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CROSS CAMPUS That voice. Maiya Sykes ’02

debuted on The Voice this week with a soulful cover of Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me.” All four judges hit their buzzers before the song was half over.

The 36-year-old Yale graduate is an Los Angeles based singer.

Sykes was in Saybrook college and majored in Political Science and African and AfroAmerican Studies.

A Medical Musical. Sheldon Campbell, an associate professor in the School of Medicine, has been teaching a class through song. During “Medical Microbiology,” Campbell led the class in renditions of “When the Saints Go Marching In” retitled “When the Ticks Go Marching In” with lyrics adapted for the course material.

Campbell played guitar as accompaniment. His other hits include “Tuberculosis,” “What Shall We Do With the Infected Patient,” and “Fungi, Come Again No More.”

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Scott Fitzgerald’s birthday.

Happy birthday to the writer whose works spawned decades of Brooks Brothers apparel.

A light in the dark. Pi Phi’s annual Highlight party was held last night at Toad’s.

Proceeds benefited The Literacy Fund.

Starry starry night. Graduate students took a break from the library on Wednesday night to go stargazing. At an event sponsored by McDougal Grad Student Life at Yale, graduate students attended a show at the planetarium of Leitner Observatory followed by stargazing. “It’s going to be star-mazing,” the event description read.

Thriving. The Office of Student Health Promotion and Wellness at Dartmouth has started a program entitled “Thriving@Dartmouth.” The program, which is in its pilot stage at the moment, tackles stress management, diet and sleep habits, and other health topics.

Sorority sister Ginsburg.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke at her alma mater Cornell, where she received her undergraduate degree in government, this week. While on campus, Ginsburg was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority.

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Yale endowment rises to all-time high

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER The endowment has never been larger.

According to a Wednesday morning Yale Investments Office press release, the endowment rose to $23.9 billion in fiscal 2014, the year beginning July 1, 2013 and ending on June 30,

2014. The University’s assets grew by 20.2 percent, beating the investment returns of every other Ivy League institution that has released its fiscal 2014 figures so far. Financial experts interviewed applauded the continued success of the Yale Investments Office’s strategy.

Chief Investment Officer David Swensen could not be

reached for comment.

University President Peter Salovey praised Swensen and his team at the Yale Investments Office, adding that the fiscal 2014 return is “impressive on an absolute and on a relative basis.”

“Generally, people say they’re among the very best,” School of Management Professor Roger Ibbotson said. “Everybody basi-

cally considers it the Swensen model, and other endowments copy Yale.”

Yale’s endowment soared in the period leading up to the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, reaching a high water mark of $22.9 billion in fiscal 2008. But over the course of the next year, the University’s assets lost nearly a quarter of

Unions demonstrate on Cross Campus

their value.

During that time, the Yale Model — an investment strategy characterized by an emphasis on diversification and a heavy reliance on alternative, illiquid asset classes — came under heavy criticism, especially as smaller endowments with larger SEE ENDOWMENT PAGE 4

Metro-North to offer more offpeak trains

BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER

#Selfie Yale-New Haven Hospital was named #41 on the Top 100 Social Media Friendly Hospitals for 2014. The list, from Nursejournal.org, evaluated over 800 hospitals this year based on Facebook and Twitter statistics. YaleNew Haven received a score of 78.1 and came in at #41. The #1 hospital was, not surprisingly, the Mayo Clinic.

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University President Peter Salovey shook the hands of campus workers rather than arguing with them about their contracts, as then-University President Bart Giamatti did in the 1980s.

And rather than chanting against the University, union leaders

Starting this November, Yalies and other Metro-North riders will experience fewer delays during their travels, as trains will begin running every half-hour between New Haven and New York City.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and State Department of Transportation Commissioner James Redeker announced the new schedule at a press conference yesterday at Union Station, during which local leaders stressed the new schedule’s importance in jumpstarting the local economy. In 2012, a record 39 million passengers traveled on the New Haven-to-Grand Central line — the only major transportation link between New Haven County and Manhattan other than I-95.

“Knowing that a train will be available at least every half hour will make it much easier for customers — whether heading to New York for work or pleasure — to plan their travel,” Redeker said in a statement.

Stamford Mayor David Martin said he believes the project will significantly improve

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Union leaders and members came together on Cross Campus to celebrate how far organized labor at Yale has come.

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER Thirty years ago on Sept. 26, 1984, clerical and technical workers at the University walked off their jobs and began to picket in the streets. The scene on Cross Campus yesterday — where hundreds of union members gathered to cele-

brate the anniversary of the strike — was far cry from that moment.

Union members gathered in front of Sterling Memorial Library at noon yesterday to show the solidarity and strength of organized labor at Yale.

Yale’s administration also came out onto Cross Campus to partake in the birthday cake and balloons.

When he made an appearance,

Yale Security considers union switch

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Eyeing legislature, Taubes heads home

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTERS With the expiration of its current labor contract looming, the Yale Security Department is facing internal division over a potential union change.

Last week, a vote held to determine whether to leave Yale Security’s current union — Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America — and form a far smaller, independent union failed to deliver a decisive result. While slightly more members voted to stay in the SPFPA, enough supported creating a new union or voted in favor of neither option to push the vote to a run-off election. The current contract between the University administration and Yale Security expires in January 2015, adding an incentive to complete the negotiations as quickly as possible.

The distinction hinges on the tradeoff between independence and size. The smaller union claims to offer Yale Security officers a greater voice, while the current union, headquartered in Michigan, claims to provide a heavier counterweight to the University.

“We need to unite as a union,” one Yale Security officer, who asked for anonymity in order to protect his job, said. “That’s got to be the number one goal because SEE SECURITY UNIONS PAGE 4

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Alex Taubes LAW ’15 is looking to defeat Republican incumbent Noreen Kokoruda in the state representative race.

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wo Yalies — a current law school student and a graduate of the forestry school — are making first-time bids for elected office at the outskirts of New Haven County, in prosperous towns where blue and red, Democrats and Republicans, are outnumbered by a purple block of swing voters. This is the second story in a three-part series. ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER reports.

MADISON, Conn. — Cradling campaign literature, plodding along a Connecticut back road and shaded by a canopy of trees on a hot afternoon toward the end of August, Alex Taubes LAW ’15 explained why he is soliciting votes here, in his hometown.

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No place for space I

’ve received many reactions from other students when they find out I am a freshman counselor. Most are phrased as questions that let you know exactly how they feel about the subject, but one proved particularly thought-provoking: “Are you really willing to live on Old Campus, away from all your friends during your final year at Yale?” The cute answer is: “But I will have 100 new friends by the end of the year!” In reality, the idea of living away from everyone did concern me.

The residential college system is pretty great. You can eat, sleep, work out, study, party — pretty much do everything except light a fire in a fireplace — all in the same location, in close proximity to your friends.

However, in the pursuit of creating an all-inclusive community, the crafters of the residential college system left out a critical component: The ability to be alone.

Dormitory-style living confers new character on every living space. For the average American, your bedroom, at least during adolescence and early adulthood, takes on the role of a solitary space.

Beyond sleeping, you can write, sing, dance or even just relax in silence. You can enjoy the absence of others.

But that’s all upended during freshman year when your roommate is packed in. Suddenly you lose those moments away from even your closest friends. Add in three suitemates and personal space becomes even scarcer. It’s difficult to resist company when everyone is in the common room laughing and hamming it up. For better and for worse, we are forced into social settings a remarkable portion of the time.

Residential college life takes this transformation even further. Your inability to be alone is not confined to your room. Eating alone has long been stigmatized, reinforced by get-aheadin-life book titles like Never Eat Alone. But we wouldn’t be able to play the lunchroom outcast even if we wanted to. Someone is always likely to show up. This is true whether it is in the bathroom, in the gym or on the street. And while there is a comfort in being surrounded by friendly people, it is ultimately unhealthy and unsustainable; it adds to the self-imposed busyness of Yale life.

As an underclassman this seemed like a blessing. I hated being alone. I wanted to surround myself with fun and excitement, and if I wanted to study, that’s what libraries were for. However, now removed from Saybrook College and taking up residence in Vanderbilt Hall, it is clear that the only times I was ever alone was when I was studying or sleeping.

W h i l e freshmen co u n se l o rs technically still live in a community environment, being a froco KYLE given me TRAMONTE has more space than I have Green on enjoyed in all my time at the Vine Yale. This is mostly due to the fact that the freshmen are pretty low maintenance, but also partly because I am too lazy to walk the 200 yards to Saybrook. Friends don’t just pop into my room at random, and I spend significantly less time with my classmates despite my insistence that I wouldn’t allow such a thing to happen. But I realized this is a good thing.

