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Congrats, Chaucer! Celebritystudent James Franco is back, this time for a Ph.D. in English Literature. He is currently sitting in on sessions of Major English Poets. In light of this development, Chaucer is probably enjoying more popularity than he has in semesters, possibly centuries!

Networking! Consulting Industry Connection Night was held yesterday evening at Woolsey Hall in the President’s Room. Hopefully you steered clear.

Doggy brains. The Canine Cognition Center at Yale was featured in a segment on The Today Show on Tuesday.

The director of the center, Laurie Santos, told Today, “We share our homes and our families with them and yet, scientifically, we don’t know that much about how dogs think.” Finn, a therapy dog who typically works in the medical library and participates at the center, was selected to go on the segment as well.

The Chrismark Castle. A lavish

Gothic castle in Woodstock, Conn., has recently gone on the market for $45 million. The Chrismark Castle is an eightbedroom home on a 75-acre estate that includes a lake.

The owner, Christopher Mark, purchased the estate and began construction in 2003. Prior to putting the house up for sale, “Mark was rumored to have tried to start multiple business on the property, including a modeling business, a bed and breakfast, and a private zoo,” according to Business Insider.

Whoops. Brown dropped two spots to 16th on the U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges rankings for 2015 and plummeted from 12th to 39th in place for selectivity. Brown officials told the Brown Daily Herald these drops occurred because of an administrative oversight in which one question was accidentally left blank on the survey used

by U.S. News to calculate the rankings. The survey is 550 questions long in total.

Happy birthday Dartmouth!

The town of Dartmouth, Mass., celebrated its 350th birthday this past weekend with a parade, the culmination of a summer of smaller festivities. this day in yale history

1980 A former Yale university professor is convicted of conspiring to manufacture illegal drugs in his NYU lab.

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Speaker sparks controversy Msa drafts critical letter to buckley program

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NYT approves. The New York Times published a review of Ordinary this weekend. The review started off in typically narcissistic New Yorkerfashion with the line “Outside New York City, good bar food can be dismayingly hard to find.” However, the review was largely glowing and even ended with the inevitable pun, “extraordinary.”

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By Nicole Ng and Wesley Yiin Staff Reporters

Organizers held the event after reaching their initial goal of educating 2,000 local residents about the lack of decently paid jobs in New Haven. The venue could not contain the enthusiastic crowd of supporters, who cheered and clapped throughout every speech.

“Our city is on the rise and we are determined to rise with it,” said Seth Poole, one of the cam-

Representatives from 35 campus groups and student organizations have signed a letter drafted by the Muslim Students Association (MSA) that expresses concern over an event that is bringing a controversial speaker to campus.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali — a Somali-born American activist known for her women’s rights advocacy and critical remarks about Islam — is slated to give a lecture titled “Clash of Civilizations: Islam and the West” on Sep. 15 as part of the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program speaker series. The daughter of a Somali politician and opposition leader, Hirsi Ali has publicly voiced criticism of practices such as female genital mutilation and has also voiced support for atheism and women’s rights. The MSA’s letter does not ask for a withdrawal of Hirsi Ali’s invitation, according to MSA board member Abrar Omeish ’17, but rather draws attention to her allegedly hurtful anti-Muslim statements and her lack of qualifications to speak broadly about Islam. Despite this, Buckley Program president Rich Lizardo ’15 said the group intends to proceed with its original plans for the event.

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Grass-roots organization New Haven Rises launched a campaign for “Access to Good Jobs for New Haven Residents.”

By sebastian medina-tayac Staff reporter New Haven Rises, a citywide grass-roots organization, packed a Dixwell area community center to publicly launch their campaign for “Access to Good Jobs for New Haven Residents.”

Reacting to rampant unemployment, underemployment, long commutes and low wages throughout the Elm City, organizers have

been mobilizing for the past 10 weeks to expand residents’ access to “living-wage” jobs, which pay over 20 dollars an hour. According to recent reports published by the Alliance for a Just Society and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a single adult without dependents needs a wage in that range to stay out of poverty in New Haven. With a child in the calculation, the living wage leaps to about 40 dollars an hour.

Yale ranks third again

By Rishabh Bhandari and Patrick Peoples Staff Reporter and Contributing Reporter The 2015 U.S. News and World Report college rankings were released early on Tuesday morning, marking the beginning of another admissions cycle.

There was little change among the top schools in this year’s ratings, with Yale trail-

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ing both Princeton and Harvard for the second year in a row. The U.S. News rankings list, which admissions experts agree has long held a dominant perch in the realm of higher education, assesses schools on a combination of factors including graduation rates, selectivity and the standardized test scores of the most recent incoming classes.

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NASA head addresses crowd

By Phoebe Kimmelman Staff Reporter On Tuesday afternoon, around 300 members of the Yale community clogged the doorways and covered the floor of an auditorium in Linsly-Chittenden Hall to hear from Charles Bolden, the current administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

In his talk, which was hosted

by The Politic and moderated

by Justin Schuster ’15, Bolden discussed his entrance into the “astronaut world.” When he was growing up in segregated South Carolina, he said, he did not have any role models who were astronauts, and it wasn’t until soon after he flew planes in the Vietnam War in the 70’s that he decided he wanted to work for NASA.

After serving in the Marine Corps, Bolden joined NASA in 1980. Bolden went to outer space four times over the course of his career, serving as commander on two of the missions.

He was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2006 and was nominated to the position of NASA administrator

by President Barack Obama in 2009.

In the second half of his talk, Bolden responded to questions about federal funding for NASA, noting that less than one percent of the federal budget is currently allocated to NASA. His job entails convincing American politicians and citizens that NASA is doing worthwhile work for the country, he said.

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Women’s soccer tops sacred heart on the road Frannie Coxe ’15 (No. 2) scored goals in the 13th and 89th minutes to lead the Bulldog to a 2—1 victory over the Pioneers in Fairfield, Conn. last night. Captain Meredith Speck ’15 assisted on the first goal, while the game winner came on a penalty kick.

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Redefining the society of friends I

am somebody’s Tuesday lunch. I am another person’s Thursday lunch. For others, I am a weekend coffee friend, the courtyard-wave type, a designated section buddy. On a good day, I am a high-five at a party or a serendipitous dining hall conversation. On a bad day, I am just another person passing through, a face that blends in with the sea of those crossing campus. I am morphing into so many things — but none of them are authentically a friend.

One friend texted me to discuss times we might be able to meet up. Another simply suggested, “Every Tuesday. Here.”

Both times I felt uncomfortable about being penciled into their schedules. And both times I felt uncomfortable for being uncomfortable with people doing a genuinely thoughtful thing — making time for me. After all, scheduling seems like an inevitability of Yale culture. Brokering our friendships through the economy and structure of time ensures a basic commitment to one another.

As a community, however, it is dangerous to universally permit the practice because of its feigned inevitability. Scheduling is bound up with the process of sterilization. Our relationships are given bounds. Anytime we plan someone else into our calendar, we signal that we are looking towards an end. When the salads are finished or noon comes around, it is easy to put things on hold. There is a subconscious anticipation and recognition of the end.

I don’t know if 30-minutes-aweek is a gesture of commitment or the haunt of a relationship that’s been compartmentalized and reduced to a simple form for the sake of maintenance.

I do know that as a freshman, it is early for me to pass judgment on Yale forms of friendship. But in the past several weeks, we’ve sat in on consent workshops, had late-night Froco meetings on diversity and attended handfuls of academic meetings.

Readily supplied at each freshman event was the catchphrase: “Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends.” We have the capacity — and indeed, responsibility — to discuss and analyze our community, this “society of friends.”

If we are truly a campus driven by the pursuit of excellence, it is natural that we should also seek happier and healthier relationships. What’s reassuring about being a new class is that we are

not monolithic. We can redefine Yale’s “society of friends” and we do not need to adopt the narratives of the past.

This isn’t an argument against lunch dates. I believe in food and I believe in people. I especially believe in the combination of the two. Likewise, a few weeks on campus isn’t enough to constitute an understanding of the variety of undergraduate experiences similar and dissimilar to mine. But it is enough time to understand that we could be building stronger, unreserved relationships.

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’ll never forget seeing former Boston Bishop Thomas Shaw in his flowing clerical robes join protesters at the Israeli Embassy calling for an end to oppression of Palestinians.

Excitement swept through the crowd, and the Bishop’s presence lent credibility to the gathering that could not be ignored. Bishop Shaw had been to the Holy Land and seen the situation there. He refused to be silent.

Rev. Bruce Shipman, former priest-in-charge at Yale Episcopal Church, has also been to the Holy Land and witnessed the demolished homes, segregated roads and uprooted orchards.

He met with Jews who are working to end the occupation, and with Christians who have called on churches to oppose the injustice. Recently, he penned a threesentence letter to the New York Times suggesting that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians may be one cause of rising anti-Semitism, which we all condemn.

Days later, he resigned his position at Yale.

There is a long tradition of social activism by clergy in the Episcopal Church. Rev. Paulli Murray, the first African-American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest, was also the first woman to receive her J.D.S. degree from Yale. She was a lifelong activist for gender and racial

equality.

In 1989, following elections that disenfranchised the majority of South Africans, the church’s Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning delivered a strongly worded protest to the South African Consulate in New York.

After consoling parents of children killed at Sandy Hook School, Rev. Kathleen AdamsShepherd of Trinity Episcopal Church in Newtown, Mass., became a vocal advocate for gun control, lobbying in her state’s capital and Washington, D.C. This year, two Episcopal bishops, Rev. Dean Wolfe and Rev. Michael Milliken, spoke out against a Kansas bill proposing to legalize LGBT discrimination.

Retired Bishop John Shelby Spong of Newark was outspoken during his career on issues like ordaining gay clergy and blessing same-sex marriages.

His work for women’s equality in the priesthood led ultimately to election of a female presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first woman to lead a national church in the Anglican Communion. Since her election, Bishop Schori has urged fellow Episcopalians to “advocate for government policies that serve justice, peace and the dignity of all.”

