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CAMPUS GEARS UP FOR INAUGURAL BALL

312 candles. The University turned 312 yesterday. Yale came into being Oct. 9, 1701 when the General Assembly of Connecticut voted to pass an act founding a new collegiate school. University members commemorated the special day with a Claire’s Corner Copia cake embellished by three light-blue candles — “3 1 2.” In a show of Ivy League camaraderie, Dartmouth wished Yale a “Happy birthday from Hanover!” on Facebook.

An elm enters heaven. The renovations of the Yale University Art Gallery came with one casualty — an old American elm died during the construction and was marked for removal. Yet the dying elm tree, located in front of the Street Hall building on Chapel, was given new life this past weekend. Yale Bowls harvested wood from the tree and intends to reshape it, perhaps into one of their artisan bowls or pens. The Street Hall elm joins other beloved Elm City trees which have gone on to the Yale Bowls workshop, including the Timothy Dwight gingko and its fellow Phelps Gate elms.

Cheese of the season. After the fortunate staff members at New Haven’s favorite cheese vendor finished a group tasting Wednesday evening, Caseus officially launched its fall menu. The cheese haven elected to adopt a “duckcentric menu” this season, according to a staff member.

Items up for order include a duck and chicken liver mousse, duck carbonara and a Roquefort and duck salad.

Do not panic. An unsigned

note appeared by the elevator doors at 82-90 Wall St., which houses several foreign language departments. The messily-taped sheet of paper stated in all-caps letters: “Elevator is not working properly, if you happen to get stuck….. Remain calm and press another floor. The door is bound to open….. Just remain calm.” It was unclear what caused remaining calm to be specified twice.

Shut down. The real U.S.

government has shut down, but, true to its idealistic nature, West Wing Weekly continues. The students of WWW threw “what Donna Moss called a shutdown party” by watching “Shutdown,” episode 8 of season 5. In the episode, disputes between Congress and West Wing’s fictional president Josiah Bartlett caused the federal government to grind to a halt and leave all nonessential government employees temporarily out of a job.

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1947. Columbia sends a blimp over Yale distributing propaganda intended to demoralize students before the weekend game. Most flyers do not land over the campus, and Handsome Dan was seen eating a few that did manage to reach the University.

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Committee plans for colleges

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TENTS ON OLD CAMPUS Workers erected large white tents on Old Campus this morning in preparation for University President Peter Salovey’s official inauguration this weekend. Old Campus will host a Saturday night celebration open to all Yale students, featuring an “Inaugural Ball” where Salovey will be performing with his band.

Grad rates up despite gap

With Yale’s two new residential colleges slated for completion in 2017, faculty and administrators have begun planning for the first major increase in student enrollment in four decades.

A new faculty committee, formed this fall, will examine the expected impact of a 15 percent increase in Yale’s undergraduate population and recommend ways for the University to prepare for the expansion, according to Provost Benjamin Polak. Chaired by Polak and Yale College Dean Mary Miller, the committee will discuss how the University should adapt its educational offerings and resources for student life to support 800 additional students. “[The] committee is going to focus on what exactly we need to do to teach the new students — how many additional sections of organic chemistry do we need?” said Polak.

“It’s not very exciting, but it’s very important.”

To accommodate a 200-student increase in each class year, Yale will likely need to add more teaching fellows, Polak said. If the committee finds that freshman writing seminars need to be expanded, new English faculty members should be hired before the first larger class steps onto campus, he said.

Biology professor Douglas Kankel said while lecture-style classes are unlikely to see much SEE COLLEGES PAGE 6

Theater honors leaders

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER New Haven Public Schools’ high school graduation rates spiked eight percent between 2010 and 2012, according to a recent report published by the local non-profit DataHaven.

The report, released last week, reveals that while New Haven is still lagging behind the state in some measures of well-being, the city has scored measurable gains in education over the past two years. High school graduation rates in New Haven jumped from 63 percent in 2010 to 71 percent in 2012, while statewide graduation rates only improved by three percent over the same time frame.

Some say that these advancements in New Haven high school graduation rates can in part be attributed to the School Change Initiative, an aggressive education reform strategy launched in 2010 by the New Haven Public School District. As stated on the program website, the primary goal of the initiative is to eliminate the performance gap between students in New Haven and the rest of the state.

“Making sure students graduate high school in four years is a major goal of School Change, so the increase in the graduation rate is a clear sign we are heading in the right direction,” Director of New Haven Public Schools Communications Abbe Smith wrote in a Tuesday email to the News.

The School Change Initiative approached education reform by grading schools on three tiers based on student performance, levels of student growth and school learning environment. Higher tier schools were given more flexibility on how their schools operate. The program also involves new methods of recruiting, evaluating and developing its teachers and administrators, and established a citywide parent leadership organization to encourage parents to engage with their children’s education.

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Richard Levin and John DeStefano Jr. were given the Long Wharf Theatre’s Founders Award Wednesday.

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER When former University President Richard Levin and outgoing New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. first took office two decades ago, both Yale and the Elm City had fallen on hard times. Twenty years later, the retiring administrators leave behind a revitalized city and University — an improvement owing in part to the growth of the city’s arts community.

At a Wednesday ceremony held at the Union League Café, Levin and DeStefano received the Long Wharf Theatre’s Founders Award, which recognized the two for their contributions to New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre and broader arts scene. The theater confers the award on individuals and organizations that have shown the kind of profound dedication and commitment that characterized The Long Wharf Theatre’s founders, Artistic Director of Long

Wharf Gordon Edelstein explained in his opening remarks. Edelstein credited Levin and DeStefano with having helped transform New Haven into a vibrant artistic community — one in which a theater like the Long Wharf has been able to thrive.

“The performing and visual arts have played a huge role in attracting external visibility for the city,” Levin said in his speech, adding that during his tenure as president of Yale, both the University and New Haven have become influential aristic centers.

Levin cited the renovation of the Yale University Art Gallery as a sign of the University’s dedication to supporting the arts in New Haven.

Joshua Borenstein DRA ’02, managing director of the Long Wharf, said that Yale has also helped fund renovation projects at the theater in the past.

In his speech, DeStefano highlighted persistence and teamwork as values that he, President Levin and

the leaders of Long Wharf share.

“There’s not the same urgency of collaboration between Yale and New Haven now,” he said, explaining that when he took office, New Haven and Yale were facing challenges that they had to address together. Still, he added that Yale and New Haven’s joint history ensures they will continue to collaborate under the leadership of his and Levin’s successors.

Levin told the News he is “quite confident” that the arts at Yale will continue to thrive under President Salovey.

Steven Scarpa, director of marketing and communications at the Long Wharf, said that Yale and the theater share a “great collegial relationship.”

He cited sharing theater props as one of the ways the Long Wharf and Yale collaborate on a day-to-day basis.

Borenstein explained that the theater and New Haven also collaboSEE LONG WHARF PAGE 4

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t’s election night 2012, and I’m fidgeting in my seat at the Yale Daily News building. I’m supposed to help communicate with our reporters in Chicago and Boston. Instead I refresh The New York Times interactive graphic showing how many paths President Obama has to victory. I’m soothed, briefly.

Then I head to Twitter to check if any of the 300-odd political reporters, operatives or outlets I follow have called another state. Not yet, but we’re tantalizingly close, and my adrenaline is back.

For months, I’d been preparing for my first chance to be in the U.S. during a presidential election. I read — extensively, obsessively — and found a summer job at a liberal think tank in Washington. I checked my phone constantly: My Politico app and Twitter feed became faithful friends. Second by second, they told me about tiny political developments. I needed every detail.

I’d never followed an election back home in Pakistan this way.

For most of my adult life, we had a military dictator.

Come election night, I yelled out updates to the newsroom every few minutes. I cheered.

When it became clear Florida was going blue, I teared up. I lost my voice, but I kept up the frenzied chatter till 4 a.m.

Now, I’m fixated on the government shutdown and the risk that the U.S. will default on its loans. Here’s another fight I feel personally invested in. I am sickened by the handful of Republican legislators staging this drama, and I’m worried that they don’t know how seriously they are damaging their country’s standing — and what it stands for — in the world.

I have a Pakistani friend at Yale who thinks I’m wasting my time on day-to-day American politics. Worse, she adds, I am forsaking my own country: Can I name as many Pakistani senators as I can American ones?

My interest in American politics is not a betrayal of Pakistan. I’m gauging what makes this country work so I can try to fix my own. Right now, I can find deeper analyses of Washington’s inner workings than anything sources can give me on Islamabad.

My American friends think I’m strange for knowing more about their new Federal Reserve chairwoman than they do. I see their political system differently. I’ll always be annoyed when they blindly buy American exceptionalism and use “we” to talk about U.S. actions in the world, failing to separate self from state. I want them to look at the political scene as I do, like a keen but detached observer. But I know they aren’t

just observers — they are participants in and products of the system.

I have a different sense of why this country’s politics matter. To me, what counts is America as an example for other nations. The liberal principles in the Constitution give it a pretty great foundation. I so want this system, with its flaws and inequality and Citizens United and God-why-isn’tthere-some-filibuster-reform, to be a functioning democracy, because I think the world needs its superpower to be one.

What’s at stake in Washington’s battles isn’t just the functioning of this government or the next global economic shock.

I hope Congress can see that as it turns this nation into a laughingstock worldwide, it is undermining international supporters of the American experiment in rights and freedoms.

Some retrograde Republicans say things about rape, labor and Ayn Rand that make me want to scream. They’re about to push America off a scary precipice with the default. But take it from a foreigner: They aren’t as terrifying as some of the people outside this country who can’t wait for the U.S. to fail. They’re watching, just like I am, ready to label America a bad example. “They” means Taliban recruiters back home who mock American misadventures in the Middle East and Vladimir Putin using U.S.-friendly rhetoric in a New York Times op-ed as his security forces hound journalists. They’re glad that Washington has become its own worst enemy. Now, they can set their own terrifying examples.

Earlier this week, I was working on a group project about U.S.-China relations.

Three of us were international students, and one was American. We wanted the brief to be pragmatic, with few references to America as “we” or assumptions of inherent superiority.

Still, the American member of our team felt we needed a final rhetorical flourish. She added a quote from Lincoln.

The other internationals whispered, “typical American.” I read the quote and smiled. Abe was on point. One hundred and fifty-one years ago, addressing the same body that today threatens to shatter confidence in this nation’s promises, Lincoln told America and the world that he would not back down.

