 19th century, both rendered in watercolor on ivory. Such objects were very personal and emotionally charged, roughly akin to the “wallet photos” of today, Pohrt explained.

She noted that locks of hair from the deceased were often incorporated into these miniatures as physical mementos of those who had passed.

Latham said that the miniatures’ modern analog — the “memory box” commonplace in neonatal intensive care units — represents a continuation of this tradition, as it almost always includes a lock of hair from the lost child.

All three members of the audience interviewed said they enjoyed the talk.

“I thought it was amazing and enlightening to see a scientific center working in conjunction with an artistic center, to see the two disciplines working together,” said Boots Landwirth, a docent at the Yale Center for British Art. Holmes Brown, a New Haven resident who attended the talk, noted

JEANINE DAMES Director, Undergraduate Career Services

hopes to continue the collaboration between the Gallery and the Center, adding that future joint projects may focus on portraits of doctors as well as works depicting people’s relationships with animals.

“Art, Empathy and Morality” was held in the American Paintings and Sculpture Room at the YUAG. Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .

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

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The theme of death united two seemingly disparate fields — art and bioethics — during a Wednesday talk at the Yale University Art Gallery. that he enjoyed the lecture’s interactive nature. Martha Macdonald, another New Haven resident in the audience, said she was impressed with the collaborative atmosphere that prevailed during the discussion, but added that she thinks the talk could have benefited by a broad overview of the topic before the lecturers delved into the three specific examples.

Latham told the News that he

We wanted to reach out and access students who ... can’t consistently attend the physical events.

The nature and parameters of UCS’s workshops have also evolved over the past few years — a trend that is reflected in the relative absence of class-specific workshops in this year’s calendar. In past years, Dames said, UCS tended to organize workshops that were oriented specifically toward individual class years. Although three workshops geared almost exclusively for freshmen still exist, 14 of this year’s workshops — such as “Leveraging Social Media” and “Networking” — emphasize skills and themes that are pertinent to all classes of students.

The new system, Dames said, recognizes that students in the same class can be in very different stages of the job hunt and enables students to efficiently focus on one skill at a time.

“If you know you have an interview coming up, rather than going to a generic sophomore all-in-one workshop, you can now just attend the workshop specifically for interviews,” Dames said, adding that now that the workshops are online, students can be even more selective and read only the slides relevant to their interests.

Last spring, UCS launched an initiative to record and post career-focused panels for students to access online. After hiring an IT specialist over the summer to resolve technical issues, UCS has posted over 20 videos to its website this semester. Dames said it was especially important for UCS to record panels and talks given by visitors to Yale to ensure that their insights did not “die in the room.”

Despite UCS’s efforts to promote its new online resources, 13 of 14 students interviewed said they did not know about the initiatives. But all 14 students said they were pleased that UCS had begun moving resources online and that they would likely utilize its resources in the future.

Wazhma Sadat ’14 said the digitalization of UCS’s workshops is helpful because students are very busy and often “forget to do the things that are important in the long run but are optional in the short term,” such as learning interview skills. Lukas Czinger ’16 said that as an athlete, he has been unable to attend any UCS workshops because they often clash with his soccer practices or games.

“By putting them online, there’s a better chance I’ll check it out,” he said.

Though UCS has made a significant effort to bring its resources online, Emma Simon ’16 and Jacob Marcus ’14 both said they think UCS needs to improve its advising services as well. Simon said that as a premed student, she often relies on UCS but is frustrated that only one career advisor specializes in the health professions. Hunter added that he believes UCS’s workshops — even when they are not industry-specific — are geared “almost exclusively for finance and consulting.” But both students still said they hope that UCS advisors will now have more time to help students with more nuanced advice by moving more resources online.

To help students prepare for professional life and make career-related decisions, UCS also publishes broad guidebooks that are available online and also in the Dean’s Office of each residential college.

Talk explores art and bioethics

BY SARA JONES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

This fall, Undergraduate Career Services has begun digitizing its services and workshops, enabling students to access these resources without needing to set foot in its building on Whitney Avenue.

Although the number of workshops UCS is offering this fall is consistent with prior years, each of the 17 workshops has also been posted on either UCS’s website or Symplicity, a new resource system that UCS released in the summer as a replacement for its old eRecruiting platform. The online workshops include not only the PowerPoint presentations and images that are shown at the actual events, but also an audio recording that includes any other information mentioned at the event.

“We wanted to reach out and access students who, for whatever reason, can’t consistently attend the physical events,” said UCS Director Jeanine Dames, explaining that many athletes and students studying abroad, in particular, are unable to make use of UCS’s in-person resources because of regular conflicts in scheduling.

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Salovey to continue town-gown progress SALOVEY FROM PAGE 1 existing trends, such as collaboration with city leaders, public schools, unions and retailers.

Salovey also suggested that the University must encourage student engagement, bolster economic development and employment and incentivize entrepreneurship and innovation if it wishes to improve both the city and Yale.

“First and foremost, we need a partnership, a partnership characterized by trust and undergirded by the idea that Yale and the city are both working together to make New Haven an even better place,” Salovey told the News, adding that he had tried to “honor the parts of the partnership that are ongoing while also approaching some new directions” in his inaugural speech.

ELEVATING EDUCATION

A central focus of the towngown relationship, from both the New Haven and Yale perspectives, has been New Haven Public Schools. Over the past two decades, outgoing Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s administration renovated every school in the city, and Yale made significant investments in New Haven’s education system. Still, public education in the Elm City continues to struggle with low test scores and high dropout rates.

A key component of collaboration has been New Haven Promise, a scholarship fund sponsored by Yale, the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Yale-New Haven Hospital and Wells Fargo. The scholarship, which provides funds for qualified New Haven students to attend college in the absence of financial means or assistance, has helped 393 students attend college since its inception in 2011.

Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina, whose students have received 65 scholarships through the program, said its continuation is vital in continuing to build a working relationship between Yale and New Haven.

Both Salovey and New Haven Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 expressed similar enthusiasm for the scholarship program.

“I’ve met with [Salovey] and he is very clear about his commitment to our students,” Harries said. “I’m sure we will continue with programs like New Haven Promise and the involvement of Yale undergrads in our schools.”

Carolina pointed to undergraduate involvement as an area where Yale could do more to

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University President Salovey met with Mayor John DeStefano Jr. to discuss ways in which town-gown relations might be improved in ways that involve active engagement on the part of Yale. improve public education in the city. He suggested that more Yale students work as tutors in New Haven schools, saying that Yale students provide excellent role models for the city’s youth.

I’ve met with [Salovey], and he is very clear about his commitment to our students.

GARTH HARRIES ’95 Superintendent, New Haven Public Schools Having watched Salovey’s address, Carolina said he is optimistic about further collaboration between Yale and the Elm City.

“With the new leadership of the city — whether it’s Yale, City Hall or the New Haven Public Schools — there’s an opportunity for us to really make some significant changes and charter a new course,” Carolina said. “Particularly if we can learn from any mistakes that were made over the past 20 years.”