Mary Getz, an Episcopal communications officer, notes that

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the church’s Baptismal Covenant commits Episcopalians to “strive for justice and peace.” She says, “The Bible calls us to 'speak up for those who cannot' and to 'defend the rights of the poor and needy,' (Proverbs 31: 8-9).

As seekers of justice, we answer this call through public policy advocacy. It takes us beyond the

the reverend shouldn't be criticized for following a tradition traditional avenues of Christian charity to the work of justice — changing the systems that necessitate charity.”

The late Father Robert Castle challenged these systems while a priest in Harlem. According to the New York Times, “He marched in Mississippi with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King … He picketed banks and restaurants for failing to hire minorities …

He marched against the Vietnam War, preached against the death penalty and fought gentrification of the urban neighborhoods he

served. In Jersey City, lobbying for cleaner, safer streets, he once dumped vanloads of garbage outside City Hall. In Harlem, to call attention to an unfilled pothole or a much-needed traffic light, he sometimes preached in the middle of the street.”

Episcopal News Service recently carried an article about Rev. Jack Stanton, a veteran of civil rights and Vietnam War demonstrations who volunteered to be arrested during a protest on behalf of casino workers fired for union organizing. The title: “Clerics sometimes break the law in the pursuit of justice.”

Rev. Shipman has broken no law except the unwritten law that forbids questioning Israel. There is a big difference between criticizing a country’s policies and maligning its people. Denying this stifles debate.

This courageous priest has upheld Episcopal tradition in standing for the oppressed. His suggestion was simply that we take a close look at ourselves, the “patrons of Israel,” in evaluating the causes of violence and antiSemitism. We can only hope the Episcopal Church at Yale will take a close look at itself and restore Rev. Shipman to his post.

Susanne Hoder is founder of the Interfaith Peace Initiative in Providence, RI.

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A gap year solitude

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Why Shipman’s activism is right

Few people want to consider that there might be something wrong with their relationships, especially in a time of transition.

But if we refuse to consider flaws in our connections, we’ll grapple for what resembles a form of friendship and accept what’s within reach. We’ll sacrifice the opportunity to be more creative in imagining the landscapes of our friendships. Too often, I find myself thinking my friendships are sufficient. Trying to conform them to the quantifiable and reducing terms of a calendar is part of this process. Often, our friendships are not perfect — there is always room for growth.

Time management skills are important, but so too are people. There are no grades to keep us accountable for our investments in others. There are few deadlines for texting someone, for throwing surprise parties or for evenings available to look at the stars on Science Hill.

When someone looks at me, I don’t want them to see me ending at the end of our 12:30 lunch date. I want them to tell me to stay and occupy this place, our home, where we all take on the infinitely rewarding and riskier task of getting to know the people around us and constructing a society of friends.

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month ago, I was asked to take a gap year by the admissions committee. It wasn’t by choice; I wasn’t seeking a year off. I wanted to jump right into college and take part in everything my would-be classmates are today experiencing.

The gap year was imposed on me — due to certain circumstances, I had fared poorly in my final high school exams.

During the last month, I’ve led a fairly monotonous life. I’ve spent most of my time studying, occasionally speaking on the phone to my dear ones and going out for dinner twice with my family. I met just one friend in all of August, but I have grown to love this lifestyle. That’s because I’ve come to discover the best-kept secrets of the gap year: solitude and stillness.

For a while now, every night after I finish studying, I’ve lain down, listened to Western classical music (until now I had never bothered with Chopin’s Nocturnes) and stared into the air.

An onlooker would mistake it for dreaminess. But I’m engaged and my mind is working. My thoughts are shifting from one paradigm to the other. Sometimes I am selfcritical, sometimes I think of the struggles of great men and sometimes I smirk at the little iro-

nies around me, like my mother’s strict orders to kill any bug seen in the house even though she demands that we respect the delicacy of our plants. I’m also the last one at home to sleep, and naturally, I am the last one to rise, when the house is again empty. I see no sadness in this solitude. I see a time of cultivation.

In our last two years of high school, as we take on larger academic loads and assume more responsibilities, we tend to focus on the tasks immediately ahead of us. The coming exam, the coming event, the coming game, the coming semester — we become confined to a microcosm of our high school lives and our immediate college futures. It occupies our minds, whether we like it or not.

That was the case with most of my peers and I, and I’ve only realized it now, amidst my silence. We always said to ourselves, “What’s next?” We never had the opportunity to say to ourselves, “I have absolutely nothing to do.”

This gap year has only begun, and I have begun to realize what lies ahead. The gap year isn’t a time of discovering the world. It is really an inward journey. I want to let my mind wander into questions I had never posed before, about the world and myself. This is my time to seek answers from

myself, on questions that concern me and the world beyond.

Perhaps this is what volunteers in the developing world, backpackers across continents or those in most other gap year programs learn in their time. Amidst their activities, they are on their own islands of thought, away from the lives they have adapted to. Gap year advocates give a strong emphasis on how much you can do, but not on how much you can think for yourself, the world and your role in it. It is a time to think about the larger and the smaller currents that are flowing around our own worlds. This is never something advertised or promoted; it is indeed difficult to express this feeling. Research on gap years is presented to us quantitatively: with x percent of students obtaining y benefit.

Yet development of thought within one’s own self cannot be quantified; it has many dimensions, unique in as many ways as each of us think. To many of us, the idea of developing newer skills, learning new cultures and adapting across different environments is not as attractive as engaging ourselves in a university environment, taking challenging academic courses, making new friends or simply beginning a new chapter of our lives. I too gave

greater weight to these prospects, but I never realized that my mind had the opportunity to emerge more relaxed and engaged with my own thoughts in its relative solitude.

Because I’m studying for exams, I have renounced television, video games and reduced my social media presence to the occasional conversation. My need to study caters to my selfimposed isolation. This gap year came upon me through my own faults, but I am beginning to feel grateful. After my exams in November, I am weighing different options of what I can do, but regardless of what it is, I’m confident in the coming year. Perhaps I will become smarter, more creative or develop some handy skill.

But I know — for certain — that I will be able to cultivate my thinking and open my mind to new trains of thought. I’ve come to gather that being alone on an island isn’t so bad. So to the dear freshmen who would have been my classmates, I admit you can never not love a place like Yale, but surely there is nothing wrong in falling in love just a year later.

RAHUL Srivastava is currently taking a gap year before enrolling at Yale. Contact him at rahul.srivastava@yale.edu .

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“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”

Jesse jackson american civil rights leader

Malloy looks to New Haven bus system By samuel wang and hannah yang contributing reporters As incumbent Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy works to garner votes across Connecticut in preparation for November’s gubernatorial election, New Haven residents have called his attention to a problem that, for Yalies at least, lies a bit closer to home: the city’s public bus service.

Connecticut Transit New Haven, or CT Transit New Haven, has been providing bus service to residents of the Greater New Haven and Lower Naugatuck River Valley areas since 1976. Although the city has made improvements to the bus system over the years, the majority of New Haven residents interviewed remain unsatisfied. In an interview with the New Haven Independent this fall, Malloy said that if there is a problem with the city’s bus system, he will work to fix it if elected.

“The governor is aware of the need [to improve New Haven’s public bus system].” said New Haven’s Transit Chief, Doug Hausladen ’04.

He added that Malloy has already invested in the Elm City’s rail system and that the Governor now sees the bus service as “the next place to invest.”

Specifically, Hausladen said the bus system’s greatest need is realtime bus schedule updates in the hands of passengers.

That information may be helpful to a number of residents who complained that the buses are frequently late.

“Never on time. It’s never on

time,” said Jasmine Wilkes, a lifelong New Haven resident.

For John Correia, a former resident of Hartford who moved to New Haven 10 months ago, the problem is so pervasive that he decided to make a table comparing the buses’ actual arrival times to the times listed on the schedules.

Often he found that buses are anywhere from a half an hour to fortyfive minutes late.

Even CT Transit employees are aware that the current system needs improvement. Larry Senburg, one of CT Transit’s bus drivers, said that the schedule is not always convenient for New Haven residents and that this causes the current bus system to be underutilized.

All of the residents interviewed said that Malloy’s promise to improve the bus system would make a difference in how they vote this fall. However, none of them were aware that Malloy had plans to improve the city’s bus system.

To students at Yale, these improvements would be a welcome change.

“The bus is definitely important, because there are a lot of interesting places to visit in New Haven, and it makes getting around a lot easier for students,” Alan Liu, ’18 said.

New Haven’s voter turnout in the 2010 gubernatorial race was 46 percent.

Contact samuel wang at samuel.wang@yale.edu and hannah yang at hannah.yang@yale.edu .

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Gov. Dannel Malloy has promised to improve the New Haven bus system as part of his re-election platform.

Task force looks at panhandling By lillian childress Staff reporter On Tuesday evening, Doug Hausladen ’04, the New Haven Transit Chief, Joseph Rodriguez, the mayor’s aldermanic liaison and Win Davis, the executive director of the town green, unveiled a new plan to address panhandling in New Haven.

The proposal, which was presented to the City Services and Environmental Policy Committee, focuses on directing money away from panhandlers and towards social services. The money would be collected through 10 “parking meters” that collect money for the homeless instead of providing a parking place. The fake meters were donated by the company that currently supplies New Haven’s parking meters. The plan is to place the “parking meters” in high-visibility places in the city, such as City Hall, train stations or even the corner of College and York streets.

Money would also be collected in small cardboard “parking meters,” placed next to the cash registers at local businesses and restaurants.

“We’re really trying to take a holistic approach to panhandling,” Rodriguez said, which he was careful to distinguish from homelessness. Panhandling is the act of asking passers-by for money, though not all panhandlers are homeless.

According to Davis, this strategy would not only allow the city to direct more money towards social services for

those who need them, but also lessen the economic incentive for people to ask for money on the streets.

