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Bio building remains in flux

Greener pastures. University

spokesman Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93 took a break from his role as Deputy Chief Communications Officer for Yale to hit up an alpaca farm in Kentucky. Morand tweeted multiple times from the alpaca ranch, including a photo of more than a dozen alpaca. He also endlessly Instagrammed the beautiful scenery, including one photo captioned “Toward sunrise with alpaca and horse.”

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER

Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology department’s home base, but provide lab space for physics, chemistry and engineering as well, said MCDB professor Scott Holley.

“It’s a biology building, but

The University’s budget deficit for the fiscal 2014 year was likely near zero.

Yale has made strides to close the gap between revenue and expenses in the years since the recession, but the deficit in the University’s central operating budget was still $39.2 million in fiscal 2013. Though Provost Benjamin Polak said the figures on last year’s deficit have not been finalized yet, he said the 20.2 percent return on the endowment during fiscal 2014 and higher than anticipated revenue from the Yale School of Medicine dramatically reduced last year’s budget deficit. Still, he cautioned that the positive budget news will not change the University’s plan to continue to cut costs.

“We budgeted to have a University-wide deficit [in fiscal 2014], and we might still, but it won’t be big,” he said. “I don’t want to say that it will break zero, but it might.”

Looking forward, however, Polak said

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Legally green. The first batch

of legal medical marijuana in Connecticut became ready for distribution last week. This marks roughly two years since marijuana was first legalized in the state, for the relief of symptoms of chronic illnesses.

Prices are expected to be between $17-20 per gram. Six dispensaries in the state have been licensed to sell. None of them are located on Yale campus.

Fit for a Yalie. The Tap Room at the Yale Club of NYC reopened this past week. Now alumni can pretend they are back in an overpriced residential dining hall for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Menu items include the Santa Fe Salad, Diver Scallops, and Veal Osso Bucco.

The oldest rivalry. Everybody

knows that the real sport of the Ivy Leagues is investment banking. Following the announcement of endowment returns for the past year, multiple publications noted how Yale beat Harvard. CNBC ran a piece titled, “Harvard vs Yale: Here’s the endowment winner,” noting that Yale outpaced Harvard and Dartmouth. Business Insider’s headline read “Here’s How Yale Is Crushing Harvard In Endowment Performance.”

Other publications who ran headlines noting the rivalry include The Economic Times, the Boston Globe and Reuters.

Variations on a Commons theme. Guest chef Gabriela

Osada breathed new life into everyday Commons fare this week when he dropped by for a special dinner. The menu, inspired by the recent anniversary of Mexican independence, included dishes such as “Ensalada de Cajeta,” “Chilaquiles Rojos” and “Tamal Dulce.” Over 100 students attended the event, which is part of Yale Dining’s Guest Chef Series.

Special award. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, a professor of Comparative and Hispanic Literatures, received an award for literary criticism by the Instituto Cubano del Libro. This marks the first time a Cuban living in exile has received this recognition.

Echevarria is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on Spanish and Latin American literature.

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1980 Five computer science majors get into trouble for attempting to tamper with student files.

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Plans to construct the Yale Biology Building, which will replace the Kline Biology Tower, still have not entered their final stage.

BY JENNIFER GERSTEN STAFF REPORTER Deliberations for the construction of the Yale Biology Building are in the works — still.

The YBB, intended to replace the aging Kline Biology Tower, has

been under discussion by faculty and administrators for more than a decade. While previous proposals saw the structure as the center for biology departments alone, the latest, in the works since the spring, envisions an interdisciplinary facility that will serve primarily as the

Financial aid struggles for YSPH

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER A week after the Harvard School of Public Health received a $350 million donation, the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is still struggling to retain applicants, who

are often being offered better financial aid packages from other schools.

According to the School’s internal Goals and Priorities 2014-’15 report, one of the School’s top priorities will be increasing student yield by improving financial aid offer-

Divinity School pushes diversity

ings. With YSPH’s centennial approaching in 2015, administrators are hoping to lead a major fundraising effort, bringing in money to ensure that every qualified applicant who wants to attend the School is able to matriculate.

“The level of scholarship

support at YSPH is much lower than for Yale college,” YSPH Dean Paul Cleary wrote in a Tuesday email. “We would like to….make it easier for the most talented students in the country to study public health at Yale. “ According to Cleary, YSPH

is not losing students because its peer institutions are significantly more selective. On the contrary, YSPH’s acceptance rate was the sixth lowest of all public health schools in the country last year. But, to SEE PUBLIC HEALTH PAGE 4

SHORELINE POLITICS

On shoreline, Kennedy seeks political debut

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The Yale Divinity School is developing a new plan to increase diversity in every aspect of its community.

BY LAVINIA BORZI AND TRESA JOSEPH STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale Divinity School (YDS) is on its way to reaching its diversity goals, but the road ahead is long.

Though YDS has worked toward increasing diversity for several years, YDS Dean Greg Sterling charged the school’s Diversity Committee last spring with developing a new 10-year plan to increase diversity in various areas of the YDS. Sterling said YDS is

advancing towards its goals, but added that progress is still required.

“We are trying to work on a number of fronts: We have targets for diversifying our faculty, for diversifying our students, and we are also looking for ways in which we can diversify staff,” he said.

Sterling said YDS experienced a setback in the recruitment of minority students this year: about 16 percent of the incoming class this year was composed of SEE DIV SCHOOL PAGE 4

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Ted Kennedy Jr. FES ’91 is campaigning for the Connecticut State Senate in the 12th district.

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wo Yalies — a current law school student and a graduate of the forestry school — are making first-time bids for elected office at the outskirts of New Haven County, in prosperous towns where blue and red, Democrats and Republicans, are outnumbered by a purple block of swing voters. This is the third story in a threepart series. ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER reports.

BRANFORD, Conn. — Ted Kennedy Jr. FES ’91 made a pledge to vendors on a recent weekend at the Trinity Church Fair on the town green: “Next time, I’ll bring my appetite.”

What went unsaid was that he expected their votes in return.

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GUEST COLUMNIST EMMA SCHMIDT

Care beyond control S

ome words can’t easily be explained, but they’re easy to sense. Passion: a strong and barely controllable emotion. The word comes from the Latin verb pati, to suffer. It’s a feeling that takes hold of you so strongly that you suffer, at least for a moment of time.

ALL YALIES SHOULD SEEK OUT THEIR PASSIONS, THINGS THAT CONSUME THEM ENTIRELY Most Yale students have probably had the experience of being so excited by something that they just can’t turn their attention away. That moment when you can’t leave a Master’s Tea even though you’ll be late for section; when you forget to go to dinner because you’re so engrossed in a problem set.

Yet it has been argued, even quite recently in these pages, that Yale students do not have obvious passions.

I find it hard to believe that a student who has been at Yale for at least a year cannot identify even one thing that they love about this place. It may be the club tennis team, or a poetry magazine, or a class on linear algebra — no matter what it is, it is something that brings you joy and excitement.

This sort of hunger is what drives the energy on our campus — it feels ubiquitous.

Passion does not have to be the scary, loaded word that it has come to mean in the context of our “future.” Passion is an inkling of excitement that you decide to pursue — it doesn’t have to be a thing that you have committed to for life, but rather, something that has the potential to grow into a larger enthusiasm. It’s possible to pursue many things even when we’re unsure where they may lead. In fact, it’s not only possible, but necessary.

One of the criteria that determines admission to Yale is, “who is likely to make the most of Yale’s resources?”

Yale believed that in accepting us as students, we would in turn take what is all around us

and use it to better ourselves, in the hope that we might do some good in this world.

We, as Yale students, are enormously privileged to attend an institution with the wealth of resources that Yale has to offer. It is our duty, our supreme responsibility, to follow what makes us tick.

To those Yalies who still say they have no obvious passions, I say that you have failed in your task as a student to make the most of Yale. We are surrounded every moment of our time here with things and people that can inspire us, get us excited, take hold of us so strongly that we just can’t stand it.

I don’t mean to intimidate those who are still less certain: Passions can be developed. The idea that they must be inherent serves only to deter us from following those momentary excitements. In developing our passions, we are in turn crafting our identities. Yale is the ultimate opportunity for self-creation, since we have the luxury of choice and time to think about who we want to become. It is a luxury we cannot afford to waste.

PASSIONS NEED NOT BE LIFELONG COMMITMENTS — THEY MAY JUST REFLECT OUR CURRENT EXCITEMENTS We can wholeheartedly chase the things that matter to us, even when we walk through those open gates at commencement. We must always carry with us this ability to be taken against our will, to care beyond control.

Even as we begin to transition away from Yale, and think about what comes next, we don’t have to have figured out what exactly we will chase. Our identities are not quite determined yet — we only have to be determined that we will follow what excites us.

EMMA SCHMIDT is a senior in Branford College. Contact her at emma.schmidt@yale.edu.

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Hail, and farewell

The Yale Daily News Board of 2015 enters retirement this week.

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s the Managing Board of 2015, we have learned about journalism, teamwork and how to be nocturnal. This weekend, we will learn how to say goodbye to our roles and home at the News. We’ve inked our last issue and we’ll elect our successors on Saturday.

We leave the paper one year more mature than we found it. We began our tenure with a shift in city and University leadership, as Mayor Harp and University President Salovey took to the helms of town and gown. Amid turbulence, we worked to provide the community with stories about controversies unfolding — wage theft at Gourmet Heaven, a growing movement for fossil fuel divestment, changes in mental health policy.

We have endeavored to create this daily paper not only to record Yale’s details as they change around us, but also to spark the discussions that can change those details. Yet while we hope to serve Yale and New Haven with our efforts, this year has made us acutely aware that we utterly rely upon these two communities —

our readership — for our existence.

By picking the News up in the dining halls each morning, or clicking on our headlines online, you give us reason to write these words.

And by continuing to participate in these communities, you give us the news about which we write.

Ultimately, the Yale Daily News exists for and because of these communities, to which we also belong as individuals. Perhaps the most difficult lesson we have learned has been how to navigate reporting on our own peers, mentors and friends. How to aspire to professional objectivity — because that is what students, faculty and staff deserve — while also aspiring to neighborly sensitivity. How to be honest, how to do good.

The need for such a balance is perhaps inherent to the student newspaper. Along with this challenge, however, we have found our greatest joys: empty distribution racks around campus at the end of the day, dinner-table debates over an opinion column, posts about our content online. In the rapidly changing (and increasingly hostile) landscape for media, print newspapers especially, we

recognize that Yale has remained immune to many of those trends.

And we thank you for your engagement, your anger, your praise, your readership.

