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Sharpton decries death penalty

A tale of two states. New York

Magazine published a piece titled “What’s the Matter With Connecticut?” exploring how “Connecticut has somehow managed to become both the richest and worst economy in America.” The article cited Connecticut’s status as the country’s most unequal state, where the average one percenter earns 41 times what the average 99 percenter does.

“And what’s worse, America has started to look more and more like Connecticut,” the piece said.

Business in the front… Party in Welch! Freshmen in Welch Hall A11 distributed business cards advertising their suite.

The black and red cards read 6IX, a stylized version of the number six and the Roman numeral equivalent of nine.

The back was left blank so that details of events could be written, according to one proud member of the sextet, Marc Bielas ’18.

Cupcakes for Clinton. Former President Bill Clinton dropped

by Katalina’s Bakery, a bakeshop on Whitney Avenue, before an appearance at a New Haven fundraiser for Gov. Dannel Malloy’s upcoming campaign. Clinton met with the store’s owner, Katalina Riegelmann, along with Malloy, Mayor Toni Harp ARC ’78, and U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy. Riegelmann said Clinton ordered a vegan carrot-cake cupcake and a vegan coconut lime cupcake.

Dessert for dinner. The Yale

Club of San Francisco is hosting a Chocolate Tour of their city this week. Alums will be dining on chocolates “from abstract artisanal chocolate bars to dairy & gluten free superfood truffles, from Japanese ganache delicacies to Swiss Fleur de Sel caramels” according to an event description.

Eyes on the prize. Harvard

freshmen responded to a class-wide survey from The Crimson with 42 percent stating they expect to make a starting salary of $70,000 or more after college. According to The Crimson, students who said they plan to concentrate in economics were more likely to expect a high starting salary than their counterparts studying government.

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Yale-NUS student body thrives

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Sharpton began his argument by relating a personal story about meeting a death row inmate who requested that Sharpton be there to observe the inmate’s final moments. Sharpton said this was an emotional experience that reinforced his conviction that the death penalty is morally wrong.

“We are not preventing anything, and we are not providing justice,” he said.

As Yale-NUS settles into its second academic year, new people and new ideas are arriving on the Singaporean campus.

The school’s second freshman class of 170 arrived last month, more than doubling the number of students on campus. The school also received 20 new faculty members. YaleNUS is not slated to move to its permanent campus until January 2015, but the arrival of a new and bigger class is livening up its temporary campus.

Due to an expansion of arts departments at the school, a large portion of the new faculty members are teaching subjects such as dance and music. Outside the classroom, the extracurricular scene is more in flux than ever before. New groups are popping up all over the temporary campus; the current freshman class, unlike the former, is allowed to start its own clubs and activities.

Pre-existing clubs are also growing rapidly in numbers and achievements.

But Yale-NUS still defines itself by its exceptionally small size.

“A lot of [the new students] knew each other already and the first night everyone was running around and giving each other

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YaleTube. Youtube sensations

Sam Tsui ’11 and Kurt Schneider ’10 are rehashing their bright college years in a new movie “College Musical,” based on their web series.

A screening of their film, which was shot on campus, is being held tonight in Linsly-Chittenden Hall. The premise involves the relatable experience of a college student in love with his teaching assistant.

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Reverend Al Sharpton advocated for abolishing the death penalty at a Yale Political Union debate Tuesday evening.

BY PETER HUANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Tuesday evening, several hundred Yale students and faculty braved the sweltering heat of Woolsey Hall to hear Reverend Al Sharpton advocate for abolishing the death penalty in a debate hosted by the Yale Political Union.

Sharpton — a Baptist minister, civil rights activist and radio host who was

a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 — spoke passionately against the death penalty, refuting many common arguments in its favor. After Sharpton spoke, representatives from different parties within the YPU continued to debate both sides of the resolution, “Hang the Death Penalty.” When the final tally was taken at the end of the event, there was a clear majority in favor of abolishing capital punishment.

Yale registers Clinton campaigns for Malloy record yield

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER Out of a record-high pool of 30,932 applicants to Yale this year, 1,950 students were offered acceptance and 1,361 students chose to matriculate to the University as members of the class of 2018, making for the highest yield in Yale’s recorded history.

The final yield rate came in at 71.48 percent this fall, an increase of more than three percent from the 68.3 percent yield recorded for the class of 2017. Mark Dunn, senior assistant director of Yale’s Admissions Office, said in an email that the final yield and class size are calculated after discounting the number of students who postpone matriculation. In addition to the 1,361 students who are freshmen this year, 46 students chose to postpone their offers of admission until next fall and are not included in yield calculations.

“We expected an increase in the yield because we accepted more students in the early action round, but we still saw a stronger increase in the regular decision yield,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan ’03 said.

He added that the regular decision yield rate is a stronger measure of a university’s strength and attractiveness than its early action yield rate. He added this is partially because most students apply to their top choice school during the early action round.

The University accepted 735 students in the early action round in December, a rise from 649 the previous year. Richard Avitabile, a former admissions officer at New York Uni-

versity and a private education consultant for Steinbrecher & Partners, said he would not be surprised if most of these students had seen Yale as their top choice throughout the college process.

Because the yield was higher than expected, the Admissions Office only took 14 students off the waitlist.

In prior years, according to Quinlan, the number of students the University has taken from the waitlist has fluctuated between zero and 100.

For the first year, the Admissions Office also publicized the yield for the regular decision round. Of the 1,041 admitted students who applied in the regular decision round, nearly 600 students chose Yale, making for a yield rate of 57.1 percent.

We expected an increase in yield because we accepted more students in the early action round.

JEREMIAH QUINLAN Dean, Undergraduate Admissions Quinlan said that number, which for years has been calculated internally, is the highest on record. Dunn said the office decided to release the regular decision yield rate in order to demonstrate that the increased yield cannot solely be attributed to early admits.

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Bill Clinton LAW ’73, shown above campaigning for then-U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal, was in New Haven Tuesday to support Gov. Dannel Malloy in his reelection race.

BY ABIGAIL BESSLER AND ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTERS Former President Bill Clinton LAW ’73 came to New Haven on Tuesday for a fundraiser at the Omni Hotel, enthusiastically throwing his support behind Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, who faces a tough reelection bid this November.

Several hundred supporters — who paid $50 each — filed

into the ballroom, waving blue campaign signs and cheering as New Haven Mayor Toni Harp, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy gave speeches praising Malloy’s firstterm achievements. The governor took the stage to the Tom Petty song “I Won’t Back Down” and launched into a critique of his opponent, Republican Tom Foley, accusing him of taking cheap shots and putting down

the state of Connecticut.

Though Malloy received loud cheers, the strongest applause was reserved for the former president. Clinton thanked Harp for welcoming him back to New Haven, where he attended Yale Law School during the early 1970s, and urged attendees to actively campaign for the governor.

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hen former Texas Governor Ann Richards gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1988, she noted that another woman, Barbara Jordan, had given the keynote twelve years before.

“Two women in 160 years is about par for the course,” Richards quipped. “But, if you give us a chance, we can perform. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did,” Richards said of the iconic 1930s dance duo. “She just did it backwards and in high heels.”

Yale course shoppers, take note. Today, a quarter century later, in many college lecture halls, the so-called “Ginger Rogers Effect” – where women have to tread a finer line and exert more effort than their male colleagues to earn the same recognition – may still be going strong, according to studies of student course evaluations.

It’s well-documented that women leaders face a different, and often higher, standard when they are evaluated. In order for women leaders to be perceived as effective, they need to show both strength and sensitivity, while male leaders only need to show strength, according to one such study.

This unconscious bias impacts students’ evaluations of teachers, argues Lisa Martin, a University of Wisconsin professor who studies gender bias in the college classroom. Martin thinks that students view men and women teachers as equally effective in small seminar-sized classes, but that in large lecture classes, women face a double standard, resulting in poorer evaluations.

In a stunning 2003 experiment, researchers took a Harvard Business School case study about a real venture capitalist, Heidi Roizen, who succeeded by using her “outgoing personality … and vast personal and professional network.” Half of the students read the case study about “Heidi,” and the other half read the exact same case study about “Howard.” While students rated Heidi and Howard as equally competent, Howard was widely seen as a more likeable colleague. Heidi was seen as selfish and not “the type of person you would want to hire or work for.”

We tend to react negatively when a person acts contrary to their gender type. And it’s men who we expect to be leaders.

Some of our common expressions reflect this dilemma. “I often hear students say of a professor, ‘He’s a great guy,’” former Dean of Yale College Mary Miller told me. “But what is the equivalent of ‘he’s a great guy’ for women? Spare me if you think it’s ‘she’s a great gal.’

Much is embedded in the term ‘great guy’ – it suggests personality and the ability to do exceptional, noteworthy work. There is no parallel phrase for women.

I’m advocating for ‘she’s a great

guy!’”

This possible gender bias matters because it could impact f e m a l e f a c u l t y advanceVIVECA ment. StuMORRIS dent evaluations are an Animal “essential” part of the Spirits faculty promotion process, the Registrar’s Office website states. If this bias is real, it may be contributing to a greater problem of gender inequality at Yale. Despite the fact that Yale today hires close to equal numbers of men and women junior faculty, women accounted for just 29 percent of faculty who received tenure from 20002012 and remain at Yale, according to a Women’s Faculty Forum report.

It is also worth asking if this bias could create a self-fulfilling cycle in which female professors and department coordinators trend toward placing women in smaller classrooms, limiting their advancement, as Martin posits. It’s harder to become a Yale teaching rock star from an LC seminar room versus from the stage of the law school auditorium.

As Yale invests more in Massive Open Online Courses, this problem may be exacerbated.

Only 11 percent of the current Open Yale Courses (5 of 42 courses) are taught by women.

(This underrepresentation is not unique to Yale. Women teach zero of Princeton’s Coursera MOOCs.) “While MOOCs are a great equalizer when it comes to students around the world,” wrote A.J. Jacobs for The New York Times, “they are a great unequalizer when it comes to teachers. MOOCs are creating a brand of A-list celebrity professors who have lopsided sway over the landscape of ideas.” If gender bias exists in large course evaluations, it’s more likely that most of these academic superstars will be men, and we will lose the opportunity to export gender equality to viewers that might otherwise never see women in higher education or in positions of power.

As I choose my Yale classes this week, I pour through student course evaluations on OCI and rank my CourseTable worksheet in descending order of “Prof Rating.” Like many of my friends, I weight my peers’ assessments of professors heavily. But this fall I’ve started reading course evaluations with greater skepticism – and I hope you will too – in an effort to be aware of, and hopefully mitigate, any unconscious bias.

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Divesting our trust

lexandra Barlowe ’17, the Outreach Coordinator for Fossil Free Yale, had been planning on sleeping in. After all, it was Wednesday, Aug. 27, the first day of classes, and she wasn’t shopping anything until 1:30 p.m.

But for some reason she got up early.

When she opened her email, she noticed a new message, timestamped 7:05 a.m. It was from Joy McGrath, chief of staff to President Peter Salovey. “Dear Friends,” it began, “President Salovey would like to invite you to meet with him and Professor [Jonathan] Macey [the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility] later today, Wednesday, at 11:45 AM, in the president’s office on the first floor of Woodbridge Hall. I do not anticipate the meeting taking more than 30 minutes.”

Barlowe was stunned. 11:45 — that was less than five hours after the email was sent. On the first day of classes.

Hurriedly, Barlowe prepared for the meeting. At around 11:35, she, along with Mitch Barrows ’16, the Project Manager for FFY, and several other student members of FFY, arrived at Woodbridge Hall.

Barrows was missing a class he had intended to shop in order to make it. The meeting had come almost completely out of the blue — FFY members say the only hint they had beforehand was a vague email from Macey four days earlier.

