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former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 can add ‘Award of Honorary Membership’ in the Yale International Relations Association to her list of accolades. During her visit to campus for her 40th Yale Law School reunion, she was given the paper certificate from several YIRA members at a photo opportunity in Woodbridge Hall. The former senator and first lady will now have the privilege of being invited to YIRA Study Breaks and pressured to spend her weekends staffing the SCSY conference.
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entist. Thirty years later, she returned to the University to investigate why other women were still doing the same. Her findings led to a recent New York Times Magazine article that addressed a question that has resonated on university campuses for decades: “Why are there still so few women in science?” Though Yale has made strides in hiring more female faculty members in the sciences, the ratio remains
Reckless behavior and underage drinking problems have forced the New Haven Police Department to continue its recent crackdown on bars and nightclubs around the Elm City. Since the NHPD stepped up patrol efforts earlier this year to control alcohol-related mischief, a series of incidents around the city’s entertainment district — such as the Oct. 13 brawls outside Kudeta and several bar citations for underage drinking — have forced the department to increase police presence after hours. Though the exact deployment numbers are not available, several press releases said that more officers have been stationed near popular establishments in New Haven to guard against the underage drinking, public intoxication, disorderly conduct and nighttime violence. “The inspections are a continuing effort to curb such activity, discourage over-consumption and make sure the venues provide for their patrons’ safety,” department spokesman David Hartman said in a Sept. 23 press release. “The continued enhanced police presence will continue to assure underage bar and club patrons get the message.” The press release was issued days after a city shooting and as students from New Haven’s universities were returning to campus. In response, NHPD increased patrol efforts, dispatching around a dozen officers on foot and bike, and several others on motorcycles, to look for traffic violators and drunk drivers. Earlier in September, the NHPD announced that it had held a forum with the New Haven Department of Health and other organizations on nightclub and bar safety. Representatives from Quinnipiac University and the University of New Haven were on hand to discuss the local nightclub scene and plans to increase downtown security
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Asian glow. “Glow hard or
go home,” reads a set of shot glasses being sold by the Chinese American Students’ Association, encouraging students to show their natural colors. The group is currently taking pre-orders for $5 each, a small price to pay for cultural pride.
New Haven Horror Story: Coven. If Yale is Hogwarts,
New Haven is Hogsmeade. In fact, the Elm City may have once teemed with witches. The New Haven Museum is exploring the city’s dark past of witch trials and prosecutions in a Thursday talk.
Supreme Highness. A once-
in-a-lifetime class field trip at Columbus Family School in Fair Haven brought 25 students before Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79 at a small, intimate meeting. Many of the students at the middle school, located in a neighborhood with a high Hispanic population, look up to Sotomayor as a role model, said Abbe Smith, spokeswoman for the New Haven Public School District. For country. White House
internships for the coming summer have been announced and the list is, of course, teeming with Yalies. Whether this heightens your sense of school pride or feelings of competitive resentment, these students have taken the first step towards doing what Yalies do best — running our country. Those selected include Reid Magdanz ’12, Jon Morgan ’13, Gabriel Perlman ’12 and Giselle Barcia LAW ’13.
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hirteen years into the new millennium, progress in hiring and retention of female science professors remains stubbornly slow. Women still face an uneven playing field and encounter gender bias during their time at Yale. ADRIAN RODRIGUES reports. BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER
Though she graduated from Yale summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, Eileen Pollack ’78 said she did not feel triumphant. Unconfident, exhausted and discouraged, she soon gave up on her dream to be a sci-
Contract in sight BOARD OF ED STILL NEGOTIATING, BUT HOPES TO REACH NEW TEACHER CONTRACT SOON
A vibrant urban village could soon rise from the ashes of the New Haven Coliseum, as plans for a mixed-use development project on the site of the demolished sporting venue were submitted on Monday evening to the New Haven Board of Aldermen. The project would erect residential units, office space and a hotel above a collection of ground-floor restaurants and
prestigious and pretentious Grand Strategy program were due Monday. “Generally we get around 120 applications and accept about 1/3 of those,” said Jeremy Friedman, the program’s associate director. Let the Hunger Games begin...
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At stake in the current debate on new teacher contracts are the specifics of wages and benefits for New Haven educators. BY POOJA SALHOTRA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Board of Education and the New Haven Federation of Teachers have not yet settled negotiations for a new teacher contract, but both parties are confident that they will reach an agreement before arbitrators have to dictate the terms. The current teacher contract, which includes provisions for wages and benefits as well as a teacher evaluation system, expires in June 2014. According to state statutes, the two parties can be forced into arbitra-
tion since they failed to settle the contract by Oct. 17. Under arbitration, a panel of three arbitrators would hear each side and unilaterally dictate the terms of the contract. Although the October deadline has past, NHFT president Dave Cicarella said he is optimistic that negotiations will be settled before the Nov. 11 arbitration date. He added that the new contract will likely remain similar to the 2009 contract, including a teacher evaluation system that focuses on teacher accountability and supSEE CONTRACTS PAGE 4
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cafes on a 4.5 acre plot between the central downtown area and Union Station. Situated next to the Knights of Columbus Building, the site, which played host to the 1984 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and a series of other sporting events since its opening in 1972, runs alongside a stretch of Route 34. After the arena fell into disrepair, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. closed the space in 2002, and it was demolished by controlled implosion in 2007. SEE DEVELOPMENT PAGE 4
No compensation for Ivy League athletes BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER College athletes at schools across the nation receive privileges ranging from scholarships to access to special tutors and dining services. But the Ivy League has long been known for its lack of merit-based and athletic scholarships. Although the NCAA will meet to discuss changes to current scholarship regulations in the coming months, the Ivy League will not depart from its long-standing tradition of paying solely need-based financial aid, according to Robin Harris, executive direc-
tor of Ivy League athletics. The NCAA discussion will be centered on paying a stipend towards the living expenses of student-athletes that are not typically covered under the umbrella of an athletic-scholarship. This extra cost is often referred to as cost of attendance. Harris said, however, that these discussions would not affect the Ivy League because the Ivies do not granting meritbased scholarships. “If the NCAA chooses to add to the definition of the grant that you can give a stipend, the Ivy League will not be affected SEE ATHLETE PAY PAGE 4
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hen President Peter Salovey injected Africa into his inaugural address, he surprised much of the community. It is time, Salovey said, “to bring scholarship and teaching about Africa at Yale into sharper focus.” We applaud this pivot. Africa is the world’s fastest growing continent, and is rising rapidly in political influence. It also possesses some of the world’s most dangerous challenges: genocide, war and extreme poverty. Yale students have much to benefit from centralizing African studies in our curricula, just as research here can promote progress there. Salovey and other faculty members have emphasized several major features of the initiative: recruitment of African students, partnership with African institutions and the creation of global intellectual networks. These features show the flash of promise, as evidenced by a $1,000,000 donation just hours after Salovey’s speech. But the first step must be to strengthen Yale's existing African Studies program. African Studies has been declining in recent years. Only five undergraduates are in the major; only 15 courses are offered; and only three African languages are taught. In the 2012-’13 academic year, four prominent Africanist professors left. Kamari Clarke, who stepped down as chair of the Council on African Studies in 2012, declared that the University had “neglected” the program. If the University is to attract students and faculty passionate about engaging with Africa, its core program cannot remain in shambles. Before reaching out to African institutions, Yale must ensure that students have adequate resources to study the continent. The most significant step
is to increase faculty hiring. As a program, African Studies cannot formally hire professors and must lobby departments, such as History, for Africanist scholars. While two Africanist professors will begin at Yale next year, the program will still be reeling from last year’s losses. Currently, many departments only hire one or two Africanists. Each should have multiple experts on Africa — ensuring that an entire field of scholarship will not be neglected due to the natural ebb and flow of faculty. To ensure that Africanist faculty will be retained, Salovey should endeavor to find donors for endowed professorships devoted to African scholarship. An endowed chair would allow Yale to transition in new distinguished faculty whenever a position is left vacant. We acknowledge that the University is limited in its capacity to bring on new faculty, particularly given this year’s high yield rate. But given the new initiative, Salovey must commit the faculty necessary to growing the African Studies program. Former President Richard Levin’s leadership was heavily defined by his emphasis on East Asia. But what made his work possible was the foundation of a strong East Asian Studies program. Our peer institutions are leaping forward. Harvard recently received $15 million to launch the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies. If Yale is to compete, we must first elevate our own Council of African Studies to having the capabilities of at least its East Asian counterpart. An initiative in Africa is the type of innovation Yale deserves from a new president. But while broader horizons make for better speeches, we implore Salovey not to overlook the teaching of Africa in New Haven.
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s the Supreme Court takes up a key case this term in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, a conservative bench once again threatens to undermine effective affirmative action policies at Yale and across America. Discussions about race as an admissions factor have always been controversial at Yale. But unfortunately too much of the debate has focused on how affirmative action can reorient our society after centuries of systemic injustices — as if we can somehow erase our history of enslaving African-Americans and discriminating against other races simply by accepting more minorities to the University in 2013. To be sure, such inequalities still exist and should not be ignored. But theories of cross-generational retribution miss the key benefit of a strong affirmative action policy at Yale: diversity. The University has a compelling interest in protecting our demographic-conscious admission policy because of the robust diversity such admissions flexibilities provide — a logic backed up by 35 years of Supreme Court jurisprudence. Certainly, students have good reason to be skeptical of using demographics as a factor in admissions. In fact, Yale has historically
abused admissions standards to exclude certain populations from campus. Until 1870, Yale College used demographic-conscious admissions policies to exclude African-Americans altogether, breaking that tradition only when Edward Bouchet became the first black man to enroll. Yale similarly excluded women until 1969. And low-income students were largely ignored until the recent Levin-era financial aid reforms. In short, Yale admissions had traditionally used demographic manipulation to decrease — not increase — diversity at Yale. The admissions office actively strove to keep its student body white, male, Christian and upper-class, completely at odds with the demographic realities of America as a whole. As a poignant example of such a negative use of demographicconscious decision-making, Yale instituted unofficial quotas before 1960 on Jewish students to limit its Jewish student population to around 10 percent, in line with the anti-Semitic mores of the time. But as the Yale Admissions Office began to lift those policies discouraging or outright refusing admission to certain races, genders, and socioeconomic backgrounds, the University marched progres-
sively toward a more diverse student body. In fact, with Yale’s modern commitment to diversity sprawled across nearly every piece of Yale literature, the Admissions Office has flipped the demographic-conscious admissions script on its head, showing that these policies do not have to be a force for exclusion. Instead of using demographics to whitewash the student body, we have instead allowed ourselves the opportunity to use applicants’ cultural backgrounds as a tool to create a Yale more reflective of America. Through the lens of manufacturing diversity, then, affirmative action makes much more sense, as few will openly criticize the benefits of a diverse Yale. “Identity, culture, faith and politics inspire a constellation of vibrant communities,” Yale’s admissions website proclaims. Yet the natural pushback against affirmative action has always been that race-conscious standards have blocked the most qualified candidates from gaining admission to Yale in order to make room for under-qualified, underrepresented minorities. But such thinking relies on a troubling assumption: that Yale should measure all applicants on the same one-dimensional scale of merit — when in fact our mea-
sure of merit often skews toward a certain demographic. In the public eye, we set up hoops in the exact shape of upper-class straight white men and then applaud them when they are able to jump through them. Affirmative action allows the Yale Admissions Office additional flexibilities to recognize the nuances of unique challenges — a hedge against the urge to judge applicants on the basis of test scores and number of LinkedIn connections alone. No doubt, Yale still has work to do to make its student body more representative of the country as a whole. Barring internationals, the proportion of AfricanAmerican enrolment, 6 percent, lags behind the national population of 13 percent; Hispanics are similarly underrepresented, 9 percent against a national 16 percent; and Yale still draws 44 percent of its student body from those select few wealthy enough to afford a Yale education without any financial help. Yet despite these shortcomings, we have consistently progressed toward a more inclusive, diverse Yale. A Supreme Court ruling undermining affirmative action would only reverse that trend. TYLER BLACKMON is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .
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his past summer, I was a Family Project intern of the Human Rights Campaign. Depending on who I’m talking to at Yale, that sentence can serve as a coming-out statement on various levels. Aside from my friends who are conservative in their attitudes on same-sex marriage, I have progressive friends who are angry with HRC. I’ve been carrying an umbrella and mug displaying HRC’s logo — the equal sign that took Facebook by storm last March — only after giving it much thought. I’m wary of entering a heated debate at any moment, with friends on my right or my left. At some points I have felt frustrated with the organization too. In fact, I didn’t make their logo my profile picture last March. But this summer my relationship with the organization changed. When my friends criticize HRC, they often discuss the organization’s history of excluding transgender individuals, and HRC’s more mainstream stances on LGBT issues — for example, their centralization of same-sex marriage in their national work, to the exclusion of other important issues. Often members of the LGBT community will simply reblog Tumblr posts critiquing HRC without thinking critically or
doing some research; I didn’t want to fall into that trap, so I aimed to dig deeper. When I decided to take the internship there, my goal was to gain an insider’s view of HRC while maintaining a critical distance. I took notes on daily interactions, interviewed staff members and asked tough questions during intern brown bag lunches. Over the course of my summer, I learned that the organization is doing much progressive work that isn’t getting the attention it deserves. What’s known as the HRC is truly two component organizations. One is a Political Action Committee focused on lobbying on hot-topic policy issues such as same-sex marriage and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. The other component is the HRC Foundation, which takes on less mainstream subjects and focuses on intersectional issues. One of HRC’s most fatal flaws has been the invisibility of the Foundation and its progressive work in national media. HRC is aware of this problem and has taken steps to address it. During my final three weeks, they hired Jay Brown as the first Director of Foundation Strategy. At the moment of his hiring, Jay became the only transgender member of HRC’s staff of 150. Jay has been tasked with bringing more media attention to the Foundation’s work on progressive issues,
such as health care equality, religion and faith diversity and outreach to foster care agencies. This summer I was able to watch one of their innovative projects in action: I saw Foundation staff facilitate a workshop that equipped early childhood educators with the tools to build a welcoming classroom environment for LGBT students. As much as I saw HRC doing important work this summer, I also noted that there are continuing gaps in their agenda, and members of the LGBT community whom they have failed to reach. HRC cannot claim to represent all LGBT Americans and continue to leave out various parts of the queer community, such as LGBT homeless youth and adults, sex workers, transgender people incarcerated and abused by police at irregularly high rates and people living with AIDS. While the organization as a whole is out of touch with these marginalized communities, there are progressive staff members — many of whom I worked with — who are passionate about addressing more radical issues in the LGBT community. Going forward, I hope to see these staff members educating the organization’s board of directors to encourage them to reach out to communities traditionally marginalized by HRC. Many staff members I spoke
to acknowledged that reprioritization is necessary at the HRC. I wholeheartedly agree. Refocusing around the cutting-edge work of the Foundation and not just the policy-oriented work of the PAC will be vital to that process. Recently, HRC President Chad Griffin wrote a Huffington Post article declaring that the organization will be intensifying its focus on social service and medical HIV resources. This is an area that the HRC has not historically taken on, and it’s a step in the right — or rather, left — direction. The HRC needs to continue engaging more with community members in need, rather than dedicating most of their resources and time to engaging with policymakers. The next step would be to open up a dialogue with other organizations in the queer movement, without dismissing their criticism. Maybe I’m overly optimistic about HRC. But if they fail to deliver on their new commitments, I have no doubt my friends who have critiqued the organization in the past will be quick to expose its wrongdoings once more. This time around, I won’t hesitate at all in joining them, because a new agenda is long overdue. DANIEL DANGARAN is a junior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at daniel.dangaran@yale.edu .
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CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, OCT. 4
The WEEKEND cover “The Road Less Traveled” incorrectly misattributed statements about a Los Angeles high school to Forrest Lin 16. In fact, the descriptions were made by the writer. MONDAY, OCT. 21
The article “Elis sharpen skates against Ontario Tech” incorrectly abbreviated the University of Ontairo to Ontario Tech. It is in referred to as UOIT in shorthand.
Limited activities for fall break BY WESLEY YIIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Though fewer University-sponsored activities will be offered during fall break this year than last year, Yale students are still planning to take advantage of the time away from their classes. This year’s October recess, lasting from the night of Oct. 22 to the morning of Oct. 28, marks the second year that Yale undergraduates have had a fall break in the academic calendar. The Yale College Dean’s Office will offer three sponsored activities — late-night bowling, discounted movie tickets and free bus passes to the Westfield Connecticut Post shopping mall — compared to the 12 that were offered last year. Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry said that many students have already begun showing up to his office to buy tickets. “We based this year’s offerings on the number of people that signed up and participated in the events last year,” Gentry said in a email to the News. “The discounted movie tickets, latenight bowling and bus passes to the mall were the top selections last year, and they appear to be popular again this year.” Associate Dean for Student Organizations and Physical Resources John Meeske, who was involved in the planning of the fall break activities, said that the office deliberately offered fewer activities because feedback showed that students wanted to use the break to relax and not have to worry about making plans. Meeske added that he thinks students “felt that the break should be a break.” Of 26 students interviewed, 14 said that they plan to remain on campus for all or most of the break. Only seven students said that they were either considering or had already made plans to participate in the YCDO activities. Though students were generally satisfied with this year’s YCDO offerings, the omission of a discounted bus trip to New York City — which was highly popular last year — disappointed some students. Zobia Chunara ’16, who went on the trip last year, said she and many of her friends were hoping that the bus passes would be offered again. Although the trip was popular last year, Meeske said, the YCDO decided that the service was ultimately unnecessary. “People can get to New York on their own,” he said. “It’s not something that
we need to organize for them.” Meeske added that a destination like the Westfield shopping mall requires more assistance, since most students have limited modes of transportation to smaller cities within Connecticut — whereas students can easily take a train or bus into New York City. When fall break was first implemented in fall 2012, many students voiced concern about the shortening of the end-of-term reading and exam periods by two additional days. But this year, students responded more positively to the trade-off, with 21 out of 26 saying that preferred the break to a longer end-of-term periods. Sam Faucher ’16, who is not planning on remaining on campus for fall break, deemed the choice between a break and a longer end-of-term period a “close call.” “Going straight from the beginning of the year to Thanksgiving would be tough,” he said. “Although the shorter reading period is stressful, it’s equally disadvantageous for everyone, and exam curves might reflect that.” But other students were not so favorable towards the break. Jéssica Leão ’16 said that she believes fall break shouldn’t exist because it “interrupts the flow of the calendar,” and Jay Kim ’14 said a longer reading period would offer more time to write papers. Kim added that she believes the shortened reading period is unfair to humanities majors who often have to work on papers that are due at the end of the period, while most non-humanities students only need to prepare for their exams. Meeske said that he is aware of the complaints about the shortened reading and exam periods. Although everyone likes the idea of a fall break, he said, students have disagreed about whether the break is worth the cost of a shortened reading and exam period. The YCDO is planning “serious discussions about the calendar” in the future, Meeske said, adding that the office will look for ways to somehow keep the break while also adding days back into the end-of-term reading and exam periods. Over break, the residential college dining halls will operate on a reduced schedule, with six dining halls open for service from Wednesday through Saturday. Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .
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Developers are currently interested in making the Science Park neighborhood appealing to Yale entrepeneurs. BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER Just over a week after University President Peter Salovey emphasized the importance of student contributions to Yale and New Haven’s “idea economy” in his inaugural address, developers in nearby Science Park are looking create a more “liveable” environment for Yale and New Haven innovators. Once home to factories, Science Park was established in 1982 as a collaboration between Yale and New Haven and sits on 80 acres of land between Yale’s Science Hill and New Haven’s Newhallville neighborhood. Now housing research labs, technology startups and biotech companies, the park has in the past only been used during the workday, with the nearest housing and retail in the surrounding neighborhoods. After years of delays, developers — notably Yale’s University Properties and Forest City Enterprises — have embarked on projects to add residential and retail spaces designed to reshape Science Park into a 24-hour community. Developers and administrators interviewed suggested that the transformation would prove key in furthering entrepreneurship at Yale and encouraging students to stay in New Haven to start businesses after graduation. “With apartments in Science Park, entrepreneurs who typically work all hours of the day and night will be able to live and work within a five-minute walking radius,” University Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander ’65 said. In September, Gov. Dannel Malloy and a handful of city economic development officials broke ground on the Winchester Lofts, a $60 million project that will bring 158 loft-style residential units to the park. Developers involved in the project, which is slated to be completed during the summer of 2014, said they hope to create a 24-hour community at the complex for the first time. Abe Naparstek, a senior vice president at Forest City and the project’s leading developer, said the goal is to build “the best apartment building in New Haven.” “It’s going to be a place where peo-
New Haven transport examined BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER In an effort to improve New Haven residents’ access to jobs that are moving out to surrounding towns, a consortium of regional organizations met last week to discuss improvements to public transportation. Carl Amento, director of the South Central Regional Council of Governments, said he organized the consortium in response to reports released by the local NAACP chapter and non-profit DataHaven, revealing the region’s public transportation to be inadequate in providing job access for Elm City residents. The consortium, which includes the NAACP, the Connecticut Workforce Alliance, the Connecticut Economic Resource Center and DataHaven, will conduct a study to determine the specific issues that are hindering job access to better inform future policy recommendations. “We need to be more responsive to the migration of employment out of New Haven,” said NAACP President James Rawlings. “There are a lot of barriers in place for equal economic opportunity” DataHaven’s study Community Index 2013 reported that though New Haven is home to over 47,000 “living wage” jobs, making it the
labor capital of the region, only 19 percent of these jobs are held by New Haven residents. Workers from low-income neighborhoods hold only 4 percent of these jobs.