The plan is coming out of a task force that Mayor Toni Harp assembled in response to a 2014 study about perceptions of residents in New Haven. The study found that New Haven residents perceived parking and traffic, safety and panhandling as the three biggest issues affecting the city.

We do not want to stop anyone from asking for help. win davis Executive director, town green The fake parking meter plan called, “Give Change to Make Change” is only one aspect of the city’s plans to combat panhandling. The task force has devised a four-pronged approach to tackle the issue, which includes the creation of community courts, development of drop-in social service centers and a city-wide ordinance to prohibit aggressive panhandling, Hausladen said. Another strong component of the plan is education — both for regular panhandlers about the social services that are available to them, as well as for those people who give spare change.

“We do not want to stop anyone from asking for help,” Davis told the commit-

tee. “I want to be able to help that person, but when they turn and walk away and continue to harass people, that’s an issue for the community.”

Many of the alders had questions about the new initiative.

Rosa Santana, the Ward 13 Alder who works in downtown New Haven, expressed her skepticism that the problem could be taken care of so easily.

“I get panhandled every day, it doesn’t stop,” Santana said. “The guy who needs bus money isn’t going to wait around for a social service worker with a bus voucher.”

Adam Marchand, the Ward 25 Alder, said he would like to see the plan becomre more refined before it goes forward. Marchand suggested researching possible unintended consequences of a crackdown on panhandling, such as an increase in crime. He also said the city would benefit from a tangible way to measure the program’s success, and from careful examinations of studies on other cities that have implemented a “Give Change” program, such as Denver and San Diego.

In response to these worries, Davis stressed that “Give Change” is just a piece in the puzzle of community development, and by no means a solution.

The city of Denver implemented a program using parking meters to direct change to the homeless in 2007.

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

Youth Stat launched across Elm City By nam-joong peter hwang contributing reporter On Tuesday afternoon, Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 visited Co-op High School to explain the Youth Stat program — Mayor Toni Harp’s data-driven approach towards reducing violence among the city’s youth — that will be introduced throughout the rest of the New Haven public school system in upcoming weeks.

The Youth Stat program has already been piloted throughout the district, in schools such as Hillhouse Upper Academy, Dixwell New Light and New Horizons. The program seeks to share information about truancy, arrests and academic performance between the city’s agencies in order to support individual at-risk students.

This year, the Youth Stat program has already collected information about 293 students across the various New Haven Public Schools. The district is particularly concerned about gangaffiliated students, according to Gemma Joseph-Lumpkin, Executive Manager of District Strategy and Coordinating for New Haven Public Schools.

In order to track the behaviors at-risk youth, Youth Stat is using software from Veoci, a start-up company that employs several former Yale students.

Just as the technology at a police emergency operation center provides communication across the department, co-founder of Veoci Nathaniel Ellis GRD ’99 said he would like Veoci to be used as a communication tool between school employees, social workers and others who help at-risk youth.

Members of what Hillhouse Upper Academy Principal Kermit Carolina called the “first line of defense: truancy officers, guidance counselors, in-school suspension coordinators, school psychologists” will be assigned as caseworkers to at-risk students.

Sukh Grewal, Veoci’s CEO and the other co-founder, highlighted the system’s account-

ability, and said that the technology will keep more students from falling through the cracks.

At Co-op High School on Tuesday, Ellis conducted a live demonstration of the software’s sleek interface and demonstrated how the program emphasizes security.

Ellis said that because the information is sensitive, sending it through a less secure medium such as email is “a recipe for disaster.”

Instead, only authorized people will have access to student information and a caseworker accessing Veoci on a computer or mobile device, is greeted with a reminder of the confidentiality agreement signed by the user.

Jason Bartlett, the director of youth services for New Haven, also emphasized the Youth Stat Committee’s commitment to privacy. Sample parental consent forms were passed around the room, informing guardians that their son or daughter has been identified as a student who might benefit from the Youth Stat Initiative.

If you’re comfortable using your phone for texting, you will be comfortable using our mobile app.

Nathaniel Ellis GRd ’99 Co-founder, Veoci Though secure, the program is also accessible.

“If you’re comfortable using your phone for texting, you will be comfortable using our mobile app,” Ellis said.

Currently the school resource officers do not have the same access to students and their records.

The next Youth Stat General Meeting will take place on Sep. 23.

Contact nam-joong peter hwang at nam-joong.hwang@yale.edu .

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New Haven alders discuss the “Give Change to Make Change” project, which aims to fight panhandling and develop social services.

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“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Albert einstein theoretical physicist

New student site aggregates Yale resources

By David Shimer Contributing Reporter With the aim of improving the lives of the nearly 12,000 students at Yale, the Office of Student Life launched a new website on Monday that will serve as a central online resource for a wide scope of student services.

According to administrators, students have complained for years that there was no easily accessible online resource hub to find information about services such as housing, course registration and recreation. After meeting with dozens of students from Yale College and the other schools of the University in the last year, administrators in the Office of Student Life concluded that Yale needed not another minor resource, but a large site that could serve as a host for already existing resources.

Liz Quercia, a senior administrative assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Student Life who has been instrumental in the creation of the site, noted that students come to Yale and often feel overwhelmed by the number of websites they have to consult for information.

“They don’t know where to go to find housing information, to schedule a gym class or to fill their prescriptions. This website aggregates that kind of data and directs students to other online resources,” she explained.

Website construction began last April and took just eight weeks. The site’s homepage is composed of nine different cubes with names such as Diversity, Academics and Community Service. Clicking on any cube leads to a page filled with Yale resources fitting that cube.

The site acts as a middleman between Yale’s already-existing pages and its students.

After quietly launching a “rough draft” of the website in June, administrators solicited the feedback of both professionals and select Yale students.

Slight alterations were made over the summer before the official launch on Monday.

Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley said in an email that the entire project of the site is part of Yale’s initiative to bring together student life services for graduate and undergraduate students. According to Quercia, what makes the site so special is its attempt to bring all of Yale together — a move that can be seen as a step toward achieving University President Peter Salovey’s ultimate vision of a more unified University.

But though the website is operational, there is still work to be done.

Anna Jurkevics GRD ’15 acknowledged the website’s usefulness, but also pointed out that various areas could still be improved.

“One thing that needs to be altered is the ‘Life Work Travel’ link. Way too much stuff is crammed into that link. And I don’t see why the childcare section should be placed next to the dental plan,” she said. “Student Life developers should make a new link dedicated to family resources.”

Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly GoffCrews said that if more students raise the issue of the need for a family resources page on the site, developers will adjust the site accordingly.

“We really do want students to tell us what is missing so that we can quickly update it,” she explained.

The new site dedicated to student resources is only the beginning of a total revamp of Yale’s sites. According to Goff-Crews, the Office of Public Affairs and Communications is currently working to redesign all the pages on Yale’s domain, which will give students more capabilities. For example, students will be able to register their organizations’ events electronically on an interactive, campus-wide calendar. The new student resources site will either continue to exist on its own or become a part of the larger Yale site reorganization.

Contact David Shimer at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews (above) said the Office of Student Life will welcome feedback about the new student resource website.

Foley endorsed by Family Institute By rohan naik and erica pandey contributing reporter and Staff reporter After Tom Foley announced that he would veto Connecticut’s proposed assisted suicide bill, he became the first ever candidate for governor to secure an endorsement from the Family Institute of Connecticut’s Political Action Committee — an organization whose stated purpose is the preservation of traditional family values.

The PAC endorsed Foley last week after his statement denouncing the bill, which has come up for debate twice and is expected to reappear for a vote.

Foley’s stance on physician-assisted suicide, coupled with his willingness to meet with the group, made him a clear choice for endorsement, said Peter Wolfgang, executive director at the Family Institute.

“This is the first time a candidate has been willing to have a conversation [with PAC],” Wolfgang said. “Just the fact that Foley has been willing to sit down with us increased our confidence.”

The PAC did not endorse Malloy’s predecessor Republican Jodi Rell because they never met face-to-face with the former governor to discuss issues, Wolfgang said. Foley met with the PAC twice over the summer.

He added that the organization did not

endorse Foley in the 2010 race because they could not identify any significant policy differences between Foley and Gov. Dannel Malloy. This year, Malloy has not yet weighed in on the question of physician-assisted suicide.

According to State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, Malloy has not said he would veto the assisted suicide bill, but he has expressed grave concerns about it and looked into palliative care options, which aim to relieve the stress of severe illness through medication and therapy.

Palliative care options have received bipartisan support in Connecticut.

Republican State Senator Jason Welch, ranking member of the Senate Public Health Committee, shared Malloy’s views in favor of palliative care, which he said is underutilized in the state.

“We all sympathize with people who are coping with terminal illnesses. However, a doctor writing a prescription to end a patient’s life is not health care,” he said.

“Medicine and public policy should focus on eliminating suffering, not the sufferer.”

Though Foley’s stance on physicianassisted suicide is not especially controversial, the Family Institute’s gesture caused conflict because of the its reputation as “fairly extreme,” Looney said. “[The endorsement] is surprising,” he said. “I really can’t see how it will help

[Foley] in the general election.”

Yale College Democrats Elections Coordinator Tyler Blackmon ’16 said that he expected voters to be most concerned with economic issues in November, but noted that the PAC’s support for Foley was “huge” because it was a first-time endorsement.

“We know the institute has some pretty right-wing ideas,” he said. “They oppose the transgender rights bill in the state of CT, they were upset with the governor for flying a rainbow flag over the governor’s mansion … The question is: which of those does views does Tom Foley support?”

Yale College Republicans President Andrea Barragan ’16 said in an email that she is excited the PAC endorsed Foley for supporting family values.

The PAC has made clear that though they do not agree with Foley on all issues, they believe that he is more “pro-family” than Malloy, Barragan said. She shared the institute’s view that Malloy “has not been working towards a Connecticut where families can prosper.”

The general election will take place on Nov. 4.

