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CHRISTIANITY IN NEW HAVEN, A GREAT AWAKENING

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JEWISH LIFE

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SLIFKA SEES LEADERSHIP CHANGES

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GHeav’s closing celebrated WORKERS SPEAK OUT ON BOTH SIDES

No. There is no bagel brunch

this weekend.

Is that a dead body? New

Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman sent out a news bulletin titled ‘NOT A HUMAN FOOT’ on Thursday. The fore flipper of a seal had washed up on the shore at Fort Nathan Hale Park and was mistaken for a partial carcass by several locals who promptly alerted the police.

Don’t feed the instruments.

An “instrument petting zoo” is being held at the Fall Open House for the Neighborhood Music School on Sunday.

At the zoo, “young kids get to try different instruments on for size before taking the plunge with any one of them” according to the Daily Nutmeg.

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Claim unlikely in See case

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER

ticipated in the protests. Two workers were supporting the boycott, the other employees were inside. Eight later came out to speak against them to the press.

“This is a big victory for us because it is a warning to all of those who do the same to their workers,” Morales said. “It gives us hope that, in the future, working conditions will be better.”

He added that Yale should have more oversight over how its tenants are treating their workers by inspecting workplaces and monitoring pay,

Dozens of pages of police and hospital records appear not to have convinced a trial lawyer that Sam See, the late Yale assistant professor, died because of neglect or mistreatment by authorities as some of his family members and friends have suggested.

See died last fall on Nov. 24 in the Union Avenue Detention Center, a state lock-up facility housed in the headquarters of the New Haven Police Department. He was placed there the previous evening following a domestic dispute with his husband, which led to a tussle with police that left a deep cut above his left eye.

He was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where his cut was sutured, then locked in Cell B-31 of the detention center. It was a Saturday evening, five days before Thanksgiving. Roughly 10 hours later, he died of a heart attack induced by acute methamphetamine and amphetamine intoxication, a toxicologist later determined.

He was 34, a scholar of modernist literature and a faculty member in the English department since 2009.

In the wake of the professor’s death — which went unreported by police for three days — family members, friends and col-

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Drinks for rich kids. Union

League Cafe is not going to let National Bourbon Heritage Month pass by without a fitting celebration. Thursday night’s bar menu featured a specialty cocktail — a Fig Old Fashioned, made with Eagle Rare Bourbon, Fernet Branca, Reagan’s Orange Bitters, brandied cherries, fig jam and a sugar-dipped fig for garnish.

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Gourmet Heaven will be closing its doors in 2015, in part due to active student protest.

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER Student and community activists celebrated a victorious year of protesting labor violations at Gourmet Heaven Thursday morning in front of the store’s Broadway location, using the venue to discuss their vision for businesses on the Yale campus and beyond.

Unidad Latina en Accion (ULA), the activist group pushing to close the convenience store following revelations that its owner was underpaying workers, called the press conference following Yale University Properties’

announcement that Gourmet Heaven’s lease would be revoked in June 2015. The announcement came after meetings held this summer between University Properties Vice President Bruce Alexander, MEChA and ULA members and former and current Gourmet Heaven workers. Alexander said last month that the storefront would be replaced with a similar deli or convenience store.

Adin Morales, who used to work at Gourmet Heaven and filed the original complaint to the Connecticut Department of Labor, delivered a statement on behalf of the former and current workers who par-

A fest for all folks. The

Connecticut Folk Festival is being held in Edgerton Park on Saturday. The event will feature folk performances from 12 different groups, mostly local, along with headliner Red Molly. Winners of the festival’s “Grassy Hill Songwriting Competition” will also play.

Chalk the streets. Noise On9

is taking place tonight around Orange Street below Chapel.

The mini-festival will feature events including the annual Fall Runway of Neville Wisdom Design Studio and a Sidewalk Chalk Party hosted by Svigals + Partners. Later on, during Late On9, Artspace will host a performance by the Elm City Dance Collective titled “CrossWalk It” investigating what it means to dance in public spaces.

Gossip Girl. Seems like

Princeton’s eating clubs have a few leaks. IvyGate got its hands on a 26 second video taken inside a Princeton Eating Club which it promtly posted online. This is the second video leak from inside a Princeton Eating Club that IvyGate has posted in the past month.

The Athlete A. The Harvard

Crimson’s Freshman Survey posed questions to its incoming class about academic integrity. This year, 11 percent of recruited athletes fessed up to cheating on an exam on the survey. Last year, the number was 20 percent. In comparison, 10 percent of non-recruits admitted to cheating, similar to last year’s 9 percent.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1942 The Dramat names the cast for the fall show “Spider.”

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Divestment strategy uncertain

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS At Yale, the campaign for the University to divest from the fossil fuel industry began with an 83-page report.

During the 2012–13 academic year, the student group Fossil Free Yale began a dialogue with Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (ACIR).

Over the next 18 months, these students said they continued to play by the rules while advocating for Yale to divest. They met

repeatedly with members of the administration and submitted detailed policy proposals to the University’s leaders. And despite the occasional demonstration in front of Woodbridge Hall, students interviewed said they considered the push for divestment to be far from radical.

But that strategy proved unsuccessful when the Yale Corporation, which has the final say on investment policy, voted against divestment last month.

Now, Fossil Fuel Yale members are uncertain about how to move forward.

Students interviewed said three possible paths have emerged: to stop advocating for divestment, to continue with efforts similar to those they have tried in the past or to become more radical.

While leaders of Fossil Free Yale said they have not made a final decision on strategy, they emphasized that the first path is not an option.

Mitch Barrows ’16, project manager for Fossil Free Yale, said the organization will work to build student support for divestment on campus and

New decanal structure takes root

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS Freshmen stepping foot onto campus for the first time this fall were not just welcomed by crisply mowed lawns and newly renovated rooms. They were also greeted by newly appointed University administrators — freshmen in their own right.

We want to get to the place where we can think in broad terms.

JONATHAN HOLLOWAY Dean, Yale College Over the summer, Yale welcomed three new deans into the upper echelons of University governance. Jonathan Holloway and Lynn Cooley stepped into their new positions as Yale College Dean and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, respectively, and Tamar Gendler became Yale’s first-ever Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

(FAS). Since University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak only assumed their posts in 2013, the five most senior administrators at Yale have all been in their positions for 18 months or less.

Gendler’s position is brand-new, created in an effort to divide the traditional responsibilities of the Yale College Dean and the Provost and to give faculty more administrative representation.

As administrators drafted the potential reshuffling of Yale’s leadership last year, they planned for the new trio of deans to steer the University in a strategic and focused direction — especially as Yale navigates the construction of the two new residential colleges while facing a multi-million dollar budget deficit.

“We want to get to the place where we can think in broad terms,” Holloway said.

He added that the three deans plan on meeting on a weekly basis to “take the temperature” of the University.

While the deans each have their own distinct constituency — Holloway’s is SEE DECANAL PAGE 4

engage with alumni. Barrows said Fossil Free Yale will lead a “combination of small and large escalation tactics” throughout the fall, but declined to elaborate further.

Barrows added that he believes the organization will become more aggressive, but other members of Fossil Free Yale disagreed.

“I’m not sure whether it’s a question of being more moderate or more aggressive,” Patrick Reed ’16 said. “It’s just being louder.”

Matthew Countryman ’86,

who played a leading role in the campus push to divest the University’s assets from South African companies in the 1980s during apartheid, said he and his peers also tried to use Yale’s own processes to effect change. But ultimately, he said more forceful action was deemed necessary.

“We didn’t want to use protest strategies until we demonstrated that we had tried to use the university’s procedures,” Countryman said.

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Stalemate between GESO and Yale

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Graduate students’ demands for unionization have fallen on deaf ears within the Yale administration.

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER In late April, hundreds of graduate students delivered a rain-soaked petition with over 1,000 signatures to Woodbridge Hall, demanding recognition as employees of the University and the right to form a union.

But over the past few months the administration and the Graduate Employees and Student Organization (GESO) have yet to talk. While GESO members place the responsibility for next steps on the administration, the administration — which disagrees with SEE GESO PAGE 4

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Words with friends

his summer, I missed as never before. When I got home to Dallas, I missed my Yale friends who I’d left behind. When I went to Yale in London, I missed my family and friends at home.

When I went to New York for a research project, I saw many of the Yale and high school friends I’d missed in previous weeks, but missed the friendships I’d strengthened in London. This frequent movement and existence in phases exacerbated the feeling of missing — I didn’t have anyone that I could depend on seeing regularly.

Some of my closest friends I didn’t see once the entire summer. During a long-distance phone call, one of my friends in this category shared an observation that changed the way that I miss friends like her, and the way that I develop and structure relationships. While we chatted, I complained to her that because my summer felt like an ongoing series of reconnections, every conversation felt like a game of twenty questions. Yes, I wanted to know everything about these dear people I hadn’t seen for weeks or months. But ultimately I didn’t want all my conversations to feel the same.

INSTEAD OF JUST PLAYING CATCH UP, LET'S SHARE PROJECTS AND BUILD DEEPER FRIENDSHIPS Kay broke it down for me.

She’d decided, she said, that there were essentially two genres of conversations that build friendships. The first genre, the genre I felt stuck in, consists of an exchange in which friends simply want to know everything about each other because they care and that care leads to interest.

Everyone has these friendships, which is why everyone has those types of conversations. Sometimes, you really just want the gory details and how they made your friend feel and if they think these feelings were somehow related to the color of nail polish they wore that day.

Then Kay explained the second type of conversation: the shared project. Here, two peo-

ple come together not only over a mere f r i e n d crush, but instead to reach some shared goal.

CAROLINE Perhaps it’s econ probSYDNEY lem sets, or learnSelfing how to live with a Absorbed roommate you met two weeks ago, or even writing and editing stories for the News.

These platforms break the just-catching-up mold, taking friendships in new directions, posing challenges beyond finding a convenient time for a meal. So before we hung up the phone that evening, Kay and I made a plan: our next conversation would include the 20 questions catch-up component as usual, but also a project element.

We picked a book to read together and scheduled a time to discuss it. The two-person book club project was born.

The book club enabled our friendship to have this other dimension; we thought of each other not just when we spoke, but also whenever we read.

This broke the cycle of missing and catching up that I’d gone through all summer.

I’ve got to admit, the first few minutes of that next Skype session felt a little bit like section and less like just talking to Kay. Not at all like the conversations with friends I’d grown accustomed to after a summer with waves of “catching up.” But it was fun and rewarding to have a framework for our conversation, a platform to hear a good friend’s opinions on a topic other than classes under consideration and the little melodramas of our lives (though figuring out our 20-something or almost 20-something lives is also, arguably, a great shared project). This revelation inspired me to apply the project-asfriendship-cement approach with other people both at and away from Yale, spawning ambitions of pop-up clothing stores, experimental cocktails and writing endeavors. I miss in a different way than I missed this summer. It feels good. There’s potential in this missing.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a junior in Silliman College. Her columns run on Fridays. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu.

