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CROSS CAMPUS Whiffenparty. Generations of

Whiffs flocked back to campus this weekend for their 105th reunion, an over-the-top affair in classic a cappella style that included shenanigans at Mory’s, a reception in the ballroom of LoRicco Tower and of course endless chances for performance. Over 250 attendees represented Whiff years from the 1940s to today.

Can any regular person even imagine being surrounded by that many Whiffenpoofs?

Shiller for President.

A conference last week celebrated Nobel Prizewinning economics professor Robert Shiller. Leading economists from China, Italy, Russia and the U.S. gathered at the Yale School of Management in honor of Shiller’s contributions to finance and economics.

Many panelists were former students or colleagues of Shiller’s. The conference had been planned even before Shiller took home the 2013 Nobel Prize, a sure sign for Shiller 2016 if any.

For English majors. Yalies made an impressive showing in this year’s Norman Mailer writing awards. Sarah Maslin ’14, a former magazine editor for the News was the fouryear college creative nonfiction winner. Four other Yalies were named finalists or semifinalists. #RichKidsofIvyLeagues The University of Pennsylvania has produced more billionaire undergraduate alumni than any other college according to the Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census 2014, with a total of 25. Next on the list are Harvard with 22 and Yale with 20. Thirty-five percent of the world’s billionaires do not hold college degrees.

Every single Ivy League made it into the top 20 schools on the list, for once.

FOOTBALL YALE WINS FIRST GAME

ATHLETICS

CLAY

Despite hype, College Gameday will not be coming to Yale

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are starting back up, giving Yale students the chance to do actual physical labor outdoors.

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BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER At exactly 12:59 p.m. on Sunday, for one minute, the streets of Manhattan between Central Park West and the United Nations were silent. Softly at first, a rumble began to travel through the crowd before becoming the deafening roar of over 310,000 protestors shouting their demands for climate action.

Suddenly, Central Park West was filled with drumming, whistles and the chants of “Hey, Obama, we don’t want no climate drama!” Busloads of college students rolled in, followed by faith groups, political groups, babies and grandfathers. A small boy stood by the road blowing into a vuvuzela and wearing a sign with the words “sledding on grass isn’t fun.” Notables such as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, ex-Vice President Al Gore and actor Leonardo DeCaprio were present among the sea of protestors.

By around 11:00 a.m., Chelsea Watson, vice-president of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, estimated that over 100 Yale students had arrived at the intersection of 70th Street and Central Park West, the block designated by Climate March organizers for Yale Students to congregate for the march. Half an hour later, YSEC buses carrying an addi-

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A large contingent of Yale students participated in the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sunday afternoon. tional 150 students joined the group, as did a bus of students from the Slifka Center. Flanking the undergraduates were members of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Stud-

ies, as well as a group of Yale College alumni.

YSEC worked for over a month to coordinate transport of students, painting of signs and logistics for the day of the

protest, said Daniel Lebovic, the president of YSEC. The section of the march designated for college students spanned over 10 city blocks.

On Tuesday the U.N. Climate

Summit will be held in New York City, which is expected to draw leaders from around the world. The U.N.’s New York SEE CLIMATE MARCH PAGE 7

ADMISSIONS

What’s next for affirmative action?

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hough affirmative action policies have helped significantly increase the diversity of the Yale student body over the past 50 years, the practice of employing racial preference in college admissions is facing increasing opposition. What does this mean for Yale?

RISHABH BHANDARI reports.

When William Morse ’64 GRD ’74 entered Yale as a freshman in 1960, he saw more students from a handful of New England boarding schools than from the rest of the country combined.

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Speakers detail green career options to over 200 students

Yalies protest climate change

Spring Fling Redux. Betty

Who clearly did not get enough of Connecticut last year at Spring Fling. The singer will be back in the state later this month for a show at The Space in Hamden.

Openers are Paperwhite and Ian Biggs.

ENVIRONMENT

A member of the hockey team with current U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ’66, Morse remembers a student body that

was almost exclusively white and wealthy. Yet when Morse returned to the University just five years after graduation to begin his doctoral studies in literature, he felt as if he was entering an entirely different school.

“In the space of just a few years, the Yale I returned to was completely transformed,” he said.

“The student body looked totally different [in 1969] from the one I left as an undergrad.”

In the late 1960s and early

’70s, the University began admitting women and rapidly expanded the percentage of African-Americans, Catholics and students of other backgrounds, said Jeff Brenzel ’75, who served as the Dean of Undergraduate Admissions from 2005 to 2013.

Many alumni were furious, recalled Geoffrey Kabaservice ’88 GRD ’99, a historian who wrote a biography of then-University President Kingman Brewster.

“This battle was part of a larger struggle in the country, a wideencompassing and thorny debate that revolved around race and gender,” Kabaservice said.

According to Worth David ’56, the dean of admissions at Yale from 1972 to 1992, Brewster and Clark planted the seeds of affirmative action with their decision to actively recruit students from minority backgrounds, looking for applicants with the highest combination of potential and

achievement.

Still, Brewster and his advisors never intended for racial preference to remain in place for very long, Kabaservice said. They thought that if the University aggressively recruited underrepresented students, eventually the achievement gap would close, he said.

But roughly half a century later, Yale’s affirmative action policies not only remain in place, but have expanded in scope to include socioeconomic class and geography, among other factors.

As a result, Yale has reached a level of diversity that would have been hard to imagine in the 1960s, said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan, though he acknowledged that Yale’s statistics are not as diverse as America’s. Over a third of American students in the class of 2018 identify as students of color, and about one out of every seven

freshmen is the first in their families to attend college — a figure Mark Dunn, assistant director of admissions, said is the highest in the College’s records.

Still, experts and students alike acknowledge that the decision of Yale and its peer schools to employ racial preference in its application process remains controversial.

This year, Yale received 30,932 applications for the class of 2018 — a record high. As this number continues growing and the acceptance rate shrinks, experts interviewed said the University’s decision to favorably consider some races in the application process will likely only draw increased criticism.

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Free Scotland. According

to the Crimson, Harvard undergraduates were divided over the Scottish independence referendum.

On Thursday night, members of the Harvard British Club on both sides of the issue gathered in Leverett House to watch the results together.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1960 The all-senior chapter of Chi Psi moves into a new house on Chapel Street, funded by dues of $85 from each member. The house is too small for parties .

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Many Yalies disengaged from governor’s race

BY REBECCA KARABUS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With just over one month until Connecticut’s gubernatorial race, the majority of Yalies are apathetic about what has become one of the most hotly contested races in the country.

A poll released on Sept. 10 by Quinnipiac University reveals that Republican candidate Tom Foley currently has a sixpoint lead over Democratic incumbent Dannel Malloy, one of the closest margins of any race this year. Yet the majority of Yale students interviewed who are not Connecticut residents or affiliated with political organizations on campus

said they are not following the race.

Of 50 students interviewed, only 10 plan to vote in Connecticut this November, and most of these prospective voters said they are not yet sufficiently informed about either candidate to support one or the other.

“I’ve heard the election mentioned a couple of times but am fundamentally clueless,” Christina Drexler ’18 said.

Since most students only spend four years in Connecticut, they expressed doubt that the race would have any impact on their daily lives. Scott Smith ’18 said that since he is not from ConSEE GOVERNOR’S RACE PAGE 7

Yale-NUS will not show banned film

BY LAVINIA BORZI AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS Recent events surrounding the planned showing of a banned film at Yale-NUS have suggested that free expression on the Singaporean campus is not absolute.

The controversy over “To Singapore, with Love” began in early September when the Singaporean Media Development Authority, or MDA, deemed the film a threat to national security and prevented any screening or distribution of it in Singapore, albeit with specific allowances for

certain educational showings. Last week, Yale-NUS administrators said they planned to show the film as part of a course and received MDA permission to do so — but Tan Pin Pin, the maker of the film, announced publicly last Thursday that she would not allow for the film to be shown at YaleNUS. Tan, who did not respond to requests for comment, wrote on her Facebook page that despite Lewis’s statement to the News, there are no plans to show “To Singapore, with Love” at Yale-NUS, adding that YaleSEE BANNED FILM PAGE 7

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.COMMENT “I thought your generation had been taught that quitting was the new yaledailynews.com/opinion

GUEST COLUMNIST NAFEE SA KHAN

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the Muslim individual to choose between his conscience and his creed...with every atrocity they commit, they remind the Muslim of his commitment to submit to Allah. Will you submit passively or actively, or will you finally stand up to Allah?”

By suggesting that Muslims — particularly Yale’s Muslims — can only save their humanity by abandoning their identities, Hirsi Ali’s call to action erases the experiences of any Muslim who is in fact a decent human being. It gives no consideration to the countless Muslims whose lives are enriched by Islam, and made more peaceful by their religious and cultural identification. This reduction of Islam to a “creed” of manic violence serves to cast a blanket of doubt on the innocence and loyalty of an entire community, thereby reinforcing Islamophobic ideologies that allow targeted racial profiling, surveillance and discrimination to run rampant. This narrative also puts American Muslims in the excruciatingly taxing position of having to constantly explain ourselves and defend our relationships to our faith under scrutiny, in the process sacrificing personal narratives of complex, compelling and varied lives.

Much as we would like to believe that our communities are immune to intolerance, Muslim Yalies are no strangers to Islamophobia. Many of us have grown up dodging slurs and watching other passengers leer and whisper after spotting our bearded fathers and Hijabi mothers boarding flights. Many of us have spent our youths constantly trying to prove how “American”, “peaceful” and “respectable” we are, only to be told by Fox News that terrorists “all look alike. They’re all foreign-born ...

They’re all Muslim.” Just three years ago, the NYPD was found to have been surveilling Muslim Student Associations along the East Coast, including those at Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania and a number of other colleges. Hirsi Ali’s talk and the debates it sparked have been a reminder of how alienating and intimidating it feels to be seen as a dangerous other.

While Ayaan Hirsi Ali may have come and gone, the larger issues of Islamophobia and post9/11 racial politics will persist, on our campus and in our nation at large. As we continue to think about Islam as a campus, it is my hope that we can all work to create a Yale that takes a stand against Islamophobia in championing social justice and caring for all of its students.

NAFEESA KHAN is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact her at nafeesa.khan@yale.edu.

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Contextualizing Hirsi Ali n Sep. 15, 2001, a turbaned gas station owner named Balbir Singh Sodhi was fatally shot five times while planting flowers around his property, becoming one of the first victims of post-9/11 Islamophobic hate violence in the United States.

Over a decade later, Islamophobia remains alive and well in the American experience.

A recent study by South Asian Americans Leading Together found that in the last three years, there’s been a documented instance of hate crime against Americans perceived to be Muslim — whether Arab, Sikh or Hindu — every 3.5 days on average, a rate 40 percent higher than previous years. Nearly half of American Muslims report having experienced racial or religious discrimination within the past year, including everything from verbal and physical assaults to employment discrimination and hijabs ripped off of girls’ heads. These rates of discrimination are nearly twice as high as that experienced by their Protestant, Catholic and Jewish American counterparts.

Last Monday was the thirteenth anniversary of Sodhi’s death. On that day, Ayaan Hirsi Ali addressed the Yale community in a talk organized by the William F. Buckley Program.

During her lecture, she expressed her view that Islamophobia “is a disingenuous term” and that those who espouse biases against Islam are justified in their antagonism.

