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YSO show enchants

Infamous society. In case

Skull & Bones does not already get enough media attention, Yale’s most famous (and least secret) secret society will soon have a TV show inspired by its mysterious ways. ABC is developing a drama based on Alexandra Robbins ’98’s 2002 exposé of the society — “The Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League and the Hidden Paths of Power.” The program is called “The Order.”

Careful who you drink with on Thursday nights…

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midnight on Halloween and accompanied by a live performance of an original score composed by students in the orchestra — played off of the traditional Harvard-Yale rivalry, centering around a Harvard student

Of the two mayoral candidates, Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 has secured more Yale student votes than state Senator Toni Harp ARC ’78, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by the News.

The survey — completed by 907 Yale undergraduates — found that 55.22 percent of students who plan to cast a ballot in the upcoming municipal elections support Elicker, while only 22.47 percent of student voters favor Harp. And in response to a question about the extent of the candidates’ engagement with the Yale community, most students indicated that Elicker has had more interaction with Yale’s campus. According to the survey results, less than 2 percent of Yale students said that Harp engaged with the community “greatly” while 27.22 percent of students said that Elicker had.

Even though the polling data indicates that Elicker will capture more of the Yale student vote, Harp appears to have more support from the rest of the city. In September’s four-way

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Take home to your dining hall.

The best sort of professor is the type you feel comfortable showing off in a residential dining hall. Branford College has invited students to bring their professors to dinner on Tuesday so students can get to know the people that teach them in a “friendly, judgement-free environment!” The invitation sent to Branford students encouraged them to “Talk about class and life! And remember: they don’t bite!”

Will somebody please bring Paul Kennedy and insist on only talking about his nonacademic life?

Relive the victory. The Yale

Hockey team will be waving their victory banner at the game against St. Lawrence University on Friday. Ten minutes before the puck drops, around 6:50 p.m., the NCAA Tournament banner will be raised in a special ceremony.

For God, for country, for Yale and FOUR GOALS. Old is the new new. Why buy

new clothing when you can buy old clothing? The many avid buyers of vintage goods on campus are in luck. The Vintanthromobile, a moving shop for vintage goods, has opened up a permanent location at 1175 State St. in New Haven. The new store, which will offer clothing dating from the 1920s through to the 1990s, is holding its grand opening on Friday.

Avant-garde cuisine. The Yale

Epicurean is throwing a social and in lieu of a tame potluck dinner, the group has opted to host a “Miracle Berry Party” on Saturday. The event’s description reads “Come get (flavor) trippy with us this Saturday night at our miracle berry party.”

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Keeping with Halloween tradition, the Yale Symphony Orchestra played for and entertained a packed Woolsey Hall.

BY WESLEY YIIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For a few thousand lucky Yale students who managed to secure highly sought-after tickets, Thursday night was spent laughing and cheering amongst costumed class-

mates in Woolsey Hall at the annual Yale Symphony Orchestra Halloween Show.

Each year, the YSO partners with student filmmakers who write and direct and original Halloweenthemed silent film. This year’s film — which was shown at the stroke of

Eidelson still leading in poll WARD 1 STUDENT REACTIONS

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Mere days before the aldermanic election in Ward 1, Democratic Incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12 holds a nine-percentage-point lead over her Republican opponent, Paul Chandler ’14, according to a News poll conducted this week.

Of 289 likely voters both registered in Connecticut and currently residing in the ward, 144 said they would for Eidelson and 119 said they would vote for Chandler. Twenty-six students said they planned to vote but had not yet decided for whom. Those numbers, weighted to minimize unequal participation in the poll among class years and pared down to eligible and likely voters among the nearly 1,000 students who completed the entire survey, give Eidelson exactly 50 percent of the likely vote, compared to 41 percent for Chandler and 9 percent undecided.

Eidelson said her conversations with students during dorm canvasses have led her to believe that she leads her opponent in sup-

If the municipal election were being held TODAY, who would you vote for WARD 1 ALDERMAN? Sarah Eidelson 49.92% Paul Chandler 41.20% I don’t know 8.88%

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UCS reveals 2013 post-grad pursuits After conducting five months of surveys, Undergraduate Career Services published a comprehensive report on Thursday detailing the postgraduate plans of the class of 2013.

This year marks the first that UCS collected information on seniors’ postgraduate plans since 1968, as the survey was previously conducted by the Office of Institutional Research.

The report — entitled “First Destination Report: Class of 2013” — drew data from a UCS survey that was sent in May 2013 to 1,288 graduates of the class of 2013. At the close of the survey on Sept. 30, 1,066 graduates had responded, making for

a 82.8 percent response rate. The graduates were asked a number of questions regarding plans for their first year out of college.

UCS administrators said they believe that having the senior survey under UCS’s supervision will better help the office track the career interests of current undergraduates, as well as connect students with recent graduates who may be working in the region or industry of their interest.

“I’m really excited about the survey because it gives us an empirical insight into what our students end up doing,” said UCS Director Jeanine Dames, adding that she believes many students will be surprised at the diversity of industries that recent Yale graduates join.

According to the report, more

Candidates have a battle ahead

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The food train is leaving the station. Following a weekend

of candy consumption, students can continue their binge eating during New Haven Restaurant Week Nov. 3–8. Union League Café, Heirloom and Briq are among the many typically pricey restaurants offering slightly less pricey weeklong specials.

To give you taste of coming attractions, the Union League dinner menu includes seared Maine hake with a piperade of roasted peppers and onions

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graduates from the class of 2013 were conducting research — 14.5 percent — than any other type of pursuit. Students in the consulting industry constituted the next highest percentage, at 13.8 percent, while finance and education were the only other industries that approached double digits, at 9.2 percent and 9 percent respectively. Several other industries, including film production and health care, each hired between 2 and 6 percent of the class of 2013.

All nine students and recent alumni interviewed were surprised at the diversity of careers that Yale students undertook after graduation. Additionally, all said they had expected the number of students working in SEE UCS PAGE 6

he next mayor will inherit a safer New Haven than their predecessor did — but with three homicides in the past three weeks, it is clear there is more work ahead. MAREK RAMILO REPORTS in the third of a series of five stories that examine major issues leading up to the mayoral election.

Three homicides in three weeks. Though the city’s overall crime rates have declined over the past few years, this recent spate of violence highlights public safety as one of the most pressing issues facing New Haven today. And while there may be more hot-button issues consuming the campaign, the city’s next mayor must find new ways to bring crime down.

When Mayor John DeStefano Jr. assumed office in January 1994, he inherited a city more crime-ridden than it is today.

He chose to tackle crime mainly through indirect means, focusing on economic development efforts as well as improving public housing and the city’s education system.

“These are not crime issues, but they certainly affect crime rates,” New Haven Police Depart-

ment spokesman David Hartman said about the legacy DeStefano leaves behind. “A mayor doesn’t need to just be supportive of a police department. He needs to be supportive of programs that make people feel like this is a viable city for them.”

More recently, DeStefano has pursued innovative police tactics, most notably a community policing strategy that many have credited with lowering the city’s crime rate. In his first year in office, the city saw 32 homicide victims; so far in his last, the city has only seen 17.

Falling crime rates help create the secure community city officials seek. The New Haven Chief Administrative Officer’s 2013 report on the NHPD shows that, in 1990, the violent crime SEE PUBLIC SAFETY PAGE 4

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Honoring speech?

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hen Ray Kelly arrived at Brown, a crowd of protestors greeted him.

The New York Police Department commissioner had been scheduled to deliver a Tuesday lecture on “Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest City,” but after roughly 30 minutes of raucous uninvited audience participation, administrators chose to cancel the event. Protestors called Kelly, the architect of New York City’s notorious stop-and-frisk program, a terrorist and a fascist; some posters even likened him to Hitler. As for Kelly, he deemed his interlocutors anti-intellectuals — “I thought this was the academy,” he said to the crowd — before leaving the lectern.

An online edition of the Brown Daily Herald, which has since published over 25 opinion pieces on the subject, suggests that Tuesday’s incident has prompted mixed reactions, many of which were aired in-person in a community forum held Wednesday evening on Brown’s campus. It’s clear, on one level, that the protestors have a point. Kelly’s stop-and-frisk policies, which were deemed unconstitutional in August by a U.S. District Court judge, amount to nothing less than a regime of racial profiling. Some students argued Kelly’s presence on campus implied tacit approval for those policies.

Still, I’m inclined to agree with Brown’s president, Christina H. Paxson, who shared her take in an open letter to the Brown community. Paxson emphasized that while discourse and dissent are welcome, “protest that infringes on the rights of others is simply unacceptable.” The open exchange of ideas is essential in life, academic or otherwise.

Here at Yale, free expression is similarly paramount. The 1975 Woodward Report established the University’s “overriding” commitment to free speech. A page on the Yale College website, aptly titled “Freedom of Expression,” extends that sentiment.

It reads: “When you encounter people who think differently than you do, you will be expected to honor their free expression, even when what they have to say seems wrong or offensive to you.”

But what does it mean “to honor” the expression of others?

Some examples are clear violations of these principles — like, I think, Tuesday’s incident at Brown. To deny your peers the opportunity for discourse is, at best, a disrespect to them, and at worst a disrespect to academia’s founding principles. Still, the Brown students that heckled Kelly argued that they, in fact, were the real proponents of free expression on campus. They said their protests spoke in solidarity with many victims of racial profiling silenced by Kelly’s policies.

They have a point — and that’s a conversation worth having.

Even in the clearest of cases, a kind of murkiness can emerge when we wonder what it really means to “honor” the expression of others. Back in February 2012,

during a lecture by a professor against gay marriage, students interrupted the beginning of a lecture MARISSA with a brief k i s s - i n ,” MEDANSKY “then exited the classroom Little Fables with chants of “one in four, maybe more.”

Did this infringe on the rights of anyone present? Certainly not.

Did this “honor” the free expression of the speaker? I’d say “yes,” but others might disagree, citing issues with the tactfulness of the tactics used. Again, that’s a conversation worth having.

Here’s a third, though wellworn, example — last fall, during the presidential search process, the search committee held an open forum. The members of the committee had hoped to learn more about what undergraduates wanted to see in the next University president: a leader in the sciences, perhaps, or a humanist? Instead, students expressed grievances with the procedural aspects of the search process, thus undermining the efficacy of the forum. “What was important was not allowing the forum to go the way [the organizers] wanted,” one student told the News.