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Pass early voting in November L

et’s face it: Yalies are busy.

Classes, work, extracurriculars, you name it — we’ve always got something to do. So understandably, finding time to vote may prove difficult for many of us. Lines at the polls get longer every year, most of us lack transportation if our polling place is far and we only have a single day to vote — a workday, no less.

Thus, our generation’s low voting rate comes as no surprise.

This November, however, we have a chance to fix that problem.

Soon, we in Connecticut will face a choice: to allow early voting or to maintain the massive structural problems of our current system. The state constitution currently forbids in-person early voting and only allows absentee ballots for a limited set of reasons. However, the legislature, under the leadership of Governor Dannel Malloy, voted to put an amendment on the bal-

lot to change all that. I urge you, regardless of party, to vote “yes” on Question 1 and ensure everyone can have access to our most basic of civic duties.

Connecticut needs to catch up. Almost two-thirds of states already have early voting in one form or another, and more than half allow anyone to request an absentee ballot without having to justify themselves. Some states even have complete voteby-mail — ballots are simply mailed out to all voters. The amendment on Connecticut’s November ballot would allow the state the freedom to pick whichever of these methods works best. But regardless of the specifics, our state cannot afford to wait any longer to fix its electoral woes.

In some areas, Connecticut has made great strides to ensure voting remains fair. Now, voters can register on the day of the election, driver’s-license-hold-

ers can submit their registration online and candidates can qualify for public financing. But none of these reforms matter if voters can’t get to the polls in the first place.

In fact, during the state’s last gubernatorial election, crowds overwhelmed a number of polling places, causing huge delays and confusion. If even a fraction of those voters had been able to vote early, such difficulties could have easily been avoided. This amendment, then, is about more than just convenience. Basic electoral fairness is at stake.

Yale in particular needs early voting. Back where I’m from, county schools all close on Election Day. So imagine my surprise freshman year to learn not only that class was still in session, but also that students are forbidden from rescheduling assignments in order to make time to vote.

“Don’t even think of it!” a dean e-mailed us students at the time.

But if the administration won’t accommodate our responsibility both “for country” and “for Yale,” passing the early voting amendment this November will.

Across the nation, there’s been a coordinated assault on voting access, one that imperils our fundamental rights as citizens. Particularly for young voters, the threat is dire: Many states have passed voter ID laws that exclude student IDs, while many more are closing early voting on weekends, the few days young people are free from work and classes.

Only a small group of states are working to fight back against these disenfranchising measures. In two months, let’s add Connecticut to that list.

Say “yes” to early voting this November.

JACOB WASSERMAN is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact him at jacob.wasserman@yale.edu.

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Rev. Shipman’s un-apology During my time as a Jewish student at Yale, I never felt the sense of hurt and hostility that many Jews on campus now feel after Rev. Shipman’s incendiary comments regarding anti-Semitism in his August 26 letter to The New York Times. That discomfort is not addressed in Rev. Shipman’s letter to the Yale Daily News (“Letter from Shipman,” Aug. 29).

Coldly addressing “all who have been offended,” he presents a legalistically amended restatement of his original thesis accompanied by a prideful summary of his prior controversial stances which, of course, history has shown to be correct. While Rev. Shipman employs this tactic to divert the discussion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the core issue is his disturbingly naïve view of anti-Semitism, not his politics. If, according to Rev. Shipman’s view, the antidote for anti-Semitism is a solution to the Palestinian question, then he should share with us the antidote for the Spanish Inquisition, the pogroms of Eastern Europe, and Hitler’s Germany.

What is most troubling about Rev. Shipman’s letter is the absence of a contrite apology to the Jewish community for the pain his words have caused. He may brush off his comments of Aug. 26 as an exercise in free speech on behalf of his personal Middle East agenda, but the fact remains that he used his official position as Episcopal chaplain at Yale to gain an audience for that agenda on the opinion page of The Times and in doing so has publicly damaged the well-being of the Jewish community at Yale and beyond.

This scar will not quickly fade, because no amount of parsing and explication can change the sad reality that Rev. Shipman’s toxic words have been distributed in over 1,000,000 newspapers and preserved for eternity in the digital world — with Yale’s name affixed.

Since Rev. Shipman appears to be incapable of saying he’s sorry, it is up to the Episcopal congregation at Yale, his bishop and the Office of the University Chaplain to step forward and begin the long process of healing the hurt and friction Rev. Shipman’s recklessness has caused. They must also address the “Shipman Question”: Is someone who has demonstrated such profoundly poor judgment and insensitivity fit to serve as a chaplain in the Yale community?

MICHAEL M. KATZ SEP. 3 The writer is a 1976 graduate of Trumbull College.

Free speech at Yale — is free

In a recent column, Scott Stern ’15 responded to President Salovey’s freshmen address by dubbing it “offensive” (“A flawed speech,” Aug. 27). I would like to offer my own reaction.

Salovey explicitly said “the most troubling” affronts to free speech were those in which “speakers of various political persuasions have been shouted down and rendered unable to deliver remarks to campus groups who had invited them.”

It is one thing to enshrine preemptive student protests as valid free speech, another to condone the silencing of dissent. Shouting down a speaker in person makes a political statement far more disturbing than anything Salovey said — it represents an obstinate refusal to hear disagreement and an unwillingness

to formulate coherent, wellprincipled rebuttals. That kind of behavior is always antithetical to free speech, and has no place in an institution dedicated to the free exchange of ideas.

More broadly, to construe Salovey’s comments as primarily directed against student protest is to misunderstand Salovey’s intent. The speech made numerous references to how we — as students, friends and interlocutors — interact with one another on a daily basis. Salovey seemed far more concerned with fostering a climate of intense and sincere discourse among impassioned youth than with criticizing any particular ideology or protest movement. His characterization of alien ideas as potentially “disgusting” is instructive: free speech is not some romantic abstraction.

Rather, it is the fierce, unwavering commitment to genuine discussion, no matter how ugly or repellent that commitment may seem.

That both Mr. Stern and myself are able to disagree publicly about a speech delivered by the president of this university suggests Yale has largely succeeded in upholding the values of intellectual pluralism. I think Salovey spoke not to lambast any significant lack of tolerance for diverse ideas, but to remind us of what true tolerance is, and why it is essential for a university’s mission. For that, he should be lauded.

AARON SIBARIUM AUG. 31 The writer is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College.

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BILL CLINTON “You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.”

GUE ST COLUMNIST LAUREN ZUCKER

Regards to Broadway

ANNELISA LEINBACH/ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR

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iven the attention the News has given to the Broadway District, I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss University Properties’ overall philosophy on Broadway.

Fifteen years ago, Broadway was a very different place. There were significant vacancies, many of the buildings were beyond their useful life and students did not always feel comfortable in the area, particularly in the evening when there was no activity.

Today, Broadway is an inviting area for students, residents and visitors offering a variety of different shops and restaurants across multiple price points. There is also more to come. Buildings have been renovated, weekend events and promotions are held on Broadway Island and we continue to make parking improvements.

Yale University Properties’ mission is to enhance the quality of life in New

Haven by providing a unique merchandising mix of restaurants and shops.

Through Yale’s community investment program, the University has contributed to the vibrancy of downtown New Haven, created jobs and become one of the city’s top taxpayers.

As students are only here about eight months of the year, it is critical to find tenants who not only serve our immediate local population, but also draw shoppers from a wide radius around New Haven. The mix on Broadway cannot only cater to students or the merchants do not survive, as past history demonstrates. University Properties is, however, sensitive to students’ needs. Given the diversity of the Yale population, not all stores will appeal to all students.

It is not surprising — and it is indeed rewarding — to see the level of interest Yale students show in our downtown

community. There were a number of Yale students who spoke thoughtfully and constructively to University Properties about their concerns regarding Gourmet Heaven’s labor violations.

They understood that as a landlord, the University has only certain legal rights and that there were many considerations to take into account, including the welfare of the existing employees. The Broadway lease was set to expire in two years; University Properties and Gourmet Heaven agreed to an earlier termination of June 2015. This was done to give everyone, including the several dozen employees, time to adjust to this circumstance. University Properties will be looking for a similar grocery-type business to serve students’ needs, hopefully one that operates 24 hours a day.

We at University Properties welcome feedback from all sources and

we run student focus groups and surveys to solicit input. We encourage you to attend the upcoming College Night on September 12, a shopping event designed specifically for university students, and fill out one of our surveys letting us know what you would like to see on Broadway.

In the end, each tenant does their own work in projecting sales volumes.

On Broadway we have a limited number of large spaces for tenants who need a significant amount of square feet. Retailers make their own decisions about whether to bring their business to Broadway. It is our job to make their decision as easy as possible by providing a successful and inviting retail environment.

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the donations is far more important. A campaign’s effectiveness should be measured based on the number of individuals it helps.

Those who criticize people who do LEO KIM the ALS ice bucket challenge as vain On Us are missing the point.

Some critics of the campaign say that dumping water on your head is an “out” for actual action — that people complete the challenge and feel satisfied with themselves so they take no further steps to combat ALS. But in reality, it is unlikely that those individuals would have taken any steps to fight ALS had they not been nomi-

nated for the challenge. Dumping ice on your head to raise awareness is not the most effective action, but it is certainly better than doing nothing at all.

Of course, it is always better for people to donate for the right reasons, out of true empathy rather than a desire to attract likes on Facebook.

But the fact is, many people are vain and looking to boost their social media presences, and non-profit organizations might as well use it for a good cause.

It is notoriously difficult for the public to muster empathy for victims of rare diseases like ALS. These sorts of diseases don’t get public exposure under normal circumstances because most people find it difficult to connect to them on a personal level. Studies show that it is difficult to empathize significantly with something unfamiliar to you — as ALS is to many Ameri-

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ou really aren’t as smart as everyone has been telling you; you’re only smarter in a certain way,” William Deresiewicz wrote to Ivy League students in his essay, “Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League,” in The New Republic. “There are smart people who do not go to a prestigious college, or to any college — often precisely for reasons of class. There are smart people who are not ‘smart.’”

Deresiewicz’s claim — that smartness manifests itself in a variety of ways — struck home for me. As a lower-middle class student who spent this past summer painting houses to earn money for school, I have seen first hand the unique brand of intelligence which many bluecollar Americans possess. It is sometimes overlooked, but this particular sort of intelligence is always experiential and cannot be found in a college syllabus.

