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Groups clash over divestment

Heisenberg? New Haven rabbi Noah Muroff purchased a $150 desk off of Craigslist in September. Yet once he took the desk home, he found a shopping bag with $98,000 of cash inside, according to Tablet Magazine. Muroff gave the money back, explaining, “That’s what a Jew is supposed to do.” Wise choice, since the cash is probably blood money from a methamphetamine empire run by a Yale chemistry professor dissatisfied with his academic career.

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fuel companies would constitute a political gesture with negative consequences.

“Nobody has denied that climate change is an important challenge,” said Alex Fisher ’14, the founder of Students for a Strong Endowment.

“But nothing has changed our view that the endowment is the wrong place to have this battle. I think the idea of divesting from an industry that is keeping these lights on now is comical. It would be absolutely fundamentally wrong.”

For the class of 2015 and beyond, Yale’s history department will ease its major requirements in a move that many faculty members in the department see as part of an ongoing process of renewal and reform.

The revised major, which was voted on by the department last spring and approved at last Thursday’s Yale College faculty meeting, minimizes the major’s current emphasis on geographic distribution. Starting with the class of 2015, history majors will be required to enroll in two instead of three courses in Latin American, Asian or African history, and students will no longer be asked to divide their two preindustrial courses and seminars across different geographic regions. History Director of Undergraduate Studies Beverly Gage said the changes were motivated by student complaints about the former requirements being difficult to fulfill. But History Department Chair Naomi Lamoreaux said these changes mark only the beginning of a series of reforms that the department hopes to implement, in an effort to make the major more accessible to undergraduates.

“We are still working on the major,” she said. “That’s going to preoccupy us a good part of this year — rethinking the major.”

Some members of the department added

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Starbucks did not make the list. A ranking of the “top

five places to grab coffee around Yale” from the Yale Admissions Office Tumblr named Jojo’s, Book Trader, Koffee?, Willoughby’s and Blue State. But where was coffee giant Starbucks on the list? Too corporate? Too mainstream? Not enough literary puns on their menu?

Justified by the dullness of the times. A parody news site

has popped up at Cornell — cunooz.com. The fake webpage features articles including “Campus Homosexuals Feel too Welcome by Cornell Community,” “White Guys to Drink in Various Places and Ways” and “Clocktower Plays ‘Rains of Castamere’ Over Chimes — CampusWide Panic Ensues.” The paper’s description offers the disclaimer: “We may not be ‘professional,’ ‘accurate’ or ‘recognized by Cornell University.’”

Mumbo jumbo. A USA Today

post on established college traditions listed the Yale practice of rubbing the foot of the Theodore Dwight Woolsey statue to ensure good luck, “especially for high school prospects that are hoping to be accepted.” It is clear the writer was not a Yalie or else Wednesday night Toad’s would not have been left off the list.

Insert fart joke here. A recent

Harvard Crimson column touched upon the art of letting one rip. The writer complained that the seats of Winthrop Library “are crafted in a specific way to suddenly turn hot air into a powerful vibrato.”

Ultimately, the column presents the humble fart as a metaphor for immaturity in the college setting, but the real lesson is to never sit too close to a Cantab come Game Day. Gone fishing. For a charity

auction, Miya’s Sushi is sending a winner and friends on a fishing trip and subsequent sushi dinner with the seafood they catch. The experience is estimated to cost $3,000. Those without that type of money could always head over to the docks with a stick and a piece of string and then wrap their catch in rice from the Commons stir-fry stations.

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The YCC hosted a town hall Wednesday evening, where students spoke both for and against fossil fuel divestment.

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER Debate over fossil fuel divestment moved from the page to the podium on Wednesday.

The town hall-style debate, sponsored by the Yale College Council and attended by roughly 35 students, focused on whether students should vote “yes” on the YCC’s referendum next week.

The referendum will ask students to decide whether the University should phase out endowment investments in fossil fuel compa-

nies. During the meeting, six students spoke — two from the prodivestment group Fossil Free Yale, three from the newly founded antidivestment group Students for a Strong Endowment and one who was unaffiliated with either group.

While representatives from Fossil Free Yale emphasized the moral imperative of addressing climate change and said their proposal would work within the administration’s own guidelines about ethical investing, Students for a Strong Endowment argued that removing the University’s assets from fossil

Key Club shooter arrested

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER The man suspected to be behind one of the Elm City’s largest 2013 shootings was arrested by the New Haven Police Department on Tuesday.

In the early morning hours of Oct. 26, shots rang out at the Key Club Cabaret on St. Johns place, leaving one woman, 26-yearold Erica Robinson, dead and five others wounded. Three days later, the NHPD announced that it had secured a warrant for the arrest of Adrian “Bread” Ben-

nett. Tuesday afternoon, NHPD officers, with the assistance of agents from the United States Marshals Task Force, took Bennett into custody without incident at a home in Hartford.

“We are here today to show our dignity and respect for this beautiful family,” NHPD Chief Dean Esserman said at a Wednesday morning press conference, referring to Robinson’s family. “This search has gone a thousand miles for days on end and nights on end to make this apprehension.”

In his opening remarks, Esserman acknowledged the part-

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nership between the NHPD and other organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and State Police, in addition to the U.S. Marshals, in solving this case. Among those present at the NHPD’s Union Avenue office for the press conference were members of the victim’s family and Mayor-elect Toni Harp ARC ’78.

Also present were DetectiveSergeants Al Vazquez and Tony Reyes, two of the lead investigators on the case, who Esserman praised for their passion in working “as if it was their own daughter that they lost.”

obtained from the club’s systems was critical in investigators’ ability to identify Bennett as the suspect about eight hours after the incident, Vazquez added. The resulting warrant charged Bennett with murder, five counts of first-degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon, setting a bail of $3 million.

“As a result of this warrant, locations were put under surveillance in hopes of finding Adrian Bennett,” Vazquez said. “We could not find [him] at the comSEE ARREST PAGE 4

Voter turnout climbs COMPETITIVE ELECTIONS, NEW VOTER REGISTRATION POLICIES BOOST NUMBERS

BY LARRY MILSTEIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

After a marathon three hours of public testimony and committee deliberations, a collection of city lawmakers on Wednesday evening backed a land disposition agreement aimed at revitalizing the former site of the New Haven Coliseum.

The agreement, favored unanimously by 13 members of the Board’s finance and community development committees, would hand over 4.5 acres of the site of the demolished sports arena for redevelopment by the international real estate firm LiveWorkLearnPlay. The plan faces a final zoning hurdle set to go before the Board’s legislation committee on Thursday before the full body votes on the agreement on Dec. 2.

The redevelopment project represents the second phase of New Haven’s Downtown Crossing project, which seeks to reconnect the city’s downtown neighborhood with Union Sta-

The real winner of Election Day 2013 was the city of New Haven — at least according to data released yesterday on voter turnout for this year’s municipal election. So many more voters went to the poll in 2013 than 2011 that the losing candidate, Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, won more votes than outgoing mayor John Destefano Jr. “As a whole, the New Haven people came out to vote, and that really is to their credit,” said Kim Hynes, senior organizer for Common Cause in Connecticut, a nonpartisan coalition that works alongside the New Haven Votes effort.

About 29 percent of registered voters in New Haven turned out to vote for the 2013 municipal elections held last week — nearly a five percent increase in turnout from 2011 and over 10 percent since 2009, according to the official figures

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BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER

Vazquez recapped the events of the shooting, beginning with the initial NHPD dispatch to the club at around 3:31 a.m. When officers arrived at the scene, they found three gunshot victims in critical condition. Soon thereafter, Robinson succumbed to her injuries, despite “intense, lifesaving measures” attempted by doctors at Yale-New Haven hospital, Vazquez said.

Vazquez also said that the FBI played an important role in the investigation’s evidence recovery and analysis operations.

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The campaigns in this year’s municipal election were unusually intense, as the high voter turnout numbers attest.

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For better tailgates I

t’s hard enough for Yale students to grab a beer together.

Between interviews, Credit/D panics and a full-time job’s worth of extracurriculars, too often days turn into weeks turn into lost months before seeing old friends.

What’s more, as we get older our network — the stumbling combination of suitemates, friends from organizations and nights at Box — begins to take a more fixed shape. Our circle becomes the definitive lens by which we view Yale; wonderful, but innately narrow.

In the past, the University has made an effort to broaden these horizons, fostering events where the entire school, in all its eccentricities, could share common social experiences. Yet, over the last few years, capricious administrators and litigious outsiders have worked to change this trend. Take Safety Dance, for example. Tailgates — in a more slow and steady fashion — appear next in line.

FIRST WENT SAFETY, NOW OUR TAILGATES? Tailgates have been subject to increasing regulations. Next week will be the first time that The Game at Yale is subjected to all of them. What began with 21-plus wristbands and the end of charcoal grills has evolved into a ban on kegs, large vehicles and staying past kickoff.

Granted, many of these changes have either been warranted or understandable. But together they have fallen to the law of unintended consequences, and the administration should take note of that.