But when prompted, Carolina declined to elaborate on what

those mistakes were.

Points of contention still remain regarding Yale’s role in education throughout the city.

Although Yale does not publicly release the number of students it admits from New Haven’s public schools, those students’ representation on campus is minimal.

“I think it would be good for Yale to share more of its resources with our communities and establish an easier pathway for our kids to get into Yale,” said Parris Lee, a New Haven public school employee.

Harries also suggested that city schools reach out to parts of the University with which they do not usually interact. He said he has already met with the head of Yale’s Emotional Intelligence Center, which Salovey played a key role in founding, to discuss the possibility of further collaboration.

INCUBATING INNOVATION

Over the past 20 years, Levin used real estate as a mechanism for improving Yale-New Haven relations. Through University Properties, which buys and then leases space in the city, Yale gentrified several New Haven streets, including Broadway and Chapel. Adding to the University’s engagement with the Elm City,

Yale also incentivized employees to purchase homes in New Haven rather than in the surrounding suburbs.

Salovey said that while these methods were successful, the vehicle for growth in the Elm City is quickly shifting to an “idea economy.” Entrepreneurship from Yale students, faculty and staff has already contributed to establishing new businesses, technology, public policy ideas and services, Salovey said in his Sunday address.

Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 seconded Salovey’s call for economic growth based on innovation.

In the past, Elicker has pointed to Science Park as a successful example of creative collaboration between Yale and the city.

The park — a 600,000-square-foot development in New Haven’s Newhallville neighborhood that cost the University approximately $150 million to renovate in 2010 — is a first-rate scientific research facility on the site of a former arms manufacturing plant.

Elicker said the plant is successful not only in providing jobs that require advanced educational degrees, but also in offering jobs that do not require post-second-

ary educations, such as janitorial, secretarial and other positions.

Beyond scientific innovation, city leaders suggested Yale can play a role in making simple improvements to New Haven’s infrastructure. Yale’s recent $160,000 investment in a crosswalk on Whitney and Audubon streets is a good example of the University providing a tangible benefit to the city, said Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04.

Hausladen added that the city could use expertise from Yale’s professional schools in tackling issues ranging from its ongoing budget crisis to public health throughout the Elm City.

Both in the inaugural address and in an interview with the News, Salovey emphasized the importance of Yale students staying in New Haven to increase entrepreneurship in the city. In order to encourage more students to remain, the city and the University need to collaborate on issues such as housing and building “creative communities of recent graduates,” he said.

“If we want our students to participate in the idea economy by being providers of idea capital, I think we have to work together with the city to figure out what would make remaining in [New Haven] after graduation attrac-

tive,” Salovey said.

But Salovey did not use his speech to address public safety, an issue that defines most Yale students’ perceptions of the Elm City. Although the city’s 15 homicides this year represent a significant drop from 2011, when the Elm City saw 34 murders, many Yale students continue to regard the streets beyond the University’s campus as unfriendly and dangerous.

Changing both these perceptions and the realities regarding public safety will likely need to be a top priority for Salovey if he hopes to convince more Yale graduates to stay in the Elm City after their four years in New Haven, city leaders said.

“The University needs to set the tone even before new students arrive,” Elicker said. “Orientations are more often about New Haven as a dangerous place rather than the opportunities it provides.”

Salovey has lived in New Haven since the early 1980s, when he first came to Yale as a graduate student.

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

Yale unconvinced by Harvard honor code HONOR CODE FROM PAGE 1 contract is not much different from an honor code that requires students to sign a pledge of honor on individual essays and exams.

Similarly, Harvard currently has “academic standards and handbook rules” in place, said Jonathan Jeffrey, a Harvard sophomore who is one of five students on the eight-person drafting subcommittee. But he added that, without a formal honor system, “there’s no unifying code on what we as a community believe.”

Harvard’s Committee on Academic Integrity is seeking to “institute a cultural shift” at the college, said Terah Lyons, a senior on the committee. If implemented, Harvard’s honor code would articulate a statement of community principles about academic integrity, she said.

Though Miller said Yale does not have a formulaic campus-wide approach like an honor code, she said the University still fosters discussions about academic integrity both in the classroom and the residential colleges. When faculty members apply to teach a new course, they are required to describe how they will address academic honesty, she said, which prompts faculty to think innovatively about how they might talk to students about the issue.

Still, Yale students said their professors have rarely addressed academic integrity and seem to expect students to have already internalized Yale’s standards.

“It’s a side comment before an exam,” Savina Kim ’16 said. “We don’t actually set the ground rules beforehand. There are just expectations.”

Lyons said that she has noted an uptick in conversations about academic integrity at Harvard ever since last year,

when approximately 125 students were investigated for cheating on a spring 2012 final examination. But while Lyons said discussion is a good start, she added that the honor code would add “extra dimensions of clarification and awareness.”

Students interviewed who attend schools with honor codes said a formal code helps create a sense of mutual accountability between students.

At Princeton, for example, students are compelled to write, “I pledge my honor that I have not violated the Honor Code during this examination” on their exams. Princeton exams have no proctors, and students are expected to report instances of cheating to the administration.

The Princeton honor code does not distinguish between cheating and failure to report cheating, said Zach Koerbel, a current Princeton sophomore. Violators on both those ends sit before an honor committee comprised of students who, according to Koerbel, enforce a standard penalty of a one-year leave of absence even for minor infractions like continuing to work past the end of an exam.

Miranda Sachs PHD ’17, who went to Princeton as an undergraduate, recalled “a sense of ownership and responsibility” that came with the honor code.

“I remember students talking my first year about how they felt uncomfortable watching their classmates, but it’s something you get used to and there’s a sense of pride that the professors are willing to trust you,” she said in an email to the News.

Harvard’s Committee on Academic Integrity has been meeting since the fall of 2010.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu .

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In the wake of last spring’s cheating scandal, Harvard’s Committee on Academic Integrity has begun drafting the school’s first honor code.

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Congress votes to end shutdown

BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Up against a deadline, Congress passed and sent a waiting President Barack Obama legislation late Wednesday night to avoid a threatened national default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown, the culmination of an epic political drama that placed the U.S. economy at risk.

The Senate voted first, a bipartisan 81-18 at midevening. That cleared the way for a final 285144 vote in the Republican-controlled House about two hours later on the legislation, which hewed strictly to the terms Obama laid down when the twin crises erupted more than three weeks ago.

The legislation would permit the Treasury to borrow normally through Feb. 7 or perhaps a month longer, and fund the government through Jan. 15. More than 2 mil-

lion federal workers would be paid — those who had remained on the job and those who had been furloughed.

After the Senate approved the measure, Obama hailed the vote and said he would sign it immediately after it reached his desk.

“We’ll begin reopening our government immediately and we can begin to lift this cloud of uncertainty from our businesses and the American people.”

Later, in the House, Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., said, “After two long weeks, it is time to end this government shutdown. It’s time to take the threat of default off the table. It’s time to restore some sanity to this place.”