Clearly, these students infringed on no rights. But did they “honor” the free expression of those present? I’m not so sure — my interpretation of free expression looks at the spirit of the law, not the letter. Free expression should mean more than allowing others to express their views; we should strive for a good-faith exchange of ideas. Others might have other views on what free expression means — and that conversation is worth having.

Yet how often do we have these conversations? Without a Ray Kelly incident of our own, it can be easy to dismiss the activism that still exists on Yale’s campus.

Yet student activists respond to ignorant posts on Yale Facebook groups and attend rallies outside of G-Heav — our culture of activism might be less subtle than Brown’s, but it is still thriving, and no less legitimate.

Variations on that point have been made before, so allow me to conclude with a final, more original suggestion. After Tuesday’s incident, Brown University administrators organized a community forum to discuss the meaning of free expression on campus. Over 600 students attended. President Salovey should organize a similar event.

Far too often, the administration has chosen to be reactive, only speaking out on contentious issues after they become national controversies. But on the issue of free expression, we can’t afford to be reactionary.

MARISSA MEDANSKY is a junior in Morse College. Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .

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'YALE16' ON 'NO ONE FOR WARD 1'

Playing with iKnives I

was walking down York Street on a rainy Saturday night in October when a tall, strapping lad shuffled up and ducked under my umbrella.

“Where are you walking?” he asked.

“Box,” I replied.

“Oh, that’s great, me too,” he said.

We exchanged names and hometowns, as any two Yalies are wont to do, before he inquired about my class year.

“I’m a senior,” I told him.

“Oh man! You’re old!” he balked. Then he paused for a moment. “I’m a freshman. I thought a second about lying about that.”

IPHONES ARE SWISS ARMY KNIVES: USE THEM CAREFULLY “Mhm,” I generously contributed to the collapsing conversation. But in my head I was questioning: Am I really that old?

The four years between us didn’t seem like that much. But on the other hand, had he ever known the joys of one’s father recording Charlie Rose over one’s own recording of Zoom! (by kids, for kids) over one’s mom’s recording of Wimbledon, all on the same triple-labeled VHS tape?

In 2007, when the iPhone came out, I had my driver’s license and he was only 12.

Luckily, we’d reached our destination and the boy safely disappeared, leaving me contemplating how I’d rather date myself with reference to a VHS than date him.

The adults of our generation — we who grew in intelligence and maturity at about the same rate as did smartphones and the Internet — are in a unique position. We know that the Microsoft Word “save” icon is a floppy disc, because believe it or not, we’ve all seen one. We were privy to a world without Facebook and Skype, but we can no longer imagine one without them. This sets us distinctly apart from the adults of our parents’ and grandparents’ generations, who transitioned in and out of adolescence toting mixtapes and stereos, and from those of our baby cousins’, nieces’ and nephews’ generations, whose first breaths were captured on iPhones and who couldn’t differentiate a floppy disc from an Ikea tea coaster even if you gave them a 1996 desktop PC as a hint.

It’s easy to lose track of what the world was like before we fully passed puberty. I was born in

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1991, which means that a cell phone cost $1000 when I was five, MySpace and Skype came into being when TAO TAO I was 12, and HOLMES Fa ce b o o k sprouted at Taoisms Harvard when I was 13. I remember in eighth grade when my friend got a pink Razr v3, the sleekest, sexiest phone of all time, and how she would toss her hair back while flipping it open.

YouTube was born when I was 14, Twitter when I was 15 and Instagram right around high school graduation. In other words, in our most impressionable, gullible, clueless years, my peers and I teetered right on the edge between connectivity and disconnect, plugging in and being unplugged, noses-to-screens and eyes-to-skies.

But those of the generations below us have entered the world already connected — their photos insta-ed, texted, tagged and blogged before they can even gur-

gle “lol.” Facebook and iPhones are as much a part of their early educational environments as are belly buttons and fingernails.

They don’t know a world without technology, and it seems our special responsibility to show them it exists, because we were once, ourselves, its inhabitants.

Because we still straddle these two worlds, every family gathering provides a small yet powerful opportunity to prove to the young’uns that we can get through an hour of Lego’s without fondling our phones and to prove to the oldies that we can sit through dinner — and dessert — without checking a text or refreshing our inbox. We also have the opportunity to prove it to ourselves. Unless we are expecting a call from Ban Kimoon, Christine Lagarde or the steamy British guy who played the latest Superman — okay no, not even Henry Cavill — there’s no reason we need to sit on our phones like nesting hens during Thanksgiving dinner.

A Pew Research Center article calls the iPhone the Swiss Army knife of communication. Like the beloved knife, it is a pocketsized gadget loaded with almost

all of the tools you could possibly need. Both objects make me feel safer, more empowered and secure. To the kids on laptops, smartphones and tablets, we need to emphasize that technology is exactly that — a tool — which, like a Swiss Army knife, can cause damage if handled carelessly. Cyberbulling can cut down classmates, and naive use of the Internet can endanger the safety and identity of clueless youngsters.

So when we go home to spend time with our families, let’s think of all of the smartphones and laptops in the house as Swiss Army knives. This will help us to teach children to use their own gadgets with care and skill, and remind ourselves that they are not essential for every daytime activity.

Oh and lastly, no iKnives on the dinner table. We place down our phones as if they were sentinels to our silverware. But our silverware will survive dinner, and so will we.

TAO TAO HOLMES is a senior in Branford College. Her column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact her at taotao.holmes@yale.edu .

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Staging cultural exchange !

t my first dance practice with the South Asian Society, memorizing a combination of Bhangra and hiphop steps for the Roshni cultural show, I looked pretty much like everyone else: confused and clumsy, grinning foolishly as I repeatedly messed up the footwork. But onstage next week in a borrowed kurta, swirling and kicking to upbeat Hindi remixes, I’ll look noticeably different from the rest of the freshman act. If you find yourself in the Woolsey Hall audience, you’ll inevitably realize why: This particular white girl is conspicuously not South Asian.

After my first practice, I found myself wondering if I ought to be performing in Roshni at all.

Though I was roped into the act by my Indian-American suitemate, I still had some qualms about donning another culture’s clothing and attempting its traditional dance, especially in front of a pretty wide audience. As a white American, the act of exploring Indian culture immediately brings up questions of cultural appropriation — when an individual or group adopts parts of another culture, like clothing or music.

Cultural appropriation runs a pretty broad spectrum, from the seemingly benign, like decorating your home according to Chinese principles of feng shui, to

the ignorant, condescending or just racist. If I dress in traditional Indian wear, attempting to dance Bhangra among people of actual South Asian heritage, where does that fall on the spectrum?

The boundary between genuine cultural exchange and a more dangerous sort of appropriation is nuanced, but it depends at least in part on one’s motivations. Dara Huggins, a Pierson freshman and black woman, describes her take on appropriation — particularly that of black culture — this way: “It’s one thing to appreciate black culture and pay homage to it simultaneously. It’s another thing to use black culture in order to gain publicity and fatten your paycheck.”

Huggins’ observation describes a social and commercial trend, particularly among young women in music. Miley Cyrus twerks among an ensemble of black women in her “We Can’t Stop” music video, Selena Gomez wears an Indian bindi during her concerts and Lady Gaga references both Islamic and Roma culture when she dons a burqa and sings about her “gypsy” life.

It doesn’t seem like any of these can be justified as sincere explorations of cultural meaning, particularly when they contribute to artists’ commercial image or even, as in Lady Gaga’s case, their notoriety.

Appropriation also carries

oppressive implications that are often ignored in the name of entertainment.

Huggins points out that, “White people can appropriate different cultures without dealing with the implications thereafter.” She gives the example of an uppermiddle class white male dressing as a hoodlum. He can easily escape the stereotype of criminality — all he has to do is lower his hoodie to show the color of his skin. Black men do not have the option of casting off the stereotype. Appropriation, in other words, isn’t a two-way street. It happens from a position of privilege, and culture is often borrowed not as tribute but as parody. It’s a form of oppression that reduces minority groups to a caricature of complex and historically rich cultures.

That reduction of culture to a cartoon or parody — as often happens with Halloween costumes, for example — belittles the struggles of a particular ethnic or racial group. Dinée Dorame, president of the Association of Native Americans at Yale and a Navajo student, describes Native American costumes as especially dangerous caricatures of Native women.

“Many of the ‘Pocahottie’ costumes sold today sexualize Native women and perpetuate the notions of colonization through the exploitation of

Native women,” she says. One in three Native women reports having been raped in her lifetime, according to the United States Department of Justice. Though the concept of wearing Native American culture as a costume is inappropriate in itself, the reality of sexual violence against Native American women makes the sexualized outfits all the more unacceptable.

But as I grappled with definitions of cultural appropriation and considered my own participation in Roshni, one South Asian student nonchalantly brushed off my concerns. “We love having people who aren’t brown participate!” she emphatically assured me.

The South Asian Society, like Yale’s other cultural organizations, facilitates the kind of cultural exploration and exchange that helps combat appropriation: the kind based on learning and experience, rather than the assumptions and stereotypes from which appropriation stems. That’s why it’s so valuable that people do take the opportunity to genuinely explore cultures other than their own. That’s why, even if I do look entirely ridiculous in the borrowed kurta, I will be dancing in Roshni next Friday.

CAROLINE POSNER is a freshman in Berkeley College. Contact her at caroline.posner@yale.edu .

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FRIDAY FORUM

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JUSTIN ELICKER GUEST COLUMNIST JUSTIN ELICKER

Local vote, global impact I

n seeking your vote in Tuesday’s election for mayor, I want to answer the question that many students ask me: Why should I vote in New Haven? And it is not a bad question, as many students will only live in New Haven for four years and care about issues in their home state. But I think that there are important reasons for Yalies to vote in New Haven, especially this election.

Students often tell me about the town-gown divide between New Haven and Yale. Engaging in New Haven politically is a simple and important way to engage with the broader community.

And when you do go to vote, you should choose the candidate that you feel will best work to connect Yale and New Haven. And I feel that I am that candidate. I have committed to providing more opportunities for Yale students to both provide service in New Haven and to start businesses and engage in entrepreneurial activity here. On the Board of Aldermen, I have fought to ensure that the relationship between Yale and New Haven is a dialogue of equals. I have come to campus over ten times, to speak with students and win your votes.

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SARAH EIDELSON

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GUEST COLUMNIST SARAH EIDELSON

Our home, New Haven W

hen I was a sophomore at Yale, I stayed in New Haven over the summer to register voters in low-income neighborhoods around the city.

