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rain garden designed by students is being installed this week outside of Sage Hall, the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies building at 205 Prospect St. Forestry students came up with the plan for the garden, which uses raised banks and native plants to collect rainwater, in order to replace the previous drainage system which simply dumped water into the city sewers.

WEEKEND THE LIMITS OF FREE SPEECH

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Former CIA agent, Jack Devine shares experience with Yalies

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Eidelson considers third term

BY NOAH KIM AND J.R. REED CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER

On the opposite coast of the country, in Blue State on Wall Street, Sarah Eidelson ’12 said this week she would not rule out running for a third term representing Ward 1 on the New Haven Board of Alders.

Simply by completing two terms, Eidelson will have stayed longer on the

Marriott’s plans to build a new Residence Inn in the Dwight neighborhood are facing serious opposition from neighborhood residents.

The plan was first proposed at a New Haven Board of Zoning Appeals meeting this past July, when Courtyard Marriott developer Douglas Cohen, CEO of the Newport Hotel Group, and his attorney James Perito presented a model for a six-story, 115-room residence inn behind the chain’s current Courtyard hotel located at 30 Whalley Ave. Intended to be a new inn to complement the current Marriott, the new hotel will have suites with kitchenettes to target visitors planning on extended stays, Cohen said.

If approved by both the New Haven City Plan Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals, the Residence Inn will be up and running by spring 2016. Last night, the Commission denied the hotel’s request to count satellite parking lots toward the overall hotel quota. Law requires 267 spaces for a

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Still not over Harry Potter.

Dartmouth offers a “designyour-own community” option for housing, in which groups of nine to 18 students block together and submit a proposal for a particular theme. This year’s results include sections of housing themed after plantbased eating (the “Herbifloor”) and after Hogwarts (where the “Muggles for Magical Awareness” live). Other sections focus on music or politics.

Gallery shopping. New

Haven’s Somewhat Off the Wall event is being thrown this weekend by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. The premise is that purchasing a $100 premium ticket gives you the right, as your number is called, to claim any one of 144 drawings, jewelry, paintings, photography, prints, textiles or pottery works donated by 48 artists.

Empire State glows red.

Cornell alumi in NYC are kicking off celebrations of the university’s sesquicentennial in grand style. The top floors of the Empire State Building were lit up in red and white this week. The seven-story Nasdaq screen overlooking Times Square wished Cornell congratulations. Members of the Big Red Marching Band were also featured on the Today Show this week.

So hot. Minjoo Larry Lee,

an associate professor of electrical engineering, has received over $2.5 million to develop a new type of solar cell that can function at extreme temperatures.

The cells will be operable in heat of above 750 degrees Fahrenheit, for example inside a brick oven. Lee’s project is sponsored by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy.

Free Harvard. Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo will be offering scholarships to Harvard starting next year — one for Harvard Business School and one for the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The fellowships will be awarded over the course of three years to six Japanese nationals. Each winner will receive around $200,000.

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BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER AND NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER When redistricting brought a student supermajority to a city council district in Berkeley, Calif., the 18-year incumbent offered to step aside in favor of an undergraduate

candidate.

Kriss Worthington, 60, said in a phone interview — as he was wheeling his bike home from a public meeting — that he would have liked last year’s vice president of Berkeley’s student government to run in his place. When the student declined, Worthington said he chose to defend his seat after all.

Yale Bowl 100 tent celebrates opening

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Artifacts of Yale’s historic football program fill the whitewalled and blue-floored tent.

The 1937 Heisman trophy, a 1908 game jersey, the game ball from Yale’s 800th win and educational displays on the con-

struction of the Yale Bowl encircle display cases that hold game posters dating back to the 1920s.

This is the Webster Bank Yale 100 Tent celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Yale Bowl and the 142nd year of the Yale football program.

Yesterday, Sept. 18, at 2:30 p.m., Yale Athletics and Web-

ster Bank unveiled the Yale 100 Tent outside of the Yale Bowl, which aims to educate Yale fans and celebrate the Yale Bowl’s remarkable journey through the years. Yale Director of Athletics Tom Beckett, head football coach Tony Reno, previous Yale Football players and Regional President of Webster Bank Jeff

Klaus all spoke at the opening of the tent and the history of the Yale Bowl. The tent will be open on game days at the Yale Bowl.

“When I first arrived 21 years ago there was concern that the Yale Bowl might not survive,” Beckett said. “There was a group lobbying to tear it down because it was in a state of disrepair.

Thankfully, due to a substantial gift from the Class of 1954 and many family and alumni, Yale was able to restore it.”

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Uncommon Breyer stresses constitutional values goes cashless

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER When Howie Xu ’17 handed over a quarter to pay for the small difference between his meal-swipe and the cost of his snack at Uncommon, he was told he would need to use a credit card to pay for the change instead.

This fall, Yale Dining has stopped accepting cash payment in Uncommon, one of its retail locations on campus. Though students can still use meal swipes or noncash payment toward purchasing items in this location, any amount exceeding $8 must be covered by credit or debit. Yale Dining representatives declined to comment on whether retail locations that still accept cash — including Durfee’s and Thain Family Cafe — will follow suit.

“Cash accounted for only 3 [percent] of our sales — your generation rarely uses cash,” Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke said in an email. “But [cash] requires additional administrative procedures for auditing purposes that simply

aren’t worth the extra time that they require.”

The policy change has already been a nuisance, according to many students. Of nine students interviewed, five said they opposed the policy.

Matthew Segal ’16 said he walked out of Uncommon empty-handed since his card was not working.

Your generation rarely uses cash.

CATHY VAN DYKE Director of residential dining, Yale University “It is definitely a change from last year,” he said. “I would have a snack right now if I were able to pay cash.”

Anne Gonzalez ’16 said she found it frustrating when she had to use her credit card for an amount as small as 25 cents. She said she would much prefer to just hand over the change directly.