“We shall,” he proclaimed, “nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth.” Today’s American leaders owe the world the same promise.

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Yale and her outrage

GUEST COLUMNIST AKBAR AHMED

Will America fail the world?

get on that.”

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hy don’t Yale students of today experience outrage and act on it?

At a dinner a few days ago, I heard this question from a university administrator who has been at Yale for decades. Initially, it sounded odd: We are all overwhelmingly accustomed to the third rails of Yale culture. Any person to suggest that Breaking Bad may be overrated (which is an irredeemable opinion) or that Hillary Clinton does not actually rain manna down from the sky (which isn’t) is sure to receive a response ranging from a twitch of the eye to a piercing rebuke.

The point of the question, though, was not to suggest that we lack strong opinions. Rather, when it comes to acting on them, we are the “second silent generation.” Our behavior is in line with those who preceded the radicals of the 1960s. We just don’t get that angry. Injustice of whatever fold still exists around us, but we don’t seem inclined to shout it from the rooftops or — more fittingly — outside Woodbridge Hall.

For the outrage-inclined, it seems that we are, at best, a bunch of Tony Soprano’s Gary Coopers — those “strong, silent types.” At worst, we are incredibly fortunate individuals crippled by a combination of shallow pragmatism and selective apathy.

This is not the norm every-

where.

On other campuses, radicals still flourish. This past April, the campus advocacy group “ Da r t m outh HARRY R e a l Ta l k ” GRAVER stormed into a freshmanGravely week show to shout, Mistaken “ Da r t m o u t h has a problem,” their unsolicited mantra on the school’s sexual culture.

Last May, a fossil fuel divestment organization at Swarthmore took over a meeting of the university’s Board of Managers, with the hundred-plus person crowd shouting down students and administrators alike. “F**k Your Constructive Dialogue,” one of the protest leaders wrote in a column published afterward.

Granted, these are watereddown examples compared to the extremism of the Vietnam era, but they are still cut from the same cloth: one that holds vociferous demonstration as the best way to be heard and fear as an instrument, not a boundaryline.

At any rate, we just don’t seem to have a taste for the same flare here. Recently, the organization Y-Syndicate tried to simultaneously manufacture and fill this

demand. “We seek to increase resistance to our campus’s temptations of unjust power, despondent apathy, and paralyzing complacency,” they wrote in a statement of purpose. Yet, a few sparsely attended protests later, their relevance went the way of our dads’ Woodstock memories.

Even when there are protests on Yale’s campus, the shortlived cry of participants seems to be: “When do we want it? Now! (Because seriously, I have a case interview to prep for and two papers next week).” Business is usual at Gourmet Heaven; YaleNUS is here to stay; Peter Salovey was a successful heir apparent; Goldman Sachs still recruits here; the all-stars of the Iraq War are comfortably at Jackson; DKE hasn’t been razed to the ground; etc.

Some lament this state of affairs and put a few common culprits up to blame. Perhaps the Yale student body has grown too pre-professional to risk any aspect of their employability by touching any controversy. Or, maybe the most important battles have already been fought — what can a bunch of undergraduates actually do in 2013? Or, our inspiration has just been dulled by technology, as the ease of changing our profile pictures or sharing a link dampens any sense of urgency.

Nostalgia for the ways of rad-

In favor of super seniors

AKBAR AHMED is a senior in Davenport College and a former arts & living editor for the News. Contact him at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .

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ical generations past is a poor solution in search of a problem.

The fact that sustained protesting doesn’t seem to come naturally to us anymore is not indicative of our generation’s softened character. Inviting speakers, volunteering, writing columns or even — God forbid — entering the private sector before feeling comfortable enough to confidently comment on the woes of our current institutions all seem like outgrowths of a more thoughtful march of genuine progress.

We are absolutely a calmer generation than the one of our parents. While we do not have the glaring issues of the Civil Rights Movement or Vietnam as bold impetuses for behavior, one cannot say our college years have been without perceived injustices, from Title IX violations to the Obama administration’s contraception mandates.

We care. And our tone shouldn’t be conflated with apathy, a mistake often made by lingering pockets of radicals. We feel outrage, but we also find channels. Our generation at Yale certainly has its faults: but being able to find our voice without putting it down someone’s throat isn’t one of them.

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very year, I am struck by the number of people who take time off from Yale and the energy they bring with them when they return to campus. Whether to sing with the Whiffenpoofs, work on a political campaign or refocus their mental energy, all of my friends have returned with a renewed appreciation for their time at Yale.

But most of these students came to this decision by way of chance. As it stands, those who take time off generally do so either because they’ve been unexpectedly offered a yearlong position — resulting from a summer internship, for example — or because they strongly feel they are not using their time at Yale well. For many in the second group, making this decision is difficult and certainly not one generally built into the accepted system of Yale. But for students in both categories — at least if the 11 individuals I spoke with are any sample size — it was one of the best decisions they could have made in regards to their academic careers.

The current policy — which

allows students to withdraw 10 days into the semester with no repercussions for up to two semesters — makes it easy for the students who are confident in their decision to take a leave of absence. But for the average student, Yale is four years long, and there is little awareness that there is any other option. Even if they feel that the time and distance would be positive, the decision seems too drastic.

But if Yale is serious about producing leaders for the next generation, it should more actively encourage students to consider taking time off. The vast majority of us come to Yale with almost no understanding of who we are outside of our identity as students. The Light Fellowship, which funds students to take a year off to live in Asia, is a great example of how Yale can encourage productive time off.

There is a little-known precedent to a more encouraging policy. In the 1970s, President Kingman Brewster instituted the Yale-Carnegie Five Year B.A. Program, a selective opportunity that allowed about 15 stu-

dents a year to take time off in the developing world, gaining real work experience and learning the local language. Although the program ended after a few years, mostly due to a lack of funds, it is the type of program that I think many at Yale would benefit from.

Robert Bildner ’72+1 spent a year in Iran following his sophomore year, an opportunity he feels “was probably the most valuable experience of [his] undergraduate [career] at Yale.”

He returned to Yale’s campus a different person, with a renewed sense of what he wanted to study and how he wanted to take advantage of his time on campus.

He still speaks Persian to this day.

The biggest drawback to taking time off, both for Bildner in the 1970s and for Yalies today, is the loss of class identity. Yale is built around the residential college system, and one’s graduating class is often fundamental to how one identifies on campus.

Coming back to a campus where most of your friends have graduated can definitely be jarring for students.

This is a trade-off that stu-

dents must consider, but it should be part of an active consideration. The decision to stay at Yale for an uninterrupted four years is currently made far too passively by the vast majority of students — many of whom would probably benefit from taking the time to learn more about themselves and reconsider what they want from this incredible university.

This is the time in our lives that we are supposed to learn about ourselves. While I reject the idea that these are the “shortest, gladdest” years of life (as a senior, I’m hoping there is still a lot of gladness coming my way), I do recognize that if there is any period of my life I’d like to elongate, it is probably now. Some of my friends are excited to be done with school and get out into the real world. I get that. Kind of. But why rush through your twenties to arrive earlier to the stable career you’ll stay in for decades?

SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a senior in Pierson College. Contact her at shira. telushkin@yale.edu .

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“Life doesn’t imitate art. It imitates bad television.” WOODY ALLEN AMERICAN SCREENWRITER

Nussbaum talks TV

Shubert dominates finance meeting

BY DAVID BLUMENTHAL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

ALLIE KRAUSE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Emily Nussbaum discussed what makes TV shows commercially successful at a Branford College Master’s Tea.

BY LARRY MILSTEIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At a Branford College Master’s Tea Wednesday afternoon, Emily Nussbaum, television critic for The New Yorker and an editor-at-large at New York Magazine, spoke to a group of roughly 50 students about television, technology and journalism.

Nussbaum spoke about how television influences audiences and how the development of new technology such as TiVo and DVDs has allowed television to be viewed as art as well as entertainment. Although the tea was delayed by an hour due to a “traffic snafu,” according to an email from Branford Operations Manager Susan Anderson, Nussbaum didn’t let that time go to waste. She allowed students to ask her questions via text message, and her replies — ranging from her favorite “Sex and the City” characters to her current writing projects — were then read aloud at the event.

After Nussbaum’s arrival, Branford Master Betsy Bradley GRD ’96 began the talk with a question on the relationship between digital culture and the growth of television. Nussbaum replied by mentioning how her interest in television criticism initially began on Internet discussion boards, such as Television Without Pity, and dates back to her days of watching “Dawson’s Creek.”

“Television is a form that is historically condescended to — it is graded on a curve because people do not take it as seriously as they should,” she said. “Being critical of a TV show … raises the quality of television as a whole.”

When asked if she believed television could be considered an academic discipline, Nussbaum said there is already an academic field that exists around discussing television — even if it exists primarily online and “may not occur within the confines of an established institution.”

Nussbaum described how her path to becoming a writer was not a traditional one. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1988, she tried her hand at a wide range of fields, including working at a women’s shelter, writing 70 pages of a novel and contributing to Lingua Franca, an academic magazine.

Although she attributed much of her professional success to lucky timing, her cardinal piece of advice to the audience was to work for talented editors. Nussbaum noted that she began writing for The New York Times when her editor at Slate, Jodi Kantor, became the editor of The New York Times Arts & Leisure section.

“Never disbelieve that knowing people helps,” she said. “It is important to have a political sense of what is going on in the journalism world.”

She also told students interested in writing professional criticism that they need to be confident and “have swashbuckle” about their ideas.

Nussbaum mentioned “The Wire,” “Scandal” and “30 Rock” as some of her favorite shows. She said she is particularly proud of a piece she wrote for The New Yorker website — titled “In Defense of Liz Lemon” — that responded to backlash over the changing tone of Tina Fey’s character.

When she is writing her columns, Nussbaum said she often needs to find ways to insert criticism because

her default response to television is optimistic. Still, she noted that when she does find fault, the show “cannot simply be bad — it must be bad in a meaningful way.”

Nussbaum also explained that shows do not have to be cinematic or expensive to be meaningful. She cited “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “The Sopranos” as two examples of shows that, while differing in style and budget, were both successful.

Still, Nussbaum stressed the limitations of her knowledge of television, specifically on the business end of things.

“I am always wrong about what will be a commercial success,” she said.