The demands of campus and the lack of personal space prevent us from engaging in a healthy form of self-care simply called “alone time.” Not downtime, not useless-hobby time —alone time. Pushed into a world that is frequently externalized, we all too easily begin to ignore ourselves.

It is incredibly difficult to hear what one needs — one’s desires or ingredients for growth in life — if we are increasingly burdened by excessive, though not unwanted, stimuli.

It is therefore no surprise that many students find themselves without a sense of direction upon graduation. I certainly wouldn’t say that spending an afternoon alone is enough to determine your calling in life. But the occasional solitary evening provides space for self-reflection. If we are denying ourselves time for introspection and silence, we have to ask: When is the last time you sat down and asked yourself what it is you want, whether it be about your career, your next week or your time at Yale? The answer, I would venture a guess, is not recent enough.

There is no need to burn down the residential colleges to address this lack of space.

Rather, we should encourage one another to remove ourselves both physically and mentally every now and then from the college setting, giving ourselves the opportunity to be alone. Lounge under a tree far away. Hide in the stacks. Sit and stare at a wall in the basement if that is what you are into. But by all means, don’t confuse alone time with loneliness. Make time and find a place in your life for yourself.

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The ultimate test A

sk anyone who knows me, and they’ll probably tell you that I’ve been spending a downright unacceptable amount of time in the law library this past week. And no, it’s not just because I’m drawn to the high ceilings and the fact that the library workers don’t demean me by making me open my backpack on my way out (seriously, though, why can’t Bass follow suit?). It’s because this Saturday, I’m taking the LSAT. Cue shrieks of terror.

If we’re being perfectly honest, ever since I decided in May to take the test, I’ve been weirdly excited.

Or if not excited, at least I’ve been proud of myself. It’s become my go-to crutch whenever I hear that people are headed to a Bain info session, or to a Bridgewater meetand-greet at Miya’s (which I blew off to, yes, study for the LSAT).

Absent a job or any marketable skills, studying for the LSAT has been my default way of reassuring myself that I still have a purpose in life. But as the test is fast approaching, I’m trying to change my way of thinking about it.

To back up, seniors have now entered the point of our academic careers where it seems like everyone is marching dutifully into their futures. And if you don’t have a job already lined up, either you’re sacrificing sleep and sanity to get one, or you’re taking the other socially acceptable path: going to more school as a postponement of realworld plans. I fall solidly in the latter camp. I don’t know what I’m doing next year. But that’s okay, I tell myself, because I’m taking the LSAT. I’m going to law school eventually (please, God), so that’s my plan, right?

That’s why the idea of the LSAT had always been reassuring to me — it was so distant and nebulous (while at the same time official-sounding enough to garner approval from peers). It allowed me to cast myself in that same narrative of the ambitious, highachieving Yale student embarking on the next steps of our choreographed, competitive lives.

As you’re reading this, my test is almost exactly 48 hours away.

The time has come. It’s no longer an abstraction; and with that knowledge comes this feeling that I’ve been going about it all wrong, in the same way that I worry that too many seniors go about the job process all wrong. A 22-year-old’s first job is not merely something to check off on a to-do list or add proudly to a resume. Nor is stumbling into law school something to pursue just for the sake of self-validation.

Don’t worry, I’m not having an existential crisis about becoming a lawyer; I’ve known that I wanted to go to law school basically since freshman year of high school. But in the past months I’ve lost sight of why I really want to go to law school. I’ve relied on my law school plans as a way of making myself feel better in the face of my

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peers landing starting salaries I won’t see for at least five years.

But that’s not the real reaVICTORIA son I’m taking the LSAT. HALLI want to go to law school PALERM because I want to be a lawNotorious yer; and I want VHP to be a lawyer because I want to use the law to implement real changes in American policy. I want to pick fights with The Man, and I want to know that because of something I’ve done, I’ve made someone’s life tangi-

bly better. And I want to do those things because they’re what matter to me; they’re what I believe will make me happy. (Or at least I seriously hope they do.)

And for all the people in the senior class packing the rooms in the Omni trying to get a job in finance or consulting or advertising or anything under the sun, I wish them the best of luck. It sounds like it would make me miserable, but I hope it makes them wildly happy, using whatever value system makes sense to them.

Because while it may seem hard to believe when we’re trapped here, surrounded by the tunnel-vision of “get a job, move to a major city, make the dollars,” that’s just one, narrow view of the good life.

Yours is allowed to be totally different, just as much as it’s allowed

to be exactly that. I’m not saying don’t do finance; I’m saying do it because that’s what you want to wake up doing every morning.

When we graduate from Yale, our first step, be it a job or be it graduate school, isn’t just a matter of getting on a path that will allow us to feel self-assured. It’s another chance to move ever closer to becoming the adults we’re going to be. So when I take the LSAT this weekend, I want to remember that I’m doing this for future me, to allow me to become the crusader I hope to be, and not to make current, insecure, unemployed me feel validated over dinner table conversation.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu.

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KYLE TRAMONTE is a senior in Saybrook College. His columns run on Thursdays. Contact him at kyle.tramonte@yale.edu.

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On climate, think of growth models

n Sunday, more than 300,000 people gathered in New York City for the People’s Climate March, calling for climate justice and more governmental action to curb climate change. It doesn’t surprise me that Americans would choose to take to the streets to make their demands, because for many Americans, the streets are where social movements begin.

What’s always shocking to see is that some Chinese people, who know all too well that protesting could get them killed, also flood the streets to defend their environment.

Reports of environmental protests in China abound on the Internet, though details are often censored. Nearly all protests are directed against the possible establishment of industries hazardous to the environment in densely populated areas. Even though there was often a heavy presence of policemen and army soldiers, people still marched in solidarity. The latest protest occurred just a week ago, in Boluo County, Guangdong Province.

Perhaps the most salient protests erupted in Shifang, Sichuan Province and Qidong, Jiangsu Province within a span of less than one month in the summer of 2012. Surprisingly, in such cases, the brave act of protest often

made local governments abandon their plans. Even the staterun mouthpiece Global Times suggested that local governments improve their decision-making process, a rare call for the check of administrative power in official propaganda. But maybe for local governments, this means moving these lucrative but environmentally unfriendly industries to places without much population, or without many streets, because people don’t usually protest when the immediacy of the issue is absent.

So I wonder if the protesters at the People’s Climate March had in mind their brothers and sisters around the world, especially those in a desperate situation like China. “Cheater!” is the first reaction of many Americans when thinking about China’s environmental policies.

China, now the world’s biggest polluter, appears to have “cheated” in some ways. The environment was an afterthought in the party’s official agenda until recently. Recent emphasis on environmental protection was propelled not by pressure to combat climate change, but instead by the importance of stability maintenance, on which the regime now spends more money than the military. Before environment protests appeared, the

objective of local government officials was economic growth, without which chaos could break out. Now that they are also evaluated for the control of civil stability, they need to be careful not to let polluting industries upset people. This currently approach to environmental protection is half-hearted.

Why inaction? Every environmental activist must wonder. While part of China’s inaction results from its narrow objective of stability maintenance, another part of China’s problem exists in its economic growth model. Despite seemingly miraculous economic advances in the past 30 years, I would argue that any nation willing to exploit its resources and sacrifice its healthy environment at China’s pace is likely to achieve similar economic growth rates. China’s whole system is reliant on sucking up domestic resources and importing technologies from abroad to better exploit resources. This system must change, but it is so rigid that for now, it will hardly budge.

The reduction of greenhouse gas emission in China will lead to the slowdown of its economy.

While growth figures serve little more than a propaganda tool, the shutdown of highly polluting coalmines, steel works and

sweatshops such as iPhone factories will directly impact the livelihood of millions of Chinese people. Workers under such a system cannot expect a brighter future without better education and better opportunities.

What’s more upsetting than China’s own desperation is that more countries are eager to adopt China’s get-rich-fast, extremely myopic and eventually self-destructive growth model.

From the mines of Africa to the rainforests of South America, both continents seeing a curiously stronger Chinese presence, the China model is being replicated with fervor. Every country has the right to develop economically, but no country has the right to do so by following an unsustainable crash course that destroys the environment, affects the climate and burdens the world.

So at this week’s U.N. climate conference, the delegates representing nations of the world should spend less time bickering and pointing fingers. They should instead focus on drawing up healthier alternative growth models and partaking in more cooperative diplomacy.

YIFU DONG is a sophomore in Branford College. Contact him at yifu.dong@yale.edu.

