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Zombie apocalypse. Anna
Liffey’s and The Connecticut Food Bank banded together to host the Elm City Zombie Walk this past weekend. Participants who joined with a $10 donation received a “zombie-fication” from face painters and a chance to do the “Thriller shake” (Michael Jackson’s Thriller? Harlem Shake?) on the New Haven Green. The walking of the dead concluded with drinks during a Moonwalk Pub Crawl, proving that all creatures — zombies, astronauts, humans, dancers — enjoy the good pastimes of charity and barhopping.
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BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Charges of voter fraud surfaced on Friday when New Haven City Clerk Ron Smith filed a complaint with the State Elections Enforcement Commission alleging criminal mismanagement of absentee ballots in Ward 8. According to the complaint at least eight voters in a Wooster Square elderly complex gave their ballots to another resident of the building, who either helped fill the ballots out or simply put them in the mail. Both of these actions would be in violation of state elections statute. Applications for all eight of the ballots now under scrutiny were checked out by Michael Smart, the current Ward 8 alderman running against Smith for the city clerk spot.
Unearth your inner crafter?
The 45th Annual Celebration of American Crafts is taking place in New Haven for the current month. The event will feature once-in-alifetime events such as a ‘Crafternoon’ and a chance to purchase wedding presents and apartment decor from the ceramics, jewelry and handcrafted furniture of over 300 artists. Take this opportunity to ask yourself — have your worked decorative fiber into your outfits lately? Does your common room boast enough hand-woven rugs?
The wedding you wish you had been invited to. Yale
poetry professor and editor of The Yale Review J.D. “Sandy” McClatchy GRD ’74 tied the knot with graphic designer Charles “Chip” Kidd on Friday in New York City at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Their power couple union made the pages of the New York Times wedding section.
The Literati. Speaking of the
literary elite, the Associated College Press’s Pacemaker Awards were announced at a convention in New Orleans last week and The Yale Literary Magazine made the list of winners in the Magazine category. Now, knowing how prestigious the publication is, you don’t have to feel so bad when your heartfelt personal essays and poignant poetry are harshly rejected during the Lit’s arduous selections process.
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New Haven has led the nation in immigration policy in the past. How will the new mayor continue this legacy? SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYACK REPORTS in the fourth in a five part series on important issues facing the city of New Haven. front of immigration reform nationally and whoever becomes the next mayor will have the opportunity to either continue this legacy or stunt it. “In a way, all aspects of New Haven were shaped by different kinds of migration histories,” said Alicia Camacho, the chair of the Ethnic-
BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER In New Haven undocumented immigrants can obtain a driver’s license, get an ID card and report crimes without fear of deportation. New Haven has been on the fore-
Smart was endorsed by the New Haven Democratic Town Committee in July and is running on a ticket with Democraticendorsed mayoral candidate Toni Harp ARC ’78. Smith, a 10-year incumbent, recently allied with Harp’s opponent: petitioning Independent candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10. One of the city clerk’s principal tasks is
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Ward 1 candidates hunt for votes
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Oct. 27 death of musician Lou Reed, the Beinecke offered to send fans copies of a letter Reed wrote early in his career. The 1965 letter was written from Reed to writer Delmore Schwartz and includes his thoughts on starting out in the music industry. The letter cannot be publicly reposted without the permission of Reed’s estate but those in search of a Lou Reed autograph can now have a copy by writing to beinecke.images@yale.edu.
Students of Berkeley College feasted this past weekend on a special brunch with menu items including pumpkin spice mascarpone-stuffed challah French toast and prime rib.
People were saying that they handed over their ballot to a certain person and that person took care of it from there.
ity, Race and Migration Department and co-chair of Junta for Progressive Action, one of New Haven’s many immigrant advocacy groups. The city’s black population, she said, is a living testament to the Great Migration, representing African Americans’ pursuit of economic opportunities in industrial Northern cities. The Latin American immigrants that make up some of Elm City’s most prominent neighborhoods have had a presence for much longer than many remember, with large waves of Puerto Ricans arriving to fuel the post-World War II
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Voter fraud alleged
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Both aldermanic campaigns worked hard to make sure Yalies would vote in this Tuesday’s election. BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Nick Agar-Johnson ’16 opened the door of his suite on Saturday afternoon to find Republican Ward 1 candidate Paul Chandler ’14 ready to explain why the Calhoun sophomore should vote for him over Democratic Incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12 in Tuesday’s aldermanic election. On Sunday, another knock at the door brought Agar-Johnson faceto-face with Chandler’s opponent, as Eidelson had come make a pitch of her own. Teams of canvassers crisscrossed campus over the weekend, knocking on dorm-room doors and phoning
students who eluded them. Both campaigns plan to further ramp up efforts in advance of Tuesday’s election. Chandler introduced himself as an alternative to Eidelson, describing his vision of the Ward 1 spot on the Board of Aldermen and bringing along Democratic Ward 19 Alderman-elect Mike Stratton to denounce Eidelson. Eidelson did not reference Chandler’s candidacy. Instead, she employed battle-tested get-out-the-vote tactics, seeking to secure support among scores of registered Democrats the Chandler campaign has worked to pick off from the incumbent. SEE CANVASSING PAGE 6
Starting next year, eight New Haven high school students and two Yale alumni will travel to China as student ambassadors on behalf of the Yale-China Association and the 100,000 Strong Foundation. This fall, the 100,000 Strong Foundation — a nonprofit organization born out of a State Department initiative launched in 2010 by thenSecretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 — designated the Yale-China Association as one of its eight signature partners for its inaugural year. The Yale-China Association, a nonprofit separate from the University intended to foster a dialogue between America and China, will assist the 100,000 Strong Foundation in fulfilling President Obama’s goal to have over 100,000 Americans studying abroad in China by 2014. After spending time studying abroad, the New Haven students and Yale alumni will travel across America, sharing their experience through such avenues as writing op-eds in their local newspapers, giving talks at their high schools and organizing events on campuses. “The honor [of being selected as one of the eight inaugural partners] is a recognition of how well run the Yale-China Association is,” said Jane Edwards, dean of international and professional experience and Yale College senior associate dean, adding that the Yale-China Association has been a national leader in cultivating strong relations between the two countries since its founding in 1901. Although independent of Yale, the Yale-China Association has main-
tained close ties with the University. Edwards said that the organization works closely with the University in providing postgraduate internships and opportunities to students interested in studying China, citing the Yale-China English Teaching Fellowship as one partnership between the two institutions. The teaching fellowship enables Yale graduates to travel to China for two years, where they teach English at one of the Yale-China Association’s four sister schools, said Nancy Yao Maasbach SOM ’99, executive director of Yale-China Association. All six students in the East Asian Studies major interviewed said that the Yale-China Association has supplemented their education by providing opportunities such as annual competitions and symposia. “These competitions are a valuable way to discuss China in a policy context and with other students in a way that you can’t simulate in a classroom,” Nicholas Sas ’14 said. The Yale-China Association’s prestige and longevity enables it to attract important people to discuss U.S.China issues with the intimacy of a Master’s Tea event, Mikko Salovaara ’15 said. In addition to bridging the gap between Yale and China, the YaleChina Association also seeks “to create a deep and complex relationshipbuilding opportunity that embraces New Haven,” Maasbach said. She added that for the first time in its history, the Yale-China Association has placed graduates of Chinese universities in New Haven public schools to SEE YALE-CHINA PAGE 4
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Yale, speak out on Xia W
hen I was in high school in Shanghai, one of the popular supplementary textbook series we used featured biographies of past students who had excelled in the all-important National College Entrance Examinations (presumably as a result of using the books). The students posed in front of landmark locations at the two universities indisputably ranked as China’s best — Tsinghua and Peking University — and recited nearly identical stories of dream chasing and hard work. Growing up, like millions of Chinese students, I idealized these two schools. I was particularly fond of Peking University — colloquially referred to as “Beida” — which, compared to the practical and engineeringfocused Tsinghua, had a reputation for liberalism and openness. Despite its continued appeal to China’s brightest students, today’s Beida is no longer the famed bastion of the liberal arts it was nearly a century ago. Nowadays, bureaucracy often trumps academics. The communist party leadership has sole control over the appointment of top school officials, including the president, and all faculty members are subject to a complex administrative ranking system that often distracts from teaching and research. These problems exist at virtually every single university in China, although top schools like Beida and Tsinghua receive “special treatment” from the authorities. Shell-shocked by the student protest movement of 1989, many of whose leaders were Beida students, the Chinese government has been unequivocal about its need to enforce tight ideological controls on college campuses. The recent controversy surrounding the dismissal of outspoken economics professor Xia Yeliang from Beida, widely reported in western media, appears to highlight once more China’s lack of academic freedom. Earlier in the year, Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a new ideological campaign aimed at silencing dissident voices in public places through a central directive entitled “Concerning the Situation in the Ideological Sphere.” Xia, who along with Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, was one of the initial signatories of Charter 08, a human rights manifesto advocating democratic reforms, seemed to be an obvious target for ideological repression. Officials at Beida deny Xia’s claim that he lost his job for political reasons. Citing his apparent unpopularity with students and unproductive publication record, the school emphasized that Xia’s dismissal was purely the result of his lackluster academic performance. A quick glance into
W e i m ing, Beida’s internal online bulletin board, reveals that the school’s accusations are XIUYI not entirely ZHENG unfounded. Students Propercomplained about his gandist overt politicizing and criticism of the government in class. Accounts of Xia’s incompetence were widely broadcasted in the state media, while Xia’s own portrayal was largely ignored. While Beida as Xia’s employer is legally entitled to discontinue his contract, it as an academic institution is ethically bound to ensure that decisions with regards to faculty appointments are made without external political influence. Universities should serve as bastions of academic freedom against external forces of repression. However, in Xia’s case the structure of censorship is aligned with the university itself. The reason why Beida’s decision to dismiss Xia has come under fire internationally is not that it shouldn’t be able to choose its faculty on its own terms, but precisely that it lacks the ability to do so in an independent and fair manner. Due to the China’s tight controls over its universities, the divorce of politics and academia cannot be achieved without major structural reforms, which are unlikely to be realized in the foreseeable future. Yet that does not mean Xia’s dismissal should be ignored. In committing to the Yale-NUS project, Yale has committed itself to protecting academic freedom in authoritarian states. That commitment bounds it to take action in the Xia case. Armed with a global brand and a close relationship with Beida, Yale is in a unique position to influence the politically saturated environment that Xia finds himself trapped in. In its Oct. 21 editorial, the New York Times Editorial Board called upon western universities that have collaborative relations with Beida — including Yale — to push for Xia’s reinstitution. Yale should put pressure on the Beida leadership, but not directly for Xia’s re-employment. Whether Xia deserves his position should not be decided by an external actor. Rather, it should pressure Beida to publicize its standards for renewing faculty contracts and to give Xia a fair opportunity to defend himself. XIUYI ZHENG is a senior in Davenport College. His column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at xiuyi.zheng@yale.edu .