If it is Yale’s goal to ensure that social events like tailgates are small, contained and comprehensively harmless — regardless of social cost — then the current regulations are right on track. But once that precedent is established, students should not be surprised when attention travels to the YSO Halloween Show, Spring Fling and, as has been reported on these pages, bar life off-campus. If the goal is to facilitate cultural outlets to the undergraduate community as a whole — balancing safety and efficiency — then it is time for the administration to revisit their policies with a renewed spirit of pragmatism.

In recent memory, tailgates looked very different than they do today. Once a boozy Extracurricular Bazaar — an array of residential colleges and student groups — equipped with a range of food, drinks and games, today it is home to a dedicated batch of upperclassmen moseying through discarded Mod-

ern Apizza boxes.

Of course, with any element of drinking culture there is a tension between the HARRY administraGRAVER tors and the adminisGravely trated. Dean Mary Miller Mistaken s h o u l d a bso l u te ly take with a grain of salt the requests of what seems like just a group of costume-clad daydrinkers. And students should probably defer to the adults in the room when it comes to policies like the hard liquor ban. But some flexibility exists where modification of policy is not synonymous with Yale abandoning a commitment to safety.

Small changes can go a long way. Moving the end of the tailgate back to 2pm — while maintaining the wristbands and alcohol regulations — will encourage a fuller tailgate that actually carries over into the football game. As it stands now, the kickoff deadline only promotes earlier, heavier drinking amongst a vastly smaller group of people. Additionally, improving the large vehicle policy that has essentially regulated residential college and undergraduate group events out of existence is important. Even just permitting college masters, deans and approved individuals to drive over before start time would be a step in the right direction.

It’d be foolish not to recognize that the elephant in the room for this column lingers prodigiously larger for Yale’s administration.

Changes to any policy relating to drinking, let alone here with its particular backdrop of tragedy, come at great personal and professional risk for administrators. Students should not fault Yale for its resolute dedication to do all it can to prevent future misery.

However, these factors should not prevent Yale from evaluating the effectiveness of her tailgate policies. Tread carefully, rather than not at all.

Although a small school, we are one of many divisions: friend group to friend group, background to background, student to athlete. Common social settings are vital in bridging these gaps, and tailgates are traditionally fertile grounds for doing so.

With prudence and practicality, we can move closer to a tailgate that values both safety and vibrancy. But first, we need to realize when it is a false choice.

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Going viral is brave

ou may have seen a video circulating on Facebook in the past few days featuring Yalies showing some embarrassing dance moves. If you look really closely, I’m in there too — check out the girl in the green fleece flailing awkwardly at the 45-second mark. Though we take pride in our moves, this video wasn’t just another medium for a dance party: It was actually a class assignment.

When the professor of my “Law, Technology and Culture” class posed the question of whether our class would prefer to write periodic blog posts throughout the semester or make a class video, the answer was clear to all of us: working on a project with 80 students easily trumped the solitary task of individual blog posts.

The assignment was this: Make a viral YouTube video as a class.

We decided to film a remake of Sara Bareilles’ “Brave," with scenes featuring students doing numerous brave things, getting out of their comfort zones and being bold.

After a few brilliant editors in our class pieced together all of the scenes, our video was done and we began publicizing it — handing out fliers, posting statuses on Facebook, Tweeting and using social

media mediums I didn’t even know existed. I sent the video to everybody I knew, and most strategically the one person who will brag about my accomplishments — no matter how small — to all of her friends: my grandmother.

Thus began our attempt to make our video viral. It took off with unexpected speed. Less than 24 hours after we posted it, it was shown on Good Morning America. Four days, later, it has 54,000 views and counting. Our class rejoiced in the fame (and the hope for As on the assignment!).

Amidst all of the excitement, I couldn’t help but question why our video was so successful. I am proud of the video, but I have to believe that part of the reason for the video’s circulation and popularity is due to our affiliation with Yale and not solely its content.

As expected, the video received both positive and negative feedback. But many of these comments criticize — or compliment — Yale as a whole rather than just the students depicted in the video.

I remember when I was a sophomore in high school and the “Why I Chose Yale” video was released. I was intrigued by the video because so much excitement and curiosity

buzzed around the Yale reputation.

I watched the video and the spoofs of the video, and I watched it again when I was accepted to Yale. I was excited about the opportunity to look through a peephole at what life at one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious universities was like. The flak that the video received wasn’t directed at the students in the video. It was directed at Yale as an institution.

In the “Law, Technology and Culture” class we have discussed Internet fame and our society’s preoccupation with celebrities and their personal lives. We as students may not be celebrities, but our school at times does occupy that status because of Yale’s academic reputation and illustrious history. The school’s reputation was deeply embedded in our video, since we inserted the name in our title (“Yale is Brave”) and filmed it all around the Yale campus. When people saw the video, they responded to its affiliation to the University, in turn giving us the viral result that we had aimed for.

So is this recognition that’s been awarded to us by our association with Yale a positive or negative?

The popularity of “Yale is Brave” has shown to us firsthand both pros

and cons. The pros are obvious: We succeeded in our goal of having the video go viral and we’ve gotten recognition for our hard work. The cons are the negative comments on the video that, though expected, were still upsetting to view.

On Reddit’s page, the video was posted with the title “Yale students apparently suck at dancing” — and that’s one of the nicer responses my class received. Every YouTube video is subject to negative feedback; just by putting yourself online you are opening yourself to receiving unwarranted criticisms.

The “viral” element only amplifies that negative feedback. And I’m sure that the video’s connection to Yale made people all the more eager to criticize. Like all opportunities awarded to us by Yale, we must figure out how to use our publicity and affiliation strategically. Sometimes that might mean promoting awareness for a cause you’re passionate about. At other times, we can use the Yale name to raise money for important charities. But at times, we can just use it to get an A on a class project.

ALLY DANIELS is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Contact her at alexandra.daniels@yale.edu .

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How to talk about it

n her new novel “Americanah,” Chimamanda Adichie GRD ’08 proposes an unorthodox “solution to the problem of race in America” that applies as well to class at Yale: “Romantic love. Not friendship. Not the kind of safe, shallow love where the objective is that both people remain comfortable. But real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved.”

Romantic love, of course, cannot be the remedy for everyone.

But it was the entrance into the conversation on socioeconomic class for me, and it continues to upend my understanding of that question years after graduation.

I grew up middle-to-uppermiddle class. I didn’t internalize that fact until arriving at Yale; in my northern New Jersey suburb, my family’s two old cars and pool-less backyard had rendered me among the least well-off of my friends. But upon arriving at Yale, I quickly started dating a boy who’d grown up in the lowest income bracket. By his standards, I learned immediately, I was not only middle-class, but something

else: “Elite,” he called me. I’d never known anyone to use the term. It still has the sound of his voice in my ears.

The summer after our freshman year, he was accepted to both an unpaid internship and a job at the computer hardware factory where his father worked. I told him to take the internship. He took the job.

That summer — my advice, his decision — epitomized our inability to understand each other throughout our time at Yale, though we cared about each other deeply. We were both to blame.

We talked about everything — our family histories, our courses, our friends, our postgraduation plans, our dating histories. We did talk about religion, race, affirmative action and, yes, money. But we didn’t talk about the impact of money on our plans, goals, and even summer internship choices.

Our reticence was partly an effort of kindness, partly of ignorance. I didn’t realize I had to ask; maybe he didn’t realize he had to explain. In more recent years, he’s told me that I wouldn’t have understood. Perhaps I wouldn’t have.

Our relationship, of course,

failed.

But in one way, it was a resounding success: Because I cared so intimately about someone from a socioeconomic class so different from my own, stories about class struggle feel like stories about a “me,” not a “them.” Arriving at and rising through Yale is a process, for everyone, of reassessing ourselves — both discretizing the boundaries of self (choosing a major, joining clubs, selecting thesis topics) and opening them wide (“[You are] a part of me, as I am a part of you,” Langston Hughes might say.)

And that’s a process that continues for years after Yale, when I wish I could cast back to my 18-year-old boyfriend and say, “Tell me why,” and to myself and say, “Ask him.” When I wish I could say: If I don’t understand, it’s because I don’t — not because I don’t want to. I can love as much of you as I know, but that’s the limit.

The writer Nathan Englander describes “write what you know,” that ubiquitous adage for aspiring authors, as “empathetic advice.”

“If you’ve longed for an Atari 2600,” he says, “… if you have felt that deep longing, that can also be a deep longing for love or for the

liberation of your country or to, you know, reach Mars … If you’ve known longing, then you can write longing.”

What he’s describing is the transitive property of human experience: Knowing one person’s story at close emotional range enables us to understand stories that are otherwise foreign. When you step foot onto the Yale campus, the empathetic tool you already have at your disposal is your knowledge of your own story — a valuable place to start, but an insufficient place to end.

So ask more than you think you have to. Tell more than you think you have to. No matter where you fall on the class spectrum, make Yale a place where you learn to articulate questions and interrogate answers, among not only teachers and classmates but also partners and friends. And, when the situation is right, let romantic love be a meaningful space in which to open a conversation neither party is sure they need to have.

COURTNEY SENDER is a 2010 graduate of Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at csender1@jhu. edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST BEN ACKERMAN

HARRY GRAVER is a senior in Davenport College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu .

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'THEANTIYALE' ON 'WHAT 'YES' MEANS AT YALE'

Fight for campus vibrancy I

am the type of person who loves to say “yes.” Whether I am asked to complete a task or help a friend, I always find myself answering in the affirmative. Upon further reflection, however, it is apparent that I don’t enjoy saying “yes” as much as I disdain letting someone down by saying “no.”

Since August, I have had to tell a great many of my peers “no” with more frequency than in any time previously. I have not had a change of heart about saying “no.” Rather, student organizations have asked my team and me to meet expectations we simply do not have the resources to fulfill.

As the Yale College Council’s student organizations director and chair of the Undergraduate Organizations Committee, I receive and process the grant requests of the nearly 400 officially registered student organizations each week.

At the start of this academic year, there were more than 500 officially registered organizations. Whether Yalies are asking for funds to bring revered academics and celebrities to campus, or petitioning for financing to allow others to experience their culture and understand their ideas, the activities represented by these applications

are nothing short of incredible.

These undertakings by our student organizations are what make being an undergraduate at Yale so very special. Our campus is vibrant and diverse because students here are excited to open their minds and hearts to others; our school is celebrated and distinguished because students here excel inside and outside of the classroom.

I fear, however, that the state of student organizations at Yale is in decline. Even though the ambition and zeal of students is as strong as ever, the University simply does not provide sufficient funding to student organizations in order to preserve their vitality on campus.

Annually, the Student Activities Fee, Yale College Dean’s Office and President’s Office contribute a total of approximately $205,000 to student organizations via the UOC. When we look to distribute these funds, we see that a completely equitable distribution would yield around $410 per student organization. With the Dean’s Office’s exacting registration policies and procedures this semester, this distribution rose to around $530 per student organization.

But whatever numbers you

choose to calculate the most equitable distribution of funds, it is apparent that student organizations simply do not have enough to operate the way that they wish.

The more than 500 grant applications from student organizations this semester have requested a total of $355,673.79. If this trend continues, student organizations will request almost 350% of the University’s allocation of funds.

This means the UOC will only be able to meet fewer than three out of every 10 dollars requested.

I am, frankly, embarrassed to share these numbers with my peers. The pain I feel each week, however, in sending out dozens of denied grant requests has simply become too great; in every “no” that I communicate to a student group, I am acutely aware of the event that is canceled or the dollar that students needs to contribute directly in lieu of a UOC grant.

In a university that prides itself on its undergraduates and the activities they pursue, there is no reason why the UOC should have to turn down more legitimate grant requests than it accepts.

There is no reason that student organizations need to struggle in order to keep our vibrant and

diverse campus alive.

In underfunding student organizations, Yale has failed to meet one of the student body’s most essential needs.

So the next time student leaders receive notice of a grant request that has not been accepted, I ask they take into consideration the challenges the UOC faces in allocating the limited funds reserved for student organizations. Even though we work to adjudicate applications as fairly as possible, looking for those that have the highest utility to campus life, it is impossible to make everyone happy. For that, I am sincerely sorry.

Moving forward, I am hopeful that University administrators, alumni and students themselves will be able to work together with the goal of ameliorating the significant financial problems that confront student organizations today. Together we can preserve the diversity and vibrancy of the campus that we all know and love.

BEN ACKERMAN is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College and is the Student Organizations Director for the Yale College Council. Contact him at ben.ackerman@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13

New extracurriculars flourish at Yale-NUS

The article “Architecture students nurture tight-knit community” misstated the location of the undergraduate architecture studios. They are located on the 7th floor of Rudolph Hall, at 180 York Street, not Loria Center, at 190 York Street.

School breakfast program surges in state

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER More Connecticut students than ever before are eating the most important meal of the day.

The state’s Department of Education is working in collaboration with two local non-profits to increase Connecticut schools’ participation in a federal program that encourages more students to eat breakfast. The Breakfast Expansion Team, a collaboration forged between several state agencies and organizations to address this issue, helped 68 schools in Connecticut set up school breakfast programs last school year, according to state child nutrition director John Frassinelli. This school year, the tally is 57 as of Wednesday, indicating a surge in school participation in the program.

These efforts come at a critical time for Connecticut schools: for the seventh consecutive year, Connecticut ranked last among 50 states in percentage of National School Lunch Program schools that also offered breakfast, according to a Food Research and Action Center report released in 2013.

The School Breakfast Program is a long-standing federal program that works through the state to help schools feed more students in the morning by serving breakfast in class or having breakfast available on a cart for students to grab upon entering the school. The Department of Agriculture reimburses schools a certain amount per student fed per day, often generating a small revenue for the school to reinvest in the program.

Frasinelli said the best implementation of the school breakfast program is when breakfast is served in class by teachers. It results in fewer tardy students, fewer referrals to the office and gives students a cognitive energy boost, Frasinelli said.

“It becomes a time of communication and community building as students, and sometimes teachers, eat together,” said Jim Crawford, the breakfast navigator for the Connecticut No Kid Hungry campaign. “It also attracts students who will be paying full price for the meal which financially benefits the program.”

A 2013 study commissioned

by Share Our Strength, a No Kid Hungry partner, reported that

students who eat school breakfast have been shown to achieve 17.5 percent higher scores on standardized math tests and attend 1.5 more days of school per year.

Dawn Crayco, Deputy Director of advocacy organization End Hunger Connecticut!, said according to anecdotes from teachers, nurses and administrators, schools that have implemented breakfast programs have seen better behavior, more participation and fewer nurse visits in the morning.

A school in Hartford that implemented a Breakfast in the Classroom program, where teachers distribute state-approved breakfast items at the beginning of class, saw referrals to the office drop from 336 at this time last year to 32 this year, Crayco said.

“Teachers were originally hesitant because food could have been a distraction, but now there’s all around positive feedback. The kids are calmer; it’s a much more relaxing start to the day,” Crayco said. The number of schools not enrolled in the breakfast program, but been deemed, “severe need schools”, with at least 20 percent of students on federal meal assistance has dropped under 60 across 27 districts, Crawford said.

He added that the program, now 38 years old, is not at risk for cuts at the federal level.

At the urging of End Hunger Connecticut! and the No Kid Hungry campaign, Gov. Dannel Malloy has been part of the movement to encourage school administrations put in place systems to make sure their pupils eat breakfast every day. He has held several press conferences on the issue to encourage schools to participate in the program.

“We have to address all of the barriers to success – and that includes making certain Connecticut students have healthy, nutritious meals to support their brain development and growth,” Malloy said at a press conference..

His next step will be to commission a study examining the reasons principals and school administrators have not enrolled in the program, Crayco said.

As of this September, 789 out of about 1100 schools in the state implemented the School Breakfast Program according to Crayco.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINATAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

YDN

Fledging Yale-NUS is already beginning to develop a reach extracurricular life, which may someday rival the options at the Yale in New Haven.

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER Though student organizations at YaleNUS cannot formally register until next semester, the Singaporean campus is already swarming with unofficial groups.

Since the opening of Yale-NUS this fall, 31 student groups have formed, said Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis. Lewis added that the groups are currently in the stage of planning and experimenting, and last Saturday, they had the opportunity to present themselves at “Start Fresh” — the school’s first-ever extracurricular fair.

Although the student organizations are not officially recognized yet, Lewis said, most are already active. The debate society, for example, has already competed in several tournaments, and the improvcomedy group “Shenanigans” has staged a number of performances on campus.

“There are 31 clubs and most seem to have three or four members, so [almost everyone] is part of something,” Lewis said, “It’s very exciting.”

Lewis said he was pleased with the turnout at the fair and the eagerness of students to form clubs — but official registration for student groups remains postponed until next semester, in an effort to allow students to get to know both each other and their interests before they officially commit to any extracurriculars.

Lewis added that he believes it is important for students to adjust to their academic obligations before devoting a substantial portion of their time to nonacademic student organizations.

Over the course of the semester, YaleNUS Dean of Students Kyle Farley said, his office has made an effort to support the

budding groups by granting them funding for individual events. He also said he thinks that students should dare to experiment as much as possible.

“I’ve encouraged the students to try things that may not work,” Farley said. “If they play it safe they won’t be as innovative as they want to be, and together we are creating a community where it is okay to make mistakes.”

I’ve encouraged the students to try things that may not work.

KYLE FARLEY Dean of students, Yale-NUS

Farley also said he is impressed by how quickly students have self-organized into extracurricular groups. Formal proposals for student groups will be due in January, he said, and student groups will likely add more structure and intensify their activities next semester as a result.

Next semester, Lewis said, students will undergo leadership training sessions similar to the ones that have been implemented at Yale. These sessions will focus on leadership, budget management and business plan formation.

Lewis added that the Yale-NUS student groups are very similar to the ones in Yale College, though with some differences — dance groups at Yale-NUS are more popular, for example, and a campus newsletter is the dominant student publication.

Some groups are also specifically tai-

lored to student social life at Yale-NUS. Raeden Richardson, a Yale-NUS student, said he is part of a group called the Xenians, which formally organizes social gatherings such as college-wide events and in-house parties.

“We understand many students find nightclubs overwhelming and expensive — it’s our hope to create an on-campus social culture whereby students can further their relationships, especially in the coming years when our school doubles in size,” Richardson said.

Although students have been successful at forming clubs at a fast pace, they have had their challenges. Joan Ongchoco, a Yale-NUS student involved in a debate organization, said she was initially concerned that it would be difficult to get a group going when starting from scratch without any guidance from older students.