In recent days, students have engaged in a contentious debate over Hirsi Ali’s visit to our campus. Some have argued that she must be given a forum to express her beliefs, while others maintain that she does not have the credentials to speak authoritatively on the state of the Islamic world. While these debates have consumed our community, they have arguably failed to highlight perhaps the most troubling aspect of Hirsi Ali’s recent appearance. By portraying Islam as an inherently dangerous, unstable doctrine that must be contained and quieted, Hirsi Ali reinforces Islamophobic ideologies — ideologies which have dire consequences for Muslims.

These ideologies will continue to have violent ramifications as long as American communities, including Yale’s, fail to engage with this rhetoric carefully and critically.

Hirsi Ali ended her talk on Monday by addressing Yale’s Muslim students, asking us the following: “Muslim Students Association of Yale: You live at a time when Muslims are at a crossroads. Every single day there is a headline that forces

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Smoke and mirrors policy The following contains an account of sexual assault.

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ast winter, when I was a senior at Yale, I was sexually assaulted. I wasn’t strangled or choked, I wasn’t pinned down. I didn’t say “no.” But I was so drunk that I can’t remember most of it.

What I do remember is that it was January, two days after my birthday and a few days before my roommate’s — the two of us had thrown ourselves a party. I remember starting off with vodka, and later moving to gin, tequila, beer and cider straight from the keg. I remember sending a text to my assailant inviting him to come by (at the time I’d believed him to be a friend of mine). I remember going upstairs and taking off my clothes in front of several people, some of whom I didn’t know.

I remember that we had unprotected sex (he ignored my request to use a condom). I remember a sudden and overwhelming feeling that I needed to leave my room.

And I remember sobbing uncontrollably in the bathroom to my best friend.

My friends and others who attended the party have been able to fill in some of the blanks for me. I was slurring and unable to form coherent sentences; I was stumbling, falling down, leaning on others for help standing; I ran into a door. Needless to say, it was obvious to anyone who’d been there that I was severely inebriated. I’m told that after taking off my clothes in public, I walked into my bedroom and said, “I’m going to sleep,” and that my assailant followed me, asking about a charger for his phone and shutting the door behind him. And apparently after we’d had sex, I burst out of my bedroom in tears, repeating phrases like, “I have no moral code,” “I’m a terrible per-

son,” “I have nothing,” and “I don’t understand what happened.” My friends tell me that, while I was in the bathroom, they advised my assailant to leave and then put me to bed.

The morning after my assault, I was embarrassed. I felt guilty about the way the night ended and I worried that I may have caused my assailant to feel uncomfortable. What was perhaps most distressing to me was that, for the first time in my life, I didn’t know what I felt, or even what I thought I should feel. And for months I carried around this confusion. I didn’t talk about it, and I did my best not to think about it. But when I returned to New Haven after spring break, I ran into him twice in one day. Our paths hadn’t crossed much since the assault even though he lived only two blocks away from me, but that day I was confronted with him and with a reminder of all the thoughts and feelings I’d suppressed. I wanted to know how I should feel. In an attempt to figure it out, I sought counseling at SHARE. I met with someone for several weeks before I was able to work through my negative feelings and recognize the encounter for what it was: sexual assault. After that, I felt wronged and taken advantage of, but what I mostly felt was hurt.

Yale’s sexual misconduct policy is very clear, as is its definition of consent. It states: “Consent cannot be obtained from someone who is asleep or otherwise mentally or physically incapacitated, whether due to alcohol, drugs, or some other condition. A person is mentally or physically incapacitated when that person lacks the ability to make or act on considered decisions to engage in sexual activity. Engaging in sexual activity with a person whom you know — or reasonably should know — to

Let them eat humanities I

f I were applying to college again, I wouldn’t list history as my prospective major as I did four years ago. I hope this doesn’t sound paranoid, but I think listing that today could actually hurt my application.

And that’s a problem.

“It is more than just a class,” Harvard junior Cordelia Mendez reported in the Harvard Crimson last week. “It is a cultural touchstone, a lifestyle, a spectacle. This is CS50, and it’s here to stay.”

Melodrama aside, Mendez’s article was fascinating, shocking and a little scary. It discussed CS50, Harvard’s most popular class, with a mindboggling 818 undergraduates.

The lecture is more like a magic show than a traditional recitation, featuring swirling lights, techno music and the professor tearing a phone book in half.

“This. Is. CS50,” the professor — David Malan, a youngish guy clad in jeans and a black sweater — chanted at the beginning of CS50, sounding a little like Steve Jobs, or maybe the leader of a cult.

“If there were ever a cult, it’s CS50,” one student told the Crimson.

CS50 is not a cult. But it’s part of a trend. At Harvard, this trend is virtually unstoppable. At Yale, it’s getting there.

This trend is more students majoring in STEM fields — at the expense of other fields. For years now, Harvard, Yale and nearly every other university across the country have been actively attempting to increase their STEM students. At Yale, this push can be seen through YES Weekend, a squadron of science “ambassadors” and, more broadly, the decisions and rhetoric of the Admissions Office.

In 2006, the Yale Admissions Office began targeting the best and brightest math and science students across the country; since then, the number of applicants interested in STEM has skyrocketed 50 percent.

Yale’s STEM focus has been

so successful, in fact, that it is having some unintended consequences.

In the decade p r e c e d ing 2011, the SCOTT number of STERN students taking English A Stern classes fell Perspective by more than 20 percent; the number of English majors dropped by a similar amount. During the same time period, the number of history majors fell by approximately 40 percent, while the number of kids taking history classes plummeted by almost 50 percent. By trying so hard to get the best STEM kids, Yale has allowed its humanities departments to suffer. A push for STEM has translated into a pull away from the humanities.

This is even truer at Harvard.

In the “last decade alone,” David Brooks wrote in The New York Times, “the number of incoming students at Harvard who express interest in becoming humanities majors has dropped by a third.”

While some at Yale have been alarmed by the decline in humanities enrollment, at Harvard this has been celebrated. “[We’re] not especially sad to see the English majors go,” ran an editorial in the Harvard Crimson last year entitled, “Let Them Eat Code.” To the Crimson’s editorial board, the decline of the humanities represents “the foresight and responsibility of the American youth.”

And it’s not as if all this “foresight and responsibility” is actually creating more scientists. To me, it seems likely that the increase in STEM students, especially at Harvard and Yale, has largely meant a greater number of STEM kids going into finance and consulting.

The number of Yale STEM students going on to obtain STEM

be incapacitated constitutes sexual misconduct.”

The training we received as freshmen was very clear: If a person is drunk, he or she cannot consent to sex. Yale presents it to us in black and white. But it’s only black and white on paper, and in reality we treat such incidents as shades of grey. The values we act upon (or judge others by) are far from the values we voice in public.

I filed a formal complaint with the University at the very end of my senior year. Ultimately, the panel found that my assailant was not in violation of Yale’s sexual misconduct policy. In its report, the panel cited evidence that I was able to “act on considered decisions,” pointing to, in part, the clarity of my text messages to my assailant (though they were misspelled), the fact that I removed my own clothing (despite this being in front of several other people, including a stranger or two) and my comments to friends after having sex (those comments being that “I have no moral code” and “I don’t understand what happened”). The panel cited actions that were a direct result of my extreme level of intoxication as evidence that I was not in fact too intoxicated to consent to sex. This finding — aside from being completely at odds with the written policy — sends a problematic message about what constitutes sexual misconduct at Yale.

Essentially, it seems to read: It’s not okay to sleep with a drunk person (unless they’re asking for it).

Yale failed to uphold its own policy — which, for the record, I believe to be a good one. I exhausted all of my options that the system afforded to me to fight the finding: When I received the panel report, I submitted an appeal that was subsequently denied. My assailant has now received his Yale degree and can rest assured that

he did nothing wrong — because that’s what Yale implied by declaring that he was not in violation of the sexual misconduct policy.

What he did to me is okay in Yale’s book, and it happens to far too many on this campus who do not come forward.

We like to think we’re progressive. We say that the absence of a “no” is not a “yes,” that having sex with someone who’s intoxicated constitutes sexual assault. But, for some reason, there remains a social stigma around calling a spade a spade. The unfortunate truth is that nothing will change until Yale takes a firm stance against alcohol-related incidents of sexual assault, until it puts its good theory into good practice. So no, I wasn’t restrained or choked.

But I was physically vulnerable, and despite what the panel has to say about it, I was mentally incapacitated. My assailant was predatory, not violent. And I am at a loss to understand why Yale would undermine the severity of my assailant’s offense and the integrity of their own policy by calling what happened to me anything other than sexual assault.

As of May 31, 2014, Yale is no longer required to report to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, as per the voluntary resolution agreement reached in 2012 in response to the Title IX lawsuit brought against the University. But this isn’t over. While Yale may have taken a step in the right direction by forming the UWC, we must demand more. It doesn’t matter if there’s a system in place unless it actually enforces the sexual misconduct policy and upholds the ethical standard that we’ve set forth publicly. Until then, it’s smoke and mirrors.

EDEN OHAYON is a 2014 graduate of Pierson College.

I L LU ST R AT I O N S E D I T O R ANNELISA LEINBACH

Yale-NUS, back in the spotlight

Ph.D.s is at almost an all-time low, an excellent feature in the News pointed out last year. As a Chronicle of Higher Ed article put it, “our educational system churns out so many qualified people in STEM majors that about half of them have left the field within 10 years, according to a Georgetown University study.”

“Many don’t wait that long,” the article continued. “Professors even at august research institutions report seeing many of their brightest minds in the hard sciences flee to Wall Street after being wooed by recruiters from financial companies.” Two years ago, J.P. Morgan Chase announced it was going to double the number of interns it hired that were majoring in engineering. It did. And J.P. Morgan was the third largest employer of the Yale class of 2013.

So, finally, this brings us back to CS50. This class sounds bizarre and exciting. But it also exemplifies Harvard’s focus, its new “lifestyle.” It exemplifies the “let them eat code” mentality. Would Harvard ever pump this sort of pageantry into a humanities class? Never. And it wouldn’t have to, because it has so effectively transformed itself into a school that is hostile to the humanities.

Yale is on that path. I’m all for us beefing up our STEM recruitment, but only if that means more students actually enter STEM fields. I’m all for expanding our STEM enrollment, just not at the expense of humanities departments.

SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His columns run on Mondays. Contact him at scott. stern@yale.edu .

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“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”

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CLAY seeks to recast “social justice”

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Five months after it was denied Dwight Hall membership on the grounds that its work did not fall in line with the organization’s mission, Choose Life at Yale kicked off its second annual conference this weekend with a discussion on social justice.

CLAY — Yale’s pro-life student organization — first sought membership into Dwight Hall’s Social Justice Network in the fall of 2013. After a year of provisional membership, the organization ultimately lost its bid in a vote with undisclosed margins at Dwight Hall’s biannual board meeting.

On Friday afternoon, Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, delivered a keynote address called “Reproductive Social Justice.” Hawkins’s speech largely focused on abortion as a practice that destroys relationships, such as that between the mother and the child.

“The Social Justice Network has a different view from me as to what social justice is,” Hawkins said. “Some people believe that dismembering human children is a human right.”

Although Students for Life of America and CLAY have collaborated for years, CLAY leaders only invited Hawkins to speak about social justice at the end of last spring, she said.

The timing was not coincidental. While this year’s conference was not intended to focus mainly on social justice, CLAY members chose the keynote speaker in response to the Dwight Hall decision, according to Evelyn Behling ’17, CLAY’s co-director.

“We believe that Dwight Hall should be more welcoming to all definitions of social justice, not a specific subsection,” Behling said. “We really think it’s important that on this campus as a whole we really think about what [social justice] means.”

