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Meanwhile, at the movies...

David Blight, director of the Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University, appreciated the film ‘12 Years a Slave’ according to his recent interview with NPR. “Slavery is only rarely ever depicted effectively in Hollywood pictures,” he said.

Goodbye and thanks for the $250 million dollars! Yesterday

was Elihu Day, an occasion organized by the Office of Development where students write cards and record messages for the generous alumni that keep this school’s coffers filled.

Ironically, Yale’s original donor, Elihu Yale, gave merely “nine bales of goods, some books, and a portrait of King George I” to the school according to the Office of Development.

Generous. Clearly he was nowhere as commendable as Charles B. Johnson...

Checkmate. Matthew

Schneider DIV ’12 has won the coveted prize of all those who consider themselves witty and well-read: The New Yorker’s caption contest. Schneider’s winning caption, which accompanies a cartoon of two cowboys sitting atop large knight pieces from chess, will say, “I suggest that you back up two paces and take one step to the side.” The caption will run in the Nov. 11 issue of The New Yorker.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1968 A burglary takes places at the offices of the Yale Glee Club.

A large number of tickets for the Yale- Princeton a cappella concert are stolen. The question on everybody’s mind is not who stole the tickets but why anybody would steal a large number of Glee Club concert tickets?

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Students to vote on divestment

Buddhist life still in flux

spectacular Halloween party held this Saturday at Sage Hall featured students in elegant and extraordinary handmade attire. In the grand tradition of creative costumes upheld by students of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, attendees dressed up as a variety of fauna including elephants, pandas, penguins and even a lure fish in honor of the theme “Dia de los Quercus” or “Day of the Oaks.” Pop culture costumes included animal rapper mash-up such as Nelly Fish, MC Hammerhead and Pony Pony Pony. Then, at the stroke of midnight, everybody performed Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

Sex and God at Yale. A Peer Liaison discussion hosted by the Chaplain’s Office and the Office of LGBTQ Resources on Tuesday was titled “The Holy and the Hookup.”

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RELIGION

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Centerfold. The men of Ezra Stiles college have the rare opportunity to have their photographs hung up in countless dorm room walls as part of the 2014 Men of Stiles Calendar. In past years, the calendar has featured halfnaked students wearing only ivy.

WOMEN’S BBALL TEAM GEARS UP FOR SEASON

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ing about the ways in which aspects of Buddhist practice, particularly Zen practice, can help individuals become more present in their daily lives and more able to overcome challenges.

The event, which took place on Oct. 21, was the third in a series of regular “dharma talks” sponsored every semester by the Chaplain’s Office as part of their new programming for Buddhist students on campus.

Buddhist life at Yale has undergone profound changes since last October, when the University

Following similar referenda at Brown and Harvard universities, students at Yale will now formally consider divestment from fossil fuels.

From Nov. 17 to Nov. 20, the Yale College Council will hold a referendum to determine whether there is widespread support among students for urging the University to phase out investments in the fossil fuel industry. The referendum comes almost a year after students involved in Fossil Free Yale — a student group that aims to convince the University to stop investing its endowment assets in fossil fuel companies — first presented their research to the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, an entity that considers and makes recommendations on ethical issues surrounding the University’s investments. On Monday, the student group submitted an 80-page revised version of their report to the committee that outlines how the University should responsibly invest in energy companies.

“Concerted action through divestment would raise awareness and create social stigmas against fossil fuel companies,” said Gabe Rissman ’16, a representative from Fossil Free Yale and a lead author of the recent report. “Divestment is consistent with [Yale’s] values.”

Before divesting, Yale should engage with companies in the fossil fuel industry to quantitatively assess their environmental impact and try to petition them to reduce their carbon emissions, Rissman said. Since Yale has the second largest university endowment in the world, shifts in the University’s investment practices could make an impact, he said.

After receiving a petition from Fossil

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ver a year after Indigo Blue was shut down, the Chaplain’s Office has developed a range of new programs for Buddhist life at Yale. However, issues like the absence of a full-time chaplain and the lack of diversity in forms of practice are yet to be addressed. LIA DUN reports.

Earlier last month, a group of students walked through a wooden door to a dimly lit room at the base of Harkness Tower. Arranged in the middle of the room was a circle of cushions, placed next to an altar with Buddha statues on top.

After the students sat crosslegged on the pillows, Paul Bloom, one of Yale’s Buddhist Advisors, led them in 10 minutes of silent meditation.

Bloom then started a discussion on “Zen in Everyday Life,” speak-

In Harp, Yale administrators look for new partner

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER Ten months after the race to succeed Mayor John DeStefano Jr. began, University President Peter Salovey’s new counterpart in City Hall has finally been revealed.

After Toni Harp ARC ’78 won the New Haven mayoral election on Tuesday, a congratulatory phone call by Salovey to the mayor-elect marked the begin-

ning of a new phase in the relationship between New Haven and the University. As Harp begins her transition into leadership of the Elm City, Yale administrators — who themselves sit at the tail end of a leadership change from the Levin era to the new Salovey administration — expressed enthusiasm for the new mayor.

Over the last 20 years, DeStefano and former University President Richard Levin built

Yale-NUS looks to expand faculty

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER Yale-NUS plans to double the size of its student body next year — but first, it will need more faculty members.

Yale-NUS, a liberal arts college in Singapore jointly founded by Yale and the National University of Singapore, opened this fall with an inaugural class of 157 students, all of whom are freshmen. Three months into the academic year, Pericles Lewis, president of YaleNUS, said the college is looking to hire new professors for next year, but only for two majors — arts and humanities and global affairs.

Lewis travelled to New Haven three weeks ago to hold a workshop for prospective applicants for

a collaborative relationship, effectively turning around Yale’s once-deteriorating relationship with the surrounding city. But whether Salovey and Harp will be able to recreate that dynamic remains to be seen.

“I’m very excited to work with her,” Salovey said. “I think Toni will be an excellent mayor for our city and a great partner for Yale University.”

Linda Lorimer, vice president for global and strategic initia-

tives, took a similarly optimistic tone, saying she has admired Harp for 20 years and is certain that the mayor-elect will continue a collaborative relationship with Yale.

On Wednesday morning, Salovey sent an email to the Yale community congratulating Harp and pledging to continue Yale’s strong relationship with the city. In the email, Salovey also thanked DeStefano for his decades of service to New

Haven and commended Harp’s challenger Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 for his commitment to continue involvement in the Elm City.

Although he spoke briefly to Harp to congratulate her, Salovey said, he and University Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander ’65 plan to meet in person with Harp on Thursday. Though SEE ADMINISTRATORS PAGE 4

Politicians eye Harp’s senate seat

the teaching positions. Select candidates will be invited to Singapore in December for a series of roundtable discussions with both faculty and students.

“I think there’s a lot of excitement to start something new,” Lewis said. “[The candidates] are excited about teaching and designing the curriculum.”

Lewis said Yale-NUS is not looking for “radically different” professors from those at Yale or other liberal arts colleges — but he added that the new faculty members will have to work as a team, developing both the core curriculum that all Yale-NUS freshmen have to take as well as the curriculum for each major.

When Toni Harp ARC ’78 is sworn in as New Haven’s 50th mayor on Jan. 1, 2014, she will leave vacant the Connecticut state senate seat she has held since 1993.

As the dust settled from Tuesday’s municipal elections — which confirmed Harp’s ascent to the mayor’s office — a handful of politicians emerged as potential contenders for the mayor-elect’s spot in Hartford. Connecticut State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield, a former candidate for mayor who ended his campaign to back Harp, said he plans to run for the 10th district state senate seat once the incumbent formally relinquishes the position.

“Senator Harp said she will officially step down from her senate seat on Jan. 2, at

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With Toni Harp ARC ’78’s mayoral win in New Haven, her senate seat opens for contest.

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n May 2009, after a carefully negotiated surrender, a ragged group of Tamil fighters and their wives and children attempted to surrender to the Sri Lankan government. They were told to raise a white flag as they walked slowly to the government.

They were all summarily executed within minutes. This tragic war crime is now infamously known as the “White Flag incident". This crime followed months of Sri Lanka’s systematic bombing of hospitals, food queues and so-called “No Fire Zones.”

WE SHOULD NOT BE INVITING KAHONA TO SPEAK This Thursday, one of the key officials implicated in the White Flag incident will be speaking at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Sri Lankan Ambassador Palitha Kohona is Sri Lanka’s permanent representative to the United Nations in N.Y., and is the subject of an investigation by the Australian Federal Police.

There have also been requests from NGOs to the International Criminal Court that Kohona’s involvement in these extrajudicial killings be investigated.

Kohona is the official representative of an authoritarian and oppressive regime. Yale is disturbingly granting him a platform to whitewash Sri Lanka’s genocide against Tamils on the island and normalize Sri Lanka’s role within the international community.

Sri Lanka endured a bloody half-century-long ethnic conflict in which credible estimates from the ground cite 146,000 Tamil civilians killed at the hands of Sri Lankan Armed Forces. Since the end of the armed conflict in 2009, Sri Lanka has come under scrutiny from the U.S. government, the United Nations and all major human rights groups for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Tamils. There is overwhelming evidence revealing the intentional shelling of civilian safe zones and hospitals by the Sri Lanka Army, and countless testimonies of torture, gang rape and gender-based violence during and after the peak of the fighting.

In March, the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a resolution calling on Sri Lanka to “credibly investigate widespread allegations of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearance, [and] demilitarize the north of Sri Lanka”. This comes two years after Sri Lanka established a domestic “Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission” as a feckless front to circumvent the establishment of an international investigation into abuses committed.

In the meantime, the human rights situation on the ground has only deteriorated, as the U.N. high commissioner for human rights reported increasing “disappearances” or statesponsored extrajudicial killings, assaults on journalists and free speech throughout the island, and escalating attacks on Christian churches, Muslim mosques, and Hindu temples. Even more troubling is the increasing ratio of one Sri Lanka Army solider for every four civilians, which engenders unprecedented Sinhalization and the erosion of the Tamil identity.

It is clear that Kohona unabashedly supports the Sri Lankan government in perpetrating an illegal war against Tamils. Kohona has categorically rejected allegations that Sri Lanka’s soldiers committed atrocities against Tamils, paradoxically characterizing the Army as pursuing a “zero civilian casualty policy” despite accounts of the widespread and systematic nature of attacks against Tamil civilians and society. Unsurprisingly, Kohona has wholeheartedly opposed the call for an independent international investigation. FES, an institution which carries Yale’s name and mission, should not grant him the opportunity to broadcast his regime’s propaganda.

As a Yale alum, I know firsthand of FES and the University’s efforts to instill a strong commitment to justice and integrity, in holding all governments — including our own — accountable for human rights violations.

Inviting the Sri Lankan ambassador to speak is completely contradictory to the values that are so actively inculcated in Yale students. I expected better from Yale.

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oday is Chicken Tenders Day, which the News once called Yale’s “single greatest accomplishment.” Hungry students will flock to dining halls for one of Yale’s most popular dishes, providing a fitting opportunity to reflect on how we treat the birds we eat.

Last week The Washington Post revealed that nearly one million live chickens and turkeys are accidentally boiled to death in U.S. slaughterhouses every year.

These painful deaths occur largely because slaughter lines move so fast that it is impossible to kill all the birds before they are plunged into scalding water to remove their feathers.

Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture wants the slaughter lines to move even faster, at the same time as it dramatically cuts the number of government inspectors monitoring the line.

The USDA is finalizing a proposal to allow the nation’s largest poultry slaughterhouses to speed up their kill lines by 25 percent – from 140 to 175 chickens per minute. At the same time, the proposal seeks to replace 40 percent of USDA inspectors with the poultry producers’ own employees, posing a conflict of interest in asking companies to self-regulate.

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boon out of the heartless treatment of chickens and turkeys. Our nation’s top poultry producers treat the birds as unfeeling production units rather than as sentient beings. This is uncivilized, inhumane and unnecessary.

As Yale students, eating is our most frequent act of consumption and the food choices we make are one of our most direct ways of shaping the world. When it comes to the chicken tenders, there is more at stake than merely what tastes good. The types of food production practices we support will create one type of world or another.