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The article “Tyco parking lot to become grad student apartments” incorrectly stated that the only Yalesponsored housing for graduate students near central campus is located in the Hall of Graduate Studies. In fact, Helen Hadley Hall also houses 178 graduate students on central campus.

Deresiewicz addresses flock

Partnership between ULA and city stalled

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER Months after promising to aid workers’ groups and the Connecticut Department of Labor in the fight against wage theft in New Haven, city officials have yet to advance a motion that would allow police to support worker’s demands for stolen wages.

In the wake of the high-profile Gourmet Heaven labor dispute and ensuing arrest of owner Chung Cho for theft of services, city officials and the New Haven Police Department announced that they would partner with La Unidad Latina en Accion (ULA), the organization that represented the former Gourmet Heaven workers, to reinforce existing state statutes about wage theft.

The ensuing press conference was hailed by headlines as the beginning of the end of wage theft in New Haven, but efforts to initiate a change in enforcement have stalled on the city’s Corporation Counsel Victor Bolden’s desk.

In December of last year, ULA activists worked with the NHPD to draft a policy that police would send a letter to businesses guilty of wage theft emphasizing the state statutes criminalizing wage theft. NHPD also agreed to prioritize arrest warrants for uncooperative wage offenders identified by the Department of Labor, ULA organizer John Lugo said.

“If a business owner reports shoplifting, the police will come immediately, but if an employer steals thousands of dollars from a worker, it’s not even treated like a real crime,” Lugo said. “The point of the letter is to get the NHPD to take this seriously.”

After agreeing on the policy and announcing the partnership at a press conference in February, city officials told activists it would just have to run by the corporation counsel to be approved.

After months of waiting, activists met with the mayor’s chief of staff Tomas Reyes in late August,

who told them they would have a response within a week, said ULA organizer Megan Fountain. They have not yet heard back from Bolden or any city officials.

Bolden did not respond to multiple requests for comment. City officials have not been responsive, according to Evelyn Nuñez, moderator for student social justice group MEChA, which has been involved in the Gourmet Heaven dispute since last year.

“The city has been dragging its feet for months and it’s unacceptable at this point,” Fountain said.

Activists with the assistance of Yale Law School Worker and Immigrant Advocacy Clinic students crafted the policy based on a similar one in Houston, Texas, which Lugo said has been effective in reducing worker exploitation.

The goal, he said, is to empower workers to report theft to police.

Current state wage and hour laws condemn wage theft as criminal offense said attorney James Bhandary-Alexander of the New Haven Legal Assistance Association. More often than not, the Department of Labor will instead negotiate a settlement between employers and workers to come into compliance with wage laws.

Bhandary-Alexander said that when the employer refuses to pay the settlement, as was the case with Cho, it is important that local police have a clear understanding of the criminal statutes about wage theft and know how to enforce them.

“The police department has a lot on its plate and a lot of competing priorities,” BhandaryAlexander said. “So we need the community effort to raise police awareness of wage theft.”

Five workers represented by Bhandary-Alexander filed a federal civil suit on Sept. 15 against Cho under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

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The fight against wage theft has slowed in New Haven after the Gourmet Heaven labor dispute earlier this year.

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Former English professor and author of “Excellent Sheep” William Deresiewicz responded to students at a Morse College Master’s Tea.

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER According to William Deresiewicz, author of the controversial book, “Excellent Sheep,” attending college should be like going to a monastery — one should go for precisely the reason of finding out why one is going.

Over 100 “excellent sheep,” the term Deresiewicz uses to describe college students at elite institutions, herded into the Morse College Master’s House on Wednesday to hear the author speak about the meaning of a true education and give his thoughts on whether or not Yale students are “zombie” Ivy Leaguers.

Deresiewicz — who formerly taught in Yale’s English department — catalyzed a national debate this summer when he published an article entitled “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League” in The New Republic. His visit to Yale is part of a larger college tour that also stops at Harvard, Columbia, Brown and others, to promote his book, which came out in August.

“Here is what I am saying: If you got to Yale, you have been taught to care about a specific type of things, all under the rubric of success,” Deresiewicz said. “But what college should help you do … is to question — really everything — but specifically those things that have structured your choices.”

Morse College Master Amy Hungerford, who taught alongside Deresiewicz in the English department, began the discussion by directing questions away from the sections of the book that have gained the most media attention, which she said was in an effort to avoid having a simplified debate over the pros and cons of attending Ivy League schools. Rather, she started the conversation by asking Deresiewicz on the meaning and process of “building one’s self.”

Deresiewicz said it is unfair

to expect colleges to produce students with a clear sense of passion. But, he said, colleges should at the very least teach students how to find their passion — a word that he admitted is often overly “fetishized.”

Here is what I am saying: If you got to Yale, you have been taught to care about a specific type of things, all under the rubric of success.

WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ Author, “Excellent Sheep” But what this means to each person should be different, he said. He decried the trend of Ivy League-educated students choosing jobs in popular fields such as finance, consulting or Teach for America simply because they are available and generally keep one’s life opportunities open.

Deresiewicz also spoke on the topic of leadership.

For students fresh out of high school, it is common to think of leadership as simply being popular he said — but he involved Ralph Waldo Emerson’s counter-definition of leadership, which involves being alone and following one’s own sense of right and wrong.

“Leadership has become this incredibly cliché buzzword on American campuses,” Deresiewicz said. “On the most charitable interpretation, ‘leadership’ means literally nothing at all. If you truly look at how it is used, it really means ‘becoming a big shot.’”

Still, Deresiewicz reserved some kind words for his former employer, admitting that teaching at Yale allowed for more flexibility than at some of the University’s peer institutions. He noted however, that some of the best teachers at

Yale are not the tenured professors.

He added that what makes liberal arts schools — such as Reed College and Wesleyan University — more compelling in general is their greater ability to nurture students.

“Students have told me that they can get a great education at Yale,” Deresiewicz said. “But you have to fight for it.”

Despite the furor that has erupted on campus over Deresiewicz’s philosophies, student reactions to his statements at the event were relatively subdued.

A moment of heated exchange occurred when Marissa Medansky ’15, a former opinion editor for the News, asked whether Deresiewicz now saw himself as a “guru” in traveling to different colleges and promoting a “prescriptive guide for living.”

“It sounds kind of pukey, right? That’s the tone I am getting from you,” Deresiewicz answered. “It sounds like selfhelp and that sounds vulgar and presumptuous, but I [do] think that people need help … and in some ways this is just office hours.”

While some students were openly supportive of Deresiewicz’s statements, others remained unconvinced.

Sandeep Peddada ’16 said Deresiewicz’s article in The New Republic this summer first seemed unfair — but also made a good argument that was backed up well.

Soumya Kambhampati ’18 said he felt that Deresiewicz’s article was provocative, though in person Deresiewicz seemed more conciliatory and willing to admit the merits of the Ivy League. Deresiewicz also often relied upon stereotypes when describing Yale students, Kambhampati said.

Nitika Khaitan ’16 said her experience at Yale was entirely unlike the descriptions Deresiewicz provided in his book.

She added that she was surprised, however, in the commonalities she found with some of his beliefs.

Deresiewicz studied biology and psychology at Columbia University, and also worked as a freelance dance critic while in graduate school.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

Global health eyes expansion

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER The Yale School of Public Health is going to college.

In the coming year, YSPH plans to expand the Yale Global Health Studies Program, an undergraduate concentration that accepts 15-18 Yale College students every year. The projected growth comes as a response to the findings of the YSPH Goals and Priorities 2014-’15 report, which called for bolstering the program’s offerings. By adding another public health course in epidemiology, and bringing in YSPH faculty to teach courses at the College, the YSPH administration and program directors hope to satisfy an increasing demand amongst

undergraduates for global health courses.

“The goal is to meet the needs across campus of students who are really interested in taking on global health as a multidisciplinary challenge, and there’s considerable faculty expertise at YSPH that can meet that need,” said Kristina Talbert-Slagle, senior scientific officer of the Global Health Leadership Institute.

According to Dean of the School of Public Health Paul Cleary, epidemiology, environmental health and infectious diseases are all gaps within the undergraduate program that YSPH faculty could help fill. The first priority is a basic epidemiology course, said Elizabeth Brad-

ley, Branford College master and director of the Global Health Initiative and Global Health Leadership Institute. She added that epidemiology is “the ABCs of Public Health,” but Yale College doesn’t even have a introductory course in the subject.

Over time, she said YSPH may also offer an undergraduate course in food or nutrition policy, filling a gap that was created when Kelly Brownell, former director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, left Yale in 2013.

“It won’t be transformational instantly, but over time we’ll be able to offer some more critical courses,” Bradley said.