The summer between high school and college is, for many, a time of preparation, heightened expectations and nervous anticipation. Yet this summer, amid all the college excitement, many college-bound freshmen, Ivy-leaguers in particular, encountered a thorn in their side. This thorn was Deresiewicz’s article. Ablaze with anti-elitist fervor, Deresiewicz pulled as many punches at the Ivy League as he made good points about the nature of privilege in America today.

Deresiewicz could and should have presented his argument in a more tempered manner — but as someone whose socioeconomic status and education do not align with most conventional standards, his article spoke to many of my convictions about the place of manual labor in an education.

Mark Twain once declared, “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Many college students mistakenly believe in the distinction between school — the classes one takes and the bumper sticker on one’s car — and education, which is the ongoing process of mental and physical development which occurs both inside and outside a lecture hall.

The path to Yale is strewn with many pitfalls and roadblocks, but none are perhaps as dangerous to one’s education as the belief that school and education are the same thing.

This summer I worked under the tutelage of a master painter, who showed me the truth behind Deresiewicz’s statement that there are “smart people who are not ‘smart.’” As a recent graduate of a New England boarding school outside Boston, I had thoroughly convinced myself that I was intelligent. My friends and teachers had told me so, and my acceptance to Yale seemed to validate their claims.

MANUAL LABOR IS AN OFTEN OVERLOOKED PART OF EDUCATION — AND WE MUST NOT FORGET IT

cans, who had barely heard of the disease before the ice bucket challenge phenomenon. Due to the campaign, many more people have now heard of the disease and may develop further interest in researching it.

If we could use empathy to inspire charity rather than relying on social media challenges, that would be ideal. It would be better for the moral health of donors. But that’s much easier said than done. And for those suffering from ALS, or those who have loved ones afflicted by the disease, the campaign has certainly had a positive influence. After all, it has raised over $100 million and educated millions — and those figures may outweigh the campaign’s downsides.

How surprised I was, when on my first day of painting, I found that I could not get the right amount of paint onto my brush! I had mastered the five-page paper but could not lift a brush out of a bucket without causing white paint to drip everywhere.

So began a slow, embarrassing process of discovering the other things which I was not good at. When it came to placing ladders against the side of a house, I would have failed the exam. If sanding the trim of a garage were an art, I would have been the Justin Bieber of sandpaper.

My self-confidence was shattered, and amid the broken pieces, I found something I had never expected to find: selfknowledge. Each of my failures served to demarcate a limit to my abilities. My past academic successes had only given me the illusion that I was limitless.

These were the lessons I learned from a summer of manual labor. That where I go to college — whether I go to college at all — says less about my intelligence than the color of my socks, which are red. Deresiewicz has received much criticism for his critique of the Ivy League from larger publications like Newsweek and The New Yorker, and even the News' editorial board itself. Yet I would like to thank Mr. Deresiewicz for putting into words something about which I care deeply.

I enter my first year of Yale with the conviction that there are many ways to succeed. My only hope is that I never let my schooling get in the way of my education.

LEO KIM is a sohpomore in Trumbull College. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu.

FINNEGAN SCHICK is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

LAUREN ZUCKER is the Associate Vice President for University Properties and New Haven Affairs.

Reaffirm the ice bucket challenge s summer winds down and fewer finds themselves challenged to stand under a bucket of ice, we have a chance to reflect on the phenomenon — both its strengths and its downsides.

The ALS ice bucket challenge has its supporters and critics. Some argue that the craze is all about vanity, offering people the opportunity to flaunt their altruism without actually making a substantive effort to learn about the disease.

But critics of the ice bucket challenge may forget that ultimately, in evaluating the effectiveness of a charity effort, the beneficiary is far more important than the donor.

When we evaluate a fundraising campaign based on the motivations of the donor, we convey the idea that the donor matters most. But in reality, the wellbeing of those receiving

GUEST COLUMNIST FINNEGAN SCHICK

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FROM THE FRONT

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

WARREN BENNIS AMERICAN SCHOLAR

Grad union talks stalled GESO FROM PAGE 1 GESO’s argument that graduate students are employees of Yale — has chosen not to engage.

Despite the scale of April’s protest and the recent unionization of graduate students at New York University and the University of Connecticut, the University has issued only a general, two-sentence response, and no senior administrators have reached out to GESO’s leaders. GESO leaders have made no efforts to meet with senior administrators either, saying they have delivered their message in the form of the petition.

The result is a stalemate: While GESO would like recognition as a union, the administration would like to see GESO, which has existed in some form for at least three decades, slide from view.

“I have no plans to meet with the leaders of GESO,” newly installed Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley said, adding that she was unaware of the specifics of the April petition. “I’m not aware of that petition.

I heard something happened over there.”

Though GESO and other union leaders continue to express hope for a more specific response, no such response is forthcoming. University Spokesman Tom Conroy said the University has no plans to issue a response to the GESO petition beyond the brief statement released in late April, which was provided to the News rather than sent to GESO members.

“Yale University and the Graduate

School have worked and will continue to work productively with faculty and students, including the Graduate Student Assembly, on the issues identified by the petition,” Conroy’s April statement read. “We are committed to the best possible academic outcomes for our students.”

Meanwhile, when asked if the group planned on reaching out to the administration, GESO Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 demurred.

“The administration knows what we are looking for, which is the chance to decide on the question of the union,” Greenberg said.

Chief of Staff to the President Joy McGrath said Thursday that, to her knowledge, Greenberg has not reached out to Salovey’s office in an effort to schedule a meeting. She added that the April petition included no request to meet with senior administrators.

The current stasis between Yale and GESO is only the latest chapter in the University’s long and tumultuous history with organized labor.

In the 1990s, then-University President Richard Levin made great strides in Yale’s labor relations by opening dialogue with the University’s unions, Local 34 and Local 35. “[Dialogue with the administration in the last decade] has certainly been vital to us to be able to resolve problems before they come up in open conflict,” Local 34 President Laurie Kennington said.

Kennington added that the University’s substantive engagement on issues such as employee pensions and

retirement plans has led to “10 years of peace and prosperity.”

But GESO does not pose the threat to University President Peter Salovey and other senior administrators that Locals 34 and 35 posed to Levin. In the years before Levin’s engagement with the unions, Locals 34 and 35 repeatedly went on strike, effectively shutting down campus for days at a time.

The administration knows what we are looking for, which is the chance to decide on the question of the union.

AARON GREENBERG GRD ’18 GESO last used a similar tactic in 2005, when some 250 teaching assistants formed picket lines on Wall, High, York and Prospect Streets. At the time, administrators said that the strike had a minimal effect on undergraduate education.

Current GESO leaders have expressed no interest in striking.

“We are in conversations with our members across the University and with new members who just arrived in New Haven for the first time,” Greenberg said when asked if GESO would consider striking.

Nevertheless, the lack of engagement has produced frustration among some graduate students who would like to see movement on the issue.

“Having no feedback [from the administration] means that Yale does not regard whatever we’re doing as work,” said Catherine Tourangeau ’19, a doctoral student in history and member of GESO. Tourangeau said that given the University’s unresponsiveness to the April petition, the onus may now shift to GESO to initiate dialogue.

She added that GESO members are currently discussing how to move forward.

She added that better organization within the group could lead to stronger results for GESO. She said that submitting the petition shortly before summer, when people were about to leave campus, was an example of poor organization because momentum was lost.

Even if GESO leaders and the administration did open a dialogue, future requests for unionization may fall on unreceptive ears.

On Thursday, Cooley said she does not see a need for a graduate student union.

“In my view, graduate students are here for training and academic work, for their own personal development.

I don’t think it’s fair to view them as employees,” Cooley said. “Even when they’re teaching, that’s part of their training. So I don’t see the obvious logic for the need for a union.”

GESO delivered its petition to Woodbridge Hall on April 30.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

Trio of deans adjusts to new roles DECANAL FROM PAGE 1 undergraduates, Cooley’s is graduate students and Gendler’s is the faculty — Holloway mentioned that there are a number of gray areas where all three must work together. Holloway and Cooley both cited a push to improve the teaching fellow program as an ongoing collaboration of the three deans.

But each of the deans also has his or her own priorities. Holloway put the planning of the new residential colleges at the top of his to-do list. Cooley said a major priority is expanding career services for graduate students.

For Gendler, being what she calls an “intellectual matchmaker” for professors across the University is an important task right now.

“The good thing is we like each other,” Holloway said. “That’s no small deal.”

Polak noted that the new organizational structure will improve the University by having a dean solely concerned with the faculty. For Yale to remain among the top two or three universities in the world, it must always be worried about the quality of its faculty, he added.

“It’s a competitive world out there,” Polak said. “Maintaining that razorsharp attention that we have to have the very best people … that’s worth somebody’s full attention.”

Gendler said the most important part of her job is interacting with all faculty across the University.

She added that the new decanal structure streamlines the operations of the FAS by improving access to important resources and by answer-

BRIANNA LOO/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Jonathan Holloway (above) is embarking on his first semester as Dean of Yale College. ing questions more efficiently.

“We’re both able to act more quickly and act on better information,” she said. “We’re making better decisions faster.”

While over a dozen faculty members interviewed said it is far too early to judge the effectiveness of the administrative changes, several have expressed cautious approval of the new structure.

History Department chair Naomi Lamoreaux said the change is improving access to the upper administration.

“Everything was concentrated in the provost’s office last year, and we all had to work through the deputy provosts, who had limited authority,” she said. “We already have more access to

the FAS Dean.”

Psychology professor Steve Chang said faculty members would be more motivated to speak to the FAS dean than to the provost or president.

The communication from the new deans to members of the faculty has already been quite impressive, said English professor and African American Studies chair Jacqueline Goldsby GRD ’98.

Wai Chee Dimock GRD ’82, an English professor, said the current administration is already fairly accessible, thanks to the affable personalities at its head. The trend toward increasing accessibility will probably continue as a result of both the informal administrative culture and the new decanal structure, she said.

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But others disagree. History professor Carlos Eire GRD ’79 said the reorganization makes no difference in terms of accessibility.

“This is just a reshuffling of the deck chairs,” he said. “The President and Provost have always controlled the ultimate power — that of funding — and this rearrangement of decision-makers who have no control of the University’s purse makes no difference insofar as ‘access’ or ‘mediation’ is concerned.”

The three new deans stepped into office on July 1.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

Wage talks to continue after GHeav closure GOURMET HEAVEN FROM PAGE 1 which Univrsities Pproperties currently does not do.

In her speech, MEChA moderator Evelyn Nunez ’15 said that Yale should not hire businesses with a history of labor violations, and an appropriate replacement for Gourmet Heaven would be a worker-run cooperative.

Following the press conference, workers, activists and supporters headed to the Mayor’s office to demand that the city and police department follow through with their verbal commitment to enforcing wage theft laws.