The institutional cruelty of industrial poultry farming is not just bad for the birds – it is bad for our society. The presence of institutionalized cruelty in any form makes society less humane, lowering our ethical threshold. As journalist and speechwriter Matthew Scully writes in his book “Dominion,” “[Animals] are not pieces of machinery, no matter how cost-efficient it may be to treat them as such. Machinery doesn’t cry or feel frightened or lonely. And when man treats him this way, he might as well be a machine himself. Something dies in him, too. Something is lost in a society that rewards and enriches

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him.”

The USDA’s proposal is particularly galling since it highlights the fact that birds are not included under the Humane Slaughter Act, the federal law designed to decrease the suffering of farm animals during slaughter. The Humane Slaughter Act requires that food animals be rendered “insensitive to pain” before they are shackled and killed. It covers cows, calves, pigs, sheep and goats – but not birds. If birds were covered, boiling birds alive would be an “egregious” violation that could result in criminal charges.

The shackling of conscious birds and the bone breaking that regularly results would also be prohibited.

Are birds not deserving of humane slaughter too?

We are a society that prides itself on its values. But values that are not acted upon are not values at all. How we treat animals, who are some of the most vulnerable among us, is a measure of our decency and moral progress. We can do better. The Obama Administration can start by rejecting the USDA’s cruel proposal.

VIVECA MORRIS is a junior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at viveca.morris@yale.edu .

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Increasing line speed will make painful and improper deaths more common, poultry slaughter experts say. When chickens and turkeys enter the slaughter line, workers shackle the legs of the live birds, hanging them by their feet. The birds move through an electrified water bath intended to stun them unconscious, before an automated blade cuts their throat and they are plunged into a tank of boiling water to loosen the feathers from the carcasses. When the birds are not properly secured in the shackle, they lift their heads, attempting to right themselves, and miss both the electrified water and the automated blade. They are then plunged into the boiling water fully conscious.

It’s easy to count how many birds this happens to because those boiled alive turn bright red, a vivid reminder that their bodies were not drained of blood during slaughter. All birds boiled alive must be discarded.

The USDA says the proposal will reduce slaughter costs for major producers like Tyson’s, Purdue and Pilgrim’s Pride by $256 million each year, and save the USDA $90 million over three years from firing inspectors.

Sadly, the USDA has joined with Big Poultry in making an economic

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'LEANINGLEFT' ON 'A SONG FOR THE SHORE'

ntil three months ago, students at Malcolm X Shabaaz High School in Newark, N.J., never thought their dreams mattered.

For many of these students, survival trumped thoughts of the future; supporting their families trumped pursuing their ambitions. But at the start of the school year, in the halls of a struggling school in a struggling city, a new character arrived to change things. Divine Bradley — a community organizer from Brooklyn — stepped into the school as its Dream Director, one of 14 deployed to schools in Newark, N.Y., New Haven and Washington, D.C., by an organization called The Future Project. It was his job to mobilize the students at Shabaaz to transform the school from the inside out, changing the culture and inspiring students to believe in themselves and their community.

On Saturday, Oct. 29, I spent the day at New York University with students from all 14 Future Project schools, brought together for the first ever “Dreamer’s Convention.” At DreamCon, students from each school had the chance to dream out loud and share their goals for the coming year.

I sat in on the presentation from Shabaaz. One by one, students got up to talk about their vision for a better school and a

better Newark. Tired of being counted out, they pledged to show the world the power of their school and of their city — and they promised to support each other as they pursued their individual dreams. One girl dreamed of ending bullying in her school. One boy dreamed of playing professional basketball. Another simply dreamed of being legendary.

What I saw in the dreamers from Shabaaz — and in the students from the other 13 schools — was a dedication to chasing their dreams despite all odds.

They said that if Divine had not asked them what their dreams were, they would have never thought to ask themselves. But as soon as he did, these dreamers became unstoppable.

Spending the day with these high school students got me thinking about the role of dreaming here at Yale. When I first arrived on campus my freshman year, I remember being overwhelmed with the passion and enthusiasm my peers showed for, well, everything. We were used to being asked what we cared about — whether on the Common App or in casual conversation. We joined a dozen clubs, we were premed, we did D.S., we jumped headfirst in our passions, ready to take on the world. But when I think back to my dreams from freshman year, they don’t

really line up with the passions I’ve discovered during my time at Yale.

Just like many of my peers, I was terrified to be at Yale without clearly knowing my “thing” on campus. In the midst of a capella rush, improv tryouts and Dwight Hall info sessions, I feared not having a clear passion to define myself. Because I liked science in high school and because my older sisters wrote for their college papers, I quickly settled into a niche my freshman year: I was a premed who wrote for the News.

For the first year of college, I spent my nights writing stories, doing problem sets and deeply doubting my “dream.” I was miserable, but I didn’t know what to do about it. After all, without these two identity pieces, who would I be at Yale?

In the fall of my sophomore year, I took the first step toward being my own Dream Director. How? I quit. First, I quit the News. A few months later, I quit being premed. At around the same time, I quit being straight, too (or pretending to be).

Even in my second year of college, I found that it was not too late to press the restart button and redirect the path to my dreams. Without the News, I had time to explore other activities; I joined the club Frisbee team, where learned how to be a team player and met my first girl-

friend. Without chemistry lab, I actually read (and loved) my books for my American Studies classes. When Frisbee didn’t work out my junior year (I had back surgery and got dumped), I had time to devote to a new project: RevYale, a group I cofounded to help strengthen undergraduate organizations. For the first time in college, I found in RevYale a spark that lit me on fire — after quitting and restarting, I had found my real “thing” on campus.

When I first left the News and stopped being premed, my peers were shocked. They asked how I did it, or what I would do now, or how I would fill my new free time.

We’ve been conditioned to have a clear idea of what we want and to stick with it. But for me, my Yale experience has been defined by taking a step back, considering my dreams and carefully chiseling out a place for myself.

As students at a place like Yale, we have both the privilege and responsibility to do justice to our dreams. Use college as a time to find your spark. Now is the time to hit the restart button — because if you do, you’ll enter the world ready to be legendary in your own right.

ANJALI BALAKRISHNA is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College.

Contact her at anjali.balakrishna@ yale.edu .

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NEWS Food studies may be offered in spring

“Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.” MITCH HEDBERG AMERICAN COMEDIAN

West Campus emphasizes collaboration

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ AND YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTERS With a proposal submitted to Yale College Dean Mary Miller by a slew of interested faculty and students, a food studies program may be offered in the spring semester, according to three Yale faculty members interviewed.

Following the precedent of similar nonmajor programs in Energy Studies, Education Studies, and Global Health, professors of food and sustainability have gotten together to propose a parallel program that focuses on the intersection of food and sustainability, said Maria Trumpler GRD ’92, professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. While a food and agriculture concentration already exists for environmental studies majors, this new program would allow students of any major to pursue studies in the area. Trumpler, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project Mark Bomford and history professor Paul Freedman said they expect the program will start in the spring, pending approval from the Dean’s Standing Committee on Majors.

“In the past few years, students and professors have expressed interest in more study opportunities for food sustainability, and we’re responding to the demands they have,” Bomford said.

The program would require the completion of certain food and sustainability courses, bring guest speakers to campus, and require students to complete a sustainable food-related internship, said Trumpler, who is spearheading the initiative. She said she expects around twelve students in the initial class and will reevaluate program size after the first year. Currently, there are around five to ten professors working with Trumpler to help gain approval for the program, Bomford said.

Trumpler said the idea of a food studies initiative had long been discussed among faculty with interests in food and sustainability, but creating a major and associated department did not seem feasible. The University created guidelines last spring for establishing nonmajor academic programs, and Trumpler said they will make the process for the program more efficient.

Some students seem to be waiting and hoping that a program like this would be approved.

MARK BOMFORD Director, Yale Sustainable Food Project Bomford said although the food concentration within the environmental studies program exists, humanities and social science majors interested in the area were left without an avenue to pursue their interests.

“Some students seemed to be waiting and hoping that a program like this would be approved, so they could jump into it,” he said.

But establishing non-major courses of study has proven to be a lengthy process in the past. According to Yale College Dean Mary Miller, the energy studies program was first proposed to her when she took office in 2009 and only became official last spring.

Professors Paul van Tassel and Maria Piñango, the co-chairs of the Committee on Majors, both said in emails to the News that the committee has not received a proposal for food studies. In order to be approved by the Committee on Majors, non-major courses of study must partner with sources of funding and administrative support. Miller said such programs need to show they are financially sustainable to gain approval from the University.

History professor Paul Freedman, whose research focuses on the spice trade and medieval cuisine, said such programs are neither allowed to allowed to hire their own faculty nor ask for funding from the University.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ AND YUVAL BEN-DAVID at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu and yuval.ben-david@ yale.edu .

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Y-Hack is hosting their 24-hour Y-Hackathon at the West Campus facilities, which includes the newly moved and renovated Yale School of Nursing.

BY JENNIFER GERSTEN STAFF REPORTER When the co-founders of Y-Hack Charles Jin ’16, Mike Wu ’16 and Frank Wu ’16 were considering where at Yale they could host a 24-hour hack-a-thon for a projected few hundred competitors, West Campus was the last place on their minds. But after an unanticipated 1000-plus undergraduates from across the country and Canada signed up for the coding competition, the three discovered that the only place at Yale available and large enough to accommodate them all was 410 West Campus Dr. West Campus is a fitting home for Y-Hack beyond offering room for the competition — when the coders arrive this Friday evening, they will compete in a location that has reflected Y-Hack’s same spirit of innovation and collaboration. Six years after Yale purchased the 136acre facility from Bayer Pharmaceuticals for $109 million, West Campus has become a hub for interdisciplinary conversation and teamwork that is helping to strengthen the spirit of collaborative science research at Yale.

“It’s like an artist’s colony,” said Farren Isaacs, researcher at the Systems Biology Institute on West Campus. “You have a bunch of people from different perspectives infusing their own creativity into their labs, their institutes and West Campus-wide culture.”

According to Scott Strobel, vice president for West Campus planning and program development, while each of the six institutes — Chemical Biology, Cancer Biology, Nanobiology, Systems Biology, Microbial Diversity and Energy Sciences — is focused on a particular research topic, the members of those institutes span the gamut of scientific disciplines. Strobel said that the close proximity of researchers to others from different backgrounds within each institute, and of different institutes to each other, is facilitating interdisciplinary work that has become characteristic of the research conducted at West Campus.

Isaacs, who said his research is by nature interdisciplinary, credits the academic diversity at the West Campus institutes for facilitating his most recent research on rewiring the genome of E. coli to make it more disease-resistant. Collaborating on that project were faculty from Yale College and the School of Medicine, all of whom worked together at the Systems Biology Institute.

“In many ways, the sciences are all coalescing right now,” Isaacs said.

“We’re seeing advances in biology leveraging advances in physics, chemistry, engineering and so on. West Campus is the hub for that, [and] that’s the kind of environment that a lab like mine thrives in.”

After the selection of Andre Levchenko this summer as the director of the Systems Biology

Institute, one last West Campus directorship remains to be filled at the Microbial Diversity Institute.

As with the hiring of all other institute faculty at West Campus, Strobel said, an advisory committee of academically diverse members from the institute will conduct the search with a committee of members from the applicant’s home department.

Unlike search committees in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, whose members hail from a single academic background, search committees at West Campus are comprised of members from numerous departments.

Strobel said that the process of conducting these searches has fostered stronger connections between committee members in different fields of study. The result of these connections, he said, has been “cutting-edge” work from faculty members who might not otherwise have cause to interact together on research.

Collaborations are being facilitated within institutes as well.

Levchenko said that Systems Biology faculty members are working with developers on upcoming renovations to the institute that will make it more spacious and attractive, producing labs that are more conducive to interdisciplinary research.

“Essentially, you feel that this place is wired from the outset so that everything you want to have is more or less available to you,” Levchenko

said. “You are only limited [here] by your imagination.”

Although the Yale School of Nursing is not affiliated with the institutes or their search committees, School of Nursing Dean Margaret Grey said that her school has benefitted from the “interdisciplinary culture” of West Campus after moving into its newly renovated West Campus space this fall.

Grey cited nursing researchers’ closeness on West Campus to facilities like the Yale Center for Genome Analysis, and other researchers in labs from a variety of scientific disciplines, as critical to conducting collaborative research at her school.

She hopes that the connections West Campus has made available to YSN will attract potential applicants and encourage Yale undergraduates to explore “the west side of town,” which is home to a nascent arts and cultural community as well.