Behling attributed the Dwight Hall decision in April to the personal views of the members of its cabinet, adding that the board that came to the decision was largely made up of Democrats.

Dwight Hall has no official political affilia-

tion, nor does it offer a definition of social justice, according to Shea Jennings ’16, Dwight Hall’s public relations coordinator. Rather, it encourages its members to think about what social justice means to them, she said.

CLAY has been deliberating about whether the organization should re-apply for membership, Behling said, though it has not yet reached a consensus. Other members said the group is pursuing a path divergent from Dwight Hall activities.

“Something we’re considering as a group is whether we want to continue applying to make a point,” Behling said. “We’re still deciding that as a group.”

We believe that Dwight Hall should be more welcoming to all definitions of social justice, not a specific subsection.

EVELYN BEHLING ’17 Co-director, CLAY At the very least, it is unlikely that CLAY will re-apply for membership this year, according to Christian Hernandez ’15, a former CLAY president. The two organizations have not been in communication since the vote in April, Jennings said.

This year the organization will turn its attention to Yale Health, Behling said.

Yale Health policy regarding pregnancy is decidedly pro-choice, Behling said. Under Yale Basic, the plan’s coverage pays for abortions, but not prenatal care or delivery of a baby.

“It’s discrimination against a certain class of women,” Hawkins said.

The conference hosted 13 speakers in total this weekend.

Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

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CLAY began its second annual conference with a discussion about broadening and redefining the concept of “social justice.”

Second pro-life conference held at Yale

New Haven Pride returns and expands

BY HEDY GUTFREUND AND ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER After a two-year break, the New Haven Pride Center brought LGBTQ pride events back to the city in a lively four-day celebration.

The weekend began with a kickoff at City Hall on Thursday evening and was followed by a Friday open house at the Center. The keystone event of the weekend was a Saturday evening block party and the festival wrapped up with a brunch at Lucky Chao’s on Sunday afternoon.

This was a year of firsts for New Haven Pride. The City Hall kickoff marked the first time the center has made the city an official part of the event. Pride also boasted its longestever celebration — this year’s event was four days long, whereas last year’s lasted only a day — and its largest-ever crew of 50 volunteers this year.

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Choose Life at Yale held its second annual conference over the weekend.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The pro-life organization Choose Life at Yale, or CLAY, held its second annual conference this past weekend, with speakers from various prolife groups sharing their views on abortion, human rights and women’s rights.

The Vita et Veritas conference, held at St. Thomas More Church on Park Street, was co-sponsored by several national pro-life organizations and drew at least 85 attendees. The conference focused specifically on the issue of abortion, according to Evelyn Behling ’17, co-director of the event. Behling said she believes the discussion is an important one that should be happening on Yale’s campus.

“When the idea was first conceived, we weren’t certain we would have any success,” said Courtney McEachon ’15, director and founder of Vita et Veritas.

Several guest speakers at the conference relayed their personal reasons for not supporting the medical practice of abortion. Director of the Canadian Center for Bio-Ethical Reform Stephanie Gray said that it is not only the lives of pre-born children that she is concerned for, but also those of adults who should consider that their lives could have potentially been affected by abortion.

Serrin Foster, president of the

national Feminists for Life group, unveiled a website that provides pregnancy planning resources for college students. Planned Parenthood noted a 30 percent drop in the abortions of college-aged women in the past 10 years, Foster said, attributing that decline in part to the work of pro-life organizations.

Foster also addressed the issue of terminating pregnancies that result from non-consensual sex, stating that even in instances of pregnancies from rape, she is against the idea of a violent response to a violent act.

“Nothing challenges our pro-life beliefs more than when we talk about the issue of rape,” Foster said.

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, mentioned in her keynote address at the conference that the Yale Basic Health plan for students covers contraception and abortion, but does not cover things like prenatal care, obstetrics and delivery-room fees for students who may wish to carry their pregnancies to term. Behling also expressed her unhappiness with the Yale Basic Health plan, saying that it is not a neutral policy and that there is no support on campus for a pregnant student who chooses to go through with her pregnancy.

Organizations that co-sponsored the conference, including Consistent Life and Christian Union, displayed

information about their respective goals at tables outside the event.

Behling said that because abortion is such a divisive issue in the United States, a lot of the speakers at Vita et Veritas are used to being controversial.

At Yale, the abortion issue is so sided with pro-choice amongst most students that people do not tend to consider it as a major issue, she said.

According to Behling, though most members of CLAY have religious backgrounds, the organization is officially a secular one. The group meets every Tuesday to discuss abortion and other issues in bioethics.

“We don’t think you need to adhere to a particular morality to believe there is human life in the womb and that there might be a better way to address the problems that women are facing in society,” she said.

One attendee of the conference, Anthony Tokman ’16, said the event caused him to think for the first time about the pro-life side of the abortion debate, since the Yale community is generally pro-choice.

Attendees at the conference included students from Harvard, Cornell and Columbia as well as local students from Yale.

CLAY was founded by Yale undergraduates in 2002.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

It was a big step for us. [Pride] has been big, but it’s never been grand.

SYLVIA HEART Resident, City of New Haven “It was a big step for us,” said Pride performer and New Haven resident Sylvia Heart. “[Pride] has been big, but it’s never been grand.” Heart was a drag performance at the Empire Nightclub’s after-party on Saturday night.

New Haven resident and fellow performer Luis Antonio was pleased to see the event expanded to four days this year.

For Antonio, the size of the audience at the City Hall kickoff on Thursday and his drag performance were the

high points of Pride.

Pride Center Co-President Joshua O’Connell said that the drag performances showcased the talent of some of Connecticut’s best performers, adding that they have an important role in the community.

“What many don’t know is that many of the drag performers are also some of the community’s most outspoken advocates and dedicated fundraisers,” O’Connell said. “They use entertainment to build the community and support its growth and evolution.

O’Connell added that two highlights were Mayor Toni Harp’s dedication of Sept. 18 as Gay Pride Day in New Haven and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman’s attendance on Saturday.

Javier Davila MED ’96, who attended the event, also lauded the city’s involvement with Pride. He said the weekend “exceeded expectations” and was happy to see the bigger turnout this year.

Davila added that Pride seemed more cohesive and widely attended than previous years due to the city’s active support. He also noted the importance of Friday’s open house for the New Haven Pride Center, which he said provided the community with a good introduction to the resources the center offers.

North Haven resident Bill Beavis said he was impressed by the attendance at the Saturday street festival and attributed it largely to participation from a number of organizations including Planned Parenthood.

Pride’s “Now You See Me” photo exhibit, featuring photographs exploring queer identities, will be on display at the New Haven Pride Center for the next few weeks.

Contact HEDY GUTFREUND at hedy.gutfreund@yale.edu and ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu.

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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” JULIUS CAESAR ROMAN GENERAL AND EMPEROR

Presidential adviser speaks on green jobs

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Dan Utech, a White House senior adviser on energy and climate change, delivered the keynote address at the “Green Careers for Yale Blues” workshop this Saturday.

BY JIAHUI HU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Saturday afternoon, more than 150 students gathered in Kroon Hall for career advice and a talk with Dan Utech, a White House senior adviser on energy and climate change.

The workshop — which was held by the Association of Yale Alumni in conjunction with the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies — is an adaptation of a workshop that the AYA already holds annually in May for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, called “Where do I go from Yale?” Different from the regular workshop, the new workshop “Green Careers for Yale Blues” seeks to bring together alumni and students from all schools of the

University. The theme for Saturday’s workshop was professional work in the areas of environment, energy and sustainability.

Utech, who serves as special assistant to the president for energy and climate change, delivered a keynote address on “green jobs in the public sector.”

In the address, Utech said future public sector workers should aim to be moderate, tolerate differences and be informed about political affairs.

Utech, who is President Barack Obama’s top energy adviser, then discussed the ways in which Obama has responded to the issue of climate change throughout his term.

Event co-chair Holly Welles FES ’88 said the AYA wanted Utech to be the keynote speaker because of his demonstrated

leadership in the energy field.

Members of the AYA Events Committee, Welles said, agreed that Utech’s presence would augment the event’s prestige, attracting both panelists and students.

After Utech’s address, audience members could choose to attend one of four panels: energy; ethics, law and policy; sustainability and innovation; and resource management.

In selecting the panelists who spoke at each panel, Welles said, the AYA wanted to achieve a balance of alumni from public and private sectors as well as recent graduates and industry veterans.

“We wanted younger alums because they know what the job market is like now and older alums because they have a career network,” she said.

Panelists included the director of marketing and external affairs for New York City’s Citi Bike bike share program, a partner in an intellectual law firm, an author of a legal career guide and an architect.

Rahul Prasad GRD ’87, cochair of the event, said he wanted the workshop to be a networking hub for students and alumni.

“I want students to be able to see what you can do with a Yale degree, to be inspired by Yale alumni, to learn to network with Yale alumni and to use networks to determine what kinds of jobs and careers are available,” he said.

Lisa Veliz FES ’16 attended the event because she was interested in one specific panelist. After the panels, she said, she was able to approach the panelist and

exchange contact information for prospective collaborations.

“Getting feedback from alumni is valuable because they give me feedback on where I am as a student,” she said. “It’s less about attending the event and more about maintaining these long-term relationships.

Others attended the event with unspecific goals, but were excited about the prospect of learning more about the subjects at hand. Danti Chen GRD ’15 signed up because she was interested in hearing general career advice from professionals in the fields.

“I realized what types of career opportunities there are, who would have known that patent lawyers could be involved in sustainability,” Chen said, after attending a panel on sustainabil-

ity and innovation.

The AYA decided to work the theme around environment, energy and sustainability because it felt the topics encompassed a wide range of interests and skills, according to Welles.

Although the event was marketed to students from all Yale schools, 65 percent of those who registered were from Yale College and F&ES. Planning for this event began last year in September. Proposed themes for the AYA’s next workshops include entrepreneurship and public health.

The event was capped at 200 attendees. Registration, which opened at 8 p.m. on Sept. 9, was oversubscribed five hours later.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

Five alums honored with Yale Medal

BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale continued its tradition of service this month by honoring five Yale alums for their dedication to the University commu-

nity.

The Association of Yale Alumni has announced that it will award the Yale Medal — the organization’s highest award — to Sherry Agar ’82, Edward Bass ’67 ARC ’72, Marv Beren-

blum ’56, Michael Madison ’83 and John M. R. Thomas ’80 for their exceptional involvement on campus.

“I’m exhilarated, but another word is surprised,” Berenblum said. “I really wasn’t expect-

ing it. I was focusing on doing all these things I enjoy that were Yale-related. The intrinsic value is enough without being rewarded.”

Since its inception in 1952, 298 alumni and volunteers of the

University have been awarded the Yale Medal. According to the AYA, the only criterion for the award is that the recipients must demonstrate outstanding service to Yale and be able to accept the award in person. Up to five awards may be granted each year.

I’m exhilarated, but another word is surprised. I really wasn’t expecting it.

MARV BERENBLUM ’56 Yale Medal recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Five alums were announced as this year’s recipients of the Yale Medal, for continuing and distinguished service to the University.

Letters of solicitation are sent to groups and other important leaders in the alumni association each year to create a list of nominees, from which the Yale Medal Committee makes its selections every April.

Several prize recipients stressed the importance of giving back to the Yale community.

Berenblum and Madison have both launched initiatives within the AYA. Berenblum saw the successful planning of the Yale Alumni College, a program that organizes educational and social events for alumni, and Madison helped initiate the “Ambassadors in Action” strategic plan, which aims to increase alumni participation in leadership, volunteering and engagement at Yale.