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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer conversing with Peter Salovey and Margaret Marshall on Thursday,

BY DAVID SHIMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the Constitution has five core values, and the key to preserving those values lies in being aware of what is going on in the rest of the world.

Breyer addressed around 300 people at the Yale Law School yesterday afternoon in the

Levinson Auditorium, in conversation with Yale President Peter Salovey and Yale Corporation Senior Fellow Margaret Marshall, who also formerly served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Breyer stressed the importance of understanding the American Constitution. While the vast majority of American law is made in the states, he said, the Constitution

focuses on the core principles of the country — democracy, human rights, equality, separation of powers and the rule of law. The entire Supreme Court can agree on those five principles, he said.

When Salovey asked him what makes the Constitution distinctly American, Breyer reflected on the fact that SEE BREYER PAGE 6

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efore I began a ten-week web development program on campus this summer, my dad made me a proposition: If you hate it, he told me, call and let us know — you can come home. I remember laughing in response. I appreciated the fatherly support, but the entire notion seemed outlandish. Admitting I didn’t like the program and leaving partway through would be quitting. Quitting isn’t something we do.

When I say we, I mean Yale students as well as the rest of the gamut of high-intensity young adults. Just take a look at your neighbor’s iCal in lecture — I promise, someone around you is scheduling instead of note taking — and count the color blocks. Count the students at lunch who sigh emphatically and say, “God, I’m so busy, I just want sleep.”

Count the dark under-eye circles and weary postures. Then count how many students can attest to genuinely loving each of their involvements — as far as I’ve found, the ratio is microscopic. But we keep doing what we’re doing, because commitment is the name of the game. Right?

WE'RE TAUGHT THAT QUITTING IS THE ULTIMATE SIN, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S OK TO STEP BACK FROM A COMMITMENT It’s hard for us to qualify or compromise the commitment ideal, and for reasons that are generally noble. We heard the catchphrase “demonstrate commitment” enough in the college application process to know that the virtue is relentlessly conflated with many of the qualities society holds highest: duty, accountability, generosity, altruism. That incidentally poses commitment as antithesis — antidote, even — to the selfish and the indulgent, labels we scramble to eschew because they seem to verge on societal sin. In college, our obligations are often even higher-stakes; we’re raising funds, educating kids, maybe saving lives. With many of our activities, commitment and morality become more desperately entangled as we grow up.

There’s truth to the notion that commitment to challenging, not-always-a-bedof-roses jobs builds resilience

and teaches m o d e s t y.

But I’m not particularly worried that Yale students face a shortage CAROLINE of tough, meaningPOSNER ful tasks — there Out of Line are only so many gut classes. My concern is the very real threat of exhaustion and burnout. If we excuse our soaring levels of stress and sleep deprivation as part of the college experience, we’re demonstrating laziness and disinterest in the wellbeing of our entire community. We’re doing a disservice to our peers and ourselves.

Just as it becomes difficult to turn down opportunities due to a fear of missing out, our well-intentioned obsession with commitment makes quitting feel nearly impossible. Quitting is failure, or so we’ve been conditioned to believe. Occasionally that’s true, but given the high intensity of Yale schedules, I’m inclined to believe it’s a very necessary act — even a virtue.

When we set up a model of behavior that understands and accepts — even welcomes — the conscientious choice to quit an extracurricular or leave a job, we create a climate that values student wellbeing, focus and passion over minimized sleep schedules and maximized resumes. The college system purports to offer us freedom of extracurricular involvement and deep, meaningful scholarship. That’s only possible if we don’t feel ashamed to drop certain engagements.

This isn’t necessarily good practice for the “real world”; clearly a number of complicated factors, including financial and other material needs, make commitment crucial in certain situations.

Even here that might also be the case for students, particularly those who hold parttime jobs. But on the whole, Yale isn’t exactly a microcosm of the post-graduation world. The particular stressors that academic life exerts are different from nearly anything else we can anticipate, and the rules for how we manage our non-academic lives should adjust accordingly.

That means, at least for the time we spend at Yale, a more forgiving concept of what it means to quit — for our peers and for ourselves.

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A new novel N

ext week is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and while I do love me some apples dipped in honey, my favorite culinary tradition of the holiday by far is the blessing over a “new fruit” — a fruit you’ve never had before. Because you get unofficial extra points if the fruit is also one you’ve never heard of, my mom and I would scope out the produce aisle for the prickliest, lumpiest, tartest or most bizarrely colored fruit to serve to our guests.

One could argue that eating mangosteen or lakoocha starts the year off with the intention to be adventurous and try new things, but really novelty is the clear objective of this ritual. Other aspects of the holiday draw attention to ideas of cycles and fresh starts, but not this one. Horned melons aside, there’s something inherently enticing about the idea of new beginnings and new years, the talk of resolutions and back to school shopping.

For a while after I arrived on campus this year, the novel swept me up — little things like recognizing people I hadn’t seen for months as I walked down Chapel and being able to eat leftovers from dinner for lunch in my apartment. Now, a month into my third year at Yale, I’m piecing together the nuances

of the new and the novel.

The fact that I’ve spent two years doing things at Yale and in New Haven doesn’t take CAROLINE away from the SYDNEY things yet to be done, but I Selfhave a fear of approaching Absorbed life as a bucket list rather than an organic set of decisions.

No longer the wide-eyed underclassman (except every single time I walk into Sterling), I’m both afraid of losing that sense of continual discovery and also hesitant to make the year about thrill seeking.

Last weekend, I drove to Guilford for dinner with a group of friends, and while the dinner was delicious, the setting lovely and the company of course delightful, honestly, just leaving New Haven for a few hours made the evening. In addition to some leftover salmon, my takeaway was not to find more destination dining options, but rather to be more aware of New Haven’s proximity to opportunities for new experiences in a more general sense. I didn’t have to feel pressured to come up with a to-do list. Instead,

the ultimate goal would simply be the feeling that arises in unfamiliar territory. The Place (which happens to also be the name of the restaurant) was novel to a kitsch degree, the feeling rather than the place carried more importance, and the feeling was new.

