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CROSS CAMPUS Solemn silence. Today marks

the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, which took the lives of thousands, 11 Yale alumni among them.

“These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve,” thenPresident George W. Bush ’68 said, facing a grieving nation.

A national moment of silence will be observed as part of the University’s official memorial service on Beinecke Plaza at 8:30 a.m.

Free for all. Or all for free — however you spin it, there’s a lot up for grabs at this evening’s College Night on Broadway. Among the local vendors offering things sanscharge are Orangeside Donuts, Insomnia Cookies and Ashley’s Ice Cream. Throw in the 20 percent shopping discounts, raffle prizes and live music, and we can’t imagine why anyone would plan to spend tonight on High or Edgewood.

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FAS Senate meets for first time

BY LARRY MILSTEIN AND EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTERS After nearly two years of planning and preparation, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate held its first official session Thursday evening, marking a historic step for faculty governance at the University.

The new representative body,

which is composed of 22 senators from across all divisions, met in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall yesterday to prepare for its first official year in operation and begin outlining key issues to address.

According to Beverly Gage, the director of undergraduate studies in History and recently elected senate chair, roughly two-thirds of the two-hour meeting was devoted

to open discussion. The senators then voted to establish five committees, some of which were mandated by the fall 2014 FAS implementation report and others which were of their own design.

One committee will address elections and nominations for the senate itself, and another will serve SEE FAS SENATE PAGE 4

It’s a trap! To avoid falling in, read Chief Information Security Officer Rich Mikelinich’s campuswide email, which issued a stark warning on the dangers of phishing. Welcome to the digital age, where the Yale Police Department isn’t the only group teaching us about staying safe.

And he can catch. Yesterday’s

Los Angeles Times included a feature article on Garrett White — a Yale football commit from Huntington Beach, California — and his ability to maintain a 4.0 grade point average and play the piano, all while excelling on the gridiron. Welcome to Yale, where everyone was a really big deal in high school.

It’s all relative. After living as jocks among nerds during their college years, 11 former Ancient Eight football players will experience some role reversal as the National Football League’s resident geeks. A Thursday press release from the Ivy League profiled each of them, previewing the season ahead.

Where would we be without Tyler Varga ’15?

The first coming. Beta Upsilon

Chi, the fraternity also known as “Brothers Under Christ,” now occupies a house at 279 Crown St. On Saturday, the new residence makes its debut with a housewarming party.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1958 The University announces a $150 tuition increase to bring the allinclusive undergraduate cost to $2,300, with additional fees supporting increased faculty and enhanced facilities.

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Three years after its debut as Singapore’s first liberal arts institution, Yale-NUS has a campus to call its own.

Having spent its first two years in buildings belonging to the National University of Singapore, Yale-NUS began moving into its newly constructed spaces in May. Following the completion of one of Yale-NUS’ three residential colleges, Cendana, just before freshman move-in in July, only a few projects remain in the campus’s long-awaited completion. Now,

With donation, law school to open Islamic law center

In misconduct cases, advisors to even the field

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Yale-NUS’s permanent campus was completed this year, five months behind schedule. students and faculty members hope that the university’s new signature space will help solidify the college’s identity.

“In short we have space to do many of the things we have been hoping to do for the last two years,” said Saga Residential College Rector Sarah Weiss. “In an interesting way, creating new spaces and differentiating the three residential colleges in real buildings has simultaneously enhanced residential college identity and enhanced our sense of belonging to YaleNUS. Our presence is now undeniable and our goals are even clearer.”

The campus’s completion,

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which was five months behind schedule, was delayed due to the region’s monsoon season as well as a dengue outbreak in Singapore’s University Town, which contains NUS and Yale-NUS. But Roland Betts, a member of the Yale-NUS Governing Board and chairman of the board’s infrastructure subcommittee, said that since construction projects are generally hard to complete on schedule, he is not disappointed with the timing of Yale-NUS’ completion.

Each of the three residential colleges — Cendana, Saga and Elm —

Yale-NUS settles into new home

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With dean set to depart, Architecture School looks to the future.

Navigating a complaint of sexual misconduct on a college campus is an inherently difficult task: It often involves conflicting accounts, high emotions and little evidence.

Partially due to the complex rules and regulations that govern University processes for hearing such complaints, Yale encourages both complainants and respondents in misconduct hearings to retain an advisor for personal as well as logistical support.

But, according to a report last spring by the Yale College Council and Yale Women’s Center, these advisors may not always be effective. Respondents in particular, the report’s authors said, may have trouble finding a capable advisor, as their traditional choices — their residential college deans — may not have expertise in misconduct proceedings or could even turn down their request for advice if they perceive a conflict of interest, such as if both parties are in the same college. Complainants, by contrast, have ready access to knowledgeable advisors at the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education Center.

In response to the YCC and Women’s Center report, the University’s Title IX Steering Committee promised in April to create a joint pool of advisors for both complainants and respondents. The pool, which will be finalized this fall, will be available to anybody who participates in a formal hearing through the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, and all potential advisors will be trained in Yale’s sexual misconduct policies and UWC procedure, said UWC chair and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor David Post.

“Because of the sensitive nature of the hearing, having to ask multiple people to be your advisor can be difficult, so a designated pool of advisors that are available to respondents too ensures that everyone will have someone who is willing to assist them through the process,” said Elizabeth Villarreal ’16, one of the report’s authors.

Knowledgeable advisors could be a key step in clarifying Yale’s oftentimes murky sexual misconduct procedures: The YCC and Women’s Center report found that almost half of a group of 75 students sur-

But wait — there’s more. The

party continues on Sunday, when Broadway Island opens up to a fleet of food trucks and artisan vendors. We’re not seeing the word “free” nearly as much for this one, but consider us sold on the promise of trinkets and treats.

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Wellness goes beyond clinical care

BY TYLER FOGGATT AND EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER Abdallah Kamel, chief executive of a banking and real estate company based in Saudi Arabia, donated $10 million to the Yale Law School to create a center for the study of Islamic Law and Civilization, YLS Dean Robert Post and University President Peter Salovey announced Thursday.

The center, named after the donor, will bring scholars of Islam to campus for lectures, seminar discussions, visiting professorships and fellowships. It comes three years after the beginning of a “very successful” lecture series at the law school, which Kamel also sponsored, according to Sterling professor and former Dean of Yale Law School Anthony Kronman.

Kronman, who will serve as one of the co-directors of the center, said the plan is to build up “layer by layer” over the next couple of years. The roster is already set for the continuation of the lecture series, and the center’s first resident fellow will arrive later this fall. The center will also provide support for research, and possibly even travel, Kronman said, adding that he hopes to bring in a visiting professor in the field of Islamic law within the next few years as well.

“We’re taking this step by step — it will require some time and a lot of thought to put a program this ambitious, this complex into motion,” Kronman said. “The hope is that by the end of this year, several major components of the program will be in place and others will follow in short order.”

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The Wellness Project aims to involve students, faculty and staff in promoting well-being the Yale community.

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS Just one day after Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin announced five new initiatives to promote mental health on campus, the Yale administration unveiled the Wellness Project, designed to address broader issues of well-being and self-care.

While the Yale community

has, in recent months, focused on the quality of clinical services at Mental Health and Counseling, administrators wanted to expand the conversation to include the quality of student well-being on campus, such as how students manage stress before they ever require professional care, said University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews, whose office

began working on the initiative over the summer.

In addition to the Wellness Project — an umbrella term for the committee of students, faculty and staff who will work on new and existing programs concerning student wellbeing — Goff-Crews’ office also launched a comprehensive wellness website on ThursSEE WELLNESS PAGE 6

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Where’s the carnitas?

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n early September 2012, one intrepid reporter for the Bullblog announced to the world that Chipotle was coming to New Haven. The arrival was met with great pomp and at least one Twitter account, which showcased a certain Yale student’s passion for tortilla-wrapped, fast-casual fare (looking at you, @DanAtChipotle). Chipotle’s more than 1,700 locations in college towns and urban centers cater to a demand for convenience and tastiness that people love, myself included.

A lot of Chipotle’s success comes from their offering up what they call “Food with Integrity.” They like to think they provide an alternative to the restaurants that give fast food a bad rap by sourcing foods from local producers, cooking with “natural,” whole ingredients and mandating that meat suppliers prioritize animal welfare.

In an industry where McDonald’s has been slumping after a year of declining profits, millennials have been flocking to companies that espouse sturdy values and social responsibility.

Chipotle’s vow last spring to completely rid their menu of genetically modified organisms has been one of the core tenets of their Food with Integrity mantra. To people in the know, this was a big deal; most corn and soy ingredients that are the building blocks of fast food in the United States are genetically modified. But this month, a class-action lawsuit out of the Bay Area challenged Chipotle’s claim to be “G-M-Over it,” characterizing the publicity campaign to nix GMOs as misleading. The suit argues that Chipotle still sells GMOs and that the restaurant uses its conscious-capitalism marketing to bilk people.

What does this suit tell us?

For one, it shows how terms like "GMO-free" and “natural” are hard to define. While the buffet of ingredients at every chain — the tortilla, the guac and everything in between — might not contain GMOs, the grain-based feed that your pig ate was likely GM, since nearly all animal feed is. That doesn’t necessarily make your carnitas GMO, though. And the high fructose corn syrup sweetening your Coke? That’s likely GM as well — legally speaking, beverages may be exempt from Chipotle’s claim that all food is GMO-free, so long as beverages are not considered “food.” If anything, the struggle to banish GMOs from Chipotle’s business activities is indicative of a food system dependent on genetically modified crops.

The case raises important questions about the ethics of food labeling and corporate social responsibility at large. By feeding GMOs to the pigs they raise, Chipotle is still complicit in an industrial food system that gives way to the gamut of envi-

ronmental problems that come with large-scale agriculture.

The altruistic aura surrounding the AUSTIN o m p a n y ’s BRYNIARSKI cimpeccable branding is Guns & worth interrogating, butter and this lawsuit is right to point out that Chipotle’s use of intentionally vague words like “natural” — which have no solid legal definition — can confuse consumers and make them think they’re eating something they aren’t.

But Chipotle also has a track record that does show at least a little integrity. This past summer, upon finding out that a pork supplier was not up to the more stringent standards that Chipotle demands of its producers, the restaurant stopped serving pork at a third of its restaurants nationwide. On its website, the restaurant explained, “When faced with a choice between serving conventional pork in some of our restaurants or nothing at all, we chose to not serve carnitas at all.” The idea that a supplier that failed to comply with Chipotle’s standards flew under the radar is concerning to be sure, but it’d be more concerning if Chipotle swept this under the rug. By not serving anything at all, Chipotle served a strong message.

Chipotle is a business (guac costs extra), and their social responsibility is part of their bottom line. The Food with Integrity campaign is first and foremost an ad campaign, but it’s also having effects on the way food companies operate.

Following the GMO-phaseout announcement, McDonald’s announced it would phase out sourcing animals raised with antibiotics. Flashy as the changes Chipotle make may be, they are still having a domino effect on the industry.

Perhaps a frivolous lawsuit in reaction to Chipotle’s claims, then, is misplaced. As far as food companies go, Chipotle is doing a better job than its competitors, and the sheer fact that they’re discussing these topics can provide case studies for competitors to emulate and for the public to critique. And at the end of the day, it’s important to remember that Chipotle is a business — the bottom line is the main concern. Animosity is better directed toward the flimsy rules and underlying structures that permit companies to administer unrestricted amounts of antibiotics or grow and sell GMOs in the first place.

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n May, Yale alumnus Stephen Schwarzman donated $150 million to the University for the purpose of turning Commons into Yale’s first-ever university-wide student center. With the coming addition of two new residential colleges and the transformation of the Hall of Graduate Studies into a center for the humanities, this center provides a new opportunity to bring together Yale’s everchanging student body.

In an email to the student body, Deans Lynn Cooley and Jonathan Holloway envisioned the Schwarzman Center as a “vibrant intellectual and social center where students across schools and disciplines share ideas, collaborate, and find inspiration” — a project that reinforces a sense of inclusion, diversity and community among Yale students. They asked us to “Imagine the Schwarzman Center.”

I can think of no better way for Yale to show its devotion to these three ideals than to set aside spaces in this new student hub to expand Yale’s current cultural centers.

Time and time again, University administrators have expressed a commitment to

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plicated by factors such as bad weather or nightfall.

For a student like me who lived in Silliman for two years, traveling to any of the cultural houses was always a hoop I had to jump through to experience some of the brightest moments of my time at Yale. It was difficult to motivate myself to make the long journey, especially if a meeting, program or event took place late in the evening. I can’t help but wonder how future students in the new residential colleges will feel when they find themselves facing an even longer trip. Providing a more central location on campus for the cultural centers would not only provide more space for the many students who make use of them, but could also encourage other students to experience a part of Yale that might have otherwise been considered too inconvenient because of the distance.