Keziah Quek, a student involved with a group called the Literary Collective, said she thinks the biggest challenge is getting people to commit to one group when there are so many others. The goal of a group is to attract many people, she said, but it is necessary to have enough people commit in order for the group to become stronger.

But Farley said that despite such difficulties, any student who has come to YaleNUS has made a conscious decision to join the inaugural class of the new college and was probably drawn to the opportunity to create new student groups.

After winter break, Yale-NUS students will return to campus to check in on Jan. 10.

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

Play explores hope amidst violence

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER

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The Yale Heritage Theatre Ensemble’s “Breath, Room,” tells the story of a gang leader coping with violence.

The Yale Heritage Theatre Ensemble will stage the story of a gang leader trying to remain hopeful in a violent world.

“Breath, Boom,” written by Kia Corthron, opens tonight at the Morse-Stiles Crescent Theater.

The play follows the character Prix — a 16-year-old leader of a female gang in the Bronx, N.Y. Amidst the violence that pervades her daily life, Prix dreams of becoming a fireworks show designer, though she does not know if she will ever be able to leave her violent past behind. Zora Howard ’14, the director of the production, said the play focuses on the characters’ ability to maintain a sense of hope for a brighter future in the face of extreme adversity.

“Breath, Boom” embodies the Heritage Theatre Ensemble’s mission of producing shows that illuminate voices and perspectives often overlooked at Yale, Howard said. Nya Holder ’16, who plays a gang member called Malika, added that relatively few students at Yale have personally experienced gang violence and that the production targets mainly those who cannot directly relate to it. The play reminds us that we should not take certain parts of

our lives — such as having supportive families — for granted, Holder explained. Gineiris Garcia ’16, who plays a gang member called Comet, noted that the audience is tempted to sympathize with the characters despite their often violent and disagreeable behavior, which prompts viewers to examine these actions from a new perspective.

“This play is about realizing a different world, a world that is the opposite of what most of us have experienced,” Garcia said.

Though she cannot personally relate to many of the characters’ experiences, Garcia said, she does know people who have gone to jail multiple times, gotten pregnant at a young age or been involved in gang life, all of which are present in the play. Holder explained that her mother provides help to adults who have abused drugs and alcohol during their childhood and adolescence.

Howard noted that the characters are strongly attached to their hopes and aspirations because they have full control over them — a level of authority they lack in other realms of their lives.

“It’s a story about the idea that in spite of trauma, neglect and abuse, we can still find it in ourselves to hold on to our dreams,” Howard said.

Howard explained that the plot revolves around a group of teenage girls who must balance their family lives with their involvement in activities such as illegal drug trafficking, assault and homicide — a lifestyle that most adolescents never need to experience. These 14-15 year old girls, she said, have to constantly deal with domestic abuse, homelessness, jail, family commitments and the risk of being killed. It is not surprising that the girls keep their dreams alive in such circumstances given that everything else is constantly endangered, Howard said, noting that the characters have nothing to hold on to except for hope.

“Death is a very present theme in the play,” Howard said. “All the characters interact with it in some way. These dreams are the only things that cannot die.”

Kyra Riley ’16, who plays Prix, said her character’s dream of designing fireworks shows stems from her belief that after each fireworks explosion, there is a moment of peace and silence — a feeling she cannot experience in her daily life. Between her gang activities, her sexually abusive stepfather and her negligent mother, Prix constantly finds herself in a chaotic environment, Riley explained. Garcia said her character dreams of hav-

ing a family that loves her. She noted that the other gang members view Comet only as someone they are obligated to take care of, adding that Comet misinterprets her fellow gang members’ attitudes towards her as genuine affection.

Holder highlighted the role gender plays in the production, noting that she thinks Corthron deliberately centered the piece on an all-female gang. The reason why girls such as these characters join gangs is usually connected with men in some way — they do it to either acquire power over men, to be with men they love, or to assume a position in a gang left by a deceased male family member, Holder explained. Riley said that Prix joins a gang in order to be financially independent of her mother’s boyfriend, who sexually abused Prix throughout her childhood.

All four ensemble members interviewed said they think the play is particularly powerful because the characters and events accurately depict the lives of many people who live in crimeridden urban environments.

The Yale Heritage Theatre Ensemble was founded in 1979.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” WINSTON CHURCHILL BRITISH STATESMAN

Coliseum project one step closer History dept. sees changes HISTORY FROM PAGE 1 that the move is part of an effort to keep pace with trends in the historical discipline.

History professor Abbas Amanat said that transnational themes are becoming more and more prevalent in today’s history scholarship.

“Obviously from a history department that has considered itself cutting edge, it is important to adjust to those realities,” he said.

We are still working on the major ... that’s going to preoccupy us a good part of this year.

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City lawmakers agreed on a land redistribution plan to help revitalize and develop the site of the former New Haven Colesium.

FINANCE FROM PAGE 1 tion, the Medical District and the Hill neighborhood, and to bridge the portions of South Orange Street currently separated by Route 34. Pending approval by the full Board, which rarely strays from the recommendation of subsidiary committees, building for the project will begin in 2014 and is slated to be completed in its entirety by 2020.

At a price tag of nearly $395 million, the project will erect a mixed-use development complex boasting 719 residential units, 76,900 square feet of retail space, a four-and-a-halfstar hotel, office space, a major parking lot and a public square and promenade. The complex will grow the city’s tax base and provide roughly 2,720 construction jobs, in addition to another nearly 2,000 ensuing employment opportunities on the site, said New Haven Economic Development Administrator Kelly Murphy. At least a quarter of those jobs will be reserved for New Haven residents, Murphy added, and another quarter will be reserved for minorities and 6.9 percent will be reserved for women.

Housing units will be mixed-income, and will include both town houses and lofts and feature a collection of two-bedroom and three-bedroom family units.

Redevelopment will discontinue a portion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard between State Street and South Orange Street, Murphy said, and involve bikeway and pedestrian improvements as well as storm water upgrades to better prepare against extreme

weather incidents.

“This creates a place and a vision where New Haven truly welcomes the world,” Max Reim, co-managing partner and founding principal at LiveWorkLearnPlay, told roughly 80 people gathered in the aldermanic chambers of City Hall to watch the project’s leaders make their pitch to city lawmakers.

The designs will transform the sight that greets people arriving in New Haven, Reim said, creating a “21st century urban boulevard” connecting the Hill neighborhood to the downtown in the place of a portion of a highway that has separated communities since the 1960s.

He said the designs grew out of conversations with community members and are inspired by a keen desire to boost the quality of life in New Haven.

“We have truly fallen in love with your community,” Reim said. He concluded by reading aloud a letter of support from mayor-elect and Connecticut State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78, who wrote that the project’s “New Havenfirst approach” won her approval. He also submitted letters of support from organizations including the New Haven Chamber of Commerce and Southern Connecticut State University.

Over a dozen city residents, business owners and public officials testified in favor of the development plan, hailing the influx of outside capital destined to increase commerce, employment and neighborhood density. They also said it would link neighborhoods currently divided by blight and vacancies and fur-

nish the city with an attractive new center that will make it a destination for people across the Northeast.

Equalla Salters, a single mom and student at the Construction Workforce Initiative Career Development School, spoke on behalf of a collection of her classmates who arrived at City Hall in construction uniforms and hard hats to offer their support for the project.

“We would love to work with you,” Salters said. “We’re ready to work. We need jobs.”

Leslie Radcliff said the city needs more moderate-income retail establishments that are not just dollar stores or firearm shops.

Lynne Fusco, president and CEO of Fusco Corporation, praised LiveWorkLearnPlay’s track record as a developer, saying the real estate firm is a largely family-owned business that prizes community engagement.

Murphy said not all details of the agreement are ironed out, including its precise financing. The city’s contribution will be capped, she said, supplementing potential state funding and independent fundraising.

Committee members queried the specifics of the tax revenue reaped by the development and the timeline of the project — as well as minor wording in the agreement —before unanimously passing it on to the full Board for final approval.

Total expenditures on labor income throughout the project are estimated at approximately $288 million.

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

Club shooter arrested by NHPD ARREST FROM PAGE 1 mon locations. It was very apparent to us at this time that Adrian Bennett was running and had become a fugitive from justice.”

People who commit such horrific acts of violence against innocent people in our society should be met with the full brunt of the law.

SHAFIQ ABDUSSABUR NHPD officer Over the following two weeks, investigators interviewed sources and staked out locations in order to track Bennett down. Ultimately, officials stationed outside the eventual scene of the arrest

identified Bennett as he entered the Hartford house.

Bennett was brought back to New Haven and did not speak with investigators after asking for his lawyer, Vazquez said.

On Wednesday morning, Bennett was arraigned in the Superior Court on Church Street. NHPD Officer Shafiq Abdussabur, a relative of Robinson, read a statement on behalf of the victim’s family to close the press conference.

“Today, we find comfort and relief that the person responsible for [Robinson’s] tragic death has been arrested,” Abdussabur read.

“People who commit such horrific acts of violence against innocent people in our society should be met with the full brunt of the law.”