To outsiders, the meeting itself might have appeared a triumph, a classy move by an administration genuinely seeking student input. It wasn’t. The administration had already decided that it wasn’t going to divest from fossil fuel companies. “They called the meeting to see if they could do damage control,” Barlowe told me.

Barrows agreed: “They weren’t actually here to hear us out or talk about anything substantial.” In all of my discussions with FFY mem-

bers who were present, one word came up over and over again: condescending. Even if you don’t believe that Yale should SCOTT divest, you STERN should be outraged by the A Stern way President Perspective Salovey and other members of the administration treated students.

At the meeting Salovey handed the students the report of the Yale Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility (CCIR). Barrows told me Salovey and the other administrators present acted as if this were something highly confidential, even though this text would go out to the entire student body just twenty minutes later — while FFY and Salovey were still meeting.

Salovey proceeded to tell the students about the CCIR’s decision to pursue several sustainability initiatives. Patrick Reed ’16, a founding member of FFY, told the News Salovey was “lecturing us.” And according to FFY members, Salovey did not even mention divestment until the students came across it themselves, buried deep within the CCIR report.

Some members of FFY were irate.

Some were shocked. Barlowe was resigned — she was just tired of being lectured at.

For the next hour or so, the students shared their concerns with Salovey. But soon they saw it was futile. “Salovey let us talk,” Barlowe sighed, “but he wasn’t really listening.”

Salovey told the students that this meeting fit neatly with the emphasis on free speech he had made in his Freshman Address.

According to both Barlowe and

Barrows, he made repeated comments about how “intelligent” he found members of FFY. He told them that, through the whole divestment debate, he had learned a lot. The FFY students with whom I spoke found this tone painfully patronizing.

According to a statement from President Salovey, he thought the meeting would be an “appropriate and courteous [way] to provide the leadership of FFY with a ‘heads-up’ about the impending decision.” He continued, “I am sorry that the time we chose for this briefing was not to some students’ liking — and I realize now that perhaps we could have selected a time other than the first day of classes.”

I find it very hard to believe Salovey and his staff were unaware that meeting on the first day of classes might prove highly inconvenient. Before Wednesday was an entire week — Camp Yale — with no classes. Further, there seems to be no good reason they could not scheduled the meeting more than a couple hours in advance. By calling this meeting with virtually no notice the administration was tactless, thoughtless or deliberately attempting to catch these student activists off guard.

Barlowe, who has been involved with the national college divestment movement, believes that this meeting exemplifies the way the Yale administration treats students in general. Other colleges, she said, “make information public that Yale doesn’t.” Other colleges “tell students where and when their boards or committees will meet.” Yale doesn’t. Barlowe says at Yale, fossil free activists never get to meet with anyone important — “or else it’s just for show.”

At one point in the meeting, members of FFY brought up the fact that former CCIR member Paul Joskow GRD ’72, for-

mer director of the TransCanada energy company, still has significant financial ties to the fossil fuel industry. At this point, students say, general counsel Dorothy K. Robinson spoke up for perhaps the first time, telling the students that, actually, Joskow was not on the CCIR when the divestment decision was technically finalized.

Barrows found this very misleading. “Obviously, this entire year they were deliberating, he was there,” he explained. Indeed, Joskow’s name appeared on the CCIR website as recently as two days before the Wednesday meeting, Reed told me. As of Wednesday, it had been taken down.

“We don’t know how intentional it is,” Barlowe commented, “but obviously it is a very interesting coincidence.”

Even beyond the Joskow erasure, this meeting strikes me as a deliberate attempt to stifle student voice. What better way to mislead the student body than to announce a whole series of sustainability initiatives right as they controversially decide not to divest? (Cough New York Times subscription cough.) What better way to act as if they’re engaging with student activists than to call a hasty, inconvenient meeting (after they’ve already made a decision) and spend it largely ignoring what the students are actually saying?

“Does Yale take climate change seriously?” I asked Barlowe toward the end of our interview.

“I would say that Yale takes the threat of bad press very seriously,” she shot back. A moment later she revised that. Yale takes climate change seriously, she said, “to the extent that we are willing to push them on it.”

A lot more pushing is coming up.

SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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Fossil free capital

VIVECA MORRIS is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Her columns run on alternate Wednesdays. Contact her at viveca.morris@yale.edu .

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ow that we know Yale University has decided not divest from fossil fuels, what should be done next?

Over the past few months, students have repeatedly critiqued the University’s investment practices. But the size of Yale’s endowment is likely comparable to the amount of capital that its current undergraduate population will earn, inherit and invest during our lifetimes. Environmental activists would do well, going forward, to focus on informing the investment decisions that Yale students will make for the rest of their lives, rather than continuing to focus on institutions.

As Yalies, we are likely to control a great deal of capital in our lives.

Some of us may already come from well-off families and can look forward to inheriting large stakes in corporations. Statistically, a high percentage of us will go on to work on Wall Street, directing financial capital to all corners of the globe.

Some of us will become CEOs, making enormous decisions daily about factories, workers and sup-

ply chains. And many of us will be prudent enough to save throughout our lives, investing our surplus earnings in stocks and other financial assets.

In "Capital in the Twenty First Century," author Thomas Piketty expresses concern about people like us — we who will be trusted, by virtue of our diplomas and our hard work, with a disproportionate and growing share of our society’s productive resources. Piketty foresees a world in which a few rich heirs increasingly dominate the economy and the poor do not share in economic gains.

And Piketty is right to worry.

When Yalies accumulate capital, we will have the prerogative to do pretty much whatever we want with it. If we really wanted to, we could squeeze every penny out of our investments by employing the lowest wage labor possible, creating products that appeal to consumers' worst instincts and taking advantage of lax laws to profit off of pollution and externalities.

As far as I’m concerned, capital is often not an immoral or neg-

ative force in society. In fact, it is often an expression of some of our highest capacities as humans.

The ability to save some of what we produce, to delay our gratification for the sake of the future, to increase our societal productive capacity year after year, to build up the scope of what we can accomplish — these make the existence of capital one of the most impressive accomplishments of modernity.

Yet the fact remains that those who hold capital are faced with many options about how to use it.

And it can be tempting to use it in ways that harm those who do not hold capital. For Marxists, this is essentially a law of nature: Capital reproduces itself.

I take a less fatalistic view. No one tells the owner of a corporation that she must resort to hostile takeovers or government cronyism to increase her company’s market share; it is a choice she makes, and a potential profit she is free to forgo. No external force compels an upper-class individual to invest his savings in a cor-

poration that harms the environment, except for a willingness to avert his eyes from the consequences of his actions. Capital need not be a destructive force if its owners take responsibility for how they use it.

This is a lesson I hope Yalies take to heart. There is no better time than college to reflect upon our responsibilities and decide upon our values, before we are tempted by wealth and convenience.

It is always easier to critique institutions than it is to critique ourselves; more convenient to preach than to practice. There are those who would lead a revolution against private capital or steadily redistribute it through state coercion. I much prefer that capitalists take stock of their responsibilities to their communities and to members of society. This is a process that Yale students can begin now, especially regarding investments in the fossil fuel industry.

SCOTT GREENBERG is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at scott.greenberg@yale.edu .

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With staff rebound, Democracy Fund could extend reach

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER After eight months in which staff attrition hindered the board administering the New Haven Democracy Fund, the city’s public-financing system is back on its feet this fall — with a quorum of board members working on a proposal that could expand the fund to aldermanic races.

Board members said they are crunching numbers to figure out a way to infuse public money into hyper-local races. At its next meeting, scheduled for either Sept. 23 or Sept. 30, these details will begin to take shape, and the board hopes to have a proposal to submit to the Board of Alders by the end of the year.

The seven-person board has now filled four of its spots, said the board’s chair, Patricia Kane, an attorney in New Haven and Stamford. The installation this August of Jared Milfred ’16, who leads Yale’s Democracy United, a group at Yale promoting goodgovernment issues, gave the board back its quorum.

Since its inception in 2007, the fund has financed more than half a dozen mayoral campaigns, leading up to its busiest year in the fall of 2013, when three candidates opted to use public money during the Democratic primary. This meant limiting individual donations to $370 in return for a $19,000 grant and matching funds of up to $125,000.

At the start of the year, however, the fund began losing board members, either because these individuals were at the end of

their terms or because work and family demands made fulfilling the duties of the role impossible.

The last meeting at which the board had a quorum — allowing it to conduct official business — was in January, recalled Ken Krayeske, whose contract as the fund’s administrator ended in June. Since the winter, meetings have been converted into purely educational sessions or cancelled altogether.

“Everything came to a grinding halt,” Kane said.

Since the board resumed work, Milfred, a junior in Pierson College from Portland, Oregon, has been charged with researching the feasibility of aldermanic campaign financing.

Krayeske, a full-time attorney, said he began this project in March 2013, but that his numbers assumed the “worst-case scenario”: competitive primary and general election race in all 30 of the city’s wards. The figures he produced — $4,000 per race — seemed exorbitant to the Board of Alders and the plan was never formally submitted, he said.

Milfred said he is basing his work on the assumption that each election cycle sees only a handful of competitive races. He said board members are leaning toward proposing a combination of grant money and matching funds, but are not sure of the precise levels. Simply dividing the numbers used in the mayoral race by 30 may not work, he said.

He is also examining ways to prevent the fund from doling out money to every aldermanic hopeful.

“The problem is also finding more refined techniques of establishing that a candidate is credible,” he said. The fund’s board will likely end up offering the Board of Alders several options from which they can choose, he added.

Ultimately, Kane said, financing aldermanic races is possible under the fund’s current budget.

She said the fund currently has about $300,000 on hand.

Alders interviewed expressed mixed feelings about the prospect of running their campaigns on public money. Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison, who also represents four of Yale’s residential colleges, said she would appreciate the option of public financing, but hesitated to commit: She said she has always received money from her union, assistance she would be hesitant to give up.

Westville Alder Adam Marchand GRD ’99 said the principle is good, but that there may be little need. He said $1,000 is sufficient to run a campaign.

Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, a two-term alder and outspoken proponent of public financing in his race against Mayor Toni Harp last fall, echoed Marchand’s ambivalence.

“To run an effective aldermanic campaign, you need almost no money,” he said. “Each [alder] represents about 4,500 people, and so you can theoretically have no money and knock on everyone’s door and still get a ton of votes.”

Still, Elicker and Krayeske said these races are not always free of financial influence. In

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Former mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 is an outspoken supporter of the Democracy Fund.

2011, when organized labor successfully supported more than a dozen candidates, sizeable donations helped their candidates edge out opponents backed

by City Hall, they said.

Krayeske said even a minor move towards public financing would create equity across all levels of municipal politics,

Buckley Program pushes expansion

encouraging alders and mayoral candidates alike to “take money out of the equation.”

Above all, Kane said, she is working to rebuild the board’s staff. Milfred said they have already received several applications for the role of administrator.

The aldermanic affairs com-

The William F. Buckley, Jr. Program hosted a master’s tea with former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. and former Pierson College Master Harvey Goldblatt in 2013.

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER After establishing its presence on Yale’s campus, the three-year-old William F. Buckley, Jr. Program is now looking to expand.

The program was the brainchild of Lauren Noble ’11, who envisioned the program after taking a residential college seminar on William F. Buckley, Jr. and the rise of modern conservatism in 2010. According to Sterling Professor of Classics Donald Kagan, who sits on the program’s Board of Directors, the program emerged from concerns among students that politically conservative perspectives were insufficiently represented among Yale’s faculty and on campus as a whole.

“The mission of the program from the beginning, and we stand true to this now, is to promote intellectual diversity on campus, so we try to bring a variety of viewpoints to Yale, and we try to foster honest and serious debate,” Noble said.