After the talk, students expressed appreciation of Nussbaum’s advice and honesty in approaching the field of journalism.

Jack Newsham ’14, a former deputy opinion editor for the News and chairman of The Yale Record, which sponsored the Master’s Tea along with Branford College, said that he found Nussbaum entertaining and that the “crowd hung onto what she was saying.”

Caleb Madison ’15 said Nussbaum’s voice in person sounded exactly the way he imagined from her writing. For Dara Eliacin ’15, the most interesting part of Nussbaum’s talk was hearing about the influence of social media on the way viewers engage with television.

In addition to television, Emily Nussbaum said she enjoys fiction, memoirs, poetry, stand-up comedy and Broadway musicals.

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

Last night, the Board of Aldermen’s Finance Committee voted seven to three to allow the full Board of Aldermen to decide the future of one of New Haven’s most historic cultural landmarks.

The major agenda item for the meeting was Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s plan for a New Haven landmark: The Shubert Theatre. The mayor’s plan calls for shifting the theatre’s ownership to the Connecticut Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA), along with the city contributing funds to the Shubert Centennial Campaign, attempting to resolve a decades-old urban issue.

The theater, one of New Haven’s most storied institutions, premiered “A Streetcar Named Desire” in 1947 and “South Pacific” in 1949. But the Schubert followed a trend — begun in the 1960s — of theaters in medium-sized cities becoming marginalized entertainment options due to suburban flight and increased building costs. Despite its fame, people have begun to question whether the theater is worth the approximately $300,000 annual payments it receives from the City of New Haven.

“1983 was the last time we put in significant capital resources to make the theater competitive again,” the Economic Development Office’s deputy administrator Michael Pisticelli said while testifying.

The proposed Land Disposition Agreement calls for a one dollar purchase of the Shubert Theatre by CAPA, followed by a series of payments of $3 million by the City of New Haven, which will be matched by state money.

Prior to the meeting, Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 remarked that this model of nonprofit trust management of historic theatres had been successful in both Columbus, Ohio. and Pittsburgh, Pa. and was a viable solution for the 21st century.

“The true benefit is looking at a longterm plan,” Hausladen said.

Both business and labor leaders were on hand to back the Economic Develop-

ment Office’s efforts.

Winn Davis of the Town Green District and Business Community emphasized the importance of the Shubert to New Haven’s downtown revitalization.

Robbie Nasser, rooms director for the Omni New Haven Hotel, estimated that, every time a show came to the Shubert, 30 to 50 rooms were reserved for stagehands and actors.

Representatives of the stagehands’ union Local 74 were also on-hand to express their support.

But as for the details of the plan itself, various attendants expressed concern that the proposal did not satisfactorily account for the value of the Shubert.

Ward 16 Alderwoman Migdalia Castro said the $1 price tag meant the city was “giving” the Shubert to CAPA, rather than treating the organization as one in a semi-competitive market.

In an interview after the meeting, Castro reiterated her belief in the principle of helping nonprofits, but expressed concern that the Board has to watch citizens’ tax dollars carefully — the lack of an appraisal for the Shubert’s sale was unacceptable for her, she said.

“Nowadays, in this economy, nothing is for free,” Castro added.

Castro’s concerns reflected those of Greg Joyner, a New Haven resident and the sole person to testify against the proposed sale. He said his reservations were born in his fear that taxpayers in the city of New Haven will not be able to afford it.

Despite Joyner being vastly outnumbered, signs abounded that discussion over plans for the future of New Haven’s Shubert Theatre are far from over.

Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, who voted against the move, said his vote reflected the inconclusivity of the meeting.

If the current Land Disposition Agreement is approved, a ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned to take place in October 2014, in time to celebrate the theater’s 100th anniversary.

Contact DAVID BLUMENTHAL at david.blumenthal@yale.edu .

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There was much public testimony regarding the future of the Shubert Theatre.

Four novelists discuss Internet age

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The novelists discussed the challenges of selling books in the digital age at a Morse College Master’s Tea.

BY LIA DUN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Internet has created significant challenges for writers, according to four best-selling novelists.

On Wednesday afternoon at the Morse Crescent Theater, David Baldacci, Sue Grafton, Alice Hoffman and Scott Turow spoke to approximately 20 members of the Yale community about writing in the modern age. The

rise of the Internet has created many copyright and intellectual property ownership issues for writers, they said.

“I think it’s important to remember that Apple, Amazon, Google and these kinds of com-

panies are all for-profit businesses that are out for themselves,” Turow said. “Before, writers just had to duke it out with their editors. Now, they’re up against these big companies that are not necessarily looking out for the public good.”

Turow, author of the bestselling thriller “Presumed Innocent,” spoke about contemporary challenges for publishing academic writing in particular. Large companies like Google often make academic works widely available for free, sometimes without the author’s consent, he said, adding that websites like Google Scholar have encroached on scholars’ ownership of their work.

“A lot of people are enhancing their position at the expense of writers,” Baldacci said. “There are publishers online who don’t want to spend a lot of money on royalties. There are also companies like Amazon that are determined to sell books at the lowest price.”

Though Baldacci said the Internet provides helpful publicity for bestselling authors, he added that online publishing worries him because it discourages new writers who will not get compensated for their work.

The panelists also talked about the future of the novel as an art form and how traditional books must now compete with TV and the Internet.

Baldacci said he was once asked to write a three to five minute television episode for the Internet.

“My first reaction was, ‘You want me to write something that makes people’s attention span even shorter and makes them less likely to read my novels?’” Baldacci said.

Still, he said he believes in the traditional novel’s ability to attract readers. If a story is good enough, people will keep reading it, he said.

A lot of people are enhancing their position at the expense of writers.

DAVID BALDACCI American Novelist The four writers also spoke about their own personal experiences and writing habits.

Grafton said she previously wrote scripts in Hollywood but found that the profession did not suit her.

“There were all these people who couldn’t write going through my work with their golden pencils,” she said. “I learned from Hollywood that I’m not a team player.“

Grafton, who writes detective novels, advised aspiring mystery writers to focus not on the mechanics of writing but on how to create and develop characters.

Hoffman, who is best known for her 1996 novel “Practical Magic,” said that her biggest challenge was retaining “purity” in her writing even after she had graduated with her master’s degree from Stanford and had become a professional writer.

“At Stanford, we weren’t thinking about publishing, just about the writing,” she said. “But now that I’m a professional, I have to keep bringing myself back to that initial purity.”

Students interviewed had differing opinions about the Master’s Tea. Though Adam Echelman ’17 said he enjoyed hearing about the authors’ own experiences, he added that the talk primarily consisted of general writing advice that “sounded a little hackneyed.”

“The part when they were talking about their experiences and attitudes was fantastic,” Jack O’Malley ’17 said. “It’s striking to hear how these bestselling authors really developed.”

Baldacci’s latest novel, “The Hit,” was published Apr. 2013.

Contact LIA DUN at lia.dun@yale.edu .

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He added that the Long Wharf conducts a program allowing retired New Haven residents to create theater based on their life experiences.

Barbara Lamb, who served as Director of Cultural Affairs in the Mayor’s Office from 2000 until 2011, said that while other cities across the country have been eliminating arts programs due to budget cuts, DeStefano has insisted on maintaining New Haven’s Cultural Affairs Office, which serves as an interface between the city’s arts community and City Hall. The office organizes economic development projects for artists, coordinates arts events, commissions and documents public artwork and sponsors community programming in the arts. Lamb added that DeStefano used to host luncheons with New Haven’s major arts figures “to make sure he heard the artists’ voices.”

In his speech, Levin traced his lifelong love of the arts back to his grandmother, who designed costumes for the San Francisco Bay

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Mayor John DeStefano Jr. discussed how Yale and New Haven had worked together to better the city’s arts scene.

Opera Company. He spoke of his semester abroad in Italy, where he studied Renaissance art and fell in love with his wife, and of their two years together at Oxford, during which they frequented the city’s major theaters. Levin said that before assuming the duties of Yale president, he and his wife rarely missed a production at the Long Wharf.

“We’ll be back [at the Long Wharf] now,” Levin said, explaining that he will now have more time to attend arts-related events in New Haven.

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In addition to an improved graduation rate, the district has also seen scores increase on the Connecticut Academic Performance Test, a standardized test administered statewide to 10th grade students. District gains in both math and science scores surpassed statewide gains from 2012 to 2013.

Still, New Haven’s elementary education has room for improvement. One measure of elementary educational achievement is third grade reading level, which strongly predicts a student’s chances of graduating from high school. While third-grade reading proficiency in New Haven did increase from 18 percent to 33 percent between 2008 and 2012, New Haven lags behind this year’s statewide average of 56 percent proficiency, according to the report.

Another issue in elementary education is chronic absences in grades k-3, DataHaven Executive Director and author of the report Mark Abraham ’04 said.

The report states that students in New Haven were four times more likely than students in Outer Ring suburbs to miss at least 10 percent of the school year.

“These kids are going to fall behind their peers, so bringing down the chronic absences is really critical in improving graduation rates overall,” Abraham said.

The report also highlights an achievement gap between students living in higher and lower income neighborhoods of Greater New Haven. While 58 percent of third graders from high-income families in Greater New Haven are reading at or above goal level, only 17 percent of those from low-income families are hitting the benchmark proficiency, the report shows.

These academic disparities by class and race are present when students enter kindergarten, said Senior Policy Fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children Robert Cotto. Even though kids are making progress in reading and math at the same pace, he said, those who start out behind do not always catch up.

“The disparities in achievement map onto disparities in early learning,” Cotto said. “And since we can’t accommodate for outside of school factors, the best intervention we have at the moment is improving access to high-quality pre-schools.”

Cost is one of the major barriers to kindergarten readiness. 86 percent of all infants and toddlers from low-income families are not served by state or federal subsidies for early care and education, according to Connecticut Voices for Children.

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Initiative preps Yale for climate change

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new initiative from the Yale Climate & Energy Institute will model the effects of climate change over the next century to help the university prepare for the impact of global warming.

The effort is a partnership between researchers at Yale, the University of New Hampshire, University of MassachusettsAmherst and MIT to understand how climate change will shape the environment in the northeast United States. The project will analyze the impact of climate change on issues including the role of aerosol in warming the planet, ecology, agriculture, sea levels and forests. With the initiative, Yale hopes to be proactive in protecting its campus from the long-term effects of climate change, director of YCEI Mark Pagani said.