Bass has served as a senior fellow on the Yale Corporation, as well as chairing the Corporation’s Development and Alumni Affairs Committee. Agar served as president of the Yale Alumni Chorus Foundation and has also been active in enriching Yale’s music programs. Thomas cur-

rently serves as the chair of the Alumni Fund.

In addition to these AYArelated contributions, the alumni have also given back to the Yale community by helping with fundraising and serving on various boards within the University.

“One of the things that is truly extraordinary is Yale’s commitment to getting students the financial aid they needed and financial aid that won’t burden them,” Thomas said. “It gives students greater freedom and that’s a great thing. People in my age group are very responsive to making that happen. It’s in everybody’s best interests …

Yale isn’t just a tower of privilege.”

Thomas added that the award is a remarkable recognition and that after working with alumni to give back to the school for many years, it is “a little shocking when you realize you’re on your 30th year reunion.”

The desire to give back to the University, according to several of the prize recipients, is also founded in the positive experiences that they had while at Yale.

Many noted that the friendships forged at Yale have been an important part of their lives after graduation.

“I’m what you call a lifer,” Berenblum. “In all respects I feel that those were truly my formative years where I became the person I am today. All of these opportunities have just been a tremendous experience.”

The five Yale Medal recipients will be honored with their awards at the annual AYA Assembly in November.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity.”

JOHN F. KENNEDY 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Affirmative action debate changing UPCLOSE FROM PAGE 1 an institutional priority since the 1960s, the University is still not representative of all of America.

Despite decades of race-based affirmative action, only 9.2 percent of students in the class of 2018 are African-American, compared to 13.2 percent nationwide. Similarly, only 10.4 percent of the freshman class is Hispanic, compared to a national figure of 17.1 percent.

Furthermore, while Yale may have an incredibly well-rounded class of individuals in terms of their various talents, the school is socioeconomically stratified, according to William Deresiewicz, a former Yale professor who sparked a national debate after authoring a book criticizing the admissions process and culture of Ivy League schools, an excerpt of which appeared in an essay in The New Republic this summer.

“If you look at the students that Yale brings to campus, they are anything but diverse,” Deresiewicz said.

While the University boasts that 64 percent of its undergraduates receive some form of financial aid, Deresiewicz said it is important to recognize the corollary: 36 percent of students come from families that earn over $200,000 a year.

Only 2 percent of families nationally make that much.

According to Deresiewicz, even families that receive financial aid tend to come from upper middleclass or white-collar families.

“Most of the kids who receive financial aid may not come from plutocratic families, but doctors and lawyers need help paying for Yale too,” he said.

Deresiewicz said Yale’s holistic admissions process — which emphasizes extracurriculars, standardized tests and specialization in one particular field — favors wealthy families who can provide the necessary experiences and coaching to their children.

Although he admitted that his approximations arise only from anecdotal data, Deresiewicz estimated that only a few dozen students in each class at the Ivy League come from the poorest 10 percent of America.

When the News sent out a limited survey in August to the incoming class of 2018, 11 percent of the 623 respondents said they came from families that earned less than $40,000 a year. The New York Times reported that 39 percent of U.S. families earn less than that amount.

But admissions experts and social scientists interviewed said these discrepancies should not be seen as evidence of a lack of desire for diversification on Yale’s part.

“I don’t think anyone could possibly question Yale’s commitment to and desire to recruit highachieving low-income students,” said Chuck Hughes, a former admissions officer at Harvard and a private education consultant.

Current and former admissions officers and administrators interviewed asserted that diversity is an essential component of Yale’s ability to provide the best possible education. Yale would be doing its students a disservice if the University did not prepare its graduates to be leaders comfortable with operating in a diverse and globalized economy, they said.

Michael McCullough — founder of the QuestBridge program, a nonprofit organization that matches high-achieving low-income students with selective colleges — said Yale’s admissions office under the leadership of both Brenzel and now Quinlan has been one of QuestBridge’s staunchest allies. McCullough said Yale has made a strong and growing commitment in recent years to attract and prepare high-achieving low-income students, both from QuestBridge and elsewhere.

He cited University President Peter Salovey’s commitment in a summit at the White House this January to increase the number of QuestBridge scholars matriculating to Yale by 50 percent this year as one such example of Yale’s growing efforts.

Still, experts said increasing diversity in higher education is a slow process.

Tony Marx ’81, who served as president of Amherst College from 2003 to 2011, said it is difficult for a university to grow the number of accepted students from one demographic rapidly. Although he said Yale is committed to diversifying its class, there are other competing institutional priorities such as increasing the number of international students or the number of high-achieving students interested in science, technology, engi-

neering and mathematics fields.

Amin Abdul-Malik Gonzalez, the admissions office’s co-director of multicultural recruitment, said that even an increase of 2 percentage points in the number of freshmen this year who are eligible for Pell Grant awards — the main form of federal financial aid — is a significant change.

Although numbers may fluctuate on a year-to-year basis, Quinlan said a long-term view of the composition of the incoming freshman class reflects the University’s focus on diversification. David pointed to two phases of diversification in Yale’s history. The first began under Clark’s tenure and plateaued by the late 1980s while the University’s second “explosion of diversity” began in the early 2000s, he said.

Harvard Kennedy School of Government professor Chris Avery, who co-authored a seminal study that demonstrated that the majority of high-achieving lowincome and minority students do not apply to selective schools, said geography is one obstacle Yale and its peers need to remove in order to increase the number of underrepresented students that matriculate to these campuses.

According to Avery’s research with Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby, the majority of lowincome students who applied to schools such as Yale live in one of the nation’s 15 major urban areas.

Students from urban areas tend to have better access to college prep organizations or resources that can inform them about selective Eastern colleges such as Yale or Amherst, Marx said.

Low-income students who live outside these urban areas are less likely to apply in part because they tend to be less aware of certain aspects of the application process that can help low-income students, such as Yale’s policy of offering fee waivers to eligible applicants, Quinlan said. Rather than applying for financial aid at selective colleges, low-income students apply to local schools with ostensibly lower price tags and fewer resources to invest in their students.

Dunn said one implication of the Hoxby-Avery research is that the pool of high-achieving, lowincome students is larger than had been originally believed. Indeed, Avery and Hoxby’s research estimates that there are at least 35,000 high-achieving low-income students outside of these areas — the majority of whom do not apply to selective colleges.

“There’s enough [high-achieving, low-income students] to go around,” Dunn said, adding that Harvard, Yale and Princeton need not compete with one another for the same applicants.

In order to attract these students, the University has recently deployed a mailing system whereby it sends two postcards and a letter at three separate stages of the application process to high school students who have scored highly on standardized tests and who live in ZIP codes where the median family earns less than $65,000. Each postcard informs students about Yale’s application process and the school’s financial aid packet.

Over the past seven years, as a result of sustained outreach, while Yale’s applicant population grew by 35 percent, the first-generation applicant pool has surged by 74 percent and the minority applicant pool has grown by 84 percent.

The University must continue doing a better job of advertising its net cost to prospective applicants, Quinlan said. Both Brenzel and Quinlan added that the University must also battle against lowincome families’ perception that their children would not belong at schools such as Yale.

“One of the challenges [with] working with students and families in the bottom income quartile is that these students have had a real disadvantage in the preparation and academic resources to which they’ve had access,” Brenzel said.

Abdul-Razak Zachariah ’17, a self-identified low-income student, agreed with Brenzel’s statement, adding that Yale and other Ivy League institutions are difficult environments for low-income students to feel at home for a variety of reasons, such as how expensive nearby stores are or the general affluence of the student body.

Zachariah said even the University’s acceptance of more African-American or Hispanic students may not make Yale more approachable to low-income students because those students too tend to come from disproportion-

ately wealthy backgrounds.

Brenzel said the admissions office must consider whether the University has the support system and intervention mechanisms to ensure that low-income students can succeed at Yale. As the University grows infrastructure such as the Freshman Scholars at Yale Program — an academic bridge program for incoming lowincome students that began in 2013 — Brenzel said he expects the office will be able to admit a greater number of disadvantaged students.

Still, Yale admissions officers pushed back against the argument that the University has a duty to create a student body that is identical to national demographics.

Quinlan said his office’s objective is to attract the most talented class with a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds. He said he does not feel obligated to tailor Yale’s admissions process to mirror America’s constantly changing demographics.

Brenzel said that the admissions office must consider which students are best prepared to take advantage of Yale’s world-class facilities and resources.

To illustrate his point, Brenzel offered a hypothetical conversation in which he was asked to explain why a significant percentage of Yale’s STEM students came from either the East or West Coast. According to Brenzel, he would answer that Yale’s mission is to train the best scientists of the future and because certain geographic areas such as California or New York have more access to resources in the STEM fields, “the best-prepared high school student might be a kid from Los Angeles who has been doing research at UCLA since he was 16.”

In cases such as this, Brenzel said he does not feel obligated to select a less-qualified STEM student from his native Kentucky for the sake of geographic representation.

THE END OF RACE-BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION?

When Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote the majority opinion for the 2003 Supreme Court case Grutter v. Bollinger — which narrowly ruled that universities could continue considering race in college admissions because of the importance of diversity to learning — she said she expected racial preference in college admissions would no longer be necessary in 25 years.

For many critics of Yale’s continued use of affirmative action, the time has already come for racebased policies to be abolished.

“The consideration of a candidate’s race is completely antithetical to any conception of merit and is a strict violation of the 14th amendment,” said Edward Blum, director of the Project on Fair Representation, a legal defense fund that works to eliminate color-conscious public policy.

Linda Greenhouse LAW ’78, a professor at Yale Law School and a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times for nearly 30 years, said a long line of conservative thinkers have claimed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution — which includes the Equal Protection Clause — prevents institutions from favoring one racial group over another.

Yet in the past, the Court has ignored this reasoning in favor of an argument that affirmative action actually upholds the 14th Amendment because it helps create equal opportunity.

Although the Court “blinked at the last moment” by upholding the constitutionality of affirmative action in the 2013 Fisher v. University of Texas case, Greenhouse said the conservatism of the current Supreme Court means Grutter v.

Bollinger may be overturned soon.

Greenhouse added that public discontent with affirmative action appears to be on the rise.

A Gallup poll conducted in 2013 revealed that only 28 percent of U.S. adults believe race should be considered in college admissions.

As public support continues to slide, a number of states — from Washington to Michigan — have amended their constitutions to explicitly ban state institutions of higher education from considering race in applications. Sheryll Cashin, a Georgetown Law School professor who has written extensively on affirmative action, said she would not be surprised if more Republican-controlled state legislatures, in order to increase conservative voter turnout in the 2016 elections, propose constitutional bans on the use of affirmative action in public universities.

DIVERSITY AND YALE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS Yale College Freshmen with Alumni Parents

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White 45%

“It’s just sensible politics [to put constitutional bans on affirmative action in state universities],” she said. “Conservative activists can come out and vote against both affirmative action and Hillary [Clinton] on the same day.” Although Cashin said she rejects the conservative premise that affirmative action violates the Equal Protection Clause, she added that she views race-based affirmative action as an excessively blunt and outdated tool to achieve real diversity.

Cashin said she believes colleges should base affirmative action policies on where students live rather than their skin color — a concept she introduced in her book, “Place, Not Race.”

“When affirmative action was conceived in the 1960s, race completely defined your experience in America,” she said, adding that African-Americans lived in poor neighborhoods with inferior schools and fewer resources.