According to Vice President Mark DiPlacido ’15, one way the program tries to promote intellectual diversity is by bringing in speakers with unusual points of view that might not be “within what is politically correct.”

DiPlacido pointed to Harvey Mansfield’s talk last year about “the importance of manliness,” which DiPlacido said broadened the scope of what students on campus were willing to discuss.

In that same vein, this year the program plans to sponsor a talk by Ayaan

Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born victim of genital mutilation who has faced public criticism for her condemnation of certain Muslim practices. DiPlacido said the program decided to bring in Ali to speak because her story represents a diverse opinion.

The Buckley Program has also sought physical expansion at Yale with its purchase of Taft Mansion last year to provide a physical space on campus to serve as the organization’s home base.

The program will host eight speakers this semester, according to Carolyn Hansen ’16, who serves as speakers director.

One of the program’s newest features is its blog, The Beacon, which was started this summer.

“The idea is just to add another channel to fill our purpose of articulating underrepresented views,” said Zach Young ’17, a co-editor of The Beacon.

In addition, the program plans to beef up its new community service initiative, the Priscilla Buckley project. Though the project has sponsored a few outings already, such as trips to soup kitchens, the program’s leadership plans to host more community service trips in the future, according to Rich Lizardo ’15, Buckley Program president.

Last year, the program also began a series of “firing line” debates, with the inaugural debate between Yale Law School professor Akhil Amar and conservative politician Newt Gingrich.

Lizardo said the program’s leadership has more of these types of debates

lined up for this year.

But though the program intends to strengthen its presence at Yale, it does not plan to initiate chapters at other universities.

“So much of the Buckley Program is tied to Yale. For the foreseeable future, this is going to be a Yale program,” Lizardo said.

Students who are not involved in the program have mixed feelings about its presence on campus — especially its conservative bent.

Helen Price ’18 said that although she appreciates the effort the program makes to promote intellectual diversity, in practice such an effort can be problematic.

“When you invite very conservative speakers here who perhaps have controversial views on Islam or homosexuality, you essentially make Yale a very uncomfortable place for a large percentage of the people here on campus, and everyone should feel at home at college,” Price said.

On the other hand, Drake Goodson ’17 said he sees no harm in the program bringing controversial speakers to campus, adding that without controversy and disagreement on campus, there is no room for quality discussion.

This past summer, the Buckley Program took on its first research fellow, historian Alvin Felzenberg, who will receive support from the program until he finishes his new biography on Buckley’s life.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

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New app offers discounts across Elm City

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mittee approved the appointment of Republican William Wynn to the Fund, which is nonpartisan, in August. Wynn goes next to the full Board of Alders for confirmation.

Hotspot Deals, a new application launched by a Yale graduate just four weeks ago, provides participants with discounts at restaurants and coffee shops across New Haven in return for inviting a group of friends to join.

The free app requires users to link their phones’ contact lists to the app.

Hotspot Deals then reveals a list of local discounts, such as $3 Oaxaca margaritas or half-off coffee and tea at Blue State.

Each coupon is redeemed by texting a certain number of friends — usually anywhere between one to five people, who get an invite to arrive at the coffee shop or restaurant in question. Everyone who responds to the invite receives a coupon and even if no one responds, the coupon is still valid for the person who sent the invite.

“This app provides a sort of social cover, making it easy to invite people through a personalized text message,” said Jasjit Singh ’12, the founder of Hotspot Deals.

Since it was first released, over 400 people have downloaded Hotspot Deals.

In its first two weeks of operation, 10 businesses have already signed up to partner with Jasjit, including a number of student favorites like Box 63, Briq, Thali Too and Ordinary.

One of Jasjit’s major obstacles is getting businesses to provide deals enticing enough to make students download the app. So far, the app has been popular at Oaxaca and Box 63, he said.

Restaurants and cafes realize that Hotspot Deals may be a boost to business, restaurant managers said. Franco Cavallaro, the manager of Oaxaca, said that at least 40 new customers have visited Oaxaca because of the app, Andrew Ruben ’11, who manages Blue State Coffee, said that although only a “handful” of customers have taken advantage

of Hotspot Deals so far, he is optimistic that the new app will help business in the future.

“It’s a great way for us to encourage friends to meet up at our stores,” Ruben said.

The number of people using the app has been promising, Jasjit said. He added that about 10 percent of people who receive a text about a deal actually show up, and at Oaxaca, each customer is generating about $10 to $15 in revenue for the business.

It’s a great way for us to encourage friends to meet up at our stores.

ANDREW RUBEN ’11 Co-founder, Blue State Coffee As Hotspot Deals gains more users, Jasjit said he is looking to begin charging businesses anywhere from 10 to 15 cents for every text sent out about their restaurant’s deal.

Cavallaro said Oaxaca is willing to pay a fee in order to remain a part of Hotspot Deals, as long as the price is reasonable.

Yalies interviewed expressed enthusiasm about the app. Ben Kronengold ’18 said the app is well designed, noting specifically that each text message is customizable.

If Hotspot Deals is successful in New Haven, Jasjit plans to take his idea to other college campuses across the east coast, including New York City and Boston.

Hotspot Deals is available for in Apple’s App Store under the Lifestyle category.

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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

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Radio raises climate change awareness

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE STAFF REPORTER In less time than it takes to brush your teeth, a new radio series out of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is spreading climate change awareness.

The series, produced by Yale Climate Connections at FES and launched on Aug. 18, features 90-second stories about how climate change is affecting lives nationwide.

Numerous studies conducted by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication revealed that many Americans see climate change as an abstract issue of politics, the environment or scientific theory. The goal of the series is to help people realize the immediate, tangible impact climate change is already having on energy, extreme weather, public health, food and water, jobs and the economy, and national security, as well as creative arts and religious and moral values, said YPCC Director Anthony Leiserowitz.

“Climate change is so fundamental — we’re talking about the climate system on which all life depends on this planet — everybody has a real stake in this issue,” Leiserowitz said. “One of our hopes with this series is to help people connect the dots between climate change and other parts of our lives.”

One of our hopes […] is to help people connect the dots between climate change and other parts of our lives.

ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ Director, Yale Project on Climate Change Climate Connections is broadcast in 50 markets across in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah, with an audience in the hundreds of thousands. In its first 12 days on the air, some of the segments have garnered significant attention, said Yale Climate Connections editor Bud Ward.

The series’ first story, “The Green Tea Coalition,” shows the unlikely collaboration between the Tea Party and Sierra Club in Atlanta, Ga. In the partnership, the Sierra Club promotes renewable energy sources, while the Atlanta Tea Party advocates for the free market and consumer choice. The groups joined forces to help Georgia residents sell excess solar energy back to the Georgia Power Company.

“Here are examples of people all across America taking action today to deal with this problem, which for too many people seems big, abstract, overwhelming, and in some cases even unsolvable,” Leiserowitz said. “We want to bring attention to some great efforts that are already underway.”

Although some Americans might feel hopeless about the progress of climate change, the best science says that it’s not too late for action, Ward said.

Leiserowitz said he plans to continue growing the show’s radio presence over the next six months. The series, which was in development for over a year, is currently funded for a year, and Leiserowitz said he hopes it will be supported for longer. Graduate students from FES helped market the series on social networks and plan a website for the radio program.

For years, Yale Climate Connections has produced online content about climate-related issues, and the radio component allows Yale Climate Connections to reach a broader audience, Ward said. While most people who read the online content arrived with an existing interest in climate change, the radio broadcast allows the content to have a broader reach, Ward said.

The radio stories’ accompanying articles will continue to be written by veteran environmental journalists.

“I am delighted that through Climate Connections, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is engaging an increasingly broad audience about how climate change connects to all of our lives,” said FES Dean Peter Crane in an email.

The Climate Connections stories are available for download as podcasts on iTunes.

Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu .

Yalies deepen ties with city over summer

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER When Fish Stark ’17 asked New Haven public school students in one of the classes he taught this summer to pick an issue that was affecting their community and propose a solution to it, he was surprised at what he heard.

Almost all of his students brought up issues of safety — in the form of either bullying at school or gun violence on the street. There was some talk about discrimination, about waste and blight.

“But really, there was a lot of optimistic talk,” Stark said. “They talked about leaders in their community, and even students like them who were working for a better future. They had this vision of a place they wanted to live.”

Stark lived in New Haven this summer, with funding from the President’s Public Service Fellowship to work at Squash Haven, a local nonprofit that offers afterschool programming and squash lessons.

Throughout the summer, Stark said he was surprised at the amount of misinformation and misconceptions floating around among Yale students about the city.

“It’s really sort of stark to see the way that Yalies talk about New Haven, and then to go out and live there, work there, interact with the community, and just see how completely different out of sync these perceptions are,” Stark said.

“I think understanding places, cultures, spaces that are different from our own is kind of crucial to our development as people, and I think that Yalies are sometimes limiting themselves by allowing themselves to lapse into stereotypes about New Haven and the people in it.”

According to the 2013 summer activities survey, only 19 percent of Yale College stayed in New Haven to work in the summer of 2013 — the last year for which data were available — whether it was for summer session classes, laboratory work or nonprofit work like the type that Stark took part in.

William Whobrey, dean of Yale Summer Session and Special Programs, the number of students who took classes during the Yale summer session was around 180, in addition to the incoming freshmen who took classes as a part of the newly formed Freshman Scholars program. Whobrey said that while the number of students who stay on campus to take classes is pretty consistent, it has generally been creeping up little by little each year.

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Nearly 10 percent of the responders of the 2012 summer activities survey stayed in New Haven.

“For some, it’s a great way to experience New Haven,” Whobrey said. “You get to live in the city and get to become more a part of that community.”

Most of the students who take classes live off-campus, which Whobrey speculated is due to cheaper off-campus housing, and the relative freedom it affords.

Rebecca Bakal ’16, who stayed in New Haven this summer to work as an intern at the Common Ground summer camp, a farmbased educational camp at the Common Ground High School in New Haven, observed that she often spends much of the school year within a five-block radius, and the summer afforded her the opportunity to explore and interact with the larger city.

“I got to know people who are New Havenites in a way that I hadn’t gotten to before,” Bakal said. After heading to West Rock with coworkers, Bakal said that it “was a big surprise to find out that New Haven had such great natural resources like beautiful hiking and camping spots, and creeks to swim in.”

Bakal explored different parts of the city, like Fair Haven and West Rock, and was also able to develop relationships with local farmers through trips to the farm-

ers market, things she said that she’s not able to do during the year.

However, Bakal also recalled a week where there were two muggings within a block of her apartment. She said the events took her aback — she hadn’t thought to feel unsafe in the city.

“I don’t know if shocking is the right word, but I was a little surprised because I spend so much time in that area and always felt so safe, and always continue to feel safe,” Bakal said.

Carl Stanley MUS ’15, who worked for the nonprofit Artspace this summer, helped renovate the old Goffe Street armory into a gallery space. As a part of the project, Stanley went around and talked to people in the traditionally underserved Dixwell neighborhood.

Stanley, a former member of the U.S. Air Force, said that the program broadened his perspective on the city’s needs and priorities.

“I’ve got a big heart for New Haven now,” Stanley said.

Julie Greenwood, executive director of Squash Haven said that while many people are critical of New Haven’s relationship with the community, she has been very impressed with the Yale students who invest their collegiate years in their host community.

She said the opportunities that the kids have to interact with Yale students really exert a powerful influence.

In turn, Greenwood said, Yale students are able to learn a lot about the New Haven community, as well as what she described as the “strength and beauty” of the people and the city.

When Stark set out this summer to work for Squash Haven, he was nervous that his commitment to the city would be questioned in the face of on-campus discourse about activism with ulterior motivations.