I hope what we do will be viewed as a model for other principalities and institutions.

MARK PAGANI Director, Yale Climate & Energy Institute “All of the imminent climate changes will impact the economy,” he said. “People want to build infrastructure that will last for 100 years, not just 10 years and then be damaged by rising groundwater and seawater levels.”

The recent superstorms Nemo and Sandy demonstrate the need for Yale to consider the changing climate in designing and renovating buildings on campus, Pagani said. With this initiative, Yale is hoping to understand how to prepare for the numerous effects of climate change.

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A new initiative from the Yale Climate & Energy Institute will model the effects of climate change over the next century. be viewed within a small bubble but rather under the umbrella of the entire northeastern region, Pagani said. To understand the impact of climate change on Yale, he said it is important to study the Northeast region because its weather patterns are so unique.

One of the first projects will explore how climate change influences patterns of Lyme disease.

Since ticks carrying Lyme disease are particularly sensitive to changes in temperature and humidity, climate change may influence Lyme disease transmission, Yale School of Public Health professor and project collaborator Maria Diuk-Wasser said in an email to the News. In particular, the Lyme disease pathogen thrives with increasing temperature, which suggests climate

change may worsen the disease, she added.

The study also plans to create regional temperature and precipitation projections for future scenarios of CO2-induced global warming. The team is particularly interested in aerosols because they mask the effects of global warming, Yale professor of geology and geophysics Trude Storelvmo said in an email to the

News. She added that the current generation of climate models now predict that the global temperature will increase one to six degrees Celsius by 2100.

While the initiative is currently funded by the universities involved, Pagani said he hopes to attract external grant funding for the project.

“I hope what we do will be viewed as a model for other prin-

cipalities and institutes” Pagani said.

Climate change threatens to reduce GDP by $22 billion and cost 100,000 jobs in New England by 2050 if left unaddressed, according to the American Security Project.

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

CitySeed brings famer’s market to Green

BY VIVIAN WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The New Haven Green is celebrating its 375th birthday with its first-ever farmer’s market, which opened this summer to great fanfare.

Until last year, the proprietors of the Green had never allowed a commercial business to operate on their grounds in order to preserve the space’s unobtrusive environment. But last spring the five-member committee decided to invite CitySeed - a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable food- to invite a group of vendors to a farmer’s market in honor of the Green’s big anniversary.

The New Haven Green farmer’s market opened this past June, drawing hundreds of people every Wednesday to browse its fresh-baked goods and locally grown produce. The market, which moved from its previous location in front of City Hall, is now situated on the corner of Chapel and Temple Streets. The Green location is one of five farmer’s markets CitySeed operates around New Haven.

The downtown market, which is open once a week, is composed of twelve different vendors, and typically sees anywhere from 300 to 500 customers each day, according to Julia Zhao, CitySeed’s Assistant Market Manager. This is an increase in both the number of vendors and number of customers from the City Hall location.

This increase might have to do with the market’s easy accessibility to public transportation, said Sandra Rose, manager of Rose’s Berry Farm.

The Green’s location on a bus line has attracted a more diverse customer base, from lower-income shoppers to University students.

“It’s nice having the market on the Green right in the center of town,” said Alison Adams, a New Haven resident, adding she used to visit the City Hall market about once a month, but now frequents the downtown location every other week.

“When it was right on the sidewalk in front of City Hall, it was more difficult to navigate,” she said.

Vendors expressed satisfaction with the market’s new location as well. For Stacia Monahan, co-owner of Stone Gardens Farm, the Green provides aesthetic advantages, such as shade from trees and a wide sidewalk, as well as practical advantages, like closer parking.

The market was a bit slow when it first opened, possibly due to inefficient communication about the location change, according to Matt Pesce, a Rose’s Berry Farm employee. But it quickly picked back up due to its new accessibility and location.

“Whenever you move a market, there is some transition with the population, with who comes and who doesn’t anymore,” Berube said. “Overall it’s been a pretty positive transition, but there are always kinks to work out.”

The farmer’s market will be open through Nov. 27.

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The CitySeed Farmer’s Market opened this summer to celebrate the 375th anniversary of the New Haven Green.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.wang@yale.edu.

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Yale looks to future influx of new students

COLLEGES FROM PAGE 1 change, Yale does not currently have enough laboratory space to accommodate a larger student body. Kankel said this problem will be fixed before the new residential colleges are opened: Sterling Chemistry Laboratory is currently undergoing a major renovation slated to finish by fall 2016 that includes laboratory expansions.

The last time Yale assessed the consequences of adding two new residential colleges to the school was in 2008, when two committees appointed by then-University President Richard Levin produced a 100-page report detailing recommendations that committee members felt should be carried out if the “proposed expansion goes forward.” Some of the recommendations included creating a security plan for the area surrounding the new residential colleges, adding transportation to help students travel between the colleges and central campus and creating more space for fitness and recreation resources in the Science Hill area.

Polak said in a Wednesday email that the new committee on residential colleges has yet to meet, but its membership will be announced to the Yale community later this week.

Though applications to Yale College have approximately quadrupled over the past four decades, the size of the undergraduate population has remained relatively steady until now. Adding two new residential colleges will allow Yale to admit more students and share its resources, Miller said.

Miller said many of Yale’s peer institutions have already expanded the size of their under-

graduate populations: Harvard University swelled in size when the school combined with Radcliffe in the 1970s, and Princeton University’s student body has grown by about 18 percent since Miller graduated in 1975, she said. This summer, Stanford University pledged to increase its undergraduate population by approximately 100 students per year.

In addition to the committee examining the new residential colleges, a planning committee for the Yale Biology Building is also in the process of being formed. Ronald Breaker, chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department, said the committee will have to make sure that the sevenyear-old design of the Yale Biology Building can still accommodate future research needs while balancing costs.

A third committee consisting of faculty and students from the Graduate School was formed last spring to address issues involving the renovation of the Hall of Graduate Studies, according to Thomas Pollard, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Several students interviewed said they were enthusiastic about the expansion of Yale College.

Stuart Teal ’14 said he hopes the university will hire more professors as a result of the expansion, perhaps lowering the student-faculty ratio.

Polak announced target completion dates for the two residential colleges, the Yale Biology Building and the renovation of the Hall of Graduate Studies in a Monday email.

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GOP weighs short-term debt limit hike

BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders are considering a short-term increase in the U.S. debt limit as a possible way to break out of the gridlock that threatens the nation with an unprecedented default in as little as a week, officials said Wednesday night.

There now is far less urgency on Capitol Hill about ending the government shutdown, which heads into its 10th day on Thursday. It has caused inconvenience and financial concern for many individual Americans but appears not to threaten the widespread economic damage a default might bring.

The officials declined to say what conditions, if any, might be attached to legislation to raise the $16.7 trillion debt limit for an undetermined period, perhaps a few weeks or months. The GOP rank and file are expected to meet and discuss the issue on Thursday, before a delegation led by Speaker John Boehner goes to the White House to meet with President Barack Obama.

Obama has said he won’t agree to sign a debt limit increase if conditions are attached. Republicans are demanding as yet-unspecified concessions to reduce deficits or make changes in the nation’s three-year-old health care law.

At the same time, the House has voted to create a 20-member group of lawmakers from the House and Senate to negotiate over those and other issues — a bill that made no mention of the debt limit.

The officials describing the developments late Wednesday spoke only on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to disclose details of private deliberations.

The disclosure came as Obama met at the White House in late afternoon for more than an hour with House Democrats. He told them that while he would prefer

legislation extending the Treasury’s borrowing ability beyond the next election, he would also sign a shorter-term bill.

In addition to leadership conversations, a group of House conservatives met privately during the day for what several officials described as a wide-ranging discussion on the debt limit and the threat — or lack of it — posed by default.

No consensus was reached, but among those who spoke was Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the 2012 GOP vice presidential candidate who is chairman of the House Budget Committee and a prominent deficit hawk. In an op-ed article published during the day in The Wall Street Journal, he wrote, “We need to pay our bills today — and make sure we can pay our bills tomorrow. So let’s negotiate an agreement to make modest reforms to entitlement programs and the tax code.”

Raising the cost of Medicare for better-off beneficiaries and making changes to the tax code are perennials in budget negotiations, and precisely the type of item Obama says he is willing to discuss — but only after the government is open and the debt limit raised.

The private conversations stood in contrast to political maneuvering that characterized the day at the Capitol.

Its approval ratings scraping bottom, Congress took no discernible steps to end the nineday partial government shutdown or to head off threatened default.

Instead, the House passed legislation that the Obama administration already had rendered unnecessary — on providing death benefits to families of military forces who die — while Boehner and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi met face-to-face — and promptly disagreed even about which side had requested the get-together.

Across the Capitol, the Senate marked time under 18th century rules, focusing its attention

on a test vote — next weekend — on a $1 trillion increase in the debt limit to avert a default.

“Enough is enough,” said Barry Black, the Senate chaplain who has delivered a series of pointed sermonettes in recent days as lawmakers careen from crisis to crisis.

Evidently not.

With Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on tap to testify before lawmakers on Thursday, officials said he was expected to reiterate that Congress needed to raise the government’s borrowing limit by Oct. 17 to be sure of preventing default.

Despite warnings from leaders of both political parties that a financial default could plunge the economy into recession, cause interest rates to rise and home values to plummet, one Republican lawmaker, Rep. Mo Brooks of Ala., said a default wouldn’t be the worst calamity to befall the country.

“Insolvency and bankruptcy” would be worse, he said, warning that that would be the result of yet another increase in the debt limit without attaching measures to bring down the federal budget deficit.

We need to pay our bills today — and make sure we can pay our bills tomorrow.

So let’s negotiate an agreement.

PAUL RYAN Chairman, House Budget Committee The nation’s largest manager of money market mutual funds was taking no chances. It said it had been selling off government debt holdings over the past couple of weeks and no longer held any that would come due around the time the nation could hit its borrowing limit. Fidelity Investments

Charity to pay military JULIE PACE AND ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, scrambling to tamp down a controversy over suspended death benefits for the families of fallen troops, announced Wednesday that a charity would pick up the costs of the payments during the government shutdown.

“The Fisher House Foundation will provide the families of the fallen with the benefits they so richly deserve,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a statement, adding that the Pentagon would reimburse the foundation after the shutdown ended.