The stock market surged higher at the prospect of an end to the crisis that also had threatened to shake confidence in the U.S. economy overseas.

Republicans conceded defeat after a long struggle. “We fought the good fight. We just didn’t

win,” conceded House Speaker John Boehner as lawmakers lined up to vote on a bill that includes nothing for GOP lawmakers who had demand to eradicate or scale back Obama’s signature health care overhaul.

“The compromise we reached will provide our economy with the stability it desperately needs,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, declaring that the nation “came to the brink of disaster” before sealing an agreement.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who negotiated the deal with Reid, emphasized that it preserved a round of spending cuts negotiated two years ago with Obama and Democrats. As a result, he said, “government spending has declined for two years in a row” for the first time since the Korean War. “And we’re not going back on this agreement,” he added.

Only a temporary truce, the measure set a time frame of early

this winter for the next likely clash between Obama and the Republicans over spending and borrowing.

But for now, government was lurching back to life. Within moments of the House’s vote, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, director of the Office of Management and Budget, issued a statement saying “employees should expect to return to work in the morning.”

After weeks of gridlock, the measure had support from the White House, most if not all Democrats in Congress and many Republicans fearful of the economic impact of a default.

Boehner and the rest of the top GOP leadership told their rank and file in advance they would vote for the measure. In the end, Republicans split 144 against and 87 in favor. All 198 voting Democrats were supporters.

Final passage came in plenty of time to assure Obama’s signature before the administration’s 11:59

p.m. Thursday deadline.

That was when Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said the government would reach the current $16.7 trillion debt limit and could no longer borrow to meet its obligations.

Tea party-aligned lawmakers who triggered the shutdown that began on Oct. 1 said they would vote against the legislation. Significantly, though, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and others agreed not to use the Senate’s cumbersome 18thcentury rules to slow the bill’s progress.

In remarks on the Senate floor, Cruz said the measure was “a terrible deal” and criticized fellow Republicans for lining up behind it.

McConnell made no mention of the polls showing that the shutdown and flirtation with default have sent Republicans’ public approval plummeting and have left the party badly split nationally as well as in his home

state of Kentucky. He received a prompt reminder, though.

“When the stakes are highest Mitch McConnell can always be counted on to sell out conservatives,” said Matt Bevin, who is challenging the party leader from the right in a 2014 election primary.

More broadly, national tea party groups and their allies underscored the internal divide.

The Club for Growth urged lawmakers to vote against the congressional measure, and said it would factor in the organization’s decision when it decides which candidates to support in midterm elections next year.

“There are no significant changes to Obamacare, nothing on the other major entitlements that are racked with trillions in unfunded liabilities, and no meaningful spending cuts either.

If this bill passes, Congress will kick the can down the road, yet again,” the group said.

Florida bullying case raises questions

BY TAMARA LUSH ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — When two girls, aged 12 and 14, were arrested in a bullying-suicide investigation in Florida, many wondered: Where were their parents and should they be held responsible?

The mother and father of the older girl went on national TV and defended their daughter — and themselves. They said they often checked their daughter’s social networking activity and don’t believe their daughter bullied Rebecca Sedwick to suicide, as authorities have charged.

Whether or not you believe the family, experts say parents should use Rebecca’s case to talk to their children.

“Sit down and say, `I know most kids won’t tell their parents, but tell me what you would want from me if you were being cyberbullied,’” said Parry Aftab, a New Jersey-based lawyer and expert on bullying.

She advocates a “stop, block and tell” approach. “Don’t answer back, block the cyberbully online and tell a trusted adult,” Aftab said.

In Rebecca’s case, she did talk to her mother about the bullying and even changed schools, yet the tormenting continued online, authorities said. About a month ago, Rebecca decided she couldn’t take it anymore and jumped to her death at an abandoned concrete plant.

It was a Facebook comment over the weekend that Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said led him to arrest the girls. He repeated the online post from the older girl almost word for word at a news conference Tuesday. “`Yes, I bullied Rebecca and she killed herself but I don’t give a …’ and you can add the last word yourself,” Judd said.

The sheriff was aggravated that the girl’s parents allowed her access to social networks after

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Polk County Sheriff personnel investigate the death of 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick at an old cement plant in Lakeland, Fla. Rebecca’s death and said he made the arrest so she wouldn’t bully anyone else.

In an interview with ABC News that aired Wednesday, the 14-year-old’s parents said their daughter would never write something like that and the girl’s Facebook account had been hacked, a claim police don’t believe.

“My daughter don’t deserve to be in the place she’s in right now, and I just hope that the truth comes to the surface so we can get out of this nightmare,” her father

told ABC News.

My daughter’s a good girl, and I’m 100 percent sure that whatever they’re saying about my daugher is not true.

Father of girl accused of cyberbullying A day earlier, he told The

Associated Press by phone: “My daughter’s a good girl, and I’m 100 percent sure that whatever they’re saying about my daughter is not true.”

The girls were charged as juveniles with third-degree felony aggravated stalking. The sheriff said even if they are convicted, they probably won’t spend time in juvenile detention because they don’t have a criminal history.

He identified the girls and showed their mug shots during the news conference, but AP

generally does not name juveniles charged with crimes.

Police also considered charging the parents, but so far can’t prove complacency or that they knew about the bullying, sheriff’s spokesman Scott Wilder said Wednesday.

Authorities said about a year ago, the bullying began after the 14-year-old girl started dating Rebecca’s ex-boyfriend. The older girl threatened to fight Rebecca while they were sixthgraders at Crystal Lake Middle School and told her “to drink

bleach and die,” the sheriff said.

She also convinced the younger girl to bully Rebecca, even though they had been best friends.

Judd said the younger girl had shown remorse while the older one was “very cold, had no emotion at all upon her arrest.”

The younger girl’s father told ABC News he wished he could have done more.

“I feel horrible about the whole situation,” he said. “It’s my fault, maybe that I don’t know more about that kind of stuff. I wish I did.”

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AROUND THE IVIES T H E D A I LY PRINCETONAN

Princeton considers Mamoun’s

BY EMILY TSENG New York-based fa l a fe l re s ta u ra n t Mamoun’s may open its Princeton location in January, owner Hussam Chater said Tuesday.

Chater, who now all aspects of PRINCETON oversees his father Mamoun’s business with his brothers Kinan, Galal and Nedal, had previously estimated a fall 2013 opening date for the newest branch of his family’s restaurant chain. Mamoun’s serves Middle Eastern cuisine, including falafel and shawarma sandwiches, tabbouleh and baba ghanoush at budget prices, according to its website.

The Princeton restaurant will occupy the storefront at 20 Witherspoon St. between the Subway sandwich shop and local Greek deli Olives. The family purchased the building last year, the Times of Trenton reported in July, and has received approval from the town’s Historic Preservation Commission to figure out how its storefront might conform with town standards for historical buildings.

We’d love to open as soon as possible, but […] realistically we’ll be opening in January.