With the number of activities taking place in the cultural centers on a daily basis, the houses can get overbooked and overcrowded. A large number of groups are forced to fight over small spaces. The University could alleviate this problem by providing each of the cultural centers with their own spaces

for meetings, performances and social events in the new student center.

The Schwarzman Center presents Yale with a unique opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to the diversity and the prosperity of the cultural houses. Doing so would show that we value our cultural centers enough to put them in what aims to become the new heart of campus.

The University’s actions, regardless of intention, speak volumes. For some students, our cultural identity is central to how we navigate and experience our time at Yale. To see that identity physically relegated to small spaces on Yale’s perimeter does not foster a sense of welcome. Yale’s diversity goals must go beyond having a certain number of students of color on campus; the University must show that its students of color are a central and valuable part of the Yale community and that their experiences are central to the Yale experience. Bring the cultural houses to the Schwarzman Center. Bring Yale’s diversity to the center.

RYAN WILSON is a junior in Silliman College. Contact him at ryan.wilson@yale.edu .

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increasing diversity. In order to do this, they should make a greater effort to put diversity at the University’s center. This past year, following Yale’s external review of the cultural centers, the University promised to renovate and restructure the way the centers are run.

It is important that we remember that the solutions so far offered do not solve all of the centers’ problems, such as their overflowing student populations and their proximity to campus. As part of last spring’s Intercultural Photo Initiative, the Asian-American Cultural Center created “We’re overflowing” posters showing that Yale’s Asian-American population is nearly 21 times the capacity of their house. With Yale’s student body growing more diverse year after year, and the addition of two new colleges in 2017, the demand for cultural center space will only increase.

The cultural centers also face accessibility problems. Most of the buildings are located on or near Crown Street, considered by many students to be the outside edge of campus. Without direct shuttles, the trek to and from the cultural houses can be inconvenient, easily com-

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rom an outsider’s perspective, college students must often seem like coddled babies, afraid to face the world’s grit and realities. We received our fair share of criticism this summer — everyone from Bill Maher to Jonathan Chait weighed in on the issue.

I think this perception of the typical college student as a hypersensitive, politically-correct crusader is the result of disproportionate media attention to the extreme ends of the spectrum. It’s inaccurate and ultimately prevents discussion of what’s really needed on college campuses.

I’ll be upfront: I’m not particularly offended by Asian jokes.

Growing up, my friends and I would make fun of each other consistently, and since most of my friends were white, my race frequently came up. Maybe I should have been more bothered by it. But, in the context of humor, it didn’t rustle any feathers.

I don’t lecture my friends about microaggressions when they make those types of jokes.

Frankly, I just don’t really care and it’s not worth the trouble.

Oddly enough, I often feel more uncomfortable when I hear jokes made about other races than when I hear jokes made about Asians. In June,

Bill Maher pointed out the absurdity of a few white people at a comedy show taking offense at a stereotype LEO KIM of an Afric a n -A m e r i On us can woman, while African Americans in the audience weren’t offended. I understand why it could be confusing for me, an Asian American, to feel awkward or uncomfortable in that situation.

First thing’s first: I’m not sure that the word “offended” is the right term. I’m not “offended” when I hear a joke directed against another ethnic or social group, and I don’t think most people are. Rather, I think that most people in that situation feel awkward or slightly uncomfortable. They let out a forced chuckle followed by an attempt to change the conversation.

Why do we feel this way?

Some think it’s because we’re coddled and can’t take a joke.

But, considering the fact that I’m not bothered by Asian jokes, that can’t really be it.

I think I can attribute my discomfort around jokes about other groups, which I never

really experienced until college, to meeting new people. Growing up in white suburbia, my friend group wasn’t diverse, and none of us were ever offended by jokes.

But after coming to college, my friend group diversified immensely. I became close with a few people who, unlike my friends back home, would be upset by certain jokes about certain races, genders or sexual orientations due to their personal history — a history I was never exposed to in the Indiana suburbs.

So while I still wasn’t bothered by those jokes, I came to know people who justifiably were. As their friend, I wanted to help create a world in which they felt comfortable. The slight enjoyment I may have gotten out of racial jokes simply didn’t hold up to the desire to see my friends happy. After all, even if the African-American audience members Maher described weren’t upset, it’s very well possible that other people were.

I don’t really attribute my sense of awkwardness regarding certain jokes to broader notions of education, enlightenment or moral progress. Rather, it’s just the result of me feeling protective of my friends. When dealing with my friends, I’m more likely to err on the side of cau-

tion. That makes sense — I know my limits, but not always those of others.

So, the critics do have one thing right. We are protective.

But, I don’t think I’m protective of myself. I don’t care what I’m exposed to, or what jokes I hear.

I’m not shutting myself off from the world, nor am I hiding from things because they scare me.

I don’t have direct insight into exactly what would and wouldn’t bother my friends, so I tend to play it safe. As their friend, when I hear something that could potentially upset them, I naturally feel uncomfortable, not for my sake, but for theirs.

While I do think self-protectiveness can be harmful, and we should be open to new, potentially discomforting, ideas, I don’t really feel the same way about protectiveness of others.

Paradoxically, I think the protective attitude that has been criticized for limiting the diversity of ideas is the natural result of the diversity of those same college campuses. We protect our friends who are different from us because we care about them, not because we’re hiding.

LEO KIM is a junior in Trumbull College. His column usually runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .

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FRIDAY FORUM: WARD 1

WINSTON CHURCHILL “No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

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We get to vote

Off the sidelines

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he Yale administration does not want me to be your alder. And here’s why: I do not agree with their positions on a variety of issues.

I believe that there shouldn’t be one Yale experience for students who need to work to pay the student income contribution and a different one for those whose privilege enables them to focus on other things. I believe that Yale should act like a university, and not a corporation profiting at the expense of working people and through the destruction of our environment. I believe that Yale should not arrest its students for exercising their right to protest. I believe that Yale should support its students of color by adequately funding and renovating the cultural centers.

I believe that Yale should overhaul its mental health system to be able to respond to every student’s struggle with compassion and support. I believe that Yale should not have a college named after a symbol of slavery and white supremacy. I believe that Yale should let graduate teachers and researchers vote on whether or not to form a union in an environment free from intimidation.

I also do not agree with the administration’s assessment that they do enough for New Haven. Our city is in crisis. Twenty percent of people of color are unemployed.

Young people don’t have enough opportunities. Too many of us feel unsafe in our neighborhoods.

The administration wants us to believe that the status quo is permanent — that there will always be a “Yale bubble” and a city surrounding it where people are struggling. They want us to be grateful to them for what we

have and to congratulate them for their benevolence toward the rest of New Haven. But because of institutions like Yale, more than half of the land in our city is tax exempt, creating a massive budget shortfall in a time when over a third of children in our city are living below the poverty line.

With the money the administration spends on private equity managers, they could double the operating budget of the city of New Haven. Their current contribution rings in at around $8 million annually — the amount of interest the endowment earns in a single day. I believe that they should contribute more financially. And I believe that they should hire more New Haven residents from neighborhoods of need and solve the jobs crisis.

On many topics, I disagree with the Yale Corporation. But I believe that Yale can be great.

And I particularly believe in Yale students. As Ward 1 alder, I’ve set my priorities based on the thousands of conversations that I’ve had with you — in your common rooms, at my office hours, at student group meetings and public hearings, and marching beside you on campus and off.

My leadership as your alder has been about bringing youth voices to the table and working together to get things done.

As chair of the Board of Alders' Youth Committee, I’ve led the creation of a Youth Violence Prevention Initiative that’s put over $1.25 million into local programs. I worked with Yale students to craft testimony in support of adding student representatives to our Board of Education and oversaw the election of the first-ever student reps this spring. We’re investing in existing youth spaces and

we’re on our way to reopening the Dixwell Q House Community Center.

But my leadership has also been about standing up to the Yale Corporation and its agenda, because I know that the residents of Ward 1 are not on board.

And in moments like this one, leadership means fighting for change.

I fought with the New Haven and Yale chiefs of police during the sit in to make sure that students were safe. I fought with the Office of New Haven and State Affairs to make sure that students’ voices were heard in their recent development project. I joined over a thousand people in marching through Ward 1 this summer calling on Yale to look the jobs crisis squarely in the eye and hire from our neighborhoods of need.

Yale can weather rhetoric.

Real change will come as more of us stand together in insisting that the administration listen — to their students, to their workers and to their neighbors.

Everyone agrees that our streets should be safe, that young people should have access to opportunities and that economic development should be inclusive. The question is what we’re willing to do about it.

I’m running for re-election because we have a lot more work to do, and I want to keep fighting.

There are a small number of high-level administrators, together with the Yale Corporation, who don’t share our collective values. But they don’t get to vote in this election. We do.

SARAH EIDELSON is a 2012 graduate of Jonathan Edwards College and the incumbent Ward 1 alder. Contact her at aldereidelson@gmail.com .

T

he summer after my freshman year of college, I read "Harriet the Spy" with my class of fifth-grade students from New Haven Public Schools. We kept spy journals where they observed their families, friends and neighborhoods — and sometimes me.

(Sample observations: “Mr. Fish seems very hyper. Maybe he had a lot of sugar for breakfast this morning.” “Fish has a frat boy hair style. Has hair on his toe.”)

With my older students, I got to teach classes about peacemaking and social change. We chose issues in their neighborhoods that mattered to them — gun violence, discrimination — and talked about how peacemakers use narrative to tell stories of injustice, and how to identify the structural roots of these problems. We studied the rhetoric of MLK and Malcolm X, and they wrote emails to their alders and presented speeches to Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. That summer was when I started to understand that working with youth was what gave me purpose — that’s why I stayed in New Haven the next summer to work as a preschool teacher, and that’s why I’m now looking at careers in education as I start to think about my life after graduation. Most importantly, that was when I stopped feeling like an outsider in New Haven and started feeling that it was my community, too.

I don’t think you fall in love with a city at first sight. It’s a gradual process of building relationships, developing a sense of responsibility to a place because of your passion for the people who live in it. That process can take many

forms. For me, it happened through getting to know my students and their families, and knocking on doors for progressive candidates in New Haven’s neighborhoods. For others, it might mean working with a local activist group or joining a faith community.

When Yale students build these relationships with New Haven — and build them on a foundation of real understanding and dialogue with folks in the city — it’s better for everyone. An engaged Yale means more students working in the Elm City’s neighborhoods, not for a title or a resume line, but to support the work that community members are doing to build a stronger New Haven. It means more students advocating for our University to treat the city around it with respect.

It means more students standing with Elm City residents in support of the progressive change we all want to see — real community policing, local hiring and living wages, opportunities for all youth — and, by participating, making the community coalitions in support of these policies even more powerful.

I’m running for alder because far too often, Yale students don’t venture beyond campus to build those relationships.

The Ward 1 alder must challenge and change that dynamic.

This does not have to come at the expense of the Ward 1 alder playing an active role at City Hall. The tendency to frame Ward 1 alder races as a choice between a candidate more engaged at Yale and one more engaged in New Haven is destructive.

First, it furthers the divisive assumption that Yalies and

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New Haveners have divergent interests: Everyone wants to see a safe and thriving city.

Second, it assumes that the Ward 1 alder cannot be engaged both in Yale and New Haven at once. Every alder has a mandate to be active both at City Hall and in their own neighborhood. Not only that, but the Ward 1 alder can work with progressive campus organizations to mobilize students in support of the policies they and their colleagues are fighting for. Mike Jones ’11, for instance, is still remembered for bringing Yale students to work in City Hall as policy assistants who made important contributions. Engaging with Yalies in this way would better enable the Ward 1 alder to advocate for issues that affect New Haveners.

A Ward 1 alder who works to create a culture of citizenship and organizes students to work alongside New Haveners for the change we want to see will be better for Yale, better for New Haven and better for the relationship between the two. Many community leaders in New Haven, as well as countless Yalies, have supported my campaign because they believe that this is the kind of leadership we need from our alder.

They know I have both the deep relationships in New Haven and the experience organizing Yalies to get involved in our city that this position needs.

New Haveners are already standing up to change our city for the better. Now, more Yalies need to get off the sidelines and stand with them.

FISH STARK is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at fortney.stark@yale.edu .

