NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2014 · VOL. CXXXVI, NO. 128 · yaledailynews.com
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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.
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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).
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1942 Due to wartime rationing, Yale’s supply of beef is cut down by 65%. Meanwhile notices are put out that unless students return sugar ration books to the dining halls, they can say goodbye to iced coffees. Submit tips to Cross Campus
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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