“What I found is that really the idea of it being presumptuous for Yale students to be engaged with the community ends at the outer edge of the Yale bubble,” Stark said. “We owe it to New Haven to get involved, because we gain so much from this city, but we also owe it to ourselves, to break some of the inaccurate conceptions we have about this city and its citizens.

Of the 939 students that responded to the 2012 summer activities survey who worked or had an internship over the summer, 77 were based in New Haven.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.childress@yale.edu .

Report shows slow recovery from recession

BY APARNA NATHAN STAFF REPORTER A recent report on Connecticut’s economy indicates that recovery in the state may be behind that of the rest of the country — and posing a threat to the future of children in the state.

The report entitled “The State of Working Connecticut 2014” was published by Connecticut Voices for Children, a child advocacy organization based in New Haven. The report concluded that Connecticut’s job market has not fully recovered from the Great Recession, resulting in poverty and unemployment that affect many of Connecticut’s families.

“Child poverty has an impact on future development,” said Ellen Shemitz ’83 LAW ’87, the executive director of Connecticut Voices for Children. “[These trends] raise troubling news.”

Those at Connecticut Voices

for Children are particularly concerned because of the intersection between these groups and Connecticut’s children, Gibson said. The report states that one-third of Connecticut children are growing up in or near poverty conditions, and half of the kindergartners beginning school this year are of color.

“When families see unemployment and poverty, kids suffer,” Gibson said.

The report analyzed Connecticut labor and wage data from 1979 through 2014, with particular emphasis on the effect of the 2009 financial crisis. Unemployment was identified in the report as a particular issue in Connecticut. At 6.6 percent, the Connecticut unemployment rate is at its lowest since the recession, though still higher than the national rate of 6.2 percent.

Additionally, the report said much of the decrease in unemployment was caused by people leaving the work force, instead

of finding satisfactory jobs.

Although the national jobs report from June indicates that the nation is making up the jobs lost in the Great Recession, Connecticut is still far from reaching that level of employment, said Nick Defiesta ’14, a fiscal policy fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children, co-author of the report and former city editor for the News. Unemployment was at 4.5 percent in 2007 and has only recovered to 6.6 percent this year.

“Even five years after the end of the Great Recession, Connecticut workers continue to face an economy with fewer jobs, falling wages and rising inequality,” said Wade Gibson, director of the Fiscal Policy Center at Connecticut Voices for Children. Gibson said he predicts that Connecticut is three years from fully recovering from the 2009 financial crisis at its current pace.

The slow recovery is no differ-

ent from Connecticut’s recoveries from past recessions, said Fred Carstensen GRD ’70, a professor of economics at the University of Connecticut. Connecticut’s inattention to human capital, lack of strategic investments in infrastructure and ineffective economic development policy have contributed to a similar stagnation in the past, Carstensen said.

“What Connecticut Voices [For Children] talked about is something that we’ve been well aware of and is a historic pattern,” Carstensen said. “They’ve given us a snapshot, but they ought to be offering an explanation of what has driven this.”

The report highlighted many cases of labor inequality, including the gender wage gap in Connecticut, which is 50 percent greater than the national wage gap.

The highest levels of unemployment were among young workers between the ages of 16

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and 24. Other groups with high levels of unemployment include African American and Hispanic minority workers, as well as workers of all races with only a high school degree or some college education.

When families see unemployment and poverty, kids suffer.

WADE GIBSON Director, Fiscal Policy Center at Connecticut Voices for Children The report concluded with two policy recommendations based on the data. The first was a call to reestablish the state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) that is offered to low income families when they file their tax returns. The state EITC was first passed in 2011, but

was cut shortly after. Although the percentage of earnings returned to families has fluctuated between 25 and 30 percent, Connecticut Voices for Children recommends that legislators reinstate the full original 30 percent.

The second recommendation was for legislators to add a feature to the tax code that accounts for the cost of raising kids. Connecticut is one of only a small number of states that does not grant dependent exemptions or give a child tax credit.

“This economy is troubling for our future,” Gibson said. “It disproportionately affects certain people, the people raising Connecticut’s next generation of workers, leaders and parents.”

The study was carried out in conjunction with the Economic Policy Institute.

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“The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.”

BOBBY SCOTT 3RD DISTRICT U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, VIRGINIA

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Rev. Sharpton attributed his opinions on the death penalty to an emotional personal story of a meeting with a death row inmate.

“We cannot answer murder with murder.”

Sharpton emphasized that in the United States court system, black people are disproportionately more likely to receive the death penalty than members of other demographic groups. The death penalty helps uphold a racist judicial system, he said.

Sharpton also addressed the negative consequences of the death penalty. Pointing to statistics on death row prisoners who are proven innocent, Sharpton argued that even one wrongly executed person would be too many. The death penalty should not exist so long as there is the possibility of innocent death, he said.

He also said that states without the death penalty have a lower rate of murder than states with the death penalty.

When Sharpton’s speech drew to a close, Michael Lemanski ’16 of the YPU Party of the Right took to the podium. Arguing in favor of the death penalty, Lemanski said society has the ability to determine the seriousness of a crime. The death penalty may have its problems, but it is not inherently broken and can be improved, he said.

Likewise, Eric DeVilliers ’17, a member of the YPU Federalist Party argued that the death penalty should not be abolished.

According to DeVilliers, the death penalty is actually more merciful than lifelong incarceration because condemning someone to a life in prison is tantamount to “amputating people’s souls.” Giving someone the death penalty thus enables that person to avoid the suffering of longterm imprisonment, he said.

Furthermore, DeVilliers said that the death penalty is an appropriate punishment because

it forces criminals to evaluate their life choices during their final hours and realize that their fate is a consequence of their crime.

In contrast, Spencer Weinreich ’15, a member of the YPU Party of the Left, stated that the death penalty is “society-sanctioned murder.” Rather than providing justice, an execution merely displays the power of the state, he said.

Ella Wood ’15, a member of the YPU Independent Party, argued that society should focus on prisoner rehabilitation rather than the death penalty.

Audience members interviewed responded positively to the debate.

Alice Zhao ’18 said she appreciated hearing Sharpton speak and enjoyed seeing how much he interacted with the Yale students and vice versa.

Mark DiPlacido ’15, the YPU president, said the union was pleased with the turnout and energy of the debate.

“Al Sharpton is an interesting, controversial figure who offers experienced insight in this much-needed debate regarding the death penalty,” added Zachary Edelman ’16, the vice president of operations for the YPU. Edelman said that recent events — such as the shooting in Ferguson, Mo., and the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York City this summer — have brought the controversial relationship between the justice system and African-Americans to national attention. Sharpton was able to provide an important perspective on that relationship, he said.

Sharpton currently hosts his own radio show, “Keepin’ It Real With Al Sharpton,” on WWRL. Contact PETER HUANG at peter.huang@yale.edu .

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YIELD FROM PAGE 1 thing specific because it’s a multiyear process,” Quinlan said.

He added that last year was very positive for the University in the media. He cited several professors’ Nobel Prize wins and the record $250 million gift to the University by Charles Johnson ’54 as two examples.

Dunn said another possible reason for the uptick in this year’s yield is the Admissions Office’s implementation of a number of new outreach tools this spring.

In addition to sending emails to accepted students that were tailored to each student’s interests, the Admissions Office introduced a series of Google Hangouts allowing current students employed by the office to talk to prospective students.

He added that the relatively late dates

For most schools, if they don’t get above a certain number of full-fee paying students to matriculate, their gates aren’t opening in the fall.

BRIAN JANSEN Education consultant, Noel-Levitz of this year’s Bulldog Days — Yale’s signature three-day program to welcome accepted students, which was held from April 22–25 — meant that his office had more time to facilitate connections between prospective and current students.

Yale was not the only school with an increased yield rate this year. Stanford’s yield for the class of 2018 was recorded at 78.9 percent, a 2.9 percent increase from the year before, while Harvard maintained its record-setting yield rate of 82 percent. Princeton’s also went up, albeit slightly, from 68.7 percent to 69.2 percent.

Dunn said he thinks all these schools may have seen their yields rise in part because a higher number of students were accepted through early action programs.

“If a school is taking more students early, that might mean those students may not even be applying to other schools,” he said.

Quinlan echoed Dunn’s sentiment, adding that Yale noticed a slightly smaller overlap in accepted applicants with some of its peer institutions this year. As admission rates continue to plummet and application numbers soar, Dunn said this trend may continue.

Along with acceptance rates and application numbers, admissions officers tend to view yield rates as highly significant because a yield rate often strongly correlates with a school’s prestige, said Brian Jansen, a consultant for Noel-Levitz, an education consultancy that specializes in advising colleges on enrollment management and student recruitment.

Still, Jerome Lucido, director of the USC Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice, said it is important not to weigh the importance of yield rates too highly. He added that some schools boost yield rates artificially by selectively admitting students who are likely to attend, such as recruited athletes or legacy students.

Jansen said while yield rates are a constant source of stress for most colleges in America, schools such as Yale and Harvard are in a league of their own.

“For most schools, if they don’t get above a certain number of full-fee paying students to matriculate, their gates aren’t opening in the fall,” he said.

Dunn echoed Jansen’s sentiment, adding that Yale is not in that position because the school’s financial model is not as tuition-dependent.

Members of the class of 2018 who recently chose Yale over other elite schools agreed with Jansen’s assessment that more well-known schools tend to have higher yields.

Catie Liu ’18 said people outside of Yale still express surprise when she tells them that she chose Yale over Harvard.

“Harvard just sort of has this brand name and is very well marketed,” she said.

Still, Liu said she chose Yale because it seemed like a more collaborative university than its peers.

Dan McQuaid ’18 said he chose Yale over Princeton and Stanford in part because he thought Bulldog Days was a more welcoming and better organized program than those of both Stanford and Princeton.

He added that he was also impressed

by Yale’s efforts to reach out to students likely to major in the sciences, technology, engineering or mathematics fields.

After attending Yale Engineering and Science Weekend, an invitational program for high-achieving prospective students in the field, McQuaid said he was excited about the STEM opportunities available at Yale.

Likewise, Andrew Saydjari ’18, a likely STEM major from Wisconsin, said he chose Yale over a number of STEM-oriented schools because the University provided a more holistic and intellectually diverse community.

Students had to decide where they would matriculate by May 1.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .

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“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” JOHN DEWEY AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER AND EDUCATIONAL REFORMER

Extracurriculars grow at Yale-NUS

YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 hugs,” Dean of Students Kyle Farley said. “New incoming [students and returning students] were reunited on move-in weekend as if they were old friends.”

At the orientation program this year, Farley said, the new freshmen arrived before the sophomores so that they could forge an identity as a class before developing relationships with the inaugural class.

Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said he is impressed by the amount of energy of the student body and their level of interaction amongst themselves.

“There’s that great start-ofthe-year positive feeling,” he said. “We’re not yet a full-size college but we’re getting critical mass, you could say.”

A HAND IN THE ARTS

Lewis said faculty hiring has intensified over the last few months both to accommodate the growing student population and to broaden the span of disciplines and subjects taught at the school.

Having an arts program and various … offerings in the arts has long been part of the plan.

JASON ROSENBERG Director of Student Music, Yale-NUS This year, the school is pushing particularly to increase its proportions of senior faculty, Lewis said. He added his goals for the school are long-term, though the school prides itself in being responsive to student demand.

The recent expansion in the field of the arts is reflective of this approach, he said.

“I’m more thinking of what their ultimate class profile is going to be like,” he said. “We realized that the arts were underrepresented and wanted to have [a team of faculty members] for when our permanent facilities open in the new campus.”