During one of our July canvasses in Dixwell, an 11-year-old boy was hit by a stray bullet while standing outside the market. I remember how devastated we were when we heard, and how strange it felt to return to campus and find that no one knew about this tragedy that had happened just a few blocks from our home. I don’t want to live in a city where children are at risk of being shot, and I certainly don’t want to live in one where that kind of violence is hidden from my peers and me inside the “Yale bubble.”

When we talk about Yale students being engaged in New Haven, what we’re really talking about is how to navigate having privilege in a city that is wonderful but deeply troubled. What we’re really talking about is the same thing that makes us tell people we meet back home that we “go to school in Connecticut”: we feel a confusing discomfort about the privilege we carry as Yale students.

The reason it feels so difficult to “get involved” in New Haven isn’t just because of a lack of opportunities, or bad transportation to the neighborhoods, or geographical obstacles. It’s because stepping out of Yale’s campus forces us to ask ourselves some hard questions: What does it mean to live with abundance when other people in our city cannot afford basic necessities? Is it presumptuous to assert our belonging when we may only be here for four years?

I have spent my time here trying to figure out answers to those questions, and in talking to hundreds of other Yalies over the past five years, I’ve found that those are the questions most of you are trying to answer as well. As your alder, I don’t just want to take your ideas to City Hall; I want to help you tackle those questions head-on.

As your alder I have strived to engage students in all the traditional ways. I have answered every email you have sent me and returned every phone call. I have held weekly office hours, met with student groups, facilitated discussion between the Yale College Council and Yale and New Haven

Police. I’ve encouraged students to testify at public hearings and driven you to meetings all over town.

I’m proud of my record and of being a responsive, accessible representative. But I didn’t run for office just to answer emails and host discussions. I ran to challenge myself, and all Yale students, to choose to be active residents of this city. These past two years, we’ve voted in greater numbers than ever before, we’ve made our voices heard at public hearings, and we’ve worked shoulderto-shoulder with our neighbors on a host of projects to strengthen our city. With our engagement, more is possible.

In the past two years, I’ve led the development of a $750,000 Youth Violence Prevention Initiative, worked to expand youth spaces citywide, supported the return of walking beats to our neighborhood and advocated for the revision of our City Charter to include a Hybrid Board of Education with student representation. In the next two years, we will need student engagement to deliver fully on the promise of these initiatives.

If re-elected, I hope to inspire more of you to take “engaging with New Haven” into your own hands.

There’s no right or wrong way to break out of our bubble. There are the small things we can do — like getting an Elm City ID card and going to visit the public library — that might be symbolic but are active choices nonetheless. And there are deeper, more substantive choices that mean building real relationships with our neighbors outside of Yale and committing to work together to build the New Haven where we all want to live.

It would be easy for us to spend our years here as visitors, with Yale as our welcoming host. But I believe that we want more than that. In the past two years, I have been honored to be your advocate in City Hall, and I hope on Tuesday you will re-elect me as your representative. But more importantly, I hope you will join me in embracing New Haven as our city — for its challenges, its strengths and its possibilities.

SARAH EIDELSON is a 2012 graduate of Jonathan Edwards. Contact her at sarah.eidelson@yale.edu .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T PA U L C H A N D L E R

An independent voice in City Hall A

t Monday’s debate sponsored by the News there was one question that I knew I would be asked: Why are you running as a Republican? My answer is simple. I believe in the principles of opportunity, of accountable and responsible government, and of community.

My politics are very moderate and results-oriented — I ask you to look beyond the label. Besides, political parties do not reflect the true divide in City Hall.

In fact, the issues that cross the desk of an Alderman are very different from those that cross the desk of a state legislator or congressman. Designations of Republican or Democrat are more or less irrelevant at the municipal level; an Alderman typically works on projects that all members of the community can rally around. Safer streets and thriving communities are not partisan issues.

Here in New Haven, the race is certainly not between Republicans and Democrats. Instead, New Haven politics faces a different kind of political divide, one between the powerful union political machine and elected officials seeking to be independent voices for their constituents. We saw this in September when Democratic Ward 7 Alderman, Doug Hausladen ’04 took a stand against that political machine. The unions responded by moving a candidate into his ward to challenge him in the Democratic primary.

While many votes on the Board of Aldermen are unanimous, many others split between the union block supermajority and independentminded Democrats. Even these split votes, however, are largely symbolic, as the union majority is still able to implement policy that is agreed upon behind closed doors — I would bring the debate into the public eye.

The inherent problem with any supermajority — union or otherwise — is that it can abuse the system and tends to disregard the concerns of constituents in favor of select specialinterest groups. We saw this last year when the president of the Local 35 and UNITE HERE unions claimed that Yale settled early with high pay raises for unionized workers because UNITE HERE showed power in politics. The unions currently control 20 of the 30 seats on the Board of Aldermen.

I believe that we deserve better.

We deserve an alderman who will be an independent voice for his or her constituents on the issues they care about. My desire to authentically rep-

resent Ward 1 residents and my policy platform shaped by your ideas are the reasons I draw support from across the political spectrum. I have tried to connect with every student and off-campus resident by knocking on doors, holding weekly lunches, holding discussions in people’s suites and meeting with student advocacy groups. I pledge to continue with these initiatives if you elect me. As your alderman, I will be an advocate for the issues that you believe are important: closing the achievement gap in our public schools; investing in sidewalks, bike lanes and our bus routes to improve life in New Haven; facing the reality of our city’s precarious financial situation and bringing our spiraling debt under control. If I am elected, I will likely be the sole Republican on the board and, by definition, I will be the minority leader. As the minority leader, I would be entitled to weekly meetings with the mayor, I would be free to sit on any committee and I would speak at every Board of Aldermen meeting. This platform means that I would have a much stronger voice on the Board than my opponent, which I would use to be an even stronger voice for you in New Haven. If you have an idea to bring to city government, I can sit on the relevant committee, I can vote on that issue and I can discuss it with the mayor during our weekly meetings.

I am running a grassroots campaign. I rely primarily on student donations. My policies have won me the support of teachers, local business owners and students of all political persuasions. I have also received support from New Haven Democrats, including Ward 19 Alderman-elect Michael Stratton. Stratton’s donation to my campaign marked the first time he had ever donated to a Republican.

This reflects that the true political divide in our city is not one between Democrats and Republicans, but one between political machines and independent voices. The push to bring those voices to the Board of Aldermen has resonated across the city, with Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike.

On Tuesday you have a chance to help build a better New Haven for all – town and gown alike. It’s time to actually push for the changes we want to see. I humbly ask for your vote so that I can be your voice in city government.

PAUL CHANDLER is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at paul.chandler@yale.edu .

And while you may not identify New Haven as your home, you certainly have issues that matter to you. This election, one that will elect the first new mayor in many students’ lifetimes, is a referendum on the type of government that we want in this city. If you think that national reform is needed in one of several policy areas, you can advance them locally by voting here in 2013.

Through the campaign, I have committed to clean elections, using public financing and rejecting donations from PACs, lobbyists and city contractors. My opponent hasn’t. If you believe in campaign finance reform, you should vote for me.

For too long, local governments have stayed too distant from the population they serve.

Throughout my political career, I have met with thousands of people in New Haven, jumping from one small community meeting to another. I have given everyone in this city my phone number, (203) 500-2969. My opponent often has surrogates speak for her, even on important policy initiatives, and has created a leadership team that includes figures from New Haven’s corrupt past.

If you believe that the mayor should be accessible and should reject corruption, you should vote for me.

I have also set forth an ambitious agenda to reform education in New Haven. In my 75 Days, 75 Solutions series on my website, I have outlined detailed policies that will allow us to guarantee early-childhood education for all, improve performance for low-income students and better technical training for those not headed to a fouryear college. If you believe in quality urban education systems, you should vote for me.

Crime continues to plague New Haven and many cities in the United States, but draconian tactics like stop-and-frisk are not the answer.

That is why I have committed to enhanced community policing, where officers engage respectfully and meaningfully with the local population, and proposed a series of initiatives to deal with the underlying causes of crime. We should provide more after-school programming and promote job growth in low-income communities.

Because I believe that people who have served their time deserve to be forgiven and get a second chance, my administration will make it easier for ex-offenders to access opportunity. If you believe we need a new approach to criminal justice in this country, you should vote for me.

Public health, despite being a vital issue, often does not get the attention it deserves from politicians. That will change when I am mayor. As a graduate of Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, I am deeply concerned with issues of environmental justice here in New Haven, where the asthma rate is one of the highest in America. My administration will also pursue policies that enhance the availability and quality of primary healthcare for the poor, work with pregnant mothers to improve both their and their child’s health and will enact the city’s Food Action Plan to promote a healthier, more sustainable diet in the city. If you want a mayor who is strong on public health, you should vote for me.

On the national issues that so many Yale students care about, I have established myself as a candidate committed to progressive change.

Through the campaign, I have outlined 75 different ways that we can make New Haven stronger. On Tuesday, you can think globally and vote locally, picking a candidate committed to the same ideals as you. If you aren’t registered in New Haven, you can visit City Hall on Election Day to register and vote. Doing so will help to truly transform this city.

JUSTIN ELICKER is a candidate for mayor of New Haven.

The News requested reflections from both mayoral candidates and Toni Harp did not submit a column.

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“When the burdens of presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.” LYNDON B. JOHNSON FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT

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It’s really disappointing that [Harp’s] vision doesn’t see Yale students as part of the city.

RAFI BILDNER ’16 Finance consultant, Elicker campaign Elicker’s supporters on campus feel that while Elicker has made himself accessible to students by giving out his phone number and attending major campus events, Harp has not tried to include Yale students in conversations about city politics.

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finance consultant Rafi Bildner ’16. “It’s really disappointing that her vision doesn’t see Yale students as a part of the city.”

Harp supporters disagree, citing Harp’s recent meetand-greet event on Cross Campus and a question-andanswer session before the Democratic primary as evidence for her outreach efforts.

Michael Harris ’15, Harp’s field director, said that in addition to those two on-campus events, Harp’s team also includes students who campaigned in surrounding neighborhoods like Dixwell and Newhallville. Still, Harris was not surprised that the survey results revealed greater campus support for Elicker than for Harp.

“Elicker has been on campus a lot, and he has an accent on things like improving the city website and other things in

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New Haven that may resonate more with students,” he said.