Contact roahn naik at rohan.naik@yale.edu and

erica pandey at

erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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The Family Institute of Connecticut endorsed gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley after he denounced the proposed assisted suicide bill.

Researcher talks Nordic Food Lab

By Andrea Fleming Contributing Reporter Two years after leaving Yale, Josh Evans ’12 has switched gears from literature to food science.

Evans is now a lead researcher and project manager of the Nordic Food Lab in Copenhagen, an organization that investigates food and flavors in an attempt to expand the range of foods people use in their own kitchens.

On Tuesday, Evans gave a talk in St. Anthony Hall to about 40 members of the Yale community in which he discussed his journey from a Literature major in New Haven to a foodie in Denmark and described the Nordic Food Lab’s mission of introducing innovative ingredients to the general public.

“Sharing gastronomic knowledge is a way of bettering the world,” he said. “Assuming that taste is a right that people should have can be transformative.”

Evans said the Nordic Food Lab aims to bring knowledge about different kinds of food to the masses. The lab, which was founded by René Redzepi — a Danish chef who runs the twoMichelin star restaurant Noma in Copenhagen — experiments with ingredients such as insects, flowers, yeast and bacteria to create new flavors and runs a website for chefs interested in innovative Nordic cuisine.

According to the lab’s philosophy, Evans said the best method of introduction is to concentrate on flavor, rather than simply nourishment. Keeping taste and nutrition in mind, the Nordic Food Lab hopes to introduce foods that promote biodiversity, food security, ecological resilience and sustainability, he said.

“People are starting to see algae not just as a food source, but as a delicacy, something that we should be celebrating,” he said.

However, Evans acknowledged that it is difficult to change the way that people perceive certain types of food because pre-existing cultural biases limit one’s ability to view these foods as desirable.

Evans allowed the audience to experience this phenomenon first hand. He passed around two different food samples for the audience to try: a grasshopper garum — a savory sauce made with grasshoppers, barley, beetle larvae and salt — and an elder vinegar made from fermented elderflower wine.

After the audience tried the grasshopper garum, Evans asked if everyone who disliked it would raise their hands. Only a few hands shot up, and he ques-

tioned one student as to why she did not like it.

Her reason was not, as he had feared, a dislike of bugs — rather, she said she was “not a big soy sauce fan.” Evans commended her on this answer, saying that he had heard the former too often.

Though Evans said people’s ability to branch out and try new delicacies is severely curtailed by time and resources, he nevertheless remains hopeful about broadening the public’s palate.

The process of introducing new foods to a society is something that takes a lot of time, he said.

Evans said that one method of introducing new flavors is to transform the concept of leftovers from disposed of parts of a meal into something delicious.

Sharing gastronomic knowledge is a way of bettering the world. josh evans ’12 Lead researcher and project manager, Nordic Food Lab “By pursuing things that are a bit more difficult, we end up exposing ourselves to a wider diversity of food than we would have otherwise,” he said.

Evans said his motivation for entering the food industry was wrapped up in his motivation for coming to Yale. When initially considering attending the University, he said he was intrigued

by Yale’s Sustainable Food Project — an initiative that runs two farms close to campus and organizes food-related courses and events.

“For me, it always goes back to loving eating,” he said.

Audience members interviewed — some of whom said they were involved with food initiatives at Yale — responded positively to the event.

Ariana Shapiro ’16 said she appreciated hearing Evans talk about getting a job in the food industry, adding that the tasting was surprisingly delicious.

“I think that food is really rooted in tradition,” Madeleine Marino ’15 said. “[That’s] important, but in the super changing environment, we’re going to need to be innovative, and I was really happy to see how open he was to new ideas in food.”

The Nordic Food Lab was founded in 2008.

Contact Andrea Fleming at andrea.fleming@yale.edu .

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“Comparisons are odious.”

Miguel de cervantes spanish novelist

Admins question utility of rankings system rankings From page 1 many high school applicants and media outlets attribute to college rankings, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan and other college admissions experts cautioned against reading too much into the results.

Although the University consistently ranks highly in the U.S. News rankings, Quinlan said there are considerable flaws and potential pitfalls with a comprehensive college ranking system.

“Any time you try to rank an incredibly diverse set of institutions in an ordinal way, there are going to be issues,” Quinlan said.

For example, Quinlan said he is concerned that the metrics of the U.S. News rankings could incentivize schools to overvalue the importance of standardized test scores or prioritize using financial aid resources for merit scholarships at the expense of needbased scholarships.

He added that his office does not ascribe much importance to Yale’s rankings.

Still, experts interviewed said that many schools pay close attention to their rankings on a year-to-year basis.

“The research shows that many university administrators make educational policy decisions with the school’s ranking in mind,” said Robert Morse, director of data and research at U.S. News.

In order to rise in the rankings, Morse said a school might decrease class sizes or hire more research-oriented faculty. Still, he said U.S. News does not encourage schools to let the company’s ranking methodology be a primary reason for making administrative or policy shifts.

David Petersam, president of the Virginia-based higher education consulting group AdmissionsConsultants, said many admissions offices use the rankings as a gauge of how well they are doing.

But Quinlan rejected that claim where Yale is concerned,

adding that the University’s admissions office uses its own internal set of metrics such as the strength and diversity of the incoming freshman class and admitted student surveys to assess its performance.

Tony Marx ’81, the former president of Amherst College from 2003 to 2011, said rankings do not adequately assess the quality of higher education because the metrics used are too narrow.

“There is real educational benefit in having a diverse community of students from a variety of backgrounds,” he said.

According to Marx, the U.S News rankings do not reward schools who take students from low-income or ethnically underrepresented backgrounds who may either have lower standardized test scores or are statistically more at risk of dropping out.

Although Morse conceded that the U.S. News rankings do not consider ethnic diversity in its rankings, he said the rankings do reward schools whose students graduate at a higher rate than the average for their socioeconomic background.

Quinlan and all three college counselors interviewed said one of the reasons the U.S. News and World Report has so much clout in higher education is its near monopoly on college rankings.

“We need another gorilla in the room, starting from a place that incentivizes different types of admissions behavior,” Quinlan said.

Just over a year ago, President Barack Obama announced that the federal government is in the process of building its own rating system to hold America’s 7,000-odd colleges and universities accountable for performance, and to help control rising tuition fees.

Although the Department of Education has yet to publicize an exact date when this ranking will be released or the exact methodology by which universities will

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be evaluated, Quinlan said he is hopeful that this new federal ranking could challenge the U.S. News and World Report’s historic dominance by evaluating colleges with a more holistic set of metrics.

But Morse said his company would likely be unaffected by the introduction of a federal rating system because the two systems would be measuring different qualities. While U.S. News is trying to assess the academic excellence of a school, the government will try to measure the best postgraduate outcomes for a student in comparison to the tuition a school charges, he said.

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heavily on college rankings during the college search process.

“College rankings should be only used as one tool in the application process,” he said.

He added that it is important for students and parents to do as much independent research as possible.

Although all 18 students interviewed said college rankings affected their college selection process in some way, the opinions of Yale freshmen differed from those of the eight high school seniors interviewed.

Seven of eight high school students said the rankings will play a strong role in deciding where they will apply.

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school senior from Wilmington, North Carolina, said she is only applying to schools that were ranked in the top 10 for journalism, the subject she plans to study.

“I think rankings give me a pretty good preview of how good the programs are there, especially since, as a high schooler, I don’t really have much to base my opinion off of,” said Bob Wang, a senior from San Diego, Calif.

But only three of 10 Yale students interviewed said the rankings played an influential role in the college application process.

Lena Nasrallah ’18, a freshman from Egypt, said she had to rely on rankings more heavily because, as an international stu-

NASA administrator Charles Bolden spoke to a packed room about his experiences and the program’s importance. bolden From page 1 ble telescope completely altered the way in which the universe is viewed, he said.

Bolden also discussed how NASA, and space travel at large, is advancing quickly, with the possibility of longer and more thorough missions. In the coming years, space travel to Mars may take only half the time it currently does, he said.

But most importantly, Bolden said, he considers the collaborative spirit of space research a paragon of the kind of cooperation that can and should happen on Earth, calling the International Space Station “the United Nations in orbit.”

“How we continue to work collaboratively and make scientific discoveries speaks loads to what we can do on Earth,” Bolden said. “What is being done 250 miles above is done by people who don’t always agree on things on Earth.”

International collaboration is particularly essential to success in outer space, Bolden said, adding that the United States alone will not be able to put a crew on Mars without the brainpower of other nations.

Throughout his talk, Bolden emphasized the importance of exploring other planets, in particular Mars, through NASA initiatives.

“We all came from the same place.

So if we can see what happened to these planets, we can find things not to do so we don’t end up like them,” Bolden said.

Student feedback on the talk was overwhelmingly positive.

Madison Stenzel ’18 said she was most impressed by the inspirational value of Bolden’s personal story. In particular, she was struck by how Bolden was able to become so successful in his field even though his career did not seem like an attainable possibility when he was growing up.

Ashesh Trivedi ’18 said he appreci-

ated how Bolden tried to make outer space a topical subject for the audience members.

“I thought [the talk] would be a lot more administrative because I had no idea about his background, but he’s more of the idea that NASA needs to be appealing to everyone and science is for everyone,” Trivedi said. “Space is now.”

Genevieve Silva ’17 said she was most interested by the new advances in space technology that NASA is developing.

But it was Bolden’s “charismatic” personality that made the talk so enjoyable, according to Gerrardo Carranza ’17, who also said he appreciated the broad scope of the discussion.

Bolden’s talk marked the kick-off event of The Politic’s speaker series, which will feature a different speaker each week throughout this semester.

Contact Phoebe Kimmelman at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

2015 dent, she could not easily visit schools.

But Herbert Gilman ’18, a freshman from New York City, said college visits were a far more important factor for him than university ranking systems.

In this year’s U.S. News rankings, Stanford, Columbia and the University of Chicago were in a three-way tie for 5th place.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke, University of Pennsylvania and the California Institute of Technology rounded out this year’s top 10.