HUSSAM CHATER Owner, Mamoun’s “We’re in the permit process right now, and we’re hoping for a quick turnaround so we can begin construction,” Chater said.

“We’d love to open as soon as possible, but with the way construction processes go, realistically we’ll be opening in January.”

The new falafel restaurant will be opening on the site of what used to be a mattress store.

Converting that “clean slate” space to a restaurant will take more time in permit-processing than expected, Chater explained.

The Princeton restaurant will be the chain’s sixth location, after its flagship location, one more New York City location on St. Mark’s Place, one location in Hoboken, one in New Haven, Conn. and one in New Brunswick. Chater said he expects the Princeton restaurant to look more like the chain’s roomier Hoboken and New Haven locations than its smaller New York City “hole-inthe-wall” falafel joints, but he added that the Princeton location will “look fancier than Hoboken.”

“In all other locations, we were always constrained by the site we had and the way the spot was built, but here we have an empty slate,” Chater said. “We have a lot more to work with.”

Expanding to Princeton has always been a goal, Chater said.

“If we had a choice, we probably would’ve opened in Princeton first,” he said, “but space and opportunity as it turns out was more available in the city.”

“It’s a very special town,” Chater added.

“It’s got a lot of history, a lot of robustness.”

The Mamoun’s business model is ideally suited for college towns, Chater said. One of the locations in New York City is located near the campus of New York University, the New Brunswick location is next to Rutgers University and the New Haven location is close to Yale University.

“To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men.”

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C O L U M B I A S P E C TAT O R

Students to vote on divestment

BY ELIZABETH SEDRAN AND TRACEY WANG For the first time in Columbia College history, students will be asked to vote on a ballot initiative emanating from a student group.

In addition to casting votes for their next University Senator from Wednesday to Friday, Columbia College students will be able to vote on a proposal for the University to divest from the 200 largest fossilfuel harvesting companies.

The resolution was written by Barnard Columbia Divest and ratified by the Columbia College Student Council Sunday night after 482 students signed a petition.

CCSC intends to vote separately as a council on BCD’s proposal at next Sunday’s meeting. Because the University Senate cannot declassify investment numbers, a CCSC vote would add pressure for the release of information about where the endowment’s funds are invested While the vote will not directly affect Columbia’s investment decisions, Daniela Lapidous, CC ’16, and president of BCD, said that it will publicize the issue and put pressure on administrators to consider divesting.

University President Lee Bollinger, however, has previously shot down the idea. At his first fireside chat of the semester last week, Bollinger fielded a question from a student about the divestment initiative. He said divestment serves as a symbolic gesture in response to social problems, and that he does not believe climate change warrants such action.

Columbia last divested from the government of South Africa in 1991, after students held demonstrations protesting South Africa’s policy of apartheid. But the decision to divest came more than 10 years after students began protesting the issue in 1978.

Lapidous believes that students need to take action where the administration has failed. Divestment from fossil fuel companies, she said, would be based upon moral opposition to the continued harvesting of fossil fuels.

“There’s a role of societal cornerstones: Our government has failed

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Students rally against the Keystone XL Pipeline in Washington, D.C., in February. us, business has failed us, so we’re the next level of widespread social responsibility here,” Lapidous COLUMBIA said. “If our administration is failing us, the next role is students.”

The ballot measure, she added, would ensure that students can voice their opinions about where the University is investing its money.

“We are the students that make up these schools. We give the school money—we are the school,” Lapidous said. “We don’t know anything about where the money is invested.”

“We hope to use support from the student body to show administrators that support for divestment exists,” she added. “The ballot initiative is to bring student voices to issues that really matter to this school. We want to make sure that we’re really representing other people as well.”

University Senator Jared Odessky, CC ’15, said that combining the ballot initiative with the University Sen-

ate special election will hopefully increase voter turnout.

Odessky added that he hopes that the complexity of the issue will strengthen the elections.

“This is a controversial issue to show that divestment is something students care about one way or the other, and in order to represent that, we’re going to need a strong basis of data to support it,” he said.

During the University Senate debates on Sunday, all nine candidates said that they support the divestment initiative. Overall student support, however, is more mixed.

Some students support the initiative wholeheartedly. Daniel Multer, CC ’16, said he plans to vote yes on divesting.

“We don’t need to invest in oil companies that are hurting the environment. It’d be better to invest in companies that are doing stuff that are helping the environment,” he said.

Nathan Kim, CC ’17, said that even though he had not heard about the campaign, he would also vote in favor of divestment.

“I’m all for a green environment,”

he said.

Other students are still undecided or are against the measure completely.

Marial Quezada, CC ’14, said she was undecided. She said she first heard about the issue at Bollinger’s fireside chat last week.

“I have to read the ballot first,” she said.

Sam Schipani, CC ’15 and a sustainable development major, said that she would vote against the divestment initiative. She argued that the money Columbia invests in these fossil fuel companies often funds research on alternative energy sources.

Schipani added that she’s had conversations with members of Barnard Columbia Divest, but she doesn’t see eye to eye with them on the issue.

“Their priorities are different.

They don’t believe in big business good, and that’s justified. But companies like Shell have made great strides in infusing sustainability into their regular corporate practices,” she said.

Schipani added that big business and sustainability do not necessarily have to be at odds.

T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

Harvard satisfied with mental health

BY QUINN HATOFF The majority of students who sought treatment for mental health care at Harvard University Health Services last year felt satisfied with their experience and said they would be willing to recommend their clinician to a friend, according to the results of a patient satisfaction survey released at a UHS-sponsored “Community Conversation” Tuesday night.

The UHS-administered patient satisfaction survey included responses from the approximately 1,000 students who used Mental Health Services in the past year.

74.5 percent of students said their treatment was helpful, 73.8 percent said they would personally recommend their clinician to a friend,

and 73 percent reported they would seek treatment again if they found themselves under the same circumstances.

HARVARD While only 37 percent of students reported receiving an appointment within the first week of making contact with MHS, Chief of Student Mental Health Services Katherine A. Lapierre said improvements have already been made to MHS in response to the mental health portion of the data.

“Today, 75 percent of students get their first appointment within a week. If you’re suffering, you shouldn’t have to wait that long,” Lapierre said.

Some of the changes implemented in the past year, according to Lapierre, include the hiring of an additional psychiatrist, the hiring of an additional therapist, and a reevaluation of the way clinicians manage their caseloads.

In addition to policy changes and increased staffing, Director of Harvard University Health Services Paul J. Barreira announced that students with Harvard-sponsored BlueCross insurance are now eligible for 40 visits to outside clinicians per year.

Last year, the number of outpatient visits was capped at 24, and two years ago, the cap stood at 12 visits per year. There is no cap on the number of visits for clinicians at UHS. Following a presentation of the statistics, students offered their

own ideas to improve UHS mental services. These suggestions included direct email communication from UHS and increased visibility of mental health services through posters.

Students thought the event offered an important forum through which to engage with administrators about mental health.