But Harris added that Elicker has not received this same level of support from a number of neighborhoods outside of Yale and that Harp’s campaign has a broader strategy of garnering support from New Haven residents as well as students from Yale and Gateway Community College.

The minority of students who plan to vote for Harp argue that her 20-year tenure as a state senator leave her better prepared to serve the city.

“People know her track record and in the end that is what is really going to make a difference,” Harris said.

Harp was first elected to the state senate in 1992.

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rate in New Haven of almost 32 percent sat at 331 percent above the national mean. In the 23 years that followed, most of them falling under DeStefano’s tenure, these numbers fell to just below 16 percent and 272 percent above the national mean. Similarly, property crime rates in the city were cut by more than half relative to those throughout the country, from 164 percent above the national mean to 72.3 percent.

The progress is apparent — its significance gives weight to the strategies that have been implemented by the mayor’s office in conjunction with the NHPD and Chief Dean Esserman. But New Haven leaders agree that the fight against crime in this historically gang-troubled city endures, and that it is up to DeStefano’s successor, be it Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 or Toni Harp ARC ’78, to continue what worked and to fix what did not.

The community has to feel these [officers] are people who relate to them.

TONI HARP ARC ’78 Candidate, New Haven mayoral race “As I look at homicides, look at shootings, shots reported — they’re all heading in the right direction, down substantial margins [in the last two years,]” DeStefano said at a NHPD press conference following the Oct. 28 homicide of Deran Maebery, New Haven’s 17th homicide victim of 2013. “I wish I could promise or see a day that there’s going to be no violence in this city. I don’t see that day right now.”

A NEW ERA IN PUBLIC SAFETY

Twenty years ago, around the time when DeStefano was first elected, the NHPD implemented a new policing strategy meant to reconnect the city’s neighborhoods with police. The concept behind community policing is simple: scatter cops throughout the city on walking beats, forcing them to immerse themselves into local neighborhoods and connect with the people and cultures that make each unique.

Over the years, however, as various NHPD chiefs filtered through 1 Union Ave., the number of cops being placed on walking beats dwindled, while the Department began to shift its focus elsewhere.

When Esserman became the department’s chief in late 2011, he immediately sought to revive and revamp the program, dispatching officers back to the neighborhoods with which the Department hopes to establish human relationships.

Under Esserman, the first beat cops hit the streets in late 2011.

That year, the city saw 34 homicides. By 2012, that number had been cut in half.

“Walking beats are back now, more than ever,” Hartman said.

“There’s a connection again with the community, and a trust has been built.”

Still, both Elicker and Harp want more. When asked to describe their respective public safety platforms, both candidates began by calling for more officers on walking beats.

“Every neighborhood in this city needs to feel a strong sense of safety. And that safety is based in a partnership between the Police and the community,” Elicker said.

Harp echoed her opponent’s thoughts by saying that she hopes to “link, in a real and meaningful

way, the community with community policing.” One way to help do this, Harp said, is to ensure the creation of solid block watch systems in which the community members themselves take on an active role in city policing programs. Elicker agreed, and added that block watch programs help encourage citizens to report crimes to the NHPD. James Forman, a Yale Law Professor who studies innovations in policing, said that the relationships that beat cops create with their neighborhoods — rather than the mere increase in police presence — is the aspect of community policing that makes it so successful.

“You can be present in cars. In some ways, the theory of cars was, in part, that you could establish more of a visible presence. You can cover more territory, and so there’s a certain inefficiency in walking,” Forman said. “Community policing is really much more about the building of relationships, the breaking down of the historic distrust between police and citizens and having people think ‘there’s somebody who is invested in the overall health of this community.’”

Because these bonds take time to form, proponents of the tactic acknowledge it can be hard to gauge the success of community policing this early into its reintroduction.

“It’s been two years, so I think it’s still a little too soon to start patting ourselves on the back,” Hartman said. “But it seems that these programs are working. We’re seeing the results of them already.”

DIFFERENT APPROACHES

While both support community policing, the two candidates have also emphasized different approaches to public safety.

Like DeStefano, Elicker believes that attracting new businesses to the city will bring more jobs, and provide alternatives to crime for at-risk youth and adults. Specifically, Elicker said he would aim to attract new developers and businesses to the Elm City and bolster training programs for existing jobs, including those in the promising New Haven biotech sector, via certificate training programs.

“Unemployment is a major driver of crime. When people are really struggling to get by, then there’s just more of a likelihood that people may resort to crime,” Elicker said. “Making sure that people have more opportunities for jobs is critical.”

Teens commit a large proportion of crime in New Haven, a fact that Elicker hopes to address by expanding access to after-school programs like Boys and Girls Clubs, Youth Rights Media and Solar Youth. As such, Elicker said that these programs not only give children ways to pass time safely, but also expose them to positive relationships and role models. Elicker mentioned gaps and redundancies in existing programs and their uneven geographic distribution as issues he’d like to address.

“We need to have productive places for our kids to go, where they can be around mentors and learning and growing and having fun,” Elicker said. “There are a lot of youth programs in the city already, but they’re not coordinated as well as they should be.”

While Elicker plans to approach crime reduction by engaging residents in other activities, Harp has outlined plans to address crime by optimizing public safety forces and increasing gun control. Though Harp’s support for community policing speaks to her desire to involve the community in its own betterment, she has displayed a stronger attention to public safety from the top down than

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mayoral democratic primary, Harp captured 49.8 percent of the votes and Elicker took a modest 23.2 percent.

The diverging polling data could result from Elicker’s greater campus presence. Of the 12 registered student voters who were interviewed, nine said that they had a better understanding of Elicker’s platforms and therefore were more inclined to vote for him next week.

“I’ve just been harassed by so many Elicker supporters on campus,” said Tara Rajan ’15, a registered voter in Connecticut. “I feel like I know much more about Elicker and his views, so I’ll probably vote for him rather than Harp.”

As soon as Elicker decided to run for mayor, he came to Yale to talk to students about his vision for the city, according to Elicker’s field manager Rachel Miller ’15. More recently, he made appearances at the Dwight Hall Bazaar, President Peter Salovey’s inauguration and the Freshman Barbeque.

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her opponent.

According to the public safety position listed on Harp’s official campaign website, she plans to boost recruiting efforts through early training programs and incity living incentives for officers.

Harp added that reducing shootings and homicides is her top priority in public safety, and that she plans to do so by restricting access to firearms.

“The first thing I want to do is to reduce the number of shooting deaths in our town,” she said. “To take the guns out of the hands of our young people and those citizens who would use them in any other fashion than recreational hunting and target practice in a club.”

Still, Harp insists on her hopes to engage the community and open citizens up to the police force that she says is there to help them.

Part of why Harp sees the need to reallocate the City’s existing public safety resources is that she values the community’s trust in the NHPD, which can be helped by collaboration through community policing efforts.

“You really have to engage the people in our community, [and make sure that they are] learning how to be safe,” Harp said.

“The community has to feel these [officers] are people who relate to them, who understand their goals and aspirations and who actually function together to keep each other, in many respects, safe.”

A CULTURE OF SAFETY

Citizens interviewed in the wake of various New Haven crimes throughout the city in the past few weeks generally said that they have accepted the fact that New Haven is more crime-riddled than the average American city. Still, they all voiced a desire to see something more done about it.

Like the candidates, every resident interviewed supported ramping up community policing efforts.

“A lot more beat walkers. A lot more cops on foot, going door to door and talking to people,” said Brian Gerena, a 35-year-old East Rock resident. “They get more insight, too, that way. They talk more to people, and people can explain to them what they think can be done.”

One element of public safety that often gets overlooked is the public’s perception of its own safety — a community at peace is not just one that is relatively immune to homicides or shootings, but is also one whose residents can live their lives free of the stress caused by the constant threat of crime.

Mark Abraham ’04, executive director of Data Haven, maintains that long-term crime rates tell a bleaker story than the rosy picture painted by DeStefano and Hartman. Since crime rates have only been declining for the past few years, it is difficult for residents to detect lasting change. As a result, the majority of local adults still feel unsafe at night, Abraham said — and to have a truly safe New Haven, the next mayor must find a way to both fight crime and to put at ease its residents’ minds.

“To make the city a healthier place and reduce crime problems more fundamentally, we need to improve perceptions of safety for all, not simply reduce the number of reported crimes,” Abraham said.

“Over time, hopefully the combination of programs and policies within the city will lead residents to feel safer spending time outdoors in their neighborhoods, even if the actual number of reported crimes remains flat.”

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

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NEWS Local 35 union reelects leaders

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS Less than a week before New Haven’s mayoral election, in which union endorsements have played a major role, Yale’s Unite Here Local 35 union elected a new executive board.

Local 35 represents primarily blue-collar Yale employees, including custodial, dining and maintenance workers. On Wednesday evening, members of the union voted to fill the Local 35’s 12-person executive board as well as four other senior positions: president, vice president, community vice president and chief steward. Though the full results of the election have yet to be released to union members, the News obtained a list of newly elected officials, of which most are returning members and many are also involved in New Haven politics.

Longtime President Bob Proto ran uncontested for re-election and Wingate was reelected as vice president. Ward 2 Alderman Frank Douglass, who works in Yale Facilities, was elected community vice president, and Margaret Riccio was reelected chief steward.

Newly elected officials in the union told the News they hope recently installed University President Peter Salovey will work to enhance the relationship between the union and the University.

“I would like to see more collaboration and community about how we do things with workers,” said Ward 29 Alderman and Local 35 Vice President Brian Wingate. Wingate is a facilitator for Best Practices, an initiative involving representatives from the University and Locals 34 and 35 designed to promote a positive relationship between Yale and its unions.

Over their next two years on the board of Local 35, both Wingate and Douglass said they will focus on what they believe to be the most necessary change in Yale’s relationship with its unions — an increased emphasis on “best practices,” which are defined as professional methods widely agreed to be effective.

Yale needs to create the “culture to be a best-practice style community,” Wingate said.

Proto did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

When asked about Salovey, the two union leaders said they thought he will be effective in managing the administration’s relationship with the unions. Still, they added that they hope Yale’s new president will prioritize collaboration between the University and its employees. In order to build a more positive relationship, Douglass suggested that Salovey will need to overcome institutional hurdles.

“I know the Yale Corporation is actually the overseer of the University,” he said. “The president has a voice, but it’s suppressed somewhat.”

Still, Douglass said he is skeptical of the administration’s recent sustainability push.

Citing his 23 years working in Yale’s dining halls, he said new University policies have decreased Yale’s reliance on local vendors, and that this has had a negative effect on the New Haven economy.