COUNTER-POINT G U E ST C O LU M N I ST I SA B E L B AT E

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T N I C K D E F I E S TA

Lifting the city's youth

One ward, two jobs

met Sarah Eidelson two years ago during her 2013 reelection campaign. I had just turned 16 and my friend called me and said, “Hey, do you want to knock on some doors and talk to Yale students?” I begrudgingly agreed because he was my friend. In the space of three months, I moved from feeling reluctant and insecure about being inside of Yale to investing five days a week and massive amounts of energy into what I grew to recognize as an incredibly important campaign. I got to know Sarah and her work and was inspired to see a young queer lady in local government taking action on the things that mattered to me most.

My name is Isabel Bate. I am an 18-year-old, white, queer, middle-class resident of New Haven. I’ve lived in New Haven my whole life. I’ve gotten to know our entire city much better in the past few years, engaging with communities across New Haven around issues affecting youth. I’ve worked personally with your alder, Sarah Eidelson, on many of these issues. Like me, she has spent her time as a young person working to make New Haven better for young people. I’m supporting her now because I’ve seen what a difference it makes to have a Ward 1 alder actually bring the voices of Yale students and other young people together to work for the change that our city desperately needs.

I have spent much of this summer knocking on doors talking to people about the unemployment crisis in our city, and how it disproportionately affects youth, people of color and queer people. One day I met a woman who told me, “If you stay in New Haven, you’re going to be miserable.

You have to get out if you want

to be happy.” This stuck with me because I know she’s right unless things change. The reason I knock on doors is that I’m trying to build a future here.

I’m working hard to have hope that things can change. But her words revealed the level of pain and suffering that people experience here that we’re going to have to work through in order to do that.

I’m scared about making my way in a city that already has so few opportunities for people, and especially for young people and queer people. I have seen many incredible friends run away from New Haven because they can't stand the thought of living here for another year. I've lost vital community because people can't find jobs here and can't imagine building a future for themselves in the neighborhoods that they grew up in.

GRAPPLE WITH THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE FUTURES WE FACE For the last two years, I’ve been a part of a group of other queer young people in New Haven. We work to build power and self-respect in the face of violence, hopelessness and discrimination. It is about working through fear to figure out what we want and need to be happy, and then building the selfempowerment and self-respect to go after these things and to build communities that support us. It’s about creating the New Haven we want to live in.

I have had moments of really deep fear that I could not do anything to change things.

Moments of fear that our society is right, that nobody cares about young queer people, that nobody will listen to our experiences. But there have also been moments that shattered those fears, when we put on a successful workshop, when I saw a person share their story openly or demand respect from their families. This is the work I do every day.

I’ve been able to dedicate time to developing a caring, empowering community of queer young people because my group is one of sixteen being funded by the city’s Youth Violence Prevention Initiative.

This funding exists because of Sarah. She has led her colleagues to prioritize creating opportunities for youth in our city. I need Sarah to be reelected. With Sarah continuing to fight at the Board, and my continuing to organize my peers, we build a safe, sustainable future for young people in New Haven.

I dropped out of high school two years ago because I felt alienated and erased. Now I’m struggling working a low-wage job, and I know how hard it’s going to be for me to make my way. This is my experience.

Every fall hundreds of young people from a variety of backgrounds arrive on Yale’s campus full of hope and expectation. I’m asking all of you who at one point showed up in New Haven at 18 years old to grapple with the differences between the futures we face. It is unacceptable. For years, Sarah has squarely faced that divide and done everything she can to close the gap. The work is not done.

ISABEL BATE is a New Haven resident and an LGBT organizer. Contact them at bate.isabel@gmail.com .

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’ve been following Ward 1 politics for a while. I reported on current alder Sarah Eidelson’s first election against Vinay Nayak in 2011, back when the position was still “alderman.” I followed Eidelson again as she defeated Republican Paul Chandler in 2013. And over the past several months, as a recent grad who has decided to live and work in New Haven, I’ve watched as Fish Stark and Ugonna Eze have geared up to unseat Eidelson this fall as she runs for her third term.

Throughout all of this, I’ve spoken with city officials, former alders, student leaders and the average Yalie about what matters most about being a Ward 1 alder.

The answer, naturally, changes depending on whom you ask.

Still, throughout these conversations, two common threads emerged.

First, the Ward 1 alder exists to connect the Yale and New Haven communities. This has a twofold meaning: representing campus concerns before the Board of Alders, and more importantly, engaging Yalies in the discussions that are happening across New Haven. A good alder will serve to strengthen this connection in both directions.

And second, while most other alders spend much of their time dealing with constituent services — filling potholes, trimming trees — the University’s handling of such matters largely frees the Ward 1 alder to pursue broader policy initiatives. Previous representatives, unhindered by the typical day-to-day work of an alder, have found a focus like Mike Morand’s advocacy for community policing, Ben Healey’s work on the homeless advisory committee and Mike Jones’ successful efforts to expand the city’s living wage law.

For Eidelson, her focus has been on youth issues. Among the

accomplishments she cites are the creation of an online map of youth programs and holding the inaugural elections for student representatives on the Board of Education this spring.

The focus is admirable, to be sure. But collectively, her handful of accomplishments hardly sum up to a record that makes Eidelson irreplaceable. Without a stronger rationale for Eidelson staying in office, electing her once again this fall would only deny Yalies a closer connection to the city.

Think about it: Eidelson hasn’t been a student in over three years, and if she is elected again, she will be out of college for almost six by the time her term ends. She never shopped for classes using Yale Bluebook online, never attended a lecture while Peter Salovey was president. The Yale she knew is increasingly far away.

This wouldn’t be a problem if Eidelson were great at engaging with campus, but she’s not. She has barely communicated with most student groups, and rarely sends emails updates to students — the last one I received was in April 2014. Even when I would send my reporters to her office hours, the one time each week she was ostensibly available to students, they told me that she would sometimes fail to show.

As someone who lives and works just blocks from campus, I understand how hard it can be to stay connected to campus as a non-student. But Yale students, and the broader community in which they live, deserve better.

Thankfully, Stark is in the race.

It’s not just his status as a current student; he quite literally embodies the Yale-New Haven connection that strengthens both town and gown.

He is plugged into campus: Students in a vast array of organizations, from MEChA head Maria

Melchor to Yale NAACP President Brea Baker to two-thirds of the Yale Dems board (all of those endorsing) think Stark is worthy of being Yalies’ representative in the city. He has built relationships with a number of New Haveners, from former mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 to Fair Haven leader Lee Cruz. And he has walked the walk, spending two summers teaching at Squash Haven and the Calvin Hill Day Care Center.

Most notably, he has earned the trust of the very youth that Eidelson has worked for. Three of the New Haven high school students who ran for the youth seats on the Board of Education — perhaps Eidelson’s most notable accomplishment — are backing Stark, knocking on doors for his campaign. If that doesn’t speak to Stark’s ability to connect with those he serves, I don’t know what will.

More than Eze or Eidelson, Stark has proven that he is willing to put in the energy required to both work on behalf of the residents of this city, and engage Yalies in the effort. He has put in the time listening to the people in his ward, learning from the people who call New Haven home and building the connections that will help him successfully implement his vision.

Stark is best positioned to fulfill the twin pillars of the Ward 1 alder — connecting Yale and New Haven, and advancing progress on the Board. He is the strongest candidate in this race, and he has earned our support.

NICK DEFIESTA is a 2014 graduate of Berkeley College. He was a columnist for the News and a city editor on the Managing Board of 2014. The views expressed in this column are his own and do not represent those of his employer. He can be reached at nick.defiesta@gmail.com

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FROM THE FRONT

“The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it’s a pretty good detour.” HUBERT HUMPHREY FORMER U.S. VICE PRESIDENT

FAS Senate looks to assert influence with admin FAS SENATE FROM PAGE 1 as a committee on Yale committees. This group will allow faculty members to recommend their peers for University-wide committees, ensuring that a broad range of faculty members will be asked to serve.

The senate also established an ad hoc committee on the expansion of Yale College to examine what the 15-percent increase in the student body will mean for faculty, as well as a standing committee on budget and finance. The senate’s peer advisory committee will serve as a contact point where faculty members can come with issues they may not want to bring to administrators or direct superiors within their department.

Gage said the five tenured members of the six-person executive council will each chair one of these committees. She

added other committees may also be created at next month’s meeting or in future ones.

Each of the newly elected senators in attendance brought with them a unique perspective — spanning departments, career stages and goals for their time in the senate. Though the 17 senators interviewed agreed that the body must serve as an important voice for faculty members, many reiterated that the senate is still in its early stages and the true test of its power is still to be determined.

“It was for me, certainly one of the few times I’ve sat in a room with people from across the University — different divisions, different ranks, different perspectives — and really heard what all of those people have to say,” Gage said. “I think it was a real meeting of the minds … The senate is off to a pretty remarkable start.”

Senators interviewed voiced a variety of motivations for taking part in the body, casting their sights on goals ranging from reforming internal FAS policies to enacting campus-wide changes to University governance.

Several professors emphasized their plans to represent the issues unique to their own roles at Yale, be it a small field of study or a non-ladder faculty position.

“Scholars studying antiquity within the Humanities have their own set of concerns that I hope to be able to bring to the conversation,” Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department acting chair Christina Kraus noted.

Senior Lector of Hebrew Shiri Goren said her goal is to speak for non-ladder faculty and also to represent the interests of faculty with young children, whose particular challenges “are often

not adequately addressed by our institution.”

Political Science and African American Studies assistant professor Vesla Weaver, who serves on the executive committee, said one of her main goals for the body is to increase faculty diversity across departments.

She said she aims to address the “complete mismatch” between the range of student diversity already present on campus and the lack thereof among professors. She added that if there is one body capable of making this type of change, it is the FAS Senate.

“What is incredible about the faculty senate is that we actually do, as best as possible, represent the diversity of Yale,” she said. “There are more women, there are two of us that are black, there are a range of other kinds of voices, and a range of departments that are usually at the los-

ing end of the stick.”

Others pointed to broader governance concerns, particularly a sense of disconnect between the opinions of faculty and the policies that are ultimately implemented by the administration.

[The goal is] to crack the mold of what has become a … rubber-stamping role for Yale faculty.

MATTHEW JACOBSON Professor, American Studies American Studies, African American Studies and History professor Matthew Jacobson said that since 2009, there has been faculty blowback on

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several administrative initiatives, including Shared Services and Yale-NUS. He added that as a result, he has been committed to creating structures that enlarge the decision-making role for Yale faculty as “constituent voices” in regards to applying the University’s mission. “[The goal is] to crack the mold of what has become a fairly passive, rubber-stamping role for Yale faculty in simply approving plans that have already been developed by the administration and corporate board,” Jacobson said. “This is a long-term project, but we have an opportunity to at least create new venues and opportunities for real and meaningful exchange between faculty on the ground and administrators — including very influential noneducators — at the top.”

Still, views differed on how receptive the administration would be to taking the suggestions and findings of the senate seriously. Weaver said the administration has already taken steps to demonstrate they support the body and are interested in its long-term success as a part of Yale faculty governance.

“We have been given a good budget, we have been approached to have meetings, we are going to have a staff person,” Weaver said. “So I do think there is a real willingness to work with us and take us very seriously.”

Gage said the operating budget for the year is $35,000, which will be used for expenses ranging from photocopying to the development of a new FAS Senate website.

Professor of Comparative Literature and English Katie Trumpener said it is important that the administration regularly communicate with the senate, which will serve as a strong resource to the administration in bringing forth a diversity of views and ideas.

“Since the middle ages, universities have been self-governing, with faculty as the stakeholders,” Trumpener wrote in an email. “Collectively, it is up to us — as much as the administration, and far more than the Corporation — to safeguard the integrity of the university, to guide its present priorities and imagine and plan its future.”

Still, Jacobson said it is too early to tell whether the senate will yield power in the eyes of administration since there is “plenty of hope” but significant skepticism in the body as well.

Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology professor Mark Mooseker, who serves on the executive committee, echoed similar sentiments and voiced cautious optimism to the role the new body will serve in regards to shaping administrative attitude.

“Moving forward, I definitely have a ‘we’ll see’ attitude about what the FAS Senate can add …

We could be stymied at every turn — but so far, as we have tried to define ourselves as an advisory body, the administration seems to be open to what we might offer,” he said. “It is a novel forum for Yale that hopefully will invite a much broader participation of our faculty into key unsettled decisions.”

FAS Dean Tamar Gendler described the relationship between her office and the senate as “mutually supportive.” The two will collaborate to implement ideas and suggestions brought forward by the body to the greatest extent possible, she said.

“I am always enthusiastic about structures that involve more of our faculty in thinking about the governance of the University. I think the governance of the University is something that we all must engage in,” Gendler said. “ In my role as dean, I am primarily someone who executes the proposals that can make the University even greater than it is — in its research and teaching and to serve its mission — and I am incredibly excited about having 22 new partners in doing this thing that I care about doing.”