Amidst conversations about whether Yale students are exchanging passion for apathy, skipping picket lines to focus on lines on their résumés, you are proving those claims false by putting in the time to learn about your peers and the University and the city around you. This is not mandatory or part of any curriculum.

You read the News because you care.

As discussion of free speech grips our campus, we are grateful to have shared with you our words without inhibition. Our pages have sparked and preserved dialogue, offering a platform for all to offer their perspectives. And while our successors will take over, this is a value we promise to uphold: a free press that gives voice to all and privileges to none.

Next week, the presses will thunder on, as they did when we took over for the editors and friends who formed us. So now those whom we have had the privi-

lege to teach will take over, and teach others in their turn. They will propel our traditions and strong journalistic principles forward.

Our newspaper, with its beginnings in the 19th century, is embedded within our 18th-century University. Our entire year as editors will be merely another volume in the fourth-floor archive rooms of 202 York St. Our true legacy is the News as it begins to continue without us this Monday.

Our successors inherit a paper that has another year of history, a paper that has never been more dynamic — equipped with the tools needed to propel this journalistic venture into the next phase of innovation.

We are excited to join you as readers as the headlines and bylines cycle on.

Issue 1, Volume 1 of the News began, on January 28, 1878, with the words, “The innovation which we begin by this morning’s issue is justified by the dullness of the times, and the demand for news among us.” Though the past 12 months have proved anything but dull, we have been truly humbled that the demand for news among us continues, 136 years later.

GUEST COLUMNIST JIM SLEEPER

To Singapore — with love?

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n April 6, 2012, over President Richard Levin’s opposition, the Yale College Faculty passed a resolution expressing “concern regarding the … lack of respect for civil and political rights in the state of Singapore” and urging Yale-NUS to “respect, protect, and further those rights,” which “lie at the heart of liberal arts education as well as of our civic sense as citizens, and … ought not to be compromised in any dealings … with the Singaporean authorities.”

Levin objected that the resolution “carried a sense of [Western] moral superiority,” and other Yale-NUS champions insisted Yale must “respect the laws” and “cultural differences” of a country where it’s a guest.

Ivory Tower liberals and libertarians shouldn’t condemn Singapore: “What we [Americans] think of as freedom, they think of as an affront to public order,” explained Yale-NUS’s inaugural Dean Charles Bailyn.

But why should Yale have contracted itself with Singapore’s national university and, through it, the regime of a tightly-run city-state whose ruling party and judiciary keep a finger in virtually everything that moves?

Are we liberalizing Singapore, or becoming more like it?

Singapore wants us to see superb seaside dinners and clean and efficient public services and markets, not prisons and cen-

sorship. But it generates the subtle but pandemic self-censorship among citizens that some American business corporations generate among employees.

Reporters Without Borders ranked Singapore 149th out of 179 in press freedoms in 2013 — down from 135th in 2012, owing partly to new restrictions on websites. The prime minister and other sages use meticulous, Kafka-esque legalism to block freedoms of expression they want to block and to permit whatever they decide to permit.

So the liberal arts college to which Yale has given its name, prestige, energy and talent finds itself dancing an ancient dance, this time with an Orwellian “Media Development Authority” over a right that a liberal education depends on and should foster: to show Pan Tin Tin’s political film, “To Singapore With Love,” which criticizes Singapore’s way of turning political and artistic citizens into exiles.

Yale-NUS announced it would exercise that right by showing the film in a class. But then it announced that it wouldn’t, because Pan Tin Tin had withheld “permission.” To understand this dance, look first at another.

In 2012 Chee Soon Juan, a principled Singaporean opposition-party leader, faced a government ban on leaving the country. Chee, who holds a PhD from the University of Georgia,

had been fired from his lectureship in neuropsychology by NUS in 1993 after joining the “wrong” political party. For protesting this, he was railroaded by Singapore’s scandalous judiciary into a “defamation” conviction and fined into bankruptcy. Unable to pay, he was barred from leaving Singapore to accept a human-rights award in Oslo.

Then the Yale International Relations Association and the faculty Southeast Asia Studies Council invited Chee to New Haven.

Worried about jeopardizing its grip on Yale’s lucrative name, Singapore suddenly reduced Chee’s debts enough for him to pay them and leave.

And now Singapore’s Media Development Authority has decided to recognize that “media or related courses … may require access to … films that are classified R21 or NAR,” so it has approved “some leeway” to these institutions to screen films for educational purposes on condition that … prior approval has been sought from the MDA before the films are acquired.”

The film is still otherwise banned in Singapore, and the filmmaker, who’s negotiating with the MDA to “edit” it to be “suitable” for Singaporeans who aren’t taking special courses, has asked Yale-NUS not to show the film she actually made.

Certainly the film should reach a wide audience and perhaps

prompt change. But should an institution bearing Yale’s name accustom itself to bowing and scraping like this, or should it stand up and pressure Singapore as a lone filmmaker cannot?

Those of us who consider YaleNUS a grand misadventure warned not that conflicts would erupt between American and Singaporean values but that both sides would grow all-too accustomed to a genteel, MDA-like convergence between Singapore’s authoritarian state corporatism and our own increasingly corporatist surveillance and purchased politics.

A few liberal “permissions,” “exceptions” and libertarian grace notes won’t do. “One should not compromise with an authoritarian state on the grounds that towing the line is better for the locals,” says Kenneth Jeyaretnam, another brave Singapore opposition party leader who spoke at Yale with Chee. “This should not be a debate for Singaporeans only.

Without outside pressure, there will be little pressure to change, and some Singaporeans will continue to believe that the government has the right to shield them for their own good.”

No government has that right, and certainly not with Yale’s blessing.

as the language for its degrees.

for growth or “prevention” of disease. Unfortunately, our government has failed to stop this misuse on factory farms.

Taking antibiotics day in and day out for diseases that aren’t even affecting an animal is a bad idea. It would be like you or I taking penicillin from birth to avoid ever getting strep throat. Regardless of the reasoning, antibiotic use on farms has contributed significantly to antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotic resistance is a phenomenon sweeping the bacterial diseases of the world. Rather than dying from standard treatment, these killer infections are living, and patients are dying. In fact, 23,000 patients died from antibiotic resistant diseases in 2012. Yale has taken an important step in the fight against antibiotic resistance. It's time for the government to take action as well.

JIM SLEEPER is a lecturer in political science. Contact him at james.sleeper@yale.edu .

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A necessary translation As a recent graduate of Yale College, I am appalled that Yale does not provide free translations of its diplomas from Latin to English at the time of Commencement.

This has been extremely stressful to me as I try to enroll for a master's degree at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany. This university will not accept a certified copy of my Yale diploma because it is in Latin. They require an official translation from Latin to English, which I cannot easily or cheaply acquire here in Europe, considering that Latin is an archaic language only used in extremely formal or academic settings. I have had to wait for several weeks for my notarized translation request to be sent to the U.S. and back, and pay $20 for Yale to provide the translation, in addition to postage costs. I suggest that Yale provide a free official English translation of its diplomas at Commencement.

Other institutions with Latin diplomas, including Columbia University of New York, provide graduates with a free diploma at Commencement. It is the least Yale can do, if Yale chooses to continue using Latin

NATHANIEL KNAPP Sept. 20 The writer is a 2014 graduate of Davenport College.

The government's turn According to Yale Dining’s website, the University is committed to using meat that is “hormone and antibiotic free.” Many people look at that phrase and think about how it is a nice thing for Yale Sustainability: It checks a box, makes the university look marginally better. But in reality, it has a much bigger effect.

Yale’s commitment is one that is being made by restaurants and farmers all around the country to help dissuade the abuse of antibiotics, particularly on factory farms and promote more ethical alternatives. Today 70 percent of all antibiotics used in human medicine in the United States are used on these farms, most of which is used on healthy animals

JUSTIN MENDOZA Sept. 20 The writer is a student in the School of Public Health.

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FRANK HERBERT “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”

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When peace remains silent

GUEST COLUMNIST D AV I D W H I P P L E

Don't just vote for money M

ark Greenberg likes guns. He thinks owning one is a right, and he won’t compromise on it.

That’s fine with me; he can think what he wants. The problem is that Greenberg wants to be the representative for Connecticut’s fifth congressional district — the district where, two years ago, Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook elementary school and shot and killed twenty children and six adults with an AR-15 assault rifle.

Greenberg wants to speak on those families’ behalf. And if we let him, he very well might defeat Elizabeth Esty, the Democratic incumbent who has taken her constituents’ voices to heart in fighting for reform as the Vice-Chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.

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copy of the Quran sandwiched between two Kalashnikovs.” That is the image Ayaan Hirsi Ali used to describe Islam. Hirsi Ali forced about a quarter of the world population — 1.6 billion Muslims — under her definition of Islam by arguing that there was one Islam and only one understanding of it by all Muslims. To those of us who were familiar with Hirsi Ali’s previous work, this sort of reductionist rhetoric is something we have come to expect from her.

In the past, Hirsi Ali has called for war on all Muslims, proposing for military action to eliminate Islam because Islam at its very core is “nihilistic” and “destructive.” The William F. Buckley, Jr. program, the leading host of the event last week, clearly did not do its homework to read about Hirsi Ali’s background: her Dutch citizenship revocation because she had lied to the said government and her history of blatant hate speech against Muslims worldwide. Otherwise, it would be puzzling to think that a group of reasonable students would dedicate time and effort to host such an event, even though many student groups had expressed concerns about it.

But instead of cooperating with those student groups, the Program saw it appropriate to defensively ignite an on-campus con-

troversy. Soon after, Fox News and the likes picked up on the topic.

They specifically targeted Muslim women on campus, persistently asking them to interview.

HIRSI ALI'S APPEARANCE AT YALE — AND THE SELFCONGRATULATORY NATURE OF THE EVENT — WAS ANTITHETICAL TO THE YALE I KNOW It soon became uncomfortable to walk around campus as a Muslim woman with a hijab.

On the day of the event, scores stood in line and were turned away. Students did not occupy the majority of the seats. Rather, the audience was comprised of older men in their 60s and 70s. “Oh look, the counter-argument team is here!” a man stated, pointing at a handful of Muslims who came to the talk not to protest against it but rather to sit respectfully

and listen attentively. Another lady acknowledged that my presence made it “understandable” why such high security measures were needed. It was ironic that Muslim women were particularly marginalized and unfairly scrutinized at a talk that was supposedly advocating for Muslim women’s rights.

As a Muslim woman who is deeply committed to women’s issues in the Muslim world, I thought about how little Hirsi Ali’s words offer to me and how little they offer to the young Muslim women whose education and economic empowerment I aspire to work for. Nor can I think of any Muslim reformer actually doing meaningful work in the Muslim world who has found anything compelling in Hirsi Ali’s message.