Hagel said Fisher House, which works with veterans and their families, had approached the Pentagon about making the payments. The Defense Department typically pays families about $100,000 within three days of a service member’s death, but officials say the shutdown was preventing those benefits from being paid.

A senior defense official said the government could not actively solicit funds from private organizations but could accept an offer.

The failure to make the payments has stirred outrage on Capitol Hill and at the White House.

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From left, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., talk as they leave a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill. expects Congress to take the necessary steps to avoid default, but “we have to take precautionary measures,” said Nancy Prior, president of Fidelity’s Money Market Group The partial shutdown ground on, although an Associated PressGfK poll suggested the impact was anything but uniform. Only 17 percent of those polled said they or their households had experienced any impact, while 81 percent said they had not.

Whose fault? Some 62 percent said Republicans were mostly or entirely to blame for the partial shutdown, which began on Oct. 1, while 49 percent said as much for President Barack Obama.

There was widespread agreement on one point. The country is widely dissatisfied with elected lawmakers.

A new Gallup poll put approval for Congress at 11 percent, a mere one in every nine adults. The

AP-GfK survey made it 5 percent approval — and only 3 percent among independents, whose votes are the main prize in next fall’s midterm elections. Nationally, a whopping 83 percent of adults disapprove of Congress’ actions.

Inside the Capitol, neither private meetings nor public votes offered any hint of progress toward ending the latest gridlock.

Republicans are seeking negotiations on budget, health care and other issues as the price for reopening the government and raising the debt limit. Obama and Democrats say no talks unless legislation is first passed.

The House voted 252–172 to reopen the Federal Aviation Administration. Democrats generally opposed the measure and the White House issued a veto threat, saying the government should be reopened all at once, not on a piecemeal basis.

There was a brief moment of unity when the House voted 425–0 to let the Pentagon pay death benefits to the families of fallen U.S. troops.

That was the topic that drew Black’s attention in his daily prayer at the opening of the Senate’s session. “When our federal shutdown delays payments of death benefits to families of children dying in faraway battlefields, it’s time for our lawmakers to say, ‘Enough is enough,’” he said.

Controversy accompanied the subject.

Republicans said Congress had passed and Obama had signed legislation last week to permit the payments, but the Defense Department said otherwise. As Republican leaders were pushing toward a vote on the bill making it explicit, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced a charity would pick up the death benefit costs instead.

Saudi women in top council want debate on driving

Wednesday that the president was “disturbed” when he found out the death benefits had been suspended and demanded an immediate solution.

“The commander in chief, when he found out that this was not addressed, he directed that a solution be found, and we expect one today,” Carney said before the Pentagon announced the agreement with Fisher House.

The Fisher House Foundation will provide the families of the fallen with the benefits they […] deserve.

CHUCK HAGEL The Republican-led House unanimously passed legislation on Wednesday to restore the death benefits. But it’s unclear whether the Democratic-led Senate will take up the measure or whether Obama would sign it. Obama has threatened to veto other legislation passed by the House in recent days that would reopen individual funding streams, arguing that a piecemeal approach to ending the shutdown was unacceptable and that the entire government must be reopened.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the Obama administration had yet to issue a formal veto threat for the death benefit bill.

Before the government shutdown last week, Congress passed and Obama signed a bill allowing the military to be paid during the federal closure. However, the death benefit payments were not covered by that legislation.

Carney said the Pentagon told lawmakers before the shutdown that the death benefit payments were not covered by the bill and would be cut off during a shutdown. However, he repeatedly refused to say when the president was first told that death benefits would not be paid.

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A campaign to allow Saudi Arabian women to drive has started gathering support.

BY ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI AND AYA BATRAWY ASSOCIATED PRESS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia Saudi women on the ultraconservative kingdom’s top advisory council have called for a discussion on the sensitive issue of allowing women to drive, a move that could embolden reformers pushing to lift the ban.

The official request was made this week to the head of the Shura Council, council member Latifa al-Shaalan said, to address all “excuses” raised to keep women from driving since Islamic law and Saudi traffic laws do not forbid it.

Women seeking the right to drive in Saudi Arabia have been energized by a campaign calling on them to drive on Oct. 26. Saudi law does not explicitly prohibit them from driving, but religious edicts by senior and influential clerics are enforced by the police, effectively banning it.

Authorities do not issue driving licenses to women.

The campaign started as an online petition last month and has so far garnered nearly 15,000 signatures.

In 2011, a Saudi woman was detained for posting an online video of herself driving, though her arrest launched wider protests.

It is flawed that a woman cannot drive a car after reaching the position of deputy minister.

LATIFA AL-SHAALAN Member, Shura Council

The country is guided by an ultraconservative interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism. Women cannot travel, work, study abroad, marry, get divorced or gain admittance to a public hospital without

permission from a male guardian — typically a husband, brother, father or uncle.

Hard-line clerics have opposed the driving campaign, and recently a prominent Saudi cleric caused a stir when he said medical studies show that driving has adverse effects on women’s ovaries because it forces the pelvis upward.

Al-Shaalan, the Shura Council member, told journalists that the recommendation for the discussion on women driving is not meant to coincide with the campaign and that it has been studied for a while.

“It is flawed that a woman cannot drive a car after reaching the position of deputy minister, becoming a member of the Shura Council, managing a university and representing the country on international bodies,” she said.

She said it is also counterintuitive to force a woman to ride in a car with a male driver who may be a stranger because it contradicts the kingdom’s strict rules on separation of the sexes.

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US cutting millions in aid to Egypt

BY DEB RIECHMANN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to its Middle East ally Egypt, responding to the military ouster last summer of the nation’s first democratically elected president and the crackdown on protesters that has sunk the country into violent turmoil.

While the State Department did not provide a dollar amount of what was being withheld, most of it is linked to military aid. In all, the U.S. provides $1.5 billion in aid each year to Egypt.

Officials said the aid being withheld included 10 Apache helicopters at a cost of more than $500 million, M1A1 tank kits and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. The U.S. also is withholding $260 million in cash assistance to the government until “credible progress” is made toward an inclusive government set up through free and fair elections. The U.S. had already suspended the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets and canceled biennial U.S.-Egyptian military exercises.

The United States continues to support a democratic transition and oppose violence as a means of resolving differences within Egypt.

JEN PSAKI Spokeswoman, U.S. State Department

In Cairo, military spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali declined immediate comment. Before the announcement, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian military leader, described his country’s relations with the United States as “strategic” and founded on mutual interests. But he told the Cairo daily, Al-Masry al-Youm, in an interview published on Wednesday that Egypt would not toler-

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Egyptian army soldiers take their positions next to their armored vehicles to guard an entrance of Tahrir Square, in Cairo. ate pressure, “whether through actions or hints.”

Neighboring Israel also has indicated concern. The Israelis consider the U.S. aid to Egypt to be important support for the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel.

The State Department stressed that the long-standing U.S. partnership with Egypt would continue, and U.S. officials made it clear that the decisions are not permanent, adding that there is no intent by the Obama administration to end any specific programs. Still, the decision puts ties between the U.S. and Egypt at their rockiest point in more than three decades.

“The United States continues to support a democratic transition and oppose violence as a means of resolving differences within Egypt,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. “We will continue to review the decisions regarding our assistance periodically and will continue to work with the interim gov-

ernment to help it move toward our shared goals in an atmosphere free of violence and intimidation.”

The U.S. will continue to provide support for health and education and counterterrorism, spare military parts, military training and education, border security and security assistance in the Sinai Peninsula, where near-daily attacks against security forces and soldiers have increasingly resembled a full-fledged insurgency.

The U.S. officials providing the details did so only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment by name.

Other details about what military assistance is being cut were not immediately known, and the State Department declined to give an indication of how severe the impact of the cuts in assistance might be in Egypt.

Based on cost estimates, however, the M1A1 tank kits are about $10 million each, and Egypt was slated to get about four per

Political drama public in Iran

BY ALI AKBAR DAREINI AND BRIAN MURPHY ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s internal power plays have produced many moments of political theater, but never one like this: The foreign minister checks himself into a hospital because of stress, blaming it on hard-line critics of the recent thaw with Washington.

A cascade of events Wednesday suggested there was no end in sight to the ideological skirmishes following President Hassan Rouhani’s outreach to the U.S. Those overtures will be put to the test next week in Geneva when nuclear talks with world powers resume.

For Rouhani, the immediate prize would be winning pledges from the West to roll back painful sanctions in exchange for concessions on Tehran’s nuclear program.

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But, on a deeper level, Rouhani’s gambit also exposes sudden insecurities among the West-bashing factions that have shaped Iranian affairs for decades.

If Rouhani’s brand of diplomacy pays off in the eyes of Iran’s top policymaker, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it could bring sharper limits on the reach of powerful factions led by the Revolutionary Guard — which has already been warned by Khamenei to stay out of politics and let Rouhani’s overtures run their course.

The Guard will remain a pillar of Iran’s establishment no matter what happens with Rouhani’s efforts. But Khamenei’s directive to give Rouhani political breathing room was a rare roadblock for a group whose power and influence has expanded steadily in the past decade. The Revolutionary Guard’s network now extends

beyond its fighting forces to cover sectors as diverse as the nuclear program and airport security.

Possible attempts by Khamenei to separate the Guard from the worlds of politics and foreign affairs would mark a profound change on how Iran interacts with the West and offer more flexibility in diplomacy.

“Opposition or frustration by hardliners is a natural reaction,” said Tehranbased political analyst Saeed Leilaz. “But nothing can derail Rouhani’s policy of outreach to the U.S.” as long as Khamenei remains nominally in his corner.

Khamenei has previously said he’s not opposed to direct talks with the U.S. to resolve Iran’s nuclear standoff with the West, but is not optimistic. Last week, he called the U.S. “untrustworthy.”

There is a political will to reduce tensions with the U.S. … supported by the supreme leader.

HAMID REZA SHOKOUHI Political Commentator, Tehran

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attend a meeting at the UN General Assembly.

“There is a political will to reduce tensions with the U.S.,” said a Tehran political commentator, Hamid Reza Shokouhi. “This strategy is supported by the supreme leader.”

But that has not stopped critics of Rouhani’s government from making their complaints heard.