Yale-NUS Director of Art Joyce Mark said there is a demand for arts from students, and the

demand will only fully be satisfied after the move to the new campus — where there will be the space for practice-based and integrated arts electives.

Director of Student Music Jason Rosenberg said that although the arts are growing the most this year, the initiative is not new.

“All over the globe, music and the arts have been an essential component of classical wellrounded educational systems.

Thus, having an arts program and various curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular offerings in the arts has long been part of the plan,” he said.

DIFFERENT YET STILL THE SAME

Though the new class is entering a school that is more established than it was last year, the students’ academic experience will still be very similar to those of their predecessors.

Many of the academic requirements remain the same for the freshmen, Lewis said. They will take the standard four Common Curriculum courses this semester, and a choice of one elective in the spring.

Although according to Lewis and Bailyn the Common Curriculum will not be subject to review and change until next year, the faculty is looking for ways to allow more specialization in the electives students are allowed to take during the second and third semesters at the school.

While freshmen are immersed in their four required classes, sophomores are enjoying more freedom of choice than they’ve had since they started at the college.

Evannia Handoyo, a secondyear student, said the Common Curriculum allowed her to make the most of the classes she is taking this year.

“I think we are now reaping the benefits of a common curriculum and because we had such a shared intellectual experience last year, our class discussions are very productive,” she said.

Tinesh Indrarajah, also a sophomore, said that there is a wide enough variety of electives for all students to be satisfied with the classes to which they are

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The Yale-NUS campus, though not at its permanent campus until January 2015, has doubled in size with 170 more students and 20 new faculty. assigned.

In terms of academics, Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn said the school is hiring in virtually all areas right now, partly because students have not chosen majors yet and the majors themselves have still not been fully designed. Faculty members have come up with good general descriptions of the majors, he said, but are still in the process of turning them into specific course sequences.

But assistant professor in Physics Shaffique Adam said he thinks the school would benefit from continuing to hire in all areas.

“I personally don’t think we are anywhere close to the point of diminishing returns,” he said.

A MOVEABLE FEAST

Students, faculty and administrators agreed that the part of life has changed the most this year is the extracurricular scene.

Since freshmen and sophomores will not run into each other in class, Farley said, all inter-class engagement is happening outside the classroom.

The freshman class is already making its mark on the extracurricular scene. Many activities that lacked the critical mass to form groups last year are now picking up speed, Farley said.

“As of this weekend we have a tennis team [while last year we only had two competitive players],” he said. “Last year we didn’t have enough for an

orchestra — this year we have the numbers.”

The basketball team also doubled in size and had an away game last week, at which a third of the student body arrived to cheer them on.

At the opening dinner for this academic year, freshmen and sophomores joined together for an a cappella performance in which they opened for their visitors, the Yale Whiffenpoofs.

Jamie Buitelaar, a first-year student, said the guidance of the sophomore class helped the freshman class harness its own identity.

Tamara Burgos, another firstyear, said that although freshmen have the opportunity to start their own extracurriculars,

many have found their interests satisfied in pre-existing ones.

Anh Vo ’14, a Yale graduate who is working at Yale-NUS as a Dean’s Fellow, a position similar to Yale’s freshman counselors, said freshmen at Yale-NUS are fortunate to have upperclassmen who have a year of college experience to serve as peer mentors and friends.

“We‘re still at the stage of getting to know each other, but the extracurricular scene has exploded with activity. Handoyo said there is less pressure on us to stretch ourselves thin and more space to narrow down our interests and strive for excellence.”

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

Clinton encourages turnout for Malloy BILL CLINTON FROM PAGE 1 be shaped dramatically by this election,” Clinton told the audience, calling Malloy a “true leader” who articulated a vision for the state.

“This man has more than earned the chance to finish the job he started four years ago.”

Clinton’s appearance so early in the campaign suggests Malloy will pull out all the stops this fall in his race against Foley, whom he defeated four years ago by a narrow margin of around 6,400 votes. In 2010, Clinton spoke at a rally for Malloy in the last few days leading up to Election Day. But this year, with Foley leading in the latest polls and Malloy facing criticism not only from Republicans but also from tra-

ditionally Democratic groups like teachers’ unions, the governor will likely need as much help as he can get early on. Speaking to reporters after the rally, Malloy said he would welcome campaign visits from President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

He also struck an optimistic tone regarding his odds, emphasizing that 2010 polls had shown him a few points behind Foley, even on Election Day. “It’s about who votes, quite frankly,” Malloy said. “The assumptions that certain people make about turnout in certain places I think will turn out not to be the reality.”

In his speech, Clinton emphasized turnout as well, telling the crowd that they had “a few

weeks to determine how this election comes out.”

I’ve been listening to this for over 30 years now. They talk tough but they govern soft.

BILL CLINTON LAW ’73 Former U.S. president Around thirty students from the Yale College Democrats attended Tuesday’s fundraiser, including Tyler Blackmon ’16, the group’s election coordinator and a staff columnist for the News.

Blackmon, who will encour-

age students to vote in November’s election, said the race has national significance.

“A lot of Yale students don’t realize how close the race actually is here in Connecticut,” Blackmon said. “There’s so much at stake here. The progressive movement as a whole could suffer a serious blow if Dan Malloy loses reelection.”

Malloy has drawn national attention for passing a raft of liberal legislation, including some of the toughest gun restrictions in the nation in the wake of the Newtown shooting. He abolished the death penalty in 2012 and this spring, he passed a bill giving Connecticut the highest minimum wage in the country — $10.10 an hour.

But those victories have drawn

the ire of conservative critics, and many moderates are frustrated by Connecticut’s sluggish economic recovery and blame Malloy’s large tax increases. Foley, a former businessman, has sought to paint Malloy as bad for business.

Clinton challenged that characterization in his speech, claiming Foley has not shown how he would be able to balance the budget if he cut taxes without significantly cutting government programs.

“I’ve been listening to this for over 30 years now,” Clinton said.

“They talk tough but they govern soft. They tell voters, you can eat all the candy you want and you will never have to go to the dentist. The consequences are not good.”

Though the fundraiser was

aimed at party faithfuls who would leave work on a Tuesday, 6th District Alder Dolores Colon said she hopes Clinton’s appearance boosts Malloy’s credibility among undecided voters.

Before the fundraiser, Clinton, Malloy, Harp, Blumenthal and Murphy visited Katalina’s Bakery on Whitney Avenue. Katalina Riegelmann, the bakery’s owner, said Clinton ordered a vegan carrot-cake cupcake and a vegan coconut lime cupcake to go. Malloy ordered only coffee.

When he went to Katalina’s last year, Malloy ordered an oatmeal raisin cookie.

Contact ABIGAIL BESSLER at abigail.bessler@yale.edu and ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

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“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

ALBERT EINSTEIN, THEORETICAL PHYSICIST

Ukrainian troops routed as Russia talks tough

BY PETER LEONARD ASSOCIATED PRESS NOVOKATERYNIVKA, Ukraine — The ferocity of the attack on the fleeing Ukrainian troops was clear, days after the ambush by Russian-backed separatist forces.

More than 30 military vehicles lay in charred piles Tuesday. Villagers said dozens were killed and some remained unburied. One soldier was blown out of his armored vehicle — apparently by a shell — his body left dangling from power lines high above.

The rout early Sunday near the village of Novokaterynivka marked a major intensification in the rebel offensive, one that the Ukrainian government, NATO and the United States say has been sustained by Russia’s direct military support.

Moscow has stepped up its harsh rhetoric as well. A leaked report said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said President Vladimir Putin told him that Russia could take over Kiev “in two weeks” if it wished.

Following a month of setbacks in which government troops regained territory, the separatists have been successful in the last 10 days just as columns of Russian tanks and armored vehicles have been seen crossing the border.

President Barack Obama and other NATO leaders will be attending a summit Thursday in Wales to create a rapid-response military team to counter the Russian threat.

Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign policy adviser, said the Russian leader’s statement on Kiev was “taken out of context and carried a completely different meaning.”

Yet the results of much deadlier weapons of war could not be denied.

The smashed tanks, APCs and trucks were part of a massive column fleeing after being encircled in the town of Ilovaisk, which the Ukrainian government was compelled to concede after weeks of battles. Judging by how close together the stricken vehicles were, the incoming fire was precise and intense.

“They were going to surrender, and they began to bomb them,” said Novokaterynivka resident Anatoly Tyrn, who had the turret of a tank land beside his home.

Ukrainian army personnel have been allowed to travel to Novokaterynivka, about 36 kilometers (23

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Pro-Russian rebels pass by destroyed Ukrainian military vehicles near the village of Novokaterynivka, eastern Ukraine. miles) southeast of Donetsk, and surrounding rebel-held areas to retrieve their soldiers’ bodies.

Villagers and the separatists say the number of Ukrainian military dead was huge, although the government has maintained a tight lid on the precise figure.

Tyrn said he believed more than 100 had died. Various rebel fighters separately gave estimates, all ranging into the dozens. Associated Press reporters saw at least 11 bodies in the last two days, although it was clear that was only a portion of the overall toll. Most of the dead were removed Monday, the rebels said, although one was buried so shallowly that the decaying remains were still visible.

“Only a few homes in the village have been left untouched,” he said.

As Tyrn spoke, the silence was broken by a controlled explosion of abandoned Ukrainian army equipment a couple of miles away.

“That’s far away,” he said, without flinching.

It’s uncertain about whether the Ukrainian troops had been offered a safe exit corridor by the rebels. The leader of the pro-government Donbas Battalion, Semyon Semenchenko, wrote on his Facebook page Saturday that there was an agreement. But rebel fighters told the AP a day later that the government convoy included too many military vehicles and weapons to be allowed through.

A group of surviving Ukrainian soldiers outside the town of Starobesheve told the AP that they were fired upon from all sides.

Second U.S. journalist possibly beheaded

BY ZEINA KARAM ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Islamic State extremists released a video Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of a second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and warning President Barack Obama that as long as U.S. airstrikes against the militant group continue, “our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.”

The footage — depicting what the U.S. called a sickening act of brutality — was posted two weeks after the release of video showing the killing of James Foley and just days after Sotloff’s mother pleaded for his life.

Barak Barfi, a spokesman for the family, said that the Sotloffs had seen the video but that authorities have not established its authenticity.

“The family knows of this horrific tragedy and is grieving privately. There will be no public comment from the family during this difficult time,” Barfi said.

Sotloff, a 31-year-old Miamiarea native who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines, vanished in Syria in August 2013 and was not seen again until he appeared in a video released last month that showed Foley’s beheading. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against an arid Syrian landscape, Sotloff was threatened in that video with death unless the U.S. stopped airstrikes on the Islamic State.

In the video distributed Tuesday and titled “A Second Message to America,” Sotloff appears in a similar jumpsuit before he is apparently beheaded by a fighter with the Islamic State, the extremist group that has conquered wide swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq and declared itself a caliphate.

In the video, the organization threatens to kill another hostage,

this one identified as a British citizen, David Cawthorne Haines. It was not immediately clear who Haines was.

Britain and France called the killing “barbaric.” British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a statement that he would chair an emergency response meeting with his Cabinet early Wednesday to review the latest developments.

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said U.S. intelligence analysts will work as quickly as possible to determine if the video is authentic.

“If the video is genuine, we are sickened by this brutal act, taking the life of another innocent American citizen,” Psaki said.

“Our hearts go out to the Sotloff family.”

Psaki said it is believed that “a few” Americans are still being held by the Islamic State. Psaki would not give any specifics, but one is a 26-year-old woman kidnapped while doing humanitarian aid work in Syria, according to a family representative who asked that the hostage not be identified out of fear for her safety.

The fighter who apparently beheads Sotloff in the video calls it retribution for Obama’s continued airstrikes against the group.