We need to be more responsive to the migration of employment out of New Haven. JAMES RAWLINGS President, Greater New Haven Branch of the NAACP The first step to building a plan to fix the transportation problem is to find out specifically how city residents end up with such long commutes, Rawlings said. Amento said that the cost of eventually increasing access to public transportation will depend on the report’s findings. If there are large groups of commuters going from one neighborhood in the city to a certain area for work, the solution might be as simple as shifting or expanding bus routes, he said. If commuters are heading in many different directions, it may be possible to set up a carpooling system. DataHaven and the Connect-
icut Economic Resource Center submitted a proposal to SCRCOG outlining their $12,000 proposal to develop a report that will document regional “spatial mismatch,” or the distance between the concentration of jobs and the concentration of people. Amento said spatial mismatch is a result of job sprawl, as employers create more jobs on cheaper property out of town in rest areas and industrial parks. “Job access could probably be improved with access to housing near where they worked,” Abraham said. “It’s an indication that they can’t afford to live near where they work.” Amento will submit the proposal to SCRCOG on Wednesday and is hopeful that the organization will use a Connecticut Office of Policy and Management grant to fund the study. He plans to complete the study by the next legislative session so they can start lobbying efforts. Of those registering for CTWorks, a statewide program for job seekers, 84 percent identified transportation as a barrier to employment opportunities, the Community Index reported. Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .
ple really want to live,” he said. Naparstek said he hopes the new development will attract Yale faculty, staff and graduate and professional students, along with employees of companies located in and around Science Park. The lofts can also provide housing for recent Yale College graduates who are starting businesses in New Haven, he said. Naparstek said Forest City communicates frequently with University Properties about its plans for the development. Still, developers said residential space must also be paired with retail space to create a vibrant atmosphere. Through University Properties, a Yale body that has played a significant role in the development of Chapel and Broadway Streets, the University plans to add significant numbers of retailers to the park by leasing space along the ground level of the Science Park Garage. “People don’t feel at ease when there’s no one about,” Associate Vice President for University Properties Abigail Rider said. “Good retail brings foot traffic, street activity and visual interest to the area at street level — where the people are. It feels alive.” Currently, the restaurant Ivy Bistro, which opened in 2011, is the only retailer leasing University Properties’ space. Rider said there are plans to bring several other retailers to the space, but she declined to name any specific retailers with which University Properties is negotiating. Despite the added residential and retail space, developers said bringing Yale students to the park will continue to pose a challenge. The surrounding area boasts some of the highest crime rates in the city. Jon Soderstrom, the managing director of Yale’s Office for Cooperative Research, which has taken a large role in aiding projects and businesses in the park, said there the office is considering plans to incentivize students to spend time at Science Park. “We have to develop programs that will attract them off campus,” Soderstrom said. “Frankly, no matter how attractive those programs are, we have to work really hard to get people
to walk those two or three blocks.” In discussing his hopes for encouraging entrepreneurship at Yale, Salovey has often pointed to the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute as an important resource for students hoping to turn their ideas into functioning businesses. The YEI, often in conjunction with the Office of Cooperative Research, has previously supported startups that have used space in Science Park and contributed to its development, including CT Tech, a company that provides startups with “incubator space” and access to investment managers and other partnerships. While Yale startups will first be given space at YEI’s offices, those successful enough to require more room will receive help from the University in finding space at Science Park or other locations nearby, Alexander said. Nevertheless, tensions regarding the park’s ultimate purpose remain. Though Yale administrators and developers are eager to discuss the park’s role in fostering innovation, leaders on the New Haven side of the collaboration are more likely to emphasize the generation of jobs in the Newhallville and surrounding communities. The focus of the park has always been to create jobs for local residents, said Florestine Taylor, who works for the Science Park Development Corporation, a nonprofit sponsored by Yale, New Haven, and local stakeholders that oversees the development of the park. Though many Newhallville and Dixwell residents were once employed at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company factory, the number of local jobs has plummeted since the factory closed in 2006. Taylor said a primary responsibility of the park is providing jobs to those without advanced degrees in addition to research and other high-skill jobs. Science Park currently houses portions of Yale’s administrative, Information Technology and maintenance staff. Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .
Healthcare up for CT youth BY JIWON LEE STAFF REPORTER Following the opening of Connecticut’s healthcare exchange under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more of the state’s young adults have enrolled in healthcare plans. Under the provisions of the ACA, adults under 26 are eligible to extend their coverage under a parent’s plan, and others in this age bracket have purchased coverage through the state’s healthcare exchange. Since it opened on Oct. 1, 1,584 Connecticut residents have purchased healthcare through the exchange, 451 of whom are under the age of 35. “Prior to the passage of the ACA, young adults had the highest and fastest growing uninsured rate in the United States,” said Tamara Kramer, a Research & Policy Project Manager at Connecticut Voices for Children, a New Haven-based advocacy organization. Kramer cited numerous reasons for this statistic including the transition between high school and college and expensive premiums for young women are major barriers to healthcare access for youth. The effects of healthcare reform extend to youth in New Haven. According to a Fall 2012 Survey by the local non-profit DataHaven examining the well-being of Greater New Haven, 17 percent of all adults aged 18-34 in the City of New Haven do not have health
insurance. The survey found that older adults and adults living in suburban areas were significantly more likely to have health insurance. To further promote the ways in which ACA benefits to youth in the city, government officials in the city and the state are employing creative channels to spread awareness. Mario Garcia, New Haven’s Director of Public Health, said the city plans to incorporate information about healthcare access in educational settings, through youth advocacy organizations and on social media. The state’s exchange is also building a support system to make information on health care more accessible to people in Connecticut. Since Oct. 1, when the exchange opened, Kevin Counihan, the C.E.O. of Access Health, the state’s healthcare exchange, has hosted enrollment fairs in libraries and held outreach events at supermarkets. Counihan added that having more young people insured helps the exchange keep down costs, since young people do not usually use as many medical services. Connecticut is one of 17 states operating its own marketplace for healthcare exchange. Contact JIWON LEE at jiwon.lee@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” C.S. LEWIS AUTHOR, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
NHPD cracks down on downtown bars BAR CRACKDOWN FROM PAGE 1 and boost patrol units. To complement the nighttime patrol efforts, the NHPD has also dedicated more resources to actively inspecting bars in order to make sure that they abide by liquor sales regulations. Previously, such inspections were carried out exclusively by state liquor agents, but the NHPD has started to conduct them independently. Current inspection teams are composed of NHPD officers, building code inspectors and representatives from the Fire Marshal’s Office and the Livable City Initiative, an organization that enforces public safety requirements in New Haven. “Officers will be expanding their inspections beyond the customary boundaries,” Hartman said in the Sept. 6 press release. “Liquor establishment owners and managers must be reminded that they have a great responsibility to regulate their business and educate their staff.” These efforts have resulted in the citation of such bars as Temple Grill and Delaney’s Taproom and Restaurant, both of which allegedly failed compliance tests run by the NHPD and the state’s Department of Consumer Protection. The two establishments now face hearings with the Liquor Control Commission to address charges that they sold alcohol to minors. “Typically, the permittee of an establishment that has been
cited by the Department will be notified to appear before the Liquor Control Commission for a hearing at which time they can present their side of the facts,” said Claudette Carveth, the Director of the DCP’s Office of Communication and Education.“Agents from the DPC also provide testimony, and then each case is decided individually.” Though the main focus of the NHPD’s crackdown has been on downtown New Haven’s entertainment district, bars closer to Yale’s campus have also felt its presence. “I think it’s just a general knowledge that everybody knows what’s going on and what needs to be done,” said Frank Cullimore, the manager of Anna Liffey’s, an Irish bar on Whitney Avenue. Cullimore also said that, though he has not noticed a significant change in the crowd numbers at Anna Liffey’s, he has heard that fewer people are going to downtown clubs and bars because of the crackdown. “I think it’s good for New Haven, in general, and for businesses that the violence will be ended or at least cleaned up a little bit,” Cullimore said. A Sept. 6 NHPD liquor inspection resulted in the arrest of six students from Sacred Heart University for underage drinking. Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .
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The NHPD has dedicated more resources to actively inspecting bars in order to make sure that they abide by liquor sales regulations.
Teacher contract negotiations near end CONTRACTS FROM PAGE 1 port; however, he also said that the details of wages and benefits are still being negotiated. “Often times, the parties are able to come to an agreement before the arbitration date,” Cicarella said. “We are in pretty good shape now, so I’m very confident that within the next couple of weeks we will have a contract.” NHPS Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 echoed this sentiment, saying that although negotiations are behind schedule, there are no fundamental disagreements between the two parties. The current contract, which was ratified in October 2009, has been widely celebrated as a groundbreaking collaboration between the Board of Education, teachers and administrators. Unlike many other school districts that take a top-down approach to education reform, New Haven is unique in that district officials are willing to treat teachers as equals, American Federation of Teachers spokesperson Matt O’Connor said. Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 said New Haven’s model of reform defies national trends.
“A lot of the national conversation in education reform is that the teachers union is this group that is creating all sorts of problems,” Elicker said. “But the New Haven model proves that that is not the case, and that teachers understand that some things need to change.”
I’m very confident that within the next couple of weeks we will have a contract. DAVID CICARELLA President, New Haven Federation of Teachers The 2009 contract includes a landmark teacher evaluation system which measures teacher performance based on students’ standardized test scores and classroom observations. At the end of the year, teachers are assigned a rating on a one to five scale indicating their level of performance. Teachers who are on the track to receive a rating of 1 — “needs improvement” — are notified by Nov. 1, and, through support sessions with teaching
coaches and opportunities for development, are expected to improve by the end of the year. Since the contract went into effect, just over 60 teachers in the district have been let go for not meeting the standards, Cicarella said. “The litmus test we always use for teachers is, ‘Would I want my own child to be in that classroom?’” he said. “If the answer is no, then we as an organization have to be willing to do something about it … we have to be willing to have those tough conversations.” David Low, an ocean engineering and calculus teacher at The Sound School in New Haven, said that the fact that no complaints were filed by any of the teachers who were let go suggests that the system is well-founded. Before the 2009 contract was signed, there was no rubric that explained what constitutes satisfactory classroom management and teacher instruction. Instead, teacher evaluation was left to the discretion of individual principals who each had their own ideas, said Cicarella. To establish a set of guidelines, between October and July, committees met to discuss particular aspects of the eval-
uation system, from teacher accountability to professionalism. Through these yearlong deliberations, said Cicerella, teachers and city officials came up with a strong framework for teacher evaluations. Still, there are some areas that the teachers union and the Board are negotiating for the new contract, including class size, wages and benefits and length of the school day. The new agreement will also likely include terms to reward high-performing teachers using a $53 million Teacher Incentive Fund grant that the city received in 2012 for a Professional Educator Program. Both Harries and O’Connor said that the agreement would not necessarily translate to “merit-pay,” in which teachers are paid for high student test scores. “What we want to do is find more meaningful career trajectories for teachers, so that our best teachers can stay in the classroom and have long and prosperous careers doing that,” Harries said. The current four-year teacher contract was signed on Oct. 13, 2009. Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .
Ivies resist athlete pay ATHLETE PAY FROM PAGE 1 because we don’t give scholarships,” Harris said. Given the number of sports at Ivy League institutions, it would prove difficult for Ivy League schools to offer scholarships equally. Colorado College has a perennially strong hockey program and offers scholarships, but men’s hockey and women’s soccer are its only Division I sports. With Ivy schools fielding over 10 teams, it is difficult to offer enough scholarships in every sport according to men’s basketball head coach James Jones. “I think it would make for great discussion, but given the number of sports that are at each Ivy institution it would be [cost-prohibitive] to offer scholarships,” Jones said. “The alternative would be to cut sports and no one wins with that scenario.” Once the idea of paying for
an athletes’ cost of attendance was brought up for discussion in the NCAA, the next question raised was whether or not Division I athletes should be paid an additional salary for their contributions to the university. “I don’t feel that I deserve to get paid,” said swimmer Danny Clarke ’14. “My teammates and I don’t generate any revenue for Yale Athletics. In fact, Yale Athletics and Yale Swimming boosters give thousands of dollars to our team each year for equipment, travel costs, etc.” Clarke supported the argument, however, that some athletes should receive compensation for attending a four-year institution instead of jumping directly into the lucrative world of professional sports. “I think top Division I basketball and football players should be paid. These athletes generate millions of dollars
for their schools and receive none of the profits,” Clarke said. “I think it is unfair that the University of Florida made millions of dollars off of Tim Tebow jerseys, and he received none of the jersey sale revenue.” Although proponents argue that athletes should be compensated for generating revenue for the University, administrators typically argue against the proposition, Harris said. Yale Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said that the reasoning against paying athletes a salary is twofold. First, it has the potential to further divide student-athletes from the student body as a whole. Second, it takes away from the student-athlete experience. “I think it changes the paradigm in a very dramatic way,” Beckett said. “I think the students are [currently] all coming here with the idea that everybody is given the same
opportunity and that no one is being rewarded with some sort of merit scholarship based on what it is that they do. Changing that would be a real shift in how students interact.” While Yale and other Ivies may not be changing their stance on scholarships, college athletics as a whole are in flux and have the potential to change dramatically in the coming years. “The NCAA is a broken system,” Clarke said. “I anticipate collegiate athletics will undergo significant change in the next decade.” In the annual Ivy League fall conference on Oct. 28 and 29, athletic directors from all eight institutions will meet in New Haven to discuss recent changes to the NCAA regulations as well as current recruiting regulations and improved training table meals. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
New development plans announced DEVELOPMENT FROM PAGE 1 It has since been turned into a paved parking lot. The development plans — now awaiting Board approval — mark the latest phase in New Haven’s Downtown Crossing project, which seeks to reconnect the city’s downtown neighborhood with Union Station, the Medical District and the Hill neighborhood, and to bridge the portions of South Orange Street currently separated by Route 34. “The agreement submitted to the Board of Alderman represents the culmination of over two years of work engaging city and state leaders and — more importantly — the residents of New Haven,” DeStefano said in a Monday evening press release. “This project will create significant tax revenues for the city and create both construction and permanent jobs. The project [will] have a long term effect of revitalizing an underutilized area within the central business district as well as helping to create the conditions necessary for future commercial development throughout the city.” The developer the city enlisted for the project, international real estate firm LiveWorkLearnPlay, unveiled its plans for the site in June. At a price tag of $360 million, the project would erect a mixed-use complex that will include retail establishments, nearly 1,000 residential units, a 15,00018,000 square-foot conference center, a public square, underground parking and a nearly 200-room hotel on the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Orange Street. The project seeks to lure over 35 businesses to the refurbished space and also to attract a contingent of “seasonal incubator businesses” that will complement permanent retail options on site. 20 percent of the residential units will be affordable housing, and the entire housing stock will be mixed among apartments, condominiums, live-work units and town homes. Max Reim, co-managing partner and founding principal at LiveWorkLearnPlay, said the project will be a boon not just for the downtown area but for the entire city. “The development will become a thriving and activated community gathering spot for New Haven, filled with dozens of shops and restaurants and a brand-new hotel and convention
center,” Reim said. “We think it’s going to revitalize all existing retail and bring more people to spend more time and energy in the downtown.” He said the Coliseum project will complement existing improvements in the Ninth Square, a mixed residential and business district in the city’s downtown that has been a focus of redevelopment efforts in recent years. Increased economic activity around Orange, George and State Streets will also improve students’ retail experience in the downtown area and link them to portions of the city currently cordoned off by vacant lots and underdeveloped properties, Reim said. “It will be a fabulous gateway for the city,” he added. The proposal is founded on principles of new urbanism, he said, an urban design movement that seeks to combine smart growth with mixed-use spaces that promote walkable neighborhoods and public transit. He said the project will be environmentally friendly and bring thousands of construction jobs to the city. The city estimates that the project will generate upwards of 6,000 jobs over more than a decade of construction, slated to begin in 2014. Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said the mixed-use complex will provide a sense of place for people arriving in the city’s downtown, a clear symbol of the city’s retail hub for those arriving via the highway or train into Union Station. “It means a new vision for how you enter New Haven,” he said. Ward 21 Alderwoman Brenda Foskey-Cyrus, who chairs the Board’s community development committee, said she just received the design proposal on Monday and looks forward to learning about the potential of the Coliseum site. Ward 28 Alderwoman Claudette Robinson-Thorpe, the committee’s co-chair, also said she needs to familiarize herself with the details of the design but that she is tentatively supportive because she thinks the redevelopment will bring jobs to the city. The community development committee does not have a meeting on the books until next calendar year. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .
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NEWS
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” HARRIET VAN HORNE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
Student restaurant sees success
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From Lucas Sin ’15 and Kay Teo ’16, who opened the Underground Noodle Collective last spring, comes Nom, which features tapas-style Asian food. The restaurant will be open Friday nights in the Davenport College buttery. BY YI-LING LIU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER If students happen to drop by the Davenport College buttery on Friday nights, they will find a space fully transformed into a loud and bustling student-run restaurant. Nom is the second restaurant ever started by student organization Yale Pop-up, the brainchild of Lucas Sin ’15 and Kay Teo ’16 that brings together a community of food-lovers to operate one restaurant on campus every semester. Within the new restaurant, three managers and four dedicated student cooks work for more than nine hours each Friday to prepare and cook for the restaurant’s one-day of operation each week, rustling up dishes like Miso stews and Tom Yung Tacos.
Last spring, Yale Pop-up opened the Underground Noodle Collective, an Asian fusion restaurant specializing in ramen. This year, they came back with Nom, serving the kind of tapasstyle Asian food found in Japanese izakayas — drinking and snack dens ubiquitous in Japan. From restaurant design to kitchen duty, Nom is entirely studentrun. “I love making ideas come to life and I saw that Lucas had a real passion for cooking,” said Teo, who met Sin in a class last year, where they bonded over a shared love of Asian food. “So I thought, why don’t we make something of this?” Passion was transformed from concept to reality, and by the end of last spring, the Underground Noodle Collective served 150
customers per night. The restaurant operated for more than a month last semester. But Nom differs from its predecessor in several ways. “The Underground Noodle Collective was much more just about assembling a bowl of noodles that people could enjoy,” Sin said. “This time the emphasis is on execution, management and spreading the love for food.” Aside from Sin and Teo, the team consists of four cooks, a business manager, a front-ofhouse manager and wait staff. In the kitchen, each cook is in charge of a specific dish on the menu — Sin shows them how to make it, and for the next three weeks, the cooks learn and master the dish through imitation. During the application process for the restaurant this semester,
Shops promote cancer research BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This week, shops on Broadway, York and Chapel Streets are offering discounts for those who donate to breast cancer research in New Haven. In order to participate in the fundraiser, known as Six Days to Save, customers must buy pink bracelets for $5 from participating stores. Proceeds from these bracelets will be donated directly to Closer to Free, a fund that promotes breast cancer treatment and prevention at the Yale Cancer Center and the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale –New Haven Hospital. “The donation and the bracelet act together as a passport to savings,” Patrick O’Brien, the Marketing Coordinator for University Properties and the Shops at Yale, said in an email. “The donation helps save lives, while [donors save] money at shops and restaurants.” Carin Keane, Director of Retail Leasing and Marketing for University Properties and the Shops at Yale, said that the majority of stores, such as J. Crew and Campus Customs, are offering discounts of 20 percent off a single item. Restaurants such as Thali Too and Claire’s Corner Copia are also participating. O’Brien said the organizers of the fundraiser are projecting proceeds of $12,000, as they ordered 2,400 bracelets. Keane added that larger donations can be made beyond the purchase of a bracelet. Barry Cobden, manager of Campus Customs, said he was optimistic that the fundraiser would be successful, adding that the store had already sold “a ton” of bracelets. “We need to do more things like this because it not only embraces a good cause, but it embraces all the stores together and makes for a nice event for the city,” Cobden said. Susan Frankenbach, Senior Project Manager at the Yale University School of Medicine who oversees Closer to Free, said that the fund is the “philanthropic public face” of cancer research at Yale, which encompasses the Yale Cancer Center and the Smilow Cancer Hospital. Closer to Free was established three years ago with the creation of Smilow. Frankenbach
cited the efforts of Dr. Tom Lynch, physicianin-chief at the hospital and director of the Yale Cancer Center, as instrumental in the distribution of funds garnered through her organization. Through the use of undesignated funds, Lynch and administrators at Smilow Cancer Hospital are able to grant seed money to novel research endeavors in cancer prevention and treatment. Often, this research is further pioneered at the hospital in the form of clinical trials. The funds generated from the Six Days to Save Fundraiser will be earmarked specifically for breast cancer. Because of the vast amount of breast cancer fundraisers, Frankenbach said significant improvements have been made in diagnostic tests, such as ultrasounds, that allow for early detection of the cancer. “Breast cancer is no longer a death sentence,” Frankenbach said. “It’s a treatable disease.” The Shops at Yale held a similar fundraiser for breast cancer research last year. Known as “Shop for a Cause,” participating merchants donated 20 percent of one day’s sales to the Smilow Cancer Hospital. O’Brien said that several shop owners expressed interest in a larger, weeklong breast cancer fundraiser at a merchants’ meeting in August, leading to the creation of this year’s event. Closer to Free’s most profitable fundraiser is a bike ride held each September; this year’s event garnered over $1 million for cancer research. Citizen-led fundraisers are equally important to the cause, according to Frankenbach. She brought up the example of a young girl in Hamden whose mother was diagnosed with cancer. Her fundraiser - a lemonade stand raised $4,000 in just four hours. Bracelets can also be purchased on Market Island, across from J. Crew on Broadway, and at Info New Haven, on the corner of Chapel and College Streets. Twenty-one businesses are participating in the event. Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu.
Sin and Leo said they were not concerned with whether their 70 candidates had prior cooking experience. “We ended up taking four not because they were the best chefs, but because when we looked at the bigger picture, we thought that they would be able to bring the greatest diversity of flavors to the table,” Teo said. The team draws from a wide range of backgrounds — Monica Chen ’15, for example, is a neuroscience major with an interest in food policy and obesity, and Aubrey Wahl ’17 once worked as a crepe chef. McLane Ritzel ’14, a lover of fermented foods, makes almond milk and sours kimchi in her dorm room in her spare time, and Chris Zheng ’14 grew up surrounded by his grandmother’s Chinese cooking.