Gage emphasized that as an independent body, the senate does not answer to administrators and will set its own priorities and make its own decisions.

The next meeting of the FAS Senate is scheduled for Oct. 15.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu and EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at.”

BARUCH SPINOZA DUTCH PHILOSOPHER

Med. marijuana seeks broader appeal

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9

A previous version of the article “Startup seeks to increase accessibility to dance” incorrectly indicated that Chromatic Dance’s Kickstarter campaign would launch on Sept. 16. It also indicated that the Pridefest Festival took place in July, rather than June.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 10

A previous version of the article “Stark far outpaces Eidelson in fundraising” indicated that nine donors to Fish Stark’s campaign were students. That is the number of Yale donors in the most recent filing period.

NHPD positive on body cameras

BY AGNES ENKHTAMIR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Only nine days into the New Haven Police Department’s 90-day body camera pilot program, police officers and administrators are already seeing the program’s promise.

The pilot program, funded through a $90,000 grant from the Board of Alders, equipped 27 police officers with different types of body cameras to test which model would best suit the NHPD. At the outset, the program garnered enthusiasm from officers, with 54 police officers volunteering to participate in the program, according to Lieutenant Rachel Cane. Although the program is still in its early stages, officers said they anticipate body cameras will ultimately become an essential part of the workforce.

“It’s no different than the first Miranda waiver, the first recorded confession — just another advancement that we will welcome,” District 4 Manager Sergeant Stephan Torquati said.

Cane said officers wearing the cameras have already captured multiple arrests on tape. If those cases go to trial, Cane said, that footage might be used in court.

Despite the net positive reaction about the camera use, the NHPD has yet to delineate clear regulations in terms of when and where the body cameras must be turned on or off. Loose guidelines suggest that officers should turn the cameras on during the execution of an arrest or search warrant, dispatched citizen calls and during investigations of suspicious persons who may be involved in crime.

Still, because the program is new, there are no formal punishments in place if an officer fails to turn on a camera during one of those situations.

“There’s a lot of discretion in policing in general,” Cane said.

“If the officer feels that [the cameras] will not be needed or that

they can’t get the information they need with it on, it’s up to them.”

Police do have the authority to keep the camera on even if a civilian asks the officer to turn it off.

While the funding for the pilot program came from the city, the NHPD also applied for a federal grant this month, requesting more than $250,000 to fund the new initiative. That money would go towards information technology specialists and equipment to store the data collected on the cameras, Cane said.

Body cameras overall will give a general positive understanding of the situation on both sides.

ANNA FESTA Ward 10 Alder According to Ward 10 Alder Anna Festa, the Board of Alders does not currently have plans to fund the police body cameras after the 90-day program ends.

She said that if the NHPD is not awarded the federal grant and they want additional city funding, they would have to re-apply for funding from the city.

Festa added that overall, instituting body cameras is a positive advancement for the police force and the community.

“The body cameras are going to show the good, the bad, the ugly,” Festa said. “Body cameras overall will give a general positive understanding of the situation on both sides.”

Although the NHPD is new to body cameras, some police forces in Connecticut, including the Branford Police Department, have been using them since 2008.

Contact AGNES ENKHTAMIR at dulguun.enkhtamir@yale.edu .

BY APARNA NATHAN STAFF REPORTER On Sept. 22, 2014, the first delivery of medical cannabis was delivered to The Healing Corner in Bristol, Connecticut; later that same day, the store made the first legal sale of medical marijuana in the state. Almost one year later, the program has garnered a loyal following, but is trying to broaden its reach.

THE PROGRAM

Connecticut’s Medical Marijuana Program, operated by the Department of Consumer Protection, is one of 23 such programs in the nation. It consists of four producers, six dispensaries and over 5,000 patients in the state.

It is one of the first programs in the nation to follow a pharmaceutical model, said Jonathan Harris, commissioner of the DCP. Marijuana is regulated as a schedule II drug — codeine and oxycodone fall into this category as well — and can only be purchased with a medical recommendation and from a licensed pharmacist at a dispensary.

The model, developed in 2013, has brought together state-certified growers, dispensaries, physicians and patients. Dispensaries apply for licenses, while physicians licensed to practice medicine in Connecticut certify patients who suffer from a designated debilitating medical condition. The list of conditions has grown since 2013 to accommodate petitions from patients.

When applications for dispensary licenses first opened up in September 2013, the DCP received 27 submissions. From those, the first six dispensaries in the state opened in Bethel, Branford, Bristol, Hartford, South Windsor and Uncasville, with four growers selected from 16 applications statewide to supply the dispensaries.

Now, as patient demand has increased across the state, the DCP is soliciting applications until Sept. 18 for up to three more dispensaries. Laurie Zrenda, owner of Thames Valley Alternative Relief, a dispensary in Uncasville, has noticed an increase in the number of interested patients — in her first days of operation last year, she saw around eight patients per day. Now, she sees 40 to 50 patients per day and her total patient count has increased from 188 to 715.

“It’s going to be tough to avoid longer wait times when a dispensary starts getting over 1,000 patients,” Zrenda said. “As the population increases, we’re going to have to start opening more.”

Zrenda’s dispensary serves the New London area, and her patients travel as much as 45 minutes from towns in northern and

eastern Connecticut. But people in southwestern Connecticut — Greenwich or Stamford, for instance — often face long commutes to the nearest dispensary. The target areas for new dispensaries are in New Haven and Fairfield counties, where there has been a rise in demand, Harris said.

THE PATIENTS

Marijuana has become a part of Tracy Gamer-Fanning’s daily routine. Gamer-Fanning, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2006, uses medical marijuana to alleviate the pain and shaking on her left side, where she was once paralyzed.

Her use of the substance began before medical marijuana was legalized in Connecticut.

Her doctor, Andrew Salner, suggested that medical marijuana might be a better treatment than her daily regimen of eight Percocet tablets, which she said made her feel isolated.

Salner gave her a prescription for Marinol, an FDA-approved cannabinoid with synthetic THC, but noted that the actual drug would be more effective, with the disclaimer that it was illegal. Later that day, a friend came over to Gamer-Fanning’s house with some marijuana.

Gamer-Fanning smoked it and she has been a firm advocate of the drug ever since.

Legalization of the drug for medical use in Connecticut has allowed Gamer-Fanning and similar patients, who previously purchased marijuana from street dealers, to obtain their medication in more dignified and safe ways, she said.

“It’s a relief to use the medicine without feeling like I’m going to get arrested,” she added.

During the early months of the MMP, Zrenda observed a similar trend of patients flocking to the MMP after years of treating themselves with marijuana illegally. The adjustment to the legal drug can be difficult for some of these patients, she added, since they are used to the more potent marijuana strains that they are used to handpicking from dealers.

Across the state, the number of certified patients has jumped from 1,681 in September 2014 to 5,357 in August 2015. With this increase over the past year, Zrenda’s patient demographics have expanded to include more “marijuana-naïve” patients who are looking for alternate options to treat their illnesses.

“The word is out that [medical marijuana] is available, and the numbers are growing,” Zrenda said.

THE PHYSICIANS

When registration for the MMP opened last year, Sal-

Litchfield

331 registered patients

Tolland

Hartford

198

1169

New Haven

1399

Middlesex

289

Windham

193

New London

501

Fairfield

1277

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ner, a radiation oncologist and director of The Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center at Hartford Hospital, was one of the first physicians to register.

Since the MMP began, Salner has certified 50 patients for the program. He said cannabis is not effective for all patients with debilitating illnesses. Most patients, he has found, respond well to conventional medications. But, he recommends medical marijuana to those who have exhausted conventional treatments or are experiencing debilitating side effects from their medications.

Salner is one of a minority of physicians in Connecticut who have embraced the MMP. When registration initially opened, only 108 physicians registered to certify their patients for the program. The number has been steadily increasing, Harris said, and as of the end of August, there are 257 physicians registered. That, though, is still a small number compared to the total number of physicians in the state.

In June, the DCP began a campaign to increase awareness of the program. Harris said conversations with patients and physicians showed that many people were not aware that Connecticut has a legalized medical marijuana program, an observation that Gamer-Fanning echoed based on her interactions with patients.

“We wanted to make sure that doctors were aware of the program,” Harris said. “They have access to another tool in their tool kit, if they choose.”

The campaign used public service announcements on the WNPR radio station, Web advertisements on sites frequented by physicians and print ads in medical journals.

However, Salner thinks there’s more to do to increase use of the program among doctors. Physicians often hesitate because, technically, prescribing marijuana — even in a medical context — is prohibited by federal law. But, they are not officially prescribing it to

patients; instead, they are recommending it, and federal law will not prosecute physicians working within the constraints of a state program.

“A lot of obstacles include trying to remove the myths about it,” Salner added. “We need to take away the stigma of marijuana being a street drug.”

Many physicians are reluctant to recommend medical marijuana because of a lack of scientific evidence in support of the drug, said David Emmel, an ophthalmologist and the legislative chair of the Connecticut State Medical Society. He added that much of the rationale behind using medical marijuana is anecdotal.

Emmel said it is also concerning that medical marijuana is not subject to the same FDA standards to which other pharmaceuticals are held. The purpose of these trials is to ensure the efficacy and safety of drugs, he added, so physicians are wary of recommending marijuana without this information.

Doctors also do not know what the active ingredients in marijuana are, he said, so they don’t have a basis for dosage instructions.

Salner agreed that clinical trials could help convince many physicians. However, marijuana is still a schedule I drug at the federal level, so there is no funding for FDA-approved trials.

Gamer-Fanning said that success stories such as her own are a powerful tool in educating physicians. Her doctors at the Yale Brain Tumor Center have mixed feelings about her use of medical marijuana, but are watching her progress carefully.

“People are more open and asking more questions,” Gamer-Fanning said. “Anything that moves progress forward is positive.”

In 2012, Connecticut became the 17th state to legalize medical marijuana.

Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu .

Devil’s Gear Bike Shop prepares to relocate

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER For those looking to buy a bike, this weekend was an excellent time to do so.

The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop offered bikes at reduced prices over the weekend in an effort to lighten the load for their upcoming move to a new storefront. Founder and owner Matthew Feiner sent an email to the Yale Cycling Team in April letting them know that the shop was in significant financial trouble and that he had started a fundraiser to keep the store open. He said he has decided to move to a new location in order to alleviate some of the store’s expenses. Although the new storefront is only 50 yards away from their current address at 151 Orange St., the store’s management team has decided to have a moving sale to make the move easier, Feiner said. The shop will move to the new store during the last weekend of September, and Feiner plans to reopen on the 29th.

“The space we were in was a little pricey, with the rent going up a certain percent every year,” Feiner said. “At the end of five years, it just wasn’t worth it anymore.”

Their new location, at 135 Orange St., is located in the historic Palladium Building, built in 1855. Feiner said the rent is less expensive there and that the arrangement of the space — with one continuous, long room with high ceilings as well as a large basement — fits their needs for the store.

Along with moving to a less expensive location, the store’s management has also cut Devil’s Gear advertising and staff in order to keep the shop open and running. The bike shop is also working to scale down on the number of bicycle lines they currently offer in order to cut down costs.

Feiner also expressed gratitude to New

Haven residents for helping the shop move through its tough financial situation.

“People donated the construction costs, the painting costs, and the landlord gave us three months of rent for free,” Feiner said.

“It’s humbling when people just give you things like that without you having to ask for it.”

Doug Hausladen ’04, director of transportation for the city of New Haven and head of the New Haven Transit Authority, called Devil’s Gear the soul of New Haven’s cycling community.

Jordan Bravin ’16, the sponsorship director for the Yale Cycling Team, said Feiner and the shop have played an integral role in building the team’s success and in developing a thriving community of local riders. Bravin also praised the shop’s moving sale.

“The moving sale was the perfect opportunity for those who were on the edge about getting more into cycling to do so,” Bravin said.

“Cycling is an expensive sport, so opportunities like these are a great way to get started.”

Although “people came out in hoards” to the moving sale, according to Feiner, they decided to continue the sale on various bike brands and other items to continue reducing inventory.

Feiner is confident that the store’s new location will not negatively affect his customer base, given that it is very close to the current location.

“Bike shops are like auto shops in the sense that customers have shop loyalty,” Yale Cycling Team men’s captain Michael Grome GRD ’19 said.

The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop was founded in 2001.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

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The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop will be moving to a new location, 50 yards away from their present one, at the end of the month.

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FROM THE FRONT

“Philanthropy is activism.”

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Islamic Law Center to open at law school

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT FROM PAGE 1 veyed — some of whom had been through the complaint process themselves — indicated confusion or misinformation about Yale’s policies.

