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CROSS CAMPUS
FOOTBALL YALE PREPARES FOR SEASON
THEATER
NEW COLLEGES
Three student productions take on Fringe Festival
FUNDRAISING GOAL REACHED OVER SUMMER
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GHeav to close
LEADERSHIP Young African leaders gather at Yale for summer program PAGE 5 NEWS
Sexual misconduct report includes 2 expulsions
Challenge Accepted. The
Yale Admissions Office took on the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness for ALS. Led by Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan, a group of admissions office workers were thoroughly doused in ice water, but not before passing the challenge on to fellow admissions office workers at Brown Admissions, Yale SOM and the Common App.
BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER
Best Friends Forever. Yale
and Harvard alum recently set aside “the world’s most pretentious rivalry” to host the world’s most pretentious networking social at the Fly Club this summer, a Harvard finals club. IvyGate recently posted a wine list from the Fly Club dated 2013 which listed drinks starting at $38 and ranging up to $600. The Yale Bubble spans the nation. Yalies in major cities across the country enjoyed events all summer sponsored by local Yale clubs. Students in New York City had the chance to go to happy hour at the Yale Club of NYC and see a broadway show. Those in San Francisco enjoyed the annual Harvard-Yale Amazing Race as well as a dance party. Students in Los Angeles went camping and matched up with Cornell in trivia. Power Couple. President Barack Obama handed out the nation’s highest honors for arts and humanities to three members of the Yale teaching staff last month. The recipients of the National Medal for the Arts were School of Architecture faculty, and married couple, Billie Tsien ‘71 and Tod Williams. Meanwhile, David Brion Davis, a professor of American History, received the National Humanities Medal. Burn Harvard, burn. Former
Yale English professor William Deresiewicz published a controversial piece in the New Republic over the summer titled “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League.” Accompanied by a graphic of the Harvard flag burning, the article argued that elite universities “are turning... kids into zombies” by focusing too heavily on careers rather than learning to think.
Game set match. The
currently ongoing Connecticut Open 2014 features eight of the world’s top-20 female tennis players including Petra Kvitova (rank no.2), Simona Halep (no.4) and Eugenie Bouchard (no. 8).
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ject of controversy among students and New Haven residents since last August, when the Connecticut Department of Labor began investigating store owner Chung Cho for wage theft. Yale released a statement last fall condemning the injustice, but city officials as well as members of student social justice group MEChA criticized the University for not taking further action, particularly after Cho was arrested
One year after the University’s fourth biannual Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct prompted criticism from the Yale community for insufficiently punishing perpetrators of sexual assault, the latest report — posted on August 5th on the Provost’s Office website — documents two expulsions related to sexual misconduct. The two incidents, in which male respondents were found to have engaged in sexual intercourse without a female complainant’s consent, were investigated by the UniversityWide Committee on Sexual Misconduct. The report also included 64 new complaints of sexual misconduct brought to Yale’s attention between Jan. 1 and June 30. In the previous reporting period, between July 1 and Dec. 31 in 2013, 70 complaints were reported. Aside from one expulsion in 2012 and several temporary suspensions, the cases in previous reports were criticized for largely being resolved through written reprimands, with a change.org petition receiving nearly 1,000
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Gourmet Heaven will close its doors in 2015 after a series of labor violations. BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC AND POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER Gourmet Heaven will close both its Broadway and Whitney Avenue stores on June 30, 2015. Yale University announced the closing of the 24-hour grocery, which is housed in Universityowned property, in an online story released through its Office of Public Affairs and Communications on Wednesday. The Broadway lease
was set to expire in two years, but University Properties and Gourmet Heaven agreed that the lease will terminate in June 2015, Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander ’65 said in a Wednesday email to the News. “This will give everyone, including the several dozen employees, time to adjust to this circumstance,” Alexander said, adding that UP will begin searching for a similar business to fill the space on Broadway. The 24-hour deli has been a sub-
Commons to end hot breakfast BY LARRY MILSTEIN AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS Breakfast in Commons is now a thing of the past. Starting this year, the storied dining hall will be open only for lunch. Instead, five of Yale’s residential college dining halls — Ezra Stiles, Morse, Branford, Saybrook and Silliman — will serve hot breakfast. The change in schedule accompanies a major shift in Yale Dining’s food pro-
duction process. Cold food such as salads and sandwiches, which used to be prepared in residential dining halls, will now be made in a new Culinary Support Center, half a mile away from Commons. According to Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke, budgetary concerns, food quality and convenience drove the University’s decisions. “We have limited options for mitigating operational cost increases in order to avoid passing those costs on to our cus-
Two cultural houses receive new deans BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER A series of leadership changes shook up the halls of two of Yale’s cultural houses this summer. Two cultural house deans — Rosalinda Garcia, director of La Casa, and Theodore Van Alst, director of the Native American Cultural Center (NACC) — stepped down from their posts and departed from the University in June and July. Garcia, who came to Yale in January 2002, accepted the position of assistant vice president of student life at Our Lady of the Lake University, a private Catholic university in San Antonio, Texas. Van Alst, who served as NACC director for four years, accepted a position at the University of Montana as Senior Assistant Professor of Native American Studies with a joint appointment in the College of Forestry and Conservation. No permanent replacement has been found for either cul-
tural center. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway has named Amanda Hernandez MED ’16 and Christopher Cutter, a clinician researcher at the School of Medicine, as interim directors for La Casa and the NACC, respectively. Garcia, who will visit Yale in the fall to say a proper farewell, said in an email to students that she would convene a meeting of the broader Yale Latino community to discuss the transition period for La Casa, which is also known as the Latino Cultural Center. She also emphasized her continuing commitment to Yale and her desire to remain in touch with the La Casa community. “As a dean, I found what everyone is looking for — a life filled with purpose and beautifully kind, talented people,” she wrote. “I’m incredibly thankful for having had the opportunity to share this time at Yale with SEE CULTURAL HOUSE PAGE 6
tomers,” read a Yale Dining statement, which Van Dyke provided to the News last month. Last fall, University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak asked all units across the University, including Yale Dining, to institute budget cuts in the coming years in order to curb its $39 million budget deficit. The decision to eliminate Commons breakfast is part of an effort to be fiscally responsible, according to the statement. Still, labor costs will remain
the same for the University. Yale Dining employees are members of Local 35, Yale’s blue-collar union, and therefore contractually immune from layoffs through 2016.Van Dyke said in an email that the creation of a new School of Management café and restaurant, an expansion in West Campus and the opening of the CSC will offset the initial decrease in full-time, 40-houra-week positions previously in Commons. “We will not reduce any per-
son’s hours; changes in hours will happen only through attrition,” she said. The project will shift roughly 10 percent of dining hall workers’ stationed locations, including the planned relocation of Yale Bakery and Yale Catering workers, Van Dyke added. Reducing daily use will also help preserve Commons’ aging infrastructure, although the space will eventually require a SEE COMMONS PAGE 4
One Broadway tenants announced
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International retailers Emporium DNA and Kiko Milano Caption will fill the space at One Broadway. BY J.R REED AND POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTERS After more than a year of rumors and speculation, Yale University Properties announced Thursday afternoon that international
retailers Emporium DNA and Kiko Milano will set up shop at One Broadway this fall. The coveted location at the corner of York and Broadway has been empty since the University chose not to renew the lease for Au Bon Pain bak-
ery. For the past year, residents have speculated about what business would open at the prime spot while University Properties said that it was searching for the ideal tenant SEE 1 BROADWAY PAGE 6
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GUEST COLUMNIST LIA WEINER
Please ask me about peace, now I
went to my friend’s funeral a few weeks ago. Walking into the graveyard at the outskirts of Tel Aviv, I could see classmates from high school, friends who served in my unit in the army, teachers, parents, all there to say their last goodbyes. Roy was a remarkable student-athlete who struck the perfect balance between his passion, volleyball, and his intellectual pursuits. He took a year off before enlisting to go to a preparatory educational program focused on leadership. He was an outstanding officer in the Israeli Defense Forces with a beautiful, radiant smile. He was about to turn 22. His death was the worst thing that could happen. And at his funeral, I began to think about the other thousands of people losing loved ones, both Israelis and Palestinians. I thought about his family and about all the families on both sides, burying their children, brothers, husbands and grandchildren.