However, what struck me most about the talk was not the hateful or belligerent views Hirsi Ali espoused but the extreme crassness of the entire event. The atmosphere at the event itself was self-congratulatory and triumphalist. Hirsi Ali’s sloganeering along with the frenzy of the audience made the talk feel more like a political rally than the thoughtprovoking, intellectual discussion the event was billed as. Hirsi Ali’s simplistic account of Islamic backwardness and Western superiority seemed to provide validation or justify jingoistic tenden-

cies to many audiences. Nuance, historical and economic context, the examination of alternate point of views — everything we Yalies expect at an academic talk — were absent in Ali’s words.

Throughout the talk, I kept wondering, “How could she hate us if she doesn’t even know us?”

Hirsi Ali’s hatred of all Muslims must have originated as a reflection of her past experiences, and I worried what this could mean and how many Hirsi Alis are out there.

The bigger each round of applause grew, the louder and clearer her hate speech echoed around me.

“When peace remains silent, hatred prevails,” I recalled my father’s words. I concluded that apathy wasn’t an option. So I went up to Hirsi Ali to thank her for coming anyway; shaking her hand, I reassured her that not every Muslim here hates her and that to messages like hers we say “peace and may you be guided.”

She seemed puzzled. I smiled and walked away. Making my way through security officers and avoiding eye contact, I wondered if this was the same Yale I had called home for four years.

Child Tax Benefit (CCTB) is a taxfree monthly payment made to eligible families and has been adopted throughout the Canadian provinces and territories. Other countries — like the United Kingdom, Australia and Ireland — also provide a child credit, a childcare credit or a combination of both.

It’s time for Connecticut to catch up. Like other states, Connecticut has taken the right step in adopting its own earned income tax credit (EITC). But the EITC only benefits low-income working parents, leaving out many middle-income parents who are also struggling to make ends meet while raising children. In a place like Connecticut, with one of the oldest and slowest-growing populations in the country, helping families raise kids is a no-brainer. All those violin lessons don’t come free, and neither does a high-quality preschool education or college tuition.

But everyone in society benefits when kids get a strong, smart start.

Other states and countries have recognized this; it’s time that Connecticut did the same.

I hope you’ll agree that there is something deeply wrong with this. How is electing Greenberg even a possibility? The answer is simple: He has a lot of money. Between $65 and $250 million dollars of it, to be precise. Greenberg, a real-estate mogul, is financing his own campaign and has pledged to spend “whatever it takes to win.” He has spent $3 million of his own money in two failed bids for his district’s Republican nomination in the past, and he doesn’t apologize for seeing a seat in Congress as something up for sale. His only question is how much it will cost.

This is what happens when money and politics mix without restraint: Our representatives stop being representatives and start being oligarchs. But this is increasingly what has happened across the country in the wake of Citizens United, as the gulf between the ultra-rich and the rest of us continues to widen. Money is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, and it is becoming easier and easier to turn that money into political power.

Greenberg has been pouring money into his own campaigns for years — thus, his candidacy is not directly a product of Citizens United. Rather, it is a warning about what American politics will look like in the very near future if we continue to give power to the highest bidder.

It’s an ugly picture. There is no empathy, no emotional connection in Greenberg’s politics. He has said that we need to “separate emotion from the law.” This makes it all the more appalling that he wants to represent the families of Newtown’s victims: It seems he thinks their grief is irrelevant to this country’s laws.

Greenberg seems to think his job is not to care.

Democracy is supposed to be a check on attitudes like this. If the people speaking for us don’t care about us, we can get rid of them. But this only works when we don’t allow money to distort our perceptions. In the long run, this will mean rethinking the role of money in the way we choose our leaders. In the short run, it means electing Elizabeth Esty and rejecting an unfeeling brand of politics driven by cash for an empathetic one driven by people.

Money and politics will never be entirely separate, nor should they be.

For candidates, spreading a message and telling people what you have to say is as vital as it is expensive. It’s hard to say exactly how much money is too much to allow into politics — but you don’t have to draw a clear line to see when someone has long since crossed it.

LUCY XU is a 2014 graduate of Morse College. Contact her at lucy.xu@yale.edu .

DAVID WHIPPLE is a junior in Pierson College. Contact him at david.whipple@yale.edu.

WAZHMA SADAT is a Woodbridge Fellow in the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a 2014 graduate of Timothy Dwight College.

Contact her at wazhma.sadat@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST LUCY XU

For a family-friendly tax policy N

ot so long ago, we were kids.

And we were expensive.

It doesn’t take long to realize just how our parents spent a good deal of their blood, sweat and tears on us. They fed us, they clothed us, they loved us. They paid for the violin lessons, the soccer tournaments and the tuition, not to mention the diapers, babysitters and baby formula. They gave us everything that we needed and more, because that’s what parents do. The cost of raising kids like us is huge, no matter where you’re from, but they wouldn’t have it any other way.

We might take it for granted, then, that our state and national governments would acknowledge these costs and create tax policies to help families afford child care, college tuition and everything else that makes us so expensive. And why wouldn’t they? Children are good for society, and families do everything they can to raise them into productive citizens. They are the future doctors, teachers and pizza-makers.

They are the inventors of the next big thing, the ones who will continue to make the world go around.

To support parents in this important endeavor of raising children, it would be sensible that the tax code

takes these extra costs into account.

Yet compared to other states and countries, Connecticut — progressive, good-government Connecticut — doesn’t do that well. Currently, the federal tax code has four family-friendly policies: the earned income tax credit, the child tax credit, the child and dependent care credit and the dependent exemption. Nearly every state with an income tax has some combination of these family-friendly tax policies, while Connecticut only has one that narrowly benefits our poorest residents. In fact, a family with 3 children making $60,000 a year owes the same amount in state taxes as a family making that same amount but with no children. For a middleclass family in Connecticut, the tax code does not do much to encourage childrearing.

If Connecticut is serious about supporting families raising kids, it’s time that its tax code reflected that commitment. Right now, the state should consider implementing: 1. A state child tax credit as New York has done so successfully. Modeled after the federal child tax credit, New York’s credit reduces the tax bill of over 1.5 million families. Since it’s refundable, New York’s credit bene-

fits lower income families who may owe little in income taxes (but much more in payroll, sales, and property taxes).

CONNECTICUT IS LAGGING BEHIND ON A TAX POLICY THAT HELPS SUPPORT FAMILIES 2. A child and dependent care tax credit for childcare expenses like existing ones in half of our states.

This credit helps pay for essential services such as preschool.

3. A dependent exemption that virtually every other state with an income tax already implemented years ago.

Other countries have also recognized just how important it is to support families raising kids. Canada provides a generous, family-friendly tax policy in both its federal and provincial tax codes. The Canada

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FROM THE FRONT Biology building reworked BIOLOGY FROM PAGE 1 there’s a lot of breadth to it,” said Jim Slattery, associate provost for science and technology.

“We’ve been thinking about what science is going to be 20, 30, 40 years from now. This is a chance for great dialogue about what the opportunities [for YBB] could be.”

Those anticipating broken ground in the YBB’s original site at the Lot 22 parking lot on Whitney Avenue should now shift their gazes skyward. The Gibbs building, which is set to be demolished, will be replaced with a building that houses the YBB on its top floors. The new facility will likely feature lecture halls that rival or surpass the size of OML 202, a cafeteria and core microscopy centers for research in quantitative biology, which debuted as MCDB’s newest track last spring.

But Science Hill faculty said they have reason to be less than optimistic about the YBB’s construction prospects. The project is the latest in a string of frustrating false starts for the building, which was originally slated for completion more than 10 years prior, and now has a due date in 2019.

“I feel like we’re Charlie Brown with the football, and the administration is Lucy pulling the football away at the last minute,” said MCDB professor Scott Holley, a member of the YBB committee.

“On one hand, I’m happy that the YBB is a priority, but it’s so far past due.”

This latest iteration of development, once completed, will be the second time the university has finalized plans for the building; according to MCDB professor Valerie Horsley. The first design, set to go in 2008, was derailed both by the recession and a delay in city approval, she added.

Holley said he looks forward to the building’s muchneeded consolidation of space for microscopy and teaching, both of which researchers will be able to conduct adjacent to one another instead of separately in OML and KBT, as they do now. The expandable and contractible lab space that comprised the original design, meant to facilitate collaboration between people in different disciplines, remains part of the plan, as does the greenhouse for the developing field of plant biology.

Rounding out the building’s residents will be four members of the physics department, who will move into a space on the bedrock level that is dedicated to optics.

An aquatics facility is also in the works for E&EB researchers.

The proposed lecture halls will do their part to accommodate the 15 percent growth in Yale’s student population, which will arrive along with the two new residen-

“We have to accept that we are just machines.

That’s certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.” RODNEY BROOKS AUSTRALIAN ROBOTICIST

Div School considers recruiting goals DIV SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1

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Though plans to build the new Yale Biology Building have been made, it is unclear how Yale will pay for it. tial colleges in 2017. Meanwhile, the MCBD department confronts the opposite problem of shrinkage. Although it lost four faculty this year — one to Harvard, one to Peking University, one to retirement and another who was denied tenure — the administration, citing budget constraints, is only allowing the department to fill one spot, Holley said. They are seeking the administration’s approval for more slots to recoup their losses and maintain the student-faculty ratio.

Steven Girvin, deputy provost for science and technology, confirmed that the project is cur-

rently on track to be finished in about five and a half years.

“That’s pretty much full speed ahead — it’s about as fast as we can go,” he said.

It remains for Yale to find a way to pay for it. Holley said that while the administration has discussed finding donors for either the building as a whole or certain individual components, it is preparing to go ahead as though it were funding the building alone.

The cost, last estimated at around a quarter of a million dollars, is still being determined, Girvin said. The university also has yet to select an architect for the proj-

ect.

But Girvin said the administration is committed to finishing the YBB, as well as the long-term renovations to Sterling Chemistry Lab. Horsley said she, for one, is hopeful that the university will follow through with its promises.

“We’re moving forward with the idea that the building will be built,” Holley said.

According to OCI, there are 586 students enrolled in the introductory biology sequence this fall.

Contact JENNIFER GERSTEN at jennifer.gersten@yale.edu .

minority students, compared to 25 percent last year. Still, he said this does not undermine the long-term trend of increasing diversity over the past five or 10 years.