Previously, Post said, the UWC would help parties who requested help finding an advisor on a caseby-case basis. Now, complainants or respondents will receive a list of potential advisors whom the UWC specifically invited to the role for their experience in similar advisory capacities.

“The invitees to the new advisor pool were drawn broadly from the Yale community, across undergraduate, graduate and professional schools, and have diverse backgrounds and experience,” Post wrote in an email. “Careful consideration was given to those with previous experience in disciplinary proceedings and those who have served in an advisory capacity to students, faculty or staff.”

Training for the new advising pool will begin in late September, Post said. University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler said recruitment is still ongoing, although a few invitations have already been accepted. SHARE advisors will also be on the list and will remain an available resource for complainants, as will any other advisors who have previous experience with the UWC. Karin Shedd ’16, who previously filed a formal complaint with the UWC, praised the decision, but she added that a more important step in promoting fairness in the hearing process would be ensuring that all fact-finders — who interview complainants and respondents about the incident in question and present their findings to the hearing panel — are independent and not employed by the University, as stipulated in the UWC procedures. The factfinder in her own case, she alleged, was actually a Yale employee.

Across the country, some respondents, and even some complainants, have shifted away from internal advising at all and have retained attorneys during sexual misconduct hearings.

Joe Cohn, legislative and policy director at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education — an organization that has often criticized universities for curbing the rights of respondents during misconduct hearings — told the News

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Both complainants and respondents in sexual misconduct cases will now be provided with lists of potential advisors. in April that schools should allow attorneys to play a more active role in defending accused students.

Currently, UWC procedure states that advisors can help parties prepare for meetings related to a complaint but may not speak for their

Yale-NUS moves to new campus YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 contain courtyards, classrooms spaces, a dining hall, common spaces and some administrative offices. Betts said that when the initial vision of Yale-NUS came to being, he felt strongly that the residential college system should be preserved.

“The residential college system takes a big school and breaks it into little pieces,” Betts said.

“It forces everybody to crisscross the quadrangle, to go to dining rooms and common rooms, and as we thought about it, we thought that if we’re really going to do this right, we need to build residential colleges there to recreate the experience.”

The physical appearance of Yale-NUS was described by students as feeling distinct from both NUS, defined by a series of sleek towers, and Singapore more broadly. Jordan Bovankovich YNUS ’18 said Yale-NUS has a more “antiquey” and woodfurbished style, but with a modern spin.

But Bovankovich added that since student life is no longer contained within one single building, the new campus and its expanded spaces will take some getting used to.

“Some of the sentiments that infused our previous single building have also faded — the closeness, the need and desire to recognize every face, the familiarity, the occasional claustrophobia,” she said.

Though all five students interviewed expressed excitement over the new campus, they also acknowledged that a newfound sense of college identity would not come automatically.

Students would have to work to maintain the sense of a small,

close-knit community segmented into various residential colleges, they said.

Feroz Khan YNUS ’18 said the new campus brings with it new responsibilities and privileges.

“The truth is that the new campus isn’t a wonderland where all our dreams of school pride and collegiate bonding over fun spaces magically come true,” Khan said. “We still have to create things — build traditions, name spaces, host events — in order to foster identity. It remains to be seen how well students can keep old friendships alive or build new friendships across residential colleges.”

We have space to do many of the things we have been hoping to do for the last two years.

SARAH WEISS Rector of Saga College, Yale-NUS However, Khan did speak positively about the convenience of having designated Yale-NUS spaces, as opposed to the old shared spaces — namely the basketball court and soon-to-be completed black box theater.

For Bovankovich, questions about identity will only settle with time.

“We might not yet know what traditions or values mark this young culture, but we can be certain that it is there,” she said.

The campus’s grand opening is scheduled for Oct. 12.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

advisee at any interview or hearing or submit documents on his or her behalf.

“Schools at the very least should be providing students with the right to hire lawyers who can actively participate and not just sit there as

potted plants,” he said. “It’s a safeguard on making sure that someone is representing the students’, and only the students’, interests.”

Kronman also noted that the center will have reach far beyond just the law school, extending throughout the University to cater to any interested students. Harvard Law School has had an Islamic Legal Studies Program since 1991 — but Kronman explained that Yale is hardly playing catch up.

“Every program that is established, every initiative at the Yale Law School is undertaken with the ambition to be the very best in the world,” Kronman said. “We mean for this program to be a model in that regard as well.”

Yale Law School professor emeritus Owen Fiss, who will serve as the center’s other codirector, could not be reached for comment Thursday evening.

In a statement released on the law school website, Salovey said the opening of the center is a step forward at the law school and beyond. Yale College students interviewed who said they are interested in attending law school expressed excitement about the donation and the upcoming center. Margaret Moor ’18 said she strongly supports the purpose of the donation.

“I’m excited that Yale is taking the initiative to establish such a center and am interested to see how it develops over time,” she said. “And I think it is absolutely necessary given the changing relationship between the United States and states in the Middle East.”

Matt Kemp LAW ’15 said he thinks the center will be a great addition to the curriculum. However, he added that people he talked to during his time at the law school did not express a particular interest in Islamic law.

Still, Kemp said he predicts it will increase in popularity once the center is opened.

Sarah Esty LAW ’16 said the new center seems like an exciting way for students to gain access to a wide variety of speakers, research positions and off-campus travel opportunities to learn more about a region that is critical to national security while also having a rich history of its own.

“So I think the gift couldn’t have come at a better time, and I’m excited about the opportunity to see where this goes as the center is developed,” Esty said.

Kamel has an estimated net worth of $19.8 billion.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

David Shimer and Victor Wang contributed reporting.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

MH&C debuts wellness site WELLNESS FROM PAGE 1 day. This site compiles all of the University’s administrative and student-run resources related to well-being — clinical or otherwise — in one place for the first time.

“It originally started off as a mental health website, but a lot of students recommended that we might move to focus on wellness as a broader category, which includes mental health and other options,” Goff-Crews said.

She also highlighted the recent updates to the MH&C website, which Genecin announced in an email Wednesday. In response to those updates, her office has tried to make a website that curates information for students rather than rehashes information available elsewhere.

The website is the product of many months of student feedback. In April, Goff-Crews and other members of her office hosted two open forums to showcase a preliminary version of the website and to solicit student suggestions for improvement. Roughly 50 students attended those forums.

Graduate and professional students were actively involved in the feedback process, and they praised the new website for making clear what resources are available to them. Alicia Steinmetz GRD ’19, who sat on the MH&C UniversityWide Committee, said graduate students often are unsure whether or not they have access to the resources that are advertised to undergraduates.

“There are programs that we can take part in, but because they are not explicitly graduate student programs, we assume they are not for us,” she said, adding that the new website addresses this issue.

Specifically, the website allows students to filter the resources available to the whole Yale community according to a range of criteria, including school affiliation, program type — for example, a yoga session — or location.

The website is intended for students, but there is also a tab along the top of the homepage that links faculty, staff and families of Yale students to information about how to support those who are deal-

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The new wellness website brings together all of Yale’s resources related to well-being in one place for the first time. ing with mental health issues.

Steinmetz said this provision is especially welcome among the graduate population because students are allowed access to fewer resources related to family and well-being than are faculty members.

One of the Wellness Project’s first initiatives will be to offer up to $1,000 in funding to undergraduate, graduate and professional student groups that want to design projects in any of the University’s six stated areas of well-being: emotional, physical, social, spiritual, intellectual or academic.

Undergraduates interviewed expressed their excitement for both the website and the larger wellness project. Joseph Cornett ’17, who attended one of the open forums last spring, said he was impressed by how open and responsive the website’s designers were to student feedback.

Though the website was not fully accessible over the summer, students

were able to receive a link to the live website on request and offer suggestions on how it should be improved in time for the fall 2015 launch.

Sreeja Kodali ’18, a member of the campus mental health organization Mind Matters, said she had not heard of the website prior to its first announcement in Genecin’s email, but that she was eager to see the University focus on wellness in addition to mental health.

“Something I’m interested in is campus culture changes, which may not directly affect mental health specifically but can definitely promote mental health and wellness,” she said. “I’m really looking forward to getting involved in [the project], because it seems like it could do a lot of good for the student body’s overall wellness.”

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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“At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.”

JODI RELL FORMER GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT

Yale reiterates no weapons policy

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER When students received an email on Aug. 27 from Janet Lindner, Yale’s deputy vice president for human resources and administration, reminding them that possessing a weapon while on campus is strictly forbidden, most of them discarded it as irrelevant.

But for Taylor Eldridge ’16, it was a “laughable contradiction” to an experience she had earlier this summer.

In June, Eldridge witnessed a firearm being drawn in the MorseStiles walkway. A white man in his mid-20s, unaffiliated with Yale, threatened a group of three black teenagers with the weapon after a rowdy confrontation, according to a Yale Police Department report.

Confused and concerned, Eldridge said she walked into Morse College, but when she returned to the original location, she saw police officers from both the YPD and the New Haven Police Department. After being interviewed, the man was issued a warning and told not to return to campus. However, Eldridge, concerned that the community was not informed about the incident, set up meetings with YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins, Master of Yale Summer Session Joel Silverman and Lindner. According to Eldridge, as a result, Yale has changed its policy on communicating crimes involving firearms.. “[Lindner] told me that, if an incident like this, involving a firearm on campus, happens again, they will inform the whole Yale community,” she said.

Lindner did not respond to a request for confirmation of the change in policy on Thursday, and no policy about communicating crimes involving firearms has been articulated publicly.

Andy Pelosi, president of a national campaign to keep guns off of college campuses, said it is not ordinary for universities to follow a protocol of informing students when a firearm is found on campus, except in situations that pose an active threat to students.

In 2007, after the Virginia Tech Massacre, a state-commissioned independent review board recommended that all universities install a system that informs students when an active shooter is on campus.

The University, through its Yale Alert system, offers that service to students, with its most prominent use occurring two years ago when the threat of an active shooter during the 2013 Thanksgiving break caused the University to go on lockdown.

However, Eldridge said the policy of only informing students when there is an active threat is not enough.

“Yale should be a more informed community,” she said. “We have a

New YPD app yet to gain popularity

right to know whether something is going on, on campus.”

Yet, in a survey sent by the News at the beginning of the month, 96 percent of respondents said they felt sufficiently informed about crime on campus through the safety alert emails sent by Higgins.

Currently, University policy prohibits all weapons on campus, irrespective of whether the owner holds a federal license, similar to other colleges in Connecticut and most private universities across the country. In her Aug. 27 email, Lindner said possession of weapons at any location could be grounds for discipline, and that appropriate disciplinary action — up to and including termination for staff or expulsion for students, and criminal proceedings against any persons who violate the policy — would be taken if the regulations were violated.

Assistant YPD Chiefs Michael Patten and Steve Woznyk said during a parent safety orientation that Lindner felt the need to remind students of the weapons policy after some students asked their deans if they could bring a weapon to campus when they returned for the fall semester. Patten and Woznyk referenced the email after one parent asked whether her son or daughter could carry a weapon for protection.

Yale’s regulations also prohibit visitors from carrying weapons, which Pelosi acknowledged can make the discussion about weapons on campus challenging, particularly in urban areas where residents have ready access to campus grounds.

In the case that Eldridge witnessed, the man with the firearm was a visitor. In an email to students enrolled in Yale Summer Session and living on campus, Silverman reiterated the no-weapons policy.

“The man did have a valid permit to carry his weapon, but Yale Police have instructed him never to return to campus with his gun, because Yale has a strict no-weapons policy,” Silverman wrote.

Eldridge does not know whether or not the new communications policy that she had discussed with Lindner will be enforced.

According to the Daily Crime Log published by the YPD, since June, there have been no incidents on campus involving a firearm in which a campus-wide email would have been sent under the new policy.

“I sincerely hope we never have to find out that there was another gun on campus,” Eldridge said.

The unlawful possession of a weapon on school grounds is noted as a Class D felony in current Connecticut law.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

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The Yale Police Department recently upgraded Bulldog Mobile, its safety and security phone app.

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER The Yale Police Department recently upgraded Bulldog Mobile, an iPhone application designed to keep students safe and allow quicker contact with the police. But very few Yalies have actually downloaded the new product, according to interviews with students.

Launched in early July, the app offers several safety features. The “Summon Help” option allows users to call police while simultaneously sending them their current location and profile information. “SafeWalk” invites friends and families to follow the user’s location on a real-time map. And, “Share information — Quick Text Tips” allows users to submit tips and reports about campus safety concerns and enables them to live-chat with campus safety officials.

Bulldog Mobile is Yale’s version of LiveSafe — an app used by schools in more than 25 states as a way to promote public safety around university campuses. Georgetown University made its first LiveSafe-related arrest last fall after a student used the app to report an act of indecent exposure.