AFTER MY FRIEND'S FUNERAL, I KNOW THE COST OF WAR These families will remain broken forever, and will never be able to heal. They remind us that it is time to end this war for good, not just to postpone it for another year or two. They — we — should all be calling to end this conflict once and for all. Unfortunately, most people aren’t. On both sides, people have given up on the prospect of a solution. Several weeks ago I read an article entitled “Never ask me about peace again,” written by a young Palestinian. The author described the incomprehensible agony of losing nine members of her family in a bombing in Gaza. Her pain is unfathomable. But what I failed to understand was how she, of all people, would not want to talk about peace. She knows better than anyone the pain of war, so why wouldn’t she want to resolve this conflict before many others have to stand in her shoes? If you care about anyone involved in the conflict, anyone on either side, you want it to end. That is the most important thing to understand. And those who do not want an ending, those who just want victory for their “side,” must understand that this conflict will have no winners. The state of Israel will not go away, just as Palestinians will not leave the region. Denying this is damning both
peoples to a sentence of neverending conflict and everlasting war. The terms upon which the resolution will stand are contestable, but the end goal is to solve the conflict. But how? If you aren’t in the warzone or political office, you actually have a relative advantage. You aren’t mired in politics and the immediate aftermath of battle. Therefore, even if you feel pain, you have distance from the situation. Use that distance to talk about solutions and not about hatred. Talk to your friends, relatives, neighbors, and make them see this war as a wake-up call for everyone involved — a wakeup call for resolution. Talk about the Saudi Arabian peace offer that is still lying on the table: the Arab League, which consists of 22 countries including Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, agreed to normalize their relations with Israel in exchange for a complete withdrawal from occupied territories and a solution for the Palestinian refugees. Talk about changes that can be incorporated into the offer so that Israel can accept it with the support of its citizens. Talk about Kerry’s honest attempts to work towards a ceasefire; talk about ways his efforts could be improved. Talk about a solution that would enable Israel to secure its people from terror while minimizing casualties on both sides. Crystallize these possibilities into reality. Don’t focus only on the failures. And when you talk about the conflict, it’s important to keep in mind its immensely long and complex history. Taking into account the conflict’s history will complicate the story — it will show wrongs and moral failings on both sides. But taking it out of context is meaningless, provocative and inefficient. All of this is only a start. But if we create this strong foundation, we will be able to build upon it. Our community at Yale consists of people from over a hundred countries, including many in the Middle East. We can all take this message to our homes and talk about it. We have the power to be a massive force. Think about it, write about it, talk about it with people who have opposing opinions, but find agreement in the mutual desire to solve this conflict. Our dialogue can start on campus and resonate outward. Let’s drown out those calling for hate and violence. Let’s offer a strong, intelligent voice for peace.
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After Deresiewicz
very now and then, a column so enflames or enrages that it provokes a veritable avalanche of responses. Yalies have certainly seen slews of columns in response to particular issues before — just look at the sex culture debate or the short-lived “Close Toads Now” movement. But nothing agitates Yalies — or all students at top colleges — quite like existential comments on the nature of those top colleges themselves. We witnessed this phenomenon in all of its glory and horror a couple of weeks ago, after the publication of former Yale professor William Deresiewicz’s “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League.” You can say what you want about Deresiewicz — that he’s vaguely annoying, that he’s a good writer, that his last-name is pretty intimidating — but you have to admit that he knows how to spark a conversation. The Internet teemed with responses to his lengthy article, including a Yalie’s insightful piece, entitled, “I’m a Laborer’s Son. I Went to Yale. I am Not ‘Trapped in a Bubble of Privilege.’” I’m sure many members of the Class of 2018 saw this too. These responses have a tendency to clog one’s newsfeed. Before Deresiewicz, there was “Checking My Privilege: Character as the Basis of Privilege,” by Tal Fortgang, the hopelessly naïve and pretentious Princetonian, who apparently believed “check your privilege” meant that privileged
people had no right to speak, as opposed to merely having a responsibility to qualify their speech. And before Fo r t g a n g , SCOTT there was “To STERN (All) the Colleges that A Stern Rejected Me,” Perspective by Suzy Lee Weiss, a high school senior complaining that the Ivy League misled her when it told her to “Just be yourself” in her application. Weiss’s article made some interesting points — “as long as you’re using someone else’s misfortunes to try to propel yourself into the Ivy League, you’re golden” — even as she sarcastically dismissed the idea that there was any merit to overcoming adversity. And before Weiss there were others. The cycle is endless. After Deresiewicz, I have no doubt that someone else will come along and critique the state of top schools, and that’s fine. Yale isn’t perfect. The Ivy League isn’t perfect. The American higher educational system isn’t perfect. It should be critiqued. The problem is that we aren’t reading these columns critically, as we should. We should read these columns with a healthy serving of salt, carefully noting where their writers come from. Deresie-
wicz lionizes public education, even though he’s spent his entire life in private education; Fortgang moans about privilege even while embodying it; Weiss allegedly got her piece in the Wall Street Journal because of family connections. And we should take from these columns only what is useful. In spite of several gaping holes and appalling assumptions in his argument, Deresiewicz makes some very good points about the classbased discrimination occurring at top colleges, for example. But Ivy Leaguers don’t take what these articles offer and shelve what they get wrong. Instead, they obsess over these articles. They write response after response, ignoring much of what has already been said, delighting in the obvious and the easy. It’s beyond exhausting. To those in the Ivy League, responding to articles about the Ivy League has become a fetish. It’s masturbatory, really. By critiquing these columns — and oh-so-subtly mentioning their own stake in this whole debate — these Ivy Leaguers are reminding their readers or listeners that, by the way, they go to Yale (or whatever). Of course Ivy Leaguers have an important perspective, but much of the rhetoric of these responses struck me as vaguely self-promotional. “I was born in Roanoke, Virginia,” wrote high school administrator J.D. Chapman in the New Republic, in one critique. “It is not the sort of place that produces many
Ivy League graduates. Only ten kids in my high school class of 500 crossed the Mason-Dixon Line for college, for example. I went to Yale.” The sum total of these responses reminded me so vividly of those questions smarmy people ask at speeches and events. You know the ones? Where a person stands up to ask a question and prefaces it with a few minutes about himself and his interests. Their purpose is not the question. It’s self-aggrandizement. By repeatedly engaging in this debate, by escalating this debate, by refusing to let these columns go, these Ivy Leaguers are trying to slyly tell their audience that they’re so much more self-aware than everyone else. They’re not trying to further the conversation; they’re indulging themselves and trying to make themselves sound smart in the process. Some of the responses to Weiss, Fortgang, and Deresiewicz were interesting and insightful. But most of them were basically noise. Some of these Ivy League critiques are interesting. Some of them are useful. Occasionally, they’re important. But they don’t deserve anywhere near the amount of attention or psychic energy we give to them. SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .
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oday is the first day of Camp Yale. It is perhaps the most overwhelming, overscheduled week freshmen have experienced thus far. It’s one of the first big shows the University puts on for students and parents. Camp Yale can be very politically charged. Last year, for example, President Peter Salovey spoke candidly about financial aid and class during his freshman address. It’s difficult to contemplate getting acquainted with the politics of the University at a time when you are already overwhelmed — deciding what free food to consume is stressful enough on its own. But it’s a great time to reevaluate what you want your college experience to look like, and how the University’s policies and political decisions affect that experience. Several big university changes took place over the summer – and many were influenced by student expression of discontent. Over the summer, three new deans were instated. After students protested the 2012 appointment of a university president without a student representative on the selection committee, the Deans of Yale College, the Graduate Schools and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were chosen by a committee that included a student member.