WE SHOULD EXAMINE WHAT BRINGING NEWNESS INTO OUR LIVES MEANS — IT ISN'T WHAT WE MIGHT THINK This distinction between new and novel carries over to interactions with people as well. The other day I confessed to a friend, “I feel like I’m not doing a good job of making new friends in my classes.” I’d become accustomed to meals with classmates before or after section and always leaving the room in conversation. I missed this.

“Shut up,” she said. “You have enough friends.” And in a way, she’s right. I have plenty of

really wonderful people in my life, yet there remains the desire for a new tone of conversation or a new set of topics.

Perhaps these types of interactions fall closer to the new fruit category, existing in large part for a touch of novelty rather than true new friendships.

I’d been caught in a situation of unintended thrill seeking.

Friendship should not, in fact, be about novelty. It’s misguided to seek out the new in fruits, fun or friends for the sake of newness. We hang out with new people because we want them to become long-term friends.

It’s counterproductive to divide friends into categories of “new” and “old.” Similarly, we explore new interests because we want them to become habits (think New Year’s resolutions of the exercise variety). With this is mind, I’ve tried to reject novelties and instead endeavor to form new routines. Friendships develop. Rather than occur as isolated events, outings to new places extend the borders of my routine. Viewed in this way, we can reject the novel in favor of a new with a focus on dynamic routines. And really, how sweet it is.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a junior in Silliman College. Her columns run on Fridays. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

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

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veryone has been here. It feels like nothing works.

Want to sign up for a class? Where do you go: Online Course Information or Online Course Selection? Why do these things exist independently?

Want to tell the University the details of your bank account for a direct deposit? Quick, where do you go: Student Information System or “My Pay and Info”?

Why are they different?

Yale is powered by baroque systems that few of us understand in their entirety. This was highlighted in the chaos surrounding Yale’s rollout of CourseLeaf, a course catalog that promised to “streamline how you update, edit and publish your academic catalog.” The reality was somewhat different, with numerous problems surrounding how courses could be added to the system and how they were displayed.

CourseLeaf, which cost the University an undisclosed but presumably large sum of money, attempts to solve a problem that Yale (and all universities) have: of creating, organizing and distributing a catalog of courses. The peculiar hiccups of this year’s implementation will probably

go away as users learn the idiosyncrasies of opaque software.

The disgruntlement surrounding it will evaporate as the knowledge (and authority) of using CourseLeaf is distilled into an elite priesthood of people who know how this particular software works.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF YALE'S IT SYSTEM IS FLAWED The real tragedy is that we are stuck in a Sisyphean process where we reinvent solutions to problems thousands of people have dealt with before, never learning, never growing from our collective human experience. Every university needs a course catalog, yet the combined power of all the innovative geeks in all universities hasn’t resulted in a lasting solution to this widespread problem.

Fundamentally, we have the freedom to build solutions to problems we see in the world. If

we are to progress as a civilization, we have an obligation to make our solution accessible to all, so people can spend less time struggling with badly written software and more time solving the mysteries of the universe.

When people do attempt to build solutions to problems — like the duo who built “Blue Book +” — the University’s response has been less than ideal. In this case, Yale shut it down, and, after backing down from the inevitable uproar, accused the duo of “appropriating information.”

Beneath the shiny chrome of closed-source, non-free software that powers Yale lies an uncomfortable reality of surveillance and control. Ellucian, the company that controls Yale Student Information Systems software, informs us that they “automatically track certain information including the URL that you came from, which URL you go to next, what browser you are using.” In Yale’s “My Pay and Info” software, controlled by Oracle, the link meant to show you their privacy statement merely resolves to “personalize. this.link,” an oversight perhaps indicative of their privacy policy.

Nowhere is the importance of using free software more evident than in the sciences. As scientists, we rely on software to run our machines, to perform our experiments and to analyze our data.

Labs that rely on non-free software (and there are several) are often forced into ridiculous situations, like one that maintains a collection of decrepit computers because a microscope can only be run with software that runs on Windows ’95.

It saddens and frustrates me — as it should everyone — when one has to waste time wrestling with poorly designed software and systems. The tragedy is compounded when one realizes that these design disasters are often very expensive. The ultimate blow is when one realizes that those who have the right combination of skills, entrepreneurship and principle to build meaningful solutions to universal problems are forced to waste time reinventing the wheel.

SRINIVAS GORURSHANDILYA is a fifth-year student in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Contact him at srinivas.gs@yale.edu .

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MAHATMA GANDHI “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

GUEST COLUMNIST ALI GOLDEN

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Why will we march?

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his weekend, the world is coming together to make a powerful statement about the reality of climate change and our capacity to take action. Thousands will participate in a People’s Climate March in New York City and in satellite demonstrations across the globe.

Many Yalies plan to join the People’s Climate March. Undergraduates will be traveling on busses provided by CT Sierra and the Yale Student Environmental Coalition.

Those not taking the bus will travel by train with Yale graduate students, as well as a group from the Slifka Center for Jewish Life. Many members of Fossil Free Yale will also be marching, not only as advocates for divestment but also as members of the broader climate justice movement. Recently, divestment has been a big topic of conversation on Yale’s campus — but it is only one of many ways our institutions and political leaders can address climate

change. This weekend, any Yale student regardless of his or her affiliation with environmental groups on campus can participate in what will hopefully be a turning point in history.

There will be over 1,400 different organizations represented at the march, ranging from faith-based groups and schools to businesses and unions. Peoplesclimate.org lists the diverse range of groups participating — African Youth Panel, United Electrical Workers union, American Jewish World Service, the National Lawyers Guild and Ghandi Global Center for Peace, to name a few. The march will feature not only a huge procession through the streets of New York City, but also art installations, marching bands and interfaith services, all in the spirit of environmental justice and equality.

Beyond the New York City march, there will be different climate-related marches and events happening across every continent over this weekend.

But why is the entire globe mobi-

lizing? And why now? The march is meant to generate public pressure in advance of the UN Climate Summit on September 23, just two days after the march.