Douglass added that he hoped to see the unions take a greater role in the surrounding community.

“I think that the unions should be a little more open,” Douglass said. “We should have a closer relationship with not just the Yale community but [also the New Haven] community.”

University Vice President for Human Resources Mike Peel and University Vice President for Finance and Business Operations Shauna King could not be reached for comment Thursday.

Local 35’s counterpart, Unite Here Local 34, did not hold elections, according to Local 34 Executive Board member Shirley Lin, a senior administrative assistant in the School of Medicine. Local 34 represents many of Yale’s white- and pink-collar staff.

Historically, Yale’s unions and the University administration have worked against each other more often than they worked together.

For decades, Yale workers frequently went on strike during contract negotiations, effectively shuttering the University. But that pattern changed during the administration of former University President Richard Levin, who made major concessions to the unions.

In the summer of 2012, the University and both Local 34 and 35 — which represent nearly 5,000 of Yale’s clerical, technical and maintenance employees — renegotiated their contracts. Local 34 members won wage increases of nearly 16 percent while Local 35 members’ pay increased by 14 percent. In an unprecedented step, members of the blue-collar union also received a contractual assurance of no layoffs until 2016.

Of the 15 union members who ran for Local 34’s executive board, the 12 elected were Craig Green, Hope Johnson, Salvatore DeLucia, James Carr, Mike Dowd, John Martin, Mike Boyd, Mike Shoan, Peter Gagliardi, Cielo Lizasuain, Joe Antinucci and Patricia James.

The 12 work in various positions across the University. Green, for instance, works in campus mail, while Boyd works in central area maintenance.

The last major union strike occurred in 2003, when union workers picketed for three weeks during the beginning of the fall term.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS and ADRIAN RODRIGUES matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu and adrian. rodrigues@yale.edu .

“If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I’d do is join a union.”

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Hands-on experiences abound for grad students

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER As graduate programs across the country seek to give students practical experience in addition to theoretical knowledge, the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy is sponsoring a variety of hands-on projects focused on environmental issues.

Affiliated with Law School and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the YCELP offers a jointdegree program and a series of crosslisted courses for students from both schools. But the Center also sponsors many faculty and student-initiated projects focusing on issues such as hydraulic fracturing and air pollution.

While some of these initiatives have been around for decades, others are just starting up this year. Professors interviewed said these projects are becoming increasingly important because of the more competitive job market, in which employers now require graduate students to demonstrate previous experience and marketable skills.

“Typically our projects start with faculty and we’ll hire different students, but we’re always open to student-driven ideas,” said Joshua Galperin, associate director of YCELP. Galperin said taking classes and working on projects at the Center allows students to begin honing the skills necessary to prepare for careers in environmental studies and law.

Environmental policy is the “ultimate interdisciplinary subject,” said Doug Kysar, interim faculty director at YCELP. At the Center, students from both YLS and F&ES have the opportunity to exchange expertise.

“Everything that is worthy in life is done collaboratively,” Kysar said.

One new project underway at the Center is focused on regulating the use of hydraulic fracturing, often known as fracking, to access natural gas. Both students and professors from the Center are working on the initiative, which was designed by Pace Law School and the Land Use Law Center at Pace University. Galperin said that the project is currently in the investigative research phase.

Rather than “trying to force [fracking] out of the picture,” Galperin said the project aims to find ways to use fracking safely.

Typically our projects start with faculty … but we’re always open to studentdriven ideas.

JOSHUA GALPERIN Associate director, Yale Center for Director of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute Mark Pagani, who is also involved in the project, said in a Thursday email that the ultimate goal is to find ways that “average folks can participate in a regulatory framework of an industry that directly impacts their assets and health.”

The research will culminate with a conference in December, said John Nolon, a professor at Pace Law School who is leading the team

from Pace working on the project.

The conference will include a workshop with experts from around the nation who will discuss potential solutions, as well as a panel discussion with lawyers, environmentalists and representatives from the fracking industry.

“We’re thinking that [by the end of the conference] we will have built a support base to develop the materials to responsibly regulate the local impacts of fracking,” Nolon said.

These materials will allow experts to find ways to directly train local officials about the impact of fracking and how to address the industry.

The Center is also actively working on the Environmental Performance Index, a project that was founded in 1999. The EPI is a ranking of all the countries in the world based on their adherence to a series of environmental and social standards. Factors that influence rankings range from child mortality rates to the amount of green space in cities. This year, students and graduates of the Center are working on the issue of air pollution in China.

Galperin said this project aims to

assess the accuracy of the popular notion that China has the worst air pollution statistics in the world.

“Since the environmental movement arose in the late 1960s, we either have a lot of expert [opinions] or a lot of emotions,” Galperin said.

“What we don’t have enough of is objective data-based environmental policy.”

Jason Schwartz, a former student at the Center who is working on the pollution project, said he is planning a trip to India to conduct a comparative investigation on the issue.

“India and China are driving the future of world economic growth,” Schwartz said. “China gets blamed for the world economic disaster, but India has been less regulated.”

Faculty and students at the Center have been using blogs to chronicle and publicize their findings, Galperin said.

The next Environmental Performance Index, which is published every two years, will be released in January 2014.

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

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The Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy is debuting programs and courses that promote integration with the Law School and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Artists connect to soup kitchen

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER This Wednesday, lunch guests at the St. Thomas More Church soup kitchen arrived expecting a meal but left also having made art and new friends.

Wednesday’s event marked the beginning of a weekly project in which undergraduate art majors and graduate students at the School of Art will draw with soup kitchen guests at St. Thomas More, a Catholic church located on Park Street. The new initiative, organized by Associate Dean of the School of Art Sam Messer, both allows art students to use their talents outside of the studio and provides soup kitchen guests with a venue for self-expression, Messer said.

The soup kitchen, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, serves lunch every Wednesday to approximately 300 guests, said Katie Byrnes, assistant chaplain at St. Thomas More. Volunteers from the St. Thomas More, Yale and New Haven communities serve guests meals donated by Yale dining halls and local food stores, and volunteers can also prepare meals at the church.

Art plays a significant role in creating a hospitable atmosphere at the soup kitchen, Byrnes said, explaining that the space houses a rotating gallery that showcases seasonal art displays.

“We haven’t fixed the problem of hunger in New Haven, but we can give the experience of being welcomed into a beautiful space,” Byrnes said.

Ana Maria Gomez Lopez ART ’14, who talked and drew with soup kitchen guests, said most of them spoke to her about their families, childhoods and places of origin.

Two guests at the arts table realized they were both from Sicily, Lopez said. Messer added that another two guests discovered while drawing that they grew up near each other in South Carolina and had mutual acquaintances.

A soup kitchen guest who said she goes by the name of Miracle sketched two portraits at the arts table before taking her place in line for lunch. Miracle said that she often drew pictures as a child and added that, as a lover of music, she particularly enjoyed replicating album covers. After being encouraged by other guests, Miracle put down her work to sing verses of

“Amazing Grace” and “I Believe I Can Fly.” “This is great because you can feel everyone’s good energies around you,” she said.

Messer said he learned about the soup kitchen earlier this year when he helped organize an exhibit of undergraduate art in the soup kitchen’s gallery space. He consulted Isaac Canady, a local artist and longtime member of the soup kitchen’s community, about what art-related activities guests might respond to best. It was difficult to predict the success of certain types of activities because of the guests’ wide range of attention spans, Canady said, so the two decided to provide guests with crayons, pencils and paper and see what happens.

Canady said that he hopes the art project will give homeless members of the St. Thomas More community something positive to focus on, adding that making art has helped him overcome past hardships.

“A lot of people in this situation are angry and resentful, and art can give them something they can grab a hold on,” he said.

A number of soup kitchen guests asked visitors from the School of Art to sketch portraits of them. Next week, Messer said, art students may ask the guests to create drawings before agreeing to draw their portraits. Messer added that he and the art students will also offer coaching to help guests who may question their artistic ability overcome such insecurities.

“You can meet anyone by drawing them — even the most difficult, cold person will talk to you if you draw them,” Messer said, adding that he spent his sabbatical drawing portraits of strangers in Myanmar, Thailand and India.

Messer and Byrnes are planning to organize a joint exhibition of students’ and guests’ work at the end of the year in the soup kitchen’s gallery space.

Messer said that he hopes more arts students will participate in the weekly project. Only a handful of artists attended this week.

The St. Thomas More soup kitchen serves lunch every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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

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The St. Thomas More soup kitchen serves lunch every Wenesday to 300 guests.

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2013 grads pursue broad paths

Sarah Eidelson ’12 remains slightly ahead in the polls, although many students feel that party affiliation is not a main concern in this election.

ALDERMAN FROM PAGE 1 port by a wider margin than the poll indicates. Still, she said the numbers made her cautiously optimistic.

Calling the poll incredibly encouraging, Chandler said the numbers are better than he expected and prove his campaign has growing momentum.

“We can take this,” Chandler said. “It shows we’ve come a long way since the start of this campaign and that people take my candidacy seriously. Now we just need to focus on closing the gap.”

Male respondents were roughly equally split between Eidelson and Chandler, while Eidelson outpolled her opponent among female respondents by 20 percentage points. Seniors and sophomores were nearly split between the two candidates, while juniors and freshmen both favored the incumbent by more than 15 percentage points.

Seventy-three percent of respondents indicated varying degrees of allegiance to the Democratic Party, compared to 15 percent who identified as Republicans and 12 percent checking either Independent or other. Fifty-seven self-identified Democratic voters registered in Connecticut said they planned to vote for Chandler, compared to two Republicans who said they support Eidelson.

The preponderance of students surveyed said party affiliation had some impact on how they planned to vote, as opposed to a great impact or none at all.

Matt Breuer ’14, a registered Democrat said the numbers shocked him.

“There’s such a structural advantage for Sarah being the Democrat and the incumbent. She should be much further ahead,” Breuer said. “If you didn’t know any better, you would think Yale is a Republican-dominated campus based on the different level of energy surrounding the two campaigns.”

But former Ward 1 Alderman Mike Jones ’11 said the numbers were unsurprising given how little party affiliation matters in campus politics. He said the students who actually vote are the ones who feel personally connected to the candidate.

As of Oct. 31, 1,465 Democrats are registered to vote in Ward 1, compared to 171 Republicans,

1,341 unaffiliated and 15 other.