In previous years, Yale Security used a mobile safety app called Rave Guardian, which offered several similar features, including location-tracking services and

a panic button option that reported the profile of the user to nearby police officers.

According to Assistant Chief of Police Lieutenant Mike Patten, the YPD decided to switch to Bulldog Mobile because it was more intuitive.

I didn’t get the point. It just seemed quicker and easier to call 9-1-1.

ADAM KROK ’19

The YPD has publicized the app through announcements at the freshman safety meetings conducted during orientation and through emails to the student body.

“I’m asking staff members to become BDM ambassadors touting its many safety features to members within their departments. If they start by downloading it to their phones, they’ll start using it and can encourage other staff to download it as well,” said Chief Ronnell Higgins in a public statement on the Yale public safety page.

In the statement, Higgins also encour-

aged students to familiarize themselves with the app and other related safety services in his fall public safety email to the student body.

Despite the YPD’s efforts to publicize the app and push for students to download the app during orientation meetings, many students still have not downloaded it. Of 30 freshmen interviewed, all said they had heard of the application but only five said that they had it on their phones.

Seven students said they do not think the application is necessary and two added that they believe the app contains features that they would not utilize even in the case of an emergency.

“I didn’t get the point. It just seemed quicker and easier to call 9-1-1,” said Adam Krok ’19.

The number of app users is even smaller among older students. Of 40 sophomores, juniors and seniors interviewed, only eight reported that they were aware of Bulldog Mobile/LiveSafe and only three reported that they had downloaded it.

Bulldog Mobile/LiveSafe is free for download for both iPhone and Android on the Apple App store and the Google Play store.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

Divinity School launches leadership program

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER

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The Yale Divinity School is launching a new program this fall to cultivate student leadership.

The Yale Divinity School is launching a new program this fall meant to cultivate leadership skills among students across campus.

Through a series of seminars and lectures entitled “Transformational Leadership in Church and Society,” administrators at the Divinity School hope to impart leadership skills through three case studies by three prominent social and religious leaders, each of whom will speak about critical moments in their careers that informed their leadership. This fall’s lecturers include one of the leading voices of the #BlackLivesMatter movement — an activist movement which campaigns against recent sparks police brutality against AfricanAmericans. Reverend Nancy Taylor DIV ’81, who is the senior minister of the historic Old South Church in Boston — right outside of which the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings took place — and United States Senator Chris Coons LAW ’92 DIV ’92 will also be featured.

“It’s a new initiative that is addressing leadership needs among people who want to be agents of change in society,” said William Goettler, Divinity School associate dean and the instructor for the course. “We will talk through how [the lecturers] dealt

with those challenges, what informed their decision-making process and how you grow from times of challenge.”

While the day-long seminars for registered Divinity School students — which will be held on Saturdays — are capped at 30 students each, the program will also feature conversations open to the public on Fridays. The seminars span the first weekend in October to midNovember.

Divinity School Dean Greg Sterling said the vision for the program was to bring non-academic leaders with a theological sensitivity to campus to speak from personal experience. Sterling added that he also hopes students will be inspired by leaders who have achieved great professional success but whose values remain informed by faith.

“We want to challenge them to think in ways that they would not have otherwise, about some unusual path to success or a transformative moment,” Sterling said.

“We’re offering case studies on how specific needs were met in very creative ways by people within a theological framework.”

Sterling said the program was made possible through a $120,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation and that planning for the courses began three years ago. He noted that the most difficult part of putting the pro-

gram together was coming up with the funding, but added that he is pleased there has been such interest in the courses since their announcement.

Liesl Spitz DIV ’17, one of the students leading publicity initiatives for the program, said the courses offer students the chance to engage with social issues based on the experiences of leaders in three different professional arenas. Spitz said she sees society and the church as interwoven, meaning they can be studied in concomitance.

“The study of theology is not separate from what it means to be human and our roles to be responsible citizens,” she said. “Questions of ethics are at play, questions of spirituality are at play, especially in times of crisis, and so I think that leadership and society do and should go hand-in-hand.”

Sam Thomas DIV ’01, associate professor of religion at California Lutheran University, said he has observed a shift in traditional approaches to theological education that are increasingly placing an emphasis on community leadership. Thomas teaches courses in CLU’s Theology and Christian Leadership Department.

Colleen Windham-Hughes, director of CLU’s Theology and Christian Leadership program, expressed a similar sentiment,

adding that theological study must be coupled with real-world applications.

“You don’t want to have this disconnect of ‘This is what I did in seminary and it no longer applies,’” Windham-Hughes said. “Institutions of higher learning have a responsibility to teach those competencies associated with productive leadership.”

One student, who wished to remain anonymous because of conflicting interests, said the speaker series is merely “boxticking,” adding that she worries the courses will not go sufficiently in-depth.

Tim Gaura DIV ’18, who is signed up for Mckesson’s course, praised the series as a forum for voices not typically heard in the Divinity School. He also noted that the approval process for a traditional course is slower and prevents the inclusion of topical material.

“A person like DeRay would never be able to come into this space, because of his educational background,” Gaura said. “It’d be completely apart from his position, from what he’s trying to do.”

The first public lecture, featuring Mckesson, is slated for Oct. 2.

Jacob Potash contributed reporting.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.”

DAVID ALLAN COE AMERICAN SONGWRITER

For MOOC help, profs turn to Yale centers

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER While it may be challenging to come up with creative lectures for a class of 300 students, some Yale professors this semester have found the space for pedagogical experimentation through online lecture ventures.

Through the University’s partnership with Coursera — a Massive Open Online Course platform led by former University President Richard Levin — seven Yale professors have been able to design their own online lectures, some for the first time, with the guidance of the Yale Broadcast Center and the Office of Digital Dissemination and Online Education. These professors have worked with the center’s producers to experiment with a range of new lecture techniques, an experience which they say has made them better teachers, both online and in the classroom.

We really work with the faculty members to determine what they would like to do.

LUCAS SWINEFORD Exec. Director, Office of Online Education

“We really work with the faculty members to determine what they would like to do to transfer knowledge effectively,” said Executive Director of the Office of Online Education and Digital Dissemination Lucas Swineford. When faculty members are selected to teach a course exclusively for Coursera, media producers and members of the online education team work with them to decide the material and delivery of the course, he added.

Though the Broadcast Center has existed for several years, they have only recently begun to help professors record and format their online courses. Historically, the Broadcast Center was best known for filming Class

Day events, among other duties.

Art history professor Diana Kleiner, who has experimented with online education for more than 16 years and now teaches a MOOC on Roman architecture, said the production teams at the center help tailor MOOCs to each professor’s personality and subject. She said she prefers being recorded in a live lecture as her students energize and excite her, but added that working in a studio is very effective for displaying high-quality images.

In her current MOOC, she has taken previously recorded material from her Open Yale Course and added additional videos and functions to the novel online course.

Political science professor Ian Shapiro, whose MOOC is modeled after his on-campus course on the moral foundation of politics, said he went through many discussions with his producers before discovering the best fit.

Shapiro added that he learned a lot from his production team and credits his producer Thom Stylinski, who works at the Broadcast Center, with coming up with the MOOC’s interactive approach.

Shapiro called his producers his “teaching coaches” and said he has brought some of the techniques he learned teaching the MOOC into the classroom. He added that he now designs his courses to focus more on student participation.

It is this process of collaboration and finding what works for each professor that is central to the Broadcast Center’s production philosophy, Swineford said.

Besides benefitting Coursera users, MOOCs created by Yale professors also serve as a critical part of a larger online education strategy, Swineford said.

The Office of Online Education and Digital Dissemination is part of the Center for Teaching and Learning. The CTL, in turn, is involved in planning MOOC productions, CTL Executive Director Jennifer Frederick said.

The Yale Broadcast Center is located at 135 College St. and includes two television studios.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Elm City Social replaces Briq

BY CHLOE KIMBALL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This July, a new bar and restaurant, Elm City Social, opened its doors at 266 College St. The venue was previously home to tapas bar Briq, which had occupied the space since April 2013. Executive Chef and owner John Brennan said that Elm City Social aims to create a lively social environment that can cater to students and residents alike. The chef added that he is hoping to create a space that embodies New Haven’s deep historical roots and up-and-coming developments.

“We wanted a little bit of that 1920s speakeasy feel, but at the same time we wanted to take the rich history of New Haven and colonial New England and merge that with more modern aspects of the city,” Brennan said.

This thematic appreciation for New Haven as a city is brought to life on the very ceiling of the bar, which is covered in a sketched street map of the downtown area.

According to its founders, Elm City Social is committed to fostering friendships within the space. Tuesday nights are reserved for a bar-wide trivia extravaganza, while Thursdays at Elm City Social are “Thursdays Against Humanity”, where bar-goers can participate in the group party game “Cards Against Humanity.”

Ryan Howard, the bar’s managing partner, who has worked at the bar and restaurant since its beginning a few months ago, described his vision for Elm City Social as a down-to-earth, authentic and “unpretentious” watering hole for a diverse group of community members.

“Other places have a certain swagger about them, but we just want to be inviting to everyone,” Howard added.

But many Yale students interviewed said they were unaware of Elm City Social, while those who had attended found the drink prices to be somewhat expensive.

Of 48 undergraduates, only two said that Elm City Social is their preferred nighttime bar or venue. Twenty-five students instead cited Box 63 as their favorite New Haven spot.

Although Elm City Social’s cocktails, which cost between $10 and $15, are on the pricier side, the new restaurant makes up for its lack of affordability with fun and creativity.

The Ramos Gin Fizz, $13, which was first served by Henry Ramos in the 18th century, requires five minutes of vigorous shaking before being served. More often than not, the bartender will send the Ramos shaker down the bar to get clients actively involved in the creation of their drink, according to Howard. In addition to these drinks, menu offerings include

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Tapas bar Briq has now yielded its location to Elm City Social, a new bar and restaurant. farm bird lollipops, zucchini chips and chicken and waffles — one of the chef’s top recommendations.

Compared to the lively scene of Elm City Social, Harvest Wine Bar and Restaurant focuses less on drinks and has a more subdued atmosphere, according to Harvest Manager Wilson Siguenza. Harvest chef Gus Christman added that he

has not had time to visit the new College Street establishment.

Elm City Social is open Monday through Saturday, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m., and on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m.

Contact CHLOE KIMBALL at chloe.kimball@yale.edu .

With Stern prepared to depart, School of Architecture looks to future

BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTER When Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen joined the Yale School of Architecture as a critic in 1994 under the deanship of Fred Koetter, her surroundings barely resembled what the school’s community and culture are today.

The school was late in adopting modern architecture design technologies and its faculty was heavily male-dominated, she recalled. But after Robert A.M. Stern assumed his position in 1998, the school began a transformation that has reshaped its role as an academic institution and a professional development program. “[Stern] knew things were lagging behind,” Pelkonen said.

Stern fostered intellectual growth through exhibitions and guest lecturers and created a more diverse community that includes more female faculty members and more international students.

Now that Stern is poised to step down at the end of June 2016, he can look back on a long record of improvements. But many of the challenges that he has tackled over the past two decades remain.

“There will be many changes with the coming of a new dean, since there are new challenges with every year,” Stern said.

Stern said that in selecting his successor, the University needs to prioritize the school’s goals of promoting diversity and improving architectural design technology while preserving important traditional design techniques such as hand drawing.

CHANGING THE COMMUNITY

Stern said that when he first arrived at Yale, he believed that some of his main objectives were to restore the decades-old School of Architecture building, introduce digital design technologies into the curriculum and increase the diver-

sity of the school’s faculty and student body. “[My job was to] renew the school’s sense of self, which had gotten fuzzy, and to energize it,” Stern said.

According to Stern, the most important policy changes during his tenure have included an increase in female students and faculty, a balanced approach toward traditional versus modern design techniques and a heavy emphasis on the undergraduate architecture program that has provided undergraduates with vast resources and opportunities.

Stern added that he thinks his successor should aim to create a balance between traditional architectural methods and modern design technologies, noting that in spite of its educational importance, hand drawing is becoming less prevalent in universities’ architecture programs today.

“We were fortunate to fund traditional hand drawing, even though most architecture schools had dropped hand drawing,” Stern said. “Young artists can’t make a sketch. Hand drawing is what connects the brain to design by the hand.”

Architecture professors interviewed highlighted Stern’s focus on developing the undergraduate architecture program as an equal to the graduate school. Bimal Mendis, the director of undergraduate studies in Architecture, said that under Stern, the undergraduate architecture curriculum has drawn heavily on the broader academic and professional environment of the school.