Carolina Rivera ’16, Nom’s business manager, said each member of the restaurant’s team is completely dedicated to the project. Along with Teo and Alex Simon ’17, Rivera is in charge of the service and management aspects of the restaurant. The network of people and resources at Yale has also allowed the restaurant to thrive. “We are getting so much free service that would be impossible to have in the real world,” said Teo. “People volunteer to help because they want to be a part of something — everyone from graphic designers [who] come help with the website to computer science majors who help with the reservation system to photographers who help us with publicity.” Last Friday, Nom was packed
with throngs of students who gave up their meal swipes for the YHHAP Fast. Claire Smith ’17 said she was glad to give up her dinner swipe and eat at the restaurant instead, especially after seeing the interesting and flavorful combinations of food in the dishes. Despite the time and effort that students have put into running Nom, plans for future restaurants are already in the making. Though the plans have yet to be unveiled, Teo hinted that the next enterprise will be a concept that is “super-refined” and “less grungy.” Nom is open every Friday night from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. in the Davenport buttery. Contact YI-LING LIU at yi-ling.liu@yale.edu .
Board of Aldermen’s Food Action Plan pushes health BY ABIGAIL BESSLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At last night’s Board of Aldermen meeting, the Board passed the Food Action Plan — a set of strategies for increased sustainability and improving access to healthy food in New Haven. The six women sitting at this month’s meeting of the Cooking and Food Education working group, a branch of the New Haven Food Policy Council, have already begun implementing the plan. In the past year, the group has started cooking classes and promoted citywide healthy eating efforts, both elements of the new Food Action Plan. With the passage of the initiative, which will also include supporting community gardens and introducing more nutrition education into New Haven public schools’ curriculums, group members hope to broaden the outreach of their programs. “It’s amazing to me that no one is stressing the need for culinary education,” said Nadine Nelson, owner of Global Local Gourmet and co-chair of the working group. “In order to see positive changes in the community, people need to know how to nourish themselves and cook well.” Right now, the group’s main focus is broadening community access to cooking and nutrition classes by training New Haven residents to teach the basics of healthy cooking. To address this goal, cochairs Cara Donovan and Nelson are drafting plans for a new Master Cook Corps program. Spurred on by requests for more cooking classes after summer festivals in Dixwell and Fair
Haven, the new initiative will recruit 12 adults and 12 teenagers to teach cooking classes in their communities. With an initial commitment of four classes a year, the newly trained teachers will go to community centers, schools and festivals, showcasing one of their own recipes. Donovan described this outreach as a way of bringing together the New Haven community through food.
They must be eating fried chicken 20 times a week. NADINE NELSON Owner, Global Local Gourmet The New Haven Food Policy Council cited increasingly unhealthy eating habits in the city as the main impetus for the new initiative. According to a 2009 CARE study, some segments of New Haven public school students reached nearly 50 percent obesity rates. Nelson said obesity is still prevalent in southern New Haven. “It’s amazing to see how many fried chicken restaurants they have down there,” she said. “I mean, they must be eating fried chicken 20 times a week.” Members of the Cooking and Food Education group have seen how successful cooking classes can be in promoting healthy eating. According to the 2012 plan, 82 percent of graduate participants of New Haven Cooking Matters classes reported eating more fruit after the class, and 100 percent reported eating more vegetables.
Patricia Wallace, director of elderly services for the city, suggested “Easy, Healthy, Cheap” as a theme for new cooking classes. Nelson said the most important part of the program, besides promoting healthy eating, is its community focus. “If you’re learning cooking from someone that looks like you, you’re more likely to get quinoa and make it than if a doctor who doesn’t look like you told you to eat healthier,” Nelson said. Yet the Cooking and Food Education working group faces a budget problem, even with a $5,000 grant from the Health Department for cooking classes. Nelson said that the passage of the Food Action Plan could attract more attention to the need for culinary education in New Haven, adding that she thinks the “training-thetrainer” model can be extended to add more teachers each year. “Is there enough funding? No,” she said. “But is there funding? Yes. Which is a lot more than some organizations can say.” Applications for the Master Cooks Corps are currently being drafted, but there are at least four cooking classes planned between now and the end of the year, including one at the Connecticut Mental Health Center and another with Q Terrace, a New Haven public housing project. The new Master Cooks Corps will work closely with local organizations like CitySeed and Cooking Matters. Contact ABIGAIL BESSLER at abigail.bessler@yale.edu .
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” CARL JUNG SWISS PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Researchers recode E. coli genome BY NICOLE NG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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Antidepressant shows promise
While scientists have previously modified the genetic code of organisms, they have never successfully recoded the genome in ways that fundamentally alter the organism’s biological function. But in the Oct. 18 issue of the journal Science, researchers at Yale and Harvard successfully recoded the genome of E. coli to expand viral resistance and allow researchers to more easily introduce new amino acids into the organism. The finding will help researchers modify proteins and improve the safety of biological organisms subject to viral infection, Yale professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology and senior co-author Farren Isaacs said. “We’re already seeing that we can link the viability of organisms to amino acids, and we’re starting to create new types of proteins and polymers that contain these new amino acids,” Isaacs said. “Over the next 10, 15, 20 years the production of new polymers could affect drug delivery, tissue engineering and the formation of new materials.” The genetic code of most organisms consists of a sequence of 64 codons, triplets of nucleotides, that code for 20 amino acids. In this research, scientists replaced the UAG codon with the UAA codon. As a result, viruses introduced into genomically recoded E. coli that contain the eliminated UAG codon cannot properly produce and express the protein necessary to infect the organism, Isaacs said, and the organism is resistant to that virus. The researchers’ success can help solve two of the biotechnology industry’s unsolved problems: bio-safety and virus infection, particularly in processes that rely on organisms. Large bodies of organisms, which are used to produce compounds, drugs and other chemicals, are often compromised by a virus or phage infection and turned into “two million liters of useless fluid,” Harvard Medical School professor of genetics and senior co-author George Church said. However, through the use of genomically recoded organisms, industries might be able to counter those deleterious effects and make the processes more stable, Church said. Isaacs and Church also showed that eliminating the UAG codon frees up a protein cod-
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ing space in an organism’s genome, allowing for a more efficient incorporation of nonstandard amino acids — amino acids that are not traditionally coded for. Normally, nonstandard amino acids must compete with naturally-occurring amino acids to be synthesized into a protein, Church said. Yet after the deletion of the UAG codon, the codon can be reintroduced back into the
We’re really opening up a new spectrum of chemical proteins. FARREN ISAACS Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology genome with a new non-standard amino acid associated with it. “We now have a dedicated codon that will allow us to very efficiently introduce the 21st amino acid with new chemical properties, which will allow us to change the function and stability of the protein and create new types of drugs,” Isaacs said. “We’re really opening up a new spectrum of chemical proteins.” Having proven the ability to establish viral resistance via genomic recoding in E.coli, researchers are interested in applying this technology to other organisms in the the dairy industry and pharmaceuticals for which viruses are a problem. The technology in genomic recoding of E. coli is applicable to other organisms in principle, Church said. Professor of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Timothy Lu said the studywas a major advance over other genomic studies, adding that the technique which the reseachers developed should be translatable across organisms. “They’re just scratching what’s possible,” said Lu. “Now the question is, can they reencode larger subsets of functions inside the cell and do larger things. It seems promising in this technology.” Apart from Harvard and Yale, study collaborators included MIT, the Scripps Research Institute and Columbia. Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .
BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER The Yale School of Public Health has formalized a 16-year-old partnership with Saint Petersburg State University in Russia to help combat HIV/AIDS. On October 11th, the universities agreed to create a new behavioral health research center based in St. Petersburg that will produce research on HIV/ AIDS public health interventions. The two Universities have collaborated since 1997 in search of solutions to the HIV/ AIDS epidemics spreading in both St. Petersburg and New Haven. “This will provide a formal framework for a stable, ongoing relationship,” said dean of the Yale School of Public Health Paul Cleary. The long-term vision of the center is to integrate research, education and teaching from both countries, said executive director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at the Yale School of Public Health Elaine O’Keefe. The partnership between the universities is already strong, and the agreement will help sustain the relationship between the institutions, she said. Currently, Russian researchers come to Yale to study how to conduct HIV/AIDS research and return to Russia with the new skills, a practice that will continue with the most recent agreement between the Universities. Since the agreement itself does not provide money for the initiative, the universities hope that the partnership will attract funding from outside sources, said Robert Heimer, a professor of epidemiology and leader of
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a team of Yale researchers who study HIV/AIDS in Russia. “We expect that the memorandum will convince funders that both universities are committed to creating sustainable interactions and partnerships,” he wrote in an email from Russia. “We hope more broadly that projects in other areas of university scholarship can be promoted since each university now recognizes the willingness of the other to serve as a productive partner.” In 1997, former dean of the Yale School of Public Health Michael Merson founded CIRA
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A Yale-led study may help scientists develop a new class of antidepressant drugs for treatment-resistant patients. Researchers found that the novel drug lanicemine has antidepressant effects similar to those of the anesthetic ketamine but does not cause the negative psychological effects associated with ketamine. This finding shows that targeting the glutamate system of the brain, which both lanicemine and ketamine do, promises rapid improvement in clinical symptoms for those who failed to respond to traditional treatment. The study was funded by the biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and was published in Molecular Psychiatry on Oct. 15. “Lanicemine can give us confidence that with the right molecule we could get the therapeutic efficacy of a drug like ketamine and mitigate some of the side effects,” said senior study author and AstraZeneca researcher Michael Quirk. Since the 1980s, studies have indicated that drugs acting on the glutamate system produce antidepressant effects that are in some ways superior to traditional antidepressants that target the brain’s serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine neurotransmitter systems. In a study performed at Yale in 2000, ketamine was shown to produce significant clinical improvement in treatment-resistant patients in 24 hours. Traditional antidepressants take at least seven weeks to show such improvement, if they do at all. In this study, researchers examined the effects of lanicemine and ketamine on clinically depressed patients who had not responded to previous treatment. The study found that the patients had a clinical response to lanicemine treatment without the side effects associated with ketamine, such as psychosis and risk of addiction. Yale professor of psychiatry John Krystal, who was on the research team of the 2000 study on ketamine, said he praises the study for providing new insight into the biology of depression. This new rapid-acting class of
In September, Yale professor of psychiatry Marc Potenza published a letter in the journal “Addictive Behaviors” on how the definition of “addiction” had broadened in the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) released this spring. In earlier versions of the DSM, the term “addiction” was linked only to substance-use-related behavior, but in the new manual, the definition has expanded to include non-substance-related behaviors such as gambling. According to Potenza’s letter, researching addictive behaviors not related to substances, including food, the internet, and video games, is critical because it can provide a foundation for improving public health through better approaches to policy, prevention and treatment. The News asked Potenza about the changing use of the term addiction in the DSM, and how the shift will impact policy and our understanding of compulsive use.
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drugs may bring great benefit to severely ill or suicidal patients, he added. Sanjay Mathew, a psychopharmacologist at Baylor College of Medicine, said the study was “very well done.” Quirk and study lead author and Yale professor of psychiatry Gerard Sanacora both said they see more research as key for further developing antidepressants that target the glutamate system, in part because longterm safety effects have yet to be examined.