YDS Professor Theresa Berger, who currently chairs the Diversity Committee, said the committee tries to keep several different kinds of diversity in mind when it creates targets for recruitment. But Berger also said that because the school does not have unlimited resources, it inevitably has to focus on one aspect at a time.

“At this point we are most hurting in terms of ethnic diversity,” she said. “I think that that’s where the energy has to be put at the moment.”

One of the greatest challenges facing YDS is the comparative advantage other schools may have in offering financial support, Sterling said.

For example, this year YDS lost a student to Harvard because he was offered a 10,000 dollar stipend in addition to full tuition there.

Sterling said student and faculty recruitment go handin-hand because there often needs to be a critical mass of faculty from a minority group for students of that same group to want to come to YDS. Faculty recruitment has been successful in the past two years – out of three tenure track professors hired, two were women and one was a member of a minority group.

The goal for faculty hiring this year would be to find at least one more tenured professor from a minority background, Sterling said.

Berger said the challenges of creating a diverse community are not unique to YDS: they pertain to the wider University as well.

“Yale is perceived as a white institution — and that is just its history,” she said. “We simply have to overcome this, to realize that that’s where we are coming from. I think people feel at home here, but there is sometimes a perception from the outside that it is not as welcoming as [we] think it might be.”

Four out of six students interviewed said they feel there is a lack of ethnic diversity at YDS, but the same four added that they are more concerned about the lack of religious diversity.

John Cleveland DIV ’15 said he thinks the lack of resources for people of the Pentecostal faith may partially account for the fact that there are fewer Hispanic students at YDS, as

many Hispanics are Pentecostal.

YDS does not offer the specific training needed by students planning to become preachers in Latino or black churches, Greg Williams DIV ’15 said.

Still, T.J. FitzGerald DIV ’16 said he thinks YDS is more diverse than many other divinity schools.

“There aren’t that many schools with 38, maybe almost 50, different faith traditions,” he said. “That for a divinity school is pretty remarkable.”

Assistant Director of Admissions and Recruitment Sean McAvoy said having a diverse student body at YDS is necessary to make the school a crucible for education inside and outside the classroom.

“I think diversity is of great importance to education, and makes the difference between education and indoctrination,” he said. “We at YDS seek to educate the student, and our unique ecumenical environment ensures that all of our students will learn as much from each other as they will from their professors.”

Diversity is also crucial for community building, according to Andrew McGowan, a YDS professor and dean and president of the Berkeley Divinity School, an affiliated school to YDS that shares its campus.

YDS is a place people come to not just because of an abstract thirst for knowledge, but also to be immersed in a vibrant environment, he said.

McGowan also said that there needs to be a critical mass of faculty, students and staff from different ethnic backgrounds for each of these groups to really be integrated.

“You have to create a culture internally where you can be respectful of differences, but you also allow the possibility for the different groups to come to the school and make a home for themselves and not be treated like a guest,” he said.

Faculty and administrators interviewed agreed that YDS needs to target ethnic diversity and geographic diversity separately.

McGowan said YDS should think harder about recruiting internationally since it is one of the least diverse schools at Yale in that respect.

In the 2012-’13 academic year, approximately 5 percent of YDS students were international.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu and TRESA JOSEPH at tresa.joseph@yale.edu .

School of Public Health gears up for fundraiser PUBLIC HEALTH FROM PAGE 1 the dismay of YSPH administrators, their yield rate is also low. It all comes down to money, Cleary said.

Most public health schools struggle to offer applicants enough financial support, YSPH Director of Admissions Mary Keefe said. Unlike graduates of law school, business school, or medical school graduates, it is less likely that that YSPH’s graduates will be entering lucrative professions and lavishing the school with funds, she added.

If someone wants to support the School of Music, then Peter [Salovey] says, ‘Oh, we’d be delighted.

PAUL CLEARY Dean, Yale School of Public Health At schools of public health across the nation, students’ financial need is so urgent that the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, an organization that repre-

sents accredited public health programs across the country, recently added a section on its website called “Financing Your Degree.” Keefe noted that Yale, along with its peers, is now working to educate their applicants about how to best finance their own studies.

But relative to its competitors, Yale especially is struggling. According to Cleary, Yale loses a significant number of its accepted applicants to Harvard, Columbia, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins each year.

Currently, YSPH is completely need-blind — whether an applicant is accepted does not in any way hinge on his or her financial need, Director of the YSPH Financial Aid Office Andre Massiah said. In contrast to the School of Medicine, YSPH offers merit scholarships. The School began offering full rides last year, Massiah said, but is still only able to offer full rides to, at the most, three students a year.

In 2010, four years after Cleary took the helm, the School’s yield rate sat at 24 percent. Ten years later, that rate has jumped 50 percent — and it now rests at 36 percent, still significantly lower than administrators want it to be.

If YSPH wants to improve its financial aid offerings, it will

have to do it all itself, Cleary said. Since donations to the University are normally directed towards a particular school, bolstering financial aid will require targeted fundraising, Cleary said. “[T]he university tries to meet the interest of the donors,” Cleary said. “[I]f someone wants to support the School of Music, then Peter [Salovey] says, ‘Oh, we’d be delighted.’”

YSPH’s share of the University’s endowment has historically hovered around 9 percent.

Still, depending on endowment growth alone will not allow YSPH to become a competitor.

The School is about to embark on a huge fundraising mission for its 100th anniversary, using the opportunity to capitalize on the school’s history and its future direction, Keefe said.

“The major focus of the centennial will be to develop support for public health leaders of the future, make people aware of the history of the School, the contributions it’s made, how well we’re doing nationally and internationally and our vision for the next hundred years,” Cleary said.

Perhaps, Keefe joked, their 100th anniversary will mean their own hundreds of millions of dollars donation.

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The Yale School of Public Health Dean Paul Cleary discussed a goal for the year to increase admitted students’ financial aid packages.

Referring to the School’s Associate Dean for Development and External Affairs, Keefe joked, “I know Marty Klein is

probably trying to find a similar benefactor.”

There are currently 221 students enrolled in the Yale School

of Public Health.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

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“You have to stay true to your heritage; that’s what your brand is about.”

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Lawson discusses civil resistance

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Approximately 75 graduate students, undergraduates and Yale faculty members crowded into the law school last night for a discussion on nonviolence led by Reverend James Lawson.

Lawson — a leader in the U.S. civil rights movement in Nashville — framed his lecture within his work in Tennessee. His lecture capped the first day of a two-day seminar sponsored by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and several Yale departments. The seminar engaged 44 faculty members, graduate students and undergraduates in discussions about civil resistance — the use of repeated nonviolent action to incite a change within a society.

Perhaps you need to demand courses in non-violent people’s movements.

REVEREND JAMES LAWSON Leader, U.S. Civil Rights Movement Before the lecture, attendees viewed a brief video on Lawson’s work in Nashville. Following the video, Lawson discussed his experience and activism within the context of modern social and political issues.

He said that activist groups are often not prioritizing the right issues.

“I am all in favor of environmental justice, but I don’t know if it’s possible to teach the American people that a tree is more important than a baby or a human being,” Lawson said.

ICNC has helped to organize seminars on civil resistance in universities across the United States, according Maciej Bartkowski, ICNC senior director of education and research. The goal of the conference was to raise academic interest in civil resistance, Bartkowski said, adding that universities currently do not

offer students sufficient opportunities to study nonviolent activism.

Conference organizers hope that the seminars will inspire graduate students to consider civil resistance in their dissertations, Bartkowski said.

“If Yale’s not teaching the tactics of people’s movements and of direct action, then perhaps you need to demand courses in nonviolent people’s movements,” Lawson said.

The conference is following in the footsteps of a similar one held at New York University last spring, said Consuelo Amat GRD ’18, one of the conference organizers. The discussions will be opened to the participants, she said.

Conference organizers hope that the conference will prompt a discussion and create a community of students and faculty involved in civil resistance movements, Amat said.

“I hope to see more exchanges of ideas because this is an area of study in political science that’s cross-disciplinary,” Amat said. “[The conference] is about trying to improve our understanding of how civil resistance works in real life.”

In addition to opening up discussions among graduate students about using civil resistance in their research, the conference brought new perspectives to community members and undergraduates.

According to Lawson, civil resistance in the United States should not stop with the civil rights movement.

He encouraged his audience to look beyond electoral politics to solve modern issues.

Students each had different takeaways from the conference.

“One thing I’ve had on my mind is whether or not the military can employ methods of nonviolence,” Becca Modiano ’16 said.

The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict last held a seminar on civil resistance at New York University in March 2014.

Latino Heritage Month a success

BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER More than 50 members of the Yale community gathered to listen to Catherine Kissee-Sandoval ’81, the keynote speaker for La Casa Cultural’s month-long celebration of Latino Heritage Month (LHM), as she recalled her undergraduate years at the Afro-American Cultural Center last night.

Sandoval, who currently serves as commissioner at the California Public Utilities Commission, was one of three distinguished alumni invited back to campus for the festivities, according to Sebastian Perez GRD ’18, La Casa’s head graduate assistant who helped coordinate many events. Perez said this year’s LHM, Perez said, focuses on celebrating alumni, including Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes ’99 and University of California-Davis Chicano Studies professor Maceo Montoya ’02, who were invited as guests for other events in the month.

“We’re all coming together … to think back through our history, learn from those that came before us, and honor their accomplishments,”

Perez said.

Sandoval had much to say about how things have changed since her time at Yale. She remembered having to protest in the President’s Office against the abolition of the assistant deanship of Latino affairs — a position whose current iteration is now filled by La Casa Interim Director Amanda Hernandez MED ’16. She also remembered having to work around the unfortunate lack of scholarly literature — without Internet, she added — on affirmative action in the Ivy League colleges after deciding to write her thesis on the topic.

In spite of these setbacks, Sandoval went on to become the first Latina Rhodes Scholar, and she added that she could not have done it without her education at Yale and the communities that embraced her, including Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) de Yale and the Black Church at Yale.

“Yale was a place that actually supported diversity [and] recognized diversity as a strength,” she said, comparing her home institution to schools like Harvard and Bryn Mawr, which only marginally

encouraged the presence of minority students.

LHM consists of near-daily events between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15. Events have included screenings, an open mic night and a cookout. More than 15 planned events are still to come over the next couple of weeks, including discussions about violence against women and portrayals of queer Latinos in the media, as well as dance workshops.

We’re all coming together [...] to think back through our history.

SEBASTIAN PEREZ GRD ’18 Head graduate assistant, La Casa Benjamin Bartolome ’16, a student coordinator at La Casa involved with the planning of LHM, said he is very pleased with the way this year’s La Casa events have been progressing, noting that they have been well-attended by both members of Yale’s Latino community and those who have traditionally not been affiliated with any La Casa-related groups.