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VIEW For Mayor: Justin Elicker Tomorrow, for the first time in 20 years, New Haven residents will go to the polls to select our city’s new mayor. We would do well to elect a candidate capable of building a more accessible, innovative and transparent government. Justin Elicker, the face of a new brand of politics, is our choice to steer this city. New Haven needs swift and strategic initiative from its next mayor: the budget is hemorrhaging, poverty rates remain stubbornly high and nascent school reform proposals demand enduring solutions. The alderman of low-income Cedar Hill and affluent East Rock, Elicker has shown, through his plan and record, the ability to provide longterm, creative solutions to these challenges. On various issues, his platform is noticeably more comprehensive than his opponent’s plan. On fiscal responsibility, Toni Harp has been markedly lacking clarity, while Elicker has offered a multistep plan to balance the city’s budget. He has, for
example, publicly declared that the city’s pension plan is in need of reform — a necessary but politically unpopular move. On education, he has been similarly impressive, especially his intention to extend Boost!, a program which partners nonprofits with inner-city schools. The candidates’ decisions regarding campaign finances have been a much discussed aspect of the election. And for good reason: Elicker’s decision to participate in the Democracy Fund and his refusal to accept funding from special interests demonstrate his refreshing honesty and independence. As mayor, we believe he will be willing to take controversial stances and oppose blocs of power when necessary. Indeed, he has already proven himself capable of criticizing powerful city entities in his condemnation of the University’s purchase of High Street. Elicker’s independence comes at a cost: he lacks Harp’s close ties with aldermen, unions and state leaders
in Hartford. Indeed, he may at first face difficulty implementing his agenda or soliciting state aid. We are, however, confident in his ability to build powerful networks and connections once in office. His track record as alderman has shown that he is able to create coalitions with other leaders, as he did in opposing parking meter monetization. New Haven remains plagued by collusion and patronage — and the result is the decay of trust in Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s administration. Elicker, whose telephone number is advertised on campaign literature, has placed open government at the forefront of his agenda and proposed office hours for his constituents. He offers the city’s best hope of fighting fraud in City Hall. On engagement with the University, Elicker, unlike Harp, has outlined a substantive vision for Yale-New Haven relations, with promising plans that include a collaboration to develop entrepreneurial opportunities. His decision to attend Salovey’s inauguration
— at which Harp was noticeably absent — is hopefully indicative of the attention that Mayor Elicker will give the University. We have immense respect for Harp: her record of statewide accomplishments is impressive, particularly her six terms of devoted leadership on the legislature’s Appropriations Committee. There is no question that she has more political experience than her opponent, with his two terms on the Board of Aldermen. And despite her wealth, many New Haven residents feel she is more representative of the average citizen than Elicker. But we are confident that his combination of initiative and principle will allow him to overcome these initial deficits. While he will pursue a strong town-gown relationship, his vision will more importantly benefit the entire population of New Haven. Elicker is not ahead in the polls. But by voting we can improve our chances of having the better option for New Haven: Justin Elicker.
For Ward 1 Alderman: No endorsement Tomorrow we face two candidates for Ward 1 alderman: a disengaged incumbent and a candidate we fear lacks deep understanding of city politics. A successful Ward 1 alderman is a policymaker who can both champion the needs of Ward 1 residents and involve him or herself in larger citywide reforms — while engaging a broad segment of constituents in their work. At a point when both the University and the city’s leadership are changing, the Ward 1 alderman is uniquely positioned to bridge the town-gown divide. We are disappointed with the options presented on tomorrow’s ballot. Neither Sarah Eidelson nor Paul Chandler possesses the combination of skill and vision necessary for their role. We do not, therefore, endorse either candidate for the office. Eidelson’s work has been impressive and undoubtedly beneficial to city residents. In advocating for the revitalization of the Q House and securing the Youth Violence Prevention Grant, she has not only improved the lives of New Haven children, but has also powerfully demonstrated the Yale community’s capacity to invest in citywide issues. She has conveyed the message that Yale students care about the welfare of the city, strengthening town-gown relations through her service to youth. But while advancing reforms for the city as a whole, she has neglected her own
ward. Her two years on the Board of Aldermen have been frustratingly marked by a lack of engagement with a wide range of her constituents. In late 2012, only 20 percent of a hundred freshmen surveyed by the News could identify Eidelson as their representative. Her office hours are poorly publicized, and her outreach efforts through email newsletters are sporadic. Her lack of accessibility has driven away students who may have otherwise hoped to engage in the Ward’s political work. If elected, her ties to constituents will likely only loosen as her term progresses; by the end of her second term, she will not have spent time as a student with any Yalie on campus. This seat has traditionally gone to a student, and for good reason. Furthermore, we are troubled by her lack of independence. As a graphic designer for Local 34, Eidelson is able to use her union connections to advance some portions of her agenda. But her ties seem to have severely restricted her ability to critically analyze pressing issues, such as the High and Wall Street sale and the endorsement of a flawed union-backed Ward 7 candidate. No politician can duly execute her responsibilities to voters when bound to such a dominant political power in the city, no matter how beneficial the unions are to both town and gown. Her Republican opponent,
Chandler, has amassed significant support, even in Yale’s predominantly liberal community. This speaks to his approachability and passion for engaging students in political initiatives. He understands that an alderman should not navigate city politics alone; rather, he must reach a range of constituencies and involve them in executing his political vision. Since Chandler is enthusiastic and a current Yale student, we only wish he could have outlined more specific plans for recruiting Yale students and accomplishing his goals. Unlike the well-connected Eidelson, Chandler lacks the relationships or experience necessary to realize his vision. He comes into city politics as a fresh face, not having even met most of the aldermen he will serve with. While Eidelson spent her undergraduate career immersed in city issues, he has no such experience in organizing and coalitionbuilding. We were glad to hear Chandler’s hopes of contributing to economic development and public school improvement in the city. But he does not seem to grasp the political realities behind his policy proposals regarding education reform and balancing the city budget. An alderman has little purview over New Haven Public Schools. And Chandler has not detailed the necessary steps it will take to implement his much-talked-about plan to
build a crosswalk to the New Haven Green. Tangible, specific initiatives that strengthen Dixwell and Newhallville, such as the ones Eidelson has championed, lift up the city as a whole. Spending political capital on community efforts such as the revitalization of the Q House does much more to benefit the city than do Chandler’s vague promises about balancing the city’s budget. So we believe Yale deserves more from its aldermanic candidates. But since, by the end of the day tomorrow, we will have elected a Ward 1 alderman, we must acknowledge that they would have differing effects on the city. Chandler shows the promise of engaging a broader swath of the Yale student body in initiatives that directly benefit Ward 1, while Eidelson shows the promise of using existing aldermanic relationships to continue effecting critical changes for New Haven and thus improving University relations with the city. Eidelson’s more guaranteed results as an alreadyengaged incumbent, therefore, are less risky to vote for at the polls. We wish we were presented with a candidate who merited endorsement. In the coming two years, we hope the winner takes legitimate critiques into account. And in the next election, we hope to see candidates who can adequately fulfill the multifaceted duties required of our alderman.
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“Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.” OSCAR WILDE WRITER
YCC pushes calendar changes
CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, NOV. 1
The article “Yalies favor Elicker” incorrectly stated that Rachel Miller ’15 is the field manager for the campaign of Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10. She is in fact the field manager of Yale for Elicker, not the campaign as a whole. It also incorrectly stated that Elicker had attended the Dwight Hall Bazaar. In fact, he hosted a meet and greet in Dwight Hall.
Pinto runs in Ward 25
BY WESLEY YIIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale College Council released its second Academic Calendar Report on Sunday, which indicated that student opinions on recent changes in the academic calendar — including the addition of an October recess and the shortening of reading weeks and examination periods — have remained largely unchanged since the previous report was issued in January. Like the January report, the new report recommends that the administration shorten winter break in order to restore the length of the end-of-term reading and exam periods. This recommendation was based on the results of a survey conducted in early September that received 888 responses. Sixty-eight percent of the students said that last year’s changes to the academic calendar negatively influenced their academic performance, and 81 percent said that the changes had adverse effects on their health and anxiety levels. Sixty-four percent of the students surveyed said they would prefer to have a couple of days removed from winter break instead of the shortened reading and exam periods. Still, one change to the academic calendar proved popular: 80 percent of students said they want to keep October break. These results are almost entirely consistent with the findings from January’s surveys. YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 said administrators requested that the YCC compile this second report before they would consider making any changes to the academic calendar in future years. “[The administrators] were not willing to make any changes to the calendar until a full academic year was experienced,” Avraham said, adding that the new data will reinforce the arguments from last semester’s report. Still, Avraham said that the YCC, in conjunction with the Dean’s Office, proposed slight adjustments to the 2013–’14 academic calendar last spring that University President Peter Salovey ultimately rejected. Avraham declined to comment further. David Lawrence ’15, YCC academic chair and author of the report, said that
the two academic calendar reports differ in subtle ways, adding that the more recent version was necessary to fully understand student complaints. This time around, the Office of Institutional Research reviewed the survey questions beforehand, making the results of the report stronger, Lawrence said. “The actual questions we asked in this survey were much more specific and nuanced and clear,” Lawrence said. “They allowed us to get a much better analysis.”
I was convinced after the fall term that we had some problems with the shorter reading and exam periods. JOHN MEESKE Associate dean, Student Organizations and Physical Resources For example, this year’s survey asked separately about how the calendar changes affected academic performance and health — an improvement upon the January report, which asked about the manageability of the new exam period structure and its influence on students’ general abilities, Lawrence said. The new report also shows that more than 60 percent of sophomores, juniors and seniors would prefer to shorten winter break in order to keep fall break — an important step in the analysis of the collective student opinion, Lawrence said. Avraham added that winter break was extended when the schedule was changed to equalize the number of days in the fall and spring terms and the proposed shortening of winter break would only return it to its original length. Lawrence added that the report shows students felt similarly across all fields of study. John Meeske, associate dean of student organizations and physical resources, said that he was not surprised by the results of the second report. “I was convinced after the fall term that
we had some problems with the shorter reading and exam periods,” he said. “We were already thinking of ways to possibly deal with those problems.” The bigger issue, Meeske said, is ensuring that the calendar is consistent. Depending on the year, it may be difficult to shorten winter break, he said. For instance, on years in which Labor Day falls on Sept. 7, Meeske said the term might already end as late as Dec. 23, meaning that lengthening reading and exam periods could infringe on Christmas celebrations. Still, Meeske said that there are many different ways to address the problem, but they might involve sacrifices. In the situation that Meeske proposed, the solution may involve the shortening of October break to only one day, he said. Alternatively, as the report recommends, both semesters could start earlier. Meeske said he will continue working alongside Avraham and Lawrence to look for solutions for the years to come. “Calendar business is a lot more difficult than it seems,” he said. Students interviewed said they enjoyed having fall break but were divided on whether they were willing to give up several days of winter break. Hannah Alpert ’15 said that she thinks the calendar is fine the way it is. Lengthening the reading and exam periods would not change much, since students always want more time to prepare, she said. Ayezan Malik ’14 said he would prefer not to shorten winter break because that is when he has the opportunity to go home. Although he enjoys having fall break, he said that he would rather give it up to restore the reading and exam periods than have days removed from winter break. But Maddie Klugman ’15 said she supported the shortening of winter break because she thinks that three weeks is too long to be “doing nothing.” Sunday’s report also recommended that fall break be held in the third week of October rather than the fourth week, and that the number of examinations scheduled for 7 p.m. be decreased or eliminated. Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .
Sustainability week raises awareness MICHAEL PINTO
Michael Pinto will be a write-in candidate for the previously uncontested position of Ward 25 alderman. BY LIA DUN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Just two weeks before the election, Michael Pinto announced his candidacy for the previously uncontested position of Ward 25 alderman. Pinto, an attorney and former economic development officer for the city of New Haven, announced his decision to run as a write-in candidate last Sunday in an email to Westville residents. He is heavily involved in Justin Elicker’s FES ’10 SOM ’10 mayoral campaign and said he came to the decision to run after many Ward 25 residents expressed a desire for an alternative candidate in the aldermanic race as he campaigned for Elicker. Incumbent Adam Marchand had previously been running uncontested. Pinto said that over the course of campaigning for Elicker, he spoke to many Ward 25 residents who felt that Marchand had not been a responsive alderman. He cited the assaults in Edgewood Park that occurred over the summer as a time when Marchand went “awol” and did not respond to people’s inquiries. Marchand could not be reached for comment. “Voters expect their alderman to be responsive and not ignore them,” Pinto said. “These issues are not sexy. They require you to call people back and respond to their emails.” A Westville resident, Pinto said that he hopes to invest in Westville Village and make it a place where people will want to live. Though New Haven currently has a thriving downtown, Pinto said, he hopes to create new office spaces for start-ups in Ward 25. Pinto said that because he and Marchand are both democrats, they agree on most key issues. However he disagreed with Marchand’s decision to sell portions of High and Wall streets to Yale this summer. “Yale is an important partner to New Haven,” Pinto said. “I just found it problematic that the agreement didn’t guarantee public access.”
He also disagreed with Marchand’s decision to vote against receiving federal funds to conduct a study on building a trolley in downtown New Haven. Ward 19 alderman Mike Stratton said that he thinks that Pinto has a good chance of winning. He credited Pinto for the resurgence of Edgewood Park and said that he is exactly what the Board of Aldermen because of his vision for the city.
These issues are not sexy. They require you to call people back and respond to their emails. MICHAEL PINTO Aldermanic candidate, Ward 25 Aldermanic seats in other wards are also contested. Democrat Aaron Greenberg and independent Andy Ross are competing for the seat in Ward 8 seat, where current alderman Michael Smart is stepping down after this term. Kevin Diggs and Patricia DePalma are running as independent write-in candidates for Wards 27 and 11 respectively. Ross said that running as an independent means he is not beholden to a party and, if elected, will allow him to serve on whichever committee he chooses, since he is minority candidate. Pinto said that his campaign should do well on election day, but that his main concern is still the mayoral race. He is currently chief organizer in the western part of New Haven for Elicker’s campaign and said that opportunities to canvas for himself are fairly limited. “My main focus for the election has been organizing for Justin,” Pinto said. “I’m one part of a big team.” Currently every member of the Board of Aldermen is a Democrat. Contact LIA DUN at lia.dun@yale.edu .
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The Yale Center for British Arts highlighted several pieces related to sustainability as part of Sustainability Week. BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The student on Cross Campus Tuesday clad in plastic bags was not celebrating Halloween early. They were promoting environmental causes as part of a weeklong University effort to support sustainability. “Celebrate Sustainability” week, which featured roughly 20 events from Monday to Saturday, aimed to teach the Yale community more about sustainability on campus and around the world. The Yale Office of Sustainability organized events ranging from a recycling demonstration to talks about climate change that reflected initiatives outlined in the 2013–2016 Yale Sustainability Strategic Plan launched Wednesday. “It’s been a really good opportunity for our staff members, students [and] anyone to get involved and think about sustainability,” said Amber Gerrard, education and outreach program manager of the Office of Sustainability. One of the most visible events on campus was the Tuesday morning “Sustainability Pledge,” during which a member of the student environmental group Sustainability Service Corp clad in a giant costume made entirely of plastic bags encouraged students on Cross Campus to write a promise to themselves relating to sus-
tainability. Other high-visibility events on campus included the Wednesday Fall Harvest Market at Beinecke Plaza, and a tour of Kroon Hall led by graduate students.
It’s been a really good opportunity for our staff members [and] students … to get involved and think about sustainability. AMBER GERRARD Education and outreach program manager, Office of Sustainability On Wednesday afternoon, University President Peter Salovey launched the Sustainability Strategic Plan. The events of each day of sustainability week reflect one of the five major categories of the plan: energy and greenhouse gas emissions, natural and built environment, food and wellbeing, materials management and sustainability leadership. Speeches at the event by campus environmental administrators discussed Yale as a global leader in campus sustainability efforts through its implementation of the Sustainability Plan. “[The] event was definitely a capstone,”
Gerrard said. “[It was] a really successful event — a really great mix of staff and faculty and key leaders around campus who were talking about the future of sustainability. So that was really exciting.” On Wednesday evening, the Office of Facilities invited the public to observe a monthly energy audit at Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Yale Director of Energy Management Julie Paquette said Celebrate Sustainability week and the launch of the strategic plan were two primary reasons for a new partnership between the Office of Sustainability and the Office of Facilities. While Celebrate Sustainability week is traditionally held in the spring in conjunction with Earth Day, Gerrard said organizers decided to move it to the fall in order to coincide with the launch of the strategic plan and in an effort to convey sustainable values to new students early in their Yale careers. Gerrard said that she hopes sustainability weeks in future years feature even more events and spread awareness of the week even more broadly in the community by holding a large event each day of the week in a prominent spot on campus. “Celebrate Sustainability” week concluded with Yale Employee Day at the Yale Bowl on Saturday. Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .
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“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.” SOPHOCLES ANCIENT GREEK TRAGIC PLAYWRIGHT
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VOTER FRAUD FROM PAGE 1 handling absentee ballots, an irony not lost on Smart’s critics. In a Friday statement, Smart fired back at Smith, accusing him of being a “do nothing no-show” city clerk. Smart asked voters not to pass judgment until all the facts are unearthed by the state commission, which does not have its next meeting until Nov. 20, 15 days after the election. “I look forward to a full investigation of this matter, and of course, I will cooperate fully,” Smart said. It was Andy Ross, an Independent candidate for alderman in Ward 8, who first brought the matter to Smith’s attention. Ross, who is running against Democratic-endorsed Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 to replace Smart as alderman, said he encountered numerous residents in the elderly complex who said they had given their absentee ballots to the woman named in the complaint — or that they planned to do so. “People were saying that they had handed over their ballot to a certain person and that person took care of it from there,” Ross said. “In some cases people would admit to me that this certain individual would even help them fill it out or fill it out for them.” One evening, when he went to the elderly complex to deliver letters to voters who had applied for absentee ballots, Ross said he encountered the woman, who told him she had already collected all of the ballots. He quoted her as saying, “Everybody has turned in their ballot, I have them all, I took care of it.” He said the woman in question is widely known as a volunteer on Smart’s campaign. Ross said he confirmed with the city’s registrar of vot-
15 votes were disqualified in a Democratic aldermanic primary in Newhallville because the absentee ballots had been collected by one of the campaigns.
ers that this would constitute illegal campaign activity before returning to Winslow-Celentano to collect affidavits from residents who had turned over their ballots. He said 11 residents signed written statements saying they had given their ballots to the woman, who had described herself to them as “in charge of absentee ballots.”
These are all allegations. If there’s wrongdoing, it should be prosecuted. TONI HARP ARC ’78 Mayoral candidate Ross said when he presented the affidavits to the City Clerk’s Office, Smith opted to file a formal complaint with the state. In addition to the Winslow-Celentano elderly complex on Warren Street — where the alleged wrongdoer resides — the complaint also queries absentee ballot procedure at the Farnam Courts housing complex on Franklin Street. Large numbers of ballots were sent in from Farnam Courts at the same time and with no precise return address, Smith wrote in the formal complaint. Ross said the potential fraud does not affect the clerk’s race alone, accusing Smart of sending out volunteers all over the city to strongarm residents into voting for himself, Harp and Greenberg — and using absentee ballots to confirm an early lead in the election. He said the fraud could be extensive enough to prompt a repeat election, at least in the alder-
Yale-China Association commits to New Haven YALE-CHINA FROM PAGE 1 teach Chinese through the YaleChina Chinese Teaching Fellowship program. The two schools that currently participate in this program — the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School and the Metropolitan Business Academy — will send the eight students as ambassadors under the 100,000 Strong partnership. The Yale-China Association’s commitment to New Haven was one important factor in its selection as one of the 100,000 Strong Foundation’s founding partners, said Travis Tanner, senior vice president and chief operating officer at the 100,000 Strong Foundation. Tanner added that the foundation seeks to support students from diverse backgrounds who may not otherwise have the capability or resources to study in China. Maasbach said this initiative will provide traditionally underrepresented students with opportunities to influence policy making. “I am excited that this time next year there is a likelihood that a [high school] sophomore from New Haven is going to go to D.C. to meet Secretary Kerry,” she said. Encouraging students to gain personal experience and develop an understanding of Chinese culture will be vital to ensuring the long-term stability of the relationship between America and China, Tanner said. Edwards said the Yale-China Association may have been picked in part due to Yale’s high level of engagement with China. The University is at the forefront nationally in terms of stu-
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dent interest in China, Edwards said, adding that more than 300 students at Yale study Chinese language, a number she said was “astounding in comparison to nationwide statistics.”
[The number of students studying Chinese at Yale is] astounding in comparison to nationwide statistics. JANE EDWARDS Dean of international and professional experience, Yale College David Yin ’15, the editor-inchief of China Hands, a publication dedicated to U.S.-China relations, said Yale’s strong brand name in China also likely contributed to the Yale-China Association’s selection for the partnership. Yin cited former Chinese President Hu Jintao’s 2006 tour of America — during which he visited Yale but no other colleges — as one example of Yale’s value in China. The seven other signature partners are the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Americans Promoting Study Abroad, Asia Society China Scholars, China Institute, Community Colleges for International Development, Teach for China and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Contact RISHABH BHANDARI and LARRY MILSTEIN rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu and larry.milstein@yale.edu .
manic race. According to Deputy City Clerk Sally Brown, Smart has checked out 320 absentee ballot applications. State law provides that anyone may check out absentee ballot applications and help voters fill them out. The ballots themselves, however, may only be handled by the individual voter or a family member or caretaker. 181 absentee ballots have been issued so far in Ward 8, a fairly dense concentration amid the 1,487 such ballots that have been issued across the city’s 30 wards, Brown said. Elicker echoed Ross’s concerns at a Friday afternoon press conference at Farnam Courts. “There are indications that Mike Smart is involved in these absentee ballot issues, and since he’s on a joint ticket with Harp, there’s some concern that what’s going on may help Harp get more votes,” Elicker told the News, citing the fact that Harp won the Ward in September’s Democratic primary with 49 percent of the vote but claimed 87 percent of the absentee ballots. She drew 91 absentee ballot votes in the ward, more than double the number she received in any other area. Harp addressed the allegations in Sunday’s WTNH televised debate, saying no one on her campaign has improperly handled absentee ballots. “These are all allegations,” Harp added. “If there’s wrongdoing, it should be prosecuted.” This is the fifth time in the past four years that charges of absenteeballot fraud have been leveled in New Haven elections. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .
2012 Candidates in a Beaver Hills Democratic Town Committee race collected affidavits alleging that another campaign had misled them into filing fraudulent ballots. 15 votes were disqualified after a campaign worker for U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy unlawfully collected and delivered the absentee ballots of voters in the Casa Otañal housing complex in the Hill.