“I’m back, Obama, and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy toward the Islamic State … despite our serious warnings,” the fighter says. “So just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.”

The killer specifically mentions the recent U.S. airstrikes around the Mosul dam and the beleaguered Iraqi town of Amirli, making it unlikely that Sotloff was killed at the same time as Foley, as some analysts had speculated.

Over the weekend, Iraqi government forces with help from U.S. airstrikes broke the Islamic State’s two-month siege of Amirli, a town where some 15,000 Shiite Turkmens had been stranded.

The SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. terrorism watchdog, first reported the video’s existence.

In a sign of disorganization — or perhaps dissension — in the extremist group’s ranks, a faction of the Islamic State apparently posted the video early, before it was supposed to be released. In a later Twitter message, those responsible apologized and asked fellow jihadis not to “reproach” them.

The Islamic State has terrorized rivals and civilians alike with widely publicized brutality as it seeks to expand a protostate it has carved out on both sides of the border. In its rise to prominence over the past year, it has frequently published graphic photos and gruesome videos of bombings, beheadings and mass killings.

Last week, Sotloff’s mother, Shirley Sotloff, pleaded with his captors for mercy, saying in a video that her son was “an innocent journalist” and “an honorable man” who “has always tried to help the weak.”

Sotloff grew up in the Miami area, graduated from Kimball Union Academy, a prep school in New Hampshire, and then attended the University of Central Florida, which said he majored in journalism from 2022 to 2004 but apparently left without graduating.

Just how Sotloff made his way from Florida to Middle East hotspots is not clear. He published articles from Syria, Egypt and Libya in a variety of publications. Several focus on the plight of ordinary people in war-torn places.

Rank-and-file troops increasingly have voiced exasperation at what they say is government mismanagement of the war. Anatoly Babchenko, a soldier captured Sunday by the rebels, was unsparing in his criticism.

“First they drove people to hunger, and now they’ve driven them to war,” Babchenko said from a basement cell at the Starobesheve police station. “They call this an anti-terrorist operation, but this is a civil war. Brother killing brother.”

The separatists began fighting Ukrainian troops in April, a month after Russia annexed Crimea.

The war has left more than 2,500 people dead and forced at least 340,000 to flee.

It also has left Ukraine’s econ-

omy in tatters. Ukraine might need billions in additional support if the fighting persists through next year, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. Just covering the shortfall in the central bank’s reserves would require an additional $19 billion by the end of 2015, it said.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey said on his Facebook page that the counterinsurgency operation was over and the military was now facing the Russian army in a war that could cost “tens of thousands” of lives.

“This is our Great Patriotic War,” he wrote, using the local terminology for World War II. Russia’s Foreign Ministry dismissed Heletey’s remarks as “shocking,” accusing him of try-

ing to shift blame and keep his post amid a series of military defeats.

Ukrainian and several Western countries say Russia has sharply escalated the conflict by sending regular army units across the border. NATO estimates at least 1,000 Russian soldiers have entered Ukraine, helping turn the tide in the last week in favor of the rebels. The alliance also says 20,000 other Russian soldiers have been positioned along the frontier.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 10:00 a.m. Historic Papermaking Demonstration. Come to a series of events about hand papermaking presented by The Bibliographical Press at Yale University Library and the Yale Program in the History of the Book. The morning will feature historic papermaking techniques with five demonstrations scheduled between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. Artists Drew Matcott and Margaret Mahan of the Peace Paper Project will work as a team to demonstrate how paper was made in Europe for centuries.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.).

12:30 p.m. The Milt Hinton Photographic Collection: A Personal History. Come listen to David G. Berger and Holly Maxson, codirectors of the Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection, as they discuss jazz bassist Milt Hinton’s life, legacy, music and photographs. They will also offer their thoughts on the exhibition “Jazz Lives: The Photographs of Lee Friedlander and Milt Hinton.” Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 4:00 p.m. DeVane Lecture: Introduction to Natural Selection and Sexual Selection; and the Darwin-Wallace Debate. Richard O. Prum, the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology is presenting a series of lectures this semester titled “The Evolution of Beauty: From Warblers to Warhol.” Osborn Memorial Laboratories (165 Prospect St.), Rm. 202.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 1:30 p.m. Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire. The Roman Empire was vast and diverse, but the inhabitants of even its most far-flung provinces — Britain, Gaul, Turkey, Syria, Eygpt and Tunisia — were all to some degree “Roman.” This exhibition tour examines the interaction between local traditions and Roman imperial culture through art and artifacts reflecting daily life, politics, technology and religion. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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SPORTS

“I bet we could still pull off ‘the Great Sister Swap.’” MARY-KATE OLSEN OR MAYBE ASHLEY

Among new faces, w. soccer looks to improve

BY SYDNEY GLOVER STAFF REPORTER After a disappointing finish in the Ivy League last season, the Yale women’s soccer team is looking for a chance to rebound with new coaches and improved skills, while also working to integrate an exceptionally large freshman class.

Last season, the team finished 7–8–1 overall and 2–4–1 in the Ivy League. The Bulldogs started the season strong, winning four of their first five games. Injuries eventually caught up to them, however, and the squad ended the season on a three-game losing streak.

“We have a few strong players [this year] who were limited last year due to injury but are now healthy and ready to make an impact,” goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15 said. “Geny [Decker ’17] made a difference offensively right away her freshman year but was sidelined due to a concussion. Ally Grossman ’16 and Shannon Conneely ’16 both had to take time to recover from knee injuries. Having them both back will really make a

difference.”

A number of players said that the recovered team is looking forward to a new season and playing with the 10 freshman recruits. Five of the newcomers were selected for their regional Olympic Development Programs during high school, and many of their club teams were national contenders.

The additions include five defenders, three midfielders and two forwards, both of which can also play midfield.

“All 10 freshmen are great players and will be a big help to our team this year,” defender Dani Temares ’17 said.

In addition to a new class, the team welcomed a new set of coaches. Stuart Dick and Eleri Earnshaw joined the staff as assistant coaches, backing up head coach Rudy Meredith. Dick was a former assistant at the University of Bridgeport, and Earnshaw formerly assisted at Central Connecticut State and Long Island universities.

Wilcox noted that both coaches have already added new ideas and skills to the Yale program, including physiology

knowledge and videos of the girls at work.

The team’s new captain, midfielder Meredith Speck ’15, will come into the season with a reputation to uphold after stellar freshman and junior seasons.

Twice selected for the all-Ivy first team, Speck will lead the squad into a new season.

“There is a ton of excitement about the upcoming season because each year is a new opportunity to win Ivies and make an impact for the future of the program,” Speck said.

After graduating five seniors — three of whom played in all 16 games — the returning Bulldogs have major shoes to fill.

Five of the returning players scored 10 or more goals last season. These scorers include forward Paula Hagopian ’16, who notched 15 goals, and forward Melissa Gavin ’15 and Speck, who both scored 16.

On the other end of the field, goalkeepers Rachel Ames ’16 and Wilcox both tallied at least one shutout last season.

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McSweeney ’14 last year, and the squad plans to continue that dynamic with Speck at the helm.

“If anything, Meredith has continued what Shannon started last year: creating a close group

and expecting everyone to do their part to help the team win an Ivy League Championship,” Gavin stated.

The Bulldogs play at home this Friday for their first game of

the season, squaring off against Quinnipiac. Play starts at 7:30 p.m.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

Soccer Season Preview Brown PHIL PINCINCE 37th season

KEY GAMES SEPT. 7 SEPT. 28 OCT. 11 NOV. 7

DELAWARE @ DARTMOUTH @PRINCETON YALE

Brown finished third in the Ivy League last season, but this year it will field a very different roster. While Brown lost eight seniors at the completion of last season, it will have seven new seniors to fill their place as well as seven freshmen — including a new goalkeeper. And between the pipes is where the Brown Bears will face the most adversity this season. One of Brown’s greatest assets in 2013 was goalkeeper Amber Bledsoe, who made 54 saves on her way to a sparkling 0.844 save percentage in goal. Bledsoe’s backup, Mallory Yant, played in just one game in both 2011 and 2012 and missed the entire 2013 due to injury. The Bear’s other goaltending option will be freshman Rylee Shumway, who has yet to play in a collegiate game.

Cornell PATRICK FARMER 3rd season

KEY GAMES SEPT. 7 OCT. 3 OCT. 18 OCT. 26

@MARIST PENN YALE @BROWN

DARREN AMBROSE 15th season

KEY GAMES SEPT. 7 SEPT. 27 OCT. 25 NOV. 8

OLD DOMINION HARVARD @YALE @PRINCETON

TRACEY BARTHOLOMEW 1st season

KEY GAMES SEPT. 5 SEPT. 26 NOV. 1 NOV. 8

SACRED HEART CORNELL @YALE @HARVARD

RON RAINEY 1TH season

KEY GAMES SEPT. 5 SEPT. 28 OCT. 11 NOV. 8

@PORTLAND BROWN YALE CORNELL

Last season’s Ivy League runner-up Penn will hope to continue its defensive success this season after conceding a league-low eight goals in 2013. The Quakers posted a 12–1–4 record, but finished five points behind Ancient Eight winner Harvard. All-American selection and 2013 Ivy League Defensive player of the year — junior defender Caroline Dwyer, who started all 17 games last season, was named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch for 2014. Dwyer returns to lead the stout Penn defense alongside first-team all-Ivy selection goaltender Kalijah Terilli. Sophomore midfielder Tahirih Nesmith (four goals, one assist in 2013) and junior forward Megan York (three goals, two assists in 2013) return to a team with 11 different goal scorers from last season as the leaders on the offensive side of the ball.

JULIE SHACKFORD 20TH season

KEY GAMES SEPT. 5 SEPT. 27 OCT. 18 NOV. 8

RUTGERS @YALE @COLUMBIA PENN

Harvard

8–6–3 (4–3–0) 4th

The Big Green will look to new head coach Ron Rainey to maintain its home form and find success on the road. Last season Dartmouth posted a 7–0–1 record in Hanover, N.H., but struggled away from the hills of New Hampshire. With just one win in nine games away from Burnham Field, the team posted an 8–6–3 overall record — good for fourth place in the Ivy League in 2013. This season, Rainey inherits a relatively young squad, with 14 underclassmen out of 25 players. Three of the Big Green’s top five scorers graduated last spring, but sophomore forward tandem Corey Delaney (five goals, five assists in 2013) and Lucielle Kozlov (three goals, two assists in 2013) return to lead the line in 2014.

Two-time all-Ivy League selection Tatiana Saunders, who led the league with 65 saves last year, returns in net to marshal the backline alongside three defenders who started over 16 games: juniors Jackie Friedman and Jill Dayneka and sophomore Hayley Snyder.

Princeton

12–1–4 (5–1–1) 2nd

8–6–3 (1–4–2) 6th

After a high scoring and tumultuous 2013, the Lions will hope to rebuild and regroup with a new head coach and eight newcomers.

Columbia scored the second-most goals in the Ivy League last season, but could only manage one win in the conference en route to a seventh-place finish. At the end of last season, head coach Kevin McCarthy abruptly resigned after 19 years at the helm. Tracey Bartholomew was quickly hired from Long Island University after 14 highly successful years there, including three NCAA College Cup appearances and three Northeast Conference championships. The Lions will have to replace five key senior starters from last season, including three of their top five scorers, who accounted for 17 of their 29 goals last season. Junior forwards Elly McGuffog (three goals, four assists in 2013) and Alexa Yow (four goals, two assists in 2013) return to lead the line. In net, Bartholomew will have an embarrassment of riches, as Columbia returns four goaltenders, each of whom saw action last season.