The creation of new policies that attempt to treat alcohol as a safety issue rather than a d i sc i p l i n a ry problem also DIANA came about as ROSEN a result of work by committees Looking Left that included undergraduates. With the new medical emergency policy, students will no longer face disciplinary action for seeking medical attention for those suffering from alcoholrelated illness. Instead of immediately involving the Executive Committee in these situations, the new policies require students to meet with professionals from Yale Health, taking a more educational approach to discipline. And on Wednesday, the University announced that it would be terminating Gourmet Heaven’s lease in 2015. This decision followed a year of student picketing and boycotting of the 24-hour grocery store found guilty of wage theft and worker mistreatment last year. These three events represent a shift in the University’s relationship with students. While in the
past, policy and administrative changes often took place without student input, students now sit on the committees making these decisions. And while protesting G-Heav may have seemed fruitless last September, the University has decided to take action against the business. The University has also taken the first steps to change its policies on sexual misconduct and socioeconomic class. Students sit on committees that create and enforce sexual assault policies, and administrators have been willing to meet with individuals pushing to create a better sexual climate on campus. Freshman Scholars at Yale, a program that supports students from disadvantaged backgrounds, has wrapped up its second year and will, hopefully, be expanded to a class of more than 30 students in the future. Though the University has improved its policies, there is certainly room for progress. Sexual assault remains a prominent issue on campus, as it does on campuses across the country. And while the community has improved its approach to discussing class, there is still a need for policy change. Students on financial aid have been asked to contribute more and more money to
their tuition each year through term-time and summer jobs. During last spring’s Yale College Council elections, YCC President Michael Herbert promised to push the administration to reform policies around both issues, and it will be up to his constituents to hold him accountable. There will also be opportunities for students to push for change in regard to the expansion of mixedgender housing, fossil fuel divestment and mental health policies. The issue of mixed-gender housing will be particularly relevant for the Class of 2018, as its expansion could affect their housing draw options this spring. The University will also be forced to acknowledge Stanford’s decision to divest from fossil fuels last May as it begins to formulate its response to last year’s student referendum results in favor of divestment. These last several semesters have shown us that when students express their concerns, the administration is pushed to listen and act. Yale’s campus is changing, slowly but surely, and it will be up to all of us, particularly the Class of 2018, to involve ourselves in that process. DIANA ROSEN is a junior in Pierson College. Contact her at diana.rosen@yale.edu.
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Fundraising is complete for new colleges BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER After years of delays and logistical concerns, Yale completed fundraising this summer for the construction of its two new colleges. University President Peter Salovey announced in early June that the University has reached its $500 million goal for the new colleges, which are being funded entirely through donations. The initiative — Yale’s most ambitious fundraising project since its last capital campaign in 2011 — opens the way for construction of the new colleges to begin in early 2015. The colleges are expected to open for students in 2017. The June announcement came some eight months after Charles Johnson ’54 gave Yale $250 million for the project. The largest gift in Yale’s history, Johnson’s donation left the University approximately $80 million away from its goal — one that was recently reached. “I must thank all of the alumni and parents who have helped make this project possible,” Salovey said in his announcement. The two new colleges — which will be located along Prospect Avenue — were first conceptualized over a decade ago and approved by the Yale Corporation in 2008. However, the project was temporarily derailed by the 2008 financial crisis and was largely dormant until Johnson’s donation. The construction of the new colleges has raised a flurry of concerns about whether Yale’s
administrative and academic resources can accommodate an additional 200 students per class year. According to University Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill, the completion of the fundraising was substantially aided by a $25 million fundraising challenge from an anonymous donor. The challenge matched gifts of $1 million or more on a one-to-one basis. Following their 50th reunion in May, a member of the Class of 1964 gave the final major donation to bring the total to $500 million. O’Neill added that 50 percent of the gifts towards the colleges since Johnson’s have been of $1 million or more. When completed, the colleges will have 904 beds and increase the student body of Yale College by approximately 15 percent. According to Architecture School Dean Robert A.M. Stern, whose firm designed the colleges, the designs have been finalized. “Yale is unsurpassed in the quality of its undergraduate education, and I strongly support Rick Levin’s and Peter Salovey’s shared goal to make that extraordinary experience available to more students than ever before,” Johnson said in a statement shortly after his gift was announced last September. The names of the colleges have not been announced, but administrators have said they will not be named after living donors.
Four years after he lost the governor’s mansion by just 6,000 votes, Greenwich businessman Tom Foley will get a rematch with incumbent governor Dannel Malloy. With low turnout from registered Republicans, Foley defeated state senate minority leader John McKinney in the August 12 primary, winning 56 percent of the vote to McKinney’s 44, according to the unofficial results with about 90 percent of the precincts counted. Though the final outcome of the primary was not a surprise—Foley won his party’s nomination in May and lead other Republican candidates in polls for months—McKinney’s relatively strong performance was, according to Gary Rose, chairman of the department of government and politics at Sacred Heart University.
The Republicans have to ... campaign on being more than the anti-Democrat. RICHTER ELSER ’81 Republican town chairman, New Haven
“At one point [McKinney] was in single digits,” Rose said. “He certainly didn’t win but I think he could be described as the comeback kid.” Both parties are gearing up for a close fight. Fiscal and economic issues are likely to loom large in the race, as Foley has criticized Malloy’s management of the budget and blamed him for Connecticut’s slow recovery from the recession. Foley has also attacked Malloy’s strong support for the Common Core, while Malloy has accused Foley of seeking budget cuts that would harm the state’s schools. In a release, Malloy’s campaign senior advisor Mark Bergman accused Foley of “chirp-
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ing from the cheap seats” since Malloy took office in 2011. The release also took note of a gaffe of Foley’s: during a June press conference outside of a closing paper mill, where Foley sought to explain how his administration would have staved off closure of the mill and saved 145 jobs, he veered off course and said “You have failed at your efforts to keep these jobs here.” Foley’s campaign claims the remark was a direct retort to criticism from Democratic state senator Cathy Osten, while an ad McKinney ran late in the primary race implied Foley had accused the mill’s workers of failure. Rose predicted Malloy’s campaign will continue to highlight the incident in order to paint Foley as insensitive and out of touch. Chris Cooper, a spokesman for Foley, said voters are dissatisfied with Malloy’s policies and are looking for a candidate to take Connecticut in a new direction. Richter Elser ’81, New Haven Republican town chairman, voted for McKinney in the primary but said he will now support Foley. Elser said he thinks voters will respond well if Foley offers specific details about how his administration would differ from Malloy’s. “What the Republicans have to do is campaign on being more than the anti-Democrat,” Elser said. “They have to campaign on having better plans for the state.” Though the candidates will be the same, Elser said he doesn’t think scrutinizing Connecticut’s last gubernatorial election will provide many clues as to how this year’s race will play out. But he does think the slim margin of 2010 offers one crucial lesson for voters and candidates alike: “Votes matter.” Foley served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland from 2006 to 2009. Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .
August homicides disrupt quiet summer BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER Four homicides in the beginning of August disrupted an otherwise calm summer in New Haven. On Sunday, the city saw the fourth homicide of the month when Darryl McNair, 58, died from a gunshot wound in his home. Other August homicides fell on the first, fifth and eighth of the month, claiming the lives of 26 year-old Tyrese Jones, 19 year-old Christian Munoz,and 15 year-old Jacob Craggett, respectively. These deaths come after a long period without homicides in June and July.
The violence has no rhyme or reason to it. WILLIAM MATHIS Director, Project Longevity “We join all city residents mourning the violent death of this 15-year-old child,” Mayor Toni Harp said in an Aug. 9 city hall press release following Craggett’s death. “This heartbreaking incident underscores one more time the tragic potential of alltoo-easy access to guns that have no useful purpose on city streets.” With McNair, the year’s total homicide count climbed to 11, counting the Jan. 19 infanticide of 19 month-old Athiyan Sivakumar. Of the four August cases, police have made arrests in just one: On Aug. 8, New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman announced that authorities had 19 year-old Errol Godfrey-Hill in custody for killing Jones a week earlier. “A search warrant was executed at Vernon Street, where members of the department’s Major Crimes Unit located and confiscated evidence related to the double shooting/homicide,” NHPD spokesman David Hartman said in an Aug. 8 release, detailing the arrest. “[Godfrey-Hill] was subsequently charged with assault in the first degree and murder.” When police responded to the scene at Kensington Street and Chapel Street, where Godfrey-Hill allegedly shot both Jones and 26 year-old Troy Mitchell, they encountered their first homicide since
44 year-old Otis Powell’s in May. In 2011 and 2013, the summer months, which include M a y t h ro u g h A u g u s t , accounted for about a third of the year’s homicides. But both 2012 and 2014 eclipsed that trend, accounting for more than one-third of the total from both years, allowing for few conclusions regarding the relative incidence of these crimes during the summer months. Hartman declined to comment on potential increases or decreases in violence during this particular time of year. This recent spate of killings, however, has led many in the community, like Project Longevity director William Mathis, to conclude that such violence is so erratic that it be difficult to curb. “It had been relatively a quiet summer, until these recent shootings from the past few weeks,” Mathis said. “But those were unpredictable. I am increasingly convinced that the violence has no rhyme or reason to it.” He said that, though he fully supports the initiative shown by the many antiviolence programs that have sprung up across town and are backed by major city departments, positive change can only come once those involved move beyond holding events and focus on personal interaction with those in danger, particularly younger citizens. Another concern is the number of young lives lost over the past year. Besides Sivakumar, six of the city’s 10 other homicide victims have been 22 years old or younger. Mathis said he hopes programs like Project Longevity, which mentors at-risk youth, will continue to help youth in New Haven. “I am confident that the young men and young women who have taken advantages of the services offered by Project Longevity have made improvement,” Mathis added. “Are they sterling, law-abiding citizens? I’m not saying that. The process isn’t overnight, but I have seen improvement.” The most recent homicide arrest made by the NHPD, related to a February murder, was made on Aug. 13. Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .
Summer homicides Total homicides 2010
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11
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14 2013
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20 2014
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FROM THE FRONT
“Closing time, you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.” DAN WILSON LEAD SINGER OF SEMISONIC
Five residential colleges to serve hot breakfast COMMONS FROM PAGE 1 larger renovation. Students expressed generally negative reactions about the loss of Commons breakfast. Those walking to Science Hill in the morning often stopped by Commons due to its convenient location, said Miguel Paredes ’18. “I am very upset — I go there every morning,” Colleen McCormack ’17 said, adding that the large dining hall had a greater variety of food and visitors than the residential college dining halls, and opened earlier. In addition to the cutting of breakfast at Commons, a second major change in Yale Dining operations will shift the production of cold foods into a centralized kitchen for the sake of food safety, convenience and space constraints. Sandwiches, salads, fruit and deli items — formerly prepared in 14 individual dining halls — will be prepared en masse at 344 Winchester Ave., near Science Park. This shift will mean dining halls are no longer preparing cold food for 5,500 students at 14 different locations, the statement said. Doing so will minimize redundancies in food preparation, the statement added. The production of all cold food at the CSC follows Yale’s Dining’s decision to move the Yale Bakery and Yale Catering — previously housed in Commons — to the new facility. Director of Hospitality and
Maintenance Dan Flynn said in April that the new 3,000-squarefoot location, which opens this month, will be 500 square feet larger than the current bakery space and will also provide a variety of upgraded kitchen equipment including a set of new ovens. “The new location [is] providing much-needed new equipment and creating the opportunity for other uses of the space in Commons,” Culinary Operations Manager Veronica Arcoraci said in April. The Yale Dining statement added that the new facility will help address inconsistencies across dining halls while improving the overall quality of cold food production. For instance, trained pantry workers will now be able to work together in one location, rather than being scattered around different dining halls. Although students were upset about the end of breakfast in Commons, some noted the potential benefits of the CSC. Aretha Guo ’17 said though the consolidation of food production may depersonalize the residential college dining experience, efficiency is ultimately a more important concern. The end of Commons breakfast follows the University’s decision to cut dinner meals from the dining hall in 2011. Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .
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The Commons dining hall cut dinner meals in 2011. Starting in fall 2014, it will also no longer offer hot breakfast.
Controversy-ridden deli to shut doors in June GOURMET HEAVEN FROM PAGE 1 twice in February for a total of 52 charges related to wage theft. MEChA moderator Evelyn Nuñez ‘15 has been meeting with Alexander since last fall to discuss the issue. She told the News in April that, based on her previous meetings, UP seemed receptive to taking steps to prevent another wage theft issue on its property. Based on recent conversations with Alexander, Nuñez said she thinks the University decided to end the store’s lease next year because of the continued mistreatment of workers at Gourmet Heaven. “Once officials took a moment to listen to the former and current workers, they couldn’t ignore the reality of what was happening,” said Nuñez, who led the student boycott against the popular deli. “With abuses happening throughout New Haven, it’s important that Yale is an advocate for better workplaces.” Cho denied having any knowledge about the University’s decision to end its lease agreement next year. He declined to comment further about any communication with University Properties. Last November, workers who came forward to the state
Department of Labor (DOL) revealed that they were being paid wages as low as $4.44 an hour and were working 72-hour weeks without overtime pay.
This will give everyone, including the several dozen employees, time to adjust to this circumstance. BRUCE ALEXANDER ‘65 Vice President for New Haven “It really impacted me to hear [that Gourmet Heaven was going to close], after fighting for so long,” said a former worker involved in the movement who asked to remain anonymous. “We didn’t wish bad on anyone, but justice was long overdue.” The two Gourmet Heaven employees working at the Broadway location on Wednesday evening also said that they were unaware of the stores’ upcoming closing. Adam Juarez, who has worked at Gourmet Heaven since it first opened in 2001, said that although student protesters last spring were pushing Yale to end its lease agreement with
Gourmet Heaven, there had been no discussions about closing the store over the summer. “I’m shocked to hear that the store is closing,” Juarez said. “We are the only food store open 24 hours in the area. Students come here for breakfast, snacks, coffee, everything. If we close, Yale is going to have to find another 24 hour deli.” Of the 18 students interviewed, seven said that they were happy that Yale decided to end the lease agreement with Gourmet Heaven given the mistreatment of workers, while eight said they were neutral on the subject and three said they were disappointed by the decision. 15 of the students interviewed said they would want a similar type of business to replace Gourmet Heaven, especially because two other Broadway eateries Educated Burgher and A-1 Pizza closed over the summer. Cho operates a total of four Gourmet Heavens: two in New Haven and two in Providence, RI. Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu and POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu
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Following a series of labor violations, Gourmet Heaven will close its doors in 2015.
Report details 64 new sexual misconduct complaints MISCONDUCT FROM PAGE 1 signatures in support of stronger administrative action against sexual misconduct. But though the number of new misconduct complaints decreased, 29 complaints of sexual assault were made in the latest period — a substantial increase from the four to 14 complaints documented in previous reports. These assaults are defined by the University as “any kind of nonconsensual sexual activity.” University Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler reiterated that while it is possible that the larger number of reported assaults is due to a higher incidence rate, it could also simply mean students are becoming more willing to report or seek help from the administration. “Regardless of the reasons for the increase in these complaints, we are encouraged that individuals are bringing them to the University’s attention and utilizing the University’s resources and review processes to address them,” Spangler wrote in her introduction to the report. Aaron Berman ’16, a Communication and Consent Educator, said there is no way to tell if sexual mis-
conduct is occurring at a higher frequency or if students are simply more willing to report it than before. He added that he believes the series of videos produced and released by the CCEs and UWC earlier in the year may have made students more aware of reporting procedures and willing to seek help from the University. Spangler, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd ’90 and UWC Chair David Post — who replaced Michael Della Rocca on July 1 — declined to comment on specific cases, including the two student expulsions. They also declined to comment on the circumstances that may lead to expulsion following a case of sexual misconduct. Only one other student, in 2012, has been expelled for sexual misconduct since the reports began publication. The student in that case was found to have committed intimate partner violence against the complainant, as well as being a repeat offender. Yale published eight hypothetical scenarios last September detailing what would happen in cases of sexual misconduct. Four of the scenarios — which contain lack of consent, withdrawn consent, lack of sustained consent and
incapacitation — end in the expulsion, or the possibility of expulsion, of the offender. Berman said he does not believe the more severe punishments to be the University’s response to prior media criticisms. “[The expulsions demonstrate] that the University is willing to hand down the punishment of expulsion if the circumstances require it,” Berman said. “If the UWC finds sufficient evidence to expel a student, they won’t hesitate to do so.” Daniel Dangaran ’14, a freshman counselor and former CCE, said in an email that based on what he was taught during his CCE training, when an investigation finds evidence to support a sexual misconduct complaint, expulsion is always the first possible punishment discussed. However, he said that the previous lack of expulsions made the 2012 case seem like an outlier and not consistent with the promised policy. He said the two recent expulsions reassured him that the system is working as it should, though he added that not all complainants want the respondents to be considered for expulsion. “If I have conversations this
year with friends or freshmen who are considering filing a formal report, my confidence in expressing the authenticity of the UWC process has been bolstered,” Dangaran said.