Former Yale College Democrats President Zak Newman ’13, who managed the unsuccessful campaign of Vinay Nayak ’14 against Eidelson in 2011, echoed Jones’ response to the poll. Both Yale graduates praised Eidelson as a skilled leader on issues affecting Ward 1 residents and — more importantly, they added — the city as a whole. Both said those accomplishments are more important than direct constituent services in Ward 1, a fact often lost on Yale voters.

On the question of campus engagement, Chandler came out far ahead of Eidelson: 271 students described Chandler as somewhat or greatly engaged, compared to 177 describing Eidelson the same way. Roughly a quarter of student respondents registered to vote in Ward 1 said Eidelson has not engaged the Yale community at all. The majority of students said she has engaged “somewhat” or “a little.”

“Being a presence on campus and being a community member of Ward 1 is the fundamental thing [students] will vote on,” Chandler said. Eidelson said she has reached out to students, holding weekly office hours and inviting students to provide input on possible revisions to the city’s charter.

Eidelson attributed the difference in perceived levels of engagement to campaign strategy. She said she has prioritized “face-to-face conversations over having my name up all over campus on signs or all over Facebook.” Chandler said he is perceived as a larger presence because he is a current student and said Eidelson stopped being engaged on campus when she graduated.

Of the students who said they were voting for Democraticendorsed mayoral candidate Toni Harp ARC ’78, more than 96 percent said they would also be voting for Eidelson. Chandler outpolled Eidelson among supporters of petitioning Independent mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 by nearly 25 percent.

Chandler has outraised Eidelson thus far $3,427 to $2,817.

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

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finance or consulting to be higher.

“I was definitely surprised that the numbers were so low for finance,” said Jacob Marcus ’14, adding that he has seen many students voice the belief that “everyone ends up working on Wall Street.”

The wide range of careers represented by the class of 2013 seems to be a testament to the success of Yale’s liberal arts education, said Kellen Svetov ’16, adding that he believes Yale’s loose curriculum encourages students to follow their passions and work in fields that are not necessarily related to their majors.

Kenneth Koopmans, director of employment programs and deputy director of UCS, said that UCS needs to know which industries are becoming more or less

popular in order to effectively plan events and outreach to employers.

Koopmans added that UCS might plan more education workshops and events in the coming years, after seeing the surprising popularity of the education and teaching fields for the class of 2013.

But computer science, which attracted only 2.9 percent of graduates last year, is one field in which the number of events organized by UCS may exceed the number of students interested in that industry, he said.

The survey’s findings also suggest that UCS should do more to foster links between small firms and students, Dames said, adding that she was surprised that nearly 40 percent of the class of 2013 works for firms with fewer than 100 employees. Such empirical data could help UCS persuade more small businesses to compete

with large Fortune 500 companies in hiring Yale graduates, she said.

“The senior survey also enables us to start building a database where alumni can list their contact details for current students to reach out and ask for help,” said Dames, adding that 988 of the 1,066 recent graduates agreed to publish their contact and employment information on Symplicity, the resource system available to Yale undergraduates.

“If you want to see what it’s like to work at Citigroup or if you want to work in Arkansas but don’t know anyone living there, you can sign into Symplicity and reach out to a relevant graduate.”

UCS also plans to expand the number of surveys it will conduct for each graduating class. Dames said she hopes to send a sixmonth check-in survey to recent graduates, as well as another sur-

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vey five years after graduation, in order to better study alumni career trajectory.

Nick Letizio ’13 and Chris Clarke ’13 were two survey respondents who agreed to share their contact details, because they wished to guide Yale students in the same way they had been helped by other Yale alumni.

“I think one of the best parts of Yale is the availability and accessibility of the people. Me serving as a resource for current undergraduates is a way to give back to Yale and to pay [it] forward for all the help I got at Yale,” Letizio said.

The five largest employers for the class of 2013 were Yale, Teach for America, JP Morgan, McKinsey & Company and National Institutes of Health.

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

Coveted YSO show entertains YSO FROM PAGE 1 who duped the Yale administration into allowing her to transfer schools. Within the film, University President Peter Salovey, Yale College Dean Mary Miller and Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry all made appearances, and the movie also featured a guest appearance by YouTube star Sam Tsui ’11.

In past years, tickets for the show were sold in Commons and also distributed by individual YSO members. But for the first time this year, all tickets for the show were exclusively sold online, and all tickets were claimed within seven minutes of the opening of the sales at 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 14.

Ticket distribution is one of the most upsetting parts of the Halloween Show.

JOAN RHEE ’16 Co-Producer, YSO Halloween Show The quick sell-out left many students scrambling for tickets, with some tickets selling for triple-digit figures. According to YSO members, the deci-

sion to move the ticket sales to an online system marks an effort to increase fairness, so that no students would get particular preference for tickets.

“There was always this perception that you could only get a ticket if you knew someone personally in YSO,” said show director and social co-chair June Soo Seong ’15. “Because of this, we thought it would be more democratic to sell them online.”

James Lee ’16 and Joan Rhee ’16, who are both violinists in the orchestra and producers of the show, said they had hoped that selling tickets online would make the process more fair and efficient. While Lee said he was proud that tickets sold out so quickly this year — last year, it took 30 hours for all tickets to be distributed — he added that he was disappointed that many friends, suitemates and even family members would not be able to attend the show.

For future shows, Lee said that the YSO might consider allowing members to each sell two or three tickets, each while the rest are sold online.

Rhee said that the online system was better organized than the paper system, though she added that next year the YSO might use a different, more recognizable vendor to decrease the

number of technical difficulties. Rhee encouraged students to continue sending suggestions to the YSO for future years’ ticket sales.

“Ticket distribution is one of the most upsetting parts of the Halloween Show,” Rhee said, adding that the popularity of the tickets seemed to be largely offset by the disappointment felt by many students who failed to obtain a ticket.

Students interviewed agreed that online ticket selling system was more efficient, but they differed on whether they thought it increased fairness of the ticket sales.

Deborah Ong ’15, who successfully bought a ticket online, said the system was fair because it prevented students from buying more than two tickets each.

She also said she believes that the YSO should not be blamed for the quick sellout and student frustration, since it is the first time that the organization has conducted all ticket sales online.

Jack McAllister ’16, who gave up his ticket this year in order to study for a midterm, said he thinks scalpers who bought the tickets and then sold them for higher prices were unfairly taking advantage of others.

“You could make a lot of money for no reason,” McAllister

said, adding that he believes each person should only be allowed to buy one ticket.

Soy Lee ’15 avoided the stresses of ticket buying by purchasing a season pass for all YSO shows — which cost only a few more dollars than a Halloween Show ticket — as many of her friends in the orchestra advised her to do so, she said. She added that buyers should not be allowed to obtain multiple tickets for the sole purpose of reselling them.

At the show itself, students cheered throughout the hourlong film and music performance, which was full of snarky humor and pop culture references. Students interviewed said they enjoyed the show, but some said they preferred previous years’ shows to this year’s.

Katrina Yin ’15 said she thought this year’s show was well-rounded and “worth it.” The production was run smoothly, she said, even though this year’s film lacked a high number of celebrity appearances.

For those who did not secure tickets to the show itself, a simulcast of the YSO show was offered in Sheffield-SterlingStrathcona Hall.

Contact WESLEY YIIN a wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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The first landing in New Haven at Yale Field

A.J. McCurd brings down the Wright biplane he was piloting. The event helps to spark interest in aviation in the Elm City.

Tweed airport strives to improve access

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, a $1.31 million effort to improve pedestrian and vehicle accessibility has taken flight.

The construction project began the first week of October and will simplify the current parking scheme by merging two of the airport’s three lots into a

larger 90-car zone, with a pedestrian walkway installed down the middle. As opposed to progressing in the complex “figure eight” manner as of before, vehicle navigation will be through a smooth, one-way loop around the lot. The project is anticipated to conclude

by May 2014.

“The layout of the parking lot previously was an absolute labyrinth,” Chris Guillereault, the

project engineer for Waters Construction Company, said.

Prior to construction, parking was divided into short-term, long-term, and metered lots, depending on the length of time the vehicle remained. According to George Jacobs, associate vice president of Dewberry — the engineering consultant firm on the project — the first stage of construction will create a large

parking lot from the merging of the short-term and metered lots.

The long-term lot will remain open during construction.

Tim Larson, the executive director of Tweed, added that the parking spaces will be slightly larger than average to accommodate access to baggage.

The new pedestrian walkway, previously a series of angular walkways that threaded through

TWEED AIRPORT

At Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, a $1.31 million effort to improve pedestrian and vehicle accessibility has taken flight.

the three lots, will offer more direct access from the parking lot to the terminal. In addition to connecting the long-term lot to the newer lot, the walkway will also be well lit and raised a few inches off the ground to account for the effects of weather.

According to Larson, the parking lot will be completed by the first week in December. The second phase of the project entails further work on the road encircling the lot. The new road eases the flow of traffic and simplifies entry and exit to Tweed, Guillereault said. He added, “The circulation road is currently fully functional, so cars dropping off passengers still have direct access to the terminal.”

The third and final phase of the construction project will focus efforts on improving the taxi stand near the terminal by adding new pavement to better walking conditions. Jacobs added that pavement quality and drainage issues were a chief concern.

Larson said that beyond structural changes, the project will also entail landscaping.

“We’re including some swales and greenery into the project to accommodate a better look and also to help with some of the drainage,” he said.

The green area adjacent to the new parking lot could in theory be removed to add roughly 15-30 more parking spaces. Larson added that Tweed’s potential growth in the future may be supplemented by more highly technological innovations, such as plug-in spots for electric vehicles.

The construction project has not been without its challenges.

Jacobs said that because facets of Tweed have been “tweaked” but not improved in a substantial way, the land contains remnants of previous construction that have been forgotten.

“So as we’re excavating, we’re finding features that we didn’t expect to find,” he said. “Things weren’t really mapped because they were buried.”

Despite the challenges, Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 praised the efforts of the construction project, adding that Tweed is a key aspect of New Haven’s economic development.

The project is being funded by the state Department of Economic and Community Development and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .

Urban planner discusses future of Detroit

BY HAYLEY BYRNES STAFF REPORTER New York-based urban planner Toni Griffin has never seen a traffic jam in the city of Detroit.

In a Thursday lecture at the School of Architecture, Griffin discussed the large number of unoccupied buildings present in Detroit compared to other similarly-sized cities in the country.

In 2010, Griffin helped develop the “Detroit Future City” project, a long-term strategic planning initiative aimed to transform Detroit by restructuring the way the city allots building space.