When YSN was first considering the move, Grey said the administration told her she would be “crazy” to turn the offer down.

“It’s the opportunity to bring all these pieces together in the service of science and growing interprofessional relationships,” Grey added. “And that’s just absolutely exciting.”

Shuttles connecting Yale, West Campus and the West Haven train station run three times an hour.

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

YLS attracts Yale undergrads

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTERS Of the 199 students that matriculated to Yale Law School this year, 23 graduated from Yale College.

This year’s figure is consistent with the past several years, during which the number of Yale College graduates entering YLS ranged from 23 to 33. Students and faculty interviewed credited this track record to Yale College’s strong liberal arts curriculum. Professors and administrators at the Yale Law School confirmed that students with wellrounded academic backgrounds often make the best applicants for law school, and students interviewed who are interested in law said they are confident in their chances for securing admission to law school following graduation.

“At Yale we are known for many things but maybe pre-eminently for liberal education,” said Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84, who teaches both at Yale College and at YLS. “At Yale Law School, Yale College is consistently one of our best appliers.”

Due to their varied academic background, Yale College students are often some of the best applicants to YLS, YLS director of admissions Craig Janecek said. Though the lack of a defined pre-law track at Yale might cause anxiety among students, Janecek said institutions with pre-law tracks do not generally produce the strongest candidates for YLS. Janecek said this is not because these institutions are not top-tier ones, but because the pre-law track is often a “homogenizing factor” and it makes it more difficult for students to distinguish themselves.

Still, YLS professor Peter Schuck said relying on their first-rate academic training to get into law school could disadvantage Yale students by putting them on equal footing with students from other top institutions.

Extracurricular organizations

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Roughly 23-33 Yale well-rounded undergraduates have matriculated to Yale Law School each of the past few years. such as the debate and mock trial teams, along with the Yale Political Union, may help some students prepare for a legal career, said Dean of Yale College Mary Miller.

Amar teaches “Constitutional Law,” a course that many undergraduates interested in the legal discipline take each year. Though his course may also serve to augment Yale College students’ pre-law resumes, Amar said the class is more importantly part of the varied liberal arts curriculum that makes Yale undergraduates such strong candidates for law school.

“When you come to a place like Yale, you should encounter Shakespeare, and Newton, and Darwin and the American Constitution,” Amar said. “It’s a perfect part of the classical liberal education.”

Camy Anderson ’14, who is currently applying to law schools, said that unlike students anticipating medical school, applicants to law school are not responsible for a body

of technical knowledge so much as analytical thinking skills. Most Yale classes can teach students to think critically, she said.

Amar said a liberal arts education composed of courses like “Constitutional Law” also enables students to experiment with the legal discipline and decide if they are truly interested in it.

Students interviewed echoed this sentiment. Robert Batista ’15, for example, said taking Amar’s class cemented his desire to go to law school.

Brad Rosen ’04 GRD ’04, who teaches undergraduate courses on the intersection of law and technology, said the preprofessional nature of a pre-law track would tamper with Yale students’ self-discovery. Many students also go to law school for the wrong reasons, perhaps because they want to postpone making decisions about their careers, Rosen said, adding that a pre-law track would only reinforce this mindset.

“It lets you kick the can down the road,” he said.

Still, Juliann Jeffrey ’14, a psychology major who is president of the Yale Pre-Law Society, said that she would like to see Yale giving law school applicants more support, like it does with prospective medical school students. She added that she revived the Yale Pre-Law Society this year in part to make up for this lack of support.

Rosen said if he could change one thing about Yale’s approach to prelaw, he would emulate Harvard’s system and provide prospective law students with student advisors from YLS. In the past five years, the highest number of students to enter Yale Law School from Yale College was 33 in 2010.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID and LAVINIA BORZI at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .

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“Global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.” DAVID SUZUKI ,ACTIVIST

Yale NUS searches for faculty NUS FROM PAGE 1 As the Yale-NUS student population grows, the hiring process for faculty will look different from what currently goes on at American liberal arts colleges because hiring will be done in bulk, said Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn.

Instead of doing individual visits, the candidates will go to the YaleNUS campus in groups of 20 to 25 candidates and be involved in discussions about both curricular and extracurricular matters.

“We’re not just looking for research ability and classroom

teaching, but also people who are interested in developing the institution,” Bailyn said.

Lewis and Bailyn said that although not all the faculty candidates are from the U.S., most of them have experience working in liberal arts colleges. Bailyn said that this will be particularly important while Yale-NUS is still in the process of establishing a “campus culture” and defining itself as a liberal arts institution in Asia.

Bailyn said that the global affairs major, which will be designed by both current and

new faculty, will differ somewhat from the Yale version of the major. Global affairs at Yale-NUS will focus more on geography and environmental issues, he said, adding that NUS already has a large geography department.

Lewis said global affairs will also emphasize international relations between Asia and the West, delving beyond interactions involving states and governments in order to examine people and societies.

Michael Maniates, head of the Environmental Studies Department at Yale-NUS, said the fact

YALE NUS

Yale-NUS is in the process of establishing campus culture and expanding with new faculty and administrators.

that this round of faculty hiring is focused on Global Affairs does not mean that this major will be more central to the mission of YaleNUS mission than any other. He added that he does not think there is a particular reason why the college started with arts and humanities and global affairs when expanding its faculty.

Lewis said developing a strong arts and humanities major is important at this point because those faculty members will also be able to help students develop their extracurricular activities. For example, Yale-NUS is looking for a music teacher who would be able to advise budding singing groups.

The arts and humanities major will also reflect the interdisciplinary nature of studies at Yale-NUS, as well as the school’s emphasis on international exchanges, he said.

Faculty and administrators interviewed said they are not hiring in response to current student demand for particular majors.

Though students have expressed interest in different areas of study, they have yet to declare their majors and may change their minds, Maniates said.

Still, it is clear that the social sciences in general will be in high demand at the college, Bailyn said.

“It would not be surprising if half the students majored in the social sciences,” he said. “We have a strong emphasis on the meeting of cultures, internationalism and globalism generally.”

The collaboration between Yale and the National University of Singapore began in 2009.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .

Salovey and Harp to collaborate ADMINISTRATORS FROM PAGE 1 Salovey did not outline a specific agenda, he said he hopes to touch base with the mayor-elect and express his desire to work closely with her over the coming years.

Alexander said he has worked with Harp for over a decade and is confident in her ability to establish a strong working relationship with the University.

Salovey said that he is especially interested in working with Harp on economic development and encouraging Yale students and faculty to start businesses in New Haven — a sentiment that several faculty and administrators also expressed.

“The key to New Haven’s continued recovery is to stimulate entrepreneurship, attract investments and create high quality private sector jobs right here in our city,” said School of Management Senior Associate Dean

David Bach ’98. “Yale can play an important role as catalyst, but a broad range of actors has to come together for this to happen, and leadership from City Hall is the key.”

Throughout the election, senior members of the Yale administration remained quiet about their opinions on the candidates. When asked by the News last month, Salovey merely said that he had spoken briefly with both candidates and looked forward to working with whoever emerged victorious.

Beyond the senior levels of the administration, though, many Yale faculty and staff were deeply involved in the election — but whether these allegiances will impact the relationship between Harp and the University is yet to be seen.

Over the past months, Elicker amassed a significant amount of support over his competi-

tor amongst Yale faculty members and students. Beyond visiting campus frequently, Elicker built a strong support network amongst the University’s faculty, with the names of professors such as Paul Bloom and Christopher Udry appearing on Elicker’s campaign finance releases, and several other professors — including Douglas Rae, John Simon LAW ’53 and Jacob Hacker GRD ’00 — hosting fundraisers for Elicker, who currently represents many faculty members as the Ward 10 alderman.

“I was disappointed,” Simon said of the election results. “I thought he was clearly the better candidate to be our mayor, and it’s too bad that he did not prevail. I hope he will prevail in the future.”

Others in the University, though, took the other side during the campaign. Deputy Director of Communications Michael

Morand ’87 DIV ’93 endorsed Harp over the summer and was seen at her victory party Tuesday evening. Enthusiastic about the result, Morand said he expects Harp to successfully work with Salovey as “fellow citizens of New Haven.”

“President Salovey and Mayor Harp will not skip a beat,” Morand said. “Now the mayor is someone who, like President Salovey, came to New Haven to study at Yale and decided to stay in New Haven.”

Though public support was split between Harp and Elicker on campus, Harp was endorsed by the Local 34 and Local 35 unions, which represent approximately 5,000 Yale employees.

Harp won 54.66 percent of the vote on Tuesday.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloydthomas@yale.edu .

Harp’s senate seat up for grabs SENATE FROM PAGE 1 which point I intend to seek it,” Holder-Winfield told the News Wednesday evening. “I’ve had a lot of time to think about this since dropping out of the mayor’s race, which is when I began talking to other members of New Haven’s delegation about who was going to take Harp’s spot.”

Both Ward 3 Alderwoman Jackie James, who chairs New Haven’s Democratic Town Committee, and former Ward 24 Alderman Marcus Paca have indicated that they are considering running, though neither has formally declared their candidacy.

James said she is thinking about running but has not made a final decision about her electoral plans. She said will consult with other members of the Board of Aldermen as well as members of the 10th District Democratic Committee, who will endorse a candidate following Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy’s announcement of a special election early next year.

“This is a seat where you need to do consensus building and work as a team player in the district and with the party,” James said. “It’s not my decision alone.”

James said she will not likely make a final decision regarding

her potential candidacy for a few months.

Paca could not be reached for comment on Wednesday evening. Speculation also surrounds the intentions of Connecticut State Reps. Toni Walker and Juan Candelaria, though Candelaria told the New Haven Independent on Wednesday that he is comfortable in his current position.

Reached Wednesday evening, Walker did not rule out a run but said the decision is based in part on the collective strategizing of New Haven’s delegation of state legislators, which is headed by Connecticut State Sen. Martin Looney.

“It’s about what we decide is best for the whole delegation,” Walker said. “If we move someone from the house to the senate, then we need to replace the house seat as well.”

Alongside Harp, Walker currently co-chairs the state’s appropriations committee, which oversees Connecticut’s $40-billion budget. Walker said Harp’s replacement would not be guaranteed a powerful committee placement and would need to work his or her way up.

The 10th district comprises the western portion of New Haven as well as a small section of West Haven. Holder-Winfield, who was first elected to the Connecticut legislature in 2008,

said the spot requires someone with a proven track record in the general assembly.

“Replacing someone like Toni, who has a lot of experience and positional power, requires someone who has the ability to deliver for New Haven, and for West Haven as well,” he said, adding that his own leadership on the repeal of the death penalty and his work to limit racial profiling stand out as major legislative accomplishments.

Holder-Winfield added that campaigning will not begin until Malloy issues a writ of special election, which must come within 10 days of Harp’s formal resignation. The special election then takes place 40 days after the writ is issued, he said.

For the candidates who ran unsuccessfully in Tuesday’s municipal elections, the future is even more uncertain. Petitioning Independent candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, who will round out his time as Ward 10 Alderman until he is replaced

by Anna Festa, who will replace Elicker on the Board of Aldermen in January, said on Wednesday that his plans are uncertain.

He said he plans to take a vacation in Vermont before returning to New Haven to figure out what to do next. Elicker said he will remain engaged in the city in some capacity but declined

to say whether he would run for political office again.

Republican Ward 1 candidate Paul Chandler ’14, who failed to unseat Democratic Incumbent Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 yesterday, said he will likely not seek elected office in New Haven in the future. His future engagement in the city will more likely take the form of a potential career in teaching or education policy, he added.

Andy Ross, the unsuccessful Independent candidate for alderman in Ward 8, said he plans to remain involved civically as a member of the city’s development commission and a leader of a community development project in Newhallville.

At one point entertaining a run for the mayor’s office, Ross said he is not ruling out the possibility of one day seeking the city’s top spot.

William Wynn, unsuccessful Republican candidate for alderman in Ward 10, said he already has plans to run for mayor — in 2019.

“I will be New Haven’s first black Republican mayor,” Wynn said.

Democrats prevailed in every single one of the city’s contested elections.

Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley@yale.