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NEWS Connecticut speeds towards clean future
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists… When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.” LAOZI ANCIENT CHINESE PHILOSOPHER
Students talk leadership
BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Connecticut is speeding toward a more environmentally friendly future with a new multi-state initiative to cut down on transportation emissions. Last week, the state of Connecticut, along with seven other states, pledged to put 3.3 million clean, environmentally friendly cars on the roads by 2025. The state plans to construct electrical charging stations and find other ways to encourage citizens to drive electric cars or use other forms of clean transportation. “This initiative is consistent with Connecticut’s Comprehensive Energy Strategy and our focus on providing cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable power for our residents and businesses,” Governor Daniel P. Malloy said in a statement. Emissions from cars are one of the major sources of greenhouse gases and air pollution, according to DEEP spokesman Dennis Schain. Transportation currently accounts for 28 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in America according to data from the EPA. Connecticut has adopted a comprehensive energy strategy, Schain said, and transportation is one of the main focuses of that strategy. The new initiative aims to make the state’s transportation infrastructure more enviornmentally friendly by setting up a network of charging stations around the state, said Daniel Etsy, the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and a Yale Law Professor on leave.
This initiative is consistent with Connecticut’s Comprehensive Energy Strategy and our focus on providing cheaper, cleaner and more reliable power. DANIEL P. MALLOY Governor, Sate of Connecticut Etsy spoke of the need to alleviate “range anxiety” caused when those with electric cars are concerned that charging stations will be too far away, by setting up electric vehicle charging stations within 10 or 15 minutes of each other.“It’s kind of like if you were the first person to have a telephone, it wouldn’t do you any good,” commented Eli Fenichel, Assistant Proffessor at the School of the Environment and Forestry. According to Fenichel, the new plan of creating a network of charging stations is crucial to encouraging consumers to buy into the electric car industry. The “Zeroemission” vehicles that the state wants to put on the roads include battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel-cell-electric vehicles. These technologies can be used in passenger cars, trucks and transit buses, according to a DEEP press release. But the “zero emission” vehicles that today’s technology can produce are usually not completely zero-emmission. The ‘zero’ in ZEV refers to tailpipe emissions. This means that for battery electric ZEVs, the ultimate environmental impact depends on how clean the power plants are that create the electricity to charge the battery, Shain said in an e-mail to the News. According to Shain, the same can be said for hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles as well, which he touted as the “long game’ for the ZEV program. The plan is also an economic boon for the state. Electricity is the most widely available source of power and typically costs about two-thirds less than gasoline on a permile basis, according to a press release on the agreement by the DEEP. By 2025, the average zero-emission vehicle driver will save nearly $6,000 in fueling costs over the life of the car, the press release said. The new plan is all about creating, “Cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable energy for the state of Connecticut,” Etsy said. He added that it was exciting to see Connecticut leading the ways toward a transformed energy future that will give citizens more options and opportunities for clean methods of transportation. Collectively, the eight signatory states represent more than 23 percent of the U.S. car market, and expect to have at least 3.3 million zero-emission vehicles operating on their roadways by that time, according to the DEEP. Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .
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Approximately 75 students shared ideas about how to be good leaders at Yale and beyond at the Student Leadership Form last weekend. BY ZUNAIRA ARSHAD AND RISHABH BHANDARI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER This past weekend, approximately 75 students from across Yale’s campus attended a selective program in which they learned how to apply leadership skills to roles within the University and beyond. The Student Leadership Forum, which ran from Friday afternoon to Saturday evening, was planned by the Association of Yale Alumni and Students and Alumni of Yale and invited student leaders from both Yale College and Yale’s graduate schools. The conference, which took place at the Graduate Club in New Haven, attracted students representing over 200 student organizations on campus. The students — who were either invited or nominated to attend based on their past campus leadership, or applied to the program independently — gathered for 11 hours to attend workshops and listen to a handful of guest speakers. “We started doing [these conferences] in January of 2012 and got an overwhelming response from the student community,” said Stephen Blum ’74, senior director of strategic initiatives at the AYA and the main coordinator of the conference. “There was a hunger for leadership.” Although he expressed regret that the leadership conferences could not run for a longer period of time or reach a larger audience, Blum added that these weekends mark the first time that the AYA has offered student-leadership training workshops similar in format to those offered to alumni. After an introductory dinner and informal reception on Friday evening, conference attendees listened to speeches from administrators, alumni and faculty members on how students can become better leaders in the Yale community and beyond. After each speech, students broke into groups of 12 and discussed the hurdles and responsibilities they face as leaders on campus. Some of the difficulties mentioned by stu-
dent leaders include having to coordinate lastminute plans or direct friends in a work environment, said Josh Clapper ’16, one attendee of the conference. After each group discussion, the students participated in open sessions, moderated by either Blum or AYA Director Mark Dollhopf ’77, that expanded on their earlier discussions.
I have started thinking about my life and my leadership roles as more fluid and flowing from one aspect of my life to the next. THERESA BAILEY ’14
Jessica Sager LAW ’99, the first speaker to address the attendees, spoke about the unusual path she took toward cofounding a Connecticut-based nonprofit that provides childcare to low-income working families. After graduating from Barnard College with a theater degree in 1994, Sager worked as a middleschool drama teacher before attending Yale Law School, working in corporate law and eventually switching to the nonprofit sector. Leaders should be willing to constantly change direction, Sager said. “One lesson I’ll definitely take away from [Sager’s talk] was the value of perseverance,” Clapper said, adding that Sager said she called one landlord in New Haven every day for three months straight until she finally acquired an apartment that she could use for her non-profit. Ko-Yung Tung, a senior research scholar at the law school, spoke about the importance of luck in becoming a leader. Tung’s speech referred heavily to a number of readings and texts that the conference attendees were asked to read in preparation for the weekend. After
recounting his experience entering Harvard expecting to be a physics major and then turning to law, Tung urged students to pursue the things that they love. The youngest speaker of the day, Andrew Klaber ’04 told students that he unexpectedly received an internship offer from a prestigious hedge fund after writing a personal letter asking for a 20-minute meeting, despite being an atypical candidate. Students make their own opportunities to become leaders by taking risks and being confident in themselves, Klaber said. “He was very candid and probably the most relatable speaker,” said Sanam Rastegar ’16, adding that the crowd seemed sympathetic to Klaber partly because he openly spoke of how his career hindered him from having more of a personal life. Linda Lorimer, University vice president for global and strategic initiatives and the last speaker of the conference, began her talk by playing a short recording of jazz music. Using the song as a reference point throughout the speech, Lorimer told the audience that students can still be leaders of groups on campus without having an official title, just as conductors are not the only leaders of music groups. All nine students interviewed said that they enjoyed the conference and hope that similar leadership activities will be planned in the future. “I have started thinking about my life and my leadership roles as more fluid and flowing from one aspect of my life to the next,” said Theresa Bailey ’14, adding that she decided to apply for the conference after enrolling in a class on strategic planning and leadership, which encouraged her to study the subject in a context outside of the classroom. This weekend’s conference is the sixth that has been held since January 2012. Contact ZUNAIRA ARSHAD at zunaira.arshad@yale.edu and RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .
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“Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 32ND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Immigration rights in next mayor’s hands IMMIGRATION FROM PAGE 1 economic boom. Similarly, Irish, Italian and other European immigrants have historically been central to the culture and work force of New Haven. Activists acknowledge that the next mayor will have to work hard to fill Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s shoes in terms of fighting for progressive immigration policy. DeStefano worked with immigrant communities and local leaders to push forward such initiatives as the Elm City ID program, which provides official identification for undocumented residents, and General Order 06-2, which mandates that New Haven police not report the immigration status of residents to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reduce the number of deportations. “He developed great partnerships with local and national leadership to innovate programs and policies that allow the integration of immigrants and defend them from what he saw as flawed federal policies,” Camacho said. “But in this he was listening closely to his constituency.” Both mayoral hopefuls, Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Toni Harp ARC ’78, have composed platforms that address the challenges facing New Haven’s undocumented residents. Elicker said he would not be afraid to continue to push for innovative ways to support New Haven’s immigrant residents, with or without papers. “I’m a practical person and an ethical person, so I’m going to make sure that if the federal government can’t get its act together for immigration policy, we make sure our many undocumented residents are safe and have opportunities,” he said. In the extensive list of position statements on his website, Elicker proposes cracking down on wage theft, encouraging positive relations between immigrants and law enforcement and helping undocumented immigrants get driver’s licenses. Rival candidate Harp, who led Elicker in the primary, referenced her track record of supporting immigrant rights in the state legislature. She co-sponsored a bill earlier this year that allows undocumented immigrants to apply for driver’s licenses in the state, in order to improve road safety and increase the number of insured drivers. She also voted and advocated for the Connecticut DREAM Act in 2011, which allows undocumented immigrant students to pay in-state tuition for public colleges. She said minimizing wage theft and maintaining the Elm City ID program would be her goals to improve immigrants’ rights in New Haven. Junta, like the other immigrant advocacy organizations inter-
viewed, does not endorse either candidate, but rather plans to work closely with the victor to support initiatives that would improve the lives of immigrants in the city. “We’re seeing a desire on the part of all candidates to be advocates for immigrant rights,” Camacho said.
DOCUMENTING IMMIGRANTS, DOCUMENTING RESIDENTS
New Haven broke new ground in the national immigration reform movement by initiating the Elm City ID program, which issues residents, regardless of immigration status, official identification cards that connect undocumented immigrants to certain city services. “I think the card created a sense of belonging and, to a certain extent, it diminished fear within our community,” said Ana Maria Rivera, Junta’s legal and policy analyst. The ID card, which both Harp and Elicker publicly support, allows immigrants without other forms of identification to open accounts at certain banks and gives them access to libraries and public pools. When the ID program debuted in 2007, Mayor DeStefano told the New York Times: “We’re just dealing with our reality, which is that a significant portion of our population is undocumented, and they are a significant part of our work force. This is just a way to serve the people of New Haven and help many of them negotiate daily life.” Elicker said the Elm City ID program, which has been hugely successful so far, should be issued to all residents, including public school and college students. He said it could be used as a bus pass, library card and debit card. The card could also help the city collect metrics on what services are being used more than others, generating data that could inform improvements to services. “It shouldn’t just be useful to undocumented immigrants,” he said. But Lugo said that there are first certain specific improvements the city could make to the card that would address serious challenges undocumented immigrants in particular face. He said that if more banks allowed residents to use it as a debit card, fewer immigrants would have to carry and handle large amounts of cash, something that makes them targets for theft. He also said that he wants to eventually see municipal voting rights extended to undocumented immigrants, who comprise a large portion of the city’s tax base. He pointed to such a law in place in Takoma Park, Md. that allows for this. On the state level, legislators led by Harp passed a bill in May
that allows undocumented immigrants to go through the process of getting a driver’s license, decreasing uninsured and unlicensed drivers and giving many immigrants a safe means to get to work. Though Harp has a strong track record supporting immigration reform at the state level, she did not respond to repeated requests for comment about how she would expand documentation for workers in New Haven. Rivera said this bill was a “major victory” for immigrants in the state, and that it demonstrates the state’s commitment to immigration reform. “I’m glad to see that these progressive laws are a growing trend in our nation and proud that Connecticut is a leader on this issue,” Rivera said. Elicker said that if elected he would work at the city level to encourage undocumented drivers to go through the process of obtaining a driver’s license.