A c c o rd i n g to K a ve h Khoshnood, director of both the

Global Health Studies Program and the School’s BA/BS-MPH degree program, YSPH faculty members have been extremely

The goal is to meet the needs across campus of students who are really interested in taking on global health as a multidisciplinary challenge.

KRISTINA TALBERT-SLAGLE Senior scientific officer, Global Health Leadership Institute

supportive of the decision to expand offerings in the College.

The undergraduate interest in global health came to the University’s attention seven years ago, when between 700 and 800 students petitioned the College course on global health, Khoshnood said. YSPH responded with “Global Health Challenges and Responses,” a highly regarded lecture course in which 137 students are currently enrolled.

Before that, Khoshnood said, undergraduates showed up at the offices of YSPH faculty members, asking to be admitted to their graduate courses. Those constant requests inspired the current undergraduate Program, as well as the five-year BA/BS-

MPH program.

“The motivating factor behind all of [these changes] is bottom up,” Khoshnood said. “The Global Health Studies Program was not created at the School of Public Health, and then introduced to Yale College. It was undergraduates who got organized.”

With the growth of the program, and the School of Public Health getting on board, administrators are again simply responding to student demand, he said.

There are currently 30 students enrolled in the Global Health Studies Program.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

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“A wise man should have money in his head but not in his heart.” JONATHAN SWIFT IRISH SATIRIST

Endowment outperforms peers allocations in public stocks and bonds recovered more quickly.

Still, the University’s endowment has made a strong rebound, and this year, the University benefited from investment gains of approximately $4.0 billion net of spending.

Though the endowment’s losses during the recession caused a large central operating deficit, this gap between revenue and expenses has become smaller in recent years.

Provost Benjamin Polak said fiscal 2014’s high returns on the University’s assets helped to reduce the central operating deficit for that year.

According to the Investment Office’s statement, spending from the endowment to support the University in fiscal 2015 is projected to be $1.1 billion, representing approximately 34 percent of Yale’s net revenues. Endowment support to the operating budget has nearly doubled over the last 10 years.

According to preliminary estimates from Cambridge Associates, an institutional-investment adviser firm, colleges and universities have reported an average return of 16.2 percent for fiscal 2014.

With the exception of Harvard, which reported Tuesday that its assets returned 15.4 percent in fiscal 2014, all other Ivy League schools that have released their latest figures have bested that figure.

Three weeks ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said its assets returned 19.2 percent over the past year. Dartmouth earned the same return, while the University of Pennsylvania’s endowment grew by 17.5

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Yale’s longer term returns remain in the top tier of institutional investors, according to the press release. Yale’s endowment returned an average of 11.0 percent per year over the 10 years ending June 30, 2014. This surpassed broad market results for domestic stocks, which returned 8.4 percent annually, and for domestic bonds, which returned 4.9 percent annually, according

Independent union considered SECURITY UNIONS FROM PAGE 1 we’re not united right now — it’s split down the middle.”

Efforts to form a smaller union, which would be called the Yale University Security Officers Association, are supported by The Law Offices of Michael Hanley, a law firm based in Quincy, Mass. Thomas Horgan, the attorney heading the initiative, did not respond to requests for comment made on Wednesday.

Though the officer said he plans to support the existing union during the next election, he continued to insist that solidarity within the department should remain its primary objective because, ultimately, the union is designed to defend its collective interests in front of Yale Security’s managers. The existing split, he added, will be hard to overcome because of how intensely the opposing factions feel about the decision.

Another officer, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, felt that enough had gone wrong under the SPFPA for him to strongly consider supporting the YUSOA, were he to eventually vote.

“We’ve kind of been at the bottom of the barrel,” the officer said. “If I vote, it wouldn’t be for the guys in charge right now.”

He said that the SPFPA has not been active enough in providing strong infrastructure for Yale Security workers since it began representing the department in 2010, citing instances in which his colleagues were dismissed without the support of the union as examples of its ineffectiveness.

A third member of the department, who also declined to provide his name, said Yale Security officers tend to manage themselves autonomously, adding that upcoming negotiations will not hinge too seriously upon major grievances.

Leaders of the SPFPA argued that switching to a smaller union would weaken Yale Security’s position against the University.

“It’s a matter of size,” said

SPFPA Director Guy Thomas.

“The problem with a small union is companies don’t take them as seriously as they do with a large union.”

Mark Crawford, who as a regional vice president for the SPFPA is responsible for Yale Security, noted that the alternative is a union run through a small law firm. Meanwhile, he said, the SPFPA keeps six lawyers on retainer at any given time.

The SPFPA has sent organizers to Yale to persuade Yale Security workers to stay in the SPFPA, Crawford said, adding that he is confident Yale Security would remain in the national union.

But despite the potential ramifications of changing their union representation, few Yale Security staff interviewed expressed strong opinions on the issue. Three other Yale Security staff interviewed, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they were indifferent about who represented them in negotiations with the University.

Associate Vice President for Administration Janet Lindner said that the University has no preference as to which direction Yale Security takes.

“The decision, which they will make through the NLRB election, is up to them and the University has not expressed a preference or taken a position on the outcome,” Lindner said.

“Yale hopes all security officers vote, because one of these two options will be chosen — and to have a say in the outcome, you need to vote.”

Lindner added that the University has already begun negotiating with the SPFPA on a new contract, and that Yale hopes to complete the negotiations before January. However, the timeline for that process could be substantially shifted by the result of the vote.

Yale Security ratified its first contract in 2011.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu and MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

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to the statement.

William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute, noted that Yale’s returns were largely driven by private equity and natural resources, which account for roughly 40 percent of the University’s portfolio.

The other 60 percent is divided among six other asset classes, including absolute return, domestic equity and real estate.

2012 YEAR “I think the message … is diversification,” Jarvis said. “I think that’s an important part of the wisdom in structuring longterm portfolios.”

The Investments Office press release also noted that relative to the estimated 7.6 percent average return of college and university endowments over the past 10 years, Yale’s investment performance has produced $8.4 billion in added value over the same

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Though Ibbotson said many endowments and institutional investors try to imitate Yale’s model, he noted that it is harder to copy the skill required to successfully implement such a strategy.

“Everybody else wants to be like Yale, but the question is whether they have the ability to do that,” he said.

Jarvis agreed, adding that

though Yale’s strong returns may cause some investors to look more favorably on the model, these investors should be wary of trying to imitate Yale without Yale’s resources.

Yale’s endowment return in fiscal 2013 was 12.5 percent, growing the University’s assets to $20.8 billion.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

Hundreds join demonstration

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Wednesday’s celebration took place in the face of recent tumoil between the members of Local 34 and Local 35, and Yale administrators.

PROTEST FROM PAGE 1 extolled the virtues of collective bargaining and of collaboration with Yale.

“Thirty years is significant because 30 years ago was the start of a new life for me,” said Pat Carta, who worked at the University for five years before the formation of Local 34, one of Yale’s two major unions, in 1983. Carta also previously served as staff director of the union.

Wednesday’s celebration also struck a tone that was different from the one present in the recent turmoil between the unions and the University. In the past months, the two have quarreled over issues ranging from budget cuts to changes in the Medical School and the reorganization of Yale Dining.

History weighed heavily on the event, with long-time union members eager to reflect on the changing circumstances of Yale’s workforce.

Laura Smith, who served as Local 34 president from 1994 to 2010, said there has been a substantial difference in the University’s treatment of its workers over the formation of the union.

Members of the Yale administration also took part in the festivities and praised the work of union members on campus.

“I think that it’s great to celebrate hard and dedicated work on behalf of our University today,” Salovey said. “I view

the University as a community, and as ‘mayor’ of that community, I think it’s important that we all work to make it better.”

Salovey was accompanied by University Vice President and Director of New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development Bruce Alexander ’65, who in the early 2000s played a major role in reversing decades of strife between the unions and the University.

The gathering on Cross Campus was as much a pep rally as it was a reminder to Yale of the strength of Local 34 and Local 35, which represent nearly 5,000 pink-, white- and blue-collar workers across campus.

“One of the things about the celebration is I’m hoping that Yale sits back and realizes that we’re here to stay,” said Local 35 President Bob Proto.

Sterling Library Bibliographic Assistant Yuka Tetrault called Local 34 a “powerful organization,” and Academic Support Assistant Arturo Perez-Cabello credited the union’s agreement with the University as the reason he still has a job.

Labor leaders stressed the importance of showcasing solidarity across Yale’s unions — something they say Yale has at times underestimated. Wednesday’s event included speeches from Proto, Local 35 Treasurer Tayisha Walker and Local 34 President Laurie Kennington.