The Key Club Cabaret closed indefinitely after the shooting per a voluntary suspension request filed with the state’s Department of Consumer Protection.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

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Adrian Bennett was identified as the perpetrator of the Oct. 26 shooting at the Key Club Cabaret.

NAOMI LAMOREAUX Chair, Department of History Lamoreaux pointed to the department’s introduction of thematic pathways last year as a similar step away from geographical divisions and said the new major requirements were developed in concert with the pathways. She said those pathways — which offer recommended courses of study in topics like “Environmental History” and “War and Society” — were just the “first stab” at providing students with a sense of the flexibility the history major offers.

In the past decade, enrollment in the history major has steadily declined, with 136 seniors majoring in the department in 2012 compared to 217 in 2002. Though Gage said the new tweaks to the major were not made primarily with the intention of attracting more history majors, the changes could allow more students to double-major in history.

Nicole CuUnjieng GRD ’18 recalled when a history professor last year asked why her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, was seeing an increase in the number of history majors despite a decreasing national trend. One possible answer could be the flexibility of the history major’s requirements at the school, she said,

which allows students to pair history with a second major if they wish.

Last week’s decision to reduce the requirements in Latin American, Asian or African history — areas that the department officially referred to as “Rest of the World” up until last year — struck some students as a sleight against non-Western histories. History major Emma Janger ’15 said that the decision to reduce Latin American, Asian or African history requirements made sense given the limited range of classes in those areas. But, she said, she believes the proper response to the limited range of course options should be to improve the classes, not to lessen the requirements.

Richard Anderson GRD ’15, who studies African history, said his initial reaction to the changes was negative.

“When you look at the division of these courses relative to the world population, number of countries, landmass — by any of these criteria it seems incredibly skewed,” he said.

On the other hand, Anderson said he thinks the decision is understandable, as the department lost some faculty members in non-Western specialties before the fiscal crisis and budgetary constraints have made these spots difficult to fill.

Dean of Yale College Mary Miller said the administration is fully supportive of the department’s efforts to recruit a diverse swathe of faculty.

Despite a tightened budget and thus fewer searches for new faculty members, Miller said, the University has authorized a search for a modern Middle East specialist, and two new South Asian historians will also arrive next year.

Lamoreaux said the department is fully committed to expanding its emphasis on nonWestern history and dispelling the misperception that it is divided into the three camps of American, European and nonWestern history.

The history major for undergraduates currently requires 12 term courses.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu .

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“It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.” E.W. HOWE AMERICAN NOVELIST

YCBA exhibit bridges centuries

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER Life-sized sculptures of animals face each other across the open court on the fourth floor of the Yale Center for British Art. A new exhibit entitled “Sculpture by Nicola Hicks” opens today at the British Art Center. The show includes seven life-sized renderings of humans, animals or a combination of the two that the British artist has created in the last decade. The sculptures are coupled with paintings from the Center’s permanent collection the artist selected to display alongside her work. Hicks’ exhibit, the only show at the Center opening this fall, will also be the only one this year that celebrates the work of a living artist.

We hold all our life’s experience in our bodies.

I’m trying to get you to relate to sculpture on that level.

NICOLA HICKS One sculpture greets visitors in the Center’s main court; the rest occupy two bays on the opposite sides of the fourth-floor gallery space. Martina Droth, associate director of research and education and curator of sculpture at the British Art Center, said that it is unusual to split an exhibition across vistas but that the architecture of the building, designed

by Louis Kahn, affords an unusual opportunity for dialogue between the exhibit and the Center’s permanent collection.

Droth described Hicks’ sculptures — which are made out of straw and plaster and often cast in bronze — as a “dramatic intervention into [the Center’s galleries].”

Hicks said she thinks her works interrupt the flow of the Center’s collections.

Works on display include ani-

mal and human heads, which Hicks said she considers portraits, and full-sized animal sculptures.

One plaster portrait depicts a man wearing a bearskin. The sculpture, entitled “Brave,” is a portrait of her adult son as a young man, Hicks explained. She said she depicted him wearing an animal skin to reflect her desire to provide him with some kind of protection as he was growing up.

“We hold all our life’s experience in our bodies,” Hicks said. “I’m trying to get you to relate to the sculpture on that level.”

Two works in the exhibit, including a life-sized sculpture of a donkey wearing a lion skin, belong to a larger series inspired by Aesop’s Fables.

The late 18th and early 19thcentury paintings that Hicks chose to pair with her sculptures resonate with the way Hicks approaches her work, Droth said. Many of the paintings depict animals, but Hicks said that she did not choose the paintings “for obvious reasons.”

“The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to look afresh at some of our most famous historic animal paintings by considering their contemporary relevance,” Hicks said in the press release for the exhibit.

Droth joked about the small number of sculptures in the Center’s permanent collection, attributing the comparative scarcity of sculptures to paintings to founder Paul Mellon’s preference for the portrait bust.

The exhibition’s opening event, called “In Amicable Conversation,” took place yesterday evening in the Center’s lecture hall. Independent art curator Patterson Sims and Hicks discussed the artist’s life and work after an introduction given by Yale Center for British Art Director Amy Meyers.

In addition to sculptures, Hicks said she makes charcoal drawings, none of which are featured in this exhibit.

A concurrent exhibit of Hicks’s work is opening at Flowers Gallery in New York City on Saturday.

Contact HELEN ROUNER at helen. rouner@yale.edu .

At Hopkins, Salovey talks pyschology

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President Salovey gave the commencement address at the Hopkins School, where he spoke about the importance of emotional intelligence.

BY JOSEPH VINSON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Wearing the same blue academic robes tailored for his inauguration but now standing before the Hopkins School’s maroon banner, University President Peter Salovey addressed a crowd of over 800 high school students and faculty Wednesday.

In delivering the annual convocation address for Hopkins School, a coeducational institution for grades 7–12 in New Haven, Salovey focused on his work as a psychologist rather than on his new role as Yale’s president. He spoke at length on the topic of emotional intelligence — a concept he and a colleague developed in the 1990s — and answered questions about emotional intelligence’s impact on populations from high school athletes to soldiers with posttraumatic stress disorder.

“The most important thing emotional intelligence can do for people is open you to information you would normally ignore,” Salovey told the crowd.

“What I’m not saying is your gut is always right, but what I

am saying is your gut is not random.”

In an interview with the News, Salovey said he wanted to emphasize two themes in his speech: how paying attention to emotions provides additional data about people and how important it is to be persistent in the face of obstacles. Drawing from his own experience with perseverence as an example, Salovey said the concept of emotional intelligence had not been a popular idea when he first began writing about it.

Salovey said he hopes students came away from his speech with a better understanding of the skills that constitute emotional intelligence, such as managing one’s emotions. These skills may be helpful “as students deal with the stresses of the college admissions season,” he said.

After his address, Salovey conducted a question and answer session with approximately 70 students.

When one member of the audience asked how Salovey personally defines success, the Yale president first demurred by suggesting that his under-

standing of success is no better than others. But he added that his vision would include having a positive impact on the world and maintaining good relationships with others.

Bluegrass music — a favorite of Salovey’s, who plays the bass in a bluegrass band — played in the background as students streamed out of a tent on Hopkins’s Pratt Field, where the ceremony was held, and back to their daily classes.

Students, faculty and administrators interviewed were broadly positive about the speech and the way Salovey interacted with members of the Hopkins community.

“He’s a teacher at his heart, and he made a clear decision to teach rather than lecture,” Hopkins Head of School Barbara Riley said.

Hopkins faculty members interviewed framed Salovey’s speech in terms of their day-today work at the school.

“As educators it is essential to look for expressions and emotions in students’ faces,” said David DeNaples, a history instructor at the school.

Psychology teacher Joshua

Brandt said that Hopkins’s psychology classes, which enroll a total of 45 students, had recently discussed emotional intelligence. Referencing Salovey’s statements about the possibility of introducing emotional intelligence into school curricula, Brandt said he is intrigued by this idea but acknowledges that it would require “high levels of emotional intelligence” from faculty members.

Michael Zhu, a freshman at Hopkins, said he found the speech engaging because it addressed a topic not normally discussed in his classes.

Founded in 1660 on the New Haven Green, 41 years before Yale was established, Hopkins traditionally educated the children of Yale faculty, though its current student body comes from a far broader background.

The school now sits atop a hill in the suburban West of the city, from which the spires of Yale’s campus are clearly visible.

Condoleezza Rice was last year’s Hopkins convocation speaker.

Contact JOSEPH VINSON at joseph.vinson@yale.edu .

Yalies launch Spanish-language magazine

BY BASSEL HABBAB CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While many students see the middle of the night as a time for sleeping or studying, a handful of Yale students are conceptualizing this period as the patron hour of reading, writing and reflection.

La Madrugada, a new Yale literary magazine that is fully dedicated to the publication of Spanish-language prose and poetry, is slated to publish its first-ever issue in early December. The magazine — which aims to fill a niche in the creative world on campus by providing a forum for self-expression in Spanish — draws its name from the Spanish word referring to the period of time between midnight and sunrise.

The inaugural issue of the magazine will feature short stories, poems, black-and-white print media, book and film reviews and other articles deemed to be of interest to the Yale community.