Contact Rishabh Bhandari at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu and Patrick Peoples at patrick.peoples@yale.edu .

Politicans call for more local jobs new haven rises From page 1

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paign’s nine key leaders. “We’re going to improve the economic standing of the people of New Haven.”

Statistics released last year by New Haven’s data hub DataHaven revealed that of the approximately 83,000 jobs in New Haven, only 47,000 were considered to pay a living wage. Only 9,000 of those jobs are held by New Haven residents, and a mere 2,000 are held by residents of inner-city neighborhoods.

“The data speaks for itself,” said NHR key leader Jaime Myers-McPhail, standing at a podium, backed by other leaders holding info graphics describing New Haven employment data.

“We’re engaging all residents in a discussion about this crisis.”

To organizers, the “jobs crisis” can be solved by collective community action and by educating other city residents, as it did in its initial campaign.

Their petition demanding greater job access for city residents has accumulated over 4,000 signatures.

“We as a city coming together will create more access to good jobs,” said Rev. Scott Marks, an organizer for New Haven Rises. “We need to build consensus.”

While they did not fully develop specific demands, organizers and audience members were vocal and passionate about continuing a broader call for more access to jobs.

The campaign’s next steps will be to send letters to the 20 top employers in New Haven, including YaleNew Haven Hospital and United Illuminating, to make them aware of the employment situation and ask for their help in hiring more New Haven residents, said Kenneth Reveiz, another of the campaign’s Key Leaders. New Haven Rises also plans on collaborating directly with the Chamber of Commerce.

“Employers probably have no idea what’s going on,” Poole said. “This movement is meant to bring this situation to light.”

About 10 alders aligned with New Haven Rising were in attendance Tuesday. The organization emerged partly out of electoral grass-roots organizing in 2011, supporting the wave of

labor-backed alders who are now in the majority.

Several other elected officials, including Senator Gary Holder-Winfield and Mayor Toni Harp’s chief of staff Tomas Reyes also came to demonstrate support for the campaign.

Poole said that New Haven officials are key allies because they can implement policies that would encourage employers to prioritize employees or contractors from the city. With huge developments on the horizon, he said, there will be many opportunities in the near future for the city to help get more residents to work.

“We need leadership and courage from you,” Reveiz addressed the politicians in the crowd. “We are pushing to expand access and open up the doors for all.”

We as a city coming together will create more access to good jobs.

Scott marks Organizer, New Haven Rises Another issue the campaign intends to address is unemployment and underemployment in the city. According to DataHaven’s 2013 Community Index, unemployment in low-income neighborhoods in New Haven, at 17.9 percent, is nearly twice the national average. About a third of jobholders, moreover, can be counted as underemployed.

Pastor Valerie Washington and Pastor Héctor Otero, among the 25 faith leaders flanking the podium, delivered impassioned sermons stressing the importance of good jobs for their congregations.

Both said that many of their members are forced to work two or three jobs to stay financially afloat, which has a profound impact on their children’s safety and success.

New Haven Rises was chartered in July 2012.

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

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“Society is unity in diversity.”

George Herbert Mead american sociologist

Groups join MSA in protesting Buckley speaker MSA From page 1 “An invitation and decision to go forward with this event is not an endorsement of her views or her past statements,” said Lizardo. “It is an endorsement of her right to share those views and an endorsement of free speech.”

Omeish said that though the MSA respects and sympathizes with Hirsi Ali’s harrowing personal experience as a former Muslim, she often speaks about Islam as an authoritative academic figure while lacking the necessary scholarly credentials. Omeish added that many of her statements on Islam have not only been factually disproven but are also inflammatory, hateful and hurtful to the Muslim community and other communities.

Omeish referenced a 2007 interview with the London Evening Standard, in which Hirsi Ali described Islam as a “destructive, nihilistic cult of death.”

Omeish said that the group and their Islamic values uphold freedom of speech.

“The difference here is that it’s hate speech, [which] under the law would be classified as libel or slander and is not protected by the First Amendment. That’s what we’re trying to condemn here.”

After becoming aware of the Buckley Program’s plan to bring Hirsi Ali to campus, Omeish met with Lizardo last week to discuss Hirsi Ali’s speaking engagement and the MSA’s requests.

According to Omeish, the MSA never intended to disinvite Hirsi Ali, but instead requested the invitation of a second speaker with academic credentials on the subject. The MSA also asked that Hirsi Ali’s speech be limited to her personal experience and professional expertise.

But Lizardo responded that the Buckley Program would not adopt the MSA’s requests and would not change the format or content of the lecture.

“If the principle is freedom of expression and freedom of speech, then having someone there to correct her views, which is essentially what MSA would like to happen … would

only hinder the principle or idea further of free speech,” Lizardo said.

Lizardo added the Buckley Program was motivated to invite Hirsi Ali when Brandeis University officials disinvited her from their school’s campus in April and rescinded her honorary degree after professors and students raised concerns over her allegedly anti-Muslim statements in the past. The Buckley Program interpreted this act as a “form of unmerited censorship at an academic institution,” Lizardo said.

Lizardo said Hirsi Ali’s speaking engagement is particularly important in light of Yale’s emphasis on freedom of speech and expression — which was touched upon in University President Peter Salovey’s freshman address this year — and the Buckley Program’s desire to bring a diversity of opinions to campus.

While in talks with the Buckley Program, the MSA also corresponded with many other campus organizations to garner support for its position. The group met with some of these groups Tuesday to determine the exact contents of a letter that will decry Hirsi Ali’s statements and lack of scholarly credentials.

Yupei Guo ’17, co-president of the service organization Building Bridges, said in an email that she conditionally agreed to sign the letter because “religiously and culturally intolerant speech should not be an advertised event on campus.” She said she and her group do not, however, condemn Hirsi Ali as a person.

Candice Hwang ’16, co-moderator of the Asian American Students Alliance (AASA) and a signee of the letter, said she wants to stand up in solidarity with MSA, one of AASA’s eight constituent groups.

“Regardless of what minority, cultural group or religious group we’re representing, it definitely hurts to hear someone say untrue and disrespectful things about you,” Hwang said. “No one wants to be told you’re something you’re not.”

Following Omeish and Lizardo’s initial meeting, both have been in contact with administrators concerning the

event. According to Lizardo, Salovey emailed him and expressed hope that the event would prompt a vibrant yet civil discussion.

In an email to the News, Salovey clarified that students may invite speakers regardless of their views or beliefs. According to University policy, students may also engage in dialogue with the speaker or organize peaceful protests that do not negatively impact the audience’s ability to listen to the speaker, Salovey said.

University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Coordinator of Muslim Life Omer Bajwa issued a joint statement to the News in which they confirmed the University’s commitment to free expression but raised concerns over Hirsi Ali’s prior comments about Islam.

“We are deeply concerned … by Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s long record of disparaging, and arguably hateful, comments about Muslims and Islam,” the statement read. “To better represent the whole Yale community and its educational goals, we recommend the organizers consider actions to expand the event, such as allowing concerned students to present their perspectives or adding a scholarly voice to create a more nuanced conversation.”

Lizardo has requested meetings with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry, University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews, Salovey and Omeish to discuss events that could take place on the day of Hirsi Ali’s talk.

Omeish has also requested a meeting between Buckley Program organizers and MSA students after the event to explain their concerns over Hirsi Ali’s visit and to discuss how both groups can foster better sensitivity in the future.

Goff-Crews confirmed in an email that she is engaging with members of the Yale community who are involved in the matter.

Contact Nicole Ng at nicole.ng@yale.edu and Wesley Yiin at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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“You blitz all night!”

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Elis lose despite early goal

Jeter plays the right way column From page 12 the Sox take on the Yankees.

The night was oppressively hot, the kind of hot that makes your legs stick to the blue plastic seats even in the late innings. The game was pretty inconsequential: The Red Sox have been sitting comfortably in last place virtually all season, and the Yankees are watching their wild card hopes slowly fade as September runs out.

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what I’m about to say might seem blasphemous: I’m a big Derek Jeter Fan.

Midfielder Henos Musie ’16 (No. 12) scored in the first minute of Yale’s loss to Iona last night.

M. soccer From page 12 game midway through the first half. The senior striker dashed down the left wing and carried the ball through traffic along the goal line, cutting inside to bury a shot behind Yale goalkeeper Ryan Simpson ’17 that silenced the Bulldog crowd.

This proved the first of Iona’s aggressive explosions into Yale’s defensive third.

“I thought defensively we were good. But we had a tough time containing number 10 [Maganto] and the rest of their attack,” said forward Mitch Wagner ’16.

In the 2nd half, Yale began to

respond more on offense with Albrecht leading a number of offensive forays inside the Iona box. But each attack was snuffed out due to a poorly timed pass, swift Gael defensive pressure or a giveaway.

Yale’s freshmen proved to be bright spots for the Elis in the second 45, with forward Teddy Mauze ’18 playing an integral part in a number of attacking build-ups and midfielder Josh Totte ’18 coming in to contribute some passing acumen.

Despite the efforts of the Elis’ youth corps, the Gaels completed their comeback in the 64th minute when John-Luke Ferrandino

buried a left footed strike inside Yale’s net. The play came about after another Bulldog giveaway.

Yale turned the ball over just outside the box, and Iona’s Alex Ramos served up Ferrandino with a deftly executed back heel pass.

“I think Iona’s movement was good. They really gave us a lot of problems and exposed some things that’ll be helpful for us [to fix],” Tompkins said.

Ultimately, this ball movement contributed to Yale’s end, as the pace of Iona’s midfielders often left Bulldog defenders sprinting back to stop attackers in the open field. On a number

Quarterbacks should beware Egu ’17 egu From page 12 college game as a positive, saying that the team has benefitted from having that attitude.