The world is mobilizing because people are acknowledging that environmental health and safety are inextricably linked to human rights. Environmental justice is the most pressing and universal issue of our time.

This is no longer an issue specifically for activists. It affects people of every race, nationality and socioeconomic status.

The People’s Climate March is an opportunity for all of us to come together as citizens of the planet.

Collectively, we will stand in solidarity and support for frontline communities defending themselves from the effects of climate change and fossil fuel extraction. We will demand policies that will lead to a cleaner, healthier earth with an economy that thrives on nurturing the planet rather than destroying it.

The people marching on Sunday will not fulfill the stereotypes of typical activists. This march is about bringing together people of all backgrounds. It will provide a space where people of all types can be activists: college students, families, community leaders, businessmen, artists, teachers, labor leaders, rabbis and politicians celebrating our planet and demanding action to ensure a sustainable future for our communities and for our future generations.

There are very few moments in history when the entire world comes together to fight for a common cause.

There are few moments when we can truly say we are witnessing history.

But this Sunday, we have the opportunity to become a part of something much larger, something bigger than our communities and ourselves. And it’s going to be magical.

ALI GOLDEN is a sophomore in Trumbull College. Contact her at alexandra.golden@yale.edu.

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The meaning of Yale Blue

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I’m definitely not the same person that I was before I came to Yale. I just find it hard to believe that I have changed for the worse.

At my public high school, students were proud of our school because it was a symbol of everything that we loved about our city. It was an example of our Midwest friendliness, our small town suburban charm and our unity as a community. And in retrospect, I am so thankful that at least others in my community were willing to be expressive about how much we loved our city. Because if moving to New England has taught me nothing else, it has made realize that I was (and still am) as proud to be an Ohioan as anyone.

Yet, I find that my experience in college has already shown me clear differences between the definitions of school pride in high school and in college. Sitting at the Yale Up pep rally, I realized that Yale’s Class of 2018 is not at all the same as my high school graduating class. Although it sounds so obvious now, it had

never really occurred to me that all the people sitting around me were not from the Cleveland area. I had never really thought about the fact that they were not from Ohio, not from the Midwest, not even necessarily from the U.S. In fact, all I knew for sure about most of these people was that they were cheering for Yale and their respective residential colleges. And I can only assume that they were doing so because they, like me, were proud that they made it to Yale, too.

Although there exists that pervasive stereotype that Ivy League students are all legacies with elitist pride in their colleges, the people I have met at Yale have disproven this in every way possible. Unlike at my suburban public high school, the pride that we share isn’t derived from a feeling of homogeneity or from a shared identity. Instead, each of our unique and amazing stories composes a portion of a community that is built on diversity. In recognizing how we are all different,

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t failed. It completely failed. The attempt to sneak onto an earlier flight to New York from Dusseldorf wholly, unceremoniously belly-flopped. We had put on our comeliest dresses, applied liberal amounts of perfume, beamed at the Air Berlin representative, but to no avail.

The only flight going to JFK was a whole 24 hours later than the one we thought we were booked onto. Having flown to Germany from Italy to catch a plane to the US, we were going to have to spend the night in Dusseldorf. I’d miss some Yale classes, my friend Yvette would miss a doctor’s appointment, but there was nothing to be done. Dusseldorf was ours for 24 hours.

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we celebrate the one thing that we do have in common: Yale. As counterintuitive as it sounds, I think that Yale pride is all about the celebration of individuality: a celebration of each obstacle, each struggle and each triumph that has shaped myself and my classmates to make us the people we are today.

From my perspective, this shift in the paradigm of school spirit between my high school and college experiences markedly defines my experience as a Yalie. And every time I see someone wearing a Yale shirt, I am reminded of this newfound meaning of school spirit. And every time I wear a Yale shirt, I am reminded that I am a part of that school spirit. That my story has a page in the collective Yale storybook. And that I should never hesitate to cheer about how happy I am about that.

We had two options. Option A: Go into the city. Find a hostel, slurp some beers, meet a local up for a fledgling tryst. Option B: Stay in the airport. Spend less money. Sleep on a bench under wedding clothes packed for the trip. Flee the sensory bombardment of evening in an unknown metropolis.

We went for Option B. We stayed put. We camped out. As it turned out, it was a wise move. Spending the night in Dusseldorf is unexpectedly fun. Sure, Yvette got restless at times, having neither a laptop nor a novel to while away the hours. Sure, I kept worrying about the seminars I was missing, having only just signed up for classes. But in the end, being in Dusseldorf’s airport for 24 hours wasn’t as bad as you might think.

Airports are interesting places. Dusseldorf is primarily a business city, so you’d assume that most of the people passing through are unfriendly men in suits. Not at all. There are a few middle-aged males, with briefcases and iPhones and brogues.

But there are also other social specimens: punks, moms, backpackers.

Over the weekend, there had been a soccer game between Scotland and Germany, meaning that when I was there, the dutyfree section was rippling with kilt-wearing Scottish people. They kept breaking into heartfelt whistling and back-thumping.

Plus they had a lot to say about the vote on Scottish Independence. I asked one what he thought of the proposed divide. “I’m for it,” he said fervently, “But then you’ve got to be quite the Scottish nationalist to go to Germany to watch your team be thrashed by the World Cup winners.” Another kiltclad Scot told me, quietly, that he “wasn’t sure” about independence but that “all” his friends supported it. I asked him why.

He said “Because they hate the English.” I told him that I had some Scottish relatives, as well as all my English ones.

Spending 24 hours in Dusseldorf also allows you to take stock of the incredible advances that technology has made in the past decade. Had I not had a laptop and Wifi, the experience might quickly become boring. Instead, I live-tweeted it, inventing the hashtag #dusseldorfliveblog to help the tweets go viral. They didn’t. Once we started feeling drowsy, we watched a movie on my computer and listened to a podcast, both thanks to the Internet. Then, when Yvette fell asleep, I snapchatted her nose piercing. And then her face. And then her feet. It was very entertaining.