“At first it started from my need of publishing my own poetry, but I soon discovered that more and more people at Yale wanted to publish their work in Spanish,” La Madrugada President Dor Mizrahi ’16 said in an email to the News. “It is kind of bizarre, but sometimes it feels as if almost every student at Yale knows Spanish to some extent.”

Earlier this year, Mizrahi began reaching out to students and professors with the intent of starting a Spanish-language publication.

Through his role as an editor for Accent, an undergraduate multilingual publication, he found a collaborator in the form of Marco Ortega ’15, who now serves as La Madrugada’s editor-in-chief.

Ortega said he wants La Madrugada to provide both native and second-language Spanish speakers with a creative outlet in the Spanish language, adding that he feels such an outlet has been lacking in his time at Yale.

“As an immigrant from Mexico, who has lived in Arizona for

KEN YANAGISAWA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

La Madrugada, a Spanish-language literary magazine that is looking to provide a creative outlet for Spanish speakers on campus, plans to release its first issue in early December. the last 10 years of my life, I have always felt unable to fully express myself in my language,” Ortega said in an email. “There is no reason why we shouldn’t celebrate this beautiful language in the U.S., as it has been spoken here for over 400 years.”

While La Madrugada’s primary objective is the publication of original content, Mizrahi and Ortega said they also hope

to bring together a community of people interested in Spanish literature. In addition to publishing regular issues, Mizrahi said, the group plans to host events and bring different speakers to Yale’s campus. La Madrugada Events Coordinator Natalina Lopez ’16 said the publication is planning a launch party, and further events will follow as the magazine gains a greater campus presence.

La Madrugada Vice President Nikolaos Taki ’16, who also serves as the president of Yale European Undergraduates, said he is excited by the prospect of collaboration between the two organizations.

According to Taki, the Yale European Undergraduates group will play a major role in sponsoring and publicizing La Madrugada’s events.

Ortega pointed to the titu-

lar character of Isabel Allende’s “Eva Luna” as a source of personal inspiration for his work on La Madrugada.

“I feel a deep connection with her in terms of heritage and character,” Ortega said. “Isabel Allende describes her as a creative mind born from an Amerindian father with yellow eyes and a European mother. Despite her illiteracy and poverty for the first

two decades of her life, she eventually becomes a prolific writer.

It is my hope that through La Madrugada, many will discover the art of writing — in Spanish — like Eva Luna.”

La Madrugada usually meets on Wednesday evenings at 9 p.m. in the Silliman Common Room.

Contact BASSEL HABBAB at bassel.habbab@yale.edu .

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range Street is more than just a beautiful running route to East Rock — it’s also a 125-acre historic district. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic places in 1985, and the neighborhood continues to maintain its Victorian homes. Most of the buildings were developed in the late 1830s and early 1900s. CARLY LOVEJOY reports.

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range Street is more than just a beautiful running route to East Rock — it’s also a 125-acre historic district. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic places in 1985, and the neighborhood continues to maintain its Victorian homes. Most of the buildings were developed in the late 1830s and early 1900s. CARLY LOVEJOY reports.

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FROM THE FRONT

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” EMMA GOLDMAN AMERICAN ANARCHIST

New voter policies help improve turnout ELECTION 2013 CONNECTICUT VOTER TURNOUT Bridgewater 77.39 %

Stamford 35.38%

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New Haven citizens came out in droves to vote in last Tuesday’s municipal elections, aided by policies allowing for same-day registration.

VOTER TURNOUT FROM PAGE 1 released by Secretary of the State Denise Merrill. The recent uptick in voter turnout has been attributed to a combination of factors, including the lack of an incumbent mayor, the institution of new voting practices, demographic shifts and the successful get-out-thevote efforts. Local leaders said the surge in new voters points to a positive civic future for the Elm City.

“Voter turnout is usually driven by what is on the ballot,” said Secretary of the State Spokesman Av Harris. “New Haven had an open seat for mayor for the first time in 20 years … and contested races tend to bring out more voters.”

Mark Abraham ’04, executive director of DataHaven — a nonprofit formed to help make data more accessible for the Greater New Haven area — agreed that the lack of an incumbent drove more voters to the polls. Since candidates for mayor entered the race earlier than they had in 2011, the longer political process generated more excitement and discussion of the candidates’ platforms, Abraham said.

Since candidates for mayor

entered the race earlier than they had in 2011, and the longer political process generated more excitement and discussion of the candidates’ platforms, Abraham said.

This was also the first year that Connecticut allowed eligible residents to participate in Election Day registration due to a new law — Public Act 12-56 — which passed the Conn. State Legislature in May 2012.

“By nature, people procrastinate. People are busy. The window of registration goes by, and they don’t realize it,” Hynes said. “But now, if Election Day comes and they are eligible, they can now go out and vote.”

Two hundred and two New Haven residents took advantage of this new policy, registering and casting their ballots on Election Day, almost half of which were Yale students, according to Volunteer Registrar Whitney Nelson.

New Haven saw the highest number of voters in any Conn. municipality registering to vote on the same day.

Still, Abraham said that since it was only a few hundred voters — many of who were Yale students — the impact of same-day voters was not too significant.

NEW HAVEN 29.22% Hartford 5.21 %

Bridgeport 11.61 %

Harris said that although sameday registration did not have a large impact on this year’s municipal election, he anticipates that next year will be the “real test” for the practice since he foresees there will be double the number of voters.

Another factor that may have contributed to the stronger voter turnout is the changing demographic of the New Haven popula-

tion, Abraham said. He noted that, as more middle-class, young families have begun moving to the city, the percentage of active voters has increased.

In addition, groups such as New Haven Votes have looked to improve existing residents’ awareness about elections as a means of boosting turnout. Grassroots efforts such as holding open forums, hosting candidate fairs

and distributing pamphlets are among those Hynes attributed to the positive trend in the past few election cycles.

Although New Haven has seen a steady rise in voters, Connecticut as a whole has been largely stagnant in its roughly 30 percent turnout rate. As a result, Connecticut plans to roll out an online registration option for all individuals with a Connecticut driver’s license

this January.

“Our goal is to make it easier to participate in democracy,” Harris said. “We want everyone who can vote to be able to vote.”

The town of Bridgewater reported the highest turnout at 77.39 percent, with Hartford having the lowest at 5.21 percent.

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

Student groups debate YCC referedum TOWN HALL FROM PAGE 1 Fisher added that divestment from fossil fuels would set a worrying precedent and criticized Fossil Free Yale for supporting the “radical” actions of prodivestment groups at Harvard and Brown universities.

But Gabe Rissman ’16, a representative from Fossil Free Yale and a lead author of a recent 80-page report published by the group, said Yale is acting inde-

pendently from other divestment campaigns.

“Yale is doing something completely different from any other institution,” he said during the debate. “Yale’s divestment is not a political statement. [We are] simply following [Yale’s] own guidelines.”

Still, an endowment created by many past generations should not be used as a political tool, said Tyler Carlisle ’15, a member of the Students for a Strong Endow-

ment. He added that divestment is never a simple process and could have negative financial consequences for the University.

But Fossil Free Yale member Gabe Levine ’14 said studies have shown little difference between the performance of investment portfolios with investments in fossil fuel companies and those without.

The two groups also differed on the importance of the referendum process sponsored by the

YCC. “What would the referendum do?” Carlisle asked. “Nothing really.”

Students from Fossil Free Yale countered, saying that if the referendum passes, it will demonstrate widespread student support for the cause of divestment.

The referendum is not meant to pressure the administration, Levine said.

Rissman said the referendum could draw national attention,

though he added that publicity for the issue is not the primary goal for the ballot.

During the question and answer portion of the debate, the vast majority of inquiries from audience members were directed against Students for a Strong Endowment.

“This is a time for us to make a difference,” audience member Alina Aksiyote ’16 said. “If we all agree that this is a problem, why can’t we make a statement?”

Johnathan Landau SOM ’15, who at one point stood up and drew on the chalkboard to illustrate a point in Fossil Free Yale’s favor, said the debate was enjoyable and added that he appreciated that both sides had reached a consensus that climate change is a pressing issue.

The referendum will be held from Nov. 17 to Nov. 20.

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

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 5:00 p.m. “Death or Disability?” Some scholars question when death is preferable to life with a disability. Scholar and ethicist William Peace argues that disability studies and bioethics as fields of inquiry are ideally suited to address this issue together. Anlyan Center (300 Cedar St.), Aud 4:00 p.m. The Politic and YAAPD Present: A Conversation with Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. The Politic and the Yale Undergraduate Association for African Peace and Development present a conversation with Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., renowned civil rights leader and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The event is free and open to the public! SSS (1 Prospect St.), Rm. 114.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 10:00 a.m. “The Animals’ Longing Gaze: Heidegger and Derrida on Death.” Department of German and Whitney Humanities Center will host guest lecturer David Farrell Krell, a professor from Brown University. Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Rm. 208 6:30 p.m. “Half of a Yellow Sun” Screening. Join the Council on African Studies and film director Biyi Bandele for her telling of the “African Story,” followed by a Q&A with the director.

Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud. 7:00 p.m. Veritas Forum: “What Makes Us Human?” Rosalind Picard, a Christian, and affective computing researcher at MIT, and Joshua Knobe, a Yale philosophy and cognitive science professor will discuss religion, robotics and consciousness. SheffieldSterling-Strathcona Hall (1 Prospect St.), Rm.114.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 7:30 a.m. Proust Marathon. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way,” 100 students, scholars and guests will take turns reading their favorite passages from Proust’s masterwork. Saybrook Underbrook, (242 Elm St.).