Now, ZIP codes more than race are an indicator of a student’s access to educational opportunities, Cashin said.

Quinlan said Yale — which disproportionately draws students from the Northeast and West Coast regions of the U.S. — is taking geography into account with its new postcard initiative, which targets specific ZIP codes.

Another alternative to racebased affirmative action is to directly consider the applicant’s socioeconomic status, an approach that McCullough said nearly three-quarters of the American public support.

Still, supporters of race-based affirmative action claim that an exclusive focus on socioeconomic factors would actually make universities less diverse.

Greenhouse said advocates for socioeconomic-based affirmative action fail to realize that while minority students may be more

9.2% African-Americans 16.4% Asian-Americans

10.4% Hispanic-Latino 2.3% Native American

likely to come from low-income backgrounds, there are still far more white students from lowincome backgrounds in the U.S. As a result, if solely socioeconomic affirmative action were employed, Greenhouse said schools would still not achieve the true racial and ethnic diversity necessary to broaden the educational experience.

Morse, a former admissions officer at Yale, said it is important that the University recruit high-achieving African American and Hispanic students even if they may come from affluent backgrounds because structural forces of discrimination persist.

Morse cited social science research that suggests minority students still underperform their white or Asian-American peers in standardized tests even when income is controlled. Although the research has yet to produce a conclusive explanation for this divergence, Morse said there are a number of potential variables such as media portrayal of minority students or the cultural importance that other ethnic groups place on standardized tests.

Quinlan emphasized that racial diversity and socioeconomic diversity can both be priorities for the Yale admissions office.

“At Yale, we put a thumb on the scale for students who are coming from minority groups underrepresented in higher education and we also put a thumb on the scale for students from low-income backgrounds,” he said.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN

Several experts interviewed acknowledged that admissions is a “zero-sum game.”

“If you admit more black students, you must admit fewer nonblack students,” Brenzel said.

Critics of affirmative action often point to the fact that the policy prevents other deserving

applicants from being admitted to top schools because of their backgrounds.

Nemo Blackburn ’16 said many students who oppose affirmative action think it prevented them from getting into their top school.

He cited Suzy Lee Weiss, who wrote a scathing op-ed in the Wall Street Journal after being rejected from Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania in 2013, as an example of a typical critic.

Though all nine students interviewed said they were broadly supportive of race-based affirmative action, Blackburn said Yale students may have a different view of affirmative action if they had not gotten into Yale. As a senior in high school, he said he frequently heard peers make disparaging comments that he or other minority students only got into college because of their race or socioeconomic background.

Pointing to standardized test scores, critics of affirmative action claim that the policy disadvantages higher scoring students from different backgrounds, most notably Asians.

In his book, “No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal,” Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade showed that black students can be accepted by elite colleges with a score that is 310 points lower on a 1,600-point scale than white applicants. Hispanics, according to Espenshade’s data, are awarded a 160 point boost relative to a white applicant.

Ron Unz, a political activist who has written against affirmative action for years, claims that standardized tests show that universities favor minority students at the expense of Asian-American applicants.

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FROM THE FRONT Most Yalies undecided

“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.”

BILL GATES AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR AND PHILANTHROPIST

Film creates controversy

GOVERNOR’S RACE FROM PAGE 1 necticut, he feels little motivation to pay attention to the race. He also added that before heading to the polls he would want to make an informed decision about which candidate to support, but doubts that he will have time to do so.

A number of students prefer to vote in their home state for reasons ranging from the relative impact of their vote to a lack of familiarity with Connecticut’s needs and politics.

Mollie Johnson ’18, a Florida resident, said she prefers to stay registered in her home state since it usually important in national elections.

Kate Horvat ’18, a Pennsylvania resident, said she would rather vote in Pennsylvania because she is, “not connected enough with Connecticut.”

Even upperclassman interviewed do not consider Connecticut home. Cayla Broton ’16 said that after two years of living in New Haven she still plans to vote in her home state by absentee ballot. Most of her friends do the same, she said.

Of those planning to vote in Connecticut, the majority are like Chloe Larkin ’17, who feels like she still needs to do more research before casting a ballot on Nov. 4.

Still, some like as Alexis Gurganious ’18, have been keeping a close eye on both Malloy and Foley’s campaigns. She said that she watched the gubernatorial debate and has been researching each candidate.

“It’s a tight race and while I’m not completely sure who I’ll vote for, I think I’m now closer to knowing who I support,” Gurganious said.

However, those involved in political organizations on campus are invested in the outcome of the race. Leaders of the Yale College Democrats and Yale College Republicans said they have been working hard educate the Yale community about this fall’s elections, especially the governor’s race. Party leaders are hopeful that between now and Nov. 4, more Yalies will take an interest in the election.

The Yale College Dems have been very involved in spreading awareness about the elections and encouraging students to register to vote in Connecticut, according to Lily Sawyer-Kaplan ’17, the communications director for the Yale College Democrats.

Yale College Republicans President Andrea Barragan ’16 said that some students are hesitant to get involved with Connecticut politics because they won’t be here after they graduate. However, she added that students have the opportunity to make and educated vote and that doing so would be a service to Connecticut.

Foley and Malloy will have six more debates before election day.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

YALE-NUS

The banned film, “To Singapore, with Love,” will not be screened at Yale-NUS after all, after the filmmaker refused to grant permission for the screening.

BANNED FILM FROM PAGE 1 NUS administrators have not contacted her for permission to screen the film.

On Friday, Yale-NUS spokesperson Fiona Soh said the college no longer plans to show the film, due to Tan’s unwillingness to have it screened in Singapore.

Before planning to show the film, the school explicitly asked permission from the MDA, according to Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis.

Lewis said the MDA “had no problems with our plans” because the school planned to show the film for academic and educational purposes. Yale-NUS administrators initially drew public praise for their plans to screen the banned film, including from University President Peter Salovey.

But the confusion over YaleNUS’s ability to show the film has prompted some — including faculty members who have

been skeptical of the Singaporean project since its 2009 conception — to again raise questions about whether the college is truly the bastion of free speech that it has repeatedly claimed to be, within a country that otherwise imposes restrictions on speech.

“Yale-NUS claims to be a place of free expression. But freedom for which you have to ask permission — as in this case — is, by definition, not freedom,” said French and African American Studies professor Christopher Miller.

“Freedom of expression at YaleNUS is an illusion, celebrated by those inside its bubble, but now revealed as limited and therefore phony.”

In 2012 inaugural Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn said the Singaporean government promised the school complete freedom with “the core mission of the college” — researching, teaching and unfettered discussion on campus. Bailyn could not be reached for comment for this

Admissions a “zero-sum” game UPCLOSE FROM PAGE 6 said, adding that this is a violation of the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution in the 1978 case Bakke v. Regents of the University of California.

He cited data that the percentage of Yale students who are Asian-American has remained steady at around 13 to 16 percent for the last 20 years. Although that consistency seems unremarkable, Unz said the last 20 years have also coincided with the doubling of America’s college-age Asian population. If the University did not have a cap against Asian-American applicants, Unz reasoned, the percentage of Asian-Americans on Yale’s campus should have trended significantly upwards.

Unz added that Espenshade’s research demonstrates that Asian-Americans have to score 140 more points than white applicants to have the same chance of admittance into a selective college.

Still, both Unz’s and Espenshade’s claims have been fiercely contested by admissions officers. Quinlan pointed out that while Espenshade’s findings may hold true over a large pool of schools, the average score differentials at Yale between ethnic groups are highly compressed. All three current Yale admissions officers also said standardized tests alone are an insufficient way of measuring candidates.

“It is convenient for conversations to revolve around SAT scores because a test score is a number, and a number gives the illusion of precision, but admissions applications are never that simple,” Quinlan said.

Both Quinlan and Brenzel also rejected Unz’s suggestion that Asian-Americans are adversely affected in the admissions process.

“Every year we analyze our process to make sure we are putting thumbs on the scale

for the appropriate groups,” Quinlan said. “Holding everything else constant, including testing and recommendation letters, the office’s internal regression analyses show that Asian-Americans have the same chance [of admission] as white applicants.”

Brenzel said Unz’s data grossly underestimates the proportion of Asian-Americans at Yale for several reasons. While the percentage of students on campus who are Asian-Americans according to National Center for Educational Statistics data has stayed relatively consistent, Brenzel said the significant increase in the school’s international population has reduced the proportion of American students at the University. The AsianAmerican population as a proportion of Yale’s domestic U.S. student population has actually increased to 18.4 percent, he said.

Still, the Project on Fair Representation is searching for highly qualified Asian-American applicants who would be willing to sue Ivy League schools such as Yale for discriminatory admissions practices.

“One of the reasons we’re looking for Asian-American applicants is to show the public and the Court that a group of highly qualified American students are being under-admitted relative to their academic performance,” Blum said.

Although he declined to release specific names or numbers, Blum said hundreds of prospective plaintiffs have already contacted the Project on Fair Representation.

Blum said he believes the admissions policies of universities like Yale have violated the ruling that the Supreme Court issued for the Fisher case. In a passage buried on the 11th page of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion, Kennedy wrote “strict scrutiny imposes on the university the ultimate

burden of demonstrating, before turning to racial classifications, that available, workable race-neutral alternatives do not suffice.”

Blum said this phrase makes it clear that universities such as Yale must abandon racebased affirmative action for at least some period of time and attempt to create a diverse class through an ostensibly raceneutral policy such as only giving favor to students from lowincome backgrounds.

“Everyone is in favor of diversification until they realize it’ll come at the expense of their own people coming to the school,” said Richard Avitabile, a former admissions officer at New York University.

LOOKING FORWARD

Yet for all the criticism and attention that Yale’s race-conscious policies attract, admissions officers and experts interviewed said it is just one aspect of the admissions process.

Although coming from a minority or low-income background can boost a student’s application, Quinlan said no decision on an application turns on a student’s ethnic or socioeconomic profile alone.

“The people criticizing affirmative action are just looking at a single aspect of an application and a person’s identity,” Brenzel said. “People looking from the outside of the process, want to simply isolate a single factor but when we’re admitting a single student, it’s never a formula.”

Echoing the arguments Clark first made in the late 1960s, Gonzalez said the admissions office considers not just what a student has scored or achieved but also the “distance traveled” by judging these students’ scores within the context of their high school, how many times the student had taken the test or how other students with access to similar resources and backgrounds scored.

Furthermore, Quinlan said the admissions rates for differ-

ent ethnic groups are actually relatively similar.

Though the University does not disclose data on its applicant pool, Quinlan said the acceptance rates for various ethnic groups are all similar — under 10 percent.

Morse said the admissions office is opaque about this data in order to defuse any possible media hysteria about the slightest differences in acceptance rates between ethnic groups.

Looking forward, Brenzel and Gonzalez said the opening of Yale’s two new residential colleges in 2017 will give the admissions office an opportunity to grow certain groups of students when it admits roughly 200 more students per class. Quinlan said these conversations are ongoing and no decision has been made as to how, if at all, the allocation of students will change with the new colleges.

Because the University has so many competing interests, Brenzel said no constituency will ever be completely satisfied with admissions outcomes.

But a number of experts interviewed said affirmative action, while controversial and possibly flawed, is the best possible system for admissions.

Although the racial dimension of affirmative action may become redundant in a few decades, Marx said affirmative action in its broadest conception — as a means of favoring disadvantaged or underrepresented students — ought to remain for as long as there are inequalities of access and opportunity between different high school students.