Things looked like they might get a little dicey at 3:00 a.m., when my laptop ran out of power. But a guy we had been speaking to gave me his adapter, with the parting words, “You can keep it, because I feel sorry for you.”

The whole stay reminded me that on the whole, strangers are pretty generous. We are bombarded daily with reports of corruption, wars and sinister failures of communication worldwide, but airport lounges are good places to learn that human beings aren’t uniformly heartless or idiotic, but capable of great openness and benevolence. I might even visit Dusseldorf itself next time.

CRYSTAL KONG is a freshman in Berkeley College. Contact her at crystal.kong@yale.edu .

LEAF ARBUTHNOT is a fellow in Yale’s French Department. Contact her at eleanor.arbuthnot@yale.edu.

THAO DO/STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

n high school, I was that person who routinely skipped pep rallies and football games. Striving to break free from a world filled with Spirit Weeks, I thought that such expressions of school pride were disingenuous and contrived.

After all, there’s just something so supremely High School Musical about it all, and I was seeking to channel my inner Breakfast Club instead.

Yet within weeks of arriving at Yale, I found myself with half my face painted, marching into Payne Whitney for Yale’s first-ever freshman pep rally, Yale Up. Because somehow, without even realizing it, I had let myself be swept up into the sea of Yale Blue. All of a sudden, I had become that ridiculously enthusiastic freshman screaming the Yale Fight Song. I was a person who I thought I’d never be, and I knew what my friends back home were probably thinking: how quickly I was corrupted.

And in some ways, they’re right.

Twentyfour hours in Dusseldorf

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FROM THE FRONT

“Ask not what your country can do for you.

Ask what’s for lunch.”

ORSON WELLES AMERICAN ACTOR & DIRECTOR

Role of Ward 1 Alder still in question WARD 1 FROM PAGE 1 Board than anyone else who has represented Ward 1 in the past 15 years. Most run as undergraduates and then remain in town for several months as graduates to finish a single two-year term. If Eidelson wins a third term, she will be six years out of college by the time she completes it.

In both New Haven and Berkeley, small cities with large universities, individual municipal districts have come to feature an outsized student population.

Indeed, cities and towns across the country have seen students lay claim to elected office.

Montravias King, a recent graduate of Elizabeth City State University, won a protracted battle last year to get his name on the ballot in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. King, a senior political science major at the time, ultimately won the seat, but only after a state elections board ruled that dorm residency fulfilled the residency requirement for local office.

In Ward 1, these debates have long been settled — and the shape of the student-dominated district is unlikely to change anytime soon.

Students make up more than 80 percent of residents in the ward, which includes eight of the 12 residential colleges.

Still, the debate about the proper responsibilities of a Ward 1 alder is ongoing: someone who bridges the town-gown divide, represents Yale’s interests in New Haven or devotes his or her time to citywide concerns, untethered to ward-specific quality-oflife issues handled instead by Yale facilities. Perhaps all three is the expectation, even as the position is part-time and comes with a compensation of just $2,000 a year.

“TALKING WITH STUDENT GROUPS”

Only one freshman of 28 freshmen interviewed could correctly identify his alder. Five of those interviewed live in Ward 22. Varun Sah ’18 said he learned Eidelson was his alder at a meeting of the Yale College Democrats. Eidelson said communication with groups like the Dems is a key means of staying plugged in to student life.

She said she has not reached out to freshmen at large yet, so as to not “blitz right away when freshmen move in.”

Instead, she has been engaged in “a lot of talking with student groups.” Dems President Becca Ellison ’15 praised Eidelson, whom the Dems backed last fall against Republican challenger Paul Chandler ’14, for staying connected to campus political activities.

Rachel Miller ’15, also a Democrat and a volunteer in past municipal elections, sharply disagreed. She said Eidelson is absent on campus, and she questioned Eidelson’s ability to truly represent the student body.

Where once Eidelson used to publicize her weekly office hours and send updates about community events, Miller claimed, she is

now virtually silent.

“I checked, and the last time I received an email from Sarah Eidelson was the day of the election, and I haven’t heard from her since,” she said. “It’s unacceptable that our elected officials only communicate with us when they want us to re-elect them.”

Miller said she notified Eidelson in March of confusion over student polling places during last fall’s election. She said she has heard nothing by way of response.

One way Worthington, the Berkeley council member, said he remains engaged with Cal students is by nominating them to serve as representatives on city commissions, such as the housing commission. Young and armed with free time, these students have been some of the most effective commissioners, he said.

Similar opportunities are sparse in New Haven. But this summer, Jared Milfred ’16 was nominated to the governing board of the New Haven Democracy Fund, the city’s public campaign finance program.

Milfred said Eidelson was copied on many of the official correspondences he had with the mayor’s office, and that he mentioned the appointment to her last semester. “But there wasn’t any substantive communication between her and me,” he said.

Michael Herbert ‘16 is three weeks into his term as president of the Yale College Council and has still not had a conversation with Eidelson, he said.

“I haven’t reached out to her, either,” he provided. “There’s nothing particularly pressing. I guess it’d be good to meet her.”

King, the council member in Elizabeth City, Tenn., said he does have regular communication with the student body president, but still finds it difficult to engage with students now that he is no longer one of them.

As a senior having just been elected, he said, the entire campus knew him when he walked around. “It’s not the same anymore,” he said, adding that he is uncertain about whether he will run for a second term. If a current student comes forward, he would seriously consider stepping aside, he said.

Eidelson said simply being a student does not make campus engagement more effective.`W “It’s important for the ward to be represented by someone who’s deeply invested both in the ward and in the city,” Eidelson said. “It really is about the individual.”

She declined to make a commitment about 2015, but offered this faint appraisal of her position: “I love what I’m doing. I really feel like New Haven has become my home. I don’t have plans to leave.”

Among upperclassmen, Eidelson fared better in name recognition. Five could identify their alder as Eidelson, but 11 could not.