The nationally broadcast Friday prayers last week included the familiar chants of “Death to America.” A week earlier, protesters hurled eggs and insults and Rouhani’s entourage after he returned from the groundbreaking exchanges in New York.

JERUSALEM — Christian leaders in Israel are up in arms over what they say is a string of relentless attacks on church properties and religious sites — most recently the desecration of a historic Protestant cemetery where vandals toppled stone crosses from graves and bludgeoned them to pieces.

The attack in the Protestant Cemetery of Mount Zion, one of Jerusalem’s most important historic graveyards, has struck a particularly sensitive nerve because some of the damaged graves belong to famous figures from the 19th and 20th centuries, a key period in Jerusalem’s history.

Among them are a German diplomat, the founder of an orphanage who was a significant contributor to modernizing the city, and a relative of the owners of a prominent hotel.

Though members of the clergy say interfaith relations between top religious leaders have never been stronger and police have been more responsive to such attacks in recent years, they say attacks continue unabated. Some activists say not enough is being done to stop them.

“We are striving so hard to promote dignity and respect among the living. And here we have our dead people … vandalized,” said the Very Rev. Hosam Naoum, caretaker of the Protestant cemetery. “No human would agree with this.”

Police arrested four young Israeli settlers from the West Bank last week, two of them minors, in connection with the cemetery attack, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

But Rosenfeld said the four were subsequently released without charge until further questioning.

Two of the suspects had been banned from entering the West Bank because of their connections to the “hilltop youth,” a movement of young Jewish extremists blamed for a spate of attacks in recent years on mosques, Christian sites and Israeli army property to protest government policy.

The four suspects claimed they had entered the cemetery to immerse themselves in a ritual bath there, according to media reports. Rosenfeld could not immediately confirm the reports, and the record of the court session was sealed because minors were involved.

Naoum said the reported alibi was suspect. An ancient Jewish ritual bath was excavated on the premises but it contains no water, and an old well nearby has a narrow opening and would be dangerous to enter, he said.

Naoum said his staff saw religious Jewish youths breaking into the cemetery again on Tuesday and Wednesday, though no damage was reported. Israeli media have said two of the original suspects were students at a nearby Jewish seminary known for its

ultranationalist views.

Naoum said he is reporting the events to the German and British embassies, which have representatives on the cemetery administration board, as well as to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The attack joins a list of highprofile Christian sites that have been vandalized within the past year. They include a Trappist monastery in Latrun, outside Jerusalem, where vandals burned a door and spray painted “Jesus is a monkey” on the centuryold building, a Baptist church in Jerusalem and other monasteries. Clergymen often speak of being spat at by ultra-Orthodox religious students while walking around Jerusalem’s Old City wearing frocks and crosses.

Christian citizens of Israel, including Roman Catholic and Orthodox streams of Christianity, make up less than 2 percent of its nearly 8 million people. About three-quarters of them are Arabs, and the others arrived during a wave of immigration from former Soviet Union countries that began 20 years ago. Tens of thousands of Christian foreign workers and African migrants also live in Israel.

There is a very strong feeling that the police are not doing enough.

HANA BENCOWSKY Program Director, Jersualem Center for The population figures include Christians in Israel and East Jerusalem, the section of the city captured by Israel in 1967 and claimed by the Palestinians.

Over the past three years, 17 Christian sites in the Holy Land have been reported vandalized, according to Search for Common Ground, a nongovernmental group that monitors press reports of attacks on religious sites.

Researcher Kevin Merkelz said a police detective in charge of Christian affairs told the organization the numbers are actually higher, but Christian leaders chose not to report many attacks to the press.

“The Christians who are still here want to keep a low profile when attacked,” said Merkelz. He said the group does not include sites in the politically sensitive Old City of Jerusalem in its survey, because many sites are in dispute and the group does not want to be seen as taking sides.

Christian leaders are often afraid to complain to police because many clergymen reside in Israel on special visas and wish to keep good relations with authorities, said Hana Bendcowsky of the Jerusalem Center for JewishChristian Relations. “There is a very strong feeling that the police are not doing enough … and not doing work to prevent the phenomenon,” she said.

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AROUND THE IVIES Princeton gunshot scare ends

“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH AUTHOR

Harvard drafting honor code

BY MADELINE CONWAY

LILIA XIE/THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN

Gunshots at Nassau Hall at Princeton Tuesday evening caused police to lock-down and search the building.

BY MARCELO ROCHABRUN Reports of gunshots at Nassau Hall prompted the Princeton Police Department to close the building and search it for two-and-ahalf hours Tuesday evening. The reports were ultimately determined to be unfounded, no injuries were reported, and the area was cleared at around 10:25 p.m.

The University did not shut down campus during the incident. Events in buildings nearby were allowed to continue.

Guys got out with rifles drawn and went onto campus.

EMILY WIBBERLEY Senior, Princeton University The University’s Department of Public Safety received a phone call at 7:55 p.m. from an individual within Nassau Hall who reported hearing gunshots in the building, according to university Spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

Emily Wibberley was approaching FitzRandolph Gate in front of Nassau Hall at around 8 p.m. when Princeton police cars pulled up.

“Guys got out with rifles drawn and went onto campus,” Wibberley said. “They were around the gates for a while, and then they walked back in and went into Nassau Hall.”

The University community was first informed of the situation starting at around 8:40 p.m., PRINCETON t h ro u g h t h e Princeton and Telephone Email Notification System.

The PTENS message alerted the university community of the reports of gunshots at Nassau Hall and instructed everyone to stay away from the building.

The blue light tower speakers were not used to broadcast information on Tuesday night.

DPS created a perimeter around Nassau Hall in accordance with standard University protocol for situations involving firearms. DPS is an unarmed force that includes sworn police officers. Local Princeton police officers armed with rifles entered the building and later issued the all-clear alert.

Several events scheduled in the evening were allowed to continue throughout the two-and-a-halfhour incident without interruption.

The front doors of Frist Campus Center were locked at one point during the search, students in the area said. A concert by the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra at Richardson Auditorium, which is located next to Nassau Hall, continued uninterrupted throughout the incident. Those in attendance were allowed to leave the

building once it was over.

The university used yellow caution tape to block portions of the perimeter around Nassau Hall.

As the police searched Nassau Hall, lights throughout the building turned on and off, particularly in the president’s suite and on the western side of the second and third floor.

Students in Firestone Library learned of the incident through the emergency notification communications. Several students on the upper floors descended to the basement floors for safety until they received the all-clear message.

Students attending a lecture by journalist Ezra Klein in Whig Hall, directly behind Nassau Hall, were evacuated into the basement’s building immediately after Klein concluded the question-and-answer portion of his presentation and were told to remain there until receiving an “all-clear” signal. Klein, a Washington Post reporter, stayed with students in the basement, chatting and answering questions until WhigCliosophic Society president Matt Saunders told the basement gathering that DPS officials had told him students should consider parts of the university south of Whig Hall to be clear and safe to move across, according to reporters at the scene.

Police officers from Plainsboro, Lawrence and West Windsor, as well as the Mercer County Sheriff, assisted the Princeton police on site. At least two helicopters were also seen hovering directly above Nassau Hall.

Columbia students apathetic about elections

BY TRACEY WANG The Columbia College Student Council executive board said on Sunday that it would hold a direct election to fill the vacancy left by Cleo Abram.

Senators Matthew Chou, and Jared Odessky and CCSC President Daphne Chen, initially said they would hold an indirect election, which would allow a two-thirds majority vote in CCSC to elect the new senator.

They received criticism, however, after the class of 2014 council sent an email questioning whether Chou and Odessky had withheld the confirmation of the vacancy until after the first-year elections.

Of 55 Columbia College students interviewed on Monday and Tuesday, only 18 said they planned to vote in the election. And 36 said they hadn’t heard about the senate vacancy at all.

Some of the students who had been following the news said that they found the timing of the initial announcement suspicious.

“It was kind of shady,” Julian NoiseCat said. “They knew what was happening, and they maneuvered it to get the political situation they wanted.”

Eugene Stolow echoed NoiseCat’s concerns.

“I’m upset, frankly,” he said. “It sounds shady. What happened to honesty in politics?”

David Froomkin was Odessky’s opponent during the elections for

s e n a te last spring.

He said that this episode has encouraged him to continue his campaign for COLUMBIA reform.

“I think it’s always disconcerting when elected officials want to bypass voters. I was glad to see that the senior class council is open to having a dialogue about the democratic deficient in CCSC, and the lack of transparency,” he said.

This is not about filling a seat. This campaign is about reforming the Senate.

DAVID FROOMKIN Junior, Columbia University “Democracy is about letting the people decide who their representatives are,” he added.

In a statement released Sunday night, the executive board responded to critics of the flip-flop, saying that they had no choice but to announce the vacancy after the first-year elections.

“CCSC and the Senate could not announce the vacancy until the Senator formally decided to vacate her seat,” the statement read.

“Upon receiving confirmation of

the vacancy on Tuesday, September 24, CCSC and the Senate immediately informed the student body on Wednesday, September 25.”

Froomkin said that the problem lies with the institution, because the council has not done enough to encourage students to vote.

“This is a watershed moment,” he said. “This is not about filling a seat.

This campaign is about reforming the Senate.”

However, most students said that they were not interested in voting for the election at all and weren’t following campus politics.

Katherine Nevitt said that she was too busy to vote or be informed about the candidates running for the position.

“I know, even though it requires no extra energy or physical exertion. … It’s the last thing on my mind.”

Jessica Anderson said that she will not vote because she doesn’t think the senate affects her daily life in a dramatic way.

“I don’t feel a personal stake in the result,” she said.

Lucas Sereidea said that he did not know about the vacancy nor will he vote in the election. “I’ve never really given it that much attention.

I’m not really aware of the power of the student body here,” he said.

Others, however, were more hopeful.

Madysen Luebke said that she would definitely vote in the election.

She said, “There’s no reason not to. You have a chance to have your voice heard.”

A subcommittee composed of several members of the Academic Integrity Committee has convened to begin the drafting process for what would be Harvard’s first-ever honor code, with plans to have a draft complete by the start of November, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris confirmed Tuesday.

A five-point proposal for the honor code presented to faculty last spring would establish, among other points, a second judicial board, distinct from the Administrative Board and populated by both students and faculty, that students accused of academic dishonesty could choose to hear their case.