Despite the festive atmosphere,

though, the tensions in the unions’ recent relationships with Yale still simmered beneath the surface. In speeches and interviews, union members and leaders made it clear that a day of celebration did nothing to allay their concerns.

“We are not interested in letting the University push us back,” Walker said.

“Get ready to fight for the things that we still want.”

Antonio Lopes, a vice president of Local 34, said he hopes Yale will engage the union in a more substantive dialogue about the impact of budget cuts on jobs, adding that recent changes have left more work to fewer employees — a refrain commonly heard across both unions.

Among the issues on display Wednesday was the lack of recognition of graduate students as employees of the University, which Yale has long resisted.

Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) president Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 spoke about how the unrecognized graduate student union is closely aligned with Locals 34 and 35.

Nevertheless, Kennington said there remain opportunities for unions and administrators to work together.

“There are some tough issues,” Kennington said, “but I know that we can resolve them.”

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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OCS hosts STEM nights Climate change denial explored

BY RACHEL STRODEL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a Wednesday afternoon lecture at the Yale Law School, Climate change activist George Marshall detailed the psychology of climate change denial.

Marshall serves as the director of the Oxford-based Climate Outreach and Information Network, an organization that works to deliver material about climate change that is accessible to all sectors of the general public. In the lecture, which was attended by about 50 students and faculty, Marshall explored the idea that people understand climate change through socially constructed narratives rather than coming to their own conclusions and taking action on these convictions. He attributed the lack of social emphasis on fighting climate change to the human psychological bias to avoid thinking or talking about uncertainty.

“The certainty of terrorism makes it more dangerous, while the uncertainty of climate change makes it less so,” he said. “Climate change is hard to accept.”

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Last week, over 400 students attended two industry nights that brought STEM companies to campus to meet with and recruit students.

As part of the University’s effort to grow its emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the Office of Career Strategy (OCS) is expanding support for students interested in STEM careers, scheduling a slew of career-oriented events for STEM students this semester.

Associate director of OCS Brian Frenette said the high turnout at the industry events was a sign of strong interest on campus and bodes well for future relationships with employers.

Moving forward, Frenette said OCS hopes to continue to grow these industry nights and consolidate individual company events into larger ones.

STEM companies have traditionally been underrepresented during the recruiting season, Frenette said.

While industries like finance and consulting receive a lot of attention because they participate in on-campus recruitment, many industries, STEM included, simply do not have the resources to have a constant physical presence on campus.

Students may notice the lack of STEM recruiters and mistakenly think that these employers are not interested in hiring Yale students, he said.

“I think sometimes people misinterpret a lack of physical presence to say they’re not interested,” Frenette said.

I n c rea s i n g e m p l oye rs ’ physical presence on campus

became easier with the opening of the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design two years ago, said Vincent Wilczynski, deputy dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Having a new, physical space that represents Yale’s commitment to STEM adds vibrancy to networking events that are held there, he said, adding that it also gives employers a more thorough understanding of the engineering community at Yale.

Yale engineers often have to turn to the black hole of the online resume drop with big engineering companies.

HANNAH MAE ROBINSON ’15 OCS also publicizes STEM job opportunities published on Symplicity, Yale’s online jobs database.

Many companies who cannot physically travel to campus demonstrate their interest in Yale talent by posting jobs to Symplicity, Frenette said.

“Big companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky [Aircraft Corporation] have voluntarily come to our database and posted positions,” he said.

Last year, OCS decided to discontinue its annual career fair in favor of smaller, indust ry- s p e c i f i c re c r u i t m e n t nights. Brooke Tlasky — a recruitment coordinator for ESPN who attended last week’s industry night for the first time — said the more intimate envi-

ronment allowed her to give more individual attention to students.

Still, Hannah Mae Robinson ’15, a mechanical engineering major who attended one of the industry nights, said engineering students would benefit from even more face time with employers.

“Because [Yale’s] engineering numbers are small compared to schools with bigger engineering programs, it isn’t always worth the recruiter’s time to make the trip,” she said.

“Yale engineers often have to turn to the black hole of the online resume drop with big engineering companies.”

Symplicity job listings have not helped much either, she said, adding that she finds that non-finance, non-consulting and non-software job are still “slim pickings.”

For Pablo Napolitano ’15, another mechanical engineering major, it is difficult to ignore the draw of consulting or finance. Though he has wanted to be an engineer for years, going into consulting feels safer and better-paying, he said.

“It’s hard to put your eggs in the proverbial engineering basket, considering how much more demand there is for a Yale consultant than for a Yale engineer,” he said. “I think a greater presence from design firms and major engineering companies would do a lot to change that. Hopefully as time goes on, companies will see greater value in Yale engineers.”

41 percent of the class of 2017 matriculated to Yale with an intention of majoring in a STEM field.

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

GEORGE MARSHALL Climate change activist Over the course of the nearly two-hour talk, Marshall discussed why there has been a relative failure of dialogue and action about climate change.

Humans respond very poorly to future uncertainty, and when they are presented with the option of forgoing some future loss, such as the rising sea levels, or accepting a current gain, such as a bigger car, individuals almost always choose the current gain, he said.

Time frame also has an impact on human’s responses

to relevant issues like climate change: something that will happen tomorrow is much more salient in people’s minds than something that will happen a year from now, Marshall added.

Marshall played a video from the advocacy group Trócaire, in which people on the streets of Dublin were asked what they thought about the term climate change.

“No one [was] speaking in any way that was original, based on personal experience, or based on science,” he said. “Societies have contracts of what can and cannot be said. There’s not just the absence of a narrative.

There’s the presence of a nonnarrative.”

In order to combat the social narratives and human tendencies that prevent people from taking action against climate change, Marshall said he believes we must frame the issue depending on the audience.

Rather than seek collaboration across disputing groups, such as democrats and republicans, advocates should frame climate change in a way that appeals to the values of each group.

“The climate change narrative is largely shaped by the values of liberal environmentalists, but climate change shouldn’t

necessarily be environmental,” he said. “The framework should work well for the people who made it.”

For instance, Marshall showed an ad from a evangelical Christian group that described climate change in the context of biblical beliefs.

Aaron Goldzimer LAW ’15, who performed environmental advocacy work in Washington, D.C. before attending law school, said that Marshall’s ultimate goal of getting conservatives to support climate change is important in a world of polarized political views.

For Dena Adler LAW ’16, the lecture suggested novel approaches to communicating climate change.

“I’ve heard about constructing appealing solutions in the classroom, but haven’t heard much about how to construct a social narrative in order to better communicate a particular issue,” she said. “I’m interested in talking to him more about that.”

Marshall’s most recent book, “Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change,” was published on Aug. 19.

Contact RACHEL STRODEL at rachel.strodel@yale.edu .

Housing prices stagnate in New Haven

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Although nationally there has been a huge recovery in real estate prices this past year, New Haven is one of only six cities in the country that did not report higher real estate prices from May 2013 to May 2014.

This stagnation in home prices has caused concern from realtors and city officials who said this may be a troubling indication of the state of New Haven’s economy. In response to this news, city officials said that their plans to improve living standards in the city should help fix the problem.

“The city is working on a number of initiatives that would indirectly improve the market.

Bringing jobs to the city, improving the public school system, keeping city streets safe would all have an indirect effect on home prices,” said Laurence Grotheer, Director of Communications at the Office of the Mayor of New Haven.

But in the meantime, realtors are struggling to come to terms with a difficult financial situation. Last year there was an initial rush of buyers, but the market has since slowed and prices

have not risen, said Linda Schauwecker, the co-owner of Real Estate Two Inc. John Cuozzo, Principal and Broker of Press|Cuozzo Realtors, has experienced similar problems providing his services in the Greater New Haven area. Cuozzo said the lower real estate prices are a product of Connecticut’s slow recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. “ Co n n e c t i c u t h a s n o t rebounded as other states have and the real estate market in New Haven is suffering as a result,” Cuozzo said.

Stagnating home prices throughout New Haven have not impacted University Properties, according to Bruce Alexander, vice president for New Haven and state affairs. He added that University Properties owns downtown property but doesn’t participate in home sales.

“Our objective in the University’s community investment program is to improve the state of the New Haven economy, not depend on it, ” Alexander said in an email.

University Properties, he added, has not experienced any difficulty in recruiting or retaining new tenants.

This data may not be cause for despair, Mark Abraham, the Executive Director of DataHaven said in an email. Housing price trends should be observed over many years, especially in a relatively small market, Abraham added.

Furthermore, family home prices may not be related to other real estate projects, such as commercial development or other types of housing, Abraham said.