YCC will hold fossil fuel vote DIVESTMENT FROM PAGE 1 Free Yale that garnered 1,374 signatures last spring, the YCC announced an upcoming referendum in a Nov. 3 email to the student body, requesting that interested students submit “pro” and “con” arguments about divestment before Nov. 8. As of Wednesday, a “pro” statement authored by Fossil Free Yale had been posted on the YCC website but there was no “con” statement. The YCC hopes to collect rebuttals from both sides of the issue by Nov. 11, and organizations will be allowed to campaign beginning on Nov. 12. Voting will start on Nov. 17.

YCC co m m u n i ca t i o n s director Andrew Grass ‘16 said the YCC created a referendum process this year to empower student voice and activism on campus.

“YCC does not have a position on divestment since it is a political issue, but we are facilitating an opportunity for students to voice their opinion on the matter,” Grass said. Though Daniel Shen ’14, a student representative on the ACIR, said students have handled the issue of fossil fuel divestment well thus far, he said the referendum could potentially have an adverse effect on the relationship between undergraduates and administrators.

Yale is not the first Ivy League school to conduct a referendum on this issue.

Though 72 percent of Harvard undergraduates who voted on a similar referendum last fall voted “yes” to divestment, the divestment movement at the university failed to convince the Harvard administration. Last month, Harvard President Drew Faust wrote a letter to the Harvard community explaining that the university would not divest from the fossil fuel industry. The purpose of the endowment is to support Harvard as an educational institution rather than to make statements, she wrote.

Divestment efforts at Brown University have also hit a dead end. On Oct. 27, Brown President Christina Paxson said that “our consideration of divestiture is over.” Even if the university had divested from

fossil fuels, that action would have had little direct effect on the companies in question, she said.

While Provost Benjamin Polak said he supports the environmental message of the divestment movement, he said he does not think Yale should divest from coal at this time.

“To the extent to which this stimulates serious discussion about global warming and its consequences, I’m very happy,” Polak said.

The Yale Investments Office is not required to disclose specifics about the proportion of the endowment that is invested in the fossil fuel industry. Still, the entire Yale endowment is valued at only $20.8 billion — a small number compared to the combined value of the publicly traded U.S. energy companies in the S&P 500 index, which was $1.4 trillion as of the end of 2011.

Though divestment efforts at other top universities have failed to achieve their ultimate goal, Rissman noted that student efforts have not been futile. Harvard added the position of vice-president of sustainable investing shortly after the referendum.

Yale’s approach to responsible investing is articulated in the 1972 book, The Ethical Investor. Following those guidelines, the ACIR focuses on the concept of “grave social injury” as defined in The Ethical Investor when evaluating investments, according to Jonathan Macey, a professor at Yale Law School who serves as chair of the ACIR. Divestment is only considered as a last resort and only if the committee determines that divestment would have a positive impact.

In the 40-year history of the ACIR, Yale has only divested twice: from companies related to South African apartheid in the 1970s, and from Sudanese government bonds and seven oil companies operating in Sudan in 2006.

More than 250 U.S. colleges currently have studentled fossil fuel divestment campaigns.

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

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Clarification. The article, “New medieval manuscripts arrive at Beinecke” stated that Julia Mattison ‘14 will examine almost all of the collection’s manuscripts for her senior thesis. In fact, Mattison said she may examine some of the manuscripts for her senior thesis, which is not yet finalized.”

Number of people who have used Track180

Track180 is an iPad news application that debuted last April.

The application currently has four and a half stars based on 110 ratings in the Apple App Store.

Elm City startup secures patent

IAC augments campus dialogue

BY NICOLE NG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Five years after its creation, the Intercultural Affairs Council has been staying true to its purpose of creating open and inclusive campus dialogue.

Created in 2008, the IAC strives to promote respect and understanding amongst undergraduates by challenging social biases and promoting a more open-minded campus culture. This year’s new student board members — who were selected on Nov. 1 and will meet for the first time on Nov. 11 — will work closely with campus offices such as the Chaplain’s Office and the various cultural houses to promote dialogue and fund programs that bring various student groups together.

Though the mission of the organization has not changed since its inception, council members said that in recent years, they have seen fewer issues on campus that they need to address.

I think that’s just part of Yale culture, that negative comments are not tolerated in this community.

KIKI OCHIENG ’15 Member, Intercultural Affairs Council “We’re focused on creating a notion of community of allies,” said Maria Trumpler, director of LGBTQ resources, who sits on the IAC board as a staff member. “Instead of being responsible for own community, it’s really important that you stand up for other communities that you don’t personally belong to, particularly when groups face hostility or are targeted.”

One of the IAC’s foremost subcommittees, the Community Response Committee, was formed five years ago in response to a series of discriminatory incidents on campus, including one particular incident in 2008 involving a fraternity that took sexist photographs outside of the Women’s Center. Trumpler said that the subcommittee — which is tasked with responding to incidents that target specific groups or individuals — has seen fewer cases requiring its attention in recent years.

In its earlier years, students and groups approached the subcommittee with issues several times a month. But now the team is only needed several times a year, Trumpler said, attributing the decline to the expansion of other ways in which the University engages students who

report campus issues — including greater involvement from Dean’s and Master’s Offices — and also to the general improvement of Yale’s social climate.

When graffiti that threatened the Slifka Center with arson was discovered in Sterling Chemistry Lab last semester, said Rabbi Megan Doherty, a senior Jewish fellow at the Slifka Center, the Community Response Committee was a visible presence in public conversations about the threat and it offered both emotional and logistical support.

Over the last five years, Trumpler said, she has noticed a dramatic increase in openmindedness about personal identity and diverse collaboration — at least in the students that she works with.

“I think that’s just part of Yale culture, that negative comments are not tolerated in this community,” said Kiki Ochieng ’15, a Community and Consent Educator and returning IAC member. “And the IAC is responsible for fostering a community standard of what’s acceptable and what’s not, and the community respects that.”

In responding to incidents, Trumpler said, the subcommittee on incident response strives to provide a broad community of support and outreach for groups or individuals that may have been targeted. According to Ochieng, IAC student involvement with the response team may become more formalized this year.

Through its programs, the IAC also tries to prevent incidents from happening in the first place, said Senior Associate Director of Compliance and Varsity Administration Amy Backus. IAC student and staff members discuss potential points of contention during meetings, in order to facilitate dialogue on campus before tensions escalate.

“It goes back to providing students with an opportunity to get to know one another,” Backus said. “It might seem artificially manufactured, but we think it’s an important opportunity to get discussions to occur.”

The IAC funds and coordinates programs that promote collaboration across different groups. Past events include organizing bus trips to Washington, D.C. for Obama’s inauguration, inviting football player Mark Sanchez to discuss faith on campus, hosting a series of forums on socioeconomic class and funding “Kwanzika,” a joint celebration between the Afro-American Cultural House and Slifka Center.

Twenty-two staff members and students comprise the IAC. Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .

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The New Haven-based startup Track180 launched its deput iPad application last April, and just received a U.S. patent last week.

BY JR REED STAFF REPORTER Just two weeks after New Havenbased biotech startup Applivate launched its debut smartphone application to help diabetic patients, a second local tech startup, Track180, gave the Elm City’s entrepreneurial scene another boost.

Last April, Track180 launched its debut social impact iPad application, which allows users to more effectively navigate current issues in the news.

Track180 CEO and Founder Drue Hontz said he hopes the app can increase the lifespan of digital news by organizing it around particular issues.

After the web-based beta version of the product attracted 45,000 users over the past six months, the application’s model — which allows users to track the development of a story over time — received a U.S. patent this past week.

“I started studying various outlets to try to make sense of all the data and realized that, if it was easier for the average person to understand issues, they would be more inclined to make an informed decision or do something about it,” Hontz said.

The debut app takes the high volume of content available from various news outlets and uses a thematic approach to make connections between discrete news articles, creating a new way to navigate the news, Hontz said. He added that the app shows users the range of opinions on the issue and propels them to consider the impact of the issue across other topics, through what Hontz calls the “ripple effect.”

Hontz conceived of the idea three years ago and recruited a four-member team to help him develop the app’s design.

As their work progressed, Hontz decided to include an orange “helping hand” feature on the app for stories, so that, once users feel they better understand a particular issue, if they are

inclined to take action, they can click on links that will direct them to social groups or agencies involved with the issue.

“That connection to the issue is a very exciting connection for someone — to feel they are directly impacting an issue,” Hontz said. “It’s very empowering to hear multiple sides to a story and then make a decision about what to do with that information.”

The Track 180 team developed the application’s methodology in the startup’s New Haven office — which they call “the cave” — at 900 Chapel St. Hontz said he is committed to staying in the city.

However, the CEO did hire computer software programmers in Barcelona and Spain to perform the coding necessary to develop the app. When the project started, the product was originally a video, but Hontz and his team chose to develop an iPad app because the tablet screen offered an appealing way to visualize information.

It’s very empowering to hear multiple sides to a story and then make a decision about what to do with that information.

DRUE HONTZ Founder and CEO, Track180

At a press conference last Thursday to announce the patent, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said Hontz’s choice to outsource the programming underscores the need for local universities to improve their computer programming offerings and teach more students to code. With more programmers, DeStefano said, Hontz and other local entrepreneurs could create more jobs for Elm City resi-

dents and foster a more hospitable environment for entrepreneurs.

He added many companies driven by technology are sprouting up in New Haven, finding smart ways of delivering information to people. He described these companies as New Haven’s future.

“Communities that are going to grow are going to be knowledge-based,” DeStefano said, contrasting startup companies with the city’s waning manufacturing sector.

Hontz agreed with the Mayor, adding New Haven falls especially short in this area compared to New York and Cambridge. Hontz searched locally and in cities nationwide to find programmers to construct the sophisticated app design, but only Barcelona offered suitable candidates for the job.

“A big part of the search process was ensuring that the people working on the app believed in what I was doing and saw the social impact opportunities,” Hontz said.

New Haven Economic Development Administrator Kelly Murphy, whose department helped jumpstart a local business incubator called the Grove, said the City government plans to continue helping build community outlets to encourage interactions between entrepreneurs. The City worked with Hontz and Track180 to help them find a space and procure financing during the past few years.

“Any time a New Haven business does well, it reflects well on the city,” she said.

“Our role is to promote that business, bring resources to the table, and make an environment appealing to potential businesses.”

Before founding Track180 in 2009, Hontz served as the CEO of Hontz Elevator Company from 1997-2005.

Contact JR REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” BUDDHA

After Indigo Blue, uncertainty remains INDIGO BLUE FROM PAGE 1 abruptly terminated its nineyear relationship with Indigo Blue. A non-profit organization led by former Buddhist Chaplain Bruce Blair ’81, Indigo Blue had been the primary center for Buddhist life at Yale for almost a decade, providing a vast range of programs — from daily candlelit meditation sessions in Battell Chapel to Buddhist chanting and ceremonies.

After severing ties with Blair and Indigo Blue last fall, the Chaplain’s Office fell under student criticism for not providing any immediate substitute services in the wake of the group’s closure, leaving many students without a way to practice for several weeks. In response to widespread student complaints, the Chaplain’s Office has collaborated with the New Haven Zen Center — one of the primary venues for Zen Buddhist practice in New Haven — to develop a range of new services and spaces for Buddhist students on campus.

If this had been the Catholic community, there would have been riots.

AMARIS OLGUIN ’15

“[The Chaplain’s Office] has put together a fabulous program, especially because it’s difficult for non-Buddhists to put on a program for Buddhists,” Bloom said.

As the University has attempted to accommodate the spiritual needs of Yale’s Buddhist community, student feedback on the programming has ranged from appreciation for the Chaplain’s Office’s efforts to disappointment with the new services currently offered.

AN ABRUPT DEPARTURE

A year ago, on Oct. 22, students coming to Battell Chapel for the nightly meditation sessions were greeted by a note on the door: “This event has been cancelled. For questions or concerns contact the Chaplain’s Office.” Soon, rumors began to spread on campus that Indigo Blue, the nonprofit organization that provided programming for Buddhist life at Yale, had been shut down and its leader, Blair, forced to step down from his position. A week later, after many student inquiries, University Chaplain Sharon Kugler sent a university-wide email confirming that the Chaplain’s Office had discontinued its affiliation with Indigo Blue, adding that the decision had been “carefully thought-out” and that the University was “deeply committed to creating a new and expansive program for Buddhist life at Yale.”

Indigo Blue began its relationship with the university in 2003, when Blair was appointed Yale’s first Buddhist Chaplain.