Maru Filiba ’15, a designer at the New York-based architecture firm Hart Howerton, said that in many ways, she and her fellow students were treated like graduate students in the access they received to the school’s facilities and resources.

“We share common spaces with graduate students, we have access

to all of the fabrication labs, rendering labs and, more importantly, we have access to the graduate students themselves,” she said.

“Unlike an ordinary lecture class where you see your TA in class and section time, maybe office hours but that’s it, we interact with our TAs on a daily basis.”

School of Architecture professor Peggy Deamer said she thinks that one of Stern’s most notable initiatives was introducing experienced, graduate-level faculty into the undergraduate program. Stern made sure that teaching undergraduates was not seen as a second-class option for professors, she noted.

But Deamer also highlighted the risks of trying to model the undergraduate architecture program after the graduate program.

“Those things that are changing the profession are more technologically driven, more businesssavvy and entrepreneurial — I’m not sure this is appropriate for the undergraduate program,” Deamer said.

Still, Deamer noted that she does wants the undergraduate program to be professionally focused enough for the school’s students to be competitive in the job market.

AN OUTDATED APPROACH?

Students and faculty interviewed said that while the Yale School of Architecture has seen a number of reforms in the past two decades, the school still adheres to a traditional view of the architect as a professional whose sole purpose is to design habitable buildings.

Daniel Allen, adjunct assistant professor of architecture, planning and preservation at Columbia University, said the financial pressures and overall professional competition that young architects face today may drive them to be more concerned with mastering traditional forms of architecture in

order to find employment.

“The school is not really looking at the way the industry is evolving or giving space for a student to become anything outside of a classically trained architect — like getting involved in technology or policy and planning,” said Kirk Henderson ARC ’16.

Henderson described a process in which students are pushed into a narrow mental framework that defines architecture as a discipline that only serves to create designs that will become real-life buildings. This classically oriented curriculum, Henderson noted, differs from that of graduate architecture schools such as Columbia’s, which emphasizes theory and writing, or the University of Southern California’s, which works extensively in 3D virtual modeling for video gamers.

Deamer said the school can also modernize by reforming its curriculum to explore the intersection of architecture with disciplines such as environmentalism.

“The program has had the reputation as a school that teaches students ‘how to build’ … but architecture now is about more than designing and building buildings,” Deamer said. “It’s about how materials, labor and resources are deployed at a much broader scale; it is about being theoretically and politically savvy in a global context.”

Deamer also added that increasing racial and economic diversity within the school will bring in students who may help to reshape the image of the Yale architect to be a less traditional one.

BUILDING ON STERN’S LEGACY

Although Stern’s term extends through the middle of next year, the University’s search for his replacement appears to be well under way.

“The search process is moving along, and we hope to have an

announcement later in the semester,” said Martha Highsmith, a senior advisor to University President Peter Salovey.

Stern highlighted the importance of selecting a successor who will continue the school’s commitment to increasing diversity within its students and faculty, adding that there is a high chance that this successor will be a woman.

“With a woman dean, we will set a strong leadership example,” Stern said.

While the school had only 12 women in its 56-member faculty in 1998, the currently tenured faculty has six women and three men, including Stern himself.

The school’s fall 2014 admission statistics also state that 92 of the 199 enrolled students are women.

Stern noted that this year, there is a slight majority of women over men among first-year students in the Master of Architecture I program.

Stern explained that since many women become burdened with responsibilities that accompany marriage and motherhood, they may abandon the architecture profession — which requires a heavy time commitment and a large amount of traveling — because such a career places a great deal of stress on family life.

But Stern noted that he wants the School of Architecture to train its female students to be leaders in the field instead of taking a secondary role.

Meanwhile, Pelkonen said she believes that the new dean should work to increase the number of international students within the school’s community. She added that she wants Stern’s successor to prioritize objectives such as investing in intellectual opportunities through additional seminars and visiting professors as well as building upon Stern’s efforts to reduce the financial burdens of students who must take out loans to pay for tuition.

Ioanna Angelidou ARC ’18 said she hopes the new dean will make an effort to reform the structure of the school’s administration to be less centralized. The school is quite large for everything to be handled and decided upon by a single figure, she noted. “[A centralized administration] worked well during Stern’s deanship because he is a great multitasker and a strong personality, but I think the new dean will have to place emphasis on how the diverse aspects and requirements of the curriculum are managed efficiently while allowing for constant communication with the world outside Yale and the profession per se,” Angelidou said.

Pelkonen also emphasized the importance of having a dean who will be an advocate for the arts and humanities within the University.

“There has recently been a shift from the humanities to the sciences,” Pelkonen said. “One has to remind the people what makes life worth living are the values we learn from the humanities.”

But while Stern and other University officials remain optimistic that the new dean will meet the expectations of the student body, 12 of 15 current students interviewed expressed concern over the fact that there are no students present on the search committee.

Jessica Angel ARC ’16 explained that Salovey will make the final decision on who will serve as Stern’s successor, adding that the advisory committee that makes recommendations to Salovey is comprised solely of faculty members and administrators. According to Paprika’s May 2015 issue, the faculty advisory committee consists of Yale School of Architecture professors Keller Easterling, Michelle Addington, Steven Harris, John Jacobson and Mendis.

Contact GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” VIRGINIA WOOLF ENGLISH AUTHOR

T H E C O L U M B I A D A I LY S P E C TAT O R

T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

Emergency meal fund debuts

Harvard and union negotiate

BY CAROLINE CHIU Columbia students will be able to receive six free meal tickets to any Columbia dining hall — no questions asked — through the Emergency Meal Fund.

This announcement follows an email sent to students on financial aid publicizing the Dean’s Student Assistance Fund from the Director of Financial Aid, Kathryn Tuman.

The Emergency Meal Fund is part of a two-pronged approach shepherded by Columbia College Student Council President Benjamin Makansi and Vice President for Policy Vivek Ramakrishnan in partnership with First-Generation LowIncome Partnership to tackle food insecurity.

The second part of the proposal comes in the form of a partnership with a group of students who are in the process of launching an iOS and Android app, Swipes, which connects students who want to share meals with students who are looking for them. CCSC, FLIP and the student developers hope that this app will serve as a more technologically efficient form of the Facebook page CU Meal Share, which was launched by FLIP in the spring to achieve the same goal.

“Swipes is the preferred method of Meal Share if possible. It’s the first line of defense,”

Ramakr i s h nan said.

Swipes, h o w e v e r, is still in d e ve l COLUMBIA o p m e n t .

Swipes cofounder Julio Henriquez hopes to launch the app as soon as possible.

Vice President for Campus Services Scott Wright, who oversees Columbia Dining, agreed to allow up to 5,000 total meal tickets to be distributed to the student body through the emergency meal fund this semester. However, the number of tickets available for distribution is dependent on how many tickets students donate.

Beginning this week, students in Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences can donate any of their guest meals by signing a paper form in the dining halls. CCSC, Engineering Student Council and FLIP have committed to tabling in dining halls until all 5,000 guest meals have been donated. A student will have two to six guest meals available to donate depending on his or her meal plan. General Studies Student Council will be tabling in Lewisohn Hall to spread awareness about the fund to School of General Studies students.

Discover New Haven: Freshman Challenge By now you probably know where to check out a book on campus, but do you know where the best cookies are sold? Using a smart phone app, search for clues around downtown that will help you learn more about New Haven.

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BY WILLIAM SKINNER AND EMMA TALKOFF As the Sept. 30 expiration date for their current contract approaches, members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers and University administrators continue biweekly meetings to discuss the historically contentious contract between Harvard and its biggest union.

“A lot of important and useful groundwork has been laid, but there’s still a great deal of work to be done and not a lot of time to do it in,” said Bill Jaeger, the director of HUCTW. “Leadership on both sides are feeling pressure to intensify.”

Katie Lapp, the University’s executive vice president, said in a statement that the summer meetings were characterized by “constructive discussion and information sharing.”

Negotiators have failed to meet the deadline multiple times before in the union’s 27-year history, including the last time the contract was renegotiated in 2013, when talks ran over eight months past the deadline, the longest delay in the union’s history. In the event that an agreement is not reached by the deadline, HUCTW leadership said the union will likely continue to operate on its existing contract, as it has done in the past.

Failure to meet the Sept. 30 deadline, Jaeger said, would also mean that a full year will have passed since HUCTW members received a raise.

“From the union’s point of view, that’s an important thresh-

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old,” he said.

In addition to salary, health care is an ongoing point of discussion in the contract

negotiations.

“There are important and complicated issues on the table, including changes to health care benefits, where negotiations are impacted by broader university decision-making,” Lapp said in the statement.

In fall 2014, the University announced changes in health care benefits for all non-union employees, prompting backlash among professors. Since then, the University Benefits Committee has gone back to the drawing board and recently presented non-union employees with new point of service plans with higher premiums but no deductibles and coinsurance. The committee also removed coinsurance and deductibles on diagnostic tests for the other options.

Though the recent changes do not apply to HUCTW, health care has also been a key element of union negotiations in recent years. Last spring, members of HUCTW and Harvard administrators held a series of informal meetings with public health and policy experts from the University to familiarize both sides with possible solutions to the health care debate. Those meetings, said Carrie Barbash, a HUCTW organizer, have been “incredibly helpful” in negotiations with the

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A Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers event in 2013.

University so far.

The importance of changes to health care, including more extensive wellness programming and benefits to HUCTW members, emerged in a survey conducted by union leadership last spring to take the temperature of its membership. More than 60 percent of respondents were “very supportive” of increased wellness programming such as exercise classes. In response, the University has utilized its

HUCTW negotiations webpage to emphasize current wellness offerings that are already available to HUCTW members, such as low-cost gym memberships and fitness classes.

Barbash and Jaeger said select details from many areas of the survey have been presented at the negotiation meetings, emphasizing debt, rising costs of living and increased rents as central issues for many HUCTW employees.

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Mothers of suicide victims call for action

BY CAROLINE SIMON On Thursday, a group called the Hamlett-Reed Mental Health Initiative sponsored a silent march for National Suicide Awareness Day to honor Penn students who have died by suicide. The march culminated in the delivery of an open letter to the office of Penn President Amy Gutmann, urging the administration to take more decisive action in protection of student mental health.

The letter is signed by Katherine Hamlett, the mother of Timothy Hamlett, and Linda Douglas, the mother of Theodric Reed. Hamlett and Reed are among seven Penn students who committed suicide within the last two years.

The letter condemns the progress of the Task Force for

Psychological Health and Wellness — the administ ra t i o n ’s response to student PENN d ea t h s — arguing that the administration’s “Band-Aid solutions” have not led to substantial change.

It goes on to name six specific proposals: designated Counseling and Psychological Services therapists for incoming students, anonymity for counseling visits, online CAPS scheduling, proactive and regular CAPS communication with students, a focus on student groups particularly prone to stress and emphasis on CAPS during New Student Orientation. The pro-

posals each include a deadline, ranging from Nov. 1, 2015 to New Student Orientation 2016.

Other notable signatories include student leaders from mental health advocacy groups, student government, Greek life and minority councils, among others.

College senior and class of 2016 president Jesus Perez said he signed the letter in order to fight the negative stigma of mental health and bring attention to the issue as a whole.

“T imothy was a member of our class,” Perez said in an email. “Too often we think that depression and suicide are things we can’t talk about. I personally believe our community should stand together to destigmatize the conversation. With this, we bring attention to the prevalent mental health issues

we all experience from time to time.”

Students attending the march carried signs with the names and ages of suicide victims.

Members of the group maintained silence and solemnity as they marched to the doors of College Hall, drawing attention from passers-by as they made their way through campus.

Protesters varied in their reasons for joining the march, but the movement as a whole aims to put mental health at the forefront of discussion at Penn.

“I think mental health is a really important issue,” said College sophomore Conrad Mascarenhas, who attended the march and held a sign bearing Madison Holleran’s name.

“This was a really good way to draw attention to that in a public way.”

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“I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody’s feelings.” DAVID ORTIZ SEVEN-TIME EDGAR MARTINEZ AWARD WINNER

Elis, Eagles to meet FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 the toughest competition in Division I. American is definitely well seasoned to stepping up and playing at a high level.”

So far in its season, American has scored 13 goals in its four games, leaving it with an average of 3.3 goals per game. In their last three games, all wins, American outscored its opponents 12–4, and its average of four goals per game would tie for seventh nationally among all teams.

Leading the team in scoring is forward Natalie Konerth, who has already set a career high with four assists and 10 points this season.

“We always look forward to the opportunity to play a strong opponent, especially as we look forward to begin league play in a few weeks,” forward Alyssa Weiss ’17 said.

Both games last weekend provided moments of optimism for the Elis. On Saturday, Yale persevered and managed to win on a game-winning goal in overtime from Middough.