In his freshman campaign, Egu made his presence felt as a pass rusher, leading the team with three sacks and three forced fumbles to go with 26 tackles. His best performance to date came in Yale’s 38–23 victory over Cornell, when Egu registered a career-best five total tackles, a sack and a forced fumble in just the second game of his college career.

One of Egu’s best attributes is his speed. At 6’4” and 247 pounds, Egu fits the profile of an edge rusher perfectly.

“He’s big and fast,” Ries said. “[It’s] a very rare combination among any football player, much less in the Ivy League. When he gets pads on, he looks bigger and faster than he does without pads, which is rare.”

Fellow defensive lineman Jeff Schmittgens ’15 agreed, saying that Egu’s speed allows him to play just about any position in the front seven. He added that Egu is a threat to get multiple sacks in every game.

“He is so fast and so big … . He makes opportunities for himself to make big plays,” Schmittgens said. “But [he] does so in a way that helps open up space for the rest of us, too.”

Egu was far from the only freshman playing meaningful defensive snaps last year.

Run-stuffing defensive tackle Copache Tyler ’17 started every game and recorded 33 tackles, including two for a loss. In the secondary, defensive backs Foyesade Oluokun ’17, Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 and Ries combined for 143 tackles and 13 pass breakups.

According to Ries, having that many freshmen playing helped them develop camaraderie as a unit.

“We feel like we’re a family on the team,” Ries said. “There’s something to be said for playing alongside your friends and your family, and I think that’s what we’re becoming every day that we practice.”

Egu said his goals for this season are simple: to win an Ivy League championship and to be both a playmaker and a leader on defense.

But Schmittgens said he has even higher expectations for Egu. With Egu’s combination of speed, size and a knack for finding the quarterback, Schmittgens said he believes Egu has the potential to be one of the best defensive players in the country.

“With a heightened role this year, and even increasingly as he gets older, I can see him being first-team all-Ivy, and even all-American, for multiple seasons,” Schmittgens said.

The Elis kick off their season on Sep. 20 against Lehigh at the Yale Bowl. Kickoff is at 1:00 p.m.

Contact Grant Bronsdon at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

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Linebacker Victor Egu ’17 forced three fumbles in 2013 to pace the Elis.

of occasions, this left the Gaels with plenty of space to launch off a shot, which they did 18 times, compared to Yale’s 4. The Elis simply could not create enough opportunities offensively, and the squad struggled to finish when it did.

“I thought we played a good team,” Musie said. “It was a good learning experience, even though we’re not happy about the result.

We can improve and we’re looking forward to the next game.”

The Elis play their next match on Friday, Sep. 12 at Fairfield.

Contact Marc Cugnon at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

The Sox raced out to an early lead in the first and continued to pile on the runs with two home runs in the third.

Jeter, and most of the Yankees, looked rather pathetic in the first few innings. Jeter came to the plate twice to a roaring home crowd, and was only able to muster two weak ground outs to the shortstop.

In the bottom of the fifth, the Yankees showed some signs of life. They loaded the bases and then the Red Sox staff walked in one run. With the bases still loaded and two outs in the inning, Jeter came to the plate to the exuberant cheers of the hometown fans.

If real life worked like the movies, Jeter would have pointed to the left field fence, dug his spikes into the box, and blasted a long home run.

He would have been the quintessential hero like he has been so many times in his storied career.

Real life isn’t usually like the movies, but sometimes it can get close. Jeter stared down the pitcher, settled into the box, and rolled over an outside pitch to produce another weak ground ball to the Red Sox shortstop. The crowd let out a collective groan, dismayed by the consistent mediocrity that Jeter has produced this year.

And yet, on one of the hottest nights of the summer, in a game that didn’t really matter, the Yankees’ forty year old captain hustled his way to first, beating out the infield grounder and keeping the inning alive.

The Red Sox went on to win the game easily, but that’s not what I will remember. What I’ll remember is watching a man who has dedicated himself professionally to a game for two decades play it the right way.

Jeter has given Yankees’ fans and baseball fans at large many of these moments, both small and large, over the course of his 20-year career. But that is not all: Jeter has also made enemies into fans, rivals into believers. When he hangs up his cleats come October, baseball will have lost something great. Number two will never look the same.

Sarah Onorato is a senior in Silliman College. Contact him at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .

Yale tops Sacred Heart

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Captain Meredith Speck ’15 (No. 25) assisted on the Bulldogs’ 13th minute goal last night. w. soccer From page 12 in Sacred Heart’s favor. Junior forward Alexis Parlato ripped a shot only thirty seconds into the game, but she was stopped

by Yale goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15. A minute later, Wilcox made another save, this time from Sacred Heart’s Marissa Christy.

Both sides received fouls before Yale finally had the opportunity to score. Eli captain Meredith Speck ’15 took at shot at 11:12, but Pioneer goalkeeper Talia Schwartz stopped the ball. Sacred Heart made another attempt at a goal but missed wide, giving Yale the chance to take the ball back down the field. After an assist from Speck, Coxe managed to sail the ball into the net at 12:52 into the game.

“We focused on our shape starting with our offensive line,” forward Paula Hagopian ’16 said.

For the rest of the first half, the ball went up and down the field evenly with both Wilcox and Schwartz making multiple saves.

Sacred Heart ended the half with three shots in a row, one saved by

Wilcox and the other two missing the goal.

After halftime, Yale put in substitutes, including goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 and defender Katie Fletcher ’17. Yale’s defense was tested quickly, as Sacred Heart took four shots in the first eight minutes of the second half, compared to only one shot by Yale. After a Sacred Heart substitution, a foul on Yale allowed Pioneer midfielder Kristin Verrette to score on a penalty kick at 62:17, knotting the contest at one.

After the goal, Ames made two more saves off of corner kicks.

At 73:31, Bulldog starter Sarah McCauley ’18 received a yellow card, the first of the game. Six minutes later, Coxe subbed in for Gavin, a critical decision for Yale just a few minutes from the end of the game.

Yet another save by Ames led to two Sacred Heart fouls and a shot attempt by Bulldog forward Ally Grossman ’16 with only three and a half minutes left in the game.

The back and forth finally led to a major Pioneer blunder.

A third Sacred Heart foul gave Coxe a penalty kick, which she converted at 88:26, her second goal in the game and the season.

Sacred Heart had no opportunity to battle back, sealing the win for the Elis.

The Bulldogs defense was tested heavily throughout the game, as the Elis knew it would be from the start.

“With the help of our two new assistant coaches, our team as a whole began working on defensive strategy in early practices on all parts of the field,” Hagopian said.

The change of focus to defense proved to be the determining factor in the game. Gavin noted that the Bulldog defense, historically unorganized, had spent a significant amount of time practicing its shape and holding players responsible for their positions.

The Bulldogs take on Western Kentucky this Friday at Reese Stadium to begin the Yale Classic.

Play starts at 7:30 p.m.

Contact Sydney Glover at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

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wednesday, september 10 7:30 p.m. “Thook.” A play presented by the Indian Ensemble of Bangalore. “Thook” is a theatrical exposition of motifs related to food security, international trade of food and hunger. Tickets are $25 general admission and $20 for seniors and students, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Hall (1156 Chapel St.), Iseman Theater.

12:30 p.m. Vinyl Cutting Demo. An introduction on how to use the DMCA vinyl cutter and how to transfer images to a variety of surfaces. Contact ken.lovell@yale.edu for details. Digital Center for the Media Arts, Room 104 (149 York St.).

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thursday, september 11 11:00 a.m. Exhibition Tour: Bruce Davidson/Paul Caponigro: Two American Photographers in Britain and Ireland. Come enjoy a tour led by a docent of this special exhibition, which pairs for the first time works by Paul Caponigro and Bruce Davidson, two of the most distinguished photographers of their generation.

Please meet in the Entrance Court. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

6:00 p.m. Ballet Folklorico! Beginner Practice. Interested in learning more about the dances and culture of Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Yale? Join beginner practice! Morse College, Morse/ Stiles Studio (302 York St.).

friday, september 12 2:30 a.m. History of the Book Symposium: Time and the Book. Examines intersections of time and the book, exploring the relationships of time and materiality in the life of the book.

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

7:00 PM “DaMNation” Screening. An official screening of the award-winning Patagonia documentary about dams. Sponsored by the Environmental Film Festival at Yale, Environmental Studies, Yale Club Geo, Yale Outdoors and Films at the Whitney. Free Admission. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

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Arts & culture Installation to feature dance on film

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Stages and screens on Cross Campus will be a part of “Slow Dancing,” an exhibition cosponsored by the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and the International Festival of Arts & Ideas and Site Projects New Haven.

By rohan naik contributing reporter The stage that was assembled on Cross Campus over the past several days will host a dance installation beginning this Wednesday.

The exhibition, titled “Slow Dancing,” is a piece by former visiting faculty member David Michalek and is being sponsored

by Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music.

It will feature a series of 52 slowmotion films — approximately ten minutes each — portraying dancers from all over the world. Different films will be shown on three big screens simultaneously each night of the exhibit, allowing the audience to compare the dancers’

different techniques. The exhibit has previously been staged at the Paris Opera Ballet and the Venice Biennale.

Director of the Institute of Sacred Music Martin D. Jean explained that the show uses computers to randomly select and display different films, adding that the movies will not even begin at the same time.

“This work plays with time because you’re looking at a 5 second dance movement with a beginning, middle, and end over a period [of] 10 minutes in absolute perfect digital clarity,” Jean said. “There’s no ambiguity of the image, and you have a sense of utter reality but set in a pace that is completely fictitious.”

Jean and the Institute of Sacred Music had been looking to put on Michalek’s exhibit for almost three years, Jean noted, emphasizing the artist’s strong connection to Yale.

Michalek has had two exhibits at Yale in the past.

Melissa Maier, manager of external relations and publications at the ISM, said that even though the exhibit is not religious in nature, Michalek himself has a profound relationship with the spiritual. Jean noted that the artist had at one point considered priesthood as a vocation. Maier explained that the ISM is an interdisciplinary graduate center and is concerned with all arts, adding that the institute does not require its exhibits to have an apparent

religious tone.