The proposed honor code would also require students to write a “declaration of integrity” on major exams and assignments. It is unclear how closely the honor code now being drafted will resemble last spring’s proposal.

The subcommittee tasked with drafting the honor code is composed of several administrators and students who plan to meet on a regular basis throughout October, according to Terah E. Lyons ’14, a subcommittee member who also sits on the larger Academic Integrity Committee.

“We have a really strong, necessary cacophony of voices in constructing this policy,” Lyons said of the subcommittee. “It’s also really nice to see students and administrators and faculty alike come together and really work as a team.”

The draft the subcommittee plans to create will not be final. After the first draft is constructed, it will be brought to the Academic Integrity Committee, Lyons said, adding that students will also be consulted for feedback.

Olivia Z. Zhu ’15, a member of both the Acad e m i c I n te g rity Committee and the subcommittee, said she thinks it is imporHARVARD tant that students are involved in the process of forming an honor code, adding that she “very much believe[s] in what the honor code stands for.”

The Academic Integrity Committee was first convened in fall 2010, but its efforts were accelerated in the past year with the unfolding of the Government 1310 cheating scandal, Harvard’s largest cheating case in recent memory. In August 2012, administrators announced that the Administrative Board was investigating roughly 125 students for plagiarism or inappropriate collaboration on a take-home exam. Roughly 70 students were ultimately required to temporarily withdraw from the College in connection with the scandal.

Seven months after the cheating case was announced, Harris, who chairs the Academic Integrity Committee, presented the committee’s honor code proposal at a faculty meeting. Since then, administrators have made moves to continue the ongoing conversation about academic integrity. In late April, administrators hosted a series of meetings in the Houses to solicit student feedback on the honor code proposal.

And this Thursday, faculty members, including Interim Dean of the College Donald H. Pfister and Cabot Co-House Master Rakesh Khurana, will lead a discussion about academic integrity at Harvard called “Doing Good Work in a Noisy, Messy World.”

Fraternity emails leaked

BY ROSHAN DUTTA Gawker published a series of internal emails and documents pulled from Beta Alpha Omega fraternity’s formerly public Google group on Tuesday evening. The documents included an agenda for new members’ sink night, house-wide emails and a directory of the fraternity’s new members.

The group was made private soon after the article’s initial publication and was deleted several hours later.

J.K. Trotter, the article’s author, said in the post that he found the public group, titled “Beta Alpha Bromega,” after researching the fraternity and its possible connection to an Oct. 6 report of sexual assault.

Among the documents was an email to members from Beta president Ned Kingsley ’14 addressing Safety and Security director Harry Kinne’s campus alert, which noted that a collegeaged male not affiliated with Dartmouth may have attended a party at the fraternity before allegedly forcing entry into an undergraduate woman’s residence hall and room and sexually assaulting her.

In the email, Kingsley expressed concern for the house’s reputation, and reiterated Beta’s door policy to new members, who are assigned to check identification cards at the door during the fraternity’s events.

“New members — we need to be much, much more vigilant about door duty,” he said. “Check everyone’s I.D. — non-Dartmouth students are never allowed in the house unless they have a brother [or] new member who is personally responsible for them (i.e. a friend visiting from another school).”

The documents also included a new member survey with new members’ contact details, “favorite sorority,” “favorite Pokemon,” “favorite type of pornography” and “favorite historical figure.”

Gawker published a document with Beta’s sink night schedule, which noted that “it should not ever be printed out.” The document also instructed members to ensure “All blinds must be drawn - no windows open - don’t want to be heard yelling,” and contained instructions to run the stations that new members were passed through. The stations included rooms with themes such as “Riddles,” “Questions about Brothers,” “Shitty Music,” “Nice Guy Room,” and finally “Anarchy,” where new members are sprayed with champagne.

The document emphasized that existing members should not force new members to drink.

“Ask them if they’re drinking,” the document said. “If yes — drink when

DARTMOUTH

need be. If not, make someone else drink for them.”

The guide suggested that existing m e m b e rs monitor the alcohol consumption

of new members.

“Be very conscious if some new members are drinking a lot,” the document said. “Never allow a new member to take more than one shot at your station. It is not worth the risk.”

Beta’s alumni trustee Google group was also public until late Tuesday evening. In the group, Beta house advisor Dimitri Gerakaris ’69 addressed the alleged connection between the fraternity and the suspect in the Oct. 6 sexual assault. He said the suspect had no connection to Beta and he relayed the public relations advice he gave to Kingsley in response to the “flurry of questions” concerning Beta’s mention in the sexual assault alert. The Beta Trustees group was public at the time of the Gawker article’s publication, but is now private.

“Hopefully this guy gets revealed soon (but alas no police charges are being brought by the victim) and this sorry chapter ends,” he said in an email to Beta’s trustees. “It’s obvious our guys can be a big part of the solution.”

Beta, originally a member of the national organization Beta Theta Pi, was previously derecognized in 1996 for a series of violations of college policy, which resulted in the fraternity being forced to disband for more than a decade. Beta was officially re-recognized in the fall of 2008.

Since returning to campus, Beta has won Greek Letter Organizations and Societies’ “Accountability Award,” given to the house that “has taken most seriously the need for Dartmouth students to not engage in abusive drinking practices and has consistently selfmonitored and re-adjusted.”

In response to whether the actions described on bid night could be defined as hazing, College spokesperson Justin Anderson said the College had so far been unaware of the actions mentioned in the documents.

“Violations of the student hazing policy will be subject to individual or organizational disciplinary action,” Anderson said. “We will investigate any allegations of hazing we are made aware of.”

Gerakaris and undergraduate judicial affairs director Leigh Remy could not be reached for comment by press time.

Greek Letter Organizations and Societies director Wes Schaub and representatives from Beta declined to comment.

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High near 63.

Northeast wind 9 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

High of 62, low of 53.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 5:30 P.M. “Brett Foster: Literature and Spirituality.” Brett Foster, an associate professor of English literature at Wheaton College, will be speaking and reading in collaboration with Yale Divinity Student Book Supply. Marquand Chapel (409 Prospect St.).

6:00 P.M. Dinner Discussion with Burkhard Bilger. Join New Yorker staff writer Burkhard Bilger for a conversation about social justice, food systems and journalism. Space is limited at this event, so RSVP online at http://tiny.cc/yncw3w. Joseph Slifka Center (80 Wall St.).

7:30 P.M. “We Were Here: the AIDS Years in San Francisco.”

Director David Weissman will be engaging with the audience at this documentary screening. “We Were Here” tells the tale of the coming of the “Gay Plague” in early 1980s and the personal and community issues that surrounded it. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63

THAT MONKEY BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 11:00 A.M. “Co-evolutionary History.” As part of the Agrarian Studies Colloquium, historian Edmund Russell will be lecturing.

Open to the general public. Institution for Social and Policy Studies (77 Prospect St.), Rm. B012.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 10:00 A.M. “Canine Kickoff: An Inaugural Open House Event.” The dogs of Yale will gather on Cross Campus from 10-11 a.m. Guests are invited to meet Sherman (aka Handsome Dan XVII), Portia (a Havenese owned by President Peter Salovey and his wife Marta Moret) and their canine colleagues from around campus. Cross Campus.

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SPORTS

“I don’t generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.” SATCHEL PAIGE HALL OF FAME PITCHER

Elis start seasons

How to beat the Big Green KEYS OF THE THE GAME FROM PAGE 12 in 2012, quarterback Dalyn Williams threw for 228 yards and ran 119 yards for a total of 347 yards on his way to earning Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Week honors. The 2012 Ivy Rookie of the Year has completed 69 of 115 passes on the season for 793 yards and five touchdowns so far this season. While the Dartmouth attack is very balanced, with 53.9 percent or 824 of the season’s total 1,527 yards coming through the air, Williams is a versatile quarterback with an array of receivers to hit. Against Holy Cross, Williams completed passes to nine different receivers, and against Penn, he connected with seven. The young quarterback struggles under pressure, however. He has been sacked four times this season for 12 yards and has fumbled the ball three times on the year. If the Bulldogs can get to Williams while he still has the ball, they have a chance to force turnovers and get Yale’s fastpaced attack back on the field.

CATHERINE FOSTER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

MEN’S CREW FROM PAGE 12 to be much closer to them … that memory is now one of the things that is really driving the team forward, because we don’t want that to happen again.”

The lightweight team will also compete against Harvard in the spring, facing both the Crimson and the Princeton Tigers in April.

The team also seeks a third consecutive Jope Cup at the Eastern Sprints and another strong performance at the IRAs. “[The Jope Cup] is important to us because the whole team can con-

tribute to that,” O’Donoghue said.

The heavyweight crew does not have to worry about making a transition at the beginning of the season, as no one on last year’s varsity eight graduated. The 2012-2013 boat had two juniors, two sophomores and four freshmen. Johnson said that the lineup for this year’s varsity eight is not final, as the boats are always changing.

The lightweight team graduated three seniors from last season’s varsity eight, but O’Donoghue said that he is confident that the team is deep enough to fill the spots with younger players. The Eli freshman eight has

Depth in goal for the Elis WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 first half, the other the second, etc.)?

AMES: Elise and I don’t have a routine because Rudy picks who plays. We never know who is going to play until he tells us the starting lineup right before the game.

WILCOX: It’s great to play with Rachel. Even though we are both very competitive we get along really well and support each other. It’s nice to have someone who understands the unique challenges goalies face and who can encourage you to play at your best. We don’t have a routine at all. Usually we don’t know who is going to play until Coach Meredith announces the lineup right before warm-up.

And if you’re playing the second half you might not know until a few minutes before the end of the first. As a result you always have to be mentally and physically ready for every game.

Is there any (friendly) Q:rivalry between the two of you?

AMES: There is always competition between myself and Elise, however it pushes us to be better and reach new levels.

WILCOX: There definitely is.

We’re both very competitive or we wouldn’t be playing at this level. We’re closely matched so it really pushes you to work as hard as you can. The competition makes us both better and at the end of the day that’s what’s best for the team. At the end of the day though, we’re there for each other. I can say from experience that it’s really important to get along with the other goalies on the team. are the pros and cons Q:ofWhat sharing the position?

AMES: Sharing the position allows us both to get game experience and playing time. It also

won the past three Eastern Sprints.

“We graduated three seniors from last year’s varsity, and as always, at first you think you can’t replace them … and then you do,” lightweight coach Andy Card said in a message to the News. “It’s the same thing every year. Talented oarsmen lost means that new oarsmen can have their chance in the arena.”