“I thought it was a fantastic beginning to what I hope is an ongoing, sustained discussion,” said Richa Gawande, a mental health advocate and graduate student at the School of Public Health.

The full results of the annual survey will made available on UHS’s website within the coming days, according to Barreira. In addition, UHS plans to co-host a panel on identifying depression in November.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 4:30 p.m. “Educating for National Security: The Little Prince and the Agricola.” As part of the National Identity Speaker Series, Jakub Grygiel will be speaking on international security.

Grygiel is the George H.W. Bush Associate Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Admission is free and open to the public. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Rm. 119.

8:00 p.m. “Beginners by Raymond Carver; or, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love.” In 1981, a writer and his editor made literary history. Twenty-five years later, the original manuscript surfaces and untold elements of the story come to light. This play tells a true story of friendship and loss that demonstrates how questionable the truth can be — particularly when it’s told by writers of fiction. Yale Cabaret (217 Park St.).

NUTTIN’ TO LOSE BY DEANDRA TAN

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 4:00 p.m. Costume Design Workshop. This workshop will provide students with a better understanding of what costume designing entails. Students are asked to bring their laptop computers, an article of clothing that is too large and an item that needs a button or hem altered. Students only. Register in advance with thomas.delgado@yale.edu. Rehearsal Lofts (294 Elm St.), Rm. 205.

5:30 p.m. “Blue Heron: Music for Canterbury Cathedral.”

Blue Heron is a professional vocal group that combines music and history into performance. Free to the general public. Marquand Chapel (409 Prospect St.).

DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 10:00 p.m “Sound Installation.” The Beinecke exhibition galleries will be filled with voices and sound experiments of poets, avant-garde musicians and sonic performers. Assembled by composer Matthew Suttor from music, recordings, and spoken word archives in the Beinecke Library. Free Admission. Beneicke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.).

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WORLD Iran nuclear talks optimistic

BY GEORGE JAHN AND JOHN HEILPRIN ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — Nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers ended on an upbeat note Wednesday, with top Western and Iranian negotiators announcing a followup round early next month while speaking of significant progress in efforts to reduce fears that Tehran may be seeking atomic arms.

Despite abandoning the pessimistic tone of previous meetings, however, negotiators refused to reveal details on what — if any — concessions Iran offered. That gives potential traction to skeptics who can claim the conference was aimed more at building trust and silencing critics at home than in resolving the thorny issues that have blocked progress over a decade of talks.

Iran denies suspicions that it wants nuclear arms and has resisted incentives and tough penalties aimed at curbing its atomic activities. But since reformist Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took office in August, senior officials from Rouhani on down have pledged to meet international concerns in exchange for an easing of crippling economic sanctions.

The post-meeting optimism expressed by senior Western and Iranian officials suggested that Tehran had put forward serious proposals at the two-day talks.

Catherine Ashton, the EU’s top diplomat, spoke of “a very intensive and, I think, a very important meeting,” while Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said he hoped for “the beginning of a new phase” between his country and some of its most vehement critics.

“I believe that both sides are serious about finding a resolution, that both sides want to find common ground,” Zarif said. “And I hope that my counterparts … will also take back home the fact that Iran is interested in resolving this issue.”

Zarif led the Iranian delegation while Ashton convened the talks.

Past sessions were often punctuated by months-long pauses as the two sides tried to find common ground. Ashton said, however, that the negotiations would reconvene Nov. 7-8 in Geneva.

A statement read by Ashton to reporters on behalf of both sides said the talks were “substantive and forward looking.”

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, Moscow’s chief negotiator, was more sparing with praise, describing the meeting as “better than many people thought, but worse than what we hoped for.”

A senior U.S. official said that while the six powers “got more today than we’ve ever gotten, there’s a whole lot more that we need to get and probably more that Iran wants to get from us … There’s a lot of detail that needs to be unpacked.” The official demanded anonymity as a condition for attendance at a background briefing.

A key six-power concern is enrichment, which can create both reactor fuel and weapons-grade material suitable for a nuclear bomb. Iran currently runs over 10,000 centrifuges, which have created tons of fuel-grade material that can be further enriched to arm nuclear warheads. That’s a relatively slow process with such reactor-grade material.

But Tehran also has nearly 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of higherenriched uranium in a form that can be turned into weapons much more quickly. Experts say 550 pounds (250 kilograms) of 20 percent-enriched uranium are needed to produce a single warhead.

With no details disclosed, it was unclear whether Iran had moved toward meeting any of the six-power demands left from the last round of talks in April. These include:

— suspension of enrichment above reactor fuel-grade levels — freezing of enrichment at an underground bunker believed impervious to airstrikes — no new centrifuge installations — placing uranium stockpiles under strict U.N. supervision and shipping out most of the higherenriched uranium closest to weapons-grade.

In exchange, the six — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — had offered some sanctions relief, but not on oil exports, Iran’s main cash cow.

Iranian state TV, which closely reflects government views, said Tehran offered to discuss uranium enrichment levels. The report also said Iran proposed adopting the additional protocols of the U.N.’s nuclear treaty — effectively opening its nuclear facilities to wider inspection and monitoring — if the West recognizes Iran’s right to enrich uranium.

But Zarif said implementing the protocols was not an issue “at this stage.”

No one should be impressed by what Iran appears to have brought to the table in Geneva.

MARCO RUBIO U.S. senator, Florida Even if the meeting achieved limited progress, the United States and Iran remain vulnerable to powerful forces back home that may scuttle the process without proof they are delivering on widely diverging goals. Iranian hard-liners want significant sanctions relief, while many members of the U.S. Congress want concrete reduction of the perceived Iranian nuclear threat.

The U.S. Senate’s Banking Committee is expected to take up a new package of restrictive measures in the coming weeks, similar to a bill passed by the House of Representatives in July. The House’s legislation blacklisted Iran’s mining and construction sectors, and committed the United States to the goal of eliminating all Iranian petroleum exports worldwide by 2015. A large majority of senators already have spoken out in favor of the new sanctions.

Sen. Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, introduced a Senate resolution Wednesday calling for additional sanctions on Iran.

“No one should be impressed by what Iran appears to have brought to the table in Geneva,” Rubio said.

“Tehran has broken its word far too many times to be trusted. Due to its complete disregard for previous international agreements, we must take a firm stand in all negotiations regarding the nuclear capabilities Iran is permitted to retain.”

Describing the Iranian overture as a “proposed approach,” not a proposal, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that she was not aware of any decision the Obama administration had made about whether or not to continue to ask Congress to hold off on placing additional sanctions on Iran until after the second round of talks convenes in early November.

For Iran, any proposed nuclear deal must pass through a potentially difficult review by Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, whose vast portfolio includes oversight of nuclear facilities.

Guard commanders have been openly resistant to Rouhani’s overtures to Washington and would likely oppose provisions that would appear to reduce their influence or open military sites to greater international inspection.