Cuozzo and Schauwecker are more apprehensive than Abraham. They argued that an improvement in the economy as a whole is a prerequisite in raising housing prices, and they have not seen promising economic indicators.

“People having jobs is the big factor here,” Schauwecker said.

Cuozzo added that home real estate prices will improve once people feel more confident about their employment, receive consistent pay raises and the economy improves in general.

Hartford also did not record an increase in housing prices last year.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“All politics is local.”

TIP O’NEILL 55TH SPEAKER OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Taubes returns home for politics SUB FROM PAGE 1 to be the one who runs.’ It’s more like, ‘No one wants to run, so I might as well do it,’” he said.

At 25, with a boyish face set off by a mop of black hair with wisps of silver-gray, Taubes is putting his legal education on hold to run for state representative in the 101st Connecticut House District, which comprises this shoreline town and a portion of Durham.

Another Yalie, Ted Kennedy Jr. FES ’91, is running for state senate in an overlapping district.

Taubes is hoping to unseat Republican incumbent Noreen Kokoruda, who has held the seat since 2011. If he wins, he will take the spring of 2015 off from classes, finishing his course work next fall, when the legislature is out of session. For now, he is shuttling back and forth between classes in New Haven and the campaign trail in Madison.

He is living with his parents in the same house on Wickford Place where he grew up. Their home is a bona fide campaign headquarters, also host to Taubes’ little brother, the campaign manager and his girlfriend, whom Taubes met on the intercollegiate debate circuit.

A debater’s wit and keen eye for detail are evident in the way Taubes answers even mundane questions about the race. Being a state representative is not actually taking time off from legal training, he said. In fact, he would be writing laws.

He explained his motivation to seek office in the form of questions as open-ended as the ones he would have probed in courses at Boston University, where he studied political science and philosophy.

“If a state legislature runs a state, who runs a state legislature?” he mused on the sidewalk in between homes he was canvassing for supporters. The state’s public finance campaign system, which both he and his opponent are using, makes it possible for legislators to be independent-minded. But the contrast between him and Kokoruda, 67, runs deeper than party affiliation and age, he said.

A woman on Lovers Lane opened her door to Taubes to announce she was in the middle of making dip and could not talk for long. Before he could finish his pitch, the voter finished his sentence: “it’s time for a change.” She promised her support.

Taubes was born in Illinois, where his dad was in medical school, before his parents moved to Fairfield, Conn. They settled in Madison when Taubes was five or six years old.

He attended public schools here, where he sparked political debates at the lunch table.

“I always had to read up to try to beat him when he would start hammering issues, like ‘Hey Nick, what do you know about gun violence in America?’” said

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Alex Taubes LAW ‘15 has been soliciting votes by going house to house in his hometown, which is located in the 101st Connecticut House District,.

Nick Gonsalves, a friend helping with the campaign.

Gonsalves said he has known since high school that Taubes would go into politics. The candidate’s parents agreed. His mother, Bita Taubes, said her son was always “proud of being the geek and the nerd — others would do sports, he would do debate and quiz bowl.”

Taubes’ mother said he is a natural organizer and advocate, describing how he spent time in law school lobbying the dean to hire professors from more diverse backgrounds. As the co-chair of the clinical student board, Taubes said he asked the law school to weigh potential for community contribution more heavily in hiring decisions, he said.

As a student, Taubes was involved politically both on the municipal and state level. In January 2013, in the wake of the Newtown school shooting, he did legal research and lobbied on behalf of Connecticut Against Gun Violence. That summer, he participated in an economic development clinic in New Haven.

Last fall, Taubes staked out a position in the mayoral contest between then-state Sen.

Toni Harp and Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10. He contributed to Harp’s campaign by advising her on debate tactics and giving her a sense of “how the media was covering her.”

“She did a bad job with the white, Yale segments of New Haven,” Taubes said. “But people in New Haven feel like that group of people has received all the attention. What we tried to tell her is that you don’t need to pander to students and Yale professors to win.”

It’s more like ‘No one wants to run, so I might as well do it.’

ALEX TAUBES LAW ’15 Harp spoke to a truer crosssection of the city’s population, he said. Seeing that first-hand taught him that “you are where you’re from,” even though neither candidate was actually born in New Haven.

Taubes began attending Democratic Town Committee meet-

ings in Madison at the end of last year. When no other Democrat came forward, he decided to run, declaring his candidacy in the early spring. It was the advice of a law school friend that convinced him: He was advised that, as a young person, he would have the opportunity to draw a contrast and offer new ideas. At the same time, the friend counseled that Taubes’ roots in Madison and his legal education give him credibility.

Taubes uses the example of New Haven in explaining the ideological differences between him and his opponent. Democrats and Republicans in the district have similar goals, he said: good schools, stable jobs and a sustainable shoreline and environment.

“The difference is [Republicans] feel like the things they want are in conflict with what New Haven wants,” Taubes said, while he sees investments in New Haven’s economy as fruitful for the whole area.

As urban opportunities expand, people will go to work and live in New Haven before moving out to the suburbs, he said. But instead of seeking to stitch these communities

together, politicians have fractured them, he said.

“The biggest criticism people give me is that I’m an idealist. I prefer to say I like to tell the truth,” Taubes said.

Kokoruda did not return multiple phone messages and emails requesting comment. Two Republican members of Madison’s Board of Selectmen, including First Selectman Fillmore McPherson, predicted her victory.

“Noreen is wildly popular, and the general tenor of this town is toward the conservative side anyway,” McPherson said.

Kokoruda’s Democratic predecessor, Deborah Heinrich, disagreed. In Madison, where unaffiliated voters outnumber party devotees, the candidate’s work ethic and expressed vision matter more than party affiliation.

If Taubes wins, she added, the lesson will be that the shoreline is growing increasingly partyblind.

“People have a different way of looking at candidates here,” she said. “They’re more interested in what the candidate has to say, and Alex has a unique way of talking about our community’s

long-term interests, whether it’s in education, affordable housing or the environment.”

Apart from jobs and education, what Taubes emphasizes most in conversations is demographics — Madison’s accessibility to multiple generations and to diverse residents.

At a campaign party that evening, one guest put it this way: “God, this community is so white.”

Taubes countered, saying the town is more diverse than it seems. “The stereotype is 80 percent true, so we assume it’s 100 percent true,” he said.

Verna Lilburn, a party guest who moved to Madison from Manhattan, said the town is slow to change, averse to new ideas.

Change is slow, Taubes said on the campaign trail, echoing that view. But that means change is systematic — and that sustained effort has added value.

Even if he loses, Taubes said, he will keep at it in some way, concluding, “few things happen the first time around in Madison.”

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

Metro-North to offer more trains to NYC METRO-NORTH FROM PAGE 1 economic development and increase jobs throughout Connecticut, citing Metro-North as the “most important job creator” in the state.

Executive Vice President of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA) Joe Brennan added that a modern and efficient transportation network is key to developing a competitive business climate in the New Haven area “More frequent service between New Haven and New York, along with other upgrades to the MetroNorth system, will add more options for business travelers and improve service along this critical line,” Brennan said in a statement.

While municipal leaders underscored the development’s economic importance, many Yale students were excited for different reasons. Yalies traveling to New York City for job interviews said they do not experience difficulties during rush hour times, but missing a train on off-peak periods means waiting at least an hour — an hour that could potentially cause them to miss their interview.

Noah Siegel ’15, who has traveled to the city several times already this semester for job interviews, says the new times will be

helpful, especially because New Haven taxis are extremely unpredictable with their arrival times.

In addition to the new schedule, yesterday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced it is proposing to extend the New Haven line to Penn Station in Manhattan to further ease crowding and provide access to Manhattan’s West side. This initiative is a part of a recently unveiled $32 billion, four-year capital improvement program.

Thomas Aviles ’16 said the new schedule will be helpful, but potentially adding a stop at Penn Station would be even more beneficial to Yalies hoping to head to Madison Square Garden or the city’s West Side. Extending the line to Penn Station would also allow students to transfer directly to Amtrak, the Long Island Railroad and the New Jersey Transit.

Nastassia Lopez, who lives in New York City but visits her sister at Yale frequently, said that while she believes there were a good number of options when she split time working between Greenwich and New York City, she was frustrated with the discrepancy in express versus local trains on the weekends.

“There should really be an express line going from New Haven

to Stamford to New York City on the weekends,” Lopez said. “That way, they could really compete with Amtrak and charge a bit more for the service.”

There should really be an express line going from New Haven to Stamford to New York City on the weekends.