TRUST IN THE ELM CITY
In the New Haven Police Department’s endorsement of the TRUST Act, Lieutenant Holly Wsilewski wrote that General Order 06-2, which mandated that New Haven police not ask or report the immigration status of people reporting crimes or involved in lesser crimes, helped to bring people “out of the shadows.” Elicker said what he hears consistently from immigrants he speaks to is that their goals for improving the city, ranging from increased public safety to effective law enforcement, are not much different from those of nonimmigrants. But for many immigrants, activists said concerns about being reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement prevented them from calling police to report crimes, contributing to higher crime rates in immigrant communities. To counteract this, members of the Connecticut state legislature, including Harp, unanimously passed a law in May called the TRUST Act, which limits the situations in which police can turn people over to ICE. Connecticut was the first state to pass a statewide law that limits the impact of the federal Secure Communities program, which Rivera called a “deportation machine.” But the TRUST Act is only as effective as its implementation at the municipal level, which will hinge on the future mayor’s dedication, said Evelyn Nunez, the political action chair of MEChA, a Latino activist group on campus. “The passing of this act was a huge victory, but it will only have a significant impact on deportation rates if there is proper communication with local police enforce-
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Activists acknowledge that the next mayor will have to work hard to fill Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s shoes in terms of fighting for progressive immigration policy. ment,” she said. Elicker said that he would throw his full force behind this and other efforts to improve relations between law enforcement and immigrant communities, including General Order 06-2. Despite advances in fostering relations between immigrant communities and law enforcement on both the city and state levels, Lugo said there are still some steps the mayor could take to improve public safety in neighborhoods where many residents do not speak English. For instance, he said that the city and police department should hire bilingual receptionists. “The city should improve safety of the immigrant communities that are being plagued by crime on the streets,” said John Jairo Lugo, a ULA activist. “When people call the police, no one answers in Spanish. That’s a big issue for our community.”
WAGE WAR
Immigrant rights have historically been tied to the labor struggle in New Haven, Camacho said. In recent years, undocumented immigrants have been disproportionately affected by wage theft. In recent decades, wage theft has been a common practice of businesses in the city, seriously impacting undocumentes workers, activists said. Both candidates expressed
their support for the fight for fair wages in the city, which activists said is among the most pressing crises for immigrants at the moment. “Wage theft is still an enormous problem that plagues this city and particularly the immigrant population,” Rivera said. “I would encourage voters to find out what the candidates plans are for enforcing criminal wage laws.” This past year, the issue has been brought to light close to Yale by the santions Gourmet Heaven is facing from the Department of Labor for paying some undocumented workers under minimum wage and not paying overtime. ULA and MEChA lead a boycott and weekly picket of the business to raise awareness and punish the owners of Gourmet Heaven. Both organizations call for City Hall to punish wage theft beyond state sanctions, which they consider too diminutive to seriously discourage the practice. “I think it is imperative the mayor’s office commit to passing some sort of ordinance at the city level that will help combat wage theft,” Nunez said. “Wage theft has become a common practice in New Haven, and I think that in order to change that practice we need to pass stricter measures that will make employers think harder about the ramifications of stealing wages.” Elicker’s plan for helping
immigrant workers deal with wage theft is to provide assistance at City Hall for them in filling out and faxing the necessary forms. Elicker said that it is difficult for many undocumented immigrants to navigate the Department of Labor complaint process for wage theft, and that the city can play a role in assisting them when it comes to submitting the required forms anonymously. On his website, he also proposed developing a simple online form for submitting wage theft complaints to the city, which could provide counseling on how to move forward with the issue. Harp acknowledges the importance of minimizing wage theft, but did not outline possible measures to do this. “They pay taxes in our community and they raise our children in our community,” she said. Undocumented workers in cities and farms nationwide are on the front lines of the national battle over immigration reform, but as leaders in New Haven and Connecticut at large have argued, they are entitled to safety, integration and respect. On Nov. 5 the next mayor will be faced with the option to make this assertion a priority or put it on the table next to a myriad of other issues. Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINATAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .
Ward 1 candidates canvass in final push CANVASSING FROM PAGE 1 “The biggest hurdle is getting people past the Republican label,” Chandler said between treks up Calhoun entryways. “Sarah’s depending on people who identify as Democrats just voting on the ‘D’ or the ‘R.’” At students’ doors, Chandler and Stratton downplayed the Republican label, focusing on the city’s ills and the need for “independent thinkers,” as Stratton said: leaders unaffiliated with Yale’s UNITE HERE unions, Locals 34 and 35. Chandler, who has established considerable name recognition over the past two months, began by letting students know he wants to be their alderman — a position “traditionally reserved for a student voice on the city legislature,” he emphasized. He briefly described his policy commitments — highlighting education and fiscal sustainability — before asking students if they had any questions. Vivienne Hay ’14 asked Chandler how he planned to increase the city’s revenue if it came entirely from property taxes. Chandler responded that he would try to expand the tax base by luring in more businesses, which he said depended on a more transparent zoning code and a more stable tax rate. Chandler did not ask students for whom they were voting, nor did he dwell on Eidelson’s tenure on
the Board. He left that to Stratton, who said that Chandler formed part of a coalescing group of candidates and sitting aldermen unaffiliated with Yale’s unions that also included himself, Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, Ward 10 Democratic candidate Anna Festa, Ward 8 Independent candidate Andy Ross and Ward 25 write-in candidate Mike Pinto. “The current Yale incumbent is really bad news,” Stratton told Agar-Johnson, accusing Eidelson of being part of a supermajority of union-backed aldermen who “use the Board to negotiate contracts with Yale.” Eidelson had more than 40 volunteers out canvassing over the weekend, including Ward 29 Alderman Brian Wingate, who serves as the vice president of Local 35, and a group of middle and high school students Eidelson said she has worked with in her capacity as chair of the Board’s youth services committee. In Pierson, Eidelson and her campaign manager, Sarah Cox ’15, focused on getting students to the polls, seeking out registered voters and asking them to pledge to vote on a sign-up sheet. Having voters commit to come to the polls and then following up with a phone call on Election Day increases voter turnout by 11 percent, according to the youth vote nonprofit Rock the Vote. Chandler said his volunteers on Election Day will stress same-
day registration as an option for students who wish to vote but have not registered. Eidelson said she is principally focused on the large number of students who are already registered. After confirming their support, Eidelson and Cox strategized with Maneesh Vij ’15, Mendy Yang ’15 and Aneesha Ahluwalia ’16 about the best time to vote, asking when their first class is on Tuesday and suggesting they go to the polls early in the morning to avoid long lines. Some students were persuaded merely by Eidelson’s or Chandler’s presence at their doors. Eric Rodriguez ’15 said he plans to vote for Chandler because he has a better sense of his platform and has not heard from Eidelson. Other students took more convincing, including Una Boyle ’16, who told Eidelson and Cox she did not plan to vote but said she changed her mind after a lengthy pitch about Eidelson’s efforts to revamp community policing and the need to integrate Ward 1 more within the fabric of the rest of the city. She promised Eidelson her vote. “Wards are small,” Cox told Agar-Johnson. “Your vote has a huge impact in a race this close and this small.” 962 Ward 1 residents voted in 2011. Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .
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Yalies working for Sarah Eidelson’s ’12 campaign made a push to canvass voters before Tuesday’s Election .
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NATION Obamacare impacts citizens BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Now is when Americans start figuring out that President Barack Obama’s health care law goes beyond political talk, and really does affect them and people they know. With a cranky federal website complicating access to new coverage and some consumers being notified their existing plans are going away, the potential for winners and losers is creating anxiety and confusion. “I’ve had questions like, `Are they going to put me in jail if I don’t buy insurance? Because nobody will sell it to me,’” said Bonnie Burns, a longtime community-level insurance counselor from California. “We have family members who are violently opposed to Obamacare’ and they are on Medicaid - they don’t understand that they’re already covered by taxpayer benefits. “And then there is a young man with lupus who would have never been insurable,” Burns continued. “He is on his parents’ plan and he’ll be able to buy his own coverage. They are very relieved.” A poll just out from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation documents shifts in the country in the month since insurance sign-ups began. Fifty-five percent now say they have enough information to understand the law’s impact on their family, up 8 percentage points in just one month. Part of the reason is that advertising about how to get coverage is beginning to register. “The law is getting more and more real for people,” said Drew
Altman, the foundation’s president. “A lot of this will turn on whether there’s a perception that there have been more winners than losers. ... It’s not whether an expert thinks something is a better insurance policy, it’s whether people perceive it that way.” The administration is continuing efforts to influence those perceptions. On Wednesday, Obama will meet with volunteers in Dallas who are helping people enroll in health insurance plans. Cabinet officials are also expected to make stops around the country in the coming weeks to encourage people to sign up for insurance even as the website problems persist. The Obama administration insists nobody will lose coverage as a result of cancellation notices going out to millions of people. At least 3.5 million Americans have been issued cancellations, but the exact number is unclear. Associated Press checks find that data is unavailable in a half the states. Mainly they are people who buy directly from an insurer, instead of having workplace coverage. Officials say these consumers aren’t getting “canceled” but “transitioned” or “migrated” to better plans because their current coverage doesn’t meet minimum standards. They won’t have to go uninsured, and some could save a lot if they qualify for the law’s tax credits. Speaking in Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall this past week, Obama said the problem is limited to fewer than 5 percent of Americans “who’ve got cut-rate plans that don’t offer real financial protection in the event of a serious illness or an accident.”
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Navy secrets sold BY JULIE WATSON ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — Nicknamed “Fat Leonard,” the gregarious Malaysian businessman is well known by U.S. Navy commanders in the Pacific, where his company has serviced warships for 25 years. But prosecutors in court papers say Leonard Francis worked his connections to obtain military secrets by lining up hookers, Lady Gaga tickets and other bribes for a U.S. commander, in a scandal reverberating across the Navy. The accusations unfolding in a federal court case in San Diego signal serious national security breaches and corruption, setting off high-level meetings at the Pentagon with the threat that more people, including those of higher ranks, could be swept up as the investigation continues. A hearing Nov. 8 could set a trial date. Navy commander Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz passed confidential information on ship routes to Francis’ Singapore-based company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd., or GDMA, according to the court documents. Misiewicz and Francis moved Navy vessels like chess pieces, diverting aircraft carriers, destroyers and other ships to Asian ports with lax oversight where Francis could inflate costs, according to the criminal complaint. The firm overcharged the Navy millions for fuel, food and other services it provided, and invented tariffs by using phony port authorities, the prosecution alleges. “It’s pretty big when you have one person who can dictate where ships are going to go and being influenced by a contractor,” said retired Rear Adm. Terry McKnight, who has no direct knowledge of the investigation. “A lot of people are saying how could this happen?” So far, authorities have arrested Misiewicz; Francis; his company’s general manager of global government contracts, Alex Wisidagama; and a senior Navy investigator, John Beliveau II. Beliveau is accused of keeping Francis abreast of the probe and advising him on how to respond in exchange for luxury trips, prostitution services, etc. All have
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U.S. navy officer Michael “Vannak Khem” Misiewicz passed confidential information on ship routes to a Singapore-based company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd., or GDMA. pleaded not guilty. Defense attorneys declined to comment. Senior Navy officials said they believe that more people would likely be implicated in the scheme, but it’s too early to tell how many or how high this will go in the naval ranks. Other unnamed Navy personnel are mentioned in court documents as getting gifts from Francis. Francis is legendary in military circles in that part of the world, said McKnight, who does not know him personally. He is known for extravagance. His 70,000foot bungalow in an upscale Singapore neighborhood drew spectators yearly since 2007 to its lavish, outdoor Christmas decorations, which The Straits Times described as rivaling the island city-state’s main shopping street with replicas of snowmen, lighted towering trees, and Chinese and Japanese
ornaments. “He’s a larger-than-life figure,” McKnight said. “You talk to any captain on any ship that has sailed in the Pacific and they will know exactly who he is.” Navy spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby said Navy Criminal Investigative Service agents initiated their probe in 2010, but declined to comment further, citing the ongoing investigation. That same year, Misiewicz caught the world’s attention when he made an emotional return as a U.S. Naval commander to his native Cambodia, where he had been rescued as a child from the violence of the Khmer Rouge and adopted by an American woman. His homecoming was widely covered by international media. Meanwhile, Francis was recruiting him for his scheme, according to court documents.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 12:30 p.m. Art in Context: “No Stone Unturned: Loss and Change in British Church Monuments.” Join for a talk by Lisa Ford, the associate head of research at the Yale Center for British Art and a specialist in Tudor political history. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.). 8:00 p.m. Finckel-Han-Setzer Trio. The trio — which features David Finckel on cello, Wu Han on piano, and Philip Setzer on violin — will perform pieces by Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Dvorak. Tickets start at $12. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Rm. 119.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 6:30 p.m. “Elia Zenghelis: Architectural Projects for Greece, 1890s and After.” Visiting professor Elia Zenghelis will present his speculative architectural projects for Greece as well as the pedagogical premise of his design-studio agenda at the School of Architecture. School of Architecture (180 York St.), Smith Conference Rm.