There’s no ambiguity of the image, and you have a sense of utter reality but set in a pace that is completely fictitious.

Martin D. Jean Director, Institute of Sacred Music Jean said that the exhibition also aims to honor the center’s fortieth anniversary, which the ISM marked last year. The Insti-

tute meant to stage the show last semester, Jean explained, but was unable to due to logistical challenges. Jean explained that he wanted to stage an exhibit that would lead members of the Yale community to venture outside and view a show in an unconventional space. “[We wanted to do] something that would get us out of the chapels, the concert halls, classrooms … and this seemed to be a fitting, gracious exhibition to mount,” Jean said.

But several students interviewed expressed mixed emotions about the exhibition. Many said they were confused about the construction efforts on Cross Campus, adding that they did not

know what was taking place.

Regina Chan ’15 said she had passed the stage but was not aware of the event, and wondered whether the ISM had done enough publicity to attract students. Rohan Goswami ’15 said he had never heard of the ISM before. Both Chan and Goswami said they might attend the event in passing, but that they will not go out of their way to view the exhibit.

The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and International Festival of Arts & Ideas and Site Projects New Haven.

Contact rohan naik at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

YSD directors stage classics in novel ways By eric xiao staff reporter This season, three Yale School of Drama students are looking to conclude their degrees with new interpretations of classical works.

As part of the Drama School’s 2014-’15 season, Jessica Holt DRA ’15, Sara Holdren ’08 DRA ’15 and Andras Viski DRA ’15 are directing productions of “The Seagull” by Anton Chekhov, Edward Kemp’s stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” and “Don Juan” by Moliere, respectively.

Holt, Holdren and Viski are the three School of Drama students graduating from the

school’s directing program in 2015, and staging the productions is a requirement of their department. These performances will mark the end of a roughly yearlong process during which the directors read dozens of plays before deciding on the ones they wanted to stage for their thesis productions. Directing Department chair Liz Diamond said this season’s shows all reflect a heightened sense of urgency for exploring modern-day social and political issues.

“For each of the directors, the play reflects themes that are central to their contemporary concerns about the world,” Diamond said.

Holt said she thinks that while

“The Seagull” is set in the 1890s, the characters’ obsession with enriching their lives materially and emotionally has striking parallels with today’s society. Given the advent of social media and other technologies, Holt explained, there are many who still exhibit the narcissistic desires that Chekhov’s characters did.

Viski described his show’s titular character Don Juan as a revolutionary thinker who exposed the moral hypocrisy of the Christian order during his time. He said that he chose to propose the play as his thesis production because he was interested in exploring the connection between Don Juan’s free-thinking ideology and mod-

ern consumerist culture.

While “The Seagull” was written in 1895 and “The Master and Margarita” was written in 1940, Moliere’s “Don Juan” is nearly four centuries old. For his production, Viski is cowriting an adaptation of the play with Brendan Pelsue DRA ’16 and Samantha Lazar DRA ’15. Lazar said that the team is creating the adaptation with the aim of making the play appear more relevant to modern audiences, noting that several characters and scenes are so unique to 17th-century France that audience members might feel they are watching a historical play instead of one whose themes are pertinent to their lives.

Diamond said that a defin-

ing feature of the Drama School’s thesis productions is their degree of technical complexity. She explained that the productions’ sizable budgets, in combination with the school’s resources, allow directors to create highly elaborate designs for their shows. Diamond added that Drama School faculty strongly encourage their student directors to stage productions that are artistically and technically ambitious for all ensemble members, not just the directors themselves. These directors’ projects have an enormous impact on all drama students, she noted.

All three directors said they hope to incorporate a wide variety of technical effects into their

productions. Holdren said that “The Master and Margarita,” whose setting alternates between 20th-century Russia and the Jerusalem of 2000 years ago, contains scenes set in 19 different places, requiring complex technical design. The play also features many supernatural elements such as talking animals and the undead, Holdren noted. Holt said her production will feature plenty of music, as well as live video feeds to display enlarged images of the characters.

The first thesis production of the season, “The Master and Margarita,” will open on Oct. 21.

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

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Jessica Holt DRA ’15, Sara Holdren ’08 DRA ’15 and Andras Viski DRA ’15 will be directing classic works with their own personal touch as a part of the Yale School of Drama’s directing program.

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New concentration to focus on practical filmmaking By sara jones staff reporter A new concentration within the undergraduate art major offers students a formalized way to study film production.

Introduced this academic year, the filmmaking concentration will add a fifth area of specialty to the art major’s existing four — graphic design, painting and printmaking, photography and sculpture.

The new track’s program of study will draw on existing course offerings from the School of Art and the undergraduate Film Studies Department. Students who choose to pursue the concentration will be required to fulfill the art major’s typical prerequisites, though they will also have the opportunity to substitute courses in the history of film for the usual art history requirement. Dean of the School of Art Rob Storr said the new concentration is an attempt to offer students a curricular track that will integrate the general study of visual arts with the more specialized study of film production.

“Rather than treating film as a separate category outside of the visual arts generally, we’d like to see it taught in the School [of Art], and have it possible for students to major in film with the same level of

seriousness that they could with any other discipline,” Storr said.

John MacKay, chair of the Film Studies Department, said he thinks students should view the filmmaking concentration as an additional track through which they may pursue their interests in film production. MacKay noted that there has been — and will continue to be — a “practice”-oriented track within the Film Studies major itself, though he added that the new concentration will provide an outlet for those particularly interested in making film within the context of broader visual practice.

[The filmmaking concentration] will provide a clearer course for students so they’re not tempted by competing options.

Robert Storr Dean, Yale School of Art MacKay said he thinks that while the Film Studies major

tries to give students the tools for becoming filmmakers, Yale displays a certain resistance towards stressing a rigid, preprofessional course of study for undergraduates, in keeping with its liberal arts values. He added that the major prepares students for the creative practice of filmmaking by exposing them not only to film production, but also to the history of filmmaking and film theory. MacKay stressed the overlap between the filmmaking concentration and the film studies major, but noted that the major still requires a much higher number of courses in the history, theory and analysis of film in addition to classes focusing on film production.

Film studies professor Jonathan Andrews said that he believes filmmaking is the “ultimate” liberal arts course, as it incorporates fields like psychology, theater, literature, aesthetics, history and even physics.

Professor J.D. Connor, the director of undergraduate studies for the Film Studies Department, explained that over the past year professors from the School of Art and the film studies program have been reexamining undergraduates’ options for studying film. Taking into consideration their shared faculty, courses and students, the two programs conceived the film-

making concentration as a way to share responsibility for the practical instruction of students, Connor noted.

“Before, students were trying to patch together a program out of offerings that were not necessarily coordinated — some things in the School of Art, some things

in the film studies program — and they were having a hard time choosing,” Storr explained. “[The filmmaking concentration] will provide a clearer course for students so they’re not tempted by competing options. Now, they have one coherent option that’s been negotiated.”

Storr emphasized his commitment to a diverse concentration that will attract students working in a variety of disciplines within the context of filmmaking.

The undergraduate film studies major draws on courses from departments such as French, German, theater studies and the

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The art major is adding filmmaking as a fifth concentration, drawing classes from various departments.

Slifka exhibit reflects on ethnic features By emma platoff staff reporter The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale’s first exhibit of the semester aims to celebrate ethnic features that have historically been portrayed in a negative light.

“Features in Focus,” an exhibit

by Anna Meixler ’16, showcases roughly 100 black and white photographs of African-American and Jewish students’ eyes, hair, noses and lips. It will open in the Slifka Center’s Allan and Leah Rabinowitz Gallery on Wednesday. In the exhibit wall text Meixler wrote that the show will attempt to “present an objective record to counter a cruel, licentious visual history.”

“I didn’t want to obscure or abstract their features in any way,” Meixler said in an email. “I thought the use of black and white photos was a more direct way to transmit visual information.”

Meixler said the exhibit began as a final project for “American Artists and the African American Book,” an American Studies class she took last semester.

She was intrigued by the caricatured, propagandist portrayals of African Americans and Jews, she said, and has attempted to capture facial features that have often been exaggerated in racist propaganda.

She noted that although her work usually tends towards the disci-

plines of drawing and painting, she chose to use photography for this work in order to ensure that the representations are entirely authentic, citing photographer Lorna Simpson’s “Details” as an influence.

The exhibit’s three curators — Caroline Sydney ’16, Rebecca Levinsky ’15, and Danny Roza ’15, a Production and Design editor for the News — organized the show as part of their Blanksteen fellowships, which they all received for the summer of 2013. The fellowship enables Yale students to do curatorial work at the Jewish Museum in New York City during the summer and culminates with the fellows curating an exhibit at Slifka.

Levinsky, a former Production and Design editor for the News, noted that the exhibit is meant to spark a dialogue about the way people look at each other.

“We hope it will get people thinking about the ethics of some of these portrayals and how we consider people in our society,” she said.

Levinsky, said she thinks the exhibit’s location will also contribute to the growing dialogue, since Slifka is known as a safe place where it is acceptable to have conversations about sensitive subjects such as race.

While putting her show together, Meixler said she photographed 36 African-American and

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The Joseph Slifka Center’s first exhibit, “Features in Focus” by Anna Meixler ’16, will remain on display starting Wednesday until mid-October.

Jewish students who she thought would be interested in participating. Sydney, one of the curators and an opinion columnist for the News, was also photographed for the exhibition.

“It makes you think about your identity,” she said “It does make me feel aware of what people see

when they see me in these little details.”

Following the tradition of Slifka’s past student-curated exhibits, “Features in Focus” will include an interactive element to further engage viewers in the dialogue the images aim to raise. On the day of the opening, exhibit attendees

will have the opportunity to take pictures of their own features on Polaroid cameras provided by the curators. These photos will then be put up on a wall in the gallery.