As the first non-sectarian Buddhist Chaplaincy on a college campus, Indigo Blue established a shrine space under Harkness Tower, which was open daily from morning until night, with Blair leading chanting practice in the evenings. As the organization attracted an increasing number of students, Blair also invited visiting monks, nuns and other Buddhist leaders from communities all around the globe, including Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. In addition, the organization held celebrations for various Buddhist holidays — from Lunar New Year to Buddha’s Birthday to Vesak — as well as formal meditations sessions on Saturdays and discussions on Wednesday nights. Its most widely known program, however, was its Stillness and Light meditation sessions — widely attended both by Buddhist and non-Buddhist students — every night from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. in Battell Chapel.

“I liked that it was open late,” said Kimberly Fabian ’15, a student formerly involved in Indigo Blue. “I started going when I was a freshman on Old Campus, so it was really easy. It always centered me.”

As Kugler’s email refused to disclose the reasons behind Indigo Blue’s departure, many students expressed their frustration at the Chaplain’s Office,

sparking conversation on campus about the administration’s lack of transparency.

One of them was Heshika Deegahawathura ’14, who then served as president of the former Buddhist Student Advisory Board, an undergraduate organization that assisted Blair in running Indigo Blue. For Deegahawathura, the Chaplain’s Office failed to understand how significant Indigo Blue and, in particular, the Stillness and Light program was to the many Yale students who attended the nightly meditation sessions.

Even more frustrating to some students, though, was the absence of an immediate substitute program to replace Blair and Indigo Blue. In particular, the shrine in Harkness Tower was immediately dismantled and remained closed until Dec. 10, leaving many Buddhist students unable to practice for over a month — a situation that caused many Buddhist students to feel overlooked by the Chaplain’s Office.

“I didn’t think it was appropriate for the Chaplain’s Office to shut it down and not replace it immediately,” said Amaris Olguin ’15. “I felt like [I] and the entire community had been dismissed. If this had been the Catholic community, there would have been riots.”

While the shrine in Harkness was not reopened for daily practice until December, the Chaplain’s Office started offering alternative programs as early as one week after Indigo Blue’s closure. The Chaplain’s Office directed its efforts towards establishing hourly meditation sessions on Wednesday afternoons in Welch Hall’s Breathing Space room, which were met with mixed reactions by students.

Soon, though, the Chaplain’s Office started collaborating with the New Haven Zen Center to bring a range of new Buddhist programs back to the Yale campus, spending the next twelve months “trying to figure things out,” according to Bloom.

Bloom, who is a teacher at the New Haven Zen Center, began to give monthly dharma talks and lead monthly or bimonthly meditation practice last spring.

However, it wasn’t until the beginning of the 2013-’14 academic year that the Chaplain’s Office instituted a regular set of programs, Bloom said.

Currently, Bloom and the two other Buddhist advisors from the New Haven Zen Center hold office hours once a week in the Breathing Space room and organize dharma talks once or twice a month. Their efforts are complemented by the presence of an Interim Buddhist Chaplain, Steve Kanji Ruhl, who comes to Yale once a month to give a dharma talk.

Despite the challenges of creating new venues for Buddhist life at Yale, the Chaplain’s office has established what they describe as a set of programs that are “truly responsive and supportive to the needs of everyone who take part in Buddhist life at Yale,” said Maytal Satiel, assista nt University Chaplain for Special Services.

“Buddhist life at Yale is thriving,” said Satiel, who currently oversees the programming for Buddhist students. “The current Buddhist program — in both structure and content — has been very positively welcomed by the members of the Yale Buddhist community.”

BUDDHISM ACROSS THE IVIES

When Indigo Blue was founded at Yale in 2003, Buddhist life was only beginning to take shape at other universities nationwide. Today, Buddhism has become a stronger presence in many of Yale’s peer institutions, where Buddhist students are offered a series of programs specifically dedicated to supporting their practice.

For instance, Harvard University currently houses two parttime Buddhist chaplains, who belong to nearby Buddhist centers in the Boston area.

Dokuro Jaeckel, one of Harvard’s two Buddhist chaplains, said his role is not limited to Buddhist believers in Cambridge: In addition to overseeing biweekly meditation groups and traditional ceremonies, he serves as a spiritual counselor for students, faculty, and staff, regardless of their religious affiliation.

At Princeton University, Bud-

dhist life centers on the Princeton Buddhist Students’ Group, an undergraduate organization that holds daily meditation sessions, weekly dinner discussions and occasional talks with guest speakers.

“We’re the only religious group [at Princeton] without a chaplain, partially because we’re a smaller group and a lot of people who come meditate are not necessarily Buddhist,” said Rebecca Smaya, who serves as president of the group. She also said that a full-time chaplain would not do justice to the diversity of Buddhist traditions.

“If we got someone who [follows] a particular type of Buddhism, it would change the community,” Smaya said. “For example, if we got a Thai monk, it would bring in a lot of Thai students who are Buddhist but maybe aren’t interested in meditation.”

She added that it is a challenge to provide programming for students who are more “culturally Buddhist,” which she defined as a group of individuals who grew up with certain religious festivals and ceremonial practices, but are not interested in meditation, which is the focus of Westernized versions of Buddhism.

Columbia University has also strived to establish Buddhist life on its New York campus: every week, a part-time Buddhist advisor, Doyeon Lee, leads the meetings of the Columbia Undergraduate Buddhist Association, where local teachers from different Buddhist traditions come to interact with students.

According to Lee, the presence of a Buddhist chaplain is essential to support the expansion of Buddhist life on college campuses.

“Buddhism is one of the biggest religions and most people don’t know about it.” Lee said.

“At universities of higher education, Buddhism should be wellrepresented.”

MOVING FORWARD

When she first arrived on campus this August, Wendy Chen ‘17 had never heard of Indigo Blue or Bruce Blair. As she entered Harkness Tower to find the carillon chamber, she also discovered the Buddhist shrine housed on the first floor of the tower.

“I wasn’t expecting to find a shrine there, and I liked it a lot,” said Chen, who has been a regular visitor at the shrine. “I wish it were open everyday, though.”

Chen’s words echo the sentiment of many students on campus, who are unhappy with the shrine’s limited opening hours.

Currently, the Harkness shrine is open to the Yale community only Sunday through Thursday from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., when Chaplain’s Office student workers — many of whom are not Buddhist — oversee the space.

In the same room, the three Buddhist advisors hold meditation classes on Thursday nights and the dharma talks sponsored by the Chaplain’s Office.

For some students, like Kasimet Manakongtreecas heep ’17, this range of programs shows the Chaplain’s Office’s support for Buddhist life at Yale.

“The Chaplain’s Office is doing it right,” he said.

Others however — including those previously involved in Indigo Blue — have shown reluctance to participate in the current programming for Buddhist life on campus. For instance, Aman Richard ’14, a former member of Blair’s group, said the Chaplain’s Office’s treatment of Indigo Blue last fall was “so bizarre” that he decided not to be involved in the current programs. Shubo Yin ’14 said the newly established programs do not provide the same kinds of services as Indigo Blue did, adding that she believes the current programming is focused largely on Zen meditation practice.

Indigo Blue really understood the practices of a variety of different kinds of Buddhist traditions.

SHUBO YIN ’14 “Indigo Blue really understood the practices of a variety of different kinds of Buddhist traditions. Monks and nuns from dif-

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Indigo Blue, which hosted nightly meditation sessions, abruptly left last October, canceling all events. ferent traditions would come visit,” Yin said. “Right now, it seems like all the main advisors are from the Zen Center.”

In particular, Yin voiced the need for more extensive programming that includes types of practices besides meditation: depending on the Buddhist tradition, chanting, rituals and other cultural aspects of Buddhism can be “more essential” than meditation, she said.

For other students, the main issue lies in the absence of a fulltime chaplain to oversee the daily operation of the shrine and provide spiritual counseling to students. Deegahawathura and Richard, for instance, said they hope Kugler will hire a new fulltime chaplain to take over Blair’s

former responsibilities. Hiring a full-time chaplain would help engage students day-today needs, according to Bloom.

He said that Seonjoon Soonim, another Buddhist advisor who declined to comment, has some of those capabilities but that this aspect of Buddhist life is still “trying to work itself out.”

“Bruce always got down to the nitty gritty of your problems and it was nice to know there was a chaplain there,” Richard said, adding that other major religious groups on campus currently benefit from having a fulltime chaplain.

However, when asked if the Chaplain’s Office plans to hire a new full-time Buddhist chaplain, Kugler said there are no

plans to change the current makeup of the Buddhist program, adding that “students and other community members … seem to be quite satisfied.”

As the Chaplain’s Office continues to expand its services dedicated to the Buddhist community, Bloom agreed with students that other Buddhist traditions, in addition to Zen Buddhism, need to be brought in to further enrich Buddhist life at Yale.

“We’d like to see this more energetically engaged, but that’s not really our area,” Bloom said.

“The ball is in the Chaplain’s Office’s court.”

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

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9 victims in Detroit barbershop shooting

BY COREY WILLIAMS ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Gunfire broke Wednesday evening out at a Detroit barbershop known for gambling activity, leaving at least three people dead, police say.

The shootings happened at about 6 p.m. at Al’s Barber Shop, said police spokeswoman Kelly Miner. She said nine people were shot and three of them were confirmed dead.

Details were sketchy as police were still investigating what happened, and it’s not clear how many people opened fire.

Police Chief James Craig said told reporters at the scene that “suspects engaged a cou-

ple of victims” before “several shots were fired.” He said it’s not known of any of the victims fired back.

We have three confirmed [victims], pronounced dead at the scene. One we’re not sure of.

JAMES CRAIG Police Chief, Detroit “Right now the information that we have is that nine people have been shot. Of that number, we have three confirmed, pro-

nounced (dead) at the scene. One we’re not sure of.”

Miner said she did not have details on the victims, including their ages or genders.

The barbershop is in a strip mall along a major road on the city’s east side, and Craig said it’s a known site for illegal gambling.

“We’re not sure if this was over a bad debt. We have no idea,” Craig said. “We know it’s a barbershop and gambling has occurred in this location.”

Craig told reporters that police were looking for two vehicles that the suspects may have been using, a 2004 white Chevrolet Impala that may have a broken window and bullet holes in the back, and a 2004 black Impala.

Navy officer arrested in scandal

BY JULIE WATSON ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — Federal authorities arrested a third senior U.S. Navy official Wednesday in connection with a massive bribery scheme in Asia involving prostitutes and luxury travel.

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Jose Luis Sanchez was arrested in Tampa, Fla. His lawyer could not be immediately reached for comment.

In a criminal complaint, Sanchez is accused of accepting prostitutes, $100,000 cash and other bribes from a Malaysian contractor known in military circles as “Fat Leonard.”

Prosecutors say Sanchez passed on classified U.S. Navy

information to Leonard Francis’ Singapore-based company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd., or GDMA, which helped the company overbill the Pentagon. The company has serviced Navy ships in the Pacific for 25 years.

Wednesday’s arrest marks the latest development in the case rocking the Navy. The accusations signal serious national security breaches and corruption and has set off high-level meetings at the Pentagon with the threat that more people, including those of higher ranks, could be swept up as the investigation continues. A hearing Nov. 8 could set a trial date.

“According to the allegations in this case, a number of

officials were willing to sacrifice their integrity and millions of taxpayer dollars for personal gratification,” U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said after Wednesday’s arrest.

The two other senior officials arrested in recent weeks in the case are Navy Cmdr.

Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz — who like Sanchez, is accused of giving Francis’ company confidential information about Navy ship routes — and a senior Navy investigator, John Beliveau II. Prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that Beliveau, 44, kept Francis abreast of the bribery probe and advised him on how to respond in exchange for such things as prostitution services.

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Police gather at a scene of a multiple shooting at Al’s Place Barber Shop on Wednesday in Detroit.

Unions could get health break

BY SAM HANANEL ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Obama administration appears ready to give some labor unions a break from costly fees under the new health care law, a move that drew criticism from Republicans who say it unfairly favors a key White House ally.

It certainly looks like the Obama administration is looking at a special deal for unions.

ORRIN HATCH Republican Senator, Utah In regulations published last week, the administration said it intends to propose rules that would exempt “certain selfinsured, self-administered plans” from the requirement to pay the fees in 2015 and 2016.

Health care experts say that

could apply to some unionsponsored health plans, though it’s unclear how many. Labor officials downplayed any impact as miniscule, saying the language would not include most of their plans and doesn’t address the wider changes they have requested.