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NATION Health care signups stay low

BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR AND LAURIE KELLMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Planting a paltry number on a national disappointment, the Obama administration revealed Wednesday that just 26,794 people enrolled for health insurance during the first, flawed month of operations for the federal “Obamacare” website.

Adding in enrollment of more than 79,000 in the 14 states with their own websites, the nationwide number of 106,000 October sign-ups was barely one-fifth of what officials had projected - and a small fraction of the millions who have received widely publicized private coverage cancellations as a result of the federal law.

The White House raced to reassure anxious Democrats who are worried about the controversial program, which they voted into existence three years ago and which seems sure to be a major issue in next year’s election campaigns. The administration, trying to regain the initiative, for the first time indicated a willingness to consider legislation to stave off the wave of cancellations that’s compounding the website technology problems.

Some Democrats are seeking changes in Obama’s signature program, and key Republicans, many pressing for repeal, said that even Wednesday’s feeble sign-up figures appeared to be pumped up.

The final number - 106,185 people - would be even smaller if it counted only those who finalized their enrollment by actually paying their first month’s premium, Republicans said.

Administration officials and senior congressional Democrats expressed confidence in the program’s future. “We expect enroll-

ment will grow substantially throughout the next five months,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who is in overall charge.

“Even with the issues we’ve had, the marketplace is working and people are enrolling,” Sebelius said. Responding to GOP critics, she said the first premiums are not due until Dec. 15.

The online, state-level insurance markets were envisioned as the new portal to coverage for people who don’t have health plans on the job. But the federal market was overwhelmed by technical problems when it opened Oct. 1, and the experience of state-run markets has been mixed.

The administration said an additional 1 million individuals have been found eligible to buy coverage on the markets, with about one-third qualifying for tax credits to reduce their premiums.

Another 396,000 have been found eligible for Medicaid, the safetynet program that is shaping up as the health care law’s early success story.

For many Democrats, concerns over the cascade of website problems has been compounded by the focus on Obama’s misleading promise that Americans who liked their health insurance plans could keep them under the overhaul.

But millions of people are receiving cancellation notices. They have plans that for various reasons don’t qualify for the law’s “grandfather clause” protection against cancellations.

Obama has said he’s sorry that people are losing their coverage and has vowed to find ways to address “holes and gaps” in the law. Advisers originally said the White House was considering administrative fixes, not legislative options.

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Socialist candidate for Seattle City Council Kshama Sawant supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour for all workers in the city.

BY MANUEL VALDES ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — Voters in leftleaning Seattle, where police recently handed out snacks at a large marijuana festival and politicians often try to out-liberal each other, are close to electing a Socialist candidate to the City Council.

Following the latest ballot count Tuesday night, Kshama Sawant had a 402-vote lead over 16-year incumbent Richard Conlin.

Given Washington state’s mail-in voting system, a winner won’t be named for days or even weeks after the Nov. 4 election.

Still, the strong showing by Sawant, a college economics professor and prominent figure in Seattle’s Occupy Wall Street movement, has surprised many

people.

Scott Cline, the city’s archivist, said research showed no Socialist candidate had won a citywide office in the past 100 years.

“This is new territory. There really isn’t any precedent,” said Stuart Elway, a longtime political pollster. “You think Seattle has a pretty liberal electorate, but you haven’t seen someone who calls themselves a socialist win.”

Sawant, 41, drew attention as part of local Occupy Wall Street protests that included taking over a downtown park and a junior college campus in late 2011. She then ran for legislative office in 2012, challenging the powerful speaker of the state House, a Democrat. She was easily defeated.

This year, she ran against

Conlin, pushing a platform that appeared to resonate with the city. She backed efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15; called for rent control in the city where rental prices keep climbing; and supports a tax on millionaires to help fund a public transit system and other services.

“I think we have shown the strongest skeptics that the Socialist label is not a bad one for a grassroots campaign to succeed,” said Sawant, who is on leave from her job as an professor at Seattle Central Community College.

During her campaign, she condemned economic inequality, contending that some people aren’t benefiting from the city’s declining jobless rate, ongoing recovery from the recession, and downtown building boom.

“This is one of wealthiest cit-

ies in the wealthiest country in the world,” she said. “For people to struggle for basic needs is absurd.”

City Council races are technically non-partisan in Seattle. Sawant, however, made sure people knew she was running as a Socialist, a label that would ensure defeat in many areas of the country.

Socialists have run for office in Seattle before. Before Sawant, the most successful candidate was Yolanda Alaniz, who in 1991 emerged from the primary in second place but was easily defeated in the general election.

“There were certainly populist candidates,” said Cline, the city archivist. “I don’t think any of them you could remotely call Socialist. Certainly there has never been anybody who has run as strongly as Sawant has.”

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“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” VINCE LOMBARDI AMERICAN FOOTBALL COACH

Elis turn heads against Owls

Dallier ready to contribute

SWIMMING FROM PAGE 12

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No. 1 Anthony Dallier ’17 is tied for the team lead with three made three-pointers on the season.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 mates, my best friends at home understood it to an extent, but it didn’t go over as well with my high school coach. We were pretty close and I lost my relationship with him.”

Now at Yale, Dallier has the chance to build new relationships with his teammates. Brandon Sherrod ’15 said he remembers first seeing Dallier when he came up to visit Yale during the recruitment process.

“To be honest I thought he was wack,” Sherrod said. “Lanky dude. Doesn’t really look like a baller right off the bat. He is really tall, though.”

But Sherrod added that he knew Dallier had to be good if he was coming up to visit Yale. And while Sherrod will always tease and joke with him, he said he believes Dallier can really help the team this season.

As with many first-year players, Dallier is still adjusting to college level basketball.

Specifically, he points to the speed and physicality of play as a significant difference. Even the practices are more intense, he said.

Sherrod thinks that the years Dallier spent at NMH were particularly helpful in preparing him for the athleticism of NCAA basketball.

A self-described “versatile player,” Dallier has played anywhere from point guard to small forward for the Elis when they have needed it. When backup guard Jack Montague ’16 was out with injury, Jones called on Dallier to handle the ball in tight situations.

“That’s a tough adjustment for anybody,” Sherrod said. “It was almost a seamless transition for him. His versatility and size, just being able to really see the floor, it’s going to be good for us in the long run.”

Dallier hopes his ability to contribute in multiple areas will allow him to make his mark on the Bulldogs in his first year. The lineup is tough to break into, but coach Jones has played him 15 minutes in each of the first two games of the season. He has averaged 4.5 points and 2.5 rebounds per game so far and is shooting 42.9 percent from beyond the arc. He is tied for the team lead with three made three-pointers on the year.

Dallier said that he is willing to do whatever is asked of him.

“I’m just trying to make as big an impact as I can and have a positive effect in each game I play,” he said. “As the year goes on I may have an opportunity to play a bigger role, but we’ll see.”

The Yale men’s basketball team has high standards for this season. Snubbed by the media as the third-best team in the conference behind Harvard and Penn — a team the Elis beat twice last year — in a preseason poll, the Elis aim to prove the analysts wrong and solidify their position as an Ivy League powerhouse.

Dallier is just glad to be a part of the team. Looking back on it all, he can say he is satisfied with the decision he made two years ago.

“I’ve been really happy with how it’s all worked out,” he said. “It was a really good decision for me.”

Dallier and the Bulldogs will take the court again at 7 p.m. tonight when they tip off against Rutgers (1–1, 0–0 AAC).

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

Yale to face Sacred Heart at home

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

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The men’s and women’s swimming and diving team both came away with victories against SCSU this weekend.

Hockey hungry for a victory W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 ing from the Elis (2–0, 0–0 Ivy) in the second half, but it also included 21 Bulldog turnovers and poor defense from Yale.

“We have to stop turning the ball over,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said. “We have to be more disciplined about both our defense and our passing. And those are two things that we talk about a lot.”

The team has a few days of practice to work out the kinks before stepping on the court again for another competition.

Captain and guard Janna Graf ’17 added that she expects the team to play with more poise and and place an increased focus on pivoting, ball faking and playing as a team. Furthermore, Graf said, the team will emphasize defense to limit the other team to fewer points.

A l t h o u g h t h e re we re moments of sloppy play, Yale produced a few bright spots in its victory. The Bulldogs received a standout performance from guard Sarah Halejian ’15, who led the Elis with 20 points in 28 minutes. Forward Meredith Boardman ’16 recorded a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds.

The Bulldogs remain a young team, a fact emphasized by the number of underclassmen that contributed significant minutes from the bench on Tuesday. Three of the five players who scored in double digits are sophomores or freshmen.

“I think we need to realize that each game is an opportunity to get better,” forward Alezandra Osborn-Jones ’14 said.

“And [yesterday] we lucked out because we were the better team. We have to remember each game is about getting better.”

The Elis have a tough task ahead of them in Sacred Heart, who lost to St. John’s 77–72 in overtime in last Friday’s season opener. Gabrielle Washing-

Ginsborg said. “Our entire team trained hard all week, so it was good to see what we could do when we were tired and hurting.”