“Maybe there is unfairness around the edges, maybe there’s a [minority] kid with wealthy parents who gets in with lower scores, but all in all, this is better than the alternatives,” Avitabile said.

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

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Political science lecturer Jim Sleeper said the MDA’s broad suppression of the film is incompatible with the values of liberal education. Sleeper added that Yale has never depended on “special permission” from a government agency to use books or show films.

Although Tan has not commented on why she would not allow a screening at Yale-NUS, Miller suggested that her unwillingness to show the film at the college could be a further confirmation of the power of the state in Singapore.

“Artists and dissidents in Singapore are regularly brought to heel by libel suits which result in devastating, bankrupting punitive damages,” Miller said. “If Tan Pin Pin were to allow a screening, even inside the closed walls of Yale-NUS, she might run that risk.”

University President Peter Salovey, who is a board mem-

ber of Yale-NUS, said he believes Lewis’s engagement with the MDA on issues of academic freedom may ultimately have a “wider, positive impact.”

Salovey added that when the plans for Yale-NUS were first laid out, Yale administrators were careful to examine the issue of academic freedom in the country.

“When Yale engaged with the National University of Singapore to plan Yale-NUS College, we knew that Singapore had more restrictive laws about some kinds of political speech than the United States,” Salovey said.

“Ultimately, we decided that the risks, when balanced against the opportunity to create an entirely new liberal arts educational experience in Asia, were worth it.”

The inaugural class of YaleNUS students arrived on campus in fall 2013.

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

Students join march in NYC CLIMATE MARCH FROM PAGE 6 Headquarters were the destination of Sunday’s march. the goal of which was pushing leaders to take binding, effective actions towards ameliorating climate change.

“This is a landmark moment, and we’re actually making history right now,” said Riddhima Yadav ’18, a member of YSEC who attended the march. “We’re getting a chance to say what we want, because it’s our future, and it’s the future of our generation.”

Yadav is scheduled to speak on a Monday panel in New York called “Leader’s Forum on Women Leading the Way: Raising Ambition for Climate Action.” The panel will be cohosted by U.N. Women, a U.N. focus group on women’s issues, and the Mary Robinson Foundation, a center for climate change education and advocacy. She said she is the youngest panelist in a distinguished group that includes former presidents and prime ministers. Earlier this week, a declaration co-authored

by Yadav and YSEC showing Yale’s support for the movement was circulated throughout the Yale community for students to sign. Yadav plans to hand it off to U.N. officials at the conference. “[This march] is one of the best ways we can utilize our people power to show the politicians and dignitaries that they don’t have anything to fear from corporations [ignoring climate change],” said Daniel Lebovic, president of YSEC, minutes before the march began. “They have everything to gain by supporting what everyone in the world supports.”

Lebovic added that the diversity of groups at the march is the biggest testament to the country’s common interest in working to combat climate change.

“It’s just incredible to be here with so many people from all

over the place who all care about this issue so much,” said Phoebe Chatfield ’18, who came to New York on Saturday to attend a student youth convergence on how to organize on-campus environmental movements.

Chatfield was one of seven freshmen who attended the conference Saturday, along with upperclassman Watson, Gabe Rissman ’17, a member of Fossil Free Yale, and Alexandra Barlowe ’17, one of the scheduled speakers.

This is a landmark moment, and we’re actually making history right now.

RIDDHIMA YADAV ’18 Member, YSEC Watson said that the conference featured lectures, workshops and speakers, with a focus on student divestment movements.

“I really feel like whenever I’m with a lot of other people who care about the climate, it always energizes me to work harder,” said Max Weinreich ’16, a member of Fossil Free Yale.

Weinreich added that past climate protests he attended made him feel much more empowered to work for positive change in the environmental movement.

“There are so many people here today. We’re all saying that it’s not okay anymore, and it’s great to be a part of that,” said Nathan Lobel ’17, a member of Fossil Free Yale.

The People’s Climate March was the most well-attended climate protest in history.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

3:30 p.m. JosĂŠ Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, “Europe in the New World Order.â€? Sponsored by European Union Studies, European Studies, and the School of Management. SOM, Edward P. Evans Hall, (Beinecke Terrace Room), 165 Whitney Avenue.

5:00 p.m. Jeremy Treglown, University of Warwick, “Memory and Forgetting in Spain since Franco.� Sponsored by Latin American Studies. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 6:00 p.m. Marci Shore, Yale University, “‘It was my choice’: A Phenomenology of the Ukrainian Revolution.� Part of the Modern Europe Reading Group sponsored by European Studies. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 11:45 a.m. Kevin Russell, Yale University, “Shared Plans or Shared Power? Rule of Law Paths in New Democracies.� Part of the MacMillan International Relations Seminar Series sponsored by Political Science.

Room 005, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street.

12:00 p.m. Sharyn Davies, Auckland University of Technology, “Authentic is as Authentic Does: The Trope of Authenticity and I La Galigo.� Part of the Seminar Series sponsored by Southeast Asia Studies.

Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1:30 p.m. Francis Micheål Ludlow, Yale Climate and Energy Institute, ´&OLPDWH &ULVHV DQG 9LROHQW &RQà LFW LQ ,ULVK +LVWRU\ ¾ Part of the Climate Change, Mass Atrocities, and Genocide seminar series sponsored by Genocide Studies. Room B012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

4:30 p.m. Barry Weingast, Stanford University, “Deriving ‘General Principles’ in Adam Smith.� The CHESS Annual Lecture, sponsored by the Center for Historical Enquiry & the Social Sciences (CHESS), European Studies, and the MacMillan Center with support from the Mellon Foundation and the Levinson Family Foundation. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

4:30 p.m. Chandrahas Choudhury, Author, “The Indian Novel As An $JHQW RI +LVWRU\ Âľ Part of the Colloquium sponsored by South Asian Studies. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 12:00 p.m. Christine Yano, University of Hawaii, “Crying the Nation: 'LYD 0LVRUD +LEDUL DQG $IIHFWLYH &LWL]HQVKLS LQ -DSDQ Âľ Part of the CEAS Anthro Colloquium sponsored by East Asian Studies. Room 105, Anthropology Building, 10 Sachem Street.

4:00 p.m. Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Town Hall with General Raymond Odierno, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

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Officials: Ebola ‘no threat’ to Cornell

BY DAVE JANECZEK Though the Ebola virus continues to spread throughout West Africa, university officials say the illness poses no threat to student safety at Cornell.

Dr. Kent Bullis, medical director at Gannett Health Services, said the quality of health care facilities and training in the United States, in addition to the characteristics of the Ebola virus, make the possibility of an epidemic “extraordinarily unlikely.”

“As frightening as Ebola is, one of the convenient things about it for health care purposes is that people are not contagious until after they’ve developed symptoms,” Bullis said.

Bullis said Gannett made contact with students they were able to identify as having been in West Africa over the summer or as arriving from West Africa for the school year to offer information and resources regarding the virus, which is only transmitted through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person.

According to The Washington Post, some American colleges have chosen to medically

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evaluate students arriving from countries affected

by Ebola, a m ove that Cornell officials said they considered but decided

against.

“We got such a positive and helpful response from the students that we reached out to,” Bullis said. “Based on that entire experience, we did not end up insisting that anyone come in for evaluation.”

Bullis said that in the event a person comes into Gannett with a fever, they are asked whether they have travelled to countries with CDC travel warnings and, if they have, are further evaluated in a safe room.

“Cornell is really very fortunate to have the resources in the health center to monitor not just Ebola but all kinds of emerging threats,” Bullis said.

Sharon Dittman, associate director of community relations for Gannett, said she praised the efforts of Gannett as well as the Cornell Abroad office and the

registrar’s office for their roles in the effort to reach out to students with ties to the affected areas.

“We were on this early. We’ve had a history of experience with emerging public health situations,” she said. “It was a proactive outreach that predated [the students’] arrival on campus.”

Alexis Santi, coordinator of travel safety for Cornell Study Abroad, said the ongoing crisis has not had an effect on the University’s study abroad offerings.

“The countries that are affected are Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,” Santi said. “In all of those areas we have no standing programs, study abroad ventures, semester long programs or short term programs.”

Though there are no official Cornell study abroad programs in the affected areas, Santi said there were three Cornell researchers working in West Africa over the summer.

“Their trips were approved in May and once the outbreak happened we were in constant communication with them about what they wanted to do and what they were hearing on the ground,” Santi said.

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Burial team members walk back to an Ebola treatment facility after having collected several patients suspected of having Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia.

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Penn’s endowment grows to $9.6 billion

New structure brings Wagner into CFO role

BY KRISTEN GRABARZ Penn’s endowment returned 17.5 percent over the last fiscal year, setting a historic high-water mark for the value of the endowment.

The value of Penn’s endowment increased to $9.6 billion at the end of fiscal year 2014 in June — around a $1.8 billion increase from the previous year — the university reported Thursday morning at a meeting of the Board of Trustees’ Budget and Finance Committee. This is the first year in Penn’s history that the endowment has climbed above $8 billion.

Last year, the endowment was valued at $7.7 billion. “[The endowment] is obviously enormously important for enabling us to move forward and do new things, and that’s a reason why the Making History campaign was important beyond the numbers you see — because it underpins our future as well,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said at the meeting.

Penn’s three-year average return is 10.9 percent, while the average return since fiscal year 2004 has been 8 percent.

Penn’s investment return is slightly lower than those of Dartmouth College

and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which both posted returns of 19.2 percent for fiscal year 2014.

Other peer universities, including the PENN other Ivy League institutions, have not yet reported their endowment returns this year.

At the Board of Trustees meeting, Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Stephen Golding delivered a presentation summarizing the University’s finances since fiscal year 2004 — a decade ago, and the year Gutmann took the helm at Penn.

Penn’s net assets grew from $5.4 billion in fiscal year 2004 to $13 billion in fiscal year 2014, and academic revenue increased from $1.8 billion in fiscal year 2004 to $2.7 billion in fiscal year 2014.

Golding compared Penn’s financial growth to that of a group of 21 peer universities, including Ivy League and top U.S. research universities. Between fiscal years 2004 and 2013 — the most recent data available from peer institutions — Penn’s endowment increased in value by 103 percent, while the peer group rose 65

percent, and Penn’s net assets grew by 92 percent, compared to the 51 percent growth of the peer group.

Additionally, Penn’s expendable resources-to-debt ratio rose 41 percent between fiscal year 2004 and fiscal year 2013, while the peer group average decreased 35 percent.

The Trustees also passed two resolutions, including one for a $16.5 million renovation to the Richards Building and the sixth floor of the Goddard Laboratories, and a $12 million initiative — funded by the Perelman School of Medicine — to renovate Stemmler Hall.

Andrew Heyer, a trustee and chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, said the fiscal report was good news for the University.

“The base operating system, the health system, development [and] investment performance all coming together in a very positive way is just an amazing accomplishment,” he said.

Chief Investment Officer Peter Ammon came to Penn at the beginning of fiscal year 2014. Ammon previously worked at Yale University under David Swensen, who is widely seen as a leading figure in managing university investments.

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BY ERICA BUONANNO THE DARTMOUTH STAFF Dartmouth has adjusted its financial administration structure to better suit college President Phil Hanlon’s academic agenda, appointing Michael Wagner chief financial officer. Wagner will fill this role and continue as vice president for finance, reporting to executive vice president and former CFO Richard Mills.

Considering Dartmouth’s $1 billion operating budget for 2014– 15, Provost Carolyn Dever’s arrival and Hanlon’s vision, college leaders decided to separate chief financial officer responsibilities from the operating role of executive vice president, Mills said.