Labor unions have spent months complaining the new law will drive up the costs of certain health plans that are jointly administered by unions and smaller employers. The White House has rejected a broader request that union members in those plans be eligible for federal subsidies.

Unions and many business groups also have been complaining about the so-called reinsurance fees, which start next year at $63 per person for everyone who has coverage. The fee drops to about $40 a person in 2015 and even less the following year.

The temporary fee is designed to raise $25 billion over the next three years. The money collected is intended to provide a cushion for insurers from the initial hard-to-predict costs of

covering previously uninsured people with medical problems.

But unions and large employers argue that they shouldn’t have to pay the fee because they won’t benefit from the fund.

The Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that once the rule is proposed the agency would consider comments from interested parties before moving forward.

A White House spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.

Ed Fensholt, an attorney specializing in health insurance compliance, said unions might benefit most from plans for an exemption since some of their multiemployer plans are processed in-house, though he was not certain of how many. By contrast, he said, virtually all other employers contract with a third party to administer their insurance plans.

“We were really scratching our heads about who actually benefits from this,” he said. “It certainly isn’t aimed at employers because employers don’t really self-administer their plans.”

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“I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter’s gun in the other.

Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.” YASSER ARAFAT

Ford will not step down

Arafat poisoning reported

BY ROB GILLIES ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — Toronto’s embattled mayor on Wednesday rejected the advice of city council allies to take a temporary leave of absence, returning to work a day after acknowledging he had smoked crack.

Deepening the crisis, Rob Ford’s longtime policy adviser resigned, continuing an exodus that started in May when news reports emerged of a video showing the mayor smoking what appears to be crack. Police announced last week they had a copy of the video, which has not been released publicly.

After months of evading the question, Ford acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that he smoked crack “probably a year ago” when he was in a “drunken stupor.”

But he has refused to step aside despite immense pressure.

Ford arrived at City Hall just past noon on Wednesday but took a back stairway to his office to avoid a crush of media.

The mayor later blew a kiss to members of the media as he gave a tour of his office to school children.

More than 200 people protested outside City Hall.

“Hey hey! Ho ho! Rob Ford has got to go!” they chanted.

City Councilor James Pasternak said the controversy consuming Canada’s largest city cannot go on day after day. He said several city councilors asked Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly to approach Ford and “orchestrate a dignified exit from city hall.”

Kelly met with Ford and suggested he take a temporary leave until later this year

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In this May 31, 2002 file photo, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat pauses during the weekly Muslim Friday prayers in his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford talks to a staff member at city hall Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 in Toronto. or early next year, but Ford rejected that idea. Councilor Frances Nunziata, also a Ford ally, said they are all frustrated Ford won’t step aside temporarily.

“We’re trying to give him sound advice as supporters,” she said. “He needs to listen, and he’s not listening, and I’m very disappointed.”

Nunziata said Ford needs to get help but only he can make that decision.

Kelly earlier said Ford didn’t tell anyone he would admit to smoking crack

before he did so Tuesday.

“It came right out of the blue,” said Kelly, who learned about it from a member of Ford’s staff after the mayor stopped on his way to his office to tell reporters. “I was like, `What? What have you been smoking?’”

There is no clear legal path for Ford’s critics to force him out. Municipal law makes no provision for the mayor’s forced removal from office unless he is convicted and jailed for a criminal offense.

Police have not charged Ford.

BY MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH ASSOCIATED PRESS RAMALLAH, West Bank — Swiss scientists have found evidence suggesting Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with a radioactive substance, a TV station reported Wednesday, prompting new allegations by his widow that the Palestinian leader was the victim of a “shocking” crime.

Palestinian officials have long accused Israel of poisoning Arafat, a claim Israel has denied.

Arafat died under mysterious circumstances at a French military hospital in 2004, a month after falling ill at his Israelibesieged West Bank compound.

The findings reported Wednesday appear to be the most significant so far in an investigation into Arafat’s death initiated by his widow, Suha, and the satellite TV station Al Jazeera.

Last year, Switzerland’s Institute of Radiation Physics discovered traces of polonium-210,

a deadly radioactive isotope, on some of Arafat’s belongings.

Soil and bone samples were subsequently taken from Arafat’s grave in the West Bank.

On Wednesday, the TV station published the Swiss team’s 108page report on the soil and bone samples. The results “moderately support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning with polonium-210,” the report said.

Repeated attempts to reach the main author, Patrice Mangin, or the Lausanne-based institute’s spokesman, Darcy Christen, were unsuccessful Wednesday night.

Experts not connected to the report said the results support the case that Arafat was poisoned, but don’t prove it.

Suha Arafat told Al Jazeera she was stunned and saddened by the findings.

“It’s a shocking, shocking crime to get rid of a great leader,” she said.

She did not mention Israel, but suggested that a coun-

try with nuclear capability was involved in her husband’s death.

“I can’t accuse anyone, but how many countries have an atomic reactor that can produce polonium?” she said.

Polonium can be a byproduct of the chemical processing of uranium but usually is made artificially in a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator. Israel has a nuclear research center and is widely believed to have a nuclear arsenal but remains ambiguous about the subject.

Arafat’s widow demanded that a Palestinian committee that has been investigating her husband’s death now try to find “the real person who did it.”

The committee also received a copy of the report, but declined comment.

The head of the committee, Tawfik Tirawi, said details would be presented at a news conference in two days and that the Palestinian Authority, led

by Arafat successor Mahmoud Abbas, would announce what it plans to do next.

Ebadi criticizes Rouhani’s rights record

BY EDITH M. LEDERER ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi strongly criticized the human rights record of President Hassan Rouhani, citing a dramatic increase in executions since he took office this year and accusing the government of lying about the release of political prisoners.

She also pointed to spreading support for a hunger strike by human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani and three others in a Tehran prison to protest inadequate medical care, which was joined Monday by about 80 prisoners at another prison west of the capital.

Ebadi, a U.S.-based human rights lawyer who since 2009 has lived outside Iran in self-exile,

said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press that Rouhani may have the reputation of a moderate reformer, but so far “we get bad signals” from the new government when it comes to human rights.

Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts to promote democracy, becoming the first Iranian and first Muslim woman to win the prize.

Her comments also underscore Iran’s internal tensions between Rouhani’s government and hardliners opposing diplomatic initiatives that include groundbreaking overtures to Washington. After Rouhani and President Barack Obama held an historic phone call during the Iranian leader’s September trip to the United Nations in New York, Iran’s supreme

leader hinted that he disapproved, though he reiterated his crucial support for Rouhani’s general policy of outreach to the West.

Ebadi expressed hope that nuclear negotiations between Iran and six world powers, which are set to resume Thursday, will lead to the end of U.S.-led sanctions and a settlement of the stalemate with the West over Tehran’s nuclear program.

“But I have doubts,” she quickly added, “and I think it’s too early to be optimistic.”

Instead of economic sanctions that impoverish Iranians, Ebadi urged the United States and Europe to block satellite access for Iranian “propaganda” broadcasts in 16 non-Persian languages, including English, Arabic and Spanish.

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Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61.

High of 52, low of 33.

SATURDAY High of 52, low of 37.

NUTTIN’ TO LOSE BY DEANDRA TAN

ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7 4:30 p.m. Fireside Chat: Social Entrepreneurship in China.

Come for a talk by Rachel Wasser ’04, co-founder of Teach for America. Since its inception, the organization has placed more than 200 U.S. and Chinese graduates as teachers in high-poverty communities, reaching more than 30,000 children in need.

Register in advance. Yale-China Association (442 Temple St.).

6:30 p.m. Harmony in Action at New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Music Haven’s “Harmony in Action” student orchestra will perform before the New Haven Symphony plays. Woolsey Hall Rotunda (500 College St.).

8:00 p.m. Q&A with Rep. Pete Stark. The Yale Humanist Society welcomes Pete Stark, who will discuss his contributions as a national leader on healthcare, a progressive, and a non-theist.

William L. Harkness Hall. (100 Wall St.), Rm. 119.

THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 2:00 p.m. InnovateHealth Yale: “Creating Sustainable Business Ventures.” InnovateHealth Yale is hosting Nancy Bocken, a sustainability researcher at the University of Cambridge. Bocken’s current research deals with sustainable business models. Yale School of Public Health (60 College St.), Rm. 103.

3:30 p.m. Stage Combat. This workshop will outline what it takes to make a great fight on stage. Students will learn some of the basic techniques of hand-to-hand combat, parterning and the techniques needed to safely perform violence on stage. Students only. Advance registration required. Broadway Rehearsal Lofts (294 Elm St.), 3rd Floor Rehearsal Room.

DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 5:30 p.m. G21 Fall Conference: “The Future of the Global Internet.” Reed Hunt will talk on “The future of the global Internet: Will the world have a common medium?” Hunt is CEO of the Coalition for Green Capital. Linsly-Chittenden Hall, (63 High St.), Rm. 317.

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SPORTS W. BASKETBALL PREVIEW Women’s basketball gets underway

BY ASHLEY WU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After four straight seasons in the top half of the conference, the women’s basketball team will enter this season hoping to prove preseason prognosticators wrong.

Tabbed for a fourth place finish in the Ancient Eight by the preseason Ivy League media poll, the Bulldogs will look to improve on last year’s third place finish and challenge for the Ivy League title.

“We think we’re better than that,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said. “We have a chip on our shoulder, seeing [Penn], whom we swept a year ago, on top of us [in the poll]. We’ve been in the top half of the conference for the past four years, and we aspire to win the Ivy League. But we don’t lose track of the process and how important the experience is. We want the team to play as well as it is capable of playing.”

The confidence extends beyond the coaching squad, however. Forward Meredith Boardman ’16 said that the team is aiming above its predicted finish for the Ivy title.

She added that the Bulldogs will look to games as opportunities to implement what they have worked on in practice.

“As a team, we really feel that this is our year, and we can come together and do something for the program,” Boardman said.

“We want to get better each day, work hard every day in the gym and bring that to the court.”

This season, Yale returns 11 members from last year’s team and adds four talented freshmen to the mix. The Elis lost two players to graduation in guards Megan Vasquez ’13, who made an All-Ivy team each of her four years, and Allie Messimer ’13, last season’s captain.

The squad will look to its four

seniors and two All-Ivy honorees, Janna Graf ’14 and guard Sarah Halejian ’15, to fill the void.

“One of the things I am happiest about is that the seniors, by the time they become seniors, are important, and they play significant roles,” Gobrecht said.

“Although we lost an All-Ivy player in Vasquez and a leader in Allie, we have four real committed seniors, willing to do all they can for this program, and they are stepping in very ably.”

Halejian, the leading offensive player from last year’s team, is coming off an outstanding performance last season. She was named to the All-Ivy League First Team as a sophomore and was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year her freshman season. The Bulldogs’ top scorer, Halejian averaged 13.8 points per game in 30.2 minutes and started every game last year.

A combination of [the freshmen’s] intensity and talent will put them in a position to help our team.

CHRIS GOBRECHT Head coach, Women’s basketball

The incoming freshman class brings in four talented players who look to contribute to the team’s success this season.

Gobrecht expects guard Meghan McIntyre ’17, a top 30 player from California and a top 200 player in the nation, to play an important role in faciliating the offense.

She will help replace some of the production lost by the departure of Vasquez and Messimer with her notable shooting abilities.

Forward Katie Werner ’17, also 6-foot-1, also brings an exten-

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Yale’s women’s basketball team is looking forward to proving polls wrong by improving on last year’s third place finish and going for the Ivy League title. sive high school resume to the Eli squad: She was named Arizona Preps Player of the Year and an All-Arizona selection in her senior season.

Forward Elizabeth Haley ’17, from Dayton, Ohio, will bring both height and athleticism to the table, while point guard Lena Munzer ’17 brings her three high school league titles to New Haven.

“They’re going to be important,” Gobrecht said. “They are talented freshman class, a serious, competitive freshman class.

A combination of their intensity and talent will put them in a position to help our team.”

But the Elis’ talent extends beyond the freshman and senior classes.