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Michael Berry ’17. He suggested that the Board of Alders’ time and resources should be allocated elsewhere instead.

“STEADY PROGRESS”

Eidelson remains the Board’s chief voice for youth issues. She chairs the Youth Services Committee, having attended four of its five meetings so far this year, and has continued efforts to expand funding for youth programming and the accessibility of existing resources.

Eidelson has also supported her colleague Jeanette Morrison, alder for Dixwell and four Yale residential colleges, in her crusade to reopen the long-shuttered Dixwell Community “Q” House.

Having secured a series of youth violence prevention grants, Eidelson and her colleagues are continuing to admin-

ister those funds through a competitive grant process to local organizations.

Eidelson said an extended tenure has allowed her to see these projects through.

“The projects I’ve invested in have been large in scale,” she said. “We’ve been able to make steady progress.”

Jason Bartlett, who heads the city’s Youth Services Department, praised Eidelson for focusing the Board’s attention on youth issues, which dovetail with his projects in the administration. He credited her in part for a “sea change in how we prioritize youth development in the city.”

Eidelson said she is careful to separate her aldermanic responsibilities from her day job, doing graphic design and communications work for Local 34, a union

of clerical and technical workers at Yale that has backed the majority of sitting alders in past elections. She would not speak about union matters at office hours, which she said are held during her lunch hour for precisely this reason.

Because being an alder is a part-time job, she said, everyone needs to find other work. Ellison echoed that sentiment, saying Eidelson is fully dedicated to constituents’ interests — and praising her youth agenda.

Sean Barry, a 2009 Cal alumni running to unseat Worthington on the Berkeley City Council, said he does not envision making a career of the position, should he win. Part of the reason is that he would ultimately like to see a current student or more recent graduate take the reins, he said.

“The person representing

the district is a conduit for the student body to the rest of the city,” he said. “The concerns of the student population are not inherently different from the rest of the city, but because of the different life stage, the city is experienced differently.”

Whether Ward 1 is better served by a current student or an alumnus is a case-by-case question, Miller granted, but there is a fundamental difference: “One isn’t necessarily better, but they’re different.”

Eidelson’s predecessor is Mike Jones ’11, who is currently studying at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu and NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Residents oppose Marriot’s expansion plans MARRIOT FROM PAGE 1 hotel of that size, and the current space devoted to space devoted to parking at the Residence Inn only holds 215 cars.

Last week Dwight neighborhood residents urged city zoners not to approve the Marriott’s request, stressing that the developers had not properly consulted the residents in the area. This was the first Board of Zoning Appeals meeting since the one at which the project was originally proposed.

This is a business world, and we’d like to see this move forward.

JAMES PERITO Attorney for Douglas Cohen, CEO of Newport Hotel Group “We need to start moving this project along,” Perito said at the meeting last week. “This is a business world, and we’d like to see this move forward.”

Two requests were discussed at the meeting: the permission for an increase in the floor-to-area ratio, which would allows a larger build-

ing than the zoning code permits, and a special exception to allow the hotel to provide only 215 parking spaces. Following the meeting Wednesday night, this approval has become an even more pressing issue for the Newport Hotel Group.

The Board has decided to vote on those two issues at the next Board of Zoning Appeals meeting in October.

Ward 2 Alder Frank Douglass said that, while he would like to see the hotel built, the developer has not shown enough true community engagement.

“When you look at the ways they are going about this in the community, there are concerns that need to be addressed and resolved,” Douglass said.

At the meeting, Perito said that some design changes were put into effect after the developer met with neighborhood residents and community groups.

Executive Director of the Whaley Avenue Special Services District Shelia Masterson was supportive of the expansion. She stated that the expansion would greatly increase the number of jobs in the area.

“Opening the new [Residence Inn] would create jobs for desk clerks and market-

ing directors and maids and housekeepers,” Masterson said.

In addition, Masterson said that she believes that New Haven lacks hotel room space.

She added that the city is specifically deficient in rooms meant for long-term stay.

Having worked in the hotel industry herself, Masterson said she remembers being booked months in advance for special events simply because there was not enough space to house visitors.

Of 20 Yale students interviewed, 15 said they were in favor of the Marriott’s expansion and 11 said their parents or relatives have faced difficulties booking rooms in the past, especially during busy times like Parents’ Weekend or Commencement.

Alexander Lu ’15, a resident of the area, testified at the Board meeting that the Marriott’s project would result in major parking problems and increased congestion for those living in the neighborhood.

The next Board of Zoning Appeals meeting will take place on Oct. 7.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu and J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

SANTIAGO SANCEHZ/CONTRIBUTING PHOTGORAPHER

Marriott Hotels’ plan to construct a Residence Inn in the Dwight neighborhood has been stalled due to zoning concerns.

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“The future will either be green or not at all.” BOB BROWN AMERICAN COMIC BOOK ARTIST

CORRECTIONS

Immigrants rally for police protection

THURSDAY, SEPT. 18

The article “Yale-NUS to show banned film” incorrectly stated that students read Salman Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses” as part of their Common Curriculum. In fact, students read “Shame” by the same author, and had “The Satanic Verses” available to them in the Yale-NUS library.

Development projects negotiated

BY MRINAL KUMAR AND MAREK RAMILO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER Negotiations between the city and a prominent real estate developer over two separate downtown properties could simultaneously create retail space and expand facilities for a local media company.

The Northside Development Company, which currently owns a building on the corner of Orange St. and Chapel St., is looking to expand the facility by purchasing the nearby, publicly-owned lot at 812 Chapel St. This acquisition, according to Northside owner Paul Denz, would create the opportunity for retail and housing facilities on a major New Haven intersection. Denz and Matthew Nemerson, the city’s chief economic development administrator, met on Tuesday to negotiate both the future of the Chapel lot and another property on Church St. that the city wants Denz to sell to Barry Berman, owner of a fast-growing radio network called CRN. “The reason I would like to purchase the empty lot is that you can take my building and that empty lot and you’ve got a parcel large enough to build a reasonably sized building… [with] retail along the bottom floor [and] apartments up above,” Denz said.