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espite its urban landscape, New Haven plays host to a wide range of bizarre and amazing animals. Over the past few months, contributing photographer WILLIAM FREEDBERG has tracked them down to share his sightings with the Yale community through nature walks and photo projects. Keep your eyes peeled for any of these wild critters near Yale’s campus, from tiny green bees to imposing red-tailed hawks.
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KENDALL POLAN ’14 CAPTAIN, VOLLEYBALL Yale’s 23-match Ivy League winning streak may have ended on Saturday, but Polan reached a career milestone in Yale’s 3–2 loss at Harvard. Polan surpassed 3,000 career assists during the match and is third all-time in that category at Yale.
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NICK ALERS ’14 AND PETER JACOBSON ’14 MEN’S SOCCER Alers, a defender, and Jacobson, a forward, were both selected to the Capital One Academic All-District I first team last Friday. Alers was named to the National Academic All-America first team last season and made the third team two years ago.
“You’re thinking about doing everything you can to win the match.” KELLY JOHNSON ’16 Setter, Volleyball team
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Running back Candler Rich ’17 (No. 32) rushed for 101 yards and scored three total touchdowns against the Lions. Rich’s performance contributed the Elis’ 53–12 rout of Columbia, the largest margin of victory for Yale this year. BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Riding a three-game losing streak into Saturday’s game against Columbia at the Yale Bowl, the Bulldogs broke records and regained the confidence that
came with their 3–0 start to the 2013 season. In the highest-scoring game for either program so far this season, Yale (4–3, 2–2 Ivy) topped the Lions (0–7, 0–4) 53–12. Several Elis set or tied records on Saturday: running back Kahlil
Keys ’14 broke the all-time school record for yardage on a rushing play with a 94-yard touchdown run; kicker Kyle Cazzetta ’14 tied his career-best with a 46-yard field goal and; and tailback Tate Harshbarger ’14 scored his first career touchdown. The Bulldogs
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also intercepted two passes and recovered a fumble. On offense, Yale tallied 569 yards compared to just 246 yards for Columbia. “I think it tells you a lot about the character of this team,” said head coach Tony Reno. “They put it all together on the field today.”
The Elis put themselves on the scoreboard twice in the first quarter with a field goal and a touchdown. Yale got to the scoreboard first with an 11-play, 64-yard drive that ended with a career-tying 46-yard field goal from Cazzetta.
Yale was unable to find the end zone for most of the first quarter, but the Elis managed to open up the floodgates with a reverse play. Quarterback Hank Furman ’14 handed the ball off to tailback SEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3
Ivy unbeaten streak comes to an end BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER The winning streak may be over, but the future of Yale volleyball remains bright.
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The men’s hockey team opened its home slate by tying St. Lawrence 3–3 and topping Clarkson 6–3. BY FREDERICK FRANK AND GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Over the weekend, the No. 11 men’s hockey team started its ECAC season with a home slate against St. Lawrence and No. 17 Clarkson.
MEN’S HOCKEY Yale (2–1–1, 1–0–1 ECAC) came close to pulling out a win in an enthralling home opener on Friday night over St. Lawrence (4–2–2, 0–0–2 ECAC), eventually settling for a 3–3 tie. On Saturday night against Clarkson (7–2–1, 1–1–0 ECAC) the Bulldogs stepped up with a com-
manding 6–3 win. “The weekend went well for us. Obviously we would have liked to get a win Friday night, but we showed our resiliency battling for a tie,” defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said. “On Saturday night we played a solid team game and made smart plays like chipping pucks past defensemen and kept moving our feet to have success against a good defensive team.” In a pregame ceremony on Friday night, the team unveiled last year’s national championship banner to the cheers of a sellout crowd of 3,500 at Ingalls Rink. When the action began on the ice, however, the Saints struck first. With the Yale defense overextended, St. Lawrence forward
Sean McGovern deflected the puck into the net to cap a twoon-two situation just 5:30 into the initial period. With 4:08 remaining in the period, a failed Bulldog defensive clearance gave the puck to one of the nation’s most dangerous skaters. St. Lawrence’s Greg Carey took care of business, and his shot gave the Saints a 2-0 lead, stunning the Yale faithful at Ingalls. “I think [the banner raising] contributed to our nervous start,” defenseman Mitch Witek said. “Together it got us a little too excited and away from our systems. Then as we calmed down we played a better team game.” SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3
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After defeating Dartmouth (10–12, 3–7 Ivy) 3–1 on Friday, the Elis (15–4, 9–1) fell in Ivy League competition for the first time since Nov. 11, 2011. In a dramatic five-set match, the Crimson (12–7, 7–3) prevailed over the Bulldogs 3–2, ending Yale’s record-making 23-match winning streak — an Ivy League record. This weekend was perhaps Yale’s most competitive of the season so far. The Elis played in nine sets over the two days. The largest margin of victory in any set this weekend was the six points that separated Yale and Harvard in their tie-breaking fifth set. In that match, the first three sets all went past the 25th point. “We knew going in that it was going to be a really tough weekend,” setter Kelly Johnson ’16 said. “We knew we were going to have to play very strong in both games.” On Friday, the match against Dartmouth was competitive from the very first set. The Elis fell behind early 14–8, but rallied back to tie the game at 19-all. The teams traded punches down to the wire until captain Kendall Polan ’14 assisted on a pair of kills by Johnson to win the set 25–23. In the second set, despite drawing first blood, the Elis fell behind early again. This time, Dartmouth took advantage and won the set 25–22. Polan noted that the Elis have had slow starts to their most recent matches. “We haven’t been coming out as strong as we would like in the past few games,” Polan said. “Dartmouth just came out really strong and played well.” Yale only trailed for one point in the third set, however, and prevailed over Dartmouth 25–20. In the fourth set, the Big Green again held a sizable lead over the Elis. Down by five in the middle of the set, the Bulldogs went on a 7–2 run to equalize and build momentum. After middle blocker Maya Midzik ’16 gave the Elis the lead, they never relinquished it and won the final set 25–20. Polan had an incredible 50 assists to go
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On Saturday, setter Kendall Polan ’14 (No. 14) eclipsed 3,000 assists for her career. along with 14 digs. Johnson and Midzik tied for most kills on the team with 13 each during the match, while outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17 contributed 12. Libero Maddie Rudnick ’15 rounded things out with her teamSEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE B3
CONSECUTIVE IVY LEAGUE MATCHES WON BY THE YALE VOLLEYBALL TEAM BEFORE THIS SATURDAY’S 3–2 LOSS AT HARVARD. The Bulldogs had not lost since a 3–2 defeat at Dartmouth Nov. 11, 2011. The loss drops Yale to 9–1 in the Ancient Eight, two games in front of Harvard.
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“If winning isn’t everything, then why do they keep score?” VINCE LOMBARDI AMERICAN FOOTBALL COACH
Yale settles for a draw MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 The Lions seemed to carry the momentum for that goal. Just over three minutes later, Nicholas Pappacena finished off a series of quick passes with an effort from 10 yards out to tie the game at 3–3. Columbia outshot the Bulldogs 11–3 in the second half and forced Brown into four saves.
It was a pretty tough tie as a win would have put us in a much better position. KEITH BOND ’16 Defender, Men’s soccer team The Lions took their momentum into overtime where they had a further three shots, including an effort that hit the crossbar in the 103rd minute. Neither team could find a winning goal, and the game finished at 3–3. “It was a pretty tough tie, as a
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win would have put us in a much better position,” Bond said. “But we’re still in it and all the guys still are confident. We have two more games left, and all we can do is go out and win those and hope the rest falls into place for us.” The result drops the Elis into a tie with Brown for fourth place in the Ivy League with games against the Bears and secondplaced Princeton remaining. The Elis will need help from other teams in order to make up the four-point gap on league-leading Harvard. The Bulldogs play Brown in their final home game of the season this Saturday at 4:00 PM.
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With their 3–1 loss at Columbia, the Bulldogs dropped to 2–3–1 in the Ivy League this year. Additionally, Yale had never previously allowed three or more goals to a Columbia squad. “I think we panicked too much and made too many bad mistakes at crucial times,” Meredith said. “We probably should have brought our checkbooks because we paid every time we made a mistake defensively.” The regular season concludes next weekend as each team in the Ancient Eight has one more conference game to improve its standing. Yale could finish anywhere from third to sixth in the Ivy League standings depending on next weekend’s results. Harvard (11–3–2, 6–0–0), on the other hand, will be playing for little more than an undefeated Ivy season, as the Cantabs clinched their 11th Ivy League women’s soccer title this weekend.
Yale will have one final weekend of action, with a home-and-home series against Brown (8–6–1, 3–2–1). The Bulldogs will host the Bears in the conference matchup on Friday night before traveling to Providence on Sunday for a game that will not count towards the conference standings. Kickoff against Brown is slated for 7 p.m., Friday at Reese Stadium. Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .
the clock ran out for a 7–0 Clarkson victory. Seven different Golden Knight players scored in the shutout. After the game, Haddad said that the team met to discuss its attitude for the rest of the season. “One of the [things we talked about] is never being satisfied with mediocre play,” Haddad said. “We also talked about holding people more accountable for their actions. If someone’s not skating 100 percent in a drill, it’s our responsibility as teammates to call them out on it and make sure that everyone is putting the work in … I’m hoping that we’re going to have a more serious tone Monday to Thursday this week.” The Elis have faced a string of strong squads to start the season, and this trend will continue in Yale’s home opening weekend against Princeton (2–2– 0, 2–2–0 ECAC) and No. 9 Quinnipiac (7–1–2, 2–1–1 ECAC). Martini, however, noted that the
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a Yale foul in the box to open up a 1–0 Columbia lead. The Bulldogs were unable to regroup in the second half, as Columbia padded its lead with a goal just 70 seconds after halftime. Forward Beverly Leon beat Yale goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15 for Leon’s team-leading eighth goal of the season. But Columbia was still not finished as the Lions found the back of the Bulldogs’ net for a third time. Forward Phoenetia Browne fired a shot in the 62nd minute from the left side of the goal that snuck inside the far post. The goal was Browne’s fourth of the season. Captain and defender Shannon McSweeney ’14 said that the Elis did not play like their normal selves against the Lions. “We were in a funk from the beginning and had a hard time getting out of it,” McSweeney said. “I wish I could put my finger on why we all seemed to struggle.” The Bulldogs did stave off a shutout, earning a penalty kick of their own in the 84th minute. Forward Melissa Gavin ’15 converted the penalty kick, boosting her season total to 10 goals. Gavin trails Harvard forward Margaret Purce by just one goal for the league lead, but has one more game remaining than Purce. Nevertheless, Gavin said that the scoring title is not her main concern. “My goal for the weekend is to do whatever I can to help the team win our last two games,” Gavin said. “If I happen to end the season as leading scorer by doing that, then that would be a great byproduct, but I’m not thinking about it.” Meredith echoed Gavin’s sentiments, and noted that Gavin’s scoring usually leads to positive results for the Elis. The disappointing performance on Saturday was unique in the history of the Yale-Columbia series. Entering this weekend’s game, the Lions had defeated the Bulldogs just five times in 26 matchups.