Two juniors, center Arrice Bryant ’15 and guard Hayden

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IVY LEAGUE BREAKDOWN

The women's basketball season gets underway quietly this weekend, as the Elis travel to Monmouth for a mid-afternoon game on Saturday. But the Bulldogs are opening the season with high expectations despite being pegged by most media members to finish in the middle of the Ivy pack. As Head Coach Chris Gobrecht said, "We've been in the top half of the conference for the past four years and we aspire to win the Ivy League." But achieving such a goal certainly will not be easy. Here, you will find a breakdown of Yale's conference competition. Each team’s overall and Ivy records from last year are listed next to its name, along with its final place in the Ivy League. Underneath each team’s logo is its head coach, the coach's years of experience coaching at the school, key games on each team's schedule and its ranking in the preseason Ivy League media poll.

CORNELL DAYNA SMITH 12th Season

KEY GAMES NOV. 29 @DRAKE FEB. 7 PENN FEB. 21 @ YALE MAR. 7 @PRINCETON

IVY MEDIA POLL

KEY GAMES JAN. 15 @VILLANOVA FEB. 1 HARVARD MAR. 1 @YALE MAR. 11 @PRINCETON

IVY MEDIA POLL

3rd

KEY GAMES NOV. 23 JAN. 24 FEB. 21 MAR. 1

@ ARMY @ DENVER COLUMBIA PRINCETON

1st season

KEY GAMES DEC. 1 JAN. 11 FEB. 7 MAR. 8

@AMERICAN HARVARD @YALE YALE

7th season

KEY GAMES NOV. 10 JAN. 31 FEB. 28 MAR. 11

@RUTGERS HARVARD @YALE PENN

IVY MEDIA POLL

1st

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

STEPHANIE GLANCE 1st season

KEY GAMES DEC. 1 FEB. 1 FEB. 22 MAR. 1

@PORTLAND BROWN @YALE HARVARD

5–23 T-7th [3–11]

After two seasons at the bottom of the Ivy League, Columbia will seek to climb its way back to the middle of the standings this year.

The Lions will look to revitalize their program under new head coach Stephanie Glance, the former head coach of the Illinois State women’s basketball team. Glance has coached in Division I for 25 years and served a year under basketball legend Pat Summitt as the recruiting coordinator for the University of Tennessee. The Lions graduated forward Tyler Simpson, their top scorer from last season, but return senior forward Courtney Bradford, the sixth best rebounder in the Ivy League in 2012–’13. Columbia opens its season this Friday at LIU Brooklyn, just a few miles away from its home stadium in Manhattan.

8 7th

6–22 6th [4–10]

After leading her team to a sixth place finish in the Ivy League last year, Dartmouth Head Coach Chris Wielgus resigned, ending her 28-year tenure as head coach of the women’s basketball team.

Belle Koclanes, previously an assistant coach at American University, was hired to turn around a team that has had four straight losing seasons. In an interview on the Dartmouth women’s basketball website, Koclanes said that she has introduced some unorthodox teaching methods during practice, such as using an actual tape measure to explain the importance of spacing. Last season’s leading scorer Faziah Steen has graduated, but the rest of the team remains intact. The Big Green welcome four new freshmen and have named senior guards Nicola Zimmer and Eve Zelinger as captains. Koclanes said that the team is working on the natural flow of its transition offense into its half-court offense as well as individual players’ shooting mechanics. Yale and Dartmouth split their two meetings last year and will play each other on Feb. 7 and Mar. 8.

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the preseason looms, with home stands coming next weekend and the first two weeks of December.

The young Bulldogs will gain experience as the season progresses, and Latham expressed excitement about the start of the season.

“We know the importance of pushing each other to keep getter better,” Latham said in a message to the News. “We’re looking forward to getting to play and compete with a great team that has a lot of depth and desire to win.”

The Elis will don their uniforms for the first time this season on Saturday on the road against Monmouth, which finished third in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference last season.

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18–3 3rd [9–5]

Last season, Penn finished one spot above Yale at third in the Ivy League standings and earned the second-most wins in program history. The Quakers earned the program’s first-ever postseason victory and went to the semifinals of the Women’s Basketball Invitational. The preseason media poll projected Penn to finish third overall again this season. All five starters from last season will be returning, including senior guard Alyssa Baron, an All-Ivy first-team selection last season who led Penn in points per game.

Junior forward Kara Bonenberger, who led the Ivy League in blocks, will also return, as will sophomore guard Keiera Ray, an All-Ivy Honorable Mention selection. Baron is one of four captains for the Quakers, alongside fellow seniors Meghan McCullough, Kristen Kody and Courtney Wilson. Penn has added not only personnel, with five new freshmen, but also new locker rooms, coaches’ offices and a practice facility. Yale beat Penn in both their meetings last year and will play them on Feb. 14 and Mar. 1.

The Bears finished seventh in the Ivy League standings last season, ahead of only Columbia, and are projected by the preseason media poll to finish seventh again. Lauren Clarke, the leading scorer for the Bears and an All-Ivy second-team selection last season, returns for her senior year. Brown has added assistant coach Katie Greene to the coaching staff. Greene most recently served as an assistant coach for the New England Thunder, a semi-pro women’s basketball team, and will work primarily with post players. The Bears have also added three new freshmen. Brown and Yale split their two meetings last year and will meet on Jan. 17 and 24 this year.

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the squad will look to play a fast, aggressive game with lots of substitutions.

The Bulldogs will play a challenging schedule this season, with 12 games against opponents that competed in postseason play last year. Two games will come against squads that were ranked in the top 25 of the Associated Press Division One poll last year, Kansas and Miami.

“We have a philosophy: You can’t beat them if you don’t play ‘em,” Gobrecht said. “We enjoy challenging ourselves against teams of that caliber. We’ve gotten drilled sometimes, we have had good games, and we’ve had some improbable wins. We do it because it’s fun. We like to play those teams and have a shot at them.”

In the near future, though,

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13–15 5th [5–9]

Despite placing fifth last year, Cornell was predicted to drop below Dartmouth in the Ivy media poll this season and finish sixth in the Ancient Eight. The Big Red have not placed in the top half of the league since winning an Ivy League championship in 2007-’08. The team returns three starters from last season, including senior forward Allyson DiMagno, whose 16 double-doubles were best in the Ivy League. DiMagno was named second-team all-Ivy, the lone all-Ivy selection for Cornell. But the team will need to fill the void left by the loss of center Claire Fitzpatrick to graduation; last year, she became the second player in Big Red history to score 1,200 points and snatch 600 rebounds in a career. Cornell will play its first game this Friday against Colgate.

Latham ’15, will return from injuries that kept them off the court all of last season.

“We missed those players a lot last year,” Gobrecht said.

“Hayden Latham will be in the starting lineup on Saturday, and we didn’t have her all last year …

It is a huge boost to have her back.

Arrice Bryant was one of our big kids, a really vocal leader on the floor, and she is a good presence to have back in the gym.”

According to Gobrecht, one of the keys to the Elis’ success will be their depth. She said that in the beginning of the season, the team will rely more heavily on the more experienced players before progressively incorporating the underclassmen. It will be important for the Elis to get production from a large segment of their roster, as the coach noted that

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13–15 4th [8–6]

The Ivy League runner-up for the past six years, the Crimson look to finally secure a conference title this season by dethroning Princeton, the four-time defending champion. Harvard proved its ability to do just that last season, when it served the Tigers their only Ivy loss midway through the year. The Crimson will rely on senior guard Christine Clark, who has amassed 1,265 points in her collegiate career and ranked second in the league with 469 points last season. The team also returns junior forward Temi Fagbenle, who was selected unanimously as Ivy rookie of the year in 2011–’12. Last year, Fagbenie led the league with a .578 field goal percentage and scored 358 points for the Crimson. The team boasted an impressive 11–0 record at home last year, but lost seven games on the road. Harvard opens its season this Friday night at the DePaul Maggie Dixon Classic tournament.

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22–7 1st [13–1]

The preseason Ivy League media poll selected Princeton to win what would be an Ivy-League record fifth straight championship this season despite the departure of last year’s Player of the Year and three-time first-team All-Ivy selection Niveen Rasheed to graduation. Princeton Head Coach Courtney Banghart said in an interview on the Princeton women’s basketball website that because of the departure of Rasheed and three other seniors, many players now have enhanced roles. Junior guard Blake Dietrick, who led the team in three-pointers made last season, will take over the starting point guard position according to Banghart. Princeton will look to this year’s captains Kristen Helmstetter and Nicole Hung to continue its sustained success. Helmstetter was the Tigers’ second leading scorer last season, while Hung will be playing for the first time since a season-ending injury suffered just five games into last season. Princeton has added three new freshmen to the team: Taylor Brown, Vanessa Smith and Jackie Reyneke. According to coach Banghart, the team is strong on offense but will need to work on defense and rebounding. Princeton swept Yale in the squads’ two meetings last season; they will play on Feb. 15 and 28.

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21–9 2nd [11–3]

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The Bulldogs narrowly missed snatching third place in the Ivy League last season, and the preseason Ivy League media poll predicted that they will repeat their fourth place finish this year.

Yale finished one game behind Penn last year despite beating the Quakers twice during the regular season. Sarah Halejian ’15 and captain Janna Graf ’14, last season’s top two scorers, return to the Bulldogs after combining to score over 40 percent of the team’s points in 2012–’13. Graf was named an honorable mention all-Ivy selection last season, and Halejian, who won Ivy League rookie of the year in her freshman year, was named to the first team. The Bulldogs ended the year on a hot streak with a 7–3 finish, all against Ancient Eight opponents. They will play their first opponent, Monmouth, this Saturday in New Jersey.

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SPORTS Playing past tragedy RED SOX FROM PAGE 12 Strong” slogan and idea, however unquantifiable that benefit might be.

The organization has also made a point to actively contribute to the cause that they have championed. A week after the April bombings, the Red Sox donated $100,000 to the One Fund, a fund set up to benefit the victims of the marathon tragedy. Additionally, proceeds from much of the merchandise sold also contribute to the One Fund, but the Red Sox still received considerable brand recognition.

Major League Baseball and several other organizations matched these contributions, and donations to the One Fund have continued to pour in. However, it should be noted that the Red Sox’s lowest salaried player in the 2013 season, Will Middlebrooks, made five times the amount the Red Sox initially donated. It was only three months later that they signed Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia to a staggering eight-year, $110 million dollar contract. There is no question that the intentions and the impact of the One Fund donation were both positive, but looking at it in context reminds us that, all else considered, the Red Sox remain a franchise designed to turn a profit.

There is perhaps no way to parse out marketing from community outreach in the case of professional sports. After all, brand management and promotion will always occur, whether by design or simply as a natural consequence of the outreach effort. But does that really matter?

This is where my faith in sports steps in, convincing me that teams in a tragedy-stricken city come to represent more than their city in sport, but in spirit,

heart, and resilience. It is less about the Red Sox, for example, rallying around the idea of Boston Strong, than it is about the people of Boston rallying around something — anything, really — together. Sports provide that sense of community, a focal point for a city when its world has been turned on its head.

Sports, after all, are nothing more than a narrative. For the Red Sox, this narrative took them from worst to first in the setting of a post-tragedy Boston. For the Saints, it was about rebuilding hope after Katrina, and for the Yankees, it was about making sense of the unbelievable in a post-9/11 world.

In all of these cases, the team has provided consistency, creating narratives of hope and resilience in the face of adversity.

Instead of seeing each narrative as the response to a given tragedy, we should perhaps think about the tragedy as just another, equally important part of the narrative itself. “Boston Strong,” then, is also a part of the story, to be viewed less as re-appropriation and more as appreciation of the experiences of the city and its people.

When the duck boats stopped on Boylston Street during the World Series parade, the trophy was placed on the finish line of the Boston marathon. That moment, indisputably, was not about brand promotion, or profit margins, or any sort of re-appropriation of tragedy.

It was about endings, beginnings, and how the Red Sox helped us make sense of it all. It was about knowing where we are and from where we’ve come, and knowing that the bigger narrative of a city will continue on, strong.

SARAH ONORATO is a junior in Silliman College. Contact her at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .

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Bulldogs host Bears

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With two games remaining in its Ivy League season, the men’s soccer team will look to improve on its fourth place position in the standings.

MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 for Yale over their four seasons, compiling 16 and 24 points, respectively. Winger Cody Wilkins ’14 has had an injury-hampered career but has reemerged this season, featuring in all but one game for Yale. Defender Tucker Kocher ’14 has been injured his past two seasons but proved integral to the Bulldogs in his first two campaigns, starting more than 10 games both years.

“Senior Night means a lot to me,” Alers said. “It’s special to be playing with the guys in my class for one of the last times ever. They’re great players, but even better guys. [The other seniors] definitely made my time here special.”