In his meeting with the city on Tuesday, the city produced a first draft of a Memorandum of Understanding — an agreement between two parties — but Denz said it may take a while for the transaction to be completed.

“The city’s going to want to appraise the property and they’re requiring us to meet with neighborhood groups, show a design, do a traffic study,” said Denz. “It’s a process.”

Nemerson said that he has worked with Denz — who has developed over 2,500,000 square feet of real estate in his 28 years in the industry, according to Northside’s website — on several real estate projects in the past.

He added that the city is currently waiting for Denz to finalize plans for the facility, should he end up purchasing it. Right now, Denz said he expects the buliding to be four or five stories.

Nemerson complimented Denz’s portfolio of projects throughout the city and said he would like the project to be as impactful as possible.

Complications have arisen because Denz is also pivotal

in negotiations over a second property — the Exchange Building on Church St. This time, however, he is a potential seller.

Denz said he purchased the Exchange Building about eight months ago. Though it is currently empty, Denz said he has been “talking” to Barry Berman, the owner of CRN, about purchasing the place.

“The city likes it because it’s the kind of tenant that they like to see,” Denz said. “It brings in… high-paying upscale jobs.”

When asked whether he intends to sell the building to Berman, however, Denz was hesitant. “We’re discussing,” he said, after a long pause.

Denz denied that the city was using its ownership of the Chapel St. property as leverage to get Denz to sell the Exchange building.

“I own a lot of real estate in other parts of Connecticut,” Denz said. “I’m not in a position where I need to buy that property. They’ve expressed a desire to see Barry there, I’ve expressed a desire to buy the lot…one has nothing to do with the other.”

He added that he initially contacted City Hall before Mayor Toni Harp’s administration, which includes Nemerson, assumed office. Since the transition, New Haven development has taken on a number of development projects in the area around the properties being discussed.

City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer named 100 College St. as an ongoing project that has advanced nicely under Nemerson’s guidance. He also said that low vacancy rates around the city have made lots like those at Chapel and Church appealing to the entire market, adding that housing is an industry of focus.

“New Haven is fortunate in that it has a very low vacancy rate — that makes available parcels more attractive and more valuable,” he said. “It’s also one of the Mayor’s objectives to encourage developers to provide additional housing units in New Haven, as well.”

Denz was less optimistic about New Haven’s recent development, referring to much of it as a “vanity project” that is not bringing in enough money.

The Exchange Building and 812 Chapel St. are located 453 feet from each other.

Contact MRINAL KUMAR at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu and MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu.

OPINION. YOUR THOUGHTS. YOUR VOICE. YOUR PAGE.

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Leaders of Unidad Latina en Accion joined with roughly 20 immigrant families in protesting recent violence against immigrants in New Haven.

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER In light of recent physical attacks on New Haven’s immigrant population, members of social activist group Unidad Latina en Accion (ULA) rallied in front of the New Haven Police Station yesterday evening.

ULA leaders joined roughly 20 immigrant families on the steps of the New Haven Police Department, where several immigrants shared their experiences of being brutally attacked on the streets of New Haven over the past few years.

Rally leaders said that New Haven’s immigrant community lacks support from City Hall and the police department, which the protesters claim are often late or fails to respond to attacks on immigrants. Lieutenant Doug Harkins was not aware that the rally was happening, according to Charlette Barham, a sergeant in the New Haven Police Department.

“The assaults keep happen-

ing and the killing keeps happening,” said John Lugo, organizer for ULA. “We feel like we need trust and we want more communication.”

There have been reports of approximately 20 different attacks in the past two months, Lugo said.

ULA members pointed to the lack of funding for the Elm City ID Card as both a cause for the attacks and an example of waning support from City Hall. The ID Cards — a form of identification that helps immigrants interact with the police and open bank accounts — were created in 2007, but the city did not renew funding after the first two years, Lugo said. When the cards were first introduced, assaults against New Haven’s immigrant population decreased, he added.

Leaders also called for the police department to raise awareness about Police General Order 6-02 — an order that prevents police officers from questioning the immigrant status of people seeking help from the police. Although

it was designed to make immigrants more comfortable talking to the police, not enough people know about the order, said Luis Luna, ULA volunteer.

“We need to make sure that folks know they can speak to the police,” Luna said. “It’s important for folks to know that they are safe if they report to the police.”

ULA leaders have been working with the police review board to address the organization’s concerns, Luna said. Members also plan to speak with Mayor Toni Harp and the New Haven Chief of Police, Lugo said.

ULA leaders have already spoken with Mayor Harp in a meeting with 50 to 60 immigrants to address their concerns with New Haven’s emergency response, said Megan Fountain, an organizer for ULA. Fountain said Harp expressed interest in increasing the number of bilingual 911 operators available.

The ULA’s call for change within City Hall and the

New Haven Police Department were spurred by victims’ accounts of attacks.

“This has been going on for many years,” Lugo said.

“There is impunity on many of these cases.”

After Veronica Ajimenes and her children were attacked by a dog and its owner refused to respond, the police took seven hours to arrive after Ajimenes had placed her complaint, she said.

In another attack that left ULA members Alberto Corona and his nephew Hugo Diaz, in the hospital last July, Corona was the only person listed as a victim in the police report, he said.

“Robbers think that we immigrants are easy targets because they think we carry cash,” Corona said. “They think we’re easy prey.”

The Unidad Latina en Accion has been operating in the Greater New Haven Area since 2002.

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

Researchers develop green walls

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE STAFF REPORTER Researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies are out to turn a tower into a wall.

With a $299,000 grant from the National Science Foundation in late July, the researchers will use the funds to create a sustainable alternative to cooling towers, devices that are used to cool water for industrial processes. The team will research “green walls” — metal frames covered in vegetation that offer myriad benefits for cooling and ecological services. The three-year project aligns with the broader movement to improve urban water use.