Detroit is perhaps the sickest city today. And for that reason, it is of great interest to us as architects.

ROBERT A.M. STERN Dean, Yale School of Architecture She spoke to a full auditorium in Hastings Hall, having been invited to Yale to deliver the thirteenth annual Eero Saarinen ARC ’34 lecture, named after a notable alumnus of the school known for adapting his designs to the demands of the projects he worked on.

“The Saarinen lecture is meant to bring someone to the school who has an impact on architecture, but is not necessarily an architect,” said School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern ARC ’65.

In her opening lines, Grif-

fin admitted that she “masquerades” as a planner, but identifies as an architect.

Over the past 50 years, Detroit has lost 60 percent of its population, which has shrunk from 1.8 million people in 1950 to roughly 771,000. But unlike in other cities, Griffin explained, the vacancies spurred by the shift in population numbers are spread throughout Detroit as opposed to being concentrated in certain neighborhoods, making it difficult for urban planners to foster a high population density. Given its steep population decline and urban sprawl, Detroit has accumulated enough vacant land to fill the island of Manhattan, she said.

“Detroit is perhaps the sickest city today,” Stern said. “And for that reason, it is of great interest to us as architects.”

While urban planners often aim to create cities with an equally high population density in all their neighborhoods, Griffin urged urban planners in Detroit to diffuse the city’s population density into several centers.

Griffin cited Detroit’s economic fragility — most Detroit residents work outside city limits or are unemployed — as the most pressing problem for urban planners.

Despite its particularity, Griffin said she thinks the city offers universal lessons for urban planners. She said all urban planning should rest on a solid foundation of data — about the city’s population, economy and history — which the Detroit Future Works team took months to accumulate before proposing the project. For

New York-based urban planner Toni Griffin spoke about efforts to transform Detroit at the School of Architecture. cities suffering from population losses, Griffin encouraged a realistic outlook when it comes to urban planning designs, adding that urban planners need to use

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an interdisciplinary approach if they are to understand the city and propose effective solutions.

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keep planning as if they will,” she said.

Griffin is the director of the J. Max Bond Center for Architecture at the Spitzer School of

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WORLD Israel strikes arms shipment

BY ZEINA KARAM AND MIKE CORDER ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes attacked a shipment of Russian missiles inside a Syrian government stronghold, officials said Thursday, a development that threatened to add another volatile layer to regional tensions from the Syrian civil war.

The revelation came as the government of President Bashar Assad met a key deadline in an ambitious plan to eliminate Syria’s entire chemical weapons stockpile by mid-2014 and avoid international military action.

The announcement by a global chemical weapons watchdog that the country has completed the destruction of equipment used to produce the deadly agents highlights Assad’s willingness to cooperate, and puts more pressure on the divided and outgunned rebels to attend a planned peace conference.

An Obama administration official confirmed the Israeli airstrike overnight, but provided no details. Another security official said the attack occurred late Wednesday in the Syrian port city of Latakia and that the target was Russian-made SA-125 missiles.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the attack. There was no immediate confirmation from Syria.

Since the civil war in Syria began in March 2011, Israel has carefully avoided taking sides, but has struck shipments of missiles inside Syria at least twice this year.

The Syrian military, overstretched by the civil war, has not retaliated, and it was not clear whether the embattled Syrian leader would choose to take action this time. Assad may decide to again let the Israeli attack slide, particularly when his army has the upper hand on the battlefield inside Syria.

Israel has repeatedly declared a series of red lines that could trigger Israeli

military intervention, including the delivery of “game-changing” weapons to the Syrian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah group.

Israel has never officially confirmed taking action inside Syria to avoid embarrassing Assad and sparking a potential response. But foreign officials say it has done so several times when Israeli intelligence determined that sophisticated missiles were on the move.

In January, an Israeli airstrike in Syria destroyed a shipment of advanced antiaircraft missiles bound for Hezbollah, according to U.S. officials. And in May, it was said to have acted again, taking out a shipment of Iranian-made Fateh110 missiles at a Damascus airport.

The Fateh-110s have advanced guidance systems that allow them to travel up to 200 miles (300 kilometers) per hour with great precision. Their solidfuel propellant allows them to be launched at short notice, making them hard to detect and neutralize.

Israel has identified several other weapons systems as game changers, including chemical weapons, Russianmade Yakhont missiles that can be fired from land and destroy ships at sea, and Russian SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles.

Israel’s January airstrike is believed to have destroyed a shipment of SA-17s.

Syrian activists and opposition groups reported strong explosions Wednesday night that appeared to come from inside an air defense facility in Latakia. They said the cause of the blasts was not known.

The announcement Thursday that Syria had completed the destruction of equipment used to produce chemical weapons came one day ahead of a Nov. 1 deadline set by the Hague-based watchdog, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

But while some experts portrayed the step as a milestone, others said it has little impact as long as Syria still has its entire remaining stockpile of functioning chemical weapons.

“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”

SALVADOR DALI SPANISH SURREALIST PAINTER

Toronto police obtain mayor drug video

BY ROB GILLIES ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — Toronto police said Thursday they have obtained a video that appears to show Mayor Rob Ford smoking a crack pipe — a video that Ford had claimed didn’t exist and has been at the core of a scandal that has embarrassed and gripped Canada for months.

Police Chief Bill Blair said the video, recovered after being deleted from a computer hard drive, did not provide grounds to press charges. Ford, a populist mayor who has repeatedly made headlines for his bizarre behavior, vowed not to resign.

Speaking outside the door his office, where visitors were free to check out the Halloween decorations, Ford said with a smile: “I have no reason to resign.” He said he couldn’t defend himself because the affair is part of a criminal investigation involving an associate, adding: “That’s all I can say right now.” Toronto police discovered the video while conducting a huge surveillance operation into a friend and sometimes driver suspected of providing Ford with drugs.

Ford faced allegations in May that he had been caught on video puffing from a glass crack pipe. Two reporters with the Toronto Star said they saw the video, but it has not been released publicly. Ford maintained he does not smoke crack and that the video did not exist.

The scandal has been the fodder of jokes on U.S. late-night television and has cast Canada’s largest city and financial capital in an unflattering light.

Ford was elected mayor three years ago on a wave of discontent simmering in the city’s outlying suburbs. Since then he has survived an attempt to remove him from office on conflict-of-interest charges and has appeared in the news for his increasingly odd behavior. Through it all, the mayor has repeatedly refused to resign and pledged to run for re-election next year.

But the pressure ramped up on Thursday with all four major dailies in

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford heads to his office at City Hall on Oct. 31, 2013. the city calling on Ford to resign.

Cheri DiNovo, a member of Ontario’s parliament, tweeted: “Ford video nothing to celebrate Addiction is illness.

Mayor please step down and get help?”

On Thursday, Blair said the video of the mayor “depicts images that are consistent with those previously reported in the press.”

“As a citizen of Toronto I’m disappointed,” Blair said. “This is a traumatic issue for citizens of this city and the reputation of this city.”

Blair said the video will come out when Ford’s associate and occasional driver, Alexander Lisi, goes to trial on drug charges. Lisi now also faces extortion charges for trying to retrieve the recording from an unidentified person.

Blair did not say who owned the computer containing the video.

Blair said authorities believed the video is linked to a home in Toronto, referred to by a confidential informant as a “crack house” in court documents in Lisi’s drug case.

The prosecutor in the Lisi case released documents Thursday showing they had rummaged through Ford’s garbage in search of evidence of drug use.

They show that they conducted a massive surveillance operation monitoring the mayor and Lisi following drug use allegations.

The documents show that friends and former staffers of Ford were concerned that Lisi was “fuelling” the Toronto mayor’s alleged drug use.

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TOMORROW

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High near 72.

SUNDAY

High of 63, low of 42.

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SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 11:00 a.m. “Gamma Rays and Garden Flowers: American Horticulture Encounters the Atomic Age.” Helen Curry, history and philosophy of science professor from Cambridge University, will host a talk about atoms in agriculture as part of the Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series. Open to the general public. Institution for Social and Policy Studies (77 Prospect St.), Rm. B012.

8:00 p.m. Yale Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale. Guest conductor Krzysztof Penderecki will join the largest performing group at the Yale School of Music for an evening performance.

Pieces will include “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima,” an original Penderecki composition. Open to the general public.

Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).

THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 2:00 p.m. “Asian Sound Revolution: Chinese Pipa and Korean Kumongo.” Jin Hi Kim and Min Xiao-Fen will perform on ancient Asian string instruments from Korea and China. The artists will perform ancient Asian music and the cutting-edge sounds of today. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud. 6:00 p.m. “A Night in Egypt.” Visit the Peabody after hours and see the museum come alive with games, crafts, scavenger hunts, live animals and some special surprises in this Ancient Egyptianinspired twist on the annual Night at the Peabody. Open to the general public. $15 for museum members and Yale employees, $21 for nonmembers. Advance purchase required. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.).

DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 2:00 p.m. Fall Opera Scenes. Singers of Yale Opera will perform scenes from a variety of operas. Sunday’s program will feature excerpts from Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro,” Massenet’s “Don Quichotte,” Bizet’s “Les pecheurs de perles,” Floyd’s “Susannah” and Tchalvosky’s “Eugene Onegin.” Open to the general public. $10-$15 for general admission, $5 for student tickets. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

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SPORTS

“I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.” RODNEY DANGERFIELD COMEDIAN

Football hosts winless Lions

Keys to the game against Columbia

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Yale, now 0.500 on the season, has a chance to bounce back from its three-game losing streak when it faces Columbia in the Yale Bowl tomorrow. In last year’s loss to the Lions, the Bulldogs snapped a nine-game winning streak against Columbia.

The Bulldogs will look to avenge last year’s 25–22 loss and return to their winning ways.

TURN DOWN THE TURNOVERS

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Yale is 3–3 heading into tomorrow’s game after starting the year with wins against Colgate, Cornell and Cal Poly.

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 last Saturday’s game. “[The defensive backs] have a lot of talent … I have a lot of faith in them.”

The Bulldogs have also had troubles the last few games without some of their offensive stalwarts. Wide receiver Chris Smith ’14 has missed the team’s last two games, while starting quarterback Hank Furman ’14 and running back Tyler Varga ’15 both left the Fordham game with injuries and did not play the next week against Penn.

Reno gave few details on

the group’s collective status, saying that the team might not know their availability for the Columbia game until after Friday’s practice.