Going into the game on Saturday, the Bulldogs are undefeated this season in Ivy League contests at Reese stadium, going 2–0–1 in Ancient Eight home games. Yale’s offense has come to life late into the season, with the Bull-

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dogs scoring two or more goals in three straight games.

The Bulldogs have climbed from last to fourth in the conference in goals scored.

Against Columbia the team was buoyed by the return of midfielder Henos Musie ’16, who had missed the previous four games due to injury.

The Swede scored two goals and picked up his second Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor. Musie now has three goals in eight games this season.

The Bulldogs’ defense, which had been resolute for most of the season, is beginning to show some cracks.

The Elis have conceded two or more goals in each of their last two league contests and rank second to last in goals against in the Ancient Eight.

Against Penn and Columbia, Yale allowed all four of their opponents’ goals in the 82nd minute or later, resulting in an overtime loss and a tie for the Bulldogs, respectively.

“We have confidence in our

scoring capabilities, now it is just about closing out games,” goalkeeper Blake Brown ’15 said. “The coaches have implemented drills to help us close out games and we need to stay mentally sharp during every minute of the game.”

Brown and the rest of the Bulldog defense will need to be resolute against the Bears, who rank third in the Ivy League in scoring. The midfield duo of Daniel Taylor, who leads the team with five assists, and Tariq Akeel, the team leader in goals with four, has combined for 21 points this season. The Bears’ defense has also been good, conceding the second fewest goals in the Ancient Eight this season. Goalkeeper Josh Weiner has kept three shutouts and has the most saves in the Ivy League in addition to the second best save percentage in the conference.

“We are going to come out hard just like we have every game this year,” Brown said.

“But in the late moments of

the game you will see a composed, organized team.”

The Bulldogs are 6–9–2 against Brown in the regular season under head coach Brian Tompkins. The Elis need a win to stand a chance of winning the Ivy League. In addition to six points from its next two games, Yale needs Harvard to lose both its final games and see second-place Princeton and Penn take no more than three points apiece from their next two games in order to bring the Ancient Eight title back to New Haven.

“The guys in my class and I have been through a lot in our four years here,” Alers said.

“There’s been some great ups but also a lot of downs, If we can earn a win on Saturday and be fighting for the title in the last game of the season, that would mean a lot.”

The Bulldogs will enter Reese to take on Brown at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday.

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

Elis aim to side out after loss

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The Elis maintain a comfortable lead in the Ivy League standings over rival Harvard.

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Saturday’s game against Brown in Providence, RI, will not count towards the Ivy League standings.

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Head coach Rudy Meredith said that he recognized the importance of senior night, but was also adamant about the importance of winning the final conference game of the season.

“You want to do the best you can on Friday so we can finish as high as we possibly can in the league,” Meredith said. “Being senior night and the last home game, we are definitely going to go all-in on Friday and see what we can do to get that ‘W.’” Whether goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15 or her counterpart Rachel Ames ’16, who is recovering from a concussion, is in net, Yale’s defense will have to pay extra attention to forward Chloe Cross.

While the Bears are at the bottom

of the charts in scoring, Cross has contributed six of the team’s 15 goals.

Cross’ situation is not much different from that of Yale forward Melissa Gavin ’15.

Gavin has established herself as one of the premier goal-scorers in the Ivy League, scoring ten of Yale’s 22 goals this season. With two games yet to play, Gavin has a chance to surpass Harvard’s Margaret Purce as the leading scorer in the conference. Purce has 11 goals, but only one remaining match to improve her total.

Meredith has said that this record is one that he does not mind going for, since goals from Gavin usually result in victories.

“If she scores two or three goals, we’re probably going to win,” Meredith said. “She can score five or six goals. I

don’t care, as long as we win.”

A Gavin goal has generally been a positive indicator for the Bulldogs. In the eight games in which Gavin has scored at least one goal, Yale is 5–3–0.

Sunday’s match at Brown will be a wild card, as much of the strategy and lineup will be dictated by Friday’s performance, according to Meredith. He added that if the seniors can go out with a bang on Friday night, the Bulldogs may give some younger and less experienced players a greater opportunity to demonstrate their skills in Providence.

Kickoff against Brown is slated for 7 p.m. Friday night at Reese Stadium.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .

“Our goal is wining the Ivy League,” Rudnick said. “I think we’re all still focused on that. We haven’t had to talk to any of the freshmen or sophomores about staying focused because we all realize what we have to attain.”

Tomorrow, the Elis will take on the Lions (14–5, 3–7), who have lost their last four matches. The streak includes a 3–1 loss to Yale on Oct. 19 in which Columbia prevented a sweep with a late run in the third set. But the Elis would not be denied. Yale dominated the final set, trailing for only a single point as it cruised to a 10-point victory.

Captain Kendall Polan ’14 recorded a huge double-double with 48 assists and 22 digs, leading both teams in those two categories. Steinberg was an offensive tour-de-force, contributing 20 kills on an incredible 0.514 hitting percentage. Rudnick provided her usual stellar defense with 17 digs.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs will host the Big Red (7–13, 3–7) for Senior Night, the last home game of the season. For the seniors on the team, the match offers a reflective moment and an opportunity to reminisce on their freshman years, according to outside hitter Erica Reetz ’14.

According to Steinberg, Saturday night holds its own significance for the younger players — the game represents

a chance to show appreciation for their teammates who will graduate in May. “The seniors are such great role models,” she said. “We really want to give something back. What’s better than a win for their last home game ever?”

Cornell enters the weekend having lost four of its last five games. Its only win in that span was a 3–2 decision against Columbia. In the last Yale-Cornell matchup, the Elis dispatched the Big Red in three sets.

After dropping the first set 25–12, Cornell became more aggressive and competed hard the rest of the match.

The Big Red held a four point lead late in the third set, but the Bulldogs went on a vicious 7–0 run, which included two service aces by Rudnick, to take the lead. Yale won the set 25–22.

The Elis have just a handful of matches before the end of the season, but the objective remains the same.

“We always keep our eye on the next team,” Reetz said. “This weekend is no different. We’re all really focused on coming out and playing well. We’re really excited to be back at home and we’re looking forward to having some familiar faces in the stands.”

The Elis will play Columbia tomorrow at 7 p.m.

Contact DIONIS JAHJAGA at dionis.jahjaga@yale.edu .

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KAHLIL KEYS ’15 FOOTBALL After his record-breaking performance against Columbia last weekend, Keys was due to receive a taste of recognition. He got it this week in being named the Total Mortgage Athlete Spotlight of the Week. Khalil’s 94-yard run against Columbia was a Yale modern-day record.

HEATHER SCHLESIER ’15 FIELD HOCKEY Schlesier, a junior goaltender from San Diego, Calif., was named to the Ivy League honor roll for the second consecutive week on Tuesday. The goaltender made 24 saves over 140 minutes of action this past weekend in games against Columbia and Connecticut.

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“As a team, we really feel that this is our year, and we can come together and do something for the program.”

MEREDITH BOARDMAN ’16

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Bulldogs to take on Bears at Reese

SARAH ONORATO

Marketing a tragedy The 2013 season of the Boston Red Sox appeared to come straight out of Hollywood; A band of bearded brothers overcomes the odds to become just the second team in history to go from worst to first in the majors. But what’s more, they did it all in a year when their city had sunk to its lowest depths. Just six months after the Boston Marathon bombings, the Red Sox became World Series champions, chanting “Boston Strong” all the way.

The Red Sox are just one example in recent memory of a professional sports team becoming a beacon of hope in the wake of some tragic event in its city. There were the Yankees and Mets of 2001 post 9/11 and the New Orleans Saints in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. And now, the Boston-strong Red Sox have become the newest example of a team taking on the identity of a city and its people in the midst of hardship.

As a believer in the power of sports to unite us and teach us lessons beyond the game, I have always taken for granted how professional sports teams should serve this function for a city on the mend. But should this be the case? After all, a professional baseball team is a franchise, a corporation designed to turn a profit. As such, how acceptable is it for a team, whose primary motivation is to make monetary gains, to re-appropriate a tragedy?

In the Red Sox’s case, this re-appropriation has taken many forms, from selling slogan-bearing merchandise to decorating the Green Monster with what the Boston Globe’s Ben Zimmer termed the city’s “post-disaster brand.” The line is thin between rallying a city behind the united idea that “Boston Strong” conveys, and using this slogan as a clever, timely and emotionally salient marketing strategy.

The Boston Red Sox organization has certainly benefited from its connection with the “Boston SEE RED SOX PAGE 11

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The men’s soccer team enters this weekend’s game against Brown tied with the Bears for fourth place in the Ivy League.

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER The men’s soccer team’s final home game of the year will be a crucial Ivy League matchup against a red-hot Brown squad — with whom it is tied for fourth.

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The Bulldogs (4–9–2, 2–1–2 Ivy) need a win on Senior Night if they hope to have a chance at their first Ancient Eight title since 2005. The Bears (6–6–3, 2–1–2 Ivy) are on a three game winning streak and will be a stiff test for the Elis. Captain and midfielder Max McKiernan ’14 said that the Elis will have an advantage playing at home.

“We’ve played really well in league

Bulldogs look to go out with a bang

home games this season,” McKiernan said. “Since it’s senior day we’ll definitely be up for it.”

All seven members of Yale’s senior class will be honored before kickoff as part of the Senior Night festivities. Defender Nick Alers ’14 has played in every minute of every game this season and has been an All-Ivy League selection in each of his previous three seasons. Alers and forward

Peter Jacobson ’14, were each named to the Capital One Academic AllDistrict First Team last week. Jacobson has scored 16 goals in his career for the Bulldogs and currently leads the team with nine points.

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Elis remain focused on Ivy title

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER If having their Ivy Leage-record winning streak broken was supposed to leave them dejected, no one seems to have told the Elis. Yale volleyball remains focused on its ultimate goal: winning the Ivy League.

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Four seniors in addition to McSweeney will be honored for their dedication to Bulldog soccer and for representing Yale to the best of their abilities. Those four seniors are midfielder Juliann Jeffrey ’14, defender Anna McMahon ’14, forward/midfielder Jessica Schloth ’14 and defender Katie Underwood ’14.

For the celebration to be as sweet as possible, though, the Bulldogs would need to bounce back to knock off the Bears. The Bears are in the midst of a skid of their own, having fallen 1–0 in consecutive games to Harvard and

After a heartbreaking loss at Harvard last Saturday, the Elis (15–4, 9–1 Ivy) return to New Haven for a final pair of regular season home games against Columbia and Cornell.

For some of the younger players, like outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17, the Harvard loss represents the very first in their college careers. But according to Steinberg, the defeat has only made the team more determined to succeed.

“It’s definitely disappointing to have that loss,” she said. “But it makes us more motivated to work harder in practice so that we can focus on improving.”

That mindset has permeated the entire team, according to libero Maddie Rudnick ’14.

Despite the loss being a new experience, Rudnick said there has been no need to remind the younger players of the squad’s ultimate aim.

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With two games left, the women’s soccer team looks to a potential third-place Ivy League finish.

BY JAMES BADAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With dreams of a title long gone and little weighing on this weekend’s results, all that is left to do for the women’s soccer team is to play for each other and for two more wins.

WOMEN’S SOCCER Coming off a rather disappointing effort at Columbia last Saturday, Yale (7–6–1, 2–3–1 Ivy) will have a chance to send its seniors out in style Friday night in the first of two games against Brown this weekend. Hosting the Bears

(8–6–1, 3–2–1 Ivy) in the first half of a home-and-home series, Yale can overtake the Brown in the standings with a victory. Sunday’s matchup at Brown is considered a nonconference game and will not count toward the Ivy League standings.

More significant than the possible third-place Ivy League finish is how seniors, like captain and defender Shannon McSweeney ’14, will conclude their time at Reese Stadium.

“It would be great to go out with a win in front of our families and friends,” McSweeney said. “It would just be a really nice way to celebrate our Yale careers.”

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The volleyball team’s Ivy League-record 23-game conference winning streak was snapped last weekend at Harvard.

GOALS SCORED BY EDMONTON OILERS FORWARD MARK ARCOBELLO ’10 AGAINST THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ON TUESDAY, NOV. 5. The rookie notched his first career goal, then scored the overtime winner to help Edmonton over Florida 4–3.