Though city leaders gathered at NHPD headquarters last spring to announce a crack down on wage theft in the city, they have yet to officially change enforcement policy and have been “unresponsive” thus far to further requests, said Megan Fountain, an ULA organizer.

In the wake of the GHeav scandal, various businesses downtown have faced wage theft charges from the Connecticut Department of Labor, including Chap’s Grille and J&B Deli. All have complied with DOL regulations and settled with workers.

Several businesses in close proximity to Yale’s campus have settled directly with workers after deliberations facilitated by ULA, which has confronted business owners using collective action to tackle wage theft directly.

“Since we started the [GHeav] campaign, other workers at other businesses have been coming out and denouncing their conditions,” said John Lugo, founder and organizer for ULA. “This is a warning to settle as soon as possible.”

After activists left the storefront, about eight current workers gathered outside Gourmet Heaven, telling media they were worried about Yale’s decision to close the store and that Cho had always paid them well and treated them fairly, producing pay stubs to prove it.

Several alleged that the activists and workers only went to the Department of Labor to make money off of Cho. “I thought the Department of Labor was working with Mr. Cho,” added Laura Corpus, a cashier. “I don’t know why they want to close the store.”

Alejandro Cardenas, another current worker, lamented that the actions of a few workers would affect the lives of over 30 current employees.

Gourmet Heaven owner Chung Cho pled “not guilty” to over 40 charges, including 21 felonies, at the New Haven Superior Court on Thursday. Five workers represented by lawyer James Bhandary-Alexander, of the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, are also bringing forth a federal civil suit against Cho, as “there have been no productive negotiations for the wage violations so far.”

Cho was arrested and charged in April after failing to pay portions of his $150,000 settlement with the DOL on time. Now, he faces a steeper price of at least $218,000, which Bhandary-Alexander said is a very conservative estimate of what he owes workers.

The $218,000 penalty only covers two years of back pay, which is as far back as state labor laws can reach. Many workers were underpaid for as long as a decade, Bhandry-Alexander estimates. The sum also does not include workers at Gourmet Heaven’s two Providence, R.I. locations.

Under state law, employers must pay double damages for wage theft, as well as legal fees.

If the workers win the federal suit, they may be able to demand triple back pay.

“There’s been many opportunities for Cho to pay what he owes and get out of some of the trouble he’s in,” Bhandary-Alexander said. “The state gives every incentive to simply pay up.”

Gourmet Heaven opened on Broadway in 2002.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

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“If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.” CHARLES LINDBERGH AMERICAN AVIATOR

Leadership changes abound at Slifka

MBA-MPH students reflect

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER

Edmond Zuckier is a doctoral student in the Religious Studies department studying ancient Judaism. He hopes to bring back the Shibboleth journal — an undergraduate publication that covers Jewish thought and ideas — from its yearlong hiatus, he said.

Ratner is an ordained rabbi with a background in law. He graduated from JTS with training in clinical pastoral education and holds a position on the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater New Haven.

Goodman is a JTS graduate as well, with an education-based master’s degree. She has taken on much of Doherty’s former programming and works closely with the Hillel board.

Leah Cohen said she is hopeful about the changes and the perspectives the new staff will bring to Slifka.

“It feels like baking. You know how it is supposed to turn out, but you don’t know exactly how it will,” she said. “Each person brings their treasure trove of what they are going to offer.”

Another change at Slifka this year came in the form of the departure of Amir Sagron, the center’s former Israel Fellow who recently left to return to Jerusalem. Amit Efrati is the new Israel Fellow.

A little less than a year after announcing the launch of a fast-track MBA-MPH program, the first class jointly enrolled at the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Public Health is just over a semester into the program.

Announced last October, the program is one of the first of its kind to offer a Masters of Business Administration and Masters of Public Health degrees in such a short period of time — 22 months, as opposed to the traditional three years. The inaugural class comprises four students, and the three interviewed said that while the workload is intense, the compressed program — which will only require them to take two years out of their careers and costs a year’s tuition less — is well worth the tradeoff.

“It’s an invaluable opportunity for anyone interested in health care management,” said Divya Srinivasan SOM ’16 SPH ’16.

The inaugural class recently completed the first summer semester at the School of Public Health and will spend the next academic year taking core courses at the School of Management. To fit the typical 36 months of course content into only 22, the program adds a summer semester, has five semesters of academic classes instead of the usual six and slightly compresses the course work in the second year, according to Anjani Jain, senior associate dean at the School of Management.

All students interviewed said that the program’s course load was significant. The classes they took over the summer — biostatistics, epidemiology and social and behavioral sciences — are usually completed in an entire academic year, Srinivasan said. The four of them completed the classes in only seven weeks.

“Some people give us their well wishes and say, ‘I don’t know how you’re going to do that,’” said Udani Kadurugamuwa SOM ’16 SPH ’16.

But those interviewed said that Yale provides ample faculty support for its MBA-MPH candidates, making the workload less stressful.

Kadurugamuwa said she does not know if she would have enrolled in a traditional three-year MBA-MPH dual degree program because of increased cost and time commitment.

Courtney Bannerot SOM ’16 SPH ’16 said that although completing the same program in 22 months means some aspects of the traditional program, such as certain electives, are left out, she does not mind the tradeoff.

“We need people in healthcare, and leaders who are going to do it today,” she said.

Before enrolling in the joint degree, Bannerot worked as a strategic planner at a health-advertising agency in New York developing commercial strategy for drugs and vaccines. It was during this time that she became interested in public health.

When Bannerot graduates, she hopes to find a job at the intersection of management, healthcare and public health solutions, she said. Srinivasan and Kadurugamuwa, too, hope to work at the intersection of health and management.

While the class is small, the program will not expand significantly in the coming years, Jain said.

But Jain does expect a significant increase in interest in this type of program. Employers in the health sector are increasingly realizing the importance of employees who have skills in both management and health.

“I think that’s what’s attracting some students to the pursuit,” Jain added.

To enroll in the accelerated MBA/MPH program, students must be admitted to both the School of Public Health and the School of Management independently .

Contact ILANA KAUFMAN at ilana.kaufman@yale.edu .

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

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Due to changes in leadership, the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will welcome many new staff members this year.

BY ILANA KAUFMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale has seen a shake-up in its leadership in the past year.

This summer, two of Slifka’s three rabbis — Orthodox Rabbi Noah Cheses and Reconstructionist Rabbi Megan Doherty — left the center in favor of congregational jobs.

In response, the center hired a new Orthodox rabbi and also established three new positions on its leadership team. These changes follow a line of structural shifts that Slifka has implemented in recent years.

Cheses and his wife Sarah both accepted job offers at a large synagogue in Toronto after spending three years at Slifka. Doherty ended her four-year term to move to a congregation in Connecticut.

Regarding her departure, Doherty joked that she “graduated with her class.” Both Noah and Sarah Cheses joined Slifka through the Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC), a national organization that helps Orthodox or Traditional Jewish students navigate campus environments. JLIC representatives are typically full-time rabbis whose wives work part time, and both usually stay an average of three years on a campus.

Replacing Noah and Sarah Cheses, Orthodox rabbi Edmond

“Shlomo” Zuckier GRD ’19 and his wife Chana Zuckier LAW ’17 have joined Slifka as the new JLIC representatives. Students at the center have quickly embraced their presence, along with that of their infant daughter Meital.

Each [new staff member] brings their treasure trove of what they are going to offer.

LEAH COHEN Executive director, Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale Instead of a direct replacement for Doherty, Slifka has hired rabbinic intern Simeon Cohen, a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York, to work part time, predominantly with Egalitarian Conservative Jewish students.

The center has also created two other positions for rabbi Joshua Ratner and Juli Goodman — the new Director of Jewish Engagement and Director of Jewish Student Life, respectively.

Slifka’s executive director, rabbi Leah Cohen, co-directed the search for a new JLIC couple, soliciting

input from members of the Yale community along the way. Cohen worked with undergraduate and graduate students to interview and eventually hire Doherty, Simeon Cohen, Ratner and Goodman.

Rebecca Bakal ’16, president of Slifka said in an email that Slifka is characterized by “intense interaction of Jews of all different streams.”

“We always look for staff who are interested in and capable of working with both students and staff from a variety of religious backgrounds,” she said.

The new positions aim to broaden programming to reach all of Slifka’s constituencies. Leah Cohen, who stepped into her role in May 2013, serves the liberal Jewish community, and the JLIC program is designed to focus on Orthodox students. The three new positions target conservative Jewish students and those previously less involved with the center.

Slifka is familiar with high staff turnover, as rabbis rarely remain at a Hillel for their entire careers. Many rabbis leave seeking the diversity of a congregation not provided by a college campus.

“When [Doherty] and the Cheses’s decided to do congregational work, I had to support that,” said Leah Cohen. “Much like our students, they were developing in their careers…Change is part of growth, development and vibrancy.”

Peabody marks passenger pigeon extinction

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER On Sept. 1, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History marked the 100th anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon.

Less than 150 years ago, billions of passenger pigeons flew in the skies of North America. Within 50 years, the population dropped to zero. While the exhibit is small — with three passenger pigeons, a nest and an egg — the display commemorates an extinction that sparked serious consideration of human impact on ecological systems and initiated many conservation movements, said Richard Prum, a Peabody curator and professor of ornithology.

“This story is such an iconic example of extinction and human interference with the environment that it definitely falls within the mission of the Peabody. It’s an unfortunate story, but a perfect story for the mission of the museum,” said Richard Kissel, director of public programs at Peabody.

Passenger pigeons flew in large colonies and had a high percentage of fat before migrating, making them vulnerable and appealing to hunters, Prum said. Females also only laid one egg at a time, a reproductive pace that could not overcome the overhunting and loss of habitat that led to their

extinction. Prum added that he thinks the public’s lack of interest in the pigeon’s final years prevented the species from being saved.

The ultimate extinction struck a chord in the public mind, including that of U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt, who worked to create the National Park Service.

“The story of the extinction of the passenger pigeon resonates in many important ways,” Prum said. “First, it is a very American story. It was one of the most abundant birds on the planet and rivals that of the migration of the buffalo in spectacle. So, the notion that we could so drastically effect the ecosystem and drive the most abundant species of bird extinct is something we still need to be aware of.”

Society still has not learned from the lesson of the passenger pigeon, Prum said, citing endangered species of a Midwest bird whose habitat has been violated by fossil fuel extraction.

The Peabody’s commemoration is not a unique effort: This fall, museums nationwide are participating in the anniversary as part of the Project Passenger Pigeon. The Smithsonian is currently displaying Martha, who was the last living passenger pigeon.

Experts have extracted passenger pigeon DNA in an attempt to clone the species. Peabody curator Kristof Zyskowski said that while

it is possible that birds resembling passenger pigeons could be cloned within years, it is unlikely they would have the same behavioral traits as the original passenger pigeons.