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schedule can provide an advantage. “I think [the tough schedule] motivates us,” Martini said. “We’re obviously a team trying to change our culture, trying to create a winning a culture here, and to play those tough opponents at the top of the season gives us an opportunity to show everyone that we can play against them. Obviously, we’d like to be winning against those types of teams.” Yale will look to learn from its struggles this week to improve. Captain and defender Tara Tomimoto ’14 said that one key for the Elis will be to remain positive. “We are going to be watching a lot of video to try and learn from our mistakes,” Tomimoto said. The Bulldogs will play Princeton on Friday at 7 p.m. and Quinnipiac on Saturday at 4 p.m. Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .
ST. LAWR. 4, YALE 1
CLARK.
2
4
1
7
ST. LAWR.
1
0
3
4
YALE
0
0
0
0
YALE
0
0
1
1
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SCHOOL
W L
T
%
W L
T %
1
Quinnipiac
2
0
0
1.000
8
1
0
0.889
1
Union
2
0
0
1.000
3
2
2
0.571
3
Yale
1
0
1
0.750
2
1
1
0.625
3
Rensselaer
1
1
1
0.500
5
2
1
0.6875
3
Harvard
1
1
1
0.500
2
1
1
0.625
6
Clarkson
1
1
0
0.500
7
2
1
0.750
6
Cornell
1
1
0
0.500
3
1
0
0.750
6
St. Lawrence
0
0
2
0.500
4
2
2
0.625
6
Colgate
1
1
0
0.500
3
5
1
0.389
10
Brown
0
1
1
0.250
2
1
1
0.625
11
Princeton
0
2
0
0.000
1
3
0
0.250
12
Dartmouth
0
2
0
0.000
0
4
0
0.000
WOMEN’S HOCKEY ECAC
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W L
T
%
W L
T
%
1
Cornell
3
0
1
0.875
5
0
1
0.917
2
Harvard
3
1
0
0.750
3
1
0
0.750
2
St. Lawrence
3
1
0
0.750
4
6
0
0.400
4
Quinnipiac
2
1
1
0.625
7
1
2
0.800
4
Clarkson
2
1
1
0.625
7
2
2
0.727
6
Princeton
2
2
0
0.500
2
2
0
0.500
7
Union
1
1
0
0.500
4
6
0
0.400
7
Rensselaer
1
1
0
0.500
2
6
1
0.278
7
Dartmouth
1
3
0
0.250
1
4
0
0.200
10
Brown
0
1
1
0.250
1
2
1
0.375
11
Yale
0
2
0
0.000
0
4
0
0.000
11
Colgate
0
4
0
0.000
2
8
0
0.200
YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 · yaledailynews.com
PAGE B3
SPORTS
“Every day is a great day for hockey.” MARIO LEMIEUX CANADIAN ICE HOCKEY PLAYER
Bulldogs win big over Columbia FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 Candler Rich ’17 at the 15-yard line and then delivered a block while Rich reversed it to wide receiver Deon Randall ’14. Randall then took the ball down the left sideline for a gain of 10 with 2:06 remaining in the first quarter. After a false start penalty, the Bulldogs scored their first touchdown of the game when Furman handed the ball off to Rich on the left side. Rich then made two sharp cuts and walked into the end zone for his second touchdown of the year. Although Yale’s offense was the story of the game, its defense punished the Columbia offense to make sure that the scoring was a one-sided affair.
[Tate Harshbarger ’14] is the hardest worker on the team. He’s just one of those guys that’s the glue for our program. HANK FURMAN ’14 Quarterback, Football “The execution [by the defense] has been much better than it has in the past weeks,” Reno said. On the first play of the second quarter, Columbia’s Chris Connors received the ball over the top of the offensive line and cut across the center of the field, but defensive back Charles Cook ’15 delivered a bone-crushing hit
and forced a punt. In the second quarter, the Lions managed to narrow Yale’s lead to four. On third down from the Yale 22-yard line, Furman tossed the ball down the left-side line, but Columbia’s Brian East intercepted it. East then ran the ball all the way back to make it 6–10. The Lions would not get any closer, however, because kicker Luke Eddy’s extra point attempt went wide. The score would not stay that close for much longer. Just over seven minutes into the second quarter, Furman sank deep in the pocket and waited for Randall to make his way past the defense and into the end zone before making a 26-yard touchdown pass to put Yale up 16–6. Cazzetta then knocked his second extra point of the game through the uprights to make it 17–6. With 53 seconds remaining in the first half, Yale looked to widen its lead. Furman took a high snap and faced instant pressure from the Lions’ defenders as they broke through the offensive line. Furman picked his head up quickly and dished a short pass to Rich, who ran for a few yards before diving between two defenders into the end zone. Yale received a illegal substitution penalty before the extra point and the extra yardage forced Cazzetta to kick wide, so the Bulldogs headed to the locker room after 30 minutes of play up 23–6. At the start of the second half, Columbia came out strong after the kick return with two completions before disaster struck once again. The Lions were called for a holding penalty, took a sack and
botched the punt on a bad snap. It did not take the Elis long to capitalize. Furman capped a fiveplay, 24-yard scoring drive when he found Randall over the middle for a gain of 19 yards to set up Rich for his third touchdown of the game. Yale took a 30–6 lead after the extra point. Yale’s defense continued to squash any hopes that Columbia had of a comeback. With four minutes left in the third quarter, linebacker Andrew Larkin ’16 had his first career interception at the 50-yard line to keep the momentum with the Bulldogs. After a brief media timeout, Furman took the snap and lobbed the ball downfield for wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15 who caught it with ease along the right sideline and raced past the defender into the end zone to put Yale up 37–6. After the defense forced a punt that rolled to a stop on the sixyard line, Keys took the handoff just outside the Yale end zone and ran the ball for 94 yards — the longest run in Yale history — for his first career touchdown. The ball was dropped on the extra point snap, and Cazzetta was tackled after he picked up the ball, but Keys’ run widened the Elis’ margin to 37 by the end of the third quarter. “I actually didn’t realize it was a record when I was on the field,” Keys said. “I saw a great opening and wanted to hit it hard, and I took off.” As the fourth quarter rolled around, the Bulldogs put Eric Williams ’16, last year’s opening day starter, at quarterback for the first set of snaps. The Bulldogs were eventually forced to punt,
KEN YANAGISAWA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
No. 24 Kahlil Keys’s ’15 94-yard scoring run against Columbia was the longest rushing play in Yale history. but defensive back Cole Champion ’16 raced upfield to strip the ball from the punt returner at the 29-yard line. Williams was able to help the Bulldogs progress 10 yards before Cazzetta kicked his second field goal of the game to put Yale up 46–6. With the game out of reach for the Lions, Harshbarger put the final nail in Columbia’s coffin and widened the deficit to 46 with a 14-yard scoring run. Cazzetta made it 53–6 with yet another
Elis top Golden Knights
VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B1
KEN YANAGISAWA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
The Bulldogs rallied against St. Lawrence and Clarkson for a tie and a win, respectively. goal on the power play with just over five minutes to play in the frame. Forward Kenny Agostino ’14 crossed the blue line where he put on the breaks and found a wide-open Day streaking into the offensive zone. Day then released a wicked wrister that hit the top corner of the net for a 3–1 Yale lead. The period featured a number of power play opportunities as the Knights became more physical and commited five penalties, while Yale was whistled for three. The third period featured an offensive breakout by both teams with five goals in the final 20 minutes. Yale captain Jesse Root ’14 scored his second goal of the year on a shot right in front of the net after fellow forward Mike Doherty ’17 found him wide open on the doorstep. The Bulldogs seemed completely in control of the game and looked to be cruising, but a pair of Clarkson goals in the span of a minute blew the game wide open. Just fifteen seconds after Agostino was sent to the box for hooking, Tansey scored his second goal of the game when he was left open on the man advantage and put away his shot over the glove of Spano. Just a minute later at 9:25, Clarkson scored again on a two-on-one opportunity on the break, again beating Spano glove side to cut the deficit to 4–3. Immediately after Root’s goal, Clark-
YALE 6, CLARKSON 3
Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
YALE 53, COLUMBIA 12 YALE
10
13
20
10
53
COLUMBIA
0
6
0
6
12
Passing: H. Furman (Yale) — 22–30, 275 YDS, 3 TD Rushing: K. Keys (Yale) — 137 YDS, TD Receiving: D. Randall (Yale) — 88 YDS, TD
Volleyball falls to Harvard
MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 Near the end of the frame, the Bulldogs managed to generate some offense of their own. Captain Jesse Root ’14 deflected a slapshot from forward Kenny Agostino ’14 into the net to narrow the lead to one. Early in the second period, the Bulldogs took a costly penalty as defenseman Tommy Fallen ’15 was whistled for holding. The ensuing power play resulted in a slapshot goal for Justin Baker at the 4:37 mark. Fortunately for Yale, a St. Lawrence penalty helped keep the Elis in the game. On a power play, forward Anthony Day ’15 found the upper edge of the goal while falling down to cut the deficit to 3-2. Just before the end of the second period, defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 delivered the equalizer. After an elbowing penalty on the Saints’ freshman sensation Matt Carey, O’Gara managed to poke home a shot amid traffic in front of the goal with just one second left on the clock, tying the game at three goals apiece. The final 25 minutes of hockey, comprising the third period and five-minute sudden death overtime, were intense, but produced no scores for either squad. “I thought [the comeback] showed a lot of character and determination in our team this year, which are both key traits to Yale Hockey and to see those early on in a season is a good sign,” forward Carson Cooper ’16 said. Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 made a few fantastic saves, finishing with 29 in his home debut. On Saturday, the Bulldogs took the ice again to face their first nationally ranked opponent of the season. Patric Spano ’17 got the nod in net over his classmate Lyon. Yale’s opponents struck first again as Clarkson notched a tally just over seven minutes into the first. Defenseman Kevin Tansey took a wrist shot from the top of the zone that found its way past Spano untouched despite multiple bodies in front. The Bulldogs were quick to respond, however, with Day scoring just two and a half minutes later. The junior forward finished off a centering pass from line mate Carson Cooper ’16. The Elis kept pressing and found another breakthrough on the powerplay at 10:22 in the first. Defenseman Rob O’Gara hit a slapshot that Clarkson goaltender Steve Perry pushed right. The rebound fell to forward John Hayden ’17, who fed the puck back across the net to an unmarked Frankie DiChiara ’17 for the finish. It was the freshman’s first goal of his Yale career and put the Elis up 2–1. Yale had a number of opportunities on rebounds in the early going as Perry, the reigning ECAC goaltender of the month, exhibited poor puck control. In the second period, the Bulldogs pulled farther ahead after Day scored a
extra point. “I can’t speak to it enough about how much of [a] team this is and how tight a team like this is,” Furman said. “[Harshbarger] is the hardest worker on the team. He’s just one of those guys that’s the glue for our program.” Columbia rallied with four minutes left to play, but it was too little, too late for the Lions. Ryan Flannery caught a 23-yard pass from Trevor McDonagh to make it 53–12.