Fo r i n s ta n ce , B a r to -

lome said, an annual La Casa retreat that took place a couple of weeks ago saw its highest turnout yet with over 100 attendees, many of whom were not of Latino descent.

The larger and more diverse audiences indicate that La Casa’s mission statement — which includes “providing a comfortable space where our diverse cultural heritage, history and traditions can be celebrated and explored by all Yale University and New Haven community members” — is being fulfilled.

“Even though our speakers are very prevalent in the Latino [and] Latina community, their accomplishments resonate with everyone,” Bartolome said. “Anyone can benefit from hearing any aspect of their experience.”

Bartolome added that he sees LHM as a time to allow the Latino community to celebrate its own traditions, but also to spread knowledge, education and interest to others.

S a n d o va l ’s speaking engagement was co-sponsored by the Traphagen Alumni Speaker Series and Ezra Stiles College.

Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

JE Room Service branches out

Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

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With the expansion of JE Room Service, students in Silliman, TD, Berkeley and Davenport can now enjoy baked goods on Saturday mornings.

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER

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Given the choice between a warm scone and a cold one, most students would opt for the former.

This is the idea behind the recent expansion of JE Room Service, a student-run baking company that delivers fresh pastries to students’ rooms on Saturday mornings. While JE Room Service — which began last spring — has only delivered to Jonathan Edwards and Calhoun Colleges in the past, mini-franchises will be opening in five residential colleges in the coming weeks.

“It’s more about spreading a food gospel and a love of food,” said JE Room Service founder Hall Rockefeller ’16. “Room Service is just one expression of that.”

Earlier this semester, Rockefeller — a student in JE — reached out to other foodrelated student groups and residential colleges asking if students were interested in starting their own franchises.

Subsequent meetings turned out volunteers from Silliman, Timothy Dwight, Berkeley

and Davenport. Rockefeller herself will now be busy running the umbrella company, to be renamed simply Room Service, but she is hopeful that a replacement JE team will rise up in the near future.

It’s more about spreading a food gospel and a love of food.

HALL ROCKEFELLER ’16 Founder, JE Room Service Though each new franchise will have a degree of autonomy, Rockefeller said certain things will remain consistent throughout the Room Service brand. Each franchise will use the company name and the same pre-brunch Saturday morning delivery schedule, as well as offering Room Services’ signature banana bread and carrot cupcakes.

Rockefeller said she is glad to see so much interest in the expansion of her company. As a freshman, she struggled to find outlets to bake through

campus organizations, she said. “[Food] is something that people come to Yale enthusiastic about and then can’t find an outlet for,” Rockefeller said.

“That was one of my problems. So much of my mind was engaged, but I didn’t have a space for physical creativity.”

The head baker of each franchise must receive approval from his or her college master before baking can begin, as scheduling kitchen time for preparation of the food on Friday nights can be competitive. General Room Service advertising will be handled by Rockefeller, though each college is free to publicize internally. Rockefeller said she also plans to give each franchise a “starter package,” complete with packaging materials and some money, until the franchise can be self-sustaining.

Melia Bernal ’17, who is planning a Silliman franchise, said baking is a way of bringing people together. She said it would be fun to have the same group meet each weekend and to come up with “signature Silliman goods.”

“I want to make people

happy on a Saturday morning when they are hungover and all they want are carbs and sugar,” Bernal said.

Colleen Flynn ’16 said she heard positive reviews of Room Service last spring and plans to start her own franchise in the organization in Timothy Dwight after kitchen renovations in the college are complete. Flynn added that she hopes to craft her menu seasonally, including pumpkin scones for the fall and holiday-themed items later in the semester.

Calhoun student Clara Yang ’17 said baking is her way of relaxing and that she hopes to launch her college’s franchise in mid-October.

“Baking is how I de-stress and I am excited to have scheduled de-stressing time at the end of each week,” Yang said. “I am hoping to add some classic grandma’s cinnamon buns. Super simple, but so good.”

Room Service launched in the first week of the 2014 spring semester.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.” MARK TWAIN SASSY AMERICAN NOVELIST

Kennedy eyes Connecticut seat SHORELINE FROM PAGE 1 prises six towns, including this shoreline community just eight miles outside of New Haven. His visit to the annual fair, hosted by the Trinity Episcopal Church, was the first stop in a day’s tour through the three shoreline towns in the district: Branford, Madison and Guilford.

The candidate wanted to talk about the future — about “next time” — and about what lies ahead for Connecticut.

But the people who greeted him wanted to talk about the past — his family’s and his own.

Across folding tables piled high with second-hand wares, from needlework to vacuum cleaners, Kennedy heard just as much about his own life as about the lives of Connecticut voters.

Wendy Cowles, president of the Branford Food Pantry, told the candidate that she was a student nurse in 1964 at

Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., when his father — the late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy — was involved in an airplane crash en route from Washington to Massachusetts that sent him to the hospital.

“You were upset you couldn’t jump on your father’s back,” she reminded Kennedy, who nodded, his sharp, blue eyes coming to rest on Cowles as he registered the connection. Kennedy was roughly two years old at the time.

Now, as the candidate turns 53, his broad shoulders and square features resemble the late senator. His sonorous voice echoes his father’s. Having lost his right leg to pediatric bone cancer when he was 12, Kennedy walks slowly and methodically, with a slight limp.

A resident of East Haven, Cowles will not be able to vote for Kennedy in the upcoming election, in which he is facing

Republican businessman Bruce Wilson Jr. for the seat Edward Meyer ’57 LAW ’61 is relinquishing at the end of the year.

Based on what she knows of the candidate’s past, though, she is already charting his future.

“I hope he runs for president,” Cowles said, extolling the Kennedy family as honest and civicminded. “I think the whole bunch of them, from his uncle to his father, wanted to help people.”

Kennedy, a health care lawyer and resident of Branford, has spent nearly three decades seeking independence from the family business. He created physical distance by leaving Massachusetts, the state at the heart of his family’s political fortunes. Kennedy attended college at Wesleyan in Middletown, Conn., continuing his studies in New Haven at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Under professors such as John

Wargo GRD ’84, who studies environmental health and politics, Kennedy focused on the public health aspects of environmental contamination. He looked in particular at toxic substances in everyday products, he said, pointing to his bottle of Coke Zero on the table in front of him in a cafe on the Guilford Green.

“Particularly in this district, environmental protection and public health are important issues,” he said. With a population of roughly 61,000, the district is adjacent to the Long Island Sound. “There’s an environmental component to every public policy decision.”

Of course, he said, jobs and the economy come first. Before he settled in Branford, he observed the importance of these issues in New Haven, outside his classwork at the forestry school.

Kennedy lived on Academy Street in Wooster Square and

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The candidacy of Ted Kennedy Jr. FES ’91 for the Connecticut State Senate marks a commitment to his home state rather than to Massachusetts.

met his wife-to-be, Katherine Anne “Kiki” Gershman, through a mutual friend and mentor, Robert Thompson ’55 GRD ’65, a longtime master of Timothy Dwight College. Gershman, now an assistant clinic professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, was doing her residency in New Haven at the time, serving as the psychiatric liaison to Timothy Dwight.

After getting a law degree at the University of Connecticut, Kennedy worked in New Haven at the firm Wiggin & Dana, litigating disability-related cases.

He later founded a health care and financial services firm called Marwood Group, which is headquartered in New York.

About 20 years ago, he settled in Branford. Around the same time, he had his first child, a daughter who is now a student at Wesleyan. A son came four years later.

Throughout, questions lingered about possible political ambitions. When former U.S. Sen. John Kerry ’66 became the presumptive replacement for Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 as Secretary of State, Kennedy’s name was mentioned as a possible successor, scarcely three years after his father had died while holding the seat.

Instead of returning to Massachusetts and positioning himself as the presumptive heir to his father’s legacy, though, Kennedy stayed in Connecticut.

Now, rather than making a play in a statewide race, he is spending these weeks at town fairs and farms, shaking hands and introducing himself to people over pancakes.

“I’d always thought about running, you know, coming from a political family,” Kennedy said during the stop in Guilford. “But I really wanted to focus on raising my children, and now they’re 16 and 20 years old.”

As for his decision to run in Connecticut and not Massachusetts, the rationale is simple, he said: “Well that’s where I live.

I’ve been in Connecticut for 30 years.” He said he has enjoyed being outside the “power centers of Boston or New York or Washington, D.C.,” wanting to “develop my own interests and expertise.”

At the same time, Kennedy does not shy away from invoking his family for rhetorical flourish.

Addressing campaign volunteers at headquarters in Madison, where Democrat Alex Taubes LAW ’15 is running to unseat the Republican incumbent, Kennedy hailed face-to-face voter contact as a vital campaign strategy.

“This is a tradition. You’re part of a tradition here. My uncle — he knocked on doors,” he said, as if welcoming campaign workers into a family ritual, one reaching all the way to the White House.

That gesture has inspired a gaggle of interns to devote time to Kennedy’s campaign. Jack Lazor, a senior at Daniel Hand High School, said a career in politics is already in the back of his mind.

Thomas Banisch, chairman of Madison’s Republican Town Committee, said Kennedy’s name has slanted media coverage of the race. Because “everything we’ve seen so far is about Ted Kennedy, nothing about Bruce Wilson,” he said, “I don’t think we’re going to get fair treatment.” Wilson did not return multiple requests for comment.

Kennedy’s name notwithstanding, the race is going to be close, according to campaign manager John Murphy, an assistant business manager for an electrical workers’ union. “My job is to be paranoid,” he said.

Like many areas on the shoreline, the district has an outsized proportion of unaffiliated voters, putting Democrats and Republicans both in the minority.

Murphy said he does not envision Kennedy making a play for higher office, as much as supporters wish he would.

“People say, ‘Why would you settle?’” Murphy said, scaling back perceptions of the candidate’s ambitions. “He really doesn’t want to go to D.C.” Still, Cowles and other supporters — including a vendor at the Dudley Farm who praised Kennedy’s candidacy as “step number one” — are holding their breath.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Endowment returns bode well for deficit BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 there is no reason to alter previously made budget targets.

Last spring, the University announced plans to reduce administrative costs by 5 percent in three years and by 9 percent in five years. At the time, Polak said that in the vast majority of cases, units were already coming in on or under budget.

For the current fiscal year, which began in June, Polak said the University has reduced its central administrative costs by 3.5 percent. In the future, cuts are not planned to be as large, he said.

Neither Michael Peel, Vice President for Human Resources

and Administration, nor Shauna King, vice president for finance and business operations, responded to multiple requests for comment.