Dartmouth

7–8–1 (1–6–0) 8th

After finishing last season at the bottom of the Ivy League, the Big Red will hope to vault up the table with a deep and experienced team that is returning all but one player who started more than 10 games in 2013. Cornell also brings back 13 players who featured in 13 or more games last season. After posting a 6–2–1 record in nonconference games last year, Cornell will look to start strong again this season before entering Ancient Eight play. Last season’s top scorer, junior forward Caroline Growney (seven goals, one assist in 2013), will again lead the Big Red offense alongside sophomore playmakers Dempsey Banks (three goals, six assists in 2013) and Elizabeth Crowell (three goals, five assists in 2013) in midfield. Sophomore netminder Kelsey Tierney, who posted the fourth-highest save tally in the conference, comes back to start in net. Co -captain Sydney Cetrullo returns after an injury-hampered 2013 to marshal the Big Red defense in 2014.

Penn

Columbia

10–6–1 (4–2–1) 3rd

RAY LEONE 8TH season

KEY GAMES SEPT. 12 @BOSTON COLLEGE @PENN SEPT. 27 OCT. 4 YALE NOV. 8 COLUMBIA

The Tigers are looking to bounce back from a tough season after finishing in seventh place in the Ivy League in 2013. A core returning crew will help Princeton improve upon its 2013 performance. As a freshman in 2013, Tyler Lussi finished third in the Ivy League in scoring with 24 points despite the Tiger’s overall difficult season. Aiding Lussi in offensive production will be senior Lauren Lazo, who led the Ivy League with seven assists last season.

Head coach Julie Shackford is the winningest coach in Princeton’s history, and between a cohort of returning players and a freshman class that contains three players with international experience, Shackford could have Princeton contending once again.

The Bulldogs' perennial rival captured the Ivy League title for the 11th time last season with a 2–1 victory over Dartmouth in November. The Crimson went undefeated in the Ivy League last season to capture its fourth Ivy League Championship in six years. The Crimson graduated just four players to graduation after its dominant 2013 season and will have seven seniors providing the team with experience this fall.

One of those seniors is second-team all-Ivy pick and goalkeeper Cheta Emba, who started between the pipes at Yale when the two sides last met on Oct. 5, 2013, and parried both shots that the Elis threw at her in the first half before being subbed out with Harvard up 2–0. Six incoming freshmen will inject youth into Harvard's veteran roster, including defender Marie Becker, a member of the German national team. Harvard will host Yale on Oct. 4.

Yale

7–6–4 (1–5–1) 7th

RUDY MEREDITH 20th season

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12–4–2 (7–0–0) 1st

7–8–1 (2–4–1) 5th

Yale finished the 2013 season in fifth place in the Ivy League. Three of the returning seniors received preseason honors, including two first-team all-Ivy selections and one second-team selection. Forward Melissa Gavin ’15 led the Ivy League in points last season and is a two-time selection to the all-Ivy first team. The Elis have plenty of new faces this season, as 10 incoming freshmen will join seven seniors, seven juniors and six sophomores to complete the Bulldog roster. Two new assistant coaches will also begin working the sidelines alongside head coach Rudy Meredith to help the Bulldogs shape the young talent they acquired this year. Assistant coaches Stuart Dick, a native of Scotland, and Eleri Earnshaw, a native of Wales both have experience playing for their national teams. Yale begins its season at home onFriday as the Bulldogs host Quinnipiac.

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ARTS & CULTURE Theater program grows more interdisciplinary

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Theater Studies students can expect to pushed outside the boundary of drama and theater into more interdisciplinary courses exploring areas such as dance, film or cartography.

BY ERIC XIAO STAFFF REPORTER Students interested in taking Theater Studies classes this year will have a number of opportunities to venture beyond the world of drama.

Of the 17 Theater Studies courses that were not offered within the program last year, 8 focus heavily on areas outside of the dramatic arts and 11 are crosslisted with other departments.

According to OCI, out of 58 Theater Studies courses offered last year, only 10 dealt heavily with areas outside of theater. Professors interviewed explained that the high number of interdisci-

plinary courses available to Theater Studies students this year is a testament to the dramatic arts’ connection to a wide variety of subjects. All four faculty members said they hope that the multidisciplinary nature of their classes will attract students with many different interests.

Justin Sider GRD ’15, who is teaching a class titled “Poetics of Performance” this semester, said he will require all students in his course to perform a poetry recitation in front of their classmates, noting that he expects students from nonperformance backgrounds will be “pushed out of their comfort zones” through such exercises.

“Performance studies in itself is interdisciplinary in that you can’t fix it into a single department or a single way of talking about it,” Sider said.

“That’s really the appeal of these courses.”

Theater Studies lecturer Jessica Berson said that over the past couple of years, she has observed an increase in Theater Studies courses that span multiple subject areas, adding that the Dance Studies curriculum in particular has expanded the range of topics it covers. Berson noted that her seminar, named “Dance, Commerce and Capital,” will involve substantial readings about culture theory and economics, in

addition to exploring different styles of dance.

Several faculty members from other departments at Yale have decided to examine the effect of theater on their respective areas of expertise by offering crosslisted courses. English professor Katie Trumpener, who teaches a class titled “British Cinema,” said that while theater and film are different industries, her course will explore the relationship between the two disciplines.

The British have always thought of their film culture as secondrate but their theater traditions have historically been strong, so it is difficult to ignore theater’s influence, she explained.

Assistant professor of comparative literature Ayesha Ramachandran GRD ’05 PHD ’08, who teaches “Maps and Western Literary Imagination”— a class that has been taught once before but has never been cross-listed under Theater Studies — said that even cartography used to be closely associated with theater. She added that countries such as Portugal were once home to famous explorers and cartographers, whose professions were oftentimes depicted and thought of as performances. Books of maps used to be called “Theaters of the World,” Ramachandran noted.

Berson and Ramachandran also emphasized the timeli-

ness of several themes in their classes. Berson said one important goal of her class is to challenge the notion of dance as an art form that is immune to modern consumerism. With shows like “Dancing with the Stars” and “So You Think You Can Dance,” she added, it becomes important to explore the economic side of dance.

“In some ways, dance is just like any other commodity,” Berson said.

The 2014–15 Yale Blue Book currently lists 39 courses under the Theater Studies program.

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

Q&A with Kelly Kerwin, former Cabaret artistic director

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER During its 2013-14 season, the Yale Cabaret was led by co-artistic directors Whitney Dibo DRA ’14, Kelly Kerwin DRA ’15 and Lauren Dubowski DRA ’14, as well as Managing Director Shane Hudson DRA ’14. Under their leadership, the Cabaret produced 18 shows that explored themes ranging from apartheid-era racism to oppression in a post-apocalyptic world. Kerwin sat down with the News to discuss her experience with the Cabaret — and the venue’s future. you first assumed your QWhen position as a co-artistic director for the Yale Cabaret along with Lauren and Whitney, what was your vision for the season?

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From the onset, when we wrote our proposal, we were interested in works that could only happen at the Cabaret.

That could be a variety of different projects, but our slogan was “Here, Now” and we asked all production teams who proposed shows to us to describe why their project fit the slogan. For example, we wanted to see people working outside of their discipline, like we had a dance piece titled “Bound to Burn,” which was proposed by a third year stage manager and a third year theater manager. Both had only been doing dance-related activities on the side. Now they are working as stage manager and theater manager, so this dance production was something they could only do at a place like the Cabaret. Also, people like Dustin Wills DRA ’14, who did a production of

“The Maids,” built a house within the Cabaret. You can’t take that kind of risk outside of graduate school, so he needed to experiment with these things before he went out into the world. back on this expeQLooking rience, since you chose the

season’s shows before they were actually staged, how closely did they line up with your vision and expectations?

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Some of them were very much in line with what we thought they would be. With plays that have already been written and performed in the past, like “The Brothers Size,” we had a fairly good idea of what to expect. But with devised pieces, like “Mystery Boy” by Chris Bannow DRA ’14, the source material was a 126-page novel written by his 11-year old sister. He promised he would make it fun, crazy and wacky. On the proposal, we had no script that we could read over and no idea of what the show would look like, but the play ended up being one of the biggest hits of the season.

have been the biggest QWhat challenges for you and the other artistic directors?

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In the summer, the biggest obstacle was getting our website together. Deciding on a graphic design that we liked was a really challenging process.

We finally hired an undergraduate student to create it for us, but we spent a lot of time trying to figure out what our visual aesthetic would be, which we needed to finalize before we could design spaces like the Cabaret’s inte-

rior. Throughout the year, the most challenging aspect revolved around the fact that lot of people wanted to propose shows to the Cabaret but we could not stage all of them. We received 57 proposals and could only produce 18 shows.

I am still proud of what we chose in the end, but it hurts to have had to reject some great ideas. the Cabaret has QInbeentheledpast, by as few as one artis-

tic director to as many as four artistic directors. What made you, Lauren and Whitney decide to be a team of three?

A Since Whitney and Lauren were in the class above me and had one more year of experience under their belts, we wanted to be heavily involved in producing the shows in a hands-on way.

One of us was always assigned to each show as a creative producer, where we informed the other directors of how the show was progressing through the production process. As creative producers, we were at every production meeting and we went to rehearsals. We were also there during tech week to give notes and feedback to the teams. I think that in order to be that invested in all 18 shows during the season, you need more than one artistic director.

directors were, we always say that we were a four-person team in the end. Shane was always there for us whenever we wanted to take big risks, which made me realize how extremely crucial it is to have that kind of trust between artistic and managing directors. did working at the CabaQHow ret relate to your studies at the YSD?

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Since I am a part of the Dramaturgy department, one of the things they have taught me is how to be an effective communicator to directors and playwrights with regard to supporting their projects. They also teach us how to look at patterns in the world and in plays. Look[ing] at world of the play as a world in itself, that can be extremely helpful to a playwright who has created their own world. I have also taken many classes in theater management and those have been helpful because at the end of the day, I am responsible for issues such as the Cabaret’s financial health and its relationships with community members.

are your hopes for the QWhat Cabaret’s new leadership?

What are some themes that you would like to see them explore?

is the most important I would like to see them conQWhat lesson that your experience Atinue the spirit of our seawith the Cabaret has taught you?

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The most important thing I learned is how much a managing director can save you. Even though Shane Hudson DRA ’14 was chosen by the Yale School of Drama faculty and not by collective application like the artistic

son in terms of having a sense of community and choosing projects that they feel will speak to the wider community that the Cabaret reaches. We have definitely done our fair share of risks during this past year, but I am always excited to see what else is possible. We would also like to

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Mitchell Winter DRA ’15 starred as Lette in the Yale Cabaret’s production of “The Ugly One” in 2013. see people pursue projects outside of their disciplines. Some of our favorite projects have been directed by people who are not at the YSD to be directors or written

by people who are not here to be playwrights.

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

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“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.” ARTHUR MILLER AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT

MFA exhibit highlights students’ creative range

BY PIERRE ORTLIEB STAFF REPORTER A new exhibition of artwork by second-year Master in Fine Arts students at the School of Art highlights the diversity of media and art disciplines graduate students can pursue.

The show, which opened on Friday in the school’s Green Hall Gallery, includes work from all four departments of its MFA program — photography, painting, sculpture and graphic design — and showcases works MFA students produced over the summer. Art students interviewed explained that the exhibit will also allow first-years to form an impression of what kind of work awaits them throughout the program, adding that they also aim to foster debate over the nature and intentions of the pieces on display.

My baggage comes from photography, from pointing a little machine at the world when I make photos.

SARAH MEYOHAS MFA ’15 “It’s a free-for-all, … a show about what you have been thinking about,” said Maria de los Angeles Cornejo MFA ’15, who has a piece on display in the exhibition. Cornejo emphasized the lack of a clear, distinct theme as well as the fact that most of the pieces at the show were produced during the summer — a time when students can explore different media and thoughts. She added that she thinks this gives the exhibit an “experimental” feel.