NASTASSIA LOPEZ Mayor Toni Harp proposed developing a one-hour train from New York City to New Haven during the 2013 mayoral campaign, but she has yet to make visible progress on that initiative.

Starting in November, three new midday trains will leave from New Haven on weekdays at 11:25 a.m., 12:25 p.m. and 1:25 p.m., while four new trains will leave from Grand Central Terminal at 9:34 a.m., 10:34 a.m., 11:34 a.m. and 12:34 p.m.

Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 4:00 p.m. 20/21 C. Colloquium: Anne Cheng, “Sushi, Otter, Mermaids: Race at the Intersection of Food and Animal.”

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8:00 p.m. West Point Band and Yale Concert Band Gala Concert. The U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point and the Yale Concert Band will play at a gala concert to commemorate the Yale Bowl’s centennial. Free to the general public. Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 1:00 p.m. Yale versus Army at the Bowl. Come watch the Bulldogs take on the Army Black Knights in their first football meeting since 1996. Come celebrate the Bowl’s centennial and see a great game! Yale Bowl (81 Central Ave.).

1:00 p.m. The Eighth Annual Jack Hitt Pig Roast. The Yale Sustainable Food Project is hosting this year’s roast with Jack Hitt, a contributor to “This American Life.” The roast will contain a full pig, pork tacos and live music. Open only to the Yale Community.

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AROUND THE IVIES

“You can never become rich unless you like rich people.” DOUGLAS COUPLAND CANADIAN NOVELIST

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

Endowment grows to $36.4B with 15.4 percent return

BY CHRISTINE Y. CAHILL AND MATTHEW Q. CLARIDA CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS H a r va rd ’s endowment returned 15.4 percent and grew to $36.4 billion in fiscal year 2014 but, as in recent years, the investment performance of Harvard Management Company lagged behind that of some of the University’s peer institutions.

Endowment Growth FY 2014 CAROLINE T. ZHANG The investment gains leave Harvard’s endowment just short of its $36.9 billion peak, which was reached in June of 2008, before the endowment lost nearly $11 billion in value during a global financial crisis.

While most of Harvard’s peer

institutions have yet to release their returns for FY 2014, three peer schools have outHARVARD paced Harvard by upwards of two percentage points. MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth saw gains of 19.2, 17.5, and 19.2 percent, respectively.

FY 2014 marked the fifth straight year that HMC beat its internally set Policy Portfolio benchmark. HMC exceeded this measure in FY 2014 by .8 percent, which is the lowest margin by which it has done so in the past five years. At the same time,

it was a strong year for major markets, including for the Standard and Poors 500, which was up 24.6 percent.

In FY 2013, the endowment returned 11.3 percent. Since the financial crisis, cooperation between HMC and the Harvard Corporation—the 13-member body that essentially serves as Harvard’s board of trustees— has been tightened and a new and more conservative investment mandate for HMC has emerged.

Management Company CEO Jane L. Mendillo, who said this summer that she will step down by the end of December, would not agree to be interviewed onthe-record Tuesday afternoon.

But in the report and a press release that accompanied it,

Mendillo characterized the year positively.

“The last five years have been a period of significant recovery and repositioning for the Harvard endowment,” Mendillo wrote. “Our organization and our portfolio are now well positioned to continue to deliver substantial returns and cash flow to the University for decades to come.”

According to the report, HMC experienced relatively strong returns in most asset classes.

Public and private equities were the only two asset classes to have fallen short of the internally set benchmarks, by .9 percent and 1.3 percent, respectively.

The relatively weak performance in public equities stems from HMC’s performance in for-

eign equity, where it underperformed against its benchmark by 4.1 percent, and emerging markets equity, where it just met its benchmark.

But domestic equity made up for some of the losses in public equities. This year was the 20th in a row in which HMC’s domestic public equity portfolio beat the U.S. equity market. Mendillo called HMC’s 1.1 percent relative return in U.S. equities, compared to the Company’s internal benchmark, a “nice margin, given the challenge of outperforming a roaring market.”

The relatively weak performance of private equity this year continues the recent sluggish trend for an asset class that had previously driven much of the

endowment’s growth. Private equity saw annualized returns of over 30 percent between 1997 and 2007, far outpacing the slightly more than 10 percent annualized returns for private equity over the past decade. Private equity is also the only asset class in the past few years that did not meet its internal benchmark, falling short by more than 2 percentage points.

Yet Mendillo said in this year’s report that much of the disappointing growth can be attributed to specific commitments made between 2004-2008 in the pre-crisis era, which currently account for 73 percent of the private equity portfolio and are “substantially underperforming.”

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“You just have that swing; you know what you have to do. You just go out there and do it.” ADAM VINATIERI PLACEKICKER FOR THE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS

Yale finishes strong at Inverness GOLF FROM PAGE 10 halgh struggled at the beginning of their final rounds, but persistence brought the golfers back to a respectable position. Greenhalgh was seven-over through six holes and then proceeded to play the next 11 holes two-under for a score of five-over through 17.

[Wang] has been working really hard on his game, and it is great to see it paying off for him.

JOE WILLIS ’16 “[Wang] has been working really hard on his game, and it is great to see it paying off for him,” Willis said. “Other highlights include the comebacks that Li and Thomas made in their final round.”

At the end of day one, Davenport and Wang led the squad with identical scores of 72 on round one and 73 on round two — good for a share of eighth place. Willis demonstrated his consistency through the first two rounds, carding identical scores of 75, which was enough to tie him for 24th place overall.

Though the Elis sat in third place at the end of day one and trailed the leaders ETSU and South Florida by just 12 strokes, they were unable to make a comeback on day two to take the title.

After spending the past two weekends on the road, the Bulldogs will have time to catch their

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The men’s golf team finished in fourth place at the Inverness Invitational this weekend. breath this weekend before teeing off at the MacDonald Cup in two weeks’ time.

“We have an off week now, so we have two weeks until our

home event, where we have performed very well over the past few years,” Davenport said. “I think we have a great process for tournament preparation, so as long as we

Field hockey to play Princeton

use this off week to fine tune our games, we should be in position to contend at the MacDonald Cup next week. We will draw on the confidence of the last two weeks

as well, which, combined with our home course advantage, should give us the mental edge going into competition.”

The MacDonald Cup will take

place at the Yale Golf Course Oct. 4–5.

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

Cazzetta ’15 kicks into high gear FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 10 be in a pretty poor spot, but if I went to Yale, I wouldn’t have any regrets about it,” he said.

That decision certainly made a positive impact on the Bulldogs. In the three years before Cazzetta took over as placekicker, Yale’s kickers had combined to connect on just 45.5 percent of field goal attempts, the worst percentage in the Ivy League in two of those seasons.

One game into his senior year, Cazzetta is kicking 76.5 percent over the course of his career, including three 46-yard field goals last season and one over 40 yards in last week’s win over Lehigh.

Last season, he also recorded

an average of 38.7 yards on 54 punts.

Cazzetta’s recruiting story was unusual, according to head coach Tony Reno, because most players decide early on in their recruiting processes whether or not they want to attend one of the United States service academies.

“You get kids who say, ‘Coach, I love Yale, but I’m going to narrow my choices down to the three academies,’” Reno said. “You can’t do anything but tell him how proud you are, wish him the best and thank him for the service he’s going to provide to this country.”

Cazzetta’s left-footedness may be just as unusual as his

path to Yale. Cazzetta is the first southpaw to kick for Yale since Justin Davis ’02.

The NFL has just one leftfooted starting placekicker this season, Sebastian Janikowski, of the 32 teams in the league.

Cazzetta throws with his right hand but does most other things — batting, golfing and kicking — the other way.

“My dad took me golfing, and he saw me swinging lefty,” Cazzetta said. “He tried to force me to be a righty, but it never worked.”

Cazzetta will take on Army (1–2) with the Bulldogs at 1:00 p.m. Saturday.

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

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The field hockey team is on a three-game losing streak after dropping contests to Harvard and Boston University FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 Sunday,” said midfielder and back Emmy Reinwald ’17. “We’re going into this weekend with a positive attitude and looking to build on that.”

The team suffered two losses in Boston, one against rival Harvard on Saturday and the other against Boston University on Sunday in an overtime match.

Although the squad did not win against BU, multiple players credit that game as the best of the season and an indicator of the quality of play to come.

“Despite our loss against BU last Sunday, our performance during that game was probably the highest that it has been yet for this season,” Wells said. “That

is our greatest asset right now — everyone bringing out their individual best while playing collectively as a team. ...We need to maintain a powerful conviction that we can succeed and have that last until the end of the games.”

The team hopes to capitalize on that conviction, hard work and lots of practice time, according to the players.