Wagner said the change will allow Mills to focus on special initiatives while he focuses on financial challenges and opportunities.

“Then as a team we can help folks make decisions,” he said.

Chief investment officer Pamela Peedin, whose office works with the finance team to understand Dartmouth’s financial risk profile and implications for investment strategy, wrote in an email that dividing responsibilities to give each position a more specific focus makes sense because of the demands of each role.

The CFO plans and executes Dartmouth’s financial planning, budgeting, treasury, reporting and operations activities while collaborating with academic and administrative leaders involved in financial planning, organization and policy matters, namely the president, provost and Board of Trustees.

Currently, the college’s financial leadership team is working on planning the fiscal year 2015 budget, Wagner said.

He said he also aims to communicate with the community about Dartmouth’s financial constraints and opportunities to meet student, faculty and alumni needs.

The financial administrative team is focusing on simplifying their processes as well as making their business operations more efficient, he said.

“That includes creating new technology tools, simplifying our policy, improving our processes, so we’re constantly looking for

opportunities to do those t h i n g s ,” Wagner said.

N e w technolDARTMOUTH ogy includes e l e c tronic time management, tools for financial modeling and budgeting, imaging of endowment documents, electronic business expense reimbursement and electronic workflow for certain forms, among others, Wagner elaborated in an email.

At Dartmouth since 2001, Wagner served as the college’s comptroller and CFO of the Geisel School of Medicine before being appointed vice president for finance in 2010. He served as interim CFO of the college after former executive vice president and CFO Steven Kadish left Dartmouth for Northeastern University in 2012.

“I personally think that I grew a lot through those experiences and that adding that with the combined skills that we have within our team will work really well,” he said.

I personally think that I grew a lot through those experiences and that adding that with the combined skills that we have within our team will work really well.

MICHAEL WAGNER Chief financial officer, Dartmouth

As CFO, his responsibilities in working with senior administrators like Hanlon and Dever will expand, Wagner said.

The roles of CFO and vice president for finance are combined at many Ivy League schools — including Harvard University, Princeton University and Cornell University.

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Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

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he words that cover the benches and concrete of New Haven convey messages ranging from sorrow and desperation to hope for a brighter future. Some of the graffiti even details a journey of imprisonment and unrequited love.

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JOE TSAI ’86 LAW ’90 AND TIM STEINART ’82 MEN’S LACROSSE Tsai and Steinart — both Yale men’s lacrosse team alumni — received notice this past week for a reason far afield of their playing days. As executives at Alibaba, the two alumni made headlines when the company went public this week.

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STANDINGS UPDATE IVY LEAGUE FOOTBALL During their opening weekend of play, the Ivy League’s football teams combined for a 3–5 record. With each squad facing nonconference opposition, Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth collected wins, while Penn, Princeton, Brown, Cornell and Columbia fell.

“Coming back after losing the first game by that much isn’t easy. We really came together to win that match.”

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BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER

FOOTBALL

After falling behind 21–0 just eight minutes into the game, the Yale football team roared back against Lehigh in front of its home crowd to a 54–43 victory in the Elis’ season opener.

Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 began his second year at Yale with a career game, completing 30 of 39 attempts for 356 yards and three touchdowns, in addition to rushing for a touchdown.

Three other players finished with 100 total yards or more — running backs Tyler Varga ’15 and Chandler Rich ’17, as well as captain and wide receiver Deon Randall ’15.

“I can’t say enough about the effort of this team,” head coach Tony Reno said. “These guys showed what they’re made of.

The ability to worry about the process not the outcome — that’s what we’re built on.”

Yale (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) used a combination of big plays and long, marching offensive drives to rack up 683 yards of total offense and 54 points, the most points the Bulldogs have had in a game since 2003. Yale was able to take advantage of a tired out Lehigh (0–3, 0–0 Patriot) defense that had already given up more than 600 yards of offense to each of its SEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3

GRANT BRONSDON/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The football team came back from a 21-point first quarter deficit to stun Lehigh 54–43 on Saturday.

Elis goes 2—1 in California

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Answering to Cal State Fullerton’s attacks with a record total of 16 blocks, the volleyball team set a commanding tone for their winning weekend in California.

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After another test of physical endurance in a two-game weekend, the Yale women’s soccer team has proven its strength yet again, this time taking down Hofstra in a stunning 2–1 victory on Friday.

VOLLEYBALL A comeback victory over Georgetown (6–7, 0–0 Big East) on Saturday night wrapped up a winning weekend at Cal State Fullerton for the Bulldogs (4–5, 0–0 Ivy). The Elis went 2–1 on the weekend, besting their host (6–7, 0–0 Big West) on Friday before notching a mixed result on Saturday with a win against Georgetown and a loss to No. 22 UCLA (9–2, 0–0 Pacific-12).

“We fought really hard in both the Fullerton and Georgetown matches, especially against Georgetown,” captain Mollie Rogers ’15 said. “Coming back after losing the first game by that much isn’t easy. We really came together to win that match.”

The Hoyas took control of the court in the first set against Yale on Saturday, winning 11–25, but the Bulldogs changed the course of the game and took the next three sets. The second and third games were tight with a two-point margin of victory in each, with the third advancing to the 26th point.

Head coach Erin Appleman said that though she was disappointed that the Bulldogs did not come out ready to play in the first set, she was impressed with their play in the remainder of the match.

“Mollie did a great job leading the team after the first set,” she said. “They played the way ‘Yale volleyball’ plays.”

Rogers dominated with a season-high 19 kills in the match. She SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE B3

W. soccer downs the Pride WOMEN’S SOCCER Though the squad lost its Sunday game against New Hampshire, it has pushed its season record to 5–2 just one week before Ivy

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The volleyball team traveled to California this past weekend for the Fullerton Classic.

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League play is slated to begin.

The Bulldogs started their weekend at Hofstra on Friday afternoon. The team knew that the game would be tough from the start, so the Bulldogs were aware that they would have to be at top form every second.

“We were mentally prepared for Hofstra knowing in advance that our opponent wasn’t going to go down without a fight,” midfielder Geny Decker ’17 said.

The Bulldogs struck early, as they have for the past few games. After goalkeeper Elise SEE W. SOCCER PAGE B3

KEN YANAGISAWA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The women’s soccer team split its games this past weekend, topping Hofstra while falling to New Hampshire.

THE FOOTBALL TEAM’S DEFICIT DURING THE FIRST QUARTER OF ITS GAME AGAINST LEHIGH ON SATURDAY. The Bulldogs trailed 21–0 after Brandon Leaks’s interception return for a touchdown with 6:51 left in the first quarter, but the Elis roared back to win 54–43.

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“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”

DEAN KARNAZES ULTRAMARATHON RUNNER

M. soccer held scoreless M. SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 ishing practice scheduled for the upcoming week,” Teddy Mauze ’18 said. “All the bad memories of our nonconference games can be erased with a shiny Ivy League ring.”

Against the CCSU Blue Devils, Yale fell victim to another issue that has plagued them all season. The Elis gave up a second-half goal that allowed their opposition to defend hard and shut down Yale’s offensive efforts. After going into the locker room with the game still firmly up for grabs, the Elis gave away a heart breaking unassisted goal to CCSU’s Ryan Taylor just three minutes into the second half. The forward dribbled to the right wing and launched a shot that deflected off of a Yale defender and into the back of the Elis’ net, beating Blake Brown ’15, who started in goal in Yale second match of the weekend.

“Our defending has been solid and our approach play has been good but we have had a hard time getting the ball into the net,” head coach Brian Tompkins said. “Our possession and ball movement against Central was very good and apart from one lapse that led to their goal, they didn’t trouble us much at all. On the other end we created chance after chance but weren’t able to covert one into a goal.”

In spite of this setback, the Elis managed to rally, outshooting the Blue Devils 15–7 in the second half

and producing nine more corners than their opposition. Yale’s comeback was sabotaged once again, however, by an inability to finish in front of the net. In spite of these huge offensive production numbers the Elis were once again unable to produce an equalizer.

“Both the Friday and the Sunday games were a big step forward and even though we didn’t win I still believe that we are making great progress towards being a very good team,” Henry Albrecht ’17 said. “We had numerous opportunities in both games and, in my opinion, we were by far better than Manhattan and CCSU.” The men’s soccer team will continue its season on Friday against Quinnipiac.

Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

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GameDay heads south

Payson ’16 talks XC season CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE B4 son?

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Well we are running a lot. We are also starting to ramp up the workouts to more intense, race-like paces rather than slower tempo interval work. And of course doing all the little things — crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s.

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What is your favorite part about the team’s culture this season?

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It’s contagious and has made training really enjoyable. are some season highlights in your QWhat mind?

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Halving Harvard’s score — especially after they beat us last year; watching the freshmen really step it up on race day.

do you think the team has done best QWhat these past few weeks?

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Crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s.

Working hard in workouts and taking it easy and recovering for the next hard day.

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

ANDREW SOBOTKA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

ESPN College GameDay will showcase a matchup between South Carolina and Missouri next weekend.

GAMEDAY FROM PAGE B4 known that the passion exists, it’s just a matter of getting people to show it,” Sobotka said. “We also know a good party when we see one.”

Even University President Peter Salovey got in on the act, taking a picture with a sign promoting the Yale–Army game. A tweet featuring the picture from the Yale Athletics official Twitter account was retweeted 93 times.

Despite the disappointment that comes with not hosting

GameDay, the environment at the game should be exciting on Saturday, according to both Sobotka and Conn.

“Army’s bringing 1,000 cadets, the game ball is going to be parachuted in, non-student attendance will be high — I think it’s going to be an awesome day,” Sobotka said. “I really think the producers at ESPN are missing an incredible opportunity to showcase the history of college football.”

And although Yale was not chosen as the host of this week’s

show, Conn said that there is a possibility that GameDay could be in Boston for the 131st playing of The Game on Nov. 22.

The Bulldogs and Black Knights have played each other 45 times, with Yale leading the all-time series 21–16–8. The last matchup, when Army beat Yale 39–13 on Oct. 5, 1996, was the last time an Ivy League team played a team from the Football Bowl Subdivision.

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

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The men’s cross-country team finished seventh at the Iona Meet of Champions this weekend.

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“Football is like life — it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”

VINCE LOMBARDI HALL OF FAME FOOTBALL COACH

Football wins opener

Yale returns with two wins

HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR GRANT BRONSDON/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

After falling into a 21–7 first quarter hole, Yale out-scored Lehigh 47–22 the rest of the way on Saturday.

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 previous two opponents.

After a 2013 season in which Yale was plagued by injuries, the Elis had all of their weapons out on the field in the game. Roberts spread the ball around to five different receivers, and seven players recorded rushing yards.

“Our goal this season is to spread the ball both horizontally and vertically, and I think we did that today,” Roberts said.

“We have so many weapons on offense this year.”

Though Lehigh’s wide receivers were able to beat Yale’s young secondary deep a few times throughout the game, defensive highlights by that same Yale secondary were a key to the victory, as defensive backs Spencer Rymiszewski ’17, Robert Ries ’17 and Foyesade Oluokun ’17 all had interceptions that heavily impacted the score.

Rymiszewski’s pick allowed Yale to cut Lehigh’s lead to five points with a field goal in the first quarter, while Ries’ set up a rushing touchdown for Roberts in the fourth quarter to give the Bulldogs a twoscore lead that they would eventually keep. Oluokun, a 2013 second-team allIvy safety, picked off Lehigh quarterback Nick Shafnisky late in the fourth quarter to end a threatening comeback attempt for the Mountain Hawks.