“We’ve been learning about [traditional antidepressants] for 50 years now and we still don’t understand everything about them,” Quirk said. “In the next few years to have a complete understanding about a new class of medicines that could be potentially very important is a little optimistic.” According to Krystal, this research is moving in two important directions. The first is finding a way to translate shortterm antidepressant effects as seen in this study into a lon-
ger-term treatment to “stave off the return of depression symptoms.” The second “very exciting” direction is rooted in the fact that these antidepressants work so quickly. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, depression affects approximately 15 million American adults, or 6.7 percent of the adult population, every year. Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .
Now in its 21st year, the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale has received funding for five more years of research on health issues that affect the elderly. As part of the grant renewal, seven Yale University researchers received supprt from the Center for one to two years of investigation on topics that range from examining the causes of delirium in hospitalized older patients to determining how aging couples support each other through disabilities and chronic conditions. Ken Covinksy, who directs the Pepper Center at University of California at San Francisco, said he looks to Yale’s Pepper Center as an example of how to run a successful aging-related research operation. “When we think of groups who’ve done really good work, we often the think of Yale,” he said. Yale Pepper Center Director Thomas Gill said that the Center’s mission is to better understand “multifactorial geriatric conditions,” or the complex set of factors that older patients often face, and to develop strategies to prevent geriatric conditions and improve patient outcomes. In total, there are 14 Pepper Centers across the country.
The National Institute on Aging provided the grant for the renewal of the Yale Pepper Center. Acting Chief of the National Institute on Aging Geriatrics Branch Basil Eldadah said Yale’s Pepper Center has made several valuable contributions to research in the field. “[Yale’s center] was recommended highly by the peer review process, which was a major consideration in our funding decision,” Eldadah said. Professor of medicine and grant awardee Joan Monin said she plans to conduct research on how couples support each other as they grow older and experience disability and chronic conditions. Particularly as people age, their close relationships become more important because they have fewer interactions with larger groups of people, she said. The Center supports researchers by conducting workshops in which doctors share their ideas, planning faculty retreats where researchers collaborate with one another and hosting seminars for physicians to share their unique perspectives, she added. The Pepper Center is instrumental in training investigators to conduct research on aging populations, said professor of medicine Manisha Juthani-Mehta, one of the grant awardees. During her 10 years
with the Center, Juthani-Mehta has learned from others at the center how to conduct research on communitybased populations. “All of the pieces of the Center work together to make a study operate efficiently and have results that are meaningful,” she said. The environment at the Pepper Center is particularly rich because researchers with the same specialties can gather to share their knowledge, leverage one another’s work and borrow one another’s data management code, said professor of medicine Terrence Murphy, a grant awardee. Murphy plans to conduct research on the association between the dosage of an antipsychotic drug called Haldol given to older patients in intensive care units and the occurrence of delirium, a state of severe confusion and temporary memory loss that can increase the chance of death, Murphy said. “Everyone’s clear that Haldol addresses agitation,” he said. “But it might actually do that so well that it results in longer periods of delirium.” The Center is currently receiving letters of intent from Yale medical researchers who wish to apply for a 2014 research grant. Contact HAILEY WINSTON at hailey.winston@yale.edu .
from the National Institutes of Health that is now in its second renewal. HIV/AIDS came to Russia in the 1990s, with the sudden uptick in heroin use and trafficking after the Soviet Union opened its borders to surrounding countries in 1989. The rapidly growing nature of the Russian HIV/AIDS epidemic and the fact that successfully addressing public health issues requires a longterm commitment makes the sustained nature of the partnership important, said Kaveh Khoshnood SPH ’89 GRD ’95,
Professor of Epidemiology who worked on the partnership in its early years. “Having an impact on epidemics takes a long, long time,” he said. “We’re just now beginning to see the fruits of the effort.” With around 1.8 million intravenous drug users and around 1 million of its 143 million population currently HIV-positive, the World Bank estimates that by 2020, Russia will lose 20,000 people annually to the disease. Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .
Addiction definition in flux
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with University President Peter Salovey to bring together scientists of different disciplines to research solutions to the HIV/ AIDS epidemic. Merson soon reached out to collaborate with colleagues at St. Petersburg State University, a school based in a city with similar HIV/AIDS problems to New Haven. “HIV transmission in Russia is driven by intravenous drug use, which is exactly the case in New Haven,” Merson said. Soon after the initial collaboration, the universities secured a five-year grant
has the definition of addicQHow tion changed in the DSM-5?
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Historically, the term addiction has been absent from the DSM. The category has been described as substance-use related disorders, or something along those lines in DSM-III, DSM-III-R, and DSM-IV. In leading up to DSM-5, there were discussions with DSM-5 research work groups and the DSM-5 committee, specifically the substance use and related disorders committee and the work groups. Basically there were some mixed views. Some people felt that the term addiction was stigmatizing and may lead people not to seek treatment. Other people felt that the term addiction more accurately captured the condition given data that, for example, suggests similarities between substance-use behaviors and nonsubstance-use behaviors, such as gambling, that may have addictive potential.
do you think that the definiQWhy tion of addiction is changing?
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I’m not sure if the definition is changing. If one goes back to the original use of the word addiction, it was not linked to substanceuse behaviors. It’s derived from a Latin word, “addicere,” meaning
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Research on addictive behaviors not related to substances, including playing video games is on the rise. “bound to,” or “enslaved by.” But going back several hundred years, it became linked to excessive patterns of alcohol use, and then, more recently linked to excessive patterns of drug use, such that by the time of DSM-III-R in the 1980’s, the committee felt that addiction was equivalent to compulsive drug use. I think that over the past 10, 15 years, there’s been a reconsideration of what are the core elements of addiction. Some people have proposed that some elements such as compulsive engagement in a behavior, continued engagement in a behavior despite adverse consequences, and a repetitive urge or craving state prior to initiation of the behavior [are] all core elements of addiction. If one considers those as core elements, then the addictions may not be limited to substance-use disorders. this broad definition of QGiven addiction, do you think we all have problems with addiction on some level, or should we think of addiction as a clinical disorder that only certain people have?
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I think that many people engage in behaviors that may have addictive potential without developing problems. So, for example,
gambling [and] alcohol use are two good examples, in that most people gamble, most people drink alcohol, but most people don’t develop problems with the behaviors in a manner that interferes significantly with their life functioning. However, for the group of people who encounter such problems, they can be substantial, life changing, and really significant. you think that the way that QDo young people today use Facebook
could classify as an addiction? Many teenagers I know can’t go a day without logging on at least once.
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I think it’s a fair question to ask, and I suspect that it will be debated much the way that whether gambling is an addiction or not has been debated. In the provisional diagnoses section, there’s something called “Internet Gaming Disorder,” which I think is the closest thing, presently, to what you’re asking. If there are groups of people who engage in Facebook-related behaviors to the extent that they don’t do their homework, get failing grades, don’t keep up with other major life activities, become isolative, etcetera, then the way in which they’re using the internet impacts their life, and
should be considered from a health perspective. I think given the substantial changes in social networking and the use of the computer over the past generation, that this is something that people should keep an eye on and investigate further. do you think that the way QHow the term “addiction” is defined
can influence both health professionals and policy-makers?
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That’s a good question. I think that it could influence people in many different ways. A few years back, we published an article, thinking about whether food may be addictive, particularly in the setting of the current obesity epidemic. From a policy perspective, if one thinks about the approaches that one has used that have been effective in curbing addictive behaviors like smoking, then one might think that some of these might be adopted for food. This is still very much debated in the field. So I think it’s an area that deserves interest, has significant health implications [and] policy implications. I think that it will continue to evolve. Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu.
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FROM THE FRONT
“In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.” GERTRUDE B. ELION NOBEL LAUREATE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE FROM PAGE 1 skewed. During the 2012-’13 academic year, the Physics Department had 21 male tenured professors and only three tenured female professors, while the Mathematics Department had 12 tenured male professors and zero tenured female professors. In all the physical sciences departments, there were nearly eight times as many male tenured professors as female professors. Meanwhile, female students accounted for 17 percent of mathematics majors, 26 percent of physics majors and 31 percent of molecular biophysics and biochemistry majors. In recent years, several Yale scientists have explored the apparent drop-off between studying science and pursuing a career in the sciences. In a 2012 study, Jo Handelsman, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, asked science faculty at several research universities to evaluate a job application from a student assigned either a male or a female name. Though the applications were identical, professors rated the male applicant as more competent and said they would offer him a higher starting salary. Handelsman’s findings indicated an entrenched gender bias against female students, she said in the study. Though many scientists believe they are completely objective, physics and astronomy professor
Meg Urry said this is not the case. “The first step is for people to realize that they’re not judging men and women the same. Let’s not kid ourselves,” she said. “[Gender bias] is hurting us as a whole.”
DISPELLING MYTHS
Urry recalled a conversation she had several years ago with a female student taking “Perspectives on Science and Engineering,” a freshman seminar reserved for qualified applicants. The student was very upset, Urry remembered, because her pre-med roommates were already planning to modify their career paths so they could have families some day. They had chosen their future specialties based on how amenable those fields were to part-time work, she said. “Here are people who are already editing themselves a decade in advance,” Urry said. While Urry said countless women have asked her over the years if it is possible to have a family while pursuing a career in the sciences, she said she has never had a male student ask her that question. One prominent theory for why women do not pursue careers in the sciences is that they choose to drop out of the “pipeline” — a term that describes the path from undergraduate degrees, to graduate school, to doctorates to the professoriate — in order to have families. But Urry said this is not the full story. On average, women without families are not progressing any
farther in their scientific careers than women with families, she said. Instead, Urry suggested that women face an uneven playing field and are more easily discouraged than their male counterparts. “But do most of the faculty and most of the science departments know the playing field is not level?” Urry said. “No, I don’t think they do.” Urry said scientists need to educate themselves about gender bias, a subject that social science departments have been studying for decades. Though many more women are studying science today than 30 years ago, Pollack said she was surprised to find that many aspects of students’ classroom experiences had not changed. Even today, women worry about being perceived as legitimate scientists, she said, adding that the “ultra-sexualization and ultraromanticization” of women in modern culture has exacerbated the issue. To be taken seriously as scientists, women feel they have to dress one way, Pollack said, but if they want to feel feminine, they may have to dress another way. For Provost Benjamin Polak, the issue is personal. He said he worries about the social pressure against women in sciences that his two daughters might encounter in school when they’re older. “You really have to focus hard on pushing back on unconscious
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Over the years, Urry said she has seen many female students interpret a B+ or A- as an indication that they do not belong in the sciences. Though the common belief among scientists is that the students who drop out are less qualified than the ones who stay through their undergraduate and graduate careers, Urry said the data does not support the theory that departments are “skimming off the top.” The students who remain are not necessarily better than the ones who leave, she said. If universities want to encourage the best students to stay, all students, male and female, need support and encouragement along the way, Pollack said. In the biological and physical sciences at Yale, about 50 percent of Ph.D.’s go to men and about 50 percent got to women, said Frances Rosenbluth, deputy provost for the social sciences and faculty development. But between 2000 and 2012, only 23 percent of term faculty members in those departments were women, and only 11 percent of tenured professors in those departments were female. Rosenbluth said departments should be hiring the most talented applicants. If only 20 percent of the faculty in a field are women, the department is missing out on a lot of smart people, she said. Women are not being hired according to their availability in
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the pool of qualified applicants, she said. Echoing Rosenbluth’s statements, Provost Polak added that qualified women constitute a “huge reservoir of talent” that is currently underutilized. “We, at Yale, have to take advantage of that,” he said.