The freshmen proved themselves capable of handling the pressure, as Aaron Greenberg ’17, Alex Schultz ’17, Alex Gross ’17 and Oscar Miao ’17 all placed in their first meet as Bulldogs.

The pressure was on as the women started their meet and they showed off their youth in the first few races. Five of the eight swimmers on the two 200-yard medley relay teams were freshmen. The team of Ali StephensPickeral ’16 and freshmen Kina Zhou ’17, Sydney Hirschi ’17 and Olivia Jameson ’17 placed first, while their teammates finished just behind them in second. The women also placed in the 1000yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke, 500-yard freestyle and 200-yard backstroke. SCSU fought back with finishes in the top three spots in the 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard IM, as well as first and second place finishes in the 200yard freestyle relay. The Eli freshmen helped out their team, contributing first-place finishes in the 200-yard butterfly, 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and 200-yard backstroke.

“We had a strong recruiting class, but the upperclassmen motivated us and contributed largely to our success,” Zhou said.

Both the men’s and women’s teams put the freshmen in the spotlight and the new Bulldogs took advantage of these opportunities. After these blowout victories, the Bulldogs will head to Columbia for their first Ivy League meet on Nov. 15. The Columbia women edged out Yale by only 83 points in the Ivy League Championships in February. Zhou added that she was excited to see

where the Bulldogs stood in comparison to another Ancient Eight opponent.

The men finished almost 100 points behind Columbia when the two last swam against each other in the Ivy Championships.

the first time since suffering an injury. In addition, forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 will be back on the ice after travelling with the Swiss national team last weekend.

“We want to come away with points and stay in the hunt for playoff spots,” Flygh said.

“Going into the weekend, we’re looking to get points and hopefully get our first win.”

Although the team has not won a single game so far, Flygh said it is making strides and is encouraged by recent performances.

He added that both teams that the Bulldogs faced last weekend are very strong and played in the Frozen Four last year.

Martini added that she believes that the upcoming games will set the tone for the season, as the team enters its vital second weekend of conference play.

The defender applauded her teammate and goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 for making 44 saves to shut out Quinnipiac last Saturday. Leonoff said that the team’s defense has

been playing well recently, so a major goal for the coming weekend is to capitalize on scoring chances. She added that the team has improved with every game this season, putting the Bulldogs in a better place currently than they reached at the end of last season.

“I’m feeling good,” she said. “I thought the games last weekend went really well.

We worked really hard. It was definitely our strongest weekend yet. We keep building and it’s great.”

Forward Gretchen Tarrant ’17 said she hopes that the team will improve this weekend on its ability to bury shots when given the chance and to finish each game strong.

“For the most part, we’re working on coming together with our team play,” she said. “I think we’re really getting there.”

The Bulldogs will play Rensselaer on Friday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. and Union on Saturday afternoon at 4:00 p.m.

Contact HAILEY WINSTON at hailey.winston@yale.edu .

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The women’s basketball team is off to a hot start, winning both of its first two games. ton, who drained 26 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the Pioneers’ loss, may be an especially tough mark for Yale. Washington was named to the Northeast Conference Preseason Team after finishing third in the league in scoring following the 2012– 2013 season.

The depth of the two teams’ rosters may prove to be a key factor this weekend. Sacred Heart used a nine-player rotation in its first game, while Yale used 12 players against Monmouth and 13 against UMassLowell.

The Elis lost at Sacred Heart last season, 67–62. This weekend, the Bulldogs will try to end the Pioneers’ streak of 10 straight wins, a run that dates back to 1979.

“We’re all really fired up to play Sacred Heart again because we lost to them last year by five points and it was a really back and forth game,” center Emmy Allen ’16 said.

Yale tips off against Sacred Heart at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday.

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

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The Bulldogs earned their first point of the year in ECAC play on Saturday, tying No. 7 Quinnipiac 0–0.

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GEORGIA HOLLAND ’14 FIELD HOCKEY Holland, playing in her final game as a Bulldog this weekend, performed well enough to be named to the Ivy League honor roll. She recorded two points in the Elis’ 2–1 victory over Brown. She was also a unanimous first team all-Ivy selection this season.

MOLLIE ROGERS ’15 VOLLEYBALL The outsider hitter from San Diego, Calif. was named Ivy League Player of the Week after recording a total of 23 kills and 23 digs last weekend as Yale clinched its fourth-straight Ivy championship. Five Bulldogs have been Ivy League Player of the Week this season.

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“The upperclassmen motivated us and contributed largely to our success.”

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Elis look to capture first win

BY HAILEY WINSTON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last weekend, the women’s hockey team nabbed its first point of the season. This weekend, the squad will square off against two ECAC teams in New York, still on the hunt for its first win of the season.

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yard butterfly, the 200-yard IM and the 200-yard freestyle relay, but the Bulldogs pulled far ahead with a much deeper lineup of swimmers.

Josh Ginsborg ’16 swam in his first race since an injury sidelined him for all of last season and won the 100yard freestyle.

“I was satisfied with last week’s performance given where I was at physically at the end of the week,”

The Bulldogs (0–5–1, 0–3–1 ECAC) will play Rensselaer (3–7–1, 2–2–0) on Friday in the teams’ first meeting since Yale’s 4–2 loss on Feb. 15 last season. The following day, Yale will face Union (4–8–0, 1–3–0) for the first time since last year’s overtime 1–1 tie on Feb. 16.

The Bulldogs captured their first point in the conference standings on Saturday with a no-score overtime tie against No. 7 Quinnipiac. Defender Kate Martini ’16 called this feat a step in the right direction and said that she is confident the team will come out of the coming weekend with four points.

“It’s a huge weekend for us,” she said. “It’s a weekend that we can absolutely win both games, and I think the team will be disappointed if we come out with any less.”

Martini scored for the Bulldogs in their final match against Union last year Head coach Joakim Flygh said that both Rensselaer and Union are hard-working, well-coached teams, so extra effort in practice this week will prove particularly important.

He is optimistic that the Bulldogs will be healthier and will boast a fuller roster this weekend than in past games. He said he hopes that forward Lynn Kennedy ’15 will play for

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The men’s swimming and diving team defeated the Owls 210–88, while the women won their meet 204–77 against SCSU this weekend.

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In their first official collegiate meet, Yale’s freshmen swimmers swam circles around their opponents and helped the Bulldogs open their season with a win.

For the first meet of the season, the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams met Southern Connecticut State at home at the Robert J.H. Kiphuth Exhibition Pool. The

Bulldogs made a statement as they soundly defeated the Owls; the men won 210–88 and the women won 204–77.

The diving team started off the competition, scoring 32 points and placing in the one-meter and threemeter dives. Freshman Anthony Mercadante ’17 scored 321.52 points, the highest score for a freshman first dive in several years. Swimming began with a multitude of victories, including wins in the 400-yard med-

ley relay, the 1000-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle and the 50-yard freestyle. The Bulldogs edged out the Owls in the 100-yard breaststroke, as Ronald Tsui ’15, Alwin Firmansyah ’15 and Nick Sehlinger ’17 took all three of the top places.

“Being able to practice with the team for over a month now has given me an idea of the potential we have,” Sehlinger said.

SCSU proved to be serious competition, with victories in the 200-

Dallier makes early impact

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER Three years into his basketball career at North Allegheny Senior High School, Anthony Dallier ’17 was faced with a difficult choice: finish up high school in his home state of Pennsylvania or transfer to a boarding school in Massachusetts.

Choosing door number one meant staying at NASH and finishing up his

senior year with his friends and teammates. Door number two meant he had to repeat his junior year and complete high school at Northfield Mount Hermon, a college-prep boarding school in Massachusetts.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Dallier chose door number two and went on to win a league title and a national championship for the NMH

Hoggers, averaging 16 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists in 2012–2013.

While his decision to transfer was motivated heavily by basketball, Dallier recognized the academic advantages offered by a school like NMH. He would have a better chance at making it to the Ivy League, for instance. But he acknowledged that he made sacrifices.

“It was difficult,” he said. “My team-

Bulldogs prepare for Sacred Heart

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Despite defeating UMass-Lowell by 13 points on Tuesday, the Bulldogs committed 21 turnovers in the contest.

BY ASHLEY WU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Saturday, the women’s basketball team will look to continue its seasonopening winning streak and avenge last season’s loss to Sacred Heart.

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No. 1 Anthony Dallier ’17 scored a career-high six points against the University of Connecticut on Monday afternoon.

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Despite a dominant home opener against UMass-Lowell (0–2. 0–0 America East) on Tuesday, several

Bulldog players said that they hope to improve on that performance in preparation for the game against the Pioneers (0–1, 0–0 NEC). Sacred Heart was picked to finish second in the Northeast Conference Preseason Poll this year following last season’s appearance in the WNIT. Last year, the Pioneers finished 21–9 overall with a 13–5 conference record.

Yale’s Tuesday game against the River Hawks featured sharp shootSEE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 11

TURNOVERS COMMITTED BY THE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM IN TUESDAY NIGHT’S CONTEST AGAINST UMASS-LOWELL. The Elis, who gave away the ball only 16.7 times a game last season, will look to improve that number this Saturday at home against Sacred Heart.