The University is willing to hand down the punishment of expulsion if the circumstances require it. AARON BERMAN ’16 Communication and consent educator
Corey Malone-Smolla ’16, also a CCE, said the expulsions are encouraging, as they show that disciplinary committees do not hesitate to severely punish those found guilty of sexual assault. Still, she said it is equally important for the conversations surrounding sexual misconduct to focus on prevention as well as punishment. The report lists 18 new cases as “pending,” some of which, as explained in Spangler’s introduction, are unresolved because they
were filed toward the end of the reporting period. Della Rocca could not be reached for comment. Post — who has been a member of the UWC for two years and said he had a hand in assembling the report despite the recent transition in roles — said in an email that Yale is the only university he knows of that publishes a comprehensive report of this kind. It is a “testament to the University’s resolve to eliminate sexual misconduct and its commitment to transparency in addressing sexual misconduct,” he said. Spangler emphasized in the report that Yale is prioritizing transparency and campus understanding of issues related to sexual misconduct, pointing specifically to a new guide that compiles information about resources, complaint procedures and prevention programs. “We produced the new guide in an attempt to consolidate and update information about those initiatives so that students, faculty and staff could find what they need to know about our programs and resources easily and in one place,” she told the News. “The information in the guide
is also consistent with requirements in recently enacted state and federal legislation.” The guide was a collaborative effort between several groups including the Title IX office, the Yale College Dean’s Office, Yale Police and some student organizations, Boyd said in an email. The guide will be distributed in hard copy at orientation events, training events and informational programs for students, faculty and staff this year. Dangaran said he believes the guide will be useful for training the freshmen that he advises as a freshman counselor on how to successfully prevent and respond to sexual misconduct as a community. Furthermore, he believes it will help students understand the University’s definitions relating to sexual misconduct so that they can more confidently report a complaint whenever they find it necessary. The previous report, which documented 70 cases, included the largest number of sexual misconduct cases in a single half-year since the report’s first publication. Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .
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“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” MAHATMA GANDHI INDIAN LEADER
Stratton blames politics for fallout BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER When Mike Stratton was 25, he wanted to be New Haven’s John F. Kennedy — a healer who would defend the city from economic stagnation, racial strife and gang violence. At 49, he has renounced politics, blaming government machinations for the turbulence in his personal life. These troubles came to a head in June when New Haven police arrived at his Crown Street sublet to find Stratton, a trial lawyer, in a domestic dispute with his girlfriend, a 20-year-old woman he said found him isolated and confused and “nursed [him] back to health.” Stratton is used to being in the public eye. As a first-term alder for Prospect Hill and Newhallville, he vocally opposed Mayor Toni Harp and the team of alders backed by Yale’s blue-andpink-collar unions. Stratton led a lone fight this spring to cut education funding, claiming the school district was receiving excess city money — more than any other city in Connecticut — with only the tacit permission of lawmakers and residents. He frequently sparred with education administrators and, twice, had heated public arguments with colleagues, ending in their attempt to hold him in violation of aldermanic procedures. Citing personal reasons, Stratton resigned his seat on June 23, 10 days after the police incident. Now his private relationship has become the subject of public scrutiny, as Stratton faces charges of assault and breach of peace stemming from the June 13 incident, in which Stratton called the police, claiming his girlfriend had attacked him. Officer Jason T. Jackson arrived at the apartment shortly after midnight, at which point Stratton reported that his girlfriend, Courtney Darlington, had punched him repeatedly in the face and chest, bloodying his lip and ripping his shirt, according to an affidavit signed by Jackson. Darlington admitted to punching and kicking him, but did not indicate that Stratton had harmed her, a statement she affirmed in an interview last week. She was arrested and arraigned the morning of the incident. Stratton was initially not charged. He said the dispute erupted from his threat to break off the relationship following an argument at a bar and smoke shop on College Street. When reports later circulated that responding officers had visited the pair’s fourth-floor unit and saw marijuana, New Haven police launched a follow-up investigation, according to Assistant Chief Archie Generoso. As part of that investigation, announced the day after Stratton’s resignation, Jackson viewed video surveillance tapes from the apartment building allegedly showing that Stratton
did strike Darlington one time closedfisted, though she did not move upon impact, and began a second swing before stopping his hand, according to the affidavit. Based on the review, the State’s Attorney’s Office applied for an arrest warrant. It was signed by Judge Anthony Avallone on July 2. Stratton waited until Aug. 12 to turn himself in. Judge Jane Grossman ordered him the next day to surrender any firearms and not assault or otherwise threaten Darlington. His next court date is Sept. 11. Stratton said this week the charges do not stand up: assault requires proof of physical injury and that breach of peace must occur in public space. The case should be thrown out, he continued, at which point the city would vulnerable to a “massive malicious prosecution case.” He accused authorities of reinvestigating the case simply to target him for speaking out against the mayor. Assistant State’s Attorney David Strollo declined to comment on the case, saying only that it will be discussed between defense lawyers and prosecutors, and perhaps a judge. Harp’s chief of staff, Tomas Reyes, said any accusation that the mayor was involved in Stratton’s legal trouble has “no basis in fact or truth.” But for Stratton, his personal setbacks are intimately tied to his political losses. Because New Haven judges are Democratic partisans, he said, they will refuse to throw out the case against him. His challenge to the status quo was a “lonely process,” he said, one that drove him to abuse Adderall, he said in a Wednesday night interview. “The problem is — and this is fine to print — I was a little too attracted to my Adderall,” he said. “I can take up to 90 milligrams of the drug. I was taking that every day for two months.” Politics also interfered with his legal practice, he said. Before turning himself in, he resigned as partner from his prominent law firm, Stratton Faxon Trial Lawyers. He is now “of counsel” to the firm, which has been renamed Faxon Law Group Trial Lawyers. In addition to trying cases for Joel Faxon, his old partner, he is launching his own firm, True Stratton, which will do trial work in Connecticut and New York, he said. It will also perform “acts of kindness,” he said, such as delivering gift bags to parents who have lost their kids to violence. Stratton attended the Hopkins School in New Haven and went to college and law school at Colgate University and Boston University, respectively, before returning to New Haven as a trial lawyer. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .
Plays take Fringe
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The cast of “Dust Can’t Kill Me,” which was performed by Yale undergraduates at the New York International Fringe Festival. BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER Though their members have been scattered around the world throughout this summer, the casts and creative teams of three Yale undergraduate productions reunited in downtown Manhattan to prepare for the 2014 New York International Fringe Festival. The festival, which opened August 8, features performances of shows written by Yale Undergraduates: “Dust Can’t Kill Me,” “Fortuna Fantasia” and “We’re Very Proud and We Love You So Much.” Four ensemble members interviewed mentioned past Yale productions at Fringe, such as “Independents” by Marina Keegan ’12, as a reason for applying to the festival themselves, but noted that they think there is an unusually high number of Yale shows at this year’s festival. “It’s a real high season for Yale music, poetry and art in general,” said Max Ritvo ’13, who will perform “We’re Very Proud and We Love You So Much,” with his undergraduate sketch comedy group, His Majesty, The Baby. “We feed really intensely off of each others work,” he said. For the vast majority of Yalies at this year’s festival, Fringe was an entirely new environment. Jesse Schreck ’15, who wrote “Fortuna Fantasia,” said his team’s inexperience with the festival led to unexpected challenges, including having to fireproof their equipment at 4 o’clock in the morning on the day that it was
due for an inspection. Schreck noted that while members of the ensemble have always wanted to stage a show at Fringe, they never made formal plans to apply for the festival until after “Fortuna” premiered at Yale. “Fortuna” and “We’re Very Proud” premiered at Yale last December and “Dust” was staged this February. Since their initial performances, the ensembles have revised their shows’ scripts in order to finetune their storylines. Schreck said “Fortuna” is now 40 minutes shorter than when it was first performed, adding that he spent a great of time during the summer removing parts of the script that he felt were extraneous. Abigail Carney ’15, who wrote the book for the musical “Dust Can’t Kill Me,” said she and her team shortened their original script by at least 10 pages. Elliah Heifetz ’15, who wrote the music and lyrics for “Dust Can’t Kill Me,” added that the Fringe performance of “Dust” also features a new song. In addition to revising the shows’ scripts, creative team members of the featured productions highlighted the changes they have had to make to the shows’ stage designs due to the festival’s logistical challenges. Alyssa Miller ’16, who plays Lily in “Dust Can’t Kill Me,” explained that production teams have only 15 minutes before and after the performance to assemble and disassemble their set, which includes all stage props and lighting configurations. Shon Arieh-Lerer ’14, a member of His Majesty, the Baby, said he
and his troupe have removed several props from their show — including a taxidermied stork — in order to make the stage set-up process easier. David Shatan-Pardo ’15, the set designer of “Dust Can’t Kill Me,” added that while he hoped to create a hanging prop that would serve as a backdrop for the show, the time and space restrictions in the set-up process do not allow for any large hanging objects in the performance. While the Creative and Performing Arts Awards that the University uses to fund original theater productions do not exceed $1,700 in value, the costs of staging productions outside of Yale led all three featured productions to raise additional funds to support their upcoming performances. “Dust” has raised $7,335 since May, while “Fortuna” and “We’re Very Proud” have raised $5,211 and $3,974, respectively, since June. Arieh-Lerer explained that many pieces of equipment that would be free to use at Yale, such as projectors and projection screens, are not available to the ensembles who are staging shows at Fringe and must be paid for separately. “For people putting productions in college theaters, they should take advantage of Yale’s resources as much as possible,” Arieh-Lerer said. “Because once you leave Yale, things are really expensive.” The festival hosts more than 1,200 performances of 200 different shows and will close on August 24. Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .
Yale hosts new African leadership program BY LAVINIA BORZI AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS This summer, 25 young business leaders from Africa – including a Nigerian healthcare professional fighting the national war on synthetic drugs and an award-winning solar energy expert from Ghana – arrived on Yale’s campus to engage in a six-week program centered on business, entrepreneurship and community service. The brand-new program was hosted by Yale World Fellows, an initiative that brings 16 midcareer professionals from around the world each semester for a fourmonth program centered on global leadership and interdisciplinary studies. The program is also a part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, launched by President Barack Obama. Yale was one of the 20 universities selected to host the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) program in its inaugural year, said Uma Ramiah, communications director for the World Fellows Program. Of 50,000 applicants, only 500 were selected to participant in the initiative. Ifeyani Awachie ’14, Woodbridge Fellow and Campus Coordinator for YALI at Yale, said the program did not aim to attract young African business leaders to the U.S. “There was a very clear goal in the opposite direction,” she said. “The idea was to empower and connect and challenge [the participants] while also encouraging them to return to their communities.”
This goal falls in line with Yale’s wider initiative to be more involved with the African continent, Awachie said. She said the program gives Yale a chance to provide young professionals with a chance to work and prosper in Africa. Ramiah said she thinks the program was particularly valuable to the individuals who came to Yale because of the relationships they established amongst themselves. Though all participants were involved in business and entrepreneurship in some capacity, they all came from a variety of different backgrounds, she said. Michael Cappello, director of Yale World Fellows, said the new program used a tried and tested model that is already in place for the World Fellows Program. “The World Fellows Program was confident that we could effectively implement the techniques and experience gleaned from 12 years of leadership development at Yale to a group of slightly younger but highly motivated African entrepreneurs,” he said. Yale Associate Director for Africa Rachel Adams called the national YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship an opportunity to facilitate leadership development for some of Africa’s most impressive young intrepreneurs. Valerie Belanger GRD ’06, the managing director for the Yale World Fellows Program, said she is optimistic that this summer’s participants will return to their continent with new knowlege, new connections and more courage. Belanger added that the most “magical moments” occurred in
the classroom where the African leaders interacted with Yale faculty, local entrepreneurs and business executives. Four YALI Fellows interviewed all said the experience at Yale was positive in rethinking their career outlooks and global perspective. Jessyca Joyekurun, one of the fellows, who runs an organization which provides outsourcing solutions and employment law advisory to small and medium enterprises, said the program changed her view of her own continent. “[The program] has enabled me to see that the new Africa that is being built is definitely on the good track with these young leaders on board. They are definitely qualified, outspoken and I will call them ‘leaders in the making,’ or raw diamonds,” she said. Alonge Adebayo said he appreciated the emphasis on networking and interaction with the host community. He added that he would have expected a more rigorous academic program, though he believes the U.S. State Department likely prevented host universities from imposing a heavy workload. The YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship culminated in a summit in Washington D.C., which brought together all the African Fellows from the 20 host universities. YALI Fellow Ethel Cofie said the final summit provided an extraordinary opportunity to meet all sorts of business and government officials, along with the President and First Lady themselves. But Cofie also commented that 500 people of diverse backgrounds
could not have easily bonded over a week in one location. Perhaps there could have been more done to create collaborations across institutions before the D.C. summit, Cofie said. The program was an overall success, Adams said, but there is
still a lot of work to be done – for instance, teaching more African courses and formulating more surveys and cases focused on Africa. “Yale as an institution is still very light on African content,” she said. The number of participants in
the Mandela Washington Fellowship is slated to double by the summer of 2016. Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu and ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .
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“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” TAYLOR SWIFT SINGER
Students question affordability of new stores 1 BROADWAY FROM PAGE 1 that would compliment the current businesses on Broadway. Associate Vice President for New Haven Affairs and University Properties Lauren Zucker said Thursday that the two new international retailers who will share the space will appeal to a broad base of New Haven residents, but most students interviewed questioned the University’s decision to bring in unfamiliar boutiques. “Feedback from our customer surveys has indicated a strong desire for an affordable cosmetics offering as well as additional exciting brands in New Haven and those requests are being met,” Zucker said in a statement. “Although these are international companies, these retailers will create local jobs in New Haven and will draw consumers to New Haven to support all of our downtown local merchants.” Emporium DNA is a high-end
boutique with four other locations in the United States. The establishment offers apparel and accessories from hundreds of contemporary designers including Alice & Olivia, J Brand and Hudson, as well as European brands that have not been introduced to the U.S. market. The boutique will occupy 2,600 square feet at One Broadway while Kiko Milano, an Italian cosmetics store, will occupy the remaining 1,300 square feet. Yale officials said they considered feedback from UP’s customer surveys as they chose the new tenants. These surveys — which go out to students, greater New Haven residents and downtown employees — reflected a strong desire for a cosmetics store, Zucker said. Still, all 17 students interviewed said they are not satisfied with Yale’s selection of tenants. Fifteen had never heard of either European store, and most cited Emporium DNA’s steep prices as a turnoff for students
and a large segment of the New Haven population. “I honestly haven’t heard of these places, which gives you an indication that I probably won’t be shopping there that often,” Paul Elish ’15 said. “I also have my doubts about the power of these places to attract new shoppers to Broadway.” Three students added that they would have preferred to see a pharmacy, like Walgreens or Rite Aid, fill One Broadway since there are currently no pharmacies operating on central campus. Other students said they hoped for a mainstream, affordable clothing store such as Gap or H&M, or a cafe similar to Au Bon Pain. W h i l e m o s t s t u d e n ts expressed discontent about the new tenants, city officials and business owners said the opening of international stores in New Haven signals the city’s economic growth. At today’s public announcement at Broadway Island,
Mayor Toni Harp delivered brief remarks about the new stores, emphasizing that New Haven is building a reputation for innovation. The new stores underscore the city’s attractiveness to a range of merchants and customers, she said. “Throughout its distinguished history, New Haven has been a vibrant crossroads of ideas, cultural treasures, trends and commerce,” Harp said. “We know New Haven is ready, willing and eager to host these two stores and others who would like to do business here.” Several business owners of Yale University Properties also attended the announcement, held under a white tent on Broadway. Among the attendees was owner of Hull’s Art Supply & Framing Steve Kovel, who said that although he was surprised since he had never heard of the retailers, he expects the stores will be beneficial to the city’s growth.
“It’s quite revolutionary that two major European brands are beginning their growth in the States in downtown New Haven,” Kovel said. “It’s a wonderful thing.”
I honestly haven’t heard of these places, which gives you an indication that I probably won’t be shopping there that often. PAUL ELISH ‘15 The two new businesses will create roughly 16 new jobs in New Haven for local residents, Zucker said. She also emphasized the affordability of the two stores: Kiko Milano offers cosmetic ranging from $7 to $12 while DNA Emporium has price points starting at $69 for
dresses, $45 for tops and $50 for shoes, she said. Still, most students said that these stores would not be affordable to students, as the average prices for clothing on the DNA Emporium website are well over $100, despite the lower starting prices that Zucker highlighted. “Why don’t they open up a store that everyone can afford,” Magdaleno Mora ’17 said. “[Broadway has] become more of a resort or theme park rather than a shopping district.” Pending construction of the stores’ flooring, lighting and finishing, the stores are scheduled to open this fall. For both stores, the location in New Haven will be their first in Connecticut. Audrey Luo and Madeleine Witt contributed reporting. Contact J.R REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu and POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu
Deans valuable contributors to cultural houses
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La Casa Director Rosalinda Garcia and Native American Cultural Center Theodore Van Alst (second from right) both stepped down this summer. CULTURAL HOUSES FROM PAGE 1 you. It has been a privilege serving as one of your deans.” While at Yale, Garcia oversaw a wide swath of diversity initiatives on campus, including the Cultural Connections pre-orientation program and the Science, Technology and Research Scholars (STARS) program for minority students interested in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In an email to the boards of La Casa and the NACC, Holloway credited Garcia with helping significantly grow Yale’s Latino community over the past decade.