A BRIGHTER FUTURE?
Though the University is continually working to improve retention of students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, progress in the hiring and retention of female faculty members over the past several decades has remained “frustratingly slow,” according to a 20122013 report from the Yale Women Faculty Forum. Physics Professor Michael Zeller said his department has made some strides on the issue. The Physics Department now has four female faculty members, whereas five years ago they only had one, he said. “In physics, we’ve increased our number of females as fairly [and] as rapidly as I think you can,” Zeller said. “The Physics Department has really been trying to be hospitable to women.” In 2008, the University implemented a new tenure system that judges faculty solely on the merits of their work, Rosenbluth said. As a result of the new system, greater numbers of women may receive tenure because the junior faculty is more diverse, she said. Yale also received a $375,000
grant from the National Science Foundation to build mentorship programs for postdoctorate fellows, Rosenbluth said. To encourage the fellows not to drop out, Yale trains postdocs in subjects such as conflict management, lab management and paper submission, she said. To extend support to undergraduates, the Physics Department also holds conferences for female students in physics, at which established female scientists network with students and discuss problems students might face during their science careers. The conferences provide role models for female science students, Urry said. When role models are in scarce supply, Rosenbluth said it is easy for women to become discouraged. “They feel alienated in the classroom because there’s nobody in the front who looks like them,” she said. Though Pollack said more day care resources for faculty members would help female scientists, she said the future number of female students in STEM fields depends in part on more encouragement and a more collaborative spirit in the sciences. “These are not big changes, they just have huge consequences,” Pollack said. As of the 2012-’13 academic year, there were 791 male tenured professors and 249 female tenured professors at the University. Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .
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Female science faculty members speak at the Women in Science at Yale panel last year.
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A shooting left two dead at Sparks Middle School on Sunday. BY SCOTT SONNER ASSOCIATED PRESS SPARKS, Nev. — A student at a Nevada middle school opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun on campus just before the starting bell Monday, wounding two 12-year-old boys and killing a math teacher who was trying to protect children from their classmate. The unidentified shooter killed himself with the gun after a rampage that occurred in front of 20 to 30 horrified students who had just returned to school from a weeklong fall break. Authorities did not provide a motive for the shooting, and it’s unknown where the student got the gun. Teacher Michael Landsberry was being hailed for his actions outside Sparks Middle School during the shooting. “In my estimation, he is a hero. … We do know he was trying to intervene,” Reno Deputy Police Chief Tom Robinson said. Both wounded students were
listed in stable condition. One was shot in the shoulder, and the other was hit in the abdomen. The violence erupted nearly a year after a gunman shocked the nation by opening fire in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., leaving 26 dead. The Dec. 14 shooting ignited debate over how best to protect the nation’s schools and whether armed teachers should be part of that equation. Landsberry, 45, was a military veteran and leaves behind a wife and two stepdaughters. Sparks Mayor Geno Martini said Landsberry served two tours in Afghanistan with the Nevada National Guard. On his school website, Landsberry posted a picture of a brown bear and took on a tough-love tone, telling students, “I have one classroom rule and it is very simple: `Thou Shall Not Annoy Mr. L.’” “The kids loved him,” his sister-in-law Chanda Landsberry said.
She added his life could be summed up by his love of his family, his students and his country. “To hear that he was trying to stop that is not surprising by any means,” she said. Police said 150 to 200 officers responded to the shooting, including some from as far as 60 miles away. Students from the middle school and neighboring elementary school were evacuated to the nearby high school, and classes were canceled. The middle school will remain closed for the week. “As you can imagine, the best description is chaos,” Robinson said. “It’s too early to say whether he was targeting people or going on an indiscriminate shooting spree.” At the evacuation center, parents comforted their children. “We came flying down here to get our kids,” said Mike Fiorica, whose nephew attends the school. “You can imagine how parents are feeling. You don’t know if your kid’s OK.”
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simplicity in the week’s leading up to the insurance sign-ups, acknowledged there could now be “no sugarcoating” the problems even as he talked up the benefits of the law at a Rose Garden event that had the feel of a pep rally. “The website that’s supposed to make it easy to apply for and purchase the insurance is not working the way it should for everybody,” he said. He insisted that the problems would be fixed and all Americans seeking insurance would be able to sign up. But it was not clear how quickly that would happen. The administration is beefing up call centers and encouraging more people to enroll over the phone while the website problems persist. The flood of computer problems since the website went online has been deeply embarrassing for the White House. The glitches have called into question whether the administration is capable of implementing the complex policy and why senior White House officials — including the president — appear to have been unaware of the scope of the problems when the health insurance markets, known as exchanges, opened.
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The French government had summoned the ambassador to explain why the Americans spied on one of their closest allies. BY DEB RIECHMANN AND KIMBERLY DOZIER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Joining a growing list of angry allies, France on Monday demanded an explanation from Washington of a report that the U.S. swept up 70 million French telephone records and text messages in its global surveillance net, even recording certain private conversations. The fallout prompted a phone call from President Barack Obama to President François Hollande and, the White House said, an acknowledgment by Obama that the episode raises “legitimate questions for our friends and allies” about how U.S. surveillance capabilities are employed. Hollande’s office issued a strongly worded statement afterward
expressing “profound reprobation” over U.S. actions that it said intruded on the private lives of French citizens. Spying among friendly countries is classic tradecraft but the sweep and scope of the National Security Agency program have surprised allies and raised indignation among those targeted — Germany, Mexico and Brazil among them. The report in Le Monde, co-written by Glenn Greenwald, who originally revealed the surveillance program based on leaks from former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, found that when certain phone numbers were used, conversations were automatically recorded. The surveillance operation also gathered text messages based on key words, Le Monde reported.
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SPORTS
“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.” WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AMERICAN POET
Men’s golf wins MEN’S GOLF FROM PAGE 12 ments. They managed to start off the season with a first-place finish out of 14 teams at the Doc Gimmler tournament in Southampton, N.Y. At the Fighting Irish Gridiron Golf Classic in Southbend, Ind., the Elis pulled off a thirdplace finish. Just prior to the Ivy League Matchplay, Yale produced a runner-up performance at the Macdonald Cup at home in New Haven at the Course at Yale, where it hosted fourteen teams. Bernstein is hopeful that the team’s success so far will place them in contention for an atlarge berth in the NCAA tournament. “This is the best season we’ve had in the five I’ve been a part of, and it has put us in a position to contend on the national stage,” Davenport said. “I’m already chomping at the bit to see what we can do in the spring.” The Bulldogs will take a break from competition until the spring season, when they will resume play in March at the Linger Longer Invitational at the Great Waters Course in Greensboro, Ga. Contact ADLON ADAMS at adlon.adams@yale.edu .
WOMEN’S SAILING FROM PAGE 12
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The Bulldogs went 3–0 at the Ivy League Match Play this weekend, defeating Brown, Princeton and Harvard.
Elis prove clutch
XC competes in midwest
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Rhoni Gericke ’17 (No. 17) scored two goals against Maine on Sunday, helping the Elis to a 4–3 overtime victory.
Trailing the Big Green 3–2, the Bulldogs mounted a rally of their own, as midfielder Emily Schuckert ’14 tied the game at 48:28. Goalkeeper Emily Cain ’14 relieved Schlesier with 14:22 left in the game and made a key save, denying Savage her shot at a hat trick. Yale was unable to capitalize on a penalty corner with four minutes to play. But the Elis fought until the end and Wells scored, giving the Bulldogs their second conference win. “We played with a lot of heart and perseverance,” forward Brooke Gogel ’14 said. “We didn’t give up and stayed focused on our game plan. It was a great comeback.” Yale won with a balanced attack: four different players scored for the Bulldogs. The Elis took 28 shots compared to Dartmouth’s 20 and earned more penalty corners, 12–11. The momentum carried into the Bulldogs’ matchup against Maine (9–7, 2–2 America East) as Yale defeated the Black Bears in overtime. The Bulldogs scored the only goal of the first half just over nine minutes into the game and led at half time 1–0. The game’s intensity reached a new level in the second half as both teams traded goals throughout the period. Yale struck first again, extending its lead to
2–0 five minutes into the second half. Maine then scored two goals less than five minutes apart to tie the game at two goals apiece. The Elis regained the lead with less than eight minutes to play, but the Black Bears responded on a penalty corner to tie the game, leading to overtime. “We were confident in the hard work we put in training over the spring and summer,” Gogel said. “We knew we were fit enough to be successful in overtime.” During the extra period, both sides traded scoring opportunities until Wells was able to deliver the game-winning goal for the second time in two games. The Bulldogs were outshot 32–18 and had seven fewer penalty corners. Captain Georgia Holland ‘14, who plays midfielder and back, proved especially important towards stopping Maine’s offensive attack. “Our defensive corner unit did an incredible job stopping Maine’s penalty corners,” Gogel said. “Georgia also had five defensive saves throughout the game, which is basically unheard of in field hockey.” Yale will continue its season by facing more Ivy League competition, traveling to Penn (10–3, 3–1 Ivy) on Saturday. Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .
placed ahead of league rivals Cornell and UPenn, but fell just short behind Indiana, Florida State and Virginia Tech, all three of which currently have national rankings. Conner said that the team goals were to finish in the top half of the field and to try to crack the top 20. Although they did not break the top 20, the Eli’s certainly came close. “This [was] the biggest race so far this year, with the most high quality teams,” said Kevin Dooney, who led the bulldogs with a 24:32.4 personal best finish. “[The mindset was to] run like we are capable of running—go out, and run our personal best.” Dooney set his second consecutive personal record, topping his last effort by six seconds. In addition to Dooney and Conner, the Elis’ fourth place finisher, James Randon ’17, also set a personal best time in 24:53.6, officially breaking the 25 minute hurdle for the first time at the collegiate level. Pre-Nationals gave the Bulldogs a chance to get a feel for what to expect from the Terre Haute course, where the Bulldogs hope to compete for a NCAA National Championships in November. “The course was pretty awesome,” Conner said. “The land was bought with a cross country course in mind and the product really reflects that … it’s an honest course and was definitely a treat to be able to run on. It provid[ed] some added incentive for making Nationals.” According to Dooney, the workouts leading up to the Ivy Heptagonal Championships — which will take place in two weeks — will be geared toward setting a faster pace and getting “race sharp.” The Adidas Invitational was a tough meet for the women’s squad. Out of the 37 competing teams, 26 were nationally ranked in the top 40. Contenders also included Ivy rivals Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth and Columbia, whom the Bulldogs will face again at the Ivy Heptagonal Championships.