[The defensive backs] have a lot of talent …

I have a lot of faith in them.

TONY RENO Head coach, Football

But in the absences of Smith, Furman and Varga, the Bulldogs have found capable replacements. Roberts, a transfer from Clemson, started against Penn and began to frequently target Wallace, who had eight catches for 104 yards and a touchdown last week. Running back Candler Rich ’17, meanwhile, had 31 carries for 256 and a score while replacing Varga over the past six quarters.

Columbia’s defense may be last in the Ancient Eight, but whether or not Yale can get its starters back, Wallace noted

that the Bulldog offense cannot overlook Columbia.

“They do a lot of different coverages. We have to be prepared for that during practice,” Wallace said in an interview with WYBC Radio earlier this week.

Safety Cole Champion ’16 agreed, saying that the Bulldogs have a philosophy for the entire season that involves executing every day of every week.

Saturday’s game kicks off from the Yale Bowl at noon.

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

Elis face Big Green, Crimson

In the first three games of the 2013 season, the Bulldogs gave up the football just three times.

In Yale’s most recent three loses, however, the Elis have turned the ball over 11 times. The Bulldogs have fumbled the ball seven times while throwing four interceptions, and as a result Yale’s average time of possession has been 7:23 less than that of its opponents during the losing streak. Columbia has fumbled the ball 12 times this season, but has recovered five of them. With fewer turnovers, Yale would give itself more opportunities to get on the scoreboard. Columbia averages fewer than 25 minutes of possession per game. If the Bulldogs want to get back in the win column, they will need to force turnovers while limiting how often they give up the football.

KEEP THE LIONS ON THE GROUND

While quarterback Brett Nottingham, a transfer from Stanford and Andrew Luck’s former

backup, was supposed to take charge of Columbia’s offense this season, he has been sidelined with a wrist injury. Despite his absence from the field, the Lions have gained 66 percent of their offensive yards through the air. Columbia has gained 1056 yards throughout its 2013 campaign and scored a total of six touchdowns. The Bulldogs will need to cover Columbia’s receivers downfield and force the Lions to try and improve on their average 59.7 rushing yards per game.

BREAK UP THE OFFENSIVE LINE

The Columbia offensive line has let a plethora of defenders through the line this season for 25 sacks totaling 191 yards in losses. The forceful Bulldog defensive line will have yet another opportunity to shine if it can pressure the quarterback. In the Lions’ season opener against Fordham, the Rams sacked Nottingham in the end zone and recovered the fumble for a defensive touchdown. The Elis have an opportunity to shift the momentum on defense and help Yale carry it over to the offense against Columbia. If the defense continues to break up offenses like it did against Ivy opponent Cornell, where the Bulldogs sacked reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Jeff Mathews twice and kept him off balance the whole game, it will return to forcing more turnovers than the offense gives up.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

Champions return home MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 nation’s best college hockey players in St. Lawrence forward Greg Carey. After leading the country last year in goals scored with 28, Carey was selected as the preseason ECAC player of the year.

The Saints (4–2–0, 0–0–0 ECAC) have also received unexpected contributions this year from forward Matt Carey, Greg’s younger brother. The freshman has four goals on the year, leading the team, though Greg has the team lead in points with eight.

We want to continue to improve on our performance game in and game out.

ROB O’GARA ’16 Men’s ice hockey team

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Yale will face Dartmouth tonight. The Big Green were the last Ivy opponent to beat Yale, winning 3–2 Nov. 12, 2011.

Friday’s pregame ceremony celebrating the 2012-’13 national champion team promises to be a remarkable moment, but O’Gara noted that it will not change the Bulldogs’ approach to the task at hand.

“The banner raising is a special thing, but in our minds it’s only a few additional minutes of waiting for the puck to drop,” O’Gara said.

“Everything before and after in preparation and performance will be business as usual.”

The Elis’ faithful will certainly keep an eye on which Yale netminder is between the pipes,

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Yale will drop the puck on its first home game of the season tonight at 7 p.m. against St. Lawrence. where the Bulldogs have yet to settle on a starting goaltender.

Although preseason ECAC allrookie team member Alex Lyon ’17 started against Brown, recording 27 saves on 30 shots, fellow freshman Patrick Spano ’17 started against Princeton and picked up the victory with 22 saves of his own.

No. 17 Clarkson (6–1–1, 0–0–0 ECAC) will come to Ingalls on Saturday as one of the biggest surprises of the season thus far. Picked to finish last in the conference in both the media and coaches’ polls, the Golden Knights have surged to a national ranking behind a stellar defense: Their 1.50 goals allowed per game is tied for first in the country.

“As the defense corps, we need to keep our feet moving, keep our sticks in the lane and keep

the opponents to the outside of the ice,” defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said in an email.

This year, the Bulldogs will have to contend with their heightened national perception. After last season’s unexpected title run, Yale enters the season with a target squarely on its back.

Obuchowski, however, thinks that the best way to rebound from last weekend’s rocky start is simple.

“We just need to keep that focus and complete level [from the game against Princeton] and carry it into this weekend,” Obuchowski said.

The puck drops at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Friday’s game will also be carried live on ESPN3.

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

SCHEDULE VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 5–3) has been busy flying up the Ivy League ranks since losing 3–0 to Yale on Oct. 4. On that night, Yale’s stingy defense limited the Cantabs to a dismal -0.033 hitting percentage and just 15 total kills.

Now Harvard is in second place, sporting a narrow lead over Penn and Brown, who are tied for third. Despite losing a five-set nailbiter against Dartmouth, the Crimson are in good shape. They had won their previous four matches in impressive fashion, dropping only two sets in that span.

“The Harvard-Yale rivalry always leads to a game that is very emotional and competi-

tive,” Johnson said. “The fact that we’re the top two teams in the Ivy League will only heighten that intensity.”

Yale remains in sole possession of first place in the Ivy League as the only undefeated team in the conference. But the Elis fully recognize that much has changed since their last matchups with Dartmouth and Harvard, according to middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16.

“Both Harvard and Dartmouth have had a lot of success since the last time we played them,” Ebner said. “They’ve improved and will have confidence coming into these matches.”

On top of everything else, the Elis have to contend with them-

selves and the impressive record they have accumulated over the last two years. Despite dominating the Ivy League conference for the past two years, the Bulldogs remain adamant that they will not be distracted by their past success, said middle blocker McHaney Carter ’14.

“I don’t think that the team is really focused on things like consecutive wins or even our record in general,” Carter said.

“It’s not about the past or the far future. We really try to focus on the match that is ahead of us.”

The Elis will play Dartmouth tonight at 7 p.m.

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

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Elis prepare for toothless Lions FOOTBALL

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No. 29 Grant Wallace caught eight passes for 104 yards and a touchdown in last week’s 28–17 loss to Penn.

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER Riding a three-game losing streak, the football team hopes to cure its ills this Saturday when the winless Columbia Lions come to town.

Though Yale (3–3, 1–2 Ivy) began the year with promise, defeating Colgate, Cornell and Cal Poly in successive weeks,

it has been tough going as of late for the Elis. The no-huddle offense that looked so dominant earlier in the season has sputtered, yielding at least three turnovers in each game of the losing streak.

“Turnovers keep you from achieving your potential,” Head Coach Tony Reno said.

Giveaways have halted many Bulldog drives in the past three

weeks, including two key drives in the fourth quarter last week against Penn. A pair of red zone interceptions thrown by quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 erased any hope Yale had of a comeback.

Reno said that fumbles have been a bigger problem than interceptions. Wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15 noted that the Elis realize the importance of

Volleyball heads to Harvard

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER Fresh off its record-breaking 22nd straight victory in the Ivy League conference, the Yale volleyball team (14–3, 8–0 Ivy) will take on a pair of revitalized rivals eager to overtake the Elis in the standings.

improving their ball security.

“The ball is more important than the extra step,” Wallace said.

Columbia (0–6, 0–3 Ivy) enters Saturday’s game with the worst offense and the worst defense by both yardage and points in the Ivy League. The Lions have scored just 7.5 points per game, worst in the Ancient Eight by nearly 15 points. The

squad has struggled ever since starting quarterback Brett Nottingham, an offseason transfer from Stanford, suffered a season-ending wrist injury in the first game of the season.

The Bulldog defense has had its own woes lately. In the Elis’ game against No. 9 Fordham, Ram quarterback Michael Nebrich torched the young secondary to the tune of 421 passing

yards and four touchdowns.

While Yale limited Penn to just 167 passing yards last week, the Quakers still had a number of big plays that doomed the Elis, especially a pair of 29-yard touchdown passes in the first half.

“We have to continue to grow back there,” Reno said after SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 11

Home opener for hockey

VOLLEYBALL Tonight the Elis will take on the Big Green (10–10, 3–5).

Dartmouth has won three of its last four matches, including a 3–2 decision against Harvard last Friday. Since losing to the Bulldogs in straight sets on Oct. 5, five of Dartmouth’s last six matches have gone to five sets.

In that last matchup, the Elis triumphed with a combination of aggressive offense and good passing. Yale recorded an impressive 53 kills and assisted on 51 of them. Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 said this will again be the key for the Bulldogs.

“Passing will be very important,” Johnson said. “As a team we work very hard to be strong defensively, and it has always been [a] key component to our success.”

On Saturday, the Elis will travel to Cambridge to take on the Crimson. Harvard (10–7, SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 11

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The Yale men’s hockey team will play its first regular season home game since winning the NCAA National Championship last year.

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER After the national championship banner unfurls from the rafters this weekend, the Yale hockey team will aim to echo last season’s magic as it kicks off its home slate against St. Lawrence and Clarkson.

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The Yale women’s volleyball team has won its last 23 Ivy matches dating back to 2011.

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEY The No. 11 Bulldogs (1–1–0, 0–0–0 ECAC) are coming off of mixed performances against

Brown and Princeton last week at the Liberty Invitational Tournament, where they lost 4–1 to the Bears but beat the Tigers 3–2.

“We had a lot of positives to take from our second game against Princeton,” defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 said. “We want to continue to improve on our performances game in and game out.”

Though this Friday’s main attraction may be the unveiling of the national title banner at Ingalls Rink, fans will also get to see one of the SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 11

DAYS SINCE THE YALE MEN’S ICE HOCKEY TEAM WON THE NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. The Bulldogs beat crosstown rival Quinnipiac 4–0 April 13 to clinch the national title. The Bulldogs will raise the championship banner at Ingalls rink tonight.