The middle of the week is critical as the team gets ready for the weekend.

“We still have a couple days to prepare for Princeton and Stanford,” Wells said. “Each practice will get us closer to executing the game plan that our coach has set for our team.”

If that game plan includes

playing with the same intensity they did on Sunday against BU, the Bulldogs expect to finally receive a win for their hard work.

According to forward Alyssa Weiss ’17, playing back-to-back games against challenging opponents is difficult, but the team is ready.

“Our training and team-first attitude has put us in a position where we’re able to battle through fatigue and other obstacles as a team and find success,” Weiss said. “We’re excited for the opportunity to play great hockey and show what we’re capable of.

Saturday’s game against Princeton will begin at noon.

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

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Kyle Cazzetta ’15 (No. 37) nailed six of his extra point attempts on Saturday to go along with two field goals.

Bowl a monument to glories past, present COLUMN FROM PAGE 10 was the first bowl-shaped stadium and its design went on to inspire Pasadena’s Rose Bowl.

The Bowl is the original naming source of college postseason “bowl” games and the NFL’s Super Bowl.

In its time, the Yale Bowl has housed the Yale Bulldogs, the 1973–74 New York Giants, the Special Olympics World Summer Games and the Grateful Dead. It was considered as a World Cup venue in 1994 and has played host to several Heisman trophy

winners and NFL players. It has seen many wins, and a few losses, against Harvard.

Yale player and coach Walter Camp 1882 has been deemed “The Father of American Football.” Camp invented the line of scrimmage and system of downs, and is credited with creating the game we know today. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, and he remains a testament to the role Yale played in the early decades of American Football. While the Bowl struggles to fill the stands these days, it serves as a reminder that Yale

was once the top dog in college football.

AS THE YALE BOWL TURNS 100, WE MUST CELEBRATE The Bowl was not only built with Yale’s role in American football in mind, but also reflected the University’s outlook on the value of athletics. According to

the National Register of Historical Places, “The history of the building of the Yale Bowl provides an insight into Yale’s theory of sports as an activity vital to the development of whole individuals.”

This last sentiment speaks to what is really being celebrated on this one hundredth fall of football in the Yale Bowl. There is tremendous history of Yale and football, of rivalries old and new and players come and gone, and the Bowl stands as a monument to all who have been a part of that story for the last century. More than that,

the Bowl was built as an investment in Yale athletics. Its conception and construction spoke to the value the institution placed on competition, camaraderie and sport, and the value those things can bring to a university and its students.

Things have changed in the last hundred years, as they so often do: The Ivy League was officially established in 1954, football has grown to be a cultural and national phenomenon, the Bowl lost some seats to renovations, women were admitted to the university starting in 1969 and so on.

Through it all, the Bowl has persisted as a reminder of the rich history and tradition of football and athletics at Yale, and a commitment this University made to its students and athletes one hundred years ago. This weekend is a chance to take pride in the our past and celebrate all that the Bowl represents. Let’s fill the stands and make Saturday a great beginning to another one hundred.

SARAH ONORATO is a senior in Silliman College. Contact her at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .

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MORGAN ROBERTS ’16 FOOTBALL Roberts, who passed for 376 yards and four touchdowns on Saturday against Lehigh, earned the New England Sports Writers’ Gold Helmet award as the player of the week. The Charlotte, NC native completed 31 of 40 passes against the Mountain Hawks.

KELSEY CRAWFORD ’18 VOLLEYBALL The freshman from Sunnyvale, Calif. was recognized as the Ivy League Player of the Week for her performance at the Fullerton Classic last weekend.

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“He tried to force me to be a righty, but it never worked.”

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Kyle Cazzetta ’15 (No. 37) won the Ivy League special teams player of the week award for his performance against Lehigh last Saturday.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER When the Yale football team goes head-to-head with Army on Saturday at the Yale Bowl, Eli players, students and alumni will have a long, impressive span of Yale-Army history to reflect on.

Despite 45 matchups between the

two squads since 1893, the most recent contest came 18 years ago, and so this weekend’s action will give the Bulldogs and Cadets a rare moment to honor a storied non-league rivalry.

Perhaps there is no one for whom that history is more personal than Eli kicker Kyle Cazzetta ’15, a senior leader for

Yale with strong ties to both institutions. Cazzetta grew up in Slate Hill, N.Y., just 30 miles from West Point, and often went to Army football games with his father, who once worked in the academy’s athletic department.

Up until the final four months of Cazzetta’s senior year in high school, Army was the football

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the Bowl

This fall marks 100 years of football at the historic Yale Bowl. And on Saturday, in celebration of the centennial, Yale will host Army for the first time in nearly 30 years. In the past century, the Yale-Army rivalry has drawn five of the ten largest crowds in the history of the Bowl.

Cadets will march, the two schools’ bands will play on Friday night and the two programs will square off inside a stadium that was once the pinnacle of college football, a cathedral built to house a game invented by a Yalie.

The tradition of the Yale-Army rivalry and the history of the Bowl both prompted a considerable social media campaign to bring ESPN’s College GameDay to Yale. The enthusiasm for the game that these efforts elicited was refreshing and deserved. And although GameDay has announced that it will not be in New Haven for the contest, that should not detract at all from the excitement surrounding the history and rivalry that will be celebrated on Saturday.

The Yale Bowl was built in 1914 at an initial capacity of 70,896, the largest in the country at the time. When built, it SEE COLUMN PAGE 9

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Persistence helped the Elis finish strong on the golf course this weekend.

MEN’S GOLF The Yale men’s golf team traveled to Toledo, Ohio over the weekend and took fourth place at the Inverness Intercollegiate Tournament, the club’s second competition of the 2014–2015 season. Competitive performances from Li Wang ’17, Joe Willis ’16 and captain Will Davenport ’15 all contributed to the Elis finishing in the top third of a field that included teams like South Florida, Mercer and East Tennessee State University. Mature play helped the Bulldogs earn their stripes at a difficult course against top-notch competition.

“I’d say the team grinded all week,” Davenport said.

“Not everyone had their ‘A games,’ but we battled on one of the toughest golf

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team he planned on joining.

“I was ready to go to Army,” Cazzetta said at a press conference Tuesday. “It was the only offer on the table at the time, and Yale did not come in until the end of my senior season to start recruiting me. In early February, Yale decided to make an offer, and I made the decision on the spot.”

West Point would have been a reasonable choice for the leftfooted kicker, as Cazzetta is still considering working for the military or another branch of the government after graduating. And after three years in high school of playing two fall sports at the same time — football and soccer — his work ethic is well proven.

He opted to kick for Yale because he was not entirely sure if he wanted to commit to military service after graduation, he said.

“The only reason was that if I had gone to West Point and decided it wasn’t for me, I would SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9

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courses I have ever seen. I think we played as maturely and [with as much discipline] as I could have hoped, and it paid off in a quality finish.”

We battled on one of the toughest golf courses I have ever seen.

WILL DAVENPORT ’15 Wang topped the scorecard for the Bulldogs, tying for seventh individually with a total score of 219.

Davenport locked up 12th place, tallying just one more stroke than Wang at 220.

Willis came in 18th place individually while Thomas Greenhalgh ’15 birdied four times — one of the highest birdie counts in the tournament.

Both Wang and GreenSEE MEN’S GOLF PAGE 9

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The field hockey team will play its second conference game of the season on Saturday against Princeton.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Returning home to Johnson Field this weekend, the Yale field hockey team is ready for a win to snap its three-game losing streak.

FIELD HOCKEY Yale (1-5, 0-1 Ivy) will face Princeton (2-4, 1-0) on Saturday and Stanford (8-1, 1-0 Pac-12) on Sunday after

spending the prior weekend in Boston.

“These are two teams that have had historically successful seasons,” captain Nicole Wells ’16 said. “But Yale field hockey is not a team that becomes apprehensive when looking at an opposing team’s ranking or current wins. We will take whatever competition that shows up to the field and play at 100 percent.”

Players said that the Bulldogs feel prepared to take on

this tough competition. The players’ familiarity with their opponents and their momentum from last weekend may help them secure a win, according to players. Princeton is the team’s second Ivy League opponent of the season, while Bulldogs had the chance to play an away game against Stanford last year.

“The team had a great, strong game against BU on SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 9

TOUCHDOWN PASSES THROWN BY QUARTERBACK MORGAN ROBERTS ’16 AGAINST LEHIGH LAST SATURDAY. Roberts was originally only credited with three TD tosses, but what was at first ruled a handoff to wide receiver Deon Randall ’15 for a school was changed to a forward pass.