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Court not to imprison Navalny

BY LAURA MILLS AND ALEXANDER ROSLYAKOV ASSOCIATED PRESS KIROV, Russia — A Russian court decided Wednesday not to send opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison, a move that could have sparked major protests and made a martyr out of the charismatic 37-year-old.

The Kremlin, however, lives in dread of Navalny becoming a real politician, for he proved his influence when he snagged almost a third of the votes in Moscow’s recent mayoral election. The court, therefore, suspended Navalny’s five-year prison sentence but upheld his conviction for theft, which prevents him from running in future elections.

I don’t want … the reign of some kind of eternal Navalny with a few loyal followers … There have to be dozens.

ALEXEI NAVALNY Ruissan opposition leader Navalny’s flare for catchy slogans and rousing speeches made him a powerful voice in the demonstrations against President Vladimir Putin during the winter of 2011-’12. The protest movement has since fizzled, however, and Navalny himself has indicated that it’s time to find new tactics.

With no chance to run for office himself, Navalny will have to find other ways to channel his

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A Russian court decided not to send Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader, to prison. political energy and preserve the unprecedented grassroots network that galvanized Muscovites in the Sept. 8 mayoral election.

Navalny was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison on Jul. 18, but he was released the next day in what some considered a ploy to make the Moscow mayoral race, where he was registered as a candidate, look as competitive as possible.

He garnered an unexpected 27 percent of the vote against the Kremlin-backed incumbent. His growing public profile has made it increasingly risky for the Kremlin to put him behind bars.

Navalny lambasted the trial,

saying the original sentence had been handed down “on instructions from Moscow” and that the “political motivation of this case is absolutely clear.”

The charges against him date back to when he worked as an unpaid adviser to the provincial governor in Kirov. Prosecutors said he was part of a group that in 2009 embezzled 16 million rubles ($500,000) worth of timber from the state-owned company Kirovles. He has denied the charges.

The defense said a company run by Pyotr Ofitserov — Navalny’s co-defendant, who also was given a suspended sentence of five years — bought the timber for 14 million rubles and sold it for 16 million rubles in a regu-

lar commercial transaction.

Navalny, who spent much of the court session tweeting, was characteristically sarcastic and upbeat.

After the judge read out the sentence, Navalny told journalists he had no doubt that the decision had been made “personally by Vladimir Putin,” and said that “the authorities are doing their utmost to pull me out of the political fight.”

Under current law, Navalny is banned from running for political office for life. But last week Russia’s highest court ruled that parts of the law were unconstitutional and asked the legislature to amend it so that people would only be barred for the duration of their sentence.

Japan typhoon, mudslides kill 17

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Rescue workers look for survivors in the rubble of a house buried by mudslides after a powerful typhoon hit Oshima on Izu Oshima island.

BY MARI YAMAGUCHI ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday before sweeping up the Pacific coast, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting Tokyo’s transportation during the morning rush. At least 17 deaths were reported and nearly 50 people were missing.

Hardest hit from Typhoon Wipha was Izu Oshima island, which is about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Tokyo.

Rescuers found 16 bodies, most of them buried by mudslides, police and town officials said. Dozens of homes were

destroyed, and about 45 people were missing.

A woman from Tokyo died after falling into a river and being washed 10 kilometers (6 miles) downriver to Yokohama, police said. Two sixth-grade boys and another person were missing on Japan’s main island, Honshu, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.

More than 350 homes were damaged or destroyed, including 283 on Izu Oshima, it said.

The typhoon, which stayed offshore in the Pacific, had sustained winds of 126 kilometers per hour (78 miles per hour), with gusts up to 180 kph (110 mph), before it was downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday evening. The storm was moving

northeast, off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

More than 80 centimeters (30 inches) of rain fell on Izu Oshima during a 24-hour period ending Wednesday morning, the most since record-keeping began in 1991.

The rainfall was particularly heavy before dawn, the kind in which “you can’t see anything or hear anything,” Japan Meteorological Agency official Yoshiaki Yano said.

Izu Oshima is the largest island in the Izu chain southwest of Tokyo. It has one of Japan’s most active volcanoes, Mount Mihara, and is a major base for growing camellias.

About 8,200 people live on the island, which is accessible by

ferry from Tokyo.

Yutaka Sagara, a 59-yearold sushi chef on the east coast of the island, said he spent a sleepless night with colleagues at their company housing.

Their hillside apartment barely escaped a mudslide that veered off to the side. Later he found out the mudslide crushed several houses as it flowed to the sea.

“People on this island are somewhat used to heavy rainstorms, but this typhoon was beyond our imagination,” he said by phone.

Sagara came down to his seaside sushi restaurant on foot, wading through knee-deep mud, to check things out and make sushi for rescue workers.

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“Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.”

WAYNE GRETZKY CANADIAN HOCKEY PLAYER

Men’s hockey begins title defense MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 points while Agostino (17–24– 41) finished tied for first. Agostino, a Calgary Flames prospect, was picked on the preseason AllECAC team. The duo will anchor the Elis top line again this season and are expected to be the top goal scorers for the team.

Agostino turned down a chance to play in the NHL in order to return to Yale for his senior year, and most college hockey experts and coaches assume he will continue to be the Elis’ main scoring threat. He has featured in over 30 games in all three of his seasons for the Bulldogs and has increased his points production each year.

“Kenny is a phenomenal player and he’s also one of my best friends off the ice so I think that helps,” Root said. “He has a ton of skill and grit and I think that combination makes him a very effective player who is also very easy to play with.”

However, Yale will need more than just Agostino and Root to fill in for the departed players on offense. Classmate Clinton Bourbonais ’14 (4–13–17), who had a goal and an assist in Yale’s championship game again Quinnipiac, played an increasing role on offense towards the end of the season and will also be expected to carry the load on offense.

A trio of juniors will hope to help fill the gap up top as well.

Headlining the Class of 2015 are forwards Trent Ruffolo ’15 and Nicholas Weberg ’15. Ruffolo (4–7–11) led the class of 2015 in points last year. Weberg (4–7– 11) improved his numbers from the pervious year despite a concussion that caused him to miss much of the season. Anthony Day ’15 (1–4–5), who scored against North Dakota in the NCAA West Regional Final, played in every game last year for the Bulldogs and looks to set to play an important role this season as well.

Sophomore forward Stu Wilson ’16 (9–8–17), who scored two game-winning goals last season, led last year’s freshman class in points. Wilson played as a topsix forward for most of last season and is expected to add to his points tally as he continues to register big minutes. Forwards Carson Cooper ’16 (1–5–6) and Charles Orzetti (2–1–3), who scored in the National Championship game last season, are poised to step up after productive freshman campaigns.

The incoming freshman class brings five new forwards into the Yale lineup to help spark the Bulldog offense. John Hayden ’17, a third-round draft pick of the Chicago Blackhawks, and Frankie DiChiara ’17, who had 72 points in 75 games last season with the USHL Champion Dubuque Fighting Saints, are both powerful forwards who mix physicality with skill on the ice. The duo are expected to take on a large role in their inaugural season with the Bulldogs. Classmate Mike Doherty ’17 was second in scoring in the EJHL last season and is another freshman to look out for this season.