It’s great for [the rookies] to sail some top-tier events and to give them experience at the highest level. CHRIS SEGERBLOM ’14 Captain, Coed sailing team
“We really wanted to put [our leading runners] in the top 3rd of this field, and for our pack runners to put themselves in the top half of the field,” said Kira Garry ’15, who led the Bulldogs with a 6k personal best of 21:26 for 149th place out of 288 runners. The seven Bulldogs who ran in Wisconsin will not be competing in the Central Connecticut Mini Meet this coming weekend, and will be using the time off to rest, recover and get in some quality workouts in preparation for the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. Running the longer 6k course was a new experience for many of the Elis who competed Saturday. The Thomas Zimmer Cross Country course, where the meet was held, is known as a hilly and challenging 6k trail. The Iona Invitational earlier this month was the last 6k the squad ran. This weekend, Hannah Alpert ’15 finished third for the Bulldogs in 22:03 behind Garry and Liana Epstein ’14, and Meredith Rizzo ’17 dropped her previous 6K time set in Iona by nearly a minute, finishing with a personal best of 22:04. “We were disappointed with our team finish, however we had some individuals who had great performances,” Garry said. This race provided the Bulldogs an opportunity to compete against some of the best teams in the nation, many of which they will be facing again come the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships next month at Van Cortlandt Park. Garry noted that the team is working hard in practice and is hoping that pieces will ultimately come together for the squad, “We will be looking to use this past weekend to get us pumped up for [Ivy] Heps. [This race was not] a good reflection of where our team is at right now,” Garry said. The Bulldogs will compete in the Central Conn. State University Mini Meet at Stanley Quarter Park this Saturday, Oct. 25. Contact RHYDIAN GLASS at rhydian.glass@yale.edu .
Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .
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SAILING FROM PAGE 12
for a comfortable victory. The Bulldogs’ A division boat was skippered by captain Marlena Fauer ’14, along with Eugenia Custo Greig ’14 as crew, and came in a single point behind first place in the division. “We had a great weekend,” Fauer said. “We had a hard week of practice due to a lack of wind, but we did not let that hurt our momentum.” In the regatta’s B division, skipper Morgan Kiss ’15 and crew Amanda Salvesen ’14 dominated the action. The duo topped B division by 45 points. The women’s consistency was on full display this weekend. Among the 24 races across both divisions, the team finished outside the top five only five times and outside the top 10 just once. For comparison’s sake, secondplace BC finished outside the top five thirteen times and outside the top 10 three times. “I’m definitely very happy with our performance,” Fauer said. “Fall break will give us time to relax as a team because we are sailing the same practice schedule, so we actually have a lot of free time when we normally have classes.”
Yale’s coed team did not come away from the weekend with any new hardware, but the team did get to showcase its underclassmen talent. The weekend was highlighted by a fourth-place finish at the Captain Hurst Bowl hosted by Dartmouth. Skipper Ian Barrows ’17 teamed up with crews Charlotte Belling ’16 and Meredith Megarry ’17 on the way to an impressive third-place finish in A division. The difficult lake conditions at Dartmouth did cause some issues for Yale’s B division team, led by skipper Mitchell Kiss ’17 alongside crews Sarah Smith ’15 and Isabelle Rossi de Leon ’17. The group managed an 11th-place finish in B division, which dropped Yale to fourth overall. The fourth-place result at the Captain Hurst Bowl, which was won by No. 2 Boston College, was a promising finish for the young Yale squad, as many other schools sent upperclassmen teams to the regatta. “This week we were entered in just a few events so it was a good opportunity for the upperclassmen to get some rest during the long season,” skipper Graham Landy ’15 said. “That meant the freshmen had a great chance to sail some good regattas.” The coed team was also earned a ninthplace finish at the Great Herring Pond Open at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, as well as sixth-place at the Firefly/FJ Invite hosted by MIT. At the Great Herring Pond Open, skipper Mary Isler ’16 teamed up with crew Clara Robertson ’17 in A division, and the duo earned three top-five finishes out of eight total races. The tandem finished in ninth overall in A division. Duplicating the ninth-place finish was Yale’s B division team made up of skipper Will Feldman ’14 and crew Sanam Rastegar ’16. The sixth-place overall finish at MIT was buoyed by a third-place performance in A division from skipper Eric Anderson ’16 and crew Megan Valentine ’16. Yale’s B division skipper Henry Lewis ’16 and crew Amelia Dobronyi ’17 struggled to find consistency, finishing 10th. “Of course it’s important to get as much time on the water as you can and that’s especially true when you’re a rookie,” coed team captain Chris Segerblom ’14 said. “It’s great for them to sail some top-tier events and to give them experience at the highest level.” Both the women’s and coed squads for Yale entered the weekend with added acclaim. Although both teams were already ranked No. 1 in the prior national rankings, the latest rankings saw Yale receive all 50 first-place votes across the two teams. Looking ahead, the women’s team will prepare for the Stu Nelson Trophy this weekend at Connecticut College. The event will serve as an important regatta in terms of preparing for Atlantic Coast Championship qualifiers in two weeks. The coed team will also be back in action this weekend and will use the fall break to prepare for the Hoyt Intersectional at Brown. Landy said that the Hoyt Invitational will be crucial in preparing for the type of boats to be used at the Atlantic Coast Championships, which will take place later in the fall. “The Hoyt Invitational is held entirely in 420s and we generally have been sailing the Flying Junior dinghies,” Landy said. “We’re trying to perfect our speed and boat handling in [420s] since they will be sailed half the time at the ACCs in the fall.” Both the coed and women’s teams will get back on the water and return to action on Saturday.
The men’s cross-country team placed 23rd overall at the Pre-Nationals Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind.
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“We went into Pre-Nats with the mindset that we can mix it up and run with these top tier national teams.” ALEX CONNER ’16
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Bulldogs defend home turf
Yale captures Ivy Matchplay title MEN’S GOLF
BY ASHLEY WU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER When midfielder Nicole Wells ’16 scored with 25 seconds left on Saturday against Dartmouth at Yale’s Johnson Field, she broke a tie to seal the victory for the Elis. Little did she know, Wells would follow up that effort with an overtime gamewinner on Sunday, also at home.
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Wang ’17, Joe Willis ’16, Davenport and Bernstein. Bernstein secured the win for the Elis with the deciding point on the 17th green. “I can’t overstate how successful and exciting this fall season was for us,” Davenport said. “I consider myself blessed to be a part of such a talented squad and a great group of young men.” The Bulldogs had strong showings at all of their four fall tourna-
Wells’s effort contributed to a perfect weekend for Yale (6–7, 2–2 Ivy), which they started with a 4–3 win against an Ivy League rival — the Big Green — on Saturday and ended with an exciting 4–3 overtime win against Maine on Sunday. “We were able to come away with two wins this weekend because we came together like a team,” forward/midfielder Gabby Garcia ’14 said in an email. “Unfortunately, a number of players were injured, and were therefore unable to play this past weekend. We had people in different roles, and they really stepped up. It was a great team effort, and I think being able to play well through adversity will only help moving forward through the rest of our season.” Wells scored the game-winning goal for the Bulldogs late in regulation against Dartmouth (4–7, 1–2). Yale also notched the first goal of the contest, scoring six minutes into the game on a broken penalty corner before netting another shot 23 minutes later to go up 2–0 entering halftime. The Bulldog defense kept Dartmouth off the scoreboard in the first half with the contribution of 10 saves by goalkeeper Heather Schlesier ’15. The second half started on a different note for the Elis. Dartmouth charged back with three goals within the first 7:26. Forward Ali Savage scored the first two goals for the Big Green during the opening minutes of the second half.
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The men’s golf team secured victory in its last meet of the fall season this weekend, winning the Ivy League Matchplay. BY ADLON ADAMS STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s golf team clinched first place at the Ivy League Matchplay over its Ancient Eight rivals this past weekend, squeezing out a win over Harvard in the final round. The Elis went 2–0 the first day of play at the event, held at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., taking down Princeton and Brown. They continued their dominance on Sunday by stomping out
the Crimson 4–3 for the first place finish. “We had had good results so far this season, so my expectations were high going into the Harvard match,” team captain Sam Bernstein ’14 said. “All of the matches were pretty close, but we were able to grind it out and play pretty well as a whole team.” Last year, the Bulldogs left this event with a fourth-place finish after falling to Brown in the run-off for third. Will Davenport ’15 attri-
butes Yale’s success to a strong start early on and a deep roster. Yale defeated Brown 4–3 in the first round of play. After a break, the Bulldogs came back in the second round to easily push past the Princeton Tigers 6–1 to reach the play-off for first place on Sunday. According to head coach Colin Sheehan ’97, the conditions on Sunday morning for the second day of play were gusty and chilly. Yale reached four points necessary to beat the Crimson through wins by Li
Women’s sailing continues to roll
Elis face tough competition in Midwest BY RHYDIAN GLASS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Saturday, both the men’s and women’s cross country teams faced some of the toughest competition they have seen all year.
CROSS COUNTRY The men competed in the PreNationals Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind., hosted by the University of Indiana, while the women ran in the University of Wisconsin’s Adidas Invitational held in Madison, Wis. The men finished in 23rd overall, while the women placed 37th.
“We went into Pre-Nats with the mindset that we can mix it up and run with these top tier national teams” said Alex Conner ’16 in an email. Conner placed second for the Bulldogs with a personal best of 24:35.3 on the 8k course in Indiana. The Pre-Nationals Invitational marked the first competitive race since the Paul Short Invitational earlier this month for the seven Bulldogs who ran Saturday; another squad of Yale runners competed at New England Championships last week. During their time off from the racecourse, these seven runners focused on building their race pace in preparation for
the competition in Terre Haute. “[Head] Coach [Paul Harkins] has been really emphasizing that we are able to run with these major programs, and I think with how [our] races and workouts have progressed this season we validated what he has been saying,” Conner said. “We’re very confident and we went into the race with that in mind.” Race competitors for the Elis included runners from five out of the top 10 nationally ranked schools in the nation: Colorado, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Tulsa and fellow Ivy Princeton. The Elis SEE CROSS COUNTRY PAGE 11
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The women’s sailing team justified its No. 1 ranking, winning the Yale Women’s Intersectional. BY JAMES BADAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The No. 1 women’s sailing team continued its recent dominance on home waters this weekend, winning the Yale Women’s Intersectional. The No. 1 coed team, meanwhile, came away with fourth-place, sixth-place and ninth-place finishes at three regional regattas over the weekend.
SAILING The two squads had different goals in mind this past weekend. The women’s team was intent on avenging a second-place finish last
year at its own event. The coed team, however, was focused on its younger team members, sending three underclassmen-led groups to compete. The women’s victory marked the fourth regatta in a row in this fall season where the team has come out on top. The 18-team field took to the waters of the Long Island Sound on Saturday morning where calm wind early in the day delayed action. When Saturday’s six races concluded, Yale found itself 54 points ahead of No. 2 Boston College. Yale extended its lead slightly on Sunday, completing the regatta 57 points ahead of BC SEE SAILING PAGE 11
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Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams travelled to the midwest to compete this weekend.
TOTAL FIRST PLACE VOTES GARNERED BY THE COED AND WOMEN’S SAILING TEAMS IN THE MOST RECENT NATIONAL POLL. In the Oct. 16 Sailing World College Rankings, each team earned all 25 first place votes available.