son amassed 13 shots to Yale’s one, leaving the unusually paltry crowd at Ingalls stunned. Allain called a timeout to try to settle down the team.. The Bulldogs came back with more confidence and quickly answered back. After a scramble in front of Clarkson’s net, forward Chris Izmirlian ’17 lit the lamp with a scorching shot that found top shelf at the 11:32 mark to put the game out of reach. Forward Matthew Beattie ’16 added an empty netter with under two minutes to go to finish off the scoring at 6–3. “I was impressed with our play in the third period, closing out games is usually something you learn to do as the year goes on,” Witek said. “It’s a testament to our leadership and coaching that we remained poised enough to close it out.” Spano finished with 25 saves in his second appearance for the Bulldogs, including a clutch double save halfway through the third period that kept a potential game-tying goal off the scoreboard. The Elis will continue their season at Princeton on Friday before travaling to play in-state rival Quinnipiac on Saturday. Contact FREDERICK FRANK AND GRANT BRONSDON at frederick.frank@yale.edu and grant.
leading 22 digs. On Saturday, the Elis took on the archrival Crimson in a match that featured the top two teams in the conference. In the first set, Harvard attacked Yale with 17 kills thanks to a strong 0.486 hitting percentage. Despite a strong offensive showing from the Crimson, the set was tied at 24-all after a service ace from Johnson. Harvard used a timeout to regroup and eventually took the set 26–24. The Elis fared better both defensively and offensively in the second set, outhitting the Crimson 18 kills to 17 and holding them to a manageable 0.265 hitting percentage. But after the Bulldogs redeemed themselves with a 28–26 win in the second set, Harvard answered back with 17 assists on 18 kills to take the third set 27–25. The Elis forced a fifth set by winning the fourth 25–23 behind Polan’s 14 assists and Johnson’s six kills.
We’ve already talked about how hard we’re going to work this week to overcome the loss. KELLY JOHNSON ’16 Setter, Women’s Volleyball The Elis entered the tiebreaker having played eight extremely competitive sets in two days, but according to Johnson, no level of fatigue is an excuse in high-level competition. “At that point you’re really not thinking about how exhausted you are mentally and physically,” Johnson said. “You’re thinking about doing everything you can to win the match.” The Crimson scored first, eventually securing a 5–3 lead
HARVARD 3, YALE 2
YALE 3 (OT), ST. LAWR. 3
YALE
2
1
3
6
YALE
1
2
0
0
3
CLARK.
1
0
2
3
ST. LAWR.
2
1
0
0
3
Contact DIONIS JAHJAGA at dionis.jahjaga@yale.edu .
YALE 3, DARTMOUTH 1
HARVARD
26
26
27
23
15
YALE
24
28
25
25
9
Kills: C. Wallace (Harv) - 22 Assists: K. Polan (Yale) - 60 Digs: K. Casey (Harv) - 22
over the Elis, but Steinberg and Midzik converted three assists by Polan to give the Elis a narrow 6–5 lead. The Crimson took the lead again behind three kills, but Polan again stepped up, first assisting on yet another Midzik kill and then delivering a clutch block to tie the match at eight. But from there, Harvard went on a 7–1 run to take the set and end Yale’s historic streak. The Bulldogs did not go down without a fight: Polan outdid herself from the night before, recording a mind-blowing 60 assists, surpassing the 3,000 assist mark for her Yale career. Johnson produced a doubledouble with 19 kills on a stellar 0.486 hitting percentage to go along with 11 digs and three service aces. Midzik added a career-high 14 kills and Rudnick led the team with 12 digs. The Elis have always been adamant about their indifference to winning streaks and records, but Midzik admitted it was a bit strange experiencing her first Ivy League loss. Nonetheless, she and other members of the team refused to blame the defeat on the Cambridge setting. “I don’t think a gym can really change a game that much,” Midzik said. “Part of being on a team is having to produce both at home and away.” The Elis have vowed to use this experience to make themselves better than ever before. Johnson said they are eager to work hard this week and get back on their home court when they play against Columbia. “We’re going to come back with everything we’ve got,” Johnson said. “We’ve already talked about how hard we’re going to work this week to overcome the loss. We want to prove that we’re better than what we showed on Saturday night.” The Elis will host Columbia at 7 p.m., Friday.
YALE
25
22
25
25
DARTMOUTH
23
25
20
20
Kills: P. Caridi (Dart) — 17 Assists: K. Polan (Yale) — 50 Digs: J. Lau (Dart) — 23
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YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 · yaledailynews.com
SPORTS
“Soccer is simple, but it’s difficult to play simple.” JOHAN CRUYFF DUTCH SOCCER PLAYER
Elis draw on the road
Lions tame bulldogs
HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
No. 5 Melissa Gavin ’15 scored on a penalty in the 84th minute against Columbia on Saturday for her team-leading 10th goal of the season.
MARISA LOWE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Midfielder Conner Lachenbruch ’15 (No. 8) opened the scoring against Columbia on Saturday, poking in a loose ball off a corner kick at 28:44 BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER Despite twice leading by two goals, the men’s soccer team had to settle for a 3–3 draw with Columbia in New York on Saturday.
MEN’S SOCCER Though the Bulldogs (4–9– 2, 2–1–2 Ivy) stunned Columbia (7–3–2, 1–1–3 Ivy) with two first half goals just a minute apart, the Lions scored two goals in three minutes late in the game to come back and tie on their home turf. “Columbia is a very good team, one of the best we have played all year,” forward Avery Schwartz ’16 said. “Playing them away and getting a point was a
good result, but with the way the game unfolded we definitely felt like we missed an opportunity.” The Lions are undefeated at home this season, posting a record of 4–0–2 in those matches, and started the game with two shots and two corner kick opportunities within the first four minutes. The home side, however, suffered a setback 29 minutes into the game when Yale midfielder Conner Lachenbruch ’15 scored off a corner kick, tapping the ball in after a scrum in front. Just a minute later, Columbia was stunned when Henos Musie ’16 tucked home a cross from winger Cody Wilkins ’14 off of a break opportunity. The whistle for halftime blew with the Bulldogs holding a big
2–0 lead. “Columbia came with a lot of pressure right from the whistle, and we struggled a bit to keep possession at the beginning, so it was a little surprising scoring two quick goals like that,” forward Keith Bond ’16 said in a message to the News. “Give credit to our guys for holding off the pressure and staying composed.” The Lions regrouped after halftime, coming out with a strong start in the second half. Yale goalkeeper Blake Brown ’15 was forced into making a stop just four minutes into the second period. Columbia’s renewed effort paid off in the 50th minute, when defender Jack Gagne was the first to pounce on a rebound and
poked in Columbia’s first goal of the game. The Bulldogs struck back in the 71st minute when Musie scored a free kick goal from 30 yards out. This goal marked the Swede’s second after recovering from the injury that forced him to sit out the last four games. “It was great having him back in the lineup,” Schwartz said. “He gave us some extra creativity and scored two goals which was huge for us.” The goal put the Elis in the driving seat with less than 20 minutes to go, but Columbia replied in the 82nd minute. Andrew Tinari scored his fourth of the season with a hit from 20 yards to cut the lead in half. SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2
BY JAMES BADAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A late penalty-kick goal was not enough for the women’s soccer team, as Yale fell 3–1 in a lackluster effort against Columbia on Saturday afternoon.
WOMEN’S SOCCER Yale (7–6–1, 2–3–1 Ivy) dug itself into a hole that it could not climb out of in New York, erasing any hope of a second-place finish in the Ivy League. Meanwhile, Columbia (8–5–3, 1–3–2) earned its first Ivy win of the season and put itself within striking distance of overtaking Yale in the conference standings. Head coach Rudy Meredith said that the Bulldogs did not put forth the hustle and energy that he has come to expect. “If our team was a Broadway show, we would have been booed off stage,” Meredith said. “I couldn’t find an MVP if I had a microscope.” According to Meredith, it was the team’s first truly disappointing performance on the season. Yale came out lethargic but managed to hold off Columbia for the better part of the first half. In the 42nd minute, however, Lions defender Chelsea Ryan converted a penalty kick after SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2
Elis remain winless after ECAC road openers BY GREG CAMERON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Winless woes continued for the Yale women’s hockey team this weekend as St. Lawrence and No. 5 Clarkson, Yale’s first two ECAC opponents, blew out the Bulldogs.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Elis fell 4–1 at St. Lawrence (4–6–0, 3–1–0 ECAC) on Friday before traveling to Clarkson (7–2–2, 2–1–1 ECAC) the next day and suffering a 7–0 blowout. “There’s no sense in sugar coating it, we really didn’t play well either of the games this weekend,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said. “Anyone who watched the game could see that we just didn’t show up to play and compete.” The weekend’s results come as a disappointment for the Elis (0–4–0, 0–2–0 ECAC), who began the year with losses to national powerhouses No. 6 Boston College and Boston University by just one goal. St. Lawrence took the lead early on Friday with a goal six minutes into the first period on its first power play of the game. After the goal, the Bulldogs were able to ward off the Saints on each of their remaining five power plays. Neither team could score in the remainder of that period or the second one. Yale’s scoreless streak continued despite three power-play chances and 15 shots over the first two periods. Defenseman Kate Martini ’16 nar-
rowly missed tying the game in the second frame, hitting the post on a quick wrist shot from in front of the net. The Saints built on their lead early in the third period. Yale goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 saved a shot from an oncoming attacker, but a Saint forward recovered the rebound and passed the puck out to assist a goal from St. Lawrence forward Jessica Hon. Yale pulled Leonoff in the final minutes of the game in an attempt to create more offensive opportunities. The Saints took advantage with four minutes left on the clock as they recovered the puck in their zone and began an attack. Leonoff rushed back onto the ice as St. Lawrence defenseman Kirsten Padalis took a shot from the neutral zone, but the shot narrowly avoided a diving Leonoff and ended up in the back of the net. The Bulldogs were less than two minutes away from being shut out when Martini scored her first goal of the season. Haddad passed the puck down into the corner to forward Hanna Astrom ’16, who sent the puck towards the center of the ice to Martini for a one-timer finish. The Saints tallied one more goal in the final seconds of the game to solidify their 4–1 victory. Overall, they outshot the Elis 40–25 in the game, though Leonoff finished the game with 36 saves. Haddad said that the difference between the Bulldogs’ games against BC and BU and the game against St. SEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B2
JENNIFER CHEUNG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
After strong performances in losses to Boston College and Boston University to open the season, the Bulldogs struggled this weekend.