And in the loss on Sunday, following a miserable start where the Bobcats scored twice in the first 23 minutes, the Elis made a strong second-half push. Yale scored less than a minute after play resumed in the second half and out-shot Quinnipiac 10–5 in the period.

Back Kiwi Comizio ’18 said that the team had a strong week of practice following the team’s up-

and-down start.

“Everyone worked hard and had a good attitude even though we did not have two wins last weekend,” Comizio said. “We are excited for this game because American is a good team and is very well coached. It will be a tough, but good game.”

Indeed, American’s program has earned quite a solid reputation over the past two decades. Head coach Steve Jennings, who was inducted into the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2012, has a 209–110 record in 17 seasons at the helm.

The Eagles have won nine conference titles, and Jennings has also won nine Patriot League Coach of the Year awards.

Yale, however, is hoping to come away from the game with a win.

“The good thing about this weekend is that we only have one game instead of two — so we can really focus on just one opponent and lay everything out on the field,” Wells said.

She added that after last weekend’s win and loss, the team feels very motivated about the season in general and that it is ready to show that determination in the many games it has to come.

Saturday’s game against the Eagles starts at noon.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

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The Bulldogs started out the season with a victory over Rhode Island, but fell in their next two matches for a 1–2 record.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 gers, the Crimson’s latest victim.

For the Bulldogs, however, the non-conference slate as a whole is still more about developing chemistry and experience for the team’s new players and veterans thrust into new roles.

“These preseason tourna-

ments help us to work out the kinks and build team chemistry,” outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 said. “They prepare us for challenges we may face during the season.”

Additionally, this weekend marks the first of many trips away from home for the Bulldogs, who will also travel to the San Francisco Challenge next weekend. For new and

old team members alike, this weekend will provide a taste of the challenges that come with playing in hostile road environments.

“The first road trip is always very fun and exciting, yet difficult,” outside hitter Megan Rasmussen ’18 said. “It’s weird playing in a different gym and in front of a different crowd, but it’s so good to get accli-

mated to that different environment in the preseason so we will be ready for our away Ivy games.”

Yale faces Albany at 4 p.m. on Friday, and then plays Colgate and Rutgers at 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

High-scoring Elis play a pair W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12

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After scoring three goals last weekend, forward/midfielder Carol Middough ’18 was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll.

“When we talk about executing anything on the field or winning in general, we say something along the lines of ‘It’s not enough to talk about doing it, you have to go out and do it,’” defender Ana Keusch ’16 said.

The high-powered attack thus far marks a stark difference from a year ago, when the Bulldogs scored only 21 goals in 16 games, a far cry from league leader Princeton’s 35 goals in 16 games.

A huge part of that difference is the team’s ability in 2015 to put shots on target. After only 47.3 percent of the Bulldogs’ shots were on goal a year ago, the Elis have improved their accuracy and increased that percentage to 57.9.

According to Keusch, the Elis develop their solid attack squad by watching film from previous games. Keusch stated that if there

are repeated mistakes on tape, then those will be the areas that will be ironed out in practice the following week.

“We have a lot of potential as a team, but that means nothing if we can’t keep it together for 90 minutes,” midfielder Geneva Decker ’17 said. “The main challenge for us is going to be staying mentally turned on for the entirety of the matches [against Villanova and Maryland].”

The Bulldogs are currently on a two-game winning streak and a two-game shutout streak. From here on out, the Elis will be away from Reese Stadium until Harvard comes down from Cambridge on Oct. 3.

Friday’s contest against Villanova begins at 3 p.m.; Sunday’s against Maryland is at 1 p.m.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

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The Bulldogs are playing Maryland for the second time ever this weekend. Yale tallied an overtime victory in the first meeting in 2005.

Yale faces California power, American foe M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 start turning into actual goals.”

Midfielder Dylan Onderdonk-Snow ’17 stressed that the team’s losses have only served to motivate the Bulldogs. But this weekend’s matches will be no easy task.

The Gauchos, though also winless in their last two games, are twotime defending champions of the Big West Conference’s North Division. Yale last faced UCSB two years ago in a tight match where momentum shifted back and forth throughout the 90 minutes before ultimately ending in a 3–1 Gauchos victory.

While defender Allen Wang ’18 was not on the team in that game, he knows the Gauchos better than most, as he will play against former club teammate Ahinga Selemani in tonight’s game.

Wang described Selemani as “dynamic” and added that Yale will “definitely have to watch out for him and the rest of [UCSB’s] potent offense.” To take on the opponent’s possession-based play, Wang emphasized that the team plans to be “disciplined and tough to break down.”

Kinnane, meanwhile, noted that Yale would also seek to right last weekend’s critical errors.

“We had some mental lapses defensively in some crucial areas and that is what led to [the opponents’] goals,” Kinnane said. “We just have to stay sharp for the whole time and make sure we don’t make any silly mistakes and give up goals like we have in the past.”

The home opener also delivers the opportunity for players to translate their preparation to performance in Yale’s Reese Stadium. All players interviewed expressed excitement for tonight’s opener, with Kinnane citing the home fans as making a big difference in the final

outcome.

“That’s where we practice, out in the stadium, but it’s pretty much been empty so far, the whole season, and I’m looking forward to having a crowd behind us,” Onderdonk-Snow said.

Following the game, the Bulldogs have one day of rest before heading out on the road again to play Temple (3–0–1, 0–0–0 American). Though last season’s campaign was a dismal one, with Yale finishing in last place in the Ivy League, its lone bright spot came when the Elis pulled out an overtime victory over the Owls.

A win on Sunday’s trip to Philadelphia, however, will be a challenging undertaking. Despite finishing 2–14–2 last year, Temple is currently undefeated in four games this season, including last week’s home opener win against thenNo. 25 Penn State.

More than anything, it seems that Yale is still seeking the positive momentum that eluded it last season. As Yale gears up for Ivy League divisional play in the coming weeks, victories against UCSB and Temple could be the crucial impetus needed to carry the team through upcoming rivalry games. With 15 matches left this year, there is still plenty of time to develop, and the Bulldogs have already worked through a few of this season’s most pressing challenges.

“We’ve made a lot of progress from where we were at the beginning of preseason when we were bringing in basically 13 new guys, but there’s still a lot of progress yet to be made as evidenced by our two losses,” Onderdonk-Snow said.

Kickoff against UCSB is at 6 p.m. Sunday’s match against Temple begins at 3 p.m.

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The lone win in Yale’s 2014 campaign came against Temple, the Bulldog’s opponent, on Sunday.

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Elis look to rebound at Colgate Classic

BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER Last weekend’s Yale Invitational served as an effective season-opening warm-up for the women’s volleyball team. From a results standpoint, however, the Bulldogs’ 1–2 record left the team disappointed.

This weekend, the Elis will travel to Hamilton, New York for the Colgate Classic, where they hope to translate success on the court to the scoreboard. Yale will face Albany, Colgate and Rutgers over two days, giving the team an opportunity to test itself against other schools in the Northeast.

While the four-team tournament format differs from the normal two-game Ivy League weekend schedule, the unique schedule should help prepare the Bulldogs for the conference season.

“The uniqueness of these tournaments is the length and duration,” middle blocker Claire Feeley ’17 said. “You’re playing more games and having to constantly learn new scouting reports and keep track of different players who can do different things.”

Feeley added that tournaments are more exhausting than regular weekends. As a result, Yale’s early season schedule challenges the players and forces them to find a way to win when they are not at their peak.

The first match of the week-

end for the Bulldogs is against the Great Danes of Albany, who are traveling to their third tournament in the last three weekends. Albany enters the tournament with a 3–3 overall record, including commanding wins over Oakland and Indiana State at last week’s Golden Flashes Classic.

In 2014, Albany made the championship game in the America East conference tournament with a subpar 10–17 record, and the Great Danes have been picked to finish second in their conference this season. Their biggest weapon, outside hitter Laini Leindecker, returns for her junior year after finishing first team AllConference in the America East a year ago.

On Saturday, Yale plays its first game against the tournament’s host, the Colgate Raiders. Colgate comes into its home opener with an 0–6 record, having won a total of three sets across their six games so far. But despite their poor performance, the Raiders’ home-court advantage and four returning starters make them a difficult opponent for the Bulldogs.

The Bulldogs wrap up the Colgate Classic with a matinee against Rutgers, who come to Hamilton fresh off a winless performance at the Harvard Classic. The Scarlet Knights bring a 1–5 record into the tournament, including a 3–0 loss to the Crimson that bodes well for Yale’s

VOLLEYBALL

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The Bulldogs won just one game at their season opening tournament last weekend. chances.

While Harvard defeated the Elis during both of last year’s reg-

Elis hopeful for home opener

Tournament berth. The Bulldogs expect to battle with Harvard for the conference title once again,

After opening its season with a split last weekend, the Yale women’s field hockey team will head to the nation’s capital this weekend to face off against American University.

This weekend, the Yale men’s soccer team will seek to rebound from a rocky start to the season with matches against the University of California, Santa Barbara and Temple University. The Bulldogs play UCSB in this year’s home opener tonight and travel to Philadelphia to take on Temple on Sunday.

but they first must get past RutSEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 10

Yale to face D.C. power

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in goals per game.

American (3–1, 0–0 Patriot) has won three straight games since falling in overtime in its season opener against Richmond. In addition to wins over Old Dominion and Appalachian State, the Eagles also hold a victory

over Ivy foe Brown.

“American has a good squad,” Nicole Wells ’16, a staff reporter for the News, said. “[It is] a well-disciplined team that often has some opportunities to play SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 10

FIELD HOCKEY

M. SOCCER A victory against UCSB (1–1– 1, 0–0–0 Big West) would be the first of the season for Yale (0–2–0, 0–0–0 Ivy) and would also snap its eight-game winless streak that stretches back to last year’s campaign. Though the team’s two matches a week ago ended in losses to Sacred Heart and Fairleigh Dickinson, the team

ular season meetings, Yale swept the Ivy League tiebreaker match to claim the Ivy’s lone NCAA

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The Elis won just one game in 2014, their fewest in the season since 1922. had constructive takeaways and remains optimistic for its upcoming games.

“We created a lot of chances, but we just couldn’t put them

away when it mattered,” midfielder Archie Kinnane ’18 said.

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Last Saturday, the Bulldogs (1–1, 0–0 Ivy) went up against Sacred Heart University and won the game with a final score of 2–1. The next day, against local rival Quinnipiac, the Elis were unable to snatch a victory, losing by an identical 2–1 score. All three of Yale’s goals were scored by forward/midfielder Carol Middough ’18, who is now tied for fifth place nationally

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The Bulldogs played two contests last weekend, splitting them with identical 2–1 scores.

Bulldogs travel for major conference foes

BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER This weekend marks the first away trip for the Yale women’s soccer team as it travels out of state to play Villanova and Maryland.

W. SOCCER Not a single Bulldog has seen action against either the Wildcats (0–5–0, 0–0–0 Big East) or the Terrapins (4–3–0, 0–0–0 Big Ten) while donning the Yale

uniform, as the Elis last played Maryland in 2005 and the Wildcats in 2004.

“We are looking forward to playing schools that we do not normally play,” goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 said. “Both of [them] are good, tough teams. It is our first set of away games and we are excited to continue progressing as a team.”

It has been a difficult past couple of weeks for the Wildcats, as they have yet to score any goals this season. Following three 1–0 losses and one 2–0 loss, Villanova was throttled by No. 12 West

Virginia 8–0 after the Mountaineers scored three goals in the first 10 minutes of the half.

But after playing all of those games on the road, the Wildcats will be making their home debut against the Elis. The Bulldogs would do well to watch out for forward Amanda Vocelka, who started 18 of 19 games a year ago in her freshman campaign and led the team with five assists.

When Yale takes on the Terrapins, on the other hand, the game figures to have a good deal more offense. Maryland has seven goals to date, while the Elis are on top

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with 10 goals in just three games.

Strong offensive forces are coming from the youngest players on the Yale women’s team.

Forward Michelle Alozie ’19 has scored four goals, including a hat trick in Tuesday’s 4–0 romp over Sacred Heart. Forwards Sofia Griff ’19 and Keri Cavallo ’19 each have two goals apiece, while the final two Eli goals are from midfielder Shannon Conneely ’16 and defender Ally Grossman ’16.

Yet players are not content to simply rest on their laurels.

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The women’s soccer team looks to capitalize against a struggling Villanova squad, which has a record of 0–5–0.

NUMBER OF CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS WON BY AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FIELD HOCKEY COACH STEVE JENNINGS. The Eagles, who play the Bulldogs on Saturday, are 3–1 this season.