Polak cautioned against extrapolating the positive results from fiscal 2014 to future years. He noted that the possibility of rising gas prices in the Northeast, coupled with increased pressure on the healthcare system, could have dramatic implications for budget predictions.

“It’s extremely good news that our medical school had a great year — it’s very likely because of tremendous work over there,” he said. “[But] looking now and looking 10 years out, there’s uncer-

tainty there.”

While faculty members interviewed said they doubted that the University would use the smaller than anticipated deficit to ease cuts on their units, they were split on how effective the school has been in reducing costs.

Assyriology professor Benjamin Foster GRD ’75, Near Eastern Language and Civilization’s director of undergraduate studies, doubted that the University will ease budget restrictions on his department, but said they should consider doing so.

Joel Rosenbaum, a professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, said he does not expect the University to ease

the “financial crunch” caused by budget reductions for many departments. While he added that continued positive growth of the endowment will find its way into departments, it will take time.

Rosenbaum added that budget cuts should remain a prominent subject of discussion.

“I think most departments have already been cowed by [department] chairs and the Provost into accepting the budget cuts,” Rosenbaum said in an email. “The cutting of departmental budgets should be one of the principal topics of discussion in a faculty senate, should one be organized.”

However, others expressed

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Jessica Labbe, Deputy Director for Finance and Administration for the Yale University Art Gallery, said the gallery’s duty is to preserve the museum’s collection of objects for the benefit of future generations.

“We understand the University’s obligation to likewise preserve the value of its endowment assets, and honor the discipline of its spending rule,” she said.

“We would of course embrace any consideration of budget relief, but would not expect significant target revisions as a result of FY14’s stellar endowment return.”

Last November, as a result of

the $39.2 million deficit, the Provost’s Office distributed one-, three- and five-year budget targets to the University’s 40 units — which include Yale College, the graduate and professional schools, museums and several administrative units — that will require reductions in personnel and nonpersonnel costs.

In an Aug. 2014 email to the Yale community, University President Peter Salovey wrote that he expects the budget to be balanced by fiscal 2016, the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015 and ending on June 30, 2016.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

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“I’m just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake shake; I shake it off. I shake it off.”

TAYLOR SWIFT AMERICAN ARTIST

Broadway shake-up raises questions

BY J.R. REED AND POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTERS Over the past two months, three businesses within 100 yards of each other on Broadway Ave. have closed down — sparking questions over the ideal composition of retail surrounding Yale..

During the summer, restaurants A-1 Pizza and Educated Burgher, in addition to midprice range British clothing store Jack Wills, closed their doors.

Just before classes started, Yale also announced that they will end their lease agreement with 24-hour grocery store Gourmet Heaven next year, opening up another Broadway spot.

Although University Properties has already committed the space that housed Jack Wills to a new merchant, they are still searching for a grocery store to replace Gourmet Heaven, according to Assistant Director for New Haven and State Affairs Lauren Zucker. The landlords of the two other vacant spaces, both not owned by University Properties, have not yet announced what new tenants will surface.

Even though Yalies now see many empty lots as they walk down Broadway, Elm City business owners and New Haven residents do not believe the changes on Broadway are particularly dramatic.

“It is not coincidental that there are several tenants turning over on Broadway, rather it is the normal state of retailing, where tenets go in and out of business as a function of what is in fashion,” said Yale’s Vice President and Director of New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander ’65. “This evolution happens in every mall and every retail district in the country, in fact in the world.”

BUSINESS AS USUAL?

Former New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. similarly said that the shift in retailers reflects natural changes in consumer interests. A major real estate shift in the early 1990s catalyzed the new retail landscape currently on Broadway. It was then that Yale asserted its oversight over Broadway, treating it like a shopping district with a mix of stores and uniform hours.

In 1996, Yale created University Properties (UP) as part of its Office of New Haven and State Affairs to manage its retail and commercial portfolio. At the time, Broadway had several vacancies and Chapel Street was considered a run down area.

UP has developed strict leasing guidelines, requiring stores to remain open for longer hours and to maintain a particular facade.

Since its founding, University Properties has amassed several properties on Broadway and

Chapel Street, becoming one of the largest taxpayers in the city.

“They have sought to make the area [Broadway Shopping District] something of a destination shopping area for people who don’t live right on campus,” said SOM Professor Douglas Rae. “And they have been very successful in implementing that strategy.”

But, while Rae considers Yale’s development of Broadway successful, New Haven developer Joel Schiavone ’58 thinks the University’s strategy is flawed.

Schiavone bought and renovated the property around campus on College and Chapel streets in the early 1980s, focusing development on specialty retail and apartment-style housing. He said the University should similarly create a neighborhood rather than mall type of environment on Broadway.

“To try to build a national mall in the Broadway area is just preposterous. This is a college town, it’s not a suburban mall,” he said.

E co n o m i c Deve l o p m e n t administrator Matt Nemerson SOM ’81 said that the collection of businesses on Broadway, between the Yale Bookstore and the York Street intersection, is functioning as a “highend fashion center” meant to be comparable to shopping districts in major centers like Chicago or New York. He noted chain stores like Urban Outfitters, J. Crew and the Apple Store as typical of any major city in the world, adding that as New Haven becomes more international these retailers will be still more crucial.

Still, what makes small cities like New Haven unique, Nemerson said, are the small, indepently owned businesses like Claire’s Corner Copia and Atticus.

“Those are the experiences that make New Haven, New Haven,” he said.

BALANCING ACT BETWEEN CHAIN STORES AND INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES

Educated Burgher and A-1 Pizza were two such independent stores. Educated Burgher, owned by the Vastakis family, stayed in business for over three decades, outlasting other beloved neighborhood independent stores such as Yankee Doodle Eatery and Cutler’s Records.

While some residents have lamented Cutlers’ departure, Alexander said that he believes the turnover is generally a positive development, because it allows New Haven’s primary retail district to accommodate changing tastes — citing Apple replacing Cutlers’ as a prime example.

Some New Haven residents and business owners interviewed lamented the spike of chain stores in New Haven alongside

the closure of independently run businesses A-1 and Educated Burgher.

Claire’s Corner Copia owner Claire Criscuolo said that she would like to see more of these family-owned businesses, but she admitted that chains are starting to use strong marketing strategies to push out smaller, independent businesses. She believes it is crucial that New Haven offers a balance of stores, but believes the push for larger, corporate stores has made the city develop a very “big city” character.

Yorkside Pizza owner George Koutroumanis noted that business for his family-owned restaurant has declined in the past two years, likely due to a combination of the effects of the recent economic downturn as well as growing competition. He said he was surprised when Educated Burgher and A-1 closed unexpectedly, but he reasoned that they too were likely hit by the growing competition.

He explained that even though new shops opening on Broadway attract new customers, opening new restaurants simultaneously splits customers among a number of eateries.

In the coming months, up to six new restaurants could enter the area surrounding Yale. The University is planning to lease 9 Dixwell to two restaurants, and they will also soon welcome Tarry’s Lodge and Scoozi’s to their retail mix. If the spaces once occupied by Educated Burger and A-1 Pizza reopen as restaurants, Koutroumanis will see six new competitors.

“I foresee a lot of hard work in the future,” he said. “I’m trying to compete and trying to make my price and value worthy of people coming in.”

THE BEST STRATEGY TO ATTRACT STUDENTS

Some students and Elm City residents have complained about the high number of chain restaurants. However, according to Alexander, well over half of University Property-owned spaces are leased to independent stores.

Alexander added that UP prefers leasing to independent businesses as opposed to chains, as long as they have a strong track record and sufficient working capital.

In fact, DeStefano noted, many chain stores in New Haven — including Chipotle, Panera and Subway — are owned by independent landlords, not the University. He added that the University chose not to renew the lease of global brand Au Bon Pain last year, replacing it with smaller international retailers Kiko Milano and Emporium DNA. DeStefano believes that these additions to the University’s portfolio “are clearly Yale marketing to their principal con-

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Over the past months, there has been significant tenant turnover among the businesses on Broadway. stituency, which is undergraduates and graduates.”

Yale History Professor Jay Gitlin ’75 recognized the difficulties with creating an ideal retail mix in downtown New Haven. He said he sympathized with landlords who have to choose retailers who will both attract residents from outside New Haven and still appeal to students. But if the Broadway and Chapel Street landscapes were up to him, he would have predominantly small, independently owned stores, such as a used bookstore and family-run deli.

“Nobody is coming from the

suburbs just so they can go to Panera,” Gitlin said.

Schiavone added that he believes Yalies should not frequent the chain stores, encouraging students instead to go to stores where they know the owner and can build a relationship.

He said that developing a malllike shopping district on Broadway is not a sound business decision.

“The stores are not attractive for a University environment,” he said. “One Broadway being turned into a clothing store is ridiculous — that’s a place for a

bar or restaurant or ABP — a place to do your homework or get a cup of coffee.”

Of 40 students previously interviewed by the News, only 18 had ever shopped at one of the University-owned properties in these areas. Many students voiced support for a pharmacy, general store, or diner to open in the district.

University Properties has over 85 property tenants.

Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.reed@yale.edu Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

TALKS YOU MEANT TO GO TO LEONARD EVERETT FISHER ’49 MFA ’50

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BIOGRAPHY Leonard Everett Fisher ’49 MFA ’50 is a Pulitzer prizewinning artist, author of 88 books and illustrator of over 250, and former invasion mapper for American WWII efforts.

QUOTES “When I did nudes I really did them.”

“My favorite painting was a fake. They took it off the wall, never to be seen again. Just shows you how much I know.”

RECAP Opening with nostalgic musings on his first visit to Yale, Fisher quickly engaged the crowd in the Timothy Dwight Master’s House with humorous tales of his artistic history.

With wit and wisdom, Fisher told anecdotes about everything from a four-year-old’s surprisingly precocious profiles to a 20-year-old’s nude murals to a 90-year-old’s take on technology and the engineering of art in the modern day.

BY MEGAN PRITCHARD

TOM LEHMAN ’06 AND ILAN ZECHORY ’06

REV. JAMES LAWSON

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BIOGRAPHY Despite having no previous computer science background, Tom Lehman ’06 and Ilan Zechory ’06 brainstormed an idea for an innovative website while they were Yale students. Today, Genius (formerly Rap Genius) is a popular online site where people can freely annotate texts ranging from speeches to rap lyrics.

RECAP Lehman and Zechory said there was no overnight secret to success besides hard work.