While the offense will need to be revamped, the Bulldogs can count on their solid defense from last season, as the Elis return six blueliners and add Dan O’Keefe ’17. The defense will be the Elis most experienced unit this year as they return all four top defensemen.

Tommy Fallen ’15 will return as Yale’s top offensive player in the group. He tied for fourth on the team with 23 points. Fallen, who was voted fastest on skates by his teammates, has always been known for his offensive potential having scored 20 points in his freshman season as well. Fallen’s partner Ryan Obuchowski ’16, who had a fantastic freshman campaign, can also be expected to be seen careening up the boards this year. Obuchowski had 12

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The Bulldogs return their top four defensemen from last year’s national champion ice hockey team. points and led the team in +/–, going +12, en route to receiving the team’s Freshman MVP honor. He was also named to the ECAC AllRookie team. The Michigan native was picked as one of the top-20 defensemen to watch in the college hockey season by the USCHO. Both Obuchowski and Fallen should feature on the power play and penalty kill units for much of the season.

Gus Young ’14, a three-year mainstay of the hockey program will return as the most experienced member of a talented unit.

The senior, who tied for the most penalty minutes on the team last season, is a rock on the blueline for the Bulldogs with his physical style of play. His partner Rob O’Gara ’16 rounds out the top four defensemen. O’Gara, a Boston Bruins draft pick, impressed this summer at the Bruins train-

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ing camp and will again receive top four minutes this year.

“Having all the boys back on the blue line is great for our team,” Fallen said. “Not only does it help in games knowing that we have a great working unit with experience but it also helps us in practice competing against really talented guys day in day out.”

The Elis will have to replace star goalkeeper Jeff Malcolm ’13. Yale will need one of its three goaltenders to step up if the team hopes to continue its success. Connor Wilson ’14 is the lone returning goalie.

He featured in only five games last season behind Malcolm’s backup Nick Maricic ’13.

Wilson’s relative inexperience leaves the door open for a pair of freshman net minders, Alex Lyon ’17 and Patrick Spano ’17.

“With the goalies, it is up to them to decide,” Fallen said. “All

three have proven themselves for Yale and their various other teams leading up to this season and we all have the confidence in them to step up.”

Yale has also made a coaching change, bringing in Jason Guerriero to replace the departed Red Gendron when he left to take over as head coach of The University of Maine. Guerriero will work primarily with the forwards this season. This shifts fourth year assistant Dan Muse into the role of coaching the defensemen. Muse has usually coached forwards in his career and will face a new challenge this season in coaching at the opposite end of the ice.

“Muse has been talking to other coaches around college hockey and has gained a wealth of knowledge from their incites over the off season,” Obuchowski said. “He is bringing new ideas to the d-core

“We are playing great and are confident that our team will represent Yale very well,” Sullivan said. “Hopefully, a Yale player will take home the singles title, and a Yale team will win the doubles title.”

Sherry Li ’17 also said that she was confident about the Elis’ prospects. She added that although she had only recently begun training with the team, she has made enormous strides in refining her game and learning what it takes to be successful going into a college tournament.

“I couldn’t possibly be in better shape,” Sherry Li said. “It’s the first ever away tournament for Caroline and me, and we’re both really excited.”

Sherry Li added that she was excited to see what the Bulldogs could do at the ITA Regionals, anticipating some stellar play from the team.

“I’m looking forward to the high level of

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MEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 12 we think he can continue that trend.”

Lu and Photiades will both feature as main draw entries for Yale this weekend, along with Dawson and Martin Svenning ’16.

Lu’s success has earned him the ninth seed out of 16. Brown, Daniel Faierman ’15, Hagermoser and Krumholz start their qualifying matches Thursday night for a chance to join their teammates in the main draw.

The Bulldogs are in a good position for the doubles draw as well. Chase, the team’s most experienced doubles player, was able to win his three matches at West Point with three separate partners. Brown, Krumholz, Faierman, Lu, and Hagermoser also picked up doubles wins at West Point to give the team momentum heading into the Regional Championships.

The Bulldogs have three doubles teams entered in the main draw. Seniors Chase and Dawson will combine for the most seasoned Yale pair. Brown and Hagermoser will play together and Lu and Svenning will make up an underclassman combination.

Our freshmen continue to shine and we believe that they can continue their success this weekend.

KYLE DAWSON ’14 Captain, men’s tennis Apart from showcasing the best collegiate talent in the Northeast, the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional Championships will send its champion

to the USTA/ITA Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, This tournament will feature top talent from across the country Nov. 7–10 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The Bulldogs will first focus on the task at hand and look to turn in a solid showing at the Regional Championships. Brown, Chase, Svenning and Matt Saiontz ’15 all notched victories at the event last year.

“We have been working extremely hard on and off the court to prepare for regionals,” Krumholz said. “If everyone competes and executes well, the results should take care of themselves.”

The tournament begins tonight at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center.

Contact NIKOLAS LASKARIS at nikolas.laskaris@yale.edu .

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

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Yale men’s tennis will host the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional Championship this weekend.

like different reverses behind net, keeping the puck on the forehand, and smaller things like edge work.”

The Elis start the season with question marks on offense and in the net, but they return a core of veterans who will look to replace key losses and continue to elevate the hockey program. Fallen stressed the Bulldogs will not be complacent heading into the new campaign and will set new goals for the team this season, while still aiming high.

“This year, we do not have the mentality that we are ‘defending’ anything,” Fallen said “Last year is over, now it is time to start fresh and improve throughout the entire year and come together as a team.”

Yale begins the new season Oct. 25 against Brown in Newark, NJ.

competition, and we’ve all been working really hard since the beginning of the year,” said Li. “I can’t wait to see what kind of damage the YWT will do this weekend.”

Sullivan, Yu, Amber Li ’15, Courtney Amos ’16 and Hamilton represented Yale at the tournament last season. In singles, Sullivan, Yu and Hamilton all advanced to the Round of 32. Hamilton and Yu advanced one stage further to the Round of 16 after trumping their opponents in straight sets.

In doubles, Sullivan and Hamilton worked together to reach the quarterfinals as the No. 4 seed. They knocked off pairs from Penn and Princeton en route to a top-eight finish.

Yu also reached the quarterfinals alongside recent graduate Elizabeth Epstein ’13.

This year’s ITA Northeast Regional Championship will be held from Oct. 18 to Oct. 22 at Harvard’s Beren Tennis Center.

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

Future bright for women’s hockey WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 about the potential of the incoming freshman class.

“The freshmen are definitely a step ahead of the game,” said goalie Jaimie Leonoff ’15.

“They’re all talented and hard-working. The team has a good atmosphere right now. All the upperclassmen are impressed. The freshmen have good attitudes, and they are all good at different things.”