“Everyone’s features have messages and implications and identity attached to them,” Sydney said. “Giving people the opportu-

nity to include themselves in this presentation is part of what we want to do with the show.”

“Features in Focus” will remain on display in the Slifka Center until mid-October.

Contact emma platoff at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

Q&A with YCBA curator Martina Droth By sara jones staff reporter “Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 18371901” opens this Thursday at the Yale Center for British Art. The News sat down with Martina Droth, associate director of research and curator of sculpture at the Center as well as one of the exhibit’s curators, to discuss the exhibit and some of the themes it explores. us a little bit about QTell “Sculpture Victorious.”

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There never has been an exhibition on [sculpture in Victorian Britain] before and sculpture really has been kind of overlooked and ‘written out’ of the history of the Victorian period, which is kind of surprising given how much interest there is in the period and in other aspects of Victorian arts — the Pre-Raphaelites, for instance, have made a huge splash in exhibitions. So we wanted to make an exhibition that reasserts the place of sculpture in the Victorian period, and demonstrates that in order to understand the Victorians — a very recent past that has shaped our modern

world — and in order to really understand it, we need to look at the sculpture, and recognize what an important part it played in Victorian culture. chosen to organize the QYou’ve exhibit into various thematic

categories. Does any one of these categories stand out more than the others?

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No, I don’t think one category is more important than the others. Obviously, one has to be selective in the story one wants to tell, and what we wanted to do — that perhaps is different to how some stories of Victorian sculpture have been written — was to look not so much chronologically as at stylistic developments in sculpture … really to understand what were some of the support structures that allowed sculpture to flourish and blossom in the way that it did, in order to understand why it became the prominent form of representation that it became for the Victorians. And there are just certain themes that seem to speak for the whole period, [such as] preoccupation with craft.

the sculptural QAlongside objects themselves the exhibit

showcases academic studies, ceramics and other objects. Was this incorporation of other mediums into ‘Sculpture Victorious’ always your intention, or something that just evolved naturally as you were selecting objects for the exhibition?

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I think a little bit of both, really. I think the convention in art history is to make compartments of objects … But if one thinks of sculpture as a profession, you can’t separate silverwork or ceramic-work from bronzes and marbles because it’s the same artists making these things. And ceramic firms always had major artists working for them; you know, the famous example is Rodin, who worked for Sèvres, so I think our first sort of approach was really to think about how the objects had historically functioned in the culture — so, really, to get away from our art historical taxonomies and instead to think about the objects historically as much as possible. So, at the time, these objects contributed to the way in which sculpture was intended to function and the purpose it was intended to serve. So I think our

approach was to try and almost take a ‘fresh look’ and step out of our learned art historical taxonomies, and really take on board ‘how did these objects function at the time?’” anything in particuQIslarthere that you hope visitors take away from this exhibit?

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Because it’s been such an undervalued subject and because it’s had such little exposure, we did want people to feel excited about the subject, to walk in and think ‘oh, I never thought that these objects formed part of the culture of the Victorians and that sculpture had this prominent role.’ So I’m hoping it will, in some ways, serve as an introduction to the subject. I hope it will excite people and make them want to know more. But I guess our key theme is that we really need to take account of sculpture in order to understand the period, and the history of the Victorian period … so it’s not just about putting lots of beautiful objects together and getting people excited about them, but there’s a reason for that, because we should really understand and realize that this is an important part of the history. So I guess those things kind

of work in tandem. And what I’m really excited about — I come from England, and I’ve sort of known a number of these objects for some time — and you have to really travel to see them. None of the objects that have come to us from overseas [have] been in this country [before.] And in many, many cases, they’ve never been seen by a wider public, even in England. So I think it’s a great opportunity just to get to know the material, which is hard to find and hard to see. the objects on display, QAmong do you have a favorite?

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I love [the] bust of Queen Victoria. I love it for curatorial reasons, as well as an object, because it’s not a bust of a beautiful woman and maybe it sort of defies the conventions…we have so many portrait busts here, but we have nothing like this.

And I think it makes this message that this woman is a towering presence that is looking down upon her subjects. In a way, that’s what her sculptural representations were about … to — whether you liked it or not — impose this powerful, humongous presence upon all parts of the empire; to make sure that

her subjects knew ‘here is Queen and Empress’ and the ‘power that be.’ I love the juxtaposition of the ‘Greek Slave’ and the ‘American Slave’ statues. I absolutely wanted the American Slave in the show for our American audiences, who know this object so well as an icon of American sculpture, to see it re-contexualized, and to realize that the history of this extraordinary object begins in London, in 1851. It has this sort of very prominent place in the histories of American art and culture, but it also has a history that begins in Britain. And the sculptor John Bell made another work, [also titled ‘The American Slave,’] — directly in response to Hiram Powers’ statue — as a critique of this American artist depicting a white woman and effectively not addressing the problem of American slavery, by making this very stark depiction of an African woman about to be transported to America as a slave. So I hope that that’s meaningful to our audiences and reopens the way we think about objects that we might be very used to thinking about in particular way.”

Contact sara jones at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .

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Tyler Lu ’17 men’s tennis Lu, who earned an All-Ivy first team selection during his freshman season, earned a spot in this season’s 2014 Saint Francis Health System ITA AllAmerican Championships. The Irvine, Calif. native made the tournament due to his preseason No. 84 ranking.

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Brandon Gade women’s basketball Gade was named as an assistant coach for the women’s basketball team yesterday. The Wallingford, Conn. native spent the last two years as an assistant coach for Albertus Magnus’s women’s basketball team.

MLB Baltimore 4 Boston 1

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Men’s soccer falls to Iona

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Jeter transcends rivalry

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By Marc Cugnon Staff Reporter

I have always been, and will always be, a diehard Red Sox fan. I stayed up past my bedtime to watch all seven American League Championship Series games versus the Yankees in 2004. I have had nightmares about Aaron Boone. I was there when the Sox clinched the pennant last October. And, above all, I have developed a healthy hatred for pinstripes.

Given all of this, what I’m about to say might seem blasphemous: I’m a big Derek Jeter fan. Jeter is a man who for so many years has captained my rival team, has been responsible for heartbreak on more than one occasion and yet has still managed to get me on his side.

And I’m not the only one. To true baseball fans, my confession is the opposite of blasphemy. It’s hard to respect the game and not respect a player like Derek Jeter.

Last week, I had the chance to go to Yankee Stadium for the first time to see

It took Yale just under a minute to open up the scoring in a primetime clash last night against Iona College. Moments after the starting whistle sounded, Yale midfielder Henos Musie ’16 stole an errant Gaels pass and used his size and strength to advance up the field before eventually striking home a quick one-two pass from midfielder Henry Albrecht ’17.

This attacking outburst proved to be Yale’s last, however, as the Bulldogs fell 2–1 at Reese Stadium, blowing an early lead as the offense took its foot off the gas.

“Sometimes you can score too early,” head coach Brian Tompkins said. “There are lessons to be learned here.”

Yale’s defeat was a story of missed opportunities. The Bulldogs failed to capitalize on the counterattack and were plagued with what Tompkins called “cheap giveaways.” Iona dominated the shooting battle early, with forwards Ignacio Maganto and Michael Holzer terrorizing Yale’s back four by taking advantage of any space given to launch quick strikes.

It was Maganto who ultimately brought the Gaels back into the

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Midfielder Henry Albrecht ’17 (No. 14) assisted on Yale’s first-minute goal last night.

Coxe scores two in Eli win over Sacred Heart

By Sydney Glover Staff Reporter The Yale women’s soccer team won its second straight game to start the season, this time led by Frannie Coxe ’15, who scored both goals last night against Sacred Heart.

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Those goals were all that Yale needed in Fairfield as the Bulldogs captured a 2–1 victory.

Heading into the game, the Elis knew that the pressure would be on after defeating Quinnipiac last Friday in their season opener.

“Sacred Heart and Quinnipiac are both pretty similar in that they are both in-state rival games, so they’re a lot more spirited than our other out-of-league games,” forward Melissa Gavin ’15 said.

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Frannie Coxe ’15 (No. 2) scored two goals in the Elis’ victory over Sacred Heart last night.

Elis hope to emerge Victor-ious in 2014

By GRANT BRONSDON Staff Reporter Before strapping on pads and taking the gridiron as an Eli, defensive end Victor Egu ’17 was known to Yale football fans as a heralded recruit. But now that he’s entering his sophomore season, he is on track to be known for his play at the Yale Bowl, rather than his high-profile status before he ever set foot inside it.

In January 2013, Egu made waves by reneging on his verbal commitment to the Univer-

sity of California, Berkeley and pledging to Yale instead. ESPN reported that he also held offers from Oregon and Notre Dame.

Egu immediately became head coach Tony Reno’s highest-profile recruit, as well as the highest-ranked Ivy League recruit since Harvard snagged four-star prospect Blake Barker in 2010, according to ESPN. He had the highest recruit grade of any Yale player on the site, dating back to 2006. However, Egu said that the pressure never gets to him.

“Being a top recruit wasn’t

even on my mind,” Egu said. “[My mentality] was just to work hard and good things will happen.”

Avid high school football fans might recognize Egu’s alma mater, De La Salle High School, as the subject of a recent movie, “When the Game Stands Tall.”

The movie focused on the Concord, California school’s record 151–game winning streak that spanned from 1992–2004.

Although that run was before his time, the Spartans won four state championships during Egu’s tenure with the program.

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Egu admitted that it was not easy to transition from such a successful high school program to the Ivy League.

“At first, it was a huge shock,” Egu said. “In my high school career, I really never lost a game … . It definitely took me a while, I’m not going to lie, but I feel comfortable now and we can only go up from here.”

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Linebacker Victor Egu ’17 (No. 10) led the Bulldogs with three sacks last season.

goals scored by frannie Coxe ’15 in Yale’s 2–1 win over Sacred Heart yesterday. The senior midfielder/forward notched a brace, one from 18 yards out and another on a penalty, and that was all the offense the Bulldogs would need to start the year 2–0.