Despite the fact that the site did not produce any revenue during its first two years, Lehman and Zechory ultimately left their jobs — at Google and the hedge fund of David E. Shaw — to work full time on the project. Today, Genius is helping people across the world share, synthesize and contextualize QUOTES their ideas as it moves toward Zechory: “Our goal is to have gradually annotating the the entire internet be anno- entire internet. tated.”

BY JOEY YE

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BIOGRAPHY Rev. James Lawson — called the mind of the civil rights movement by Martin Luther King — played an instrumental role in non-violent protests in the 50s and 60s by teaching civil resistance workshops to the Nashville community and leading various sit-ins and boycotts.

QUOTES “I see the civil rights movement primarily as the second major American revolutionary struggle for its demand of liberty, equality and justice for all…”

RECAP L awso n ’s p re se n ta t i o n detailed the history of his participation in the civil rights movement and highlighted the profound impact of direct non-violent action in response to inequality and injustice. He argued that nonviolent protest was the root of Southern desegregation and that the same values should be used to combat current-day inequity.

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“We’re running out of rich people in this country.” MICHELLE BACHMANN CONGRESSWOMAN

T H E B R O W N D A I LY H E R A L D

CS dept. seeks additional funds

BY CLARISSA CLEMM CONTRIBUTING WRITER Responding to increasing enrollment rates in computer science courses, the Department of Computer Science is planning a fundraising campaign to alleviate strain on departmental resources, said Andy van Dam, professor of computer science.

Van Dam, who teaches CSCI 0150: “Introduction to ObjectOriented Programming and Computer Science,” will help lead the effort, which is still in its ideation stage but could begin as early as next semester if the case statement for the campaign receives approval this semester.

“We are certainly not unique in being resource-constrained, but the numbers are still pretty overwhelming. The need has been recognized, and people seem sympathetic to doing something. Now the question is

what, when, how, who,” va n Da m said.

More than 15 percent of underg ra d u a te s BROWN are taking a computer science class this semester, said Tom Doeppner, director of undergraduate studies for the computer science concentration. The total number of graduating seniors in computer science and joint computer science concentrations rose from 48 students in 2008 to 114 this past May, reflecting a national trend of the field’s growing popularity, he added.

“STEM is becoming more popular, and students are getting more exposure. There are a lot of jobs in computer science, and it has always been the case that

people with a computer science degree from Brown tend to do well in the job market,” Doeppner said.

Introductory course enrollment numbers reflect this trend: Currently, 322 students are enrolled in CS 15, 214 students are enrolled in CSCI 0170: “Computer Science: An Integrated Introduction” and 161 students enrolled in CSCI 0020: “The Digital World.” The size of CS 15 has prompted the course to move out of MacMillan 117 to Salomon 101, the largest lecture hall on campus.

To provide the individual attention necessary for students to succeed, these introductory courses rely heavily on teaching assistants to offer TA hours, grade homework and post notes and homework online.

“Students need lots of individual help since they’re practicing skills that they’ve never

done before,” said CS 15 Head TA Gregory Chatzinoff ’15. “We try to give each student around 15 minutes each (during TA hours) and help them as best as we can in that time period.”

Doeppner said the standard student-TA ratio in computer science courses at Brown is 8-to1. This allows the teaching assistants to support students beyond TA hours, which students and TAs said sometimes have lines that last for hours.

“The TAs have a strong presence online and through email, which has been incredibly helpful,” said Laura Shea ’18, a student in CS 17.

Anonymous donors contributed $1 million to the computer science department to support its undergraduate TA program, President Christina Paxson wrote in a campus-wide email recapping the May 2014 Corporation meeting. The dona-

tion will allow the department’s TA budget to increase for the first time since 2006.

STEM is becoming more popular, and students are getting more exposure.

TOM DOEPPNER Director of undergraduate students in computer science, Brown University In addition to long wait times for help from TAs, large class sizes also present problems in terms of space for labs and for TA hours. CS 17 Head TA Indy Prentice ’15 said up to five courses hold TA hours in the same room simultaneously, making it harder for students to concentrate. Students who come to the SunLab to do work sometimes have diffi-

culty finding an available computer because labs occur in the space every day of the week, said Prentice, who also oversees the entire computer science TA program as one of two Meta TAs. The Center for Information Technology holds space for computer science classes, labs, Computing and Information Services and more. “Our goal is to take over the CIT building. We need to effectively own all the space,” Doeppner said.

“We’re excited that computer science has become so popular and that there are so many people interested in it,” said Associate Professor of Computer Science Amy Greenwald, who teaches CS 17. “We want the University to recognize the importance of computer science and to give us more resources so that we can grow even beyond” where the department is now, she said.

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With 214 students enrolled in CSCI 0170 this semester, Head TA Indy Prentice ’15 said there is limited space for labs and TA hours.

THE DARTMOUTH

Forums highlight health care changes

BY ERICA BUONANNO THE DARTMOUTH STAFF In a five-part series of health care forums that ended yesterday morning, host and executive vice president Richard Mills sparked discussion among faculty and staff regarding changes to this year’s health care plans, before open enrollment begins on Oct. 21. The sessions, attended by around 450, explored factors driving changes in health coverage, including College President Phil Hanlon’s stated desire to address college affordability and a new tax under the Affordable Care Act. Although they covered the details of the health plans’ upcoming changes, the forums focused on broadening attendees’ perspectives of national health care trends affecting

Dartmouth, Mills said. “ T h e message is if we are trying to address DARTMOUTH affordability of college for students and families, which we are and is one of President Hanlon’s priorities, and we’re trying to control growth in cost of tuition, our revenues are going to get squeezed and our health care costs are coming up,” he said.

Mills said he seeks to involve faculty and staff in decisions about dividing funds between wages, salaries and benefits, noting that he wants to design a health plan tailored to employee preferences.

“It’s likely we will never give people all of the wages and all of

the benefits they hope to have, but if we can at least start to do it in ways that mean something for them, that’s a real positive,” he said.

Health plans are no longer “one size fits all,” he said, and Dartmouth is responsible for educating its faculty and staff.

In 2018, the Affordable Care Act will bring a 40 percent excise tax known as the “Cadillac Tax” on any plan with values exceeding a federally mandated threshold. A revenue source to help fund the Affordable Care Act, it is projected to cost the College around $2 million per year, Mills said.

“All employers are beginning to work to modify plans to try to bring the slope and value of the plan down to get in under that cap,” he said.

The College offers faculty

and staff three medical insurance plan options through Cigna Health Insurance: two “open access” plans and one cheaper plan with a significantly higher deductible.

In 2014, the College paid an average of 75 percent of the premium costs, with employees paying the other 25 percent. Projections show that this year, the College will pay 76 percent of the premium fees, and employees will pay 24 percent.

Benefits director Alice Tanguay said the College is revising its two “open access” health plan options to offer identical benefits, though cost-sharing — the out-of-pocket fee for deductibles, coinsurance and copayments — will differ in each plan.

Additionally, Dartmouth will contribute to the Health Savings Account by paying $500 a year to

employees enrolled in the high deductible health plan as a single individual and $1,000 a year to employees with a “two-person for family” plan, she said.

Mills said reactions from faculty and staff at the forums varied, ranging from “it’s the same old bad news, when the is the College going to come up with more money for us?” to “I don’t really like what you’re telling me, but I understand why it’s happening.”

Andrea Kazilionis, who works at Baker-Berry Library, said she appreciated Mills’ honesty and transparency, noting that he did a good job tying national health care concerns to Dartmouth.

“He compared our situation to that of other Ivy Leagues schools and I think has done a really good job at minimizing the changes to come,” she said.

French professor Kelly McConnell said she would appreciate a plan with orthodontic coverage.

She suggested the College could cut health care costs by creating a clinic for employees’ children under Dartmouth Health Connect, a primary care organization.

Native American studies professor Vera Palmer suggested the single premium be reconsidered, noting that while it is wellstructured for staff with families or couples employed by the College, it is less attractive for single faculty members.

Beginning Monday, the College benefits team will host group and individual sessions to help employees understand their coverage options. Open enrollment one-on-one sessions will run from Oct. 20 through Nov. 3 and open enrollment starts Oct. 21, lasting through Nov. 4.

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 4:00 p.m. 20/21 C. Colloquium: Anne Cheng, “Sushi, Otter, Mermaids: Race at the Intersection of Food and Animal.”

The English Department is hosting a talk with Anne Anlin Cheng, professor of English and the Center for African American Studies.

Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 319.

8:00 p.m. West Point Band and Yale Concert Band Gala Concert. The U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point and the Yale Concert Band will play at a gala concert to commemorate the Yale Bowl’s centennial. Free to the general public. Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 1:00 p.m. Yale versus Army at the Bowl. Come watch the Bulldogs take on the Army Black Knights in their first football meeting since 1996. Come celebrate the Bowl’s centennial and see a great game! Yale Bowl (81 Central Ave.).

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1:00 p.m. The Eighth Annual Jack Hitt Pig Roast. The Yale Sustainable Food Project is hosting this year’s roast with Jack Hitt, a contributor to “This American Life.” The roast will contain a full pig, pork tacos and live music. Open only to the Yale Community.

Yale Farm (345 Edwards St.).

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 1:00 p.m. Yale Farm Workdays. The Yale Farm will be holding open volunteer farm workdays on Wednesdays and Sundays. The Friday workday will end with pizza for all cooked in the Farm’s hearth oven. Yale Farm (345 Edwards St.).

4:00 p.m. Film Screening: “Firaaq,” Moderated by Ashish Chaddha. Nandita Das has acted in over 40 feature films in 10 Indian languages, and in three professional plays. She directed her debut feature, “Firaaq,” in 2008 which won her appreciation and accolades in India and abroad. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud.

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“God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.”

DEREK JETER #2, NEW YORK YANKEES

Kickin’ it with Schwartz ’16 SCHWARTZ FROM PAGE 12

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The new players have done a fantastic job adapting to the the challenges of college soccer. They have picked up our style of play quickly and have done a great job having a positive impact on the team. The changing lineups has allowed a lot go guys to get experience. This is going to be really important later on in the season as we are going to need a lot of guys to be playing well for us to compete to win the Ivy League.

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I think there have been a lot of new guys who have come in and played really well.

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What can you make of the goalkeeper competition between Ryan Simpson ’17 and Blake Brown ’15? Is it nice to know that you have two capable keepers or hard not really knowing which one is truly the starter?

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I think it is great that we have two really tal-

ented keepers on the roster.

I feel confident when either one of them is in the net, and I think that the competition just makes both of them better players. are only two more QThere games before the start of

the Ivy League slate. How different or difficult for the team is the second half of the season when compared to the first half? Are you nervous to start the campaign against Harvard?

season, we obviously want to win every game. However, there is something special about Ivy games. Right now we are totally focused on the game against Quinnipiac tomorrow, and we won’t start to think about Harvard until after our game against Fairleigh Dickinson next Tuesday.