Sam Messer, assistant dean of the School of Art, also noted the show’s lack of a cohesive narrative, instead highlighting that the exhibit is intended to

help the students and the gallery transition into the new year.

Messer, who installed and runs the show in Green Hall, underlined that this year’s exhibit was conceived as a “vital place where people are making things, not different from the theater.”

Messer explained that museum visitors often forget that the art they admire was created by real people, pointing out that it is rare to be able to observe the process of producing art. Comparing the gallery to a “laboratory,” Messer said this show permits visitors to see the raw mistakes and exciting freshness of art in its early stages. Much like Einstein’s first theories arose from questions, he explained, students are using these works to pose inquiries to the exhibit’s spectators, and ask for their reactions and responses.

Sarah Meyohas MFA ’15, a photography student whose work is also on display at this year’s exhibition, noted that she thinks the diverse and exploratory nature of the show captures the singularity of the School of Art’s program.

The divisions between the four disciplines at the School of Art are largely a formality, she explained, adding that the program’s fluidity allows a sculpture student to submit paintings, for example. Not only does this grant students alternative perspectives on their art and that of others, she said, but it also allows for more experimentation and a wider range of influences.

“My baggage comes from photography, from pointing a little machine at the world when I make photos,” said Meyohas, adding that her background enables her to view the art of others through a different lens, providing input and critique which others may not be able to give.

The show will be on display until the Sept. 15.

Contact PIERRE ORTLIEB at pierre.ortlieb@yale.edu .

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The second-year Masters of Fine Arts students’ exhibit in the Green Hall gallery lacks a theme but features an assortment of pieces from all four departments: photography, painting, sculpture and graphic design.

A conversation with philosophy professor and artist Karsten Harries

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER Wednesday marks the opening day of a new exhibit at the Whitney Humanities Center titled “Conversing with Things: Drawings, Paintings and Pastels” — a collection of pieces by Philosophy Professor Karsten Harries ’58 GRD ’62. Harries sat down with the News to talk about the relationship between art and philosophy as well as his experiences growing up in Germany and as a student at Yale.

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Tell me about your experience growing up in war-torn Germany and your first exposure to art and philosophy.

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My early childhood was in Berlin mostly. Toward the end of the war, things got rather unpleasant. … My father brought us to a little town in northern Bavaria. I came to

America because my father was a physicist. We first ended up in Keyport, New Jersey. I visited Yale and I liked it. I liked the architecture. With a few interruptions, I have been at Yale ever since.

… and maybe one of them saw my calendars. kind of questions are QWhat we looking at in the field of philosophy of art?

kind of art will be fea- A QWhat tured in the show?

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Most of the things you see there are pastels. Now I mostly do art when we have a place in an island off Puerto Rico, Vieques — these were all done on Vieques. There are a few drawings, charcoal drawings. There are all together 59 pictures. There are a few oil paintings; some of these date from the 1970s. The idea did not come from me; it came from somebody in the Whitney Center. They asked me whether I wanted to show these pictures.

I have been making, over the years, calendars of my images

Of course, we can begin with the question of why does art matter. Why do we care about art? What does art have to contribute to our well-being?

It’s opened something like a window to some other dimension in a world where money is too important and a lot of our values are tied to those concerns. The very uselessness of art is important … we don’t need it in the way we need food, the way we need medicine or something like that. It pulls you out of the everyday and the concerns of the everyday. You distance yourself from the concerns. And that lets you look at things with more open eyes.

[The exhibition] is called “Con-

versing with Things.” There’s something wonderful about things just being things, and art makes you attentive to that dimension. I’m interested in simple things, whether it’s an apple or garbage. There’s something very wonderful about garbage, about an eggshell that’s cracked, [or] the empty grapefruit half. I’m interested in the magic of things. When I sketch, I look very intently at what is before me. I don’t try to give a very literal representation. you see a difference QDo between art and philosophy?

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In my own personal life, I don’t see, really, a difference. It’s almost an extension.

You think about the world and how you are in the world. When you’re a philosopher, you work so much with abstractions.

You feel a longing for something more concrete. I think

[art] is a nice complement to the abstractness of philosophy.

Philosophy itself demands that you step outside of philosophy and start relating to things and persons in a much more concrete way. When I do the art, I don’t do philosophy. When I do philosophy right here in New Haven, I don’t do the art. It’s a complement, and yet it doesn’t seem like leaving and becoming a different person. You need both. There’s a certain one-sidedness to philosophy that calls for another kind of activity. you have any advice for QDo aspiring philosophy students and artists?

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My advice to philosophy students would be to only go into philosophy if you really love philosophy. If you look for having a pleasant life, you probably would be better off doing something else. If you go into

philosophy, do it for the sake of philosophy. With art, it’s very similar in a different way.

Again, most artists have a tough time. do you think has QWhat changed most at Yale since the time you were a student here?

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There clearly has been a move toward the social and natural sciences. Yale did that very self-consciously. They thought they had to invest more in [the sciences]. Yale was more of a humanities college when I went to Yale than it is now.

[The philosophy department] has changed a lot. When I was there, philosophy was very strong. The graduate program was much larger; you had much more of a community. And more undergraduates took it.

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .

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Fabian ’16 leaves competition in her wake SWIMMING

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Eva Fabian ’16 was first-team all-Ivy in the 500-yard and 1,650-yard freestyle events last season.

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER Eva Fabian ’16 was not deterred when the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships were moved from the Gold Coast of Australia to Maui, Hawaii and postponed until one week after she was originally scheduled to compete.

Last Sunday, Aug. 31, in a competition featuring the top swimmers from nations including the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia, Fabian finished second in the 10K open water race with a time of 1:59:51.00. She completed the course just one second behind fellow American competitor and champion Haley Anderson, the

Olympic silver medalist in the same event in London 2012.

“I love representing the U.S.,” Fabian said. “It’s an honor, and it’s difficult to make the national team so it’s a really big accomplishment.”

Qualifying for the event and earning a spot on the national team with a third-place finish at the U.S. Open Water National Championships in June, Fabian refocused her training after the college season with an eye towards the Pan Pacific Championships. Over the summer, Fabian said, she included more long distance work in her training and swam in a lake.

Fabian, who swims the onemile, 1000-yard and 500-yard freestyle events for Yale, noted

that the 10K race poses unique challenges because it is significantly longer and in an openwater environment.

“There are a lot of similarities [between swimming the openwater 10K and her other events], but there are a lot of specific tactical things that we need to work on too,” Fabian said.

She added that she uses a different breathing strategy and pointed out that the turns are different in open-water swimming. Teammate Michelle Chintanaphol ’17 added that when the original date and location was changed, it affected a swimmers’ tapering schedules.

This year, Fabian will be training for both the 10K and her usual distances simultane-

ously as the process for making the Olympic team begins. Fabian said she will need to place in the top two at the National trials in 2015 as well as in the top 10 at the World Championships in order to make the U.S. Olympic team.

This was not Fabian’s first time competing on the international stage. She previously won bronze in the 25K at the 2013 Fédération Internationale de Natation World Championships.

Prior to her most recent experiences, she also finished third in the 10K at U.S. Open Water Nationals in 2013.

Having spent time on the national team, Fabian noted that she has become familiar with swimmers on other nations’

teams.

“It’s like a family, and we get to know each other over the course of a lot of World Cup races throughout the year and Worlds,” Fabian said. “It’s fun to know your competitors and be friends with them outside of the water.”

For now, Fabian has returned to the East Coast to resume training for Yale, but she said she looks fondly upon her time at the Pan Pacific Championships, especially the time she got to hold a koala in Australia.

Although Fabian competes around the globe, she is still an integral part of the team here at Yale. Teammate and fellow distance swimmer Casey Lincoln ’16 said that the team, specifi-

cally the distance swimmers, join Fabian for extra yards in the pool, complete special dry land workouts with her, and also go with her for extra morning practices.

“Eva is a relentless and intense trainer, but she always keeps the mood at practices light and fun,” Lincoln said.

“She’s motivating, positive, and enthusiastic both in and out of the pool.”

Yale returns to the pool with a scrimmage at the UConn Invite on Oct. 18 before the Elis have their first meet against Southern Connecticut State University at home on Nov. 7.

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

Young pups ready to shine in secondary

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER One year ago, they were three freshmen and one sophomore, a band of four defensive backs determined to make their mark on the Yale football team. Now, after postseason honors and another year of starting experience, the secondary figures are to produce plenty of Bulldog highlights this season.

FOOTBALL The four players — Robert Ries ’17, Foyesade Oluokun ’17, Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 and Cole Champion ’16 — combined for 221 of Yale’s 738 tackles last season, as well as five of the Elis’ nine interceptions. Yale’s secondary, which also included fellow defensive backs Charles Cook ’15 and Dale Harris ’17, ranked fourth in the Ivy League in passing yards allowed.

According to Ries, however, the secondary could be even better.

“Last year, it felt like we were [just] trying to get by, three freshmen and a sophomore,” Ries said. “Now we can excel and be a strong point on the team, and make more than just the plays that we’re supposed to make.”

The elder statesman of the group, Champion, has started his last 17 games in a row over the course of two years. After being named to the allIvy second team last year behind 49 solo tackles and three interceptions,

both of which led the team, the safety from Fort Lauderdale was named to the CollegeSportsMadness.com preseason all-Ivy first team this year.

Right behind Champion is Oluokun, who was also named to the all-Ivy second team after last season. Oluokun followed in Champion’s footsteps by winning Yale’s Charles Loftus Award for most valuable freshman, an award conferred to him following a season with 59 tackles, four pass breakups and an Ivy Defensive Player of the Week honor for his efforts in the Elis’ win over Brown.

Ries started eight games last season, recording 42 tackles and a pair of interceptions. In Yale’s early-season victory over Cornell, Ries patrolled the sidelines with vigor, recording nine total tackles and earning notice as the Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

As the final member of last year’s young pups in the defensive backfield, Rymiszewski started all ten games last season and recorded 42 tackles along with five pass breakups.

Both Rymiszewski and Oluokun said they worked on improving on conceptual parts of defense in their first full collegiate offseason.

“In the secondary before the snap, it’s essential that you think ahead so that you can make the right calls on a motion or switching between different routes,” Oluokun said. “The smoother we can align to different formations and communicate quickly on how to defend them, the better we

can be.”

Extensive starting experience has also helped these Bulldogs develop.

All four started the majority of the team’s games during their freshman years, with Oluokun and Rymiszewski starting every game.

Rymiszewski said this experience has benefitted the secondary tremendously.

“As the year went on, I felt more and more comfortable playing within myself,” Rymiszewski said in an email.

“With that comfort came more confidence. I think that the experience really helped me become a better player, as well as create chemistry with Foye, Robbie, and Champ.”

Rymiszewski also cited the camaraderie between the members of the secondary, saying they have an incredible bond both on and off the field.

As far as this year is concerned, Ries has some pretty specific goals.

“I think we can be leaders of the defense,” Ries said. “We change the defense’s calls, we can dictate how the defense [and the opposing offense] plays, and [we plan on] taking full advantage of that to give us the best chance to win.”

The Bulldogs will get their chance to strut their stuff in the season opener against Lehigh on Sept. 20.

Kickoff is at 1 p.m.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

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The Bulldogs return four members of their starting secondary, all of which were underclassmen last season.

THE TIME IN WHICH EVA FABIAN ’16 FINISHED THE 10-KILOMETER OPEN WATER RACE AT THE 2014 PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS LAST WEEKEND. Fabian, a member of the Yale swimming & diving squad, secured a silver medal with the result.