The Yale athletes kept in rowing shape by training individually over the summer. In July, three rowers from the heavyweight team and two from the lightweight team competed at the Under-23 Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria.

MAKE THE DEFENSE KEEP UP

Trzybinski earned a gold medal in the single scull for Germany.

Many of the Bulldogs competed for the California Rowing Club, and other rowers raced for similar programs.

“Everyone kept training over the summer and worked really hard over the summer,” Johnson said. “We’re just trying to keep that inertia going this fall, to keep making up time on our opponents.”

The gun will fire at the Head of the Housatonic on Saturday, Oct. 12.

The Big Green defense is not used to facing a high-paced or high production offense; when the Dartmouth D allowed 525 yards against Holy Cross in its second game of the season, it was the first time it had allowed an opposing team to accumulate that many yards in a single game in the past four years.

The Bulldogs average close to 500 yards per game on offense at 486 yards and put up 566 offensive yards against Ivy opponent Cornell. The no-huddle offense allowed Yale to run 86 plays against Colgate and 81 against Cornell, while the Big Green defense faced 81 plays from Penn in a game with four overtime periods. Forcing Dartmouth’s veteran defense to keep up with Yale’s revamped and speedy assault will give the Elis an edge on Saturday.

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

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

The men’s lightweight crew team will aim to win the Jope Cup at Eastern Sprints in May for the third straight year.

Yale secondary is first-rate

makes us fight for the starting spot.

WILCOX: The pros are that we push each other to do our best. We’re constantly ready to play which means that if one of us got hurt or sick, the other goalie could step in and play a solid game. The cons are that is it a little bit of a mental struggle, especially when you don’t know when or if you’re going to play on a given day. That and we clearly both want to play as much as possible.

How long have you been Q:playing soccer? Have you always played goalie?

AMES: I’ve played since I was three, so 16 years. I used to play forward and goalie but chose to only play goalie in like middle school.

WILCOX: I’ve been playing soccer since I was five. I started playing really competitively when I was 10 and became a goalie around age 12.

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Yale features four underclassmen at safety or cornerback on its two-deep roster.

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been a highlight for Q:youWhat’s during your soccer career at Yale so far and /or this season?

AMES: The highlight of my career at Yale so far was the Cornell game last season. It was my first college shutout and we got the 1–0 win.

WILCOX: This year it would definitely be beating Princeton, which was done in a spectacular fashion. Even though I wasn’t on the field for that game, being part of the team when we came back twice to win in overtime was awesome. Overall, my favorite memories are from when we beat a team or I played really well against a team whose coaches either recruited someone else or who I turned down. I love to prove people wrong.

Contact SARAH SUTPHIN at sarah.sutphin@yale.edu .

dogs’ leading tackler overall this year. In last Saturday’s game against Cal Poly, Champion led all tacklers with 14 stops and added 2 interceptions along with a fumble recovery. For his outstanding performance, Champion was awarded Ivy League co-defensive player of the week honors and was named national FCS defensive player of the week by The Sports Network.

Despite these recent laurels, Champion said that his teammates and coaches have been a big part of his success. When asked how he has managed to play so well against opposing offenses, Champion said the team had prepared intensely by watching films, focusing in practice and concentrating on the game plan the coaches had prepared.

“We had an idea of when and how Cal Poly would run certain plays in certain situations and I was fortunate enough to be the one to make some plays,” Champion said.

Ries has also been impressive with strong performances in the past three games. With an interception against

Cornell two weeks ago and 20 overall tackles to start the season, Ries is already playing at the level of a seasoned veteran.

He gave credit to his high school playing experience and the Yale coaching staff for his rapid transition.

“It’s been a challenge starting as a freshman, but high school football definitely prepared me a lot,” Ries said.

“My high school had an extremely talented team with a highly trained coaching staff, so having that background has helped me acclimate to the speed of play.

The Yale coaches are, in my opinion, the best in the nation, and they’ve definitely helped me adjust my game to be a starter at the collegiate level.”

For his ball-hawking plays, Ries was awarded Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors against Cornell. Because of his performance a week later at Cal Poly, Rymiszewski was awarded the same honor.

Like Champion, Ries deflected praise directed towards him, instead expressing gratitude towards his coaches and teammates.

“We’re obviously a young secondary, and we’ve been provided a lot of sup-

port,” Ries said. “We have gotten a lot of recognition these past few games, but a huge amount of credit goes to the [defensive line] and linebackers for doing a great job pressuring the quarterback.

There are a lot of veterans on this team who mentor us, which has contributed to great team wins these past few weeks.”

With impressive wins over Colgate, Cornell and Cal Poly, the team’s consistent and dominant play gives Yalies reason to be optimistic about the rest of the season. The secondary will continue to have an impact on the team’s success, so it will be important for the players to sustain their strong performances in the coming weeks.

Captain Beau Palin ’14 praised the young secondary players for their contributions to the defense.

“Our secondary can run with the best of them and they love contact,” Palin said. “It’s fun to play with them.”

Yale plays at Dartmouth this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on FOX College Sports Central.

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

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“We’re both very completive or we wouldn’t be playing at this level. We’re closely matched so it really pushes you to work as hard as you can.”

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Crew returns experience MEN’S CREW

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The men’s heavyweight and lightweight crew teams will begin their seasons this weekend at the Head of the Housatonic.

BY GREG CAMERON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After promising performances at the Eastern Sprints and IRA National Championship last year, both the heavyweight and lightweight crew teams bring experience to the boats as the 2013-’14 season gets underway this weekend.

The lightweight Elis placed

second in the IRAs last year and won the Jope Cup at the Eastern Sprints, an award that recognizes the most dominant team overall across all events, for the second consecutive year.

The heavyweight squad, which returns its entire varsity eight this year, placed seventh in the IRAs and fifth in the Eastern Sprints.

“Last year we knew we were

in a process of building a team, becoming stronger as a team,” heavyweight rower Hubert Trzybinski ’16 said. “We had some promising results and also some that were not so good. We would’ve liked to have been in the grand final at the IRAs, which is the top six boats.”

Both teams will race at the Head of the Housatonic this weekend and at the Head of the

Charles in Boston on Oct. 19th and 20th.

Yale is usually the only EARC team to bring varsity boats to the Head of the Housatonic.

The event is more about getting race experience than winning, lightweight captain Matt O’Donoghue ’14 said.

The next weekend’s regatta will provide a stiffer challenge, as every crew that the Bulldogs face

in the spring will be at the Head of the Charles.

“We still take [fall racing] seriously, but it doesn’t have the same value to us,” Trzybinski said. “We take it really seriously, we prepare our boats for it, and of course we want to do very well.”

Both teams have their eyes set on the Eastern Sprints and IRAs in May. The heavyweights, though,

are especially motivated to take down their rival at the Yale-Harvard Regatta in June. Last year, the Eli varsity eight lost to the Crimson by almost 25 seconds in the four-mile race.

“We were quite disappointed with that result,” heavyweight captain Zach Johnson ’14 said.

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In secondary, youth reigns

BY KEVIN CHEN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale football is off to one of the team’s best starts in recent memory. Its rejuvenated secondary has proven to be a cornerstone of the Bulldogs’ defense, which itself has been integral to the team’s success.

FOOTBALL Head coach Tony Reno took a risk this season when he decided to start three freshman defensive backs in the secondary along with returning sophomore Cole Champion ’16. His decision has paid off so far this season, however, as Robert Ries ’17, Spencer Rymiszewski ’17, Foyesade Oluokun ’17 and Cham-

pion have made key tackles and game-changing interceptions to help Yale (3–0, 1–0 Ivy) to its hot start to the season.

“Spencer, Foye and Robbie have all done a great job focusing each week on the game plan and their roles in that plan,” Champion said. “Coach Reno has done a great job recruiting players who will work to compete for a starting job right away.

Those guys have all earned the opportunity to play each week and more importantly have also earned the trust and respect of the team.”

After serving as Yale’s leading tackler in the secondary last year, Champion has so far surpassed that effort: he is the BullSEE FOOTBALL PAGE 11

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No. 5 defensive back Cole Champion ’16 leads the Elis with 28 tackles and two interceptions in 2013.

Yale goalies share the net

BY SARAH SUTPHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s soccer team can play only one goalkeeper in the net at a time, but head coach Rudy Meredith has had two talented goalies to choose from: goalkeepers Rachel Ames ’16 and Elise Wilcox ’15 have split duties in goal this season. Ames has appeared in eight games with five starts for the Bulldogs, while Wilcox has played in seven contests with four starts to her name. The News interviewed the two goalies separately to get their takes on sharing the net.

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER The football team will put its perfect 3–0 record on the line Saturday when it faces Dartmouth (1–2, 0–1 Ivy) in an Ivy League matchup at Memorial Field in Hanover, N.H. Yale leads the overall series 53–37–6 and has won nine of the past 10 meetings, but the Big Green beat the Bulldogs 34–14 at the Yale Bowl last fall. The News’ football beat reporter explains three areas that the Bulldogs need to focus on to come away with the win on Saturday.

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: What is it like to share the goal with Elise? Do you two have a routine (one always plays SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 11

Keys of the game vs. Dartmouth

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No. 0 Rachel Ames ’16 has played 469:58 minutes and has a .739 save percentage.

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Yale is off to its best start to a season since 2007. As the 9–1 2007 squad showed, the momentum from a hot start can carry through a season. Coming off three straight victo-

ries will help propel Yale as it continues into Ivy competition. By contrast, the Big Green is off to a rocky 1–2 start, including at quadruple overtime loss to Penn last weekend in its first Ivy matchup.

Yale has proven it has the ability to control the momentum during games, coming up with key plays when the game is on the line. Last week, after giving up its first interception of the season, the Bulldogs forced a sack and consequently a punt on the ensuing Cal Poly drive. To beat Dartmouth in Hanover, the Elis will need to maintain their confidence and continue to build on their success.

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In his first game for the Big Green SEE KEYS OF THE GAME PAGE 11

THE NUMBER OF ROWERS WHO LEFT THE HEAVYWEIGHT VARSITY EIGHT FROM LAST SPRING. No graduating seniors figured among the varsity squad last May and June when it placed fifth in the Eastern Sprints and seventh in the IRA Championship.