With that said, at the start of our season our main goal was to win the Ivy League, and the path for that goal doesn’t really begin until we play Harvard in Cambridge on Oct. 4.

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

Whether we are in the first or second half of the

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The volleyball team plays its first Ivy League games of the season this weekend.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 pared for conference play, Appleman said.

“We’re still a little injured, and we’ve just been working to prepare and be the best team that we can be,” Appleman said.

“Everyone goes into the Ivy season with the same 0–0 record, so it’s definitely a fresh start.”

She added that Yale had played against challenging preseason opponents, including four top-25 teams, and so is pre-

pared for the challenge.

Middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 agreed with Appleman that the Elis were ready to battle.

“We’ve been competing a ton during practice,” she said. “It’s been a lot of high level fun.”

In two weeks, the women will travel to Cambridge to face archrival Harvard. The Bulldogs’ Ivy home opener will be against Cornell on Oct. 17.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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The men’s soccer team plays at Quinnipiac today.

Yale in for a fight vs. Army FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 defense has been preparing for Army’s offensive scheme since training camp began.

Because of weight requirements that the U.S. Military Academy imposes on all students, Army does not overpower teams with sheer mass. Its offensive line averages 285 pounds, for example, while that of Yale, a Division-I Football Championship Subdivision team, is 291, according to online rosters.

Former Yale head coach Carm Cozza, who coached multiple teams that played Army, said that other physical factors are just as significant.

“First off, you’re not going to outcondition [Army]. They start marching in July,” Cozza said. “Secondly,

every game, every play, it’s like it’s their last play. Whether they’re up 50 or down 50, you’ve got to be ready to play, every down.”

Defensively, the cadets have allowed more than 20 points to each of their three opponents this year, although it is difficult to compare the FBS opponents on Army’s schedule to an FCS team such as Yale.

Regardless of the defense Army brings to the table tomorrow, the Eli offense will be heading into the game with momentum.

Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 passed for 376 yards in Yale’s win over Lehigh, tallying four touchdowns through the air and rushing for another. In total, the Bulldogs racked up 683 total yards of offense and 54 points, the most that they have had in a game since 2003.

“Last week was a big week for us offensively, and we were able to do things that we haven’t done at Yale for a long time,” Randall said. “But we’re approaching this week differently. If we stick to the process, we’ll get the outcome that we want.”

Though Army is in a higher subdivision than Yale and will not have the same Yale Bowl history to reflect on, the two teams both had a strong desire to make the game happen.

Initial planning began in 2009, and Army needed to go through a long waiver process with the NCAA to make the matchup count for bowl game consideration.

Army and Yale will kick off at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow.

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

Keys to the game against Army

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER

STAY SMART AGAINST THE TRIPLE OPTION

The primary tenet of Army’s offense, the triple option, can be extremely difficult to defend against if done well. The defense must demonstrate speed, concentration and quick decision-making by all 11 members on every play in order to slow it down. When running the triple option, the quarterback takes the snap and quickly decides between a series of three options. First, he must decide to either hand the ball off to a fullback or keep it himself for a rush around the line. Then he must choose to either continue to run it himself, fake the rush and instead pitch the ball outside to a running back trailing parallel to him.

To keep Army’s rushing unit under control, Yale will need to be smarter and quicker than an offense that is tried and tested in what it does. As the slightest over-commitment or hesitation can result in an easy first down or long score, the Bulldogs must focus on every play and avoid the temptation to risk a big gain.

Yale had success defending the triple option in its 27–10 win over Cal Poly last year, holding the Mustangs to 10 points and 225 rushing yards despite their season averages of 28.5 points and 309 rushing yards per game. But Yale’s Football Bowl Subdivision opponent will bring on a greater challenge tomorrow, and the Elis need to be ready for it.

TRUST THE PASSING GAME

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Yale and Army last faced off in 1996. The Elis lost then 39–13, but lead the overall series 21–16–8.

With four different quarterbacks seeing time under center last season, Yale’s passing game did not get much of a chance to build momentum, and the Elis finished tied for fifth in the

Ivy League with 210.8 passing yards per game. Yale proved last week that this year is now a different story, and offensive coordinator Joe Conlin should feel comfortable responding to Army’s triple option with an aerial assault.

Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 skillfully led the Elis’ spread offense in Yale’s 54–43 win over Lehigh, utilizing all his receivers and a combination of short and long passes to march down the field. He finished with 31 completions on 40 attempts for 376 passing yards, the 10th most ever for a Yale quarterback in a single game.

If Yale’s blockers up front can take on Army’s fast defensive line, the Elis’ three running backs have also proven themselves strong playmakers. But if the cadets are blocking up holes on the line, the Bulldogs should trust Roberts to make plays down the field.

FOLLOW THE PROCESS

As Yale saw last week in its 21-point comeback, it is possible to overcome adversity if one stays focused and sticks with the game plan. Head coach Tony Reno’s “follow the process” motto could not have been any more true last week, and it should remain fresh in the Bulldogs’ minds heading into tomorrow.

If Army gets out to an early lead, as Harvard did last November and Lehigh did last week, the Bulldogs cannot let the score get to them. They will have the adrenaline of a big crowd on their side, as well as the determination to honor one of the most historic non-league rivalries in college football. By always concentrating on the play in front and following the process, Yale may be able to catch Army flatfooted.

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

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“You’re not going to outcondition [Army]. They start marching in July.”

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Yale looks to march past Army

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER When 1,000 Army cadets march into the Yale Bowl tomorrow, and five more jump from a helicopter with parachutes to deliver the game ball, fans and players will be honoring not just the 100th anniversary of the Yale Bowl, but the history of an impressive nonleague rivalry.

The Yale football team (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) has played Army (1–2) 45 times since 1893, amassing a 21–16–8 record, with the most recent matchup taking place in 1996. Ten of those games brought crowds of over 70,000 to the Yale Bowl, and four of them have involved Heisman Trophy winners.

But members of the Yale team said that when the game kicks off at 1:00 p.m., this will be just another football game on their schedule, and it will not be an easy one.

“Army’s a tough team,” captain and wide receiver Deon Randall ’15 said. “They’re physical, they’re disciplined, and we expect them to come out with a lot of energy and play fast.”

The contest will mark the first time Yale has faced a team from Division-I’s top tier, the Football Bowl Subdivision, since 1996.

Army comes into this game on a two-game losing streak, falling to then-No. 16 Stanford 35–0 and Wake Forest 24–21.

In addition to that challenge,

Yale will be tasked with defending against Army’s triple option, an unusual running-based offense that can be difficult to defend against without experience.

The triple option gives Army quarterback Angel Santiago three choices after the snap, depending on the actions of the defense: either hand the ball off to a back down the middle, run the ball himself around the outside, or fake the run and pitch the ball to the running back behind him for a sweep.

Because the quarterback position is designed more for a runner than a thrower under the triple-option, Army rarely passes.

The Black Knights are 14th in the FBS in rushing, but last out of 128 teams in passing. In Army’s most recent game against Wake Forest, the offense rushed for 341 yards and passed for just 18.

The Bulldogs have experience defending and succeeding against a triple option offense, as they held Cal Poly’s offense to just 10 points last year. Head coach Tony Reno said that Army’s offense will still pose a challenge to Yale. “[The triple option] presents issues for the defense,” Reno said. “[Army has] a lot of speed, their backs are physically able to handle the pounding, and they have a big offensive line up front.”

Randall added that the SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 11

FOOTBALL

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The Yale and Army football teams will face each other for the 46th time on Saturday.

Elis to open conference slate

Schwartz ’16 talks depth with m. soccer

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER Six games into the season, the men’s soccer team is still searching for its first win. The News sat down with forward Avery Schwartz ’16, who has played in five games for Yale so far, to discuss why the Elis’ record does not match their level of play. team has yet to get its QThe first win, but in watching the

games, it is easy to see there is still a lot of good soccer being played out there. How would you assess the team’s performance so far?

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I think the team’s performance has been decent so far. We have not been getting the results we want, but our play has improved as the season has progressed, and we are in good shape

moving on towards Ivy play. in general does the team QWhat need to improve on and what does the offense need to do better to start putting away its chances?

A

The team has improved in each game, and we need to continue to keep improving. As long as we do that we are going to be a very dangerous team to play against. We have done a good job of creating chances, and as long as we continue to do that the goals will come.

has incorporating the QHow new players into the team’s systems been so far? Has the constant reshuffling of lineups been a hindrance to the team’s play?

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Yale begins Ivy play with a road trip to Brown and Harvard this weekend.

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER The defending champion Bulldogs will begin their quest for a fifth straight Ivy League crown when they open conference play against the Brown Bears this Friday.

VOLLEYBALL The Elis (4–5, 0–0 Ivy) will travel to Providence to battle Brown (4–7, 0–0 Ivy). The match will kick off a series of five away games for the Elis against Ivy foes.

“It feels great to start Ivy play,” captain Mollie Rogers ’15 said. “The teams are more familiar and playing for the Ivy title is so much fun.”

Rogers has played in three Ivy title matches throughout her Yale career and has seen the Bulldogs take the championship all three times.

She said that the team has been working as a unit to improve the control over their side of the net in preparation for the Brown match.

Rogers said that although last weekend’s triumphs against Cal State Fullerton and

Georgetown were highlights of the season thus far, the Bulldogs will look at Ivy play as separate from the preseason games.

Brown’s star middle blocker Payton Smith has already had an impactful start to the season, with the second highest hitting percentage and the highest number of service aces in the Ivy League.

“I think Smith has been doing a great job,” head coach Erin Appleman said. “And [Brown senior outside hitter] Maddie Lord is also a big part of their offense.”

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Appleman added that, despite a strong offense, the Bears’ threat was their defensive play.

Rogers has also established herself as a player to watch as the league season opens, earning spots in the top ten in kills, aces and digs. Setters Kelly Johnson ’16 and Kelsey Crawford ’18, in addition to libero Maddie Rudnick ’15, join Rogers among Ivy leaders.

Friday’s match will be a test for the Bulldogs to see whether or not they are preSEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 11

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The men’s soccer team has still yet to win a game this season.

NUMBER OF TIMES THAT THE YALE AND ARMY FOOTBALL TEAMS HAVE MET PRIOR TO THEIR MATCHUP THIS WEEKEND. The Bulldogs have gotten the better of their longtime opponent over the course of the rivalry, holding an all-time series lead of 21–16–8.