Among the several talented freshmen is forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 from Zurich, Switzerland. Staenz was the Division 1 Player of the Year at Choate Rosemary Hall, in Wallingford, Conn., last year. Additionally, she played for Switzerland’s national team in the past three World Championships and is expected to play in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Although the team will look to its freshmen, the Bulldogs will rely on the steady Leonoff in net. The junior goalie had a 0.925 save percentage and 944 saves last season, which ranked 15th and fourth in the nation last year, respectively. Leonoff’s strong per-

formance last season garnered her a secondteam All-Ivy League selection and team MVP honors.

As the start of the season approaches, the Bulldogs have made their goals clear. The players not only want to make the playoffs; they want to compete at the top.

“There are twelve teams in the ECAC league,” defenseman Madi Murray ’15 said.

“Our team was voted to be ranked 10th out of the 12 teams this season. We want to change that. Our goal is to be a top-four team and make the playoffs. The top eight teams make the playoffs, but we want to be in the top four in the conference.”

Such ambitious goals, however, will not be easy to achieve. This season, the Bulldogs will play 10 games against teams ranked in the top eight nationally last season. These teams include defending NCAA champion No. 1 Minnesota, as well as No. 3 Boston College.

The Bulldogs kick off the regular season at Boston College on Oct. 19th.

Contact KEVIN CHEN at kev.chen@yale.edu .

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USTA/ITA NORTHEAST REGIONAL MEN’S TENNIS The Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center will play host to the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional Championships starting today and running through Tuesday, Oct. 22.

The top players at regionals move on to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in November.

Last year is over, now it is time to start fresh and improve throughout the entire year and come together as a team.

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Elis look for fresh start WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

BY KEVIN CHEN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s ice hockey team is back with high expectations and a rejuvenated roster full of talent and experience.

The Bulldogs came up just short of the ECAC playoffs last year, finishing four points behind Colgate for the final playoff spot.

Despite this, the team has made significant strides since the 2011–2012 season, when it won only one game. Yale returns its starting goaltender and its top five scorers from last year. These salty veterans will be joined by a promising crop of freshman players as the Elis set out to make a run to the playoffs.

“Our team has improved a lot in terms of speed and decision-making since last year,” said captain and defenseman Tara Tomimoto ’14. “Practices have been faster-paced and we all seem to be making better decisions with and without the puck.”

The captain added that the team’s new strength and conditioning coach, Emil Johnson, helped the teamwork out during the summer and has improved the team’s conditioning.

Tomimoto led the Elis with 12 assists last season and finished second with 14 points.

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A talented class of freshmen will look to help the Yale women’s ice hockey team improve on last year’s five-win season.

National champs return to the ice

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER Jesse Root ’14 has large skates to fill.

Root is replacing Andrew Miller ’13 as the captain of the 2013 National Champion Men’s Ice Hockey team as it approaches a new season with a winning mentality, and a shot at further glory.

MEN’S HOCKEY “First of all, it’s just a huge honor to be selected [captain] by my teammates and I’ll do everything I can to make sure we have another successful season,” Root said. “The captains before me were incredible in the way they handled themselves and the team. I tried to learn as much as I could from them and hopefully I can be as effective as they were.”

The team is coming in with a strong core of returning players and an influx of young talent. The Bulldogs (22–12– 3, 12–9–1 ECAC) lost five letter winners from the team that beat three of the four No. 1 seeds in last year’s NCAA Tournament. Four of those players are continuing their hockey careers in various leagues.

The Elis will have to work on replacing last year’s offensive talent but have a solid core to build off of. The Elis have lost their all-time career assists leader in Miller and perennial points producer Antoine Laganiere ’13 to the NHL, but Root, who scored three goals in Yale’s NCAA tournament run last season, returns with his line mate Kenny Agostino ’14 to lead the Bulldogs on offense. The Pittsburgh native (12–11–23) finished fourth on the team in SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 11

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The hockey team lost two of its top points leaders from last season to graduation in captain Andrew Miller ’13 and Antoine Laganiere ’13.

Women’s tennis set for regionals

BY MARC CUGNON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s tennis team will participate in the ITA Northeast Regional Championship, a five-day, singles and doubles tournament beginning on Friday and hosted by Harvard University.

The tournament will feature universities from across the Northeast, including a number of Ivy League opponents.

Unlike the Bulldog Invitational that Yale hosted on Oct. 4, the ITA Northeast Regionals is an individual tournament, meaning that the Elis will have a limited number of players representing them on the courts. These players will each compete in singles on their own and then team up to form doubles squads, matching up against pairs from the other featured schools. A sole singles champion will be declared upon completion of tournament play, as will a winning doubles pair.

WOMEN’S TENNIS Caroline Lynch ’17 will play in the qualifying singles round on Thursday. She will look to join Annie Sullivan ’14, Ree Ree Li ’16, Madeleine Hamilton ’16, Hanna Yu ’15 and Sherry Li ’17 in the main draw sin-

Bulldogs roll into Northeastern regionals

BY NIKOLAS LASKARIS STAFF REPORTER Ten days after a solid team showing at the West Point Fall Quad, the men’s tennis team is set to begin the United States Tennis Association (USTA)/Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Regional Championships, hosted

by Yale.

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Members of the women’s tennis team will travel to Harvard for the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional Championship this weekend. gles round, which begins on Saturday.

Ree Ree Li said that she expected the tournament to be a tough, but exciting challenge for the team.

“We’re expecting to battle in every match,” Ree Ree Li said. “But I think we’ll

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do really well this weekend.”

Coming off of a successful 2012 campaign, Sullivan said she had high hopes for the tournament.

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After a slow start to the season, the Bulldogs have steadily improved over the past few tournaments. The Elis notched a particularly impressive performance at West Point two weeks ago, where they went 24–7 overall against the competition. Alex Hagermoser ’17, Tyler Lu ’17 and Zach Krumholz ’15 went undefeated in singles match play and Jason Brown ’16, Patrick Chase ’14 and Kyle Dawson ’14 won all

of their doubles matches.

Lu is in the midst of a sevenmatch unbeaten streak in singles after winning his bracket at the Ivy Plus Invitational in late September. While his steady performance thus far has been a pleasant surprise for the team and coaching staff, Lu isn’t the only freshman who has played well.

Hagermoser’s success at West Point adds to a fall season that includes a semifinal appearance at the Princeton-Farnsworth Invitational, while Photos Photiades ’17 also picked up wins at West Point after being forced to sit out the first tournament of the season because of NCAA eligibility regulations.

“Our freshmen continue to shine and we believe that they can continue their success this weekend,” Dawson said. “Tyler Lu has been playing especially well and SEE MEN’S TENNIS PAGE 11

MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN’S TENNIS TEAM WHO WILL REPRESENT YALE AT THE USTA/ITA NORTHEAST REGIONALS. Madeleine Hamilton ’16, Ree Ree Li ’16, Sherry Li ’17, Caroline Lynch ’17, Annie Sullivan ’14 and Hannah Yu ’15 will all travel to Harvard this weekend for the tournament.