Many of the specimens in the Peabody exhibit come from Connecticut and greater New England. Exposing the specimens to various forms of light in the display risks degrading some feather pigments, a calculated risk the museum is taking for the next few months, Zyskowski said. After the exhibit, the specimens will return to storage in total darkness.

On Oct. 11, the Franke Program in Science and Humanities will host a symposium entitled “Extinction: Biology, Culture and our Futures,” featuring lectures from outside experts. The symposium will finish in Woolsey Hall with a Yale Symphony Orchestra performance of the “The Columbiad,” or Migration of American Wild Passenger Pigeons (1858).

The piece, written by American composer Anthony Philip Heinrich after observing the migration of passenger pigeons, has only been performed once before.

The music attempts to imitate the sounds of the passenger pigeon’s wings, Zyskowski said.

The exhibit is on display until Sept. 30.

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

KATHRYN CRANDALL/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Peabody exhibition focuses on the extinction of the passenger pigeon, caused largely by human action.

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FROM THE FRONT

“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.”

MARGARET MEAD AMERICAN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST

10 months later, wrongful death suit unlikely SAM SEE FROM PAGE 1 leagues struggled to come to grips with the details of See’s incarceration and the bewildering circumstances that defined the end of his life. As medical officials waited for a toxicology report to determine a cause of death, some asked whether he had been brutalized by police or neglected by judicial marshals required to make rounds in the detention center every 15 minutes.

Pointing to medical documents showing that the late professor’s vital signs were normal at the hospital hours before his death, See’s sister, Kelly Flanagan, said in January the family was investigating a possible wrongful death suit — against police, judicial marshals and hospital staff. An attorney for See’s estate, David Rosen LAW ’69, a visiting clinical lecturer at Yale Law School, would say only that he was “working with the family to find out whatever can be learned about Sam See’s death.”

That process involved subpoenaing New Haven Police Department work rosters, individual officer reports and the transcript of the 911 call that brought police to See’s Wooster Square home, among other documents. In the 911 call — made by See’s sister in California — Flanagan cautioned police that her brother suffered from a mental illness, a warning that was overlooked when a judicial marshal later recorded the inmate suffered from no mental illness or medical problem.

Based on conversations with

attorneys, See’s family members said they do not believe a suit will arise from the investigation, though some said this legal conclusion does not put their concerns to rest.

WEIGHING A CLAIM

Connecticut law gives administrators of a deceased person’s estate two years to file a wrongful death claim, though certain circumstances can permit legal action within five years of the date of death.

But See’s brother, Darin See, said toward the end of the summer that such a claim would not be filed. “There are no plans to pursue any actions,” he said in an email.

Flanagan and Sturdivant said it is their understanding that attorneys have lost interest in pursuing a case.

Reached this week, Rosen would not discuss any details of See’s death, confirming only that he is still representing the family.

Another lawyer, Andrew Knott of Cheshire-based Knott & Knott, is the fiduciary of the estate, appointed by New Haven Probate Court to handle any remaining assets tied to See’s name.

The two lawyers are both doing legal work on behalf of the family — Knott handling the technical matters of the estate and Rosen investigating a potential course of action against authorities, Knott explained. His work is ongoing, he said, declining to speak on behalf of Rosen and his legal probe.

“This is pretty much a pro bono case for me,” said Knott, who was

appointed by the court. If a case were to recover damages for the family, Knott said, he will receive a commission. But he is involved “mainly to ease the pain for the family,” he said.

Knott is overseeing the liquidation of remaining assets — including a car, paintings and a piano left in See’s home at 324 John St. where he lived on and off with his husband, Sunder Ganglani. The home is currently being foreclosed upon, Knott said. See did not leave a will, according to public Probate Court documents viewed this week.

After all creditors are paid, the first $100,000 of whatever remains will go to Ganglani, as required by state law, Knott said.

Ganglani did not return multiple requests for comment this week.

Court documents also offer a new window into See’s troubles in the weeks and months before he died. In November 2013, See’s contractor, Kenneth Hill, was seeking to recover more than $24,000 from him in New Haven Superior Court, claiming he was never paid for construction work dating back to 2010. That claim is now pending against See’s estate.

The New Haven-based law firm Susman, Duffy and Segaloff, which was representing See in his legal dispute with Hill, filed a claim in April for an unpaid sum of more than $10,000. Certain aspects of these claims are governed by statute, Knott said, while other elements may need to be resolved at the discretion of the Probate Court.

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two parents — Tom See and Ann Sturdivant — are listed as his heirs.

TEN MONTHS, MANY QUESTIONS

As the opportunities for legal redress appear to dwindle, questions remain for See’s family members — questions about why drugs were not detected at the hospital and about why alleged signs of a struggle in his cell did not elicit a response from judicial marshals.

But above all nearly 10 months after See died, it is grief that remains.

“I still cry every day,” See’s mother, Ann Sturdivant, said in a phone interview from her home in Washington State. “Nothing has changed how I feel about Sam — he was my boy, he made me smile and laugh.”

The hardest thing, she said, is seeing in retrospect how much help her son needed, as the extent of his addiction to methamphetamines and other drugs was revealed by hospital reports.

These reports document more than a half dozen visits to YaleNew Haven Hospital in the eight months before his death. See was on unpaid leave from Yale in the fall of 2013 following a teaching leave in the spring.

Sturdivant said her concerns about the way her son was treated have not been assuaged by a spring judicial branch report clearing marshals of responsibility. She alleged numerous inconsistencies in the report, accusing authorities of lying about a conversation in

which she reportedly told a marshal she would bring See his medication in jail. Sturdivant claims she never said this — that her physical distance from New Haven would have made such a statement absurd. This confusion illustrates the carelessness with which marshals handled her son, she said.

Authorities’ position on the case is unambiguous, however.

“There is no evidence to support the fact Samuel See’s death … was the result of negligence or inattention by Judicial Marshal Services staff,” the Judicial Branch’s investigation concludes.

A police department internal affairs report comes to the same conclusion about officers involved in See’s arrest.

Video surveillance tapes from the detention facility, which Sturdivant and Flanagan both said they have reviewed, suggest that See died at about 4:45 a.m., a full hour and 15 minutes before he was discovered lifeless by marshals, they said. At that time, Flanagan said, he appears to be moving around before his body seems to suddenly “release,” and he does not move again. Immediately prior, she said, a marshal walks by his cell, then returns to look more closely.

“He’s not just looking, he’s really looking,” she said. “It’s obvious something was wrong, and nothing is done.”

The News has not independently reviewed the surveillance tapes. The state’s report does indicate that a marshal looked into See’s cell, proceeded past and

then turned back to check again, but at about 5 a.m. When investigators asked why the marshal had returned to the cell a second time, he said he perhaps did not get a clear look and went back to check again.

The marshal said See was “just laying on the top bunk like he was sleeping,” adding that his right arm was “possibly hanging” off the bunk but that “nothing seemed odd.” This is the same marshal who had a conversation with See an hour earlier, later reporting that the inmate looked like a “concentration camp person.”

See never expressed pain or asked for medical assistance, marshals told investigators.

Flanagan has prepared scores of questions for attorneys, as well as for a pathologist at Brown University who performed an independent autopsy at the request of the family. Her questions range from inquiries into the precise level of methamphetamines found in her brother’s body to the scope of care he received at the hospital prior to his incarceration.

So far, she said, she has received unsatisfactory responses — and her patience is wearing thin.

“How can this not be a wrongful death case?” she wondered.

“What happened is so wrong.”

See’s life was celebrated on campus at a January memorial in Battell Chapel.

Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

FFY mulls next step

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Leaders of Fossil Free Yale are considering using more radical tactics to convince the administration to divest.

DIVESTMENT FROM PAGE 1 to occupy University buildings, Countryman said students decided to set up shantytowns on Beinecke Plaza. Still, the South Africa divestment campaign did not achieve its goal until the early 1990s, when Yale divested from 17 companies.

He added that coordinated divestment campaigns at many universities are more likely to be successful than isolated ones.

“A student campaign that’s linked to campaigns at other universities and other types of constituencies can force the institution to continue to grapple with the issue for a long time,” Countryman said.

Support from within the board of trustees can also prove crucial, according to students at Stanford University, which recently announced that it would divest its assets from coal companies.

The catalyst for Stanford’s divestment came from a single board member, Thomas Steyer ’79, according to Fossil Free Stanford member Krishna Dasaratha.

“I know that Steyer was a big advocate for divestment in the board discussions, and, by all accounts that was a major factor,” he said. “There were a number of other important faculty, alumni and students who had a big impact, but it was definitely a big help to have somebody so supportive on the inside.”

Steyer could not be reached for comment Thursday night.

Still, Dasaratha recommended that Fossil Free Yale take more aggressive steps to combat administrative obstinacy. He said that it is important to employ new tactics and possibly “escalate the campaign” when faced with rejection.

While Fossil Free Yale contem-

plates its next move, the administration and the Yale Corporation would like to put the matter to bed.

“The CCIR has addressed the question presented in the current discussions, applying Yale’s policies toward ethical investments,” Neal Keny-Guyer ’82, who chairs the CCIR, said in a statement responding a question on whether he expected the CCIR to reconsider the issue of divestment.

It took Yale many years to divest from apartheid South Africa.

BILL MCKIBBEN Environmental activist Keny-Guyer also rejected a central tenet of Fossil Free Yale’s campaign: that divestment is imperative not because it would effect great change, but because it would demonstrate symbolic leadership on Yale’s part in the fight against climate change.

When asked whether Yale’s primary responsibility is to act as a national leader or to reduce its own emissions, Keny-Guyer said that the University’s “primary responsibility is to its core mission of research, scholarship and education.”

He noted, however, that the University is an “international leader among universities in its aggressive sustainability efforts.”

“We lead by example,” KenyGuyer said.

Outside experts expressed different views on whether the University will eventually divest from the fossil fuel industry.

Bill McKibben, a leading envi-

ronmental activist whose 2012 speaking tour helped spark many college divestment movements, said that he expects the University will ultimately reverse last month’s CCIR decision.

“It took Yale many years to divest from apartheid South Africa,” McKibben said. “I think it will happen quicker with fossil [fuels], because global warming is a timed test, and because Yale’s School of Forestry and the Environment is such a global force that their current investment policy is a contradiction and a sad joke.”

Will Lana, a partner at Trillium Asset Management — a firm that takes environmental, social and governance factors into account in the investing process — offered a similar view, albeit for different reasons. According to Lana, universities will eventually begin moving away from fossil fuel investments as green energy becomes more profitable.

Still, other experts said universities are unlikely to divest from the fossil fuel industry any time soon.