Assistant Dean of Yale College and Asian American Cultural Center Director Saveena Dhall said in an email that Garcia shaped La Casa into an important space for Latinos and the larger Yale and New Haven communities. Students who worked closely with Garcia called her a capable and caring leader. Jose Gutierrez NUR ’16, who worked as a La Casa graduate assistant during the 2013-’14 academic year, said Garcia thoughtfully listened to the ideas and concerns of the Latino community. Alfonso Toro ’15, head peer liaison of La Casa, said he first met
Garcia as a prefrosh during Bulldog Days. She reached out to him, described the Latino community at Yale and its available resources and ultimately was one of the main reasons he chose to attend Yale, he said. Throughout his first three years, Toro said Garcia became a parental figure to him. “Seeing her would make me feel at home,” he said. “Her door was always open.” Toro said he is sad to see Garcia depart, but is inspired by her decision to serve Our Lady of the Lake University, whose student body is predominantly Hispanic. Van Alst did not respond to
requests for comment, but community members praised his leadership. Under him, the Native American community at Yale tripled in size, and the NACC received its own physical house last year. Cutter, the interim NACC director, praised Van Alst for being the driving force behind securing a house for the NACC, adding that he is “eternally grateful” for Van Alst’s commitment to the space. Dalton Carr ’15, who has served on house staff for three years, said Van Alst was a huge advocate for Native American students who wanted to have their own center.
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“He pushed really hard for us. He knew students had wanted a house for years,” Carr said. “It just always seemed like we had support.” According to Holloway and Yale College Director of Strategic Communications Paul McKinley DRA ’96, the Yale College Dean’s Office will form committees to conduct nationwide searches for permanent directors for both cultural houses. Hernandez will serve as La Casa Director until February, while Cutter will remain in the position throughout the academic year. Hernandez, who has been a La Casa graduate assistant for four
years, said her time at the cultural house has been one of the hallmarks of her Yale experience. Similarly, Cutter said he has never experienced a university cultural community as robust as Yale’s NACC. His focus for the upcoming year, he said, is transparency — ensuring that students and Native American community members are aware of his planned actions and programming for the house. La Casa was founded at Yale in 1974, and the NACC arrived on campus in 1993. Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .
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Show me the Mo’ne! The ace of the Taney Dragons (Penn.), Mo’ne Davis, is making headlines and missing bats at the Little League World Series as the superstar girl flummoxing the boys of summer at the plate. The 13-year old became just the 18th girl to play at the LLWS, and has struck out 14 across three appearances.
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Elis summer on Cape BASEBALL FROM PAGE 10 .314 through his first 13 games for the A’s, including two games in which he went three for four. He cooled off at the tail end of the season, finishing with a .228 batting average and .302 on base percentage. “I’ve been trying to use all fields [when hitting],” Baldwin said. “There are really good outfielders and pitchers in the League, so I’ve been trying to hit liners and ground balls, not too much in the air. Everybody in the league has aspirations to play professionally one day, and every pitcher you face is some [college] team’s ace pitcher … You don’t get any breaks when you’re up at the plate.”
I go to the beach on off days, sometimes before games … It’s been a pretty relaxing summer. HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Quarterback Morgan Roberts '16 finished second on the team in passing yards last season. FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 10 center, one constant remains in the Yale backfield: captain Deon Randall ’15. The unanimous first-team AllIvy selection in 2013 was the team’s most dynamic option last season, catching 85 passes for 788 yards and eight touchdowns, all of which led the team. He also ran for 176 yards and three scores, including the game-winning 32-yard scamper against Brown last season. “Deon has the ability to be a tailback and to be a slot receiver,” Reno said. “He gives us the ability to plug him into a lot of different roles and hopefully give some interesting problems to defenses.” Randall added that he
believes his role in the offense this year will be similar to what it was last year, both playing in the backfield and lining up in the slot.
[Quarterback Morgan Roberts '16] is in the number one spot. He’s done a good job and grown as a quarterback. TONY RENO Head coach, Football team Though Randall played some snaps on the defensive side of the ball last year,
Reno said that he hopes not to have to use him there, citing the development of younger members of the secondary. Indeed, one of the Bulldogs’ youngest areas last season was the defensive backfield. Second-team All-Ivy players Foyesade Oluokun ’17 and Cole Champion ’16 spearheaded the effort, combining for 137 tackles and three interceptions. Fellow underclassmen Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 and Robert Ries ’17 also played big roles. Of course, with preseason camp comes unabated optimism, and much of this hope can be attributed to the incoming freshman class. One of the most heralded of the 31 total recruits, offensive lineman Jon Bezney ’18, passed up
ROBERT BALDWIN '15 Catcher, Baseball team offers from Division-I powers Wisconsin, Louisville and Vanderbilt, among others. With the graduation of linemen John Oppenheimer ’14 and Wes Gavin ’14, Bezney could find himself in the mix from the get-go. “The freshmen are a very talented class,” Randall said in an email to the News. “They’re all very passionate about football and work hard. I’m really excited to see what they will contribute.” The first official on-field practice for the Bulldogs was held on Tuesday. Yale was picked to finish fifth in the Ivy League in the Ancient Eight’s annual preseason media poll. Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .
Second Rivalry on Ice scheduled HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 second period. At the time, Yale head coach Keith Allain ’80 was effusive about the event, saying that if it can “sustain this kind of momentum,” he was all for the series continuing. “Play[ing] a traditional rival in a building like MSG is something that I know our guys will never forget,” Allain said. The Bulldogs’ newly released schedule also includes six conference games against NCAA Tournament foes: two each against Colgate, local rival Quinnipiac and defending national champion Union. Though the Elis found success against Colgate last year, winning each matchup by three goals, things did not go as well against the national champion Dutchmen or against the crosstown rival Bobcats. Following a 3–3 tie at Quinnipiac during the
Bulldogs’ second ECAC weekend last season, Yale dropped each of the next three games against the Bobcats, including a pair of ECAC tournament quarterfinal contests. Union, meanwhile, beat Yale both times the two teams met, though the Dutchmen’s 2–0 victory at Ingalls Rink came despite 49 shots on goal from the men in blue and white. Among notable nonconference matchups for the Elis this season are away games at Holy Cross and Northeastern, a Nov. 29 home game against the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Jan. 3 date with the Vermont Catamounts, who also appeared in last year’s NCAA Tournament. Two of those opponents may be familiar to Yale hockey buffs: Both Holy Cross and Vermont appeared on last season’s schedule. In the Bulldogs’ final game of the 2013 calendar year, goals
Lanham, who was stellar for Yale this season, when he allowed just one earned run in his five regular season conference starts, made five appearances for the Hyannis Harbor Hawks (19–26–1). He earned a win in one four-inning appearance and put up zeroes in two more, but two rocky outings in July upped his season ERA to 6.52. Lanham said that pitching against hitters from other Division-I conferences has helped him grow on the mound. “As a pitcher, facing this kind of competition, you really learn to focus on every pitch because any mistake you make is going to get hit pretty hard,” Lanham said. “I think that [this] experience will help next year in the Ivy League, for sure.”Baldwin added that he has learned to be more selective at
the plate, because pitchers on the Cape offer few if any good pitches to hit during the course of any one at bat. Recruiting for CCBL teams is normally done during the fall, with college coaches recommending players to the general managers of summer teams, Baldwin said. But neither he nor Lanham joined the League through that channel. Since Baldwin did not start behind the plate in his sophomore season, he waited until after his season this past spring before deciding on a team. Following Baldwin’s dominant season for the Bulldogs, Yale assistant coach Tucker Frawley sent emails to teams in top summer leagues, and the Anglers, who needed a catcher, eventually offered Baldwin a full contract. Lanham, meanwhile, headed up to Hyannis in the middle of the season after the Harbor Hawks lost several pitchers. While on the Cape, players stay with a host family and are free to spend their summer as they please — outside of the games, which they play just about every night. Baldwin said that the life of a CCBL player is exactly like it is depicted in “Summer Catch,” a 2001 romantic comedy about a Cape League player who played in Chatham. “I have a host parent who’s great. I get all my meals cooked. I go to the beach on off days, sometimes before games, and there’s a gym,” Baldwin said. “I’ve got everything. It’s been a pretty relaxing summer.” Hyannis and Chatham both ended their runs at a CCBL title early; Baldwin’s Anglers did not make the eight-team playoff, and Lanham’s Harbor Hawks were eliminated in the West Division semifinal round. Baldwin and Lanham will begin play this October for the Bulldogs with the annual City Series. Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .
Snyder-Fair leaves Yale
from Learned and fellow forwards Kenny Agostino ’14, Stu Wilson ’16 and Anthony Day ’15 keyed a 4–1 victory over the Crusaders. “I think every nonconference game we have is going to be a good game against a quality opponent,” defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said. Just six days later, on January 4, Yale settled for a 3–3 tie against Vermont after the Catamounts pulled their goalie and found an equalizer with 53 seconds remaining in regulation. Yale starts this season on Halloween in the Liberty Hockey Invitational. After playing Princeton in the first game, the Elis will take on either UConn or Merrimack in the next round. In last year’s Liberty Invitational, Yale played Brown in the first round before taking on Princeton. Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .
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Assistant men’s basketball coach Jamie Snyder-Fair is leaving Yale to coach at the Division-III level. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 10
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Jones has previously said that Simon brought a valuable and exclusive perspective to the Bulldogs, having gone through the process of being a player under Jones himself and now mentoring players from the other side. There will also be a new face alongside Jones’s old crew, associate head coach Matt Kingsley and Simon. Goins, who spent last season with the Dartmouth Big Green and the three prior seasons with the Salisbury School in Connecticut, will be Yale’s fresh assistant coach.
“Coach Goins is an excellent addition to the staff,” Assistant Director of Sports Publicity Tim Bennett said. “He understands the nuances of coaching in the Ivy League from his time at Dartmouth and also is aware of the great passion for basketball in the state of Connecticut.” Goins graduated in 2008 with a degree in Sports Management from St. John’s and last year helped Dartmouth to its best overall record since 2000. He compiled 64 wins and just 18 losses during his time with the Salisbury School between 2010 and 2013. Snyder-Fair joined the
Bulldogs in 2009 as a volunteer assistant coach and was promoted to a fulltime assistant coach in 2011. Before joining Yale, he spent a season with the Divsion-III Washington & Lee Generals, helping them make it back to the Old Dominion Athletic Conference championship game for the first time in 20 years. Snyder-Fair also coached as an assistant with Vassar and Amherst Colleges prior to his stints at Washington & Lee and Yale. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
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Yale battery plays in last best league BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The Yale baseball team made big strides this past spring, finishing the season with an 11–9 record in the Ivy League and coming one tiebreaker game away from winning the Red Rolfe division for the first time since 1995.
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understanding the offense and grasping the schemes better … I think the [quarterback] battle will continue.” Reno also noted that Roberts has benefitted from spending a full year with the schemes and underpinnings of the Yale playbook. Several players, citing team policy, declined to comment about the quarterback battle. But no matter who lines up under
This summer, several Bulldogs took their game to the next level against some of the premier talent in college baseball. Eli pitcher Chris Lanham ’16 and catcher Robert Baldwin ’15 were called up to the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League in Massachusetts, the summer college baseball league that has produced over 1,000 Major League Baseball players including Bobby Valentine, Nomar Garciaparra and even Dartmouth’s Red Rolfe himself. Lanham and Baldwin are the first Yale players to play on the Cape since Ben Johnstone ’00, who played Cape League baseball in 1998 and was drafted by the Chicago Cubs the next year. “It’s a real pleasure to be able to play with these outstanding players,” Lanham said. “This is the pinnacle of college baseball.” The only other Ivy Leaguer on full contract in the CCBL this year was Ronnie Glenn, a southpaw from Penn who plays for the Harwich Mariners. Baldwin, who enjoyed a successful spring in New Haven this past year as he batted .304 and bashed three home runs, took that momentum into the beginning of the summer for the Chatham Anglers (17–26–1), the CCBL alma mater of current Major Leaguers such as Evan Longoria and Chris Coghlan. Splitting time behind the plate with Georgetown’s Nick Collins, Baldwin batted
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Wide receiver Deon Randall '15 (No. 2) led the team in receiving yards and touchdowns last season. BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER With September just around the corner, the Yale football team has begun preparing for its season opener against Lehigh September 20. Perhaps the most interesting question facing the Bulldogs is the identity of their next signal-caller. Hank Furman ’14 started eight of the team’s 10 games last season, only missing
games against Penn and Princeton due to injury. He led the team with 1466 passing yards and 10 passing touchdowns against just four interceptions. In his absence, the Elis will likely turn to one of two players: Logan Scott ’16, who helped orchestrate Yale’s game-winning drive to beat Brown last season, and Morgan Roberts ’16, a transfer from Clemson who finished second on the team in pass-
ing yards and started against Penn. Eric Williams ’16, who served as the starter for much of his freshman campaign, has been moved to wide receiver. “Roberts and Scott have really stepped to the forefront of [the quarterback depth chart],” head coach Tony Reno said. “Morgan is in the number one spot. He’s done a good job and grown as a quarterback from the end of last season. He’s really
M. basketball shakes up staff BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Last season, the Yale men’s basketball team made it to the CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament (CIT) championship game and finished with a 19–14 overall record — a vast improvement over the previous season’s 14–17 mark. With the program on the rise, it may come as a surprise that the Bulldogs find themselves replacing one of their assistant coaches.
MEN’S BASKETBALL But after five years at Yale, assistant coach Jamie Snyder-Fair has stepped down from the program, citing various personal sacrifices and the opportunity to coach at the Division-III level as reasons for his departure. In his place will be a relatively young replacement, Anthony Goins, who coached at Dartmouth last season. “We are sad to see Coach Snyder-Fair leave because he was a mentor and role model to many players on the team,” 2014–’15 captain Greg Kelley '15 said. “He brought enthusiasm and a certain Western-Mass grit to practice everyday. His unique sense of humor and fashion will be missed by Yale men’s basketball.” Head coach James Jones said the program wishes Snyder-Fair all the best down the road and added that SnyderFair hopes to continue coaching.
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With an open position on the Yale coaching staff, Jones moved quickly to get his ducks in a row before the Bulldogs return to campus in the fall. “Justin Simon ’04, my former player and three-year assistant was moved up,” Jones said. Simon has been with the Bulldogs coaching staff for three seasons and played for the Elis from 2000–2004. He accrued 243 points in his 82 appearances wearing the blue and white, and he played a prominent role as the Elis’ sixth man in his final two seasons. Additionally, Simon received the Eggie Mies Award as the team’s top freethrow shooter as a junior.
We are sad to see Coach SnyderFair leave because he was a mentor and role model. HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
GREG KELLEY '15 Captain, Men’s basketball team Before rejoining Jones — his former coach — Simon served as an assistant coach and teacher at Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, where he brought the program to the Catholic High School Athletic Association Class A final in two consecutive years. SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 9
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This season, the men’s hockey team will take on six ECAC foes who participated in the 2014 NCAA tournament. BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER
second Rivalry on Ice may take the cake.
Though the ECAC, which boasts the last two national champions, continues to dominate men’s college ice hockey, the highlight of Yale’s schedule might not be any of the four games against conference powerhouses Union and Quinnipiac. The
MEN’S HOCKEY Fewer than seven months after the Elis thrashed Harvard 5-1 in the inaugural contest, which pitted the rivals against each other at Madison Square Garden, the Yale men’s hockey team
schedule revealed that the series will officially continue on Jan. 10 of next year. Last season’s game was played in front of a packed house of 15,524 fans. Forward Cody Learned ’16 earned MVP honors after scoring two of three Yale goals in a 3:06 span in the SEE HOCKEY PAGE 9
YEARS SINCE A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM LAST WON A PROTEST. The San Francisco Giants broke that streak when they won their protest of Tuesday night’s game, which had originally been called as a victory for the Chicago Cubs due to rain after 4 1/2 innings with Chicago ahead 2–0.