“This game was going to come down to who had the ball last,” Reno said. “[Oluokun’s] interception was a huge play, and then our offense was able to run the clock out. Those two things were really the difference in the game.”

Before the Eli comeback, though, fans were seeing signs of a completely different Yale team. The beginning of the first

quarter seemed eerily similar to the other most recent Yale contest, the Bulldogs’ 34–7 loss to Harvard on Nov. 23, 2013.

Yale went three-and-out on two consecutive drives, while Lehigh scored quickly on its first two possessions and then returned an interception for its third score just two plays into Yale’s third offensive drive.

But there were still three-and-a-half quarters to play, and on its fourth offensive drive Yale finally got the wheels turning. Randall caught a long pass from Roberts to open the drive — the first time Yale moved the chains in the game — and later capped off the drive with a highlight reel run, spinning to dodge one Lehigh defender, cutting past another and then sprinting to the end zone for Yale’s first score.

Following another score for Lehigh that brought the Mountain Hawks’ lead back to 21, Yale began its charge back near the beginning of the second quarter. Rich and Randall each took a turn in the spotlight, as Rich broke off for a 51-yard touchdown run, and on Yale’s next drive Randall hauled in a pass from Roberts, catching the ball straight over his head and sprinting to the end zone for a 68-yard score.

Rich, who ran for 101 yards against Columbia last year, topped his career best in the season opener, utilizing his speed to put up multiple big rushes and finishing with 104 yards on just 11 carries. He credited the offensive line, which allowed the Elis to rush for 327 yards while allowing just one sack, for his success.

“First and foremost it starts with the whole offense, especially the offensive line,” Rich said. “We really have a really powerful run game, and it also always helps to play along like Tyler Varga and

[running back] Kahlil Keys ’15.”

Lehigh responded with a big play of its own, but a 41-yard field goal by kicker Kyle Cazzetta ’15 at the end of the second quarter brought the Bulldogs to within nine points going into halftime.

By the second half of the game, Yale had transitioned into a more slow and steady offense, as Roberts led the Bulldogs down the field for four consecutive scoring drives of nine or more plays.

Yale took its first lead of the season in the third quarter with a 17-yard touchdown rush by Varga. Varga took the endaround to the right side, but then cut to the left to run nearly horizontally, eventually scoring on the other side of the field.

The lead then changed hands twice more. But before Lehigh could go on top yet again, Ries got the ball back for Yale with another interception and lead to a quarterback keeper for Roberts that put Yale up two scores for the first time.

Lehigh got close to the Yale end zone in its next two attempts to respond, but the Elis stopped them just short on both, first with a turnover on downs and then with Oluokon’s interception.

Yale will next host Army on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 1 p.m.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

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VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B1 and setter Kelly Johnson ’16 were named to the Fullerton All-Tournament team. Libero Tori Shepard ’17 also had a triumphant Saturday night, delivering a careerhigh 21 digs against the Hoyas.

Several Bulldogs agreed that playing the Bruins, a seasoned top-25 team, was a useful experience.

“Facing UCLA was difficult, but I thought we played well,” Rogers said.

The Elis gave the Bruins a hard fight, pushing the second set to 26–24, but the powerhouse team swept the match 3–0.

Appleman agreed with Rogers that Yale maintained its level of play against UCLA. She added that the Bulldogs had difficulty defending their side of the net against UCLA senior outside hitter Karsta Lowe.

“I thought we were really great,” Appleman said. “[Lowe] is one of the best players in the nation, and she was just unstoppable in the match.”

Appleman said that she thought middle blocker Maya Midzik ’16 and outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 also had “fantastic weekends.” According to Appleman, the women’s overall strongest match was against Fullerton because they played as a team. Midzik contributed 10 kills and nine blocks in the match against Fullerton. Gibbons stood out against UCLA, leading the Elis in kills with nine.

Last week, Rogers and Johnson were named to the Ivy League honor roll. Freshman setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

“It feels really good,” Crawford said. “It motivates me to keep working.”

Crawford added that the honors are an indication that the team’s hard work in practice is paying off.

The Elis will travel to Providence this weekend to play Brown, their first Ivy Conference opponent of the year.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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Elis top Hofstra, fall to New Hampshire W. SOCCER FROM PAGE B1 Wilcox ’15 saved a shot by Hofstra, Decker stole a pass and scored for Yale at 5:10. Hofstra came back with a vengeance, taking six unanswered shots, five of which had to be saved

by Wilcox.

Finally, twenty minutes into the half, midfielder Sarah McCauley ’18 took a shot that went wide. Wilcox continued to be a wall for her team, blocking several more shots until the Pride finally managed to break through. Hofstra’s Sam Scolarici scored an assisted goal 28 minutes into the game, tying the match at one.

Multiple substitutions followed on both sides, including forward Paula Hagopian ’16 subbing in for forward Melissa Gavin ’15. Just six minutes after entering, Hagopian received a pass from McCauley and sank it into the net, giving Yale the lead just before the first half ended.

That goal was all Yale needed, as Wilcox had a flawless second half, making five saves to keep her team ahead. Her biggest save came when Hofstra earned a penalty kick. Scolarici took the chance for Hofstra at 88:21, but Wilcox blocked the shot and sealed the win for the Elis.

“I was incredibly happy to be able to come up with the save for my

team. For goalies, penalty kicks often involve more luck than skill, so I was relieved that we wouldn’t have to go into overtime based on that call,” Wilcox said.

Wilcox had a total of twelve saves on the night, compared to the Hofstra goalkeeper’s two.

Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, Sunday did not pan out the same way, as they fell to New Hampshire 2–1.

The Wildcats started out the game by putting pressure on Yale’s defense, taking the only shots of the game for the first thirty minutes. Yale’s offense was finally able to make a break for the goal and took three unanswered shots. Both goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 and New Hampshire net minder Mimi Borkan kept their teams in the game by saving all the shots that came toward them in the goal.

At the start of the second half, New Hampshire continued its relentless pursuit of a goal, keeping the ball on the Yale side of the field for over ten minutes. Their pursuits were successful when they scored at 56:08, the only goal they needed for the win. Multiple saves by Borkan kept Yale from tying the game and the Elis fell for only the second time in seven games this season.

Both Decker and Wilcox commented that the Bulldogs need to

work on putting away any chances they get, especially as they head into Ivy League play this week.

“We’re always more focused on the Ivy games. Only those seven games decide whether we are champions at the end of the season. Practices will be oriented towards what gives us the best chance of beating Princeton based on how they’ve been playing so far this season,” Wilcox added.

The Bulldogs have five days off before taking on Princeton in Reese Stadium on Sept. 27. Play begins at 4:00 p.m.

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

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The women’s soccer team will begin its conference slate next weekend by hosting Princeton at Reese Stadium.

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“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.”

BILL SHANKLY SCOTTISH SOCCER PLAYER AND MANAGER

Men’s soccer splits weekend

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER After a disappointing two-loss road trip, the men’s soccer team returned to Reese Stadium looking for a weekend of redemption. Having overhauled their offensive formation, the Bulldogs hoped to produce goals and get their offense off to an electric start.

MEN’S SOCCER But in a 0–0 tie with Manhattan (1–3–1, 0–0–0 MAAC) on Friday and a 1–0 loss to Central Connecticut State University (3–2, 0–0–0 Northeast Conference) yesterday afternoon, Yale (0–4–2, 0–0–0 Ivy) failed to produce a single goal in 200 total minutes of play.

In fact, the Bulldogs have failed to score in their last four games, a total of 380 minutes of soccer played. In this weekend’s contests, scoring woes proved the Elis’ downfall once again.

The match against Manhattan was a hard fought draw that featured ample opportunities for both sides. Goalkeeper Ryan Simpson ’17 produced an impressive performance that saw him save all six of the Jaspers’ shots on frame.

Unfortunately for the Elis, Simpson’s stellar netminding was wasted, as the squad failed to score on any of its 17 shots despite landing six on target. The match emerged as a defensive standoff, with neither team finding the net in 110 minutes of play and both goalkeepers providing staunch defensive efforts.

“We struggled in the final third, failing to score a goal. I’m sure our coaches have a lot of finSEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2

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The men’s soccer team tied Manhattan on Friday before falling to Central Connecticut State yesterday.

GameDay bypasses Yale

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER After much fanfare, it was announced Sunday that ESPN’s popular college football pregame show, College GameDay, would not be coming to New Haven for the home game against Army on Sept. 27.

When Missouri lost to Indiana last night, many Yale fans celebrated, thinking that the Tigers’ upcoming game on Saturday against South Carolina would not be considered to host the program as a result.

But ESPN still decided on the Southeastern Conference matchup to host the show, which starts at 9:00 a.m. and features many of ESPN’s biggest college football personalities, including Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit.

“Yale would be a fantastic and unique venue for GameDay at any time,” said Yale Associate Athletics Director of Sports Publicity Steve Conn. “The decision not to come here stings a bit because it seemed like the football gods did everything that was needed to have results fall into place in favor of Yale.”

It seemed like the football gods did everything that was needed to have results fall into place in favor of Yale.

STEVE CONN Yale Associate Athletics Director of Sports Publicity

Conn also said that Yale Athletics had been in conversation with ESPN for some time attempting to get GameDay for the matchup. He cited the Hospitality Village, which is next to the Yale Bowl, as the most likely spot for the set.

Students began mobilizing online after Andrew Sobotka ’15, the co-founder of The Whaling Crew — a student fan group — wrote an op-ed that appeared in the News on Sept. 12. The Yale College Council followed suit, coming up with the hashtag “#BringItToTheBowl” and tweeting at the College GameDay account as well as Lee Fitting, a senior producer of GameDay. “I can’t say I was surprised by the student response on Twitter and on campus — in my three-plus years here I’ve always SEE GAMEDAY PAGE B2

Payson ’16, XC starting strong

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER The men’s cross-country team is off to an impressive start this season, beating the Crimson and nearly upsetting the Tigers in the Harvard-YalePrinceton meet — Yale’s first contest of the season. This past weekend, the Bulldogs took seventh out of 23 teams at the Iona Meet of Champions. Runner Max Payson ’16 spoke about crosscountry’s impressive start and the next steps in the 2014 season.

CROSS COUNTRY the season started off in the QHas way that the team has hoped?

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I’d say so. Our first meet was against Harvard and Princeton.

We were hoping to bury Harvard and compete with Princeton since Princeton is currently ranked 19th in the country. We buried Harvard, and lost to Princeton by only one point. While that one point was frustrating and only a matter of seconds, looking at the big picture we almost beat the 19thranked team, so that’s pretty sweet. In addition, almost everyone is healthy, training well and progressing, which is always a good sign.

are the freshman runners this QHow year? Have they made a significant impact so far?

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The freshmen are great. They are a really talented group and have already begun contributing to the team. Cameron Stanish ’18 was third on the team and Hale Ross ’18 was also in [Yale’s] top seven at the first race, which was great to see. In addition, all the freshmen are running really strong times for their first races at the collegiate distance, so definitely look for some big things from them in the future. Also, last year the running community was talking about how Princeton had the best freshman class in the country, and our freshmen ran circles around them at HYP.

has the team changed from last QHow year? Has performance improved?

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Performance has definitely improved. Our workouts are already much faster than last year, and we are competing with nationally ranked teams, which wasn’t the case last year.

is the team doing to improve QWhat moving forward through the seaSEE CROSS COUNTRY PAGE B2

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The men’s cross-country team trounced Harvard just a week ago.