“I’d be surprised if you’d see many universities doing [divestment],” said Stanford economist Charles Kolstad. “They want as much return on their endowment as possible.”

With the exception of Stanford, which chose to divest from coal, none of Yale’s peer schools have shifted their assets away from the fossil fuel industry. Harvard announced that it would not divest its assets from fossil fuel companies in October 2013.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu and ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

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“Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder and loves parade.”

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY ENGLISH POET

YPD named among military equipment holders

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Connecticut police departments’ recent acquisitions of military-grade equipment has set off debates in Connecticut concerning the gear’s use and the ways in which it could impact the image of police forces in the community.

BY MAREK RAMILO AND ERIN WANG STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Nationwide intrigue over police use of military-grade equipment sparked a major response in Connecticut this week, culminating in a comprehensive report on local stockpiles and a visit to New Haven City Hall from U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy.

Just days after the Hearst Connecticut Media Group profiled 70 police forces in Connecticut, detailing the acquisition of items ranging from first-aid kits to grenade launchers, Blumenthal and Murphy met in the Elm City to review military surplus policy initiatives. Currently backed by a federal mandate, the military delivers weapons, supplies and vehicles to city and state law enforcement agencies through the Department of Defense’s 1033 Program. According to the Hearst report, the Yale Police Department received $354,984.47 in military equipment.

“Many of the items we acquired will be helpful for responding to mass casualty or other emergency management uses,” said Yale Police Department chief Ronnell Higgins. “My decision to order equipment is made to support or sustain existing programs or … to support emergency response.”

Despite the staggering overall worth of the supplies involved, the 1033 Program is designed to provide these items free of charge, and Yale did not pay for its equipment.

Though Yale acquired the items for free, Higgins said that the special nature of the items that he orders — such as medical supplies, firearm accessories and night-vision devices — mean they are used sparingly.

Police forces do have the option of using their own funds to purchase additional pieces of equipment, but none of the YPD, the New Haven Police Department and Hartford’s Police Department have exercised this ability. In fact, some police forces, like the NHPD, even decline the free federal provisions, said NHPD spokesman

David Hartman.

The Hearst report indicates that the YPD received several items during the spring, including a laser range finder and two static power inverters, respectively valued at $20,501 and $26,724.96 per unit.

Many of the items [...] will be helpful for responding to mass casualty or emergency management.

RONNELL HIGGINS Chief, Yale Police Department Hartford Police Department Deputy Chief Brian Foley said that his force, with its donated supplies worth $858,909.91, has taken a similar approach to the YPD’s, recognizing that publicly using armored vehicles and highcaliber firearms can have strong psychological effects on the cit-

The Independent restructures

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER For the first time in nine years, the New Haven Independent took a vacation.

The Independent — a nonprofit New Haven online news source — did not publish content for the last two weeks of August, then resumed normal coverage following Labor Day. Editorin-Chief Paul Bass ’82 said the break was motivated by a combination of staff turnover and desire to have “time to think,” about the direction of the paper.

Bass said losing two crucial staff members led him to consider taking two weeks to “recharge” before the new reporters joined the staff. This break heralds a change in the direction of Independent coverage as the team begins to transition to more indepth pieces alongside breaking news.

“People act like walking off the 24/7 web treadmill for two seconds would make the whole world collapse,” Bass said.

“When you think of all the serious things that happen in New Haven and things going on in the world, stepping off the 24/7 web treadmill for two seconds is not that important.”

This summer, two long-term staff members of the Independent — Managing Editor Melissa Bailey ’04 and staff reporter Thomas MacMillan--departed from the paper: Bailey is taking a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard and MacMillan is relocating to New York.

During the weeks of staff change, Bass said the Independent continued to publish for the first two weeks before taking a break. The first new reporter started working on Sept. 2, and the Independent is considering a finalist for the second position.

“This [break] definitely helps us live longer,” Bass said. “We are

a small staff and you have to stay sane to do it right, but I am feeling very positive coming off this break and about the future of the site,” he added.

Bass noted that in anticipation of the hiatus, he checked with all of the Independent’s major donors and received their full support.

Dan Kennedy, professor of journalism at Northeastern University, wrote in an email that although it is unusual for news organizations to temporarily shut down, with small operations, it is often the only way to allow for vacation time. He added that with MacMillan and Bailey leaving, Bass was the only full-time employee at the paper before the new staff arrived.

I am feeling very positive coming off this break and about the future of the site.

PAUL BASS ’82 Editor in chief, New Haven Independent Still, Kennedy said that while having a gap in publishing may turn away regular readers, the Independent is a special case.

“Paul had built up a reputation with his audience over nine years,” he said. “I don’t think taking two weeks off at the end of the summer will break that bond.”

Director of the Yale Journalism Initiative Mark Oppenheimer ’96 GRD ’03 concurred with Kennedy’s sentimen. He said in an email that it is unrealistic to expect small publications to have the regular schedule of a larger paper such as The New York Times. He added that the Independent’s “exceptionally loyal” fanbase will not be deterred by the paper’s tempo-

rary recess.

Still, nearly 60 percent of readers polled in a survey conducted on the Independent website said “no” when asked whether newspapers should ever take two week breaks. Rather than finding this concerning, Bass said it means the people care about their product and took it as a vote of confidence in their work.

This break will ease the paper’s transition to reporting more in-depth pieces, a shift which has been ongoing for a few years, Bass said. While it will remain highly committed to covering breaking news, Bass said the Independent will focus more on analytical pieces in the future. “[The Independent’s] audience depends on it more for analysis and perspective than it does for breaking news, though it does that, too,” Kennedy added.

Still, Bass noted that this is not the first time he has put his computer down and his pad away. Religiously observant, Bass does not personally report during shabbat on Friday nights or during Jewish holidays. He added while the Independent will most likely not take two weeks off again, he will probably allow for one week breaks for the staff and himself in future years.

However, Bass could not help but publish one story during his break. When a fire broke out in a historic building down his street on Aug. 25, he said he found himself at the front of the scene interviewing firefighters.

“My neighbor says, ‘I don’t care if you are on break. You are reporting. Get your camera,’” Bass recalled.

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

izens they aim to serve. Though the department owns M16 rifles and military pistols, he pointed to its latest and most significant acquisition — a $689,000 mineresistant vehicle — as an example of a special-operations asset that has yet to be used in the field.

“We are demilitarizing it by taking off the plating [and] taking off the turret before we use it,” Foley said. “If it is deployed, it would be a backup vehicle for our emergency response team.”

The deputy chief added that a similar vehicle held by Hartford police has been deployed just twice in the last 20 years: Once to support teams involved in the attempted rescue of an officer in a hostage situation, and once in response to threats of a sniper in the city’s downtown area.

Last November, one of the law enforcement groups on campus responding the threat of a loose gunman dispatched a Humvee to Elm Street. A key point made during the City Hall discussion on Thursday was that police should continue to use these items with

discretion. Blumenthal emphasized proper training as a means of preventing their misuse.

“I think we’ve seen images in Ferguson that show a lack of proper training. Some of this equipment could have been better used — defensively, not offensively,” he said. “No matter how good the equipment is, it has to be accompanied by the right training.”

He cited an incident in Manchester in 2011 where the use of armored vehicles saved many police lives as proof that military equipment can be a valuable asset when handled properly. He also reiterated the importance of maintaining a nonthreatening public image.

One way of doing so, he said, is demonstrating the use of armored vehicles in rescuing people trapped during Hurricane Sandy.

“A very intimidating-looking vehicle can be used in a nonintimidating, communityfriendly way,” he added.

As a result, police are actively

working to familiarize citizens with the equipment in order to dispel the notion that it is excessive or dangerous. The NHPD, for example, showcases a BearCat vehicle — which was built for police use, despite its armored exterior — at community events.

Because they said they believe in police’s ability to learn how to handle this equipment properly, the officials in attendance concluded that actually curtailing the distribution of military hardware might not be necessary.

“There is a compelling case for continuing the programs, but with greater accountability, proper use and proper training,” Blumenthal said.

The Hearst report indicates that the YPD’s most recent supply shipment, a 165-unit bundle of chemiluminescent light worth a total of $2,465.10, arrived on June 25.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu and ERIN WANG at erin.wang@yale.edu .

CT living wage hampers workers

BY MRINAL KUMAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Low-wage workers may have a harder time making ends meet in Connecticut than in most other states across the country, according to a new report on living wages.

The report, published by the Alliance for Just Society, defines a living wage as “one that allows families to meet their basic needs … and that provides them with some ability to deal with emergencies and plan ahead.”

The report’s authors used consumer finance data from 2010 to calculate the living wage of 10 states across the country.

Connecticut’s living wage, at $19.08 per hour for a single adult without children, ranks it the highest of the 10 states measured. New York City, which was separated from the calculation of New York State’s living wage, was the only entity to outrank the Nutmeg State.

“One of the things that’s much higher in Connecticut than in other states is the cost of housing,” said Allyson Fredericksen, one of the study’s authors. “In Idaho or Montana it costs a lot less to find a one-bedroom or a two-bedroom apartment.”

The median price of homes listed in Connecticut is $275,600. This is significantly higher than the national median of $203,500.

Fredericksen also pointed out that childcare costs significantly more in Connecticut than in other states, especially the cost of childcare for a toddler. In Connecticut, the living wage for a single adult house-

hold with a toddler and a school-age child skyrockets to $40.48 an hour.

The report also highlights the discrepancy between the living wage and the minimum wage in Connecticut, pointing out that the 2013 minimum wage of $8.25 an hour provided less than half the living wage of a single adult. Even though the minimum wage is up to $8.70 this year, the report notes that this is well short of “allowing workers to move beyond living paycheck to paycheck.”

A common consensus is that lowering the living wage is an unrealistic goal.

“Connecticut and most of the northeast has a generally higher cost of living,” said State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney.

“There’s just a certain institutional cost of being in the northeast.”

Rather, the solution lies in raising the minimum wage, said Renae Reese, executive director of the Connecticut Center for New Economy. “It is … important to raise worker’s wages in every way possible. As every year goes by, there are more and more people in Connecticut that are not making it.”

Looney said the issue is in the process of being addressed, referencing a law passed last spring that will raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2017, making it the highest in the nation.

But, Looney added, he hopes the increase will not lead lawmakers to grow complacent.

“I think that once we reach that level we should probably be game to raise

it again,” he said. “We need to have a higher minimum wage and we need to at least approach the living wage.”

W h i l e Fre d e r i c k s o n emphasized the importance of state action to help those below the living wage, she also said that the federal government bears a share of the responsibility, both for expanding federal programs and establishing a higher national minimum wage.

The report also touches upon the impact of debt on the living wage of Connecticut citizens. For workers in debt, the living wage would be significantly greater than the number reported.

Connecticut and most of the northeast has a generally higher cost of living.

MARTIN LOONEY Majority leader, Connecticut state senate Students in Connecticut graduate with $27,816 in student loans, while the average credit card holder owes $5,617. Despite the issues at hand, Looney said he remains optimistic.

“Incrementally, we are [headed in the right direction] … between raising the minimum wage and having state-earned income tax credits for the poor,” he said.

Connecticut currently has the fifth highest state minimum wage.

Contact MRINAL KUMAR at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“The first health is wealth.”

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T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

T H E D A I LY P R I N C E T O N I A N

University restructures health plans

Princeton says no animal mistreatment

a family—as well as a deductible of $1,500 for individuals and $3,000 for an insured family for in-network care. The out-ofpocket maximum for the highdeductible plan will be $3,000 annually for an individual and up to $6,000 for families for in-network care.

BY MARIEL A. KLEIN AND MATTHEW Q. CLARIDA STAFF REPORTERS Acknowledging the burden of rising healthcare costs, the University announced Wednesday afternoon that it will significantly restructure the benefit plans it offers to non-union employees, cutting premiums but introducing, for the first time, a deductible at the point of care.

As required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, the various health plans sponsored by the University will continue to cover 100 percent of costs associated with preventative care, such as regularly scheduled doctor visits, which will carry the same $20 co-payment they do now. Emergency room visits will now incur a copayment of $100, up from $75.

If required care extends beyond routine visits and tests, individuals insured by Harvard will now pay a $250 deductible out of pocket before their insurance kicks in. After the $250 threshold—or up to $750 for a family—the University benefit plans will shoulder 90 percent of the costs, and the patient 10 percent. This cost sharing, called coinsurance, is also new to the Harvard plans.

“The aim is to curb cost growth and, just as important, to improve our incentives for becoming better consumers of health care so that more significant changes can be averted in the longer term,” wrote Marilyn Hausammann, Harvard’s vice president for human resources, in a letter to those affected by the changes. She noted that health benefits account for about 12 percent of the University’s budget.

Though the introduction of a

HARVARD deductible is one of the most significant changes, the new plans feature a number of alterations that may benefit the insured. In materials distributed on Wednesday, the University said that it expects premiums across the board to be lower under the new plans. For lower salaried individuals, there were be a reimbursement program to cover some costs incurred at the point of care, and premiums will be tiered based on salary.

The out-of-pocket maximum—the most an insured patient or family will have to pay for care each year—will also be lowered, to $1,500 for individuals and up to $4,500 for an insured family. After this threshold is met, the University will pay 100 percent of further costs.

“This is a more generous plan than most employers offer,” read a selection in the materials discussing the out-of-pocket maximum. “It provides Harvard faculty and staff with a simpler way to understand which expenses count towards the maximum they will be expected to pay and provides an important financial safeguard.”

Additionally, the University will create a new high-deductible, low-premium plan for those who do not anticipate significant healthcare costs. That plan will include a health savings account to which the University will make an initial contribution—$500 for an individual or $1,000 for

The aim is to…improve our incentives for becoming better consumers of health care.

MARILYN HAUSAMMANN Vice President for Human Resources, Harvard University Another change comes in dental coverage, which will no longer end after a $3,000 annual threshold is met.

Michael E. Chernew, a professor at Harvard Medical School and a member of the University Benefits Committee, which was involved with the changes, praised the dental plan in a press release.

“The new dental plan still has cost sharing, but we’ve added a catastrophic component to provide additional coverage.”

To be eligible for a University health plan, employees must work at least 17.5 hours per week or earn at least $15,000 per year, with some exceptions. The plan includes faculty members.

As is typical of institutional insurance plans, the headline costs listed are for care received in the insurer’s network of providers. Harvard’s insurance plans support care at providers outside of the network, but at a higher deductible burden, greater outof-pocket maximum, and lower coinsurance rate.

BY JACQUELINE GUFFORD STAFF WRITER An investigation by a subcommittee of the University’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee into the alleged mistreatment of a marmoset in a University laboratory found no evidence to support the claims of animal rights groups that an animal was mistreated, the University said on Aug. 18.

According to the press release, the subcommittee concluded that researchers placed the marmoset in a ferret exercise ball to observe its movement; the marmoset moved freely during the 13-minute observation, and the animal did not show signs of distress. Two federal complaints were filed against the University for allegedly placing the marmoset in the ball for entertainment purposes. The alleged incident happened in the lab of psychology professor Asif Ghanzanfar.

T h e s u b co m m i t te e ’s report has not been released to the public.

Michael Caddell, a University spokesman, said that the subcommittee came to these conclusions after a thorough investigation of the incident, and that the University takes all allegations of animal mistreatment seriously. He noted that the University has been found to meet standards for unannounced inspections by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service since November 2011.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, however, said that it does not

PRINCETON accept the subcommittee’s findings.

“The public has a right to hear the truth about what happened and not have the wool pulled over its eyes by a University that apparently cares more about window dressing than it cares about telling the truth,” said Alka Chandna, a PETA senior laboratory oversight specialist.

She added that the subcommittee’s conclusion that the action was part of an experiment cannot be justified since a leaked email written by Ghanzanfar himself, which prompted the complaint, states that the incident occurred for the laboratory staff’s amusement.

The University’s press release detailing the findings of the IACUC subcommittee originally stated that “an independent statewide organization investigated the incident and found no evidence of animal mistreatment.” However, the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, identified by Caddell as the independent organization mentioned in the report, said that no conclusions have been drawn so far.

The report on the University’s website was later edited to remove the state-

ment that the investigation’s results have been confirmed by an independent statewide organization.

PETA filed two separate complaints against the University with the National Institutes of Health and the USDA after being contacted by a person they describe as an anonymous whistleblower about the alleged marmoset abuse. The whistleblower forwarded an email from psychology professor Asif Ghanzanfar to his laboratory staff and graduate students reprimanding them for placing a marmoset in a ferret exercise ball and rolling it around.

Meanwhile, the University advertised six new job postings related to research oversight and animal care, including those of rodent care technician, NHP animal care technician, veterinary technician, animal cage wash technician and compliance specialist after the initial allegations of animal abuse surfaced.

Caddell said that the postings have no relation to the incident and have been planned for a while.

Chandna said that although PETA appreciates the University’s move to increase oversight, exemplified by the new job openings, it believes a radical change is necessary to create a culture of caring for animals.

The complaints filed

by PETA recommend that the marmosets studied in the laboratory be removed and taken to an accredited sanctuary. PETA has also launched an online public petition for the transfer of the marmosets that now has over 50,000 signatures.

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UCS to focus on advising, sex assaults

BY CAROLINE KELLY SENIOR STAFF WRITER The Undergraduate Council of Students will focus this year on improving sexual assault policy, mental health services and student resources such as financial aid and technology access, UCS leaders said.

Many efforts that began last spring to reform the University’s sexual assault policy will continue this semester, said UCS Vice President Sazzy Gourley ’16. A task force will oversee the sexual assault policy component of the review of the Code of Student Conduct, which is set to be revised this year.

The council will appoint four student representatives to the task force, said UCS President Maahika Srinivasan ’15.

The students’ role on the task force will be an “incredibly important one with a lot of gravity,” Srinivasan said. “We want to make sure that as an (executive) board … we really understand the complexity of what the task force is facing so that we can identify students with the qualifications that would be really well suited to that.”

The council will also work to advocate for mental health resources and support for Counseling and Psychological Services in light of CAPS’ decision to add more staff members to its eight psychotherapists, Srinivasan said. The office is currently finalizing its hiring process, she said.

Many students who were not UCS members but attended a UCS general body meeting addressing mental health last spring expressed a desire for greater demographic diversity and area specialization among CAPS staffers. “The hope was that … (additional staff) would bring more depth to issues of diversity” in CAPS, Srinivasan said.

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BROWN its sights on aggregating and extending financial aid. Last semester, the council started a task force in conjunction with the Office of Financial Aid to ensure that the office was effectively communicating aid opportunities to students who could take advantage of these options, Gourley said. “One product to come out of that that was implemented this year is to have funding for two student liaisons who work for the Financial Aid Office to help work on how they engage with students and make more of their information accessible,” he added.

Last year’s efforts to improve online resources will continue this semester, with goals including more wireless printing and improved wireless networks, Gourley said. New initiatives will also be introduced such as a more streamlined students’ page on the University’s main website and a new UCS website.

Srinivasan, who campaigned for the UCS presidency last spring with a platform that emphasized undergraduate advising reform, also anticipates working with both Dean of the College Maud Mandel and Chair of the UCS Academics and Administrative Affairs Committee Elena Saltzman ’16 to address the issue. “We have this really incredibly golden opportunity, I think, with a new (dean of the College) to come in with a fresh slate…basically an opportunity to take three steps back

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New UCS Maahika Srinivasan ’15 plans to tackle many issues facing the University. and look at our advising system and see how it’s working,” Srinivasan said.

Saltzman said she intends to work to improve sophomore advising by easing the transition from first-year advisors to concentration advisors. “It felt like pre-concentration resources were kind of lacking, so something we want to make sure is that it’s a more cohesive transition for sophomores,” she said. “My team is going to work on really delving into what our advising system looks like internally — how advisors are picked, how advisors and students are matched, how each

department handles advising.”

E-Soo Kim ’15, UCS Student Activities chair, said she hopes to change the student group application from a hard deadline to a rolling application to help “people who are making new groups, and groups that want to change their (funding) categories,” she said. She added that she also intends to bring back the annual leadership orientation program for new group leaders.

Walker Mills ’15, chair of the UCS Campus Life Committee and a Herald opinions columnist, said he would like to focus on student dining experiences

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by putting comment and suggestion boxes in the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall and the Sharpe Refectory, and then extending them to other eateries. “We’re always talking about being better in touch with the student voice, and this will generate a lot of feedback, probably both positive and negative, and give us ideas for projects,” he said.

He also anticipates negotiating with deans for proposals and funding. “A lot of it comes down to dollars and cents,” he said. “If students want more fresh vegetables and locally sourced foods … it’s going to cost money.”

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The council’s technology efforts will mainly stem from the UCS Admissions and Student Services committee, said committee chair Ryan Lessing ’17.

A major effort will be the creation of a subcommittee in computing and Internet technology.

“There’s a lot of talent in the student body for computer science, and there’s a lot of people who want to build cool things to help people at Brown,” Lessing said.

“Our hope is to serve as a facilitator, or work with students who want to build cool things … and work with CIS to make that happen.”

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Bulldogs host QPac WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 11 “We know a bit about how they play based on the drills our coaches have us do the week before, but the coaches know a lot and watch film so they play us according to their scouting reports,” Fletcher said.

Though only a few weeks into the school year, the team has bonded quickly and feels well prepared, multiple players said. Many Elis added that they feel strong as a team going into the start of the season under the leadership of captain Meredith Speck ’15.

With a few players nursing injuries, the coaches want to keep the team as healthy as possible and have been changing up practices to lead into the Quinnipiac game.

“Practices a few days before a game can be intense, but closer to the match, practices tend to be on the lighter side so that we can be more explosive on the field come game time and so that we can also reduce risk of injury,” midfielder Geny Decker ’17 said.

Injuries hurt the team partway

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through the season last year, but the fresh recoveries of Decker, Shannon Conneely ’16 and Ally Grossman ’16 will add strength to the already powerful lineup.

After the game against Quinnipiac, the team will play at Sacred Heart on Tuesday and will then return home for the Yale Classic the next weekend.

The upcoming schedule is tough and includes Western Kentucky and Hofstra, both of whom finished their 2013 seasons well above .500. Yale will look to use the Quinnipiac game to meld and work out any issues, Decker said.

“The game will definitely be a good test of where we are and where we’re headed as a team,” Decker added.

“We’ve only played a few scrimmages thus far, but once we get a few games under our belts, we’ll get into a rhythm and gel with each other on the field.

Quinnipiac is our starting point.”

Play begins at 7:30 p.m. in Reese Stadium.

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The women’s soccer team finished fifth in the Ivy League standings last season.

Nationals before joining the Bulldogs.

“Of course we miss [Polan],” Johnson said. “But [Crawford] came into the program and has seamlessly fit into the dynamic of our team. I have nothing but confidence in her, and I’m so excited to watch her grow as a player and a leader here at Yale.”

Debuting tonight alongside Crawford are freshmen and fellow California natives outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 and middle hitter Meaghan Truman ’18, as well as outside hitter Megan Rasmussen ‘18 from Texas.

Outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17 agreed with Johnson that the new and old team members came together and played as a unit in the preseason.

“This season, it’s really important to us as a team to play at our top per-

formance level during every match, whether it be the first game of the season or the last,” she said. “I think this weekend will be a great opportunity to showcase our team chemistry.

Our team is really close, and I think that will be visible on the court Friday night.”

Yale will have a new coach debut tonight as well. Brendan McGourn joins the Yale staff as assistant coach to head coach Erin Appleman after serving in the same capacity at Springfield College. Appleman said she is confident in McGourn’s leadership after observing the dynamic between McGourn and the team at the gym during preseason.

Minnesota is coached by Hugh McCutcheon, who joined as head coach last year. Prior to joining the Gophers full-time, McCutcheon led

the U.S. National Women’s Volleyball team to the gold medal game at the 2012 Olympics in London.

“It’s amazing to face tough competition like Minnesota,” middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 said. “We love the challenge and the chance to prove ourselves. Playing at home with a great crowd is the best feeling in the world, so we couldn’t be more excited for tonight.”

The Yale Invitational will be the Bulldogs’ last set of home games until Oct. 17. Next weekend, the women will travel to Pennsylvania to battle Kansas, Penn State and Villanova in the Villanova Classic. Their first Ivy game will be away at Brown on Sep. 26.

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

M. Soccer starts season against Pioneers MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 11 Today’s outing is the first of eight nonconference games leading up to Yale’s first Ivy League confrontation of the year, an Oct. 4 tilt at Harvard. This de facto preseason of nonconference play presents an opportunity for the Bulldogs to fine tune each and every aspect they have been focusing on throughout the offseason.

Head coach Brian Tompkins acknowledged the importance of playing well in nonconference games — not just for results but for crucial preparation and the development of “team understanding and confidence” for Ivy League play.

“We will definitely be looking for a better start to the nonconference portion of the schedule, but our concentrated focus will be on the Ivy season,” Tompkins said. “We start league play with three straight road games, so we want to be cohesive and playing well by that time.”

Yale fields a relatively young team — only four seniors appear on the roster — so a key for the Elis will be how quickly the youthful team will be able to gel.

The good news for the Elis is that many of their sophomores and

juniors have already racked up a wealth of the experience on the field.

This mix of youth and experience is especially evident when evaluating Yale’s offensive firepower. The Bulldogs return four of their six leaders in points from last season, including forward Cameron Kirdzik ’17, whose 11 points were tied for best on the club.

At the other end of the field, today’s contest provides the first chance for Yale supporters and opponents alike to see how the defense performs a year removed from faltering during conference play. Defender/midfielder Pablo Espinola ’16 said that while the team’s struggles were not entirely the fault of the defense, Tompkins has still made a point of stressing solid play on the back line.

“Coach Tompkins has emphasized defending from the top,” Espinola said. “Defending is not just the job of the back six.

Our whole team has to buy into defensive shape if we are to successfully turn the other team over.”

The beauty of the regular season is that a team is able to evaluate its stage of development, for better or worse. Intersquad

scrimmages and game-simulating drills will no longer have to be the main teaching point for Tompkins.

“These games will give us a great opportunity to test our tactical wherewithal against two very different teams and get a measure of our potential for the season,” Tompkins said of tonight’s matchup as well as Tuesday’s scheduled opponent, Iona. “Starting the season with two wins would be a terrific confidence builder and we will be setting high expectations for our performance.”

A 2—0—0 start would certainly provide a welcome flashback for the coach, who has already announced that this season, his 19th at the helm of the Bulldogs, will be his last. Yale and Tompkins have not opened a year with two wins since 2006.

Yale will have to handle its business this afternoon first, however, to put such an opportunity in place.

The men’s game will be followed promptly at 7:30 p.m. by the women’s soccer team’s season-opener against crosstown rival Quinnipiac.

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The field hockey team will host Sacred Heart and Hofstra this weekend in its season openers.

league play even begins,” forward Alyssa Weiss ’17 said. “We’ve had scrimmages so far, but we’re hoping to set the tone for the year this weekend.”

Wells also noted the importance of these games for the future. Wells said that the key for the weekend will be playing solid hockey regardless of the result, although she added that the team would love to start the year with two wins.

Since scrimmages began on Aug. 22, the team has been practicing at Johnson Field and Payne Whitney Gym, running drills and other training sets while also working on chemistry and team bonding.

“I love this team because of the cohesion that has developed within it,” back Megan Kirkham ’15

said. “We are looking to perform well and put all our hard work into the games. All classes are contributing and [bringing] great personalities to the table.”

The team has consciously chosen to have a relatively small roster of only 18 players, in order to create a much closer and more cohesive team, according to Wells.

Another unique aspect of the roster is the number of freshmen, Wells added.

“This year, our freshman class makes up a third of our team. All six of them will have an instant and huge impact on the team this season,” Wells said. “They are all hard workers that know the game well while playing with a lot of passion and tenacity, which is what YFH is all about.”

Although official play has yet to begin, a number of players said

that the team is already looking forward to the future and to what it hopes to accomplish during the season.

Wells said that the Ivy League has become more competitive over the years, but that the team will look to capture the conference crown at season’s end.

“This is a strong team with good chemistry and strong leadership,” Weiss said. “Our goal for this year is to have a winning season. Winning the Ivy League Championship? That’s the end goal.”

This season will continue with games against Quinnipiac and California on Sept. 13 and 14, respectively. The team’s first Ivy League opponent will be Harvard in an away game on Sept. 20.

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Bulldogs set for season

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER

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The volleyball team is facing the Minnesota Gophers tonight in its home opener.

The Bulldogs are set to host Minnesota, Albany and Boston College in this weekend’s tournament as part of the Yale Invitational. The Minnesota women are currently ranked 18th in the nation, and several Elis agreed that they would be fierce opponents.

“We’ve been working really hard all preseason, and we can’t wait to finally see everything come together,” setter Kelly Johnson ’16 said. “We are facing some great competition, but I know we are up to the challenge.”

Johnson is the only remaining setter from last year’s roster after three-time Ivy League Player of the Year Kendall Polan ’14 graduated, but Johnson is joined on the court by freshman setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 this season.

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The volleyball team will begin its defense of four straight Ivy League titles this weekend at the Yale Invitational.

M. soccer to play Sacred Heart

W. soccer faces Bobcats

BY SYDNEY GLOVER STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s soccer team kicks off its season at home this weekend against hometown rival Quinnipiac University, who finished last season with a 3–8–5 record.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The squad is looking to bounce back from a rough ending last season, and this game against Quinnipiac presents an opportunity for a better start.

With a larger roster that includes ten freshmen, the team is largely reinvigorated for the opening game, despite suffering crucial injuries at the end of last season. Defender Katie Fletcher ’17 said the Elis are only suffering from a few injuries.

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The men’s soccer team will take on Sacred Heart this afternoon to open the season.

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER Students across campus have finally settled down and are prepared to tackle the fall semester, and the members of the Yale men’s soccer team are no exception. The Bulldogs will embark on their 2014 campaign this afternoon when they step on the pitch for a 5 p.m. showdown with Sacred Heart University.

MEN’S SOCCER In hosting the Pioneers (0—2—0, 0—0—0 Northeast Conference), the Elis are seeking their first seasonopening victory since 2011, when they toppled another in-state foe, Central

Connecticut State University. Incidentally, that victory also came at home — a factor that captain and midfielder Conner Lachenbruch ’15 said should come into play today.

“It will be great to have the comfort of our home stadium and the support of our fans to help ease some of the nerves that naturally come up in the first game of the season,” Lachenbruch said.

Yale’s history with Sacred Heart should also allay some of the opening-game jitters, as the Bulldogs have a 6—2—2 series record against the Pioneers. In fact, Yale has not lost a matchup with the state rivals since 2009, outscoring Sacred Heart nine to three in the process.

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The women’s soccer team will begin its season tonight when it hosts the Quinnipiac Bobcats.

Quinnipiac and Yale falling by scores of 1–0 and 3–1, respectively.

But despite the lack of the squads’ recent matchups, the Bulldogs have

some good knowledge about what the Bobcats are bringing to the table.

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Field Hockey opens at home

BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale field hockey season kicks off this weekend with two games outside of the Ivy League. The team will face Sacred Heart on Saturday and Hofstra on Sunday. The squad is led by seasoned Head Coach Pam Stuper and captain Nicole Wells ’16.

FIELD HOCKEY The Bulldogs have been preparing for this opening weekend since they arrived on campus two weeks ago.

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The field hockey team tied Cornell for third in the Ivy League standings last season.

NUMBER OF GAMES HOSTED BY YALE VARSITY TEAMS THIS WEEKEND, THE FIRST WEEKEND OF REGULAR SEASON ACTION FOR ANY YALE TEAM THIS ACADEMIC YEAR. The volleyball, field hockey, and men’s and women’s soccer teams all play at home.