“We are evolving the urban environment to incorporate more plant communities and accompanying ecosystem services,” said Alex Felson, co-principal investigator and

professor at the Yale School of Architecture and FES. There are multiple services a green wall could offer in an urban setting, said James Axley, co-principal investigator and Yale School of Architecture professor. Traditional cooling towers require potable water for the sole purpose of cooling, while a green wall would use clean or dirty water to grow plants, leading to a variety of ecosystem benefits. The plants can improve the quality of the water flowing through the system, Axley said. The system could also be used for agricultural purposes, in addition to carbon capture. Finally, they provide more greenery for urban beautification.

Cooling towers are ubiquitous in urban settings, found in most industrial processes. Replacing the towers with green walls could have a widespread impact on urban areas, Axley said. While

the walls are aimed for urban settings, they have potential applications for more rural areas and for use in industry, he added. The towers also require toxic chemicals to combat high mineral content.

We are evolving the urban environment to incorporate more plant communities.

ALEX FELSON Professor, Yale School of Architecture, Yale School of Forestry “We want to see whether or not we can create an infrastructure that provides other valuable ecosystem services,” Felson said.

Felson and Axley will use the funds as they work to improve the design of the

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green wall over the next three years, with a particular focus on maximizing the water efficiency of the design.

Several students have been involved in the green wall project, specifically working with the green wall prototypes. Two environmental engineering majors, Jesse Hudkins ’13 and Scott Armbrust ’14, worked on the early stages of the thermogreen wall project for their theses and research.

Hudkins said he was attracted to the green wall’s multifunctionality, with the capacity to purify water and air, and even assist in food production. He added that the multifunctionality is what sets it apart from cooling towers.

Axley and Felson hold two provisional patents for the green wall technology.

Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu.

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The use of green wall water cooling towers could have several positive environmental impacts for Yale.

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FROM THE FRONT

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER

Yale Athletics celebrates tradition YALE BOWL FROM PAGE 1 spilled over into pride and the recognition of tradition.

Reno and Bob Blanchard ’61, a former player and member of the 1960 undefeated Bulldogs football team, emphasized the importance of tradition in Yale football in each of their statements at the formal opening of the 100 Tent.

“We are team 142,” Reno said.

“To me, that means a tradition and history of the 141 teams before us.

These traditions that we want to build upon have happened for 100 years in the Yale Bowl. When we bring a recruit to the field for the fist time, the jaw drops and the cameras come out.”

Blanchard reminisced about his childhood, growing up in Hamden, Conn. and about his father taking him to many Yale football games as a child. He said that as a kid he dreamed of playing in the Yale Bowl, and said how lucky he was to have Yale and the Bowl provide him with that dream.

Tradition motivated the Bowl ceremony, but the Elis also broke tradition and ventured into new territory by partnering with an outside institution to have a sponsor branded venue.

The Yale 100 Tent, sponsored

by Webster Bank, marks the first time Yale Athletics has been involved in a corporate sponsorship of a venue. Last year, the Ivy League partnered with J.P. Crickets leisure footwear company; but Yale Athletics has never before partnered with a company to sponsor a season-long event such as a the Yale Bowl 100 tent.

Previous athletes, members of the Yale Athletics departments and their families said they were pleased with the celebration of the Bowl and were thankful for the partnership with Webster Bank, and Klaus said Webster Bank felt the same way about being brought into the Yale community.

“Webster Bank is thrilled to partner with Yale — an internationally renowned university,” Klaus said.

After the speakers were finished, the ceremony concluded with the room singing “Bulldog, Bulldog” and Blanchard cutting the 100th anniversary cake.

The Bulldogs will kick off their 142nd football season at home against Lehigh this Saturday, Sept. 20 Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Webster Bank Yale 100 Tent, which is a corporate sponsorship, is part of celebrations for the 100th year of the Yale Bowl.

Cash still accepted at Durfee’s UNCOMMONS FROM PAGE 1 been affected by the change, and one student supported the change because it has helped curb her spending habits.

“I personally like that I cannot spend cash there,” Harper Loonsk ’18 said. “I will be spending less money since I usually just spend a meal swipe and that’s it.”

I will be spending less money since I usually just spend a meal swipe and that’s it.

HARPER LOONSK ’18

Yale Dining declined to comment on why Uncommon was chosen for the new policy and whether the change will be expanded.

A Yale Dining worker, who spoke under the condition of anonymity due to contractual obligations, said she does not understand the motivation for Uncommon going cashless. She noted that other retail operations, including Durfee’s, continue to accept all forms of payment.

“A lot of people have wanted to use cash and it’s hard breaking the news to them,” she said.

Yale dining halls implemented credit card swipe technology in 2013.

ALEXANDRA SCHMELING/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Uncommon, the deli outside Commons Dining Hall, will no longer accept cash for purchases.

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

Supreme Court justice talks Constitution BREYER FROM PAGE 1 Americans historically chose to empower a central authority.

“It is a charter of power decreed by liberty, not a charter of liberty decreed by power,” he explained. “Rather than tell people what to do, the Constitution sets limits on what the government can do.”

Marshall joked that what most of the students in the audience probably wanted to know was how to become a Supreme Court justice. She recognized Breyer for his devotion to public service and his love for teaching as characteristics that helped lead him to the Supreme Court.

Salovey asked Marshall and Breyer whether American justices should consider rulings from other countries when coming to conclusions.

Marshall answered that current generations tend to think globally rather than nationally.

To Breyer, looking at what judges in other countries decide is useful — and this tactic, he said, does not strip America of its uniqueness.

“The only way to preserve our American values, which are now widely shared, is to know more — not less — about what is going on abroad,” he remarked.

Marshall recalled a specific case she had dealt with, in which questions were raised around the conditions under which materials from sperm banks could be used. Her team found that no American court had ever faced a similar issue, but a court in a dif-

ferent country had. While that court’s decision did not serve as precedent, it was helpful, she said.

Students and faculty alike expressed enthusiasm about Breyer’s talk.

“I have an obsession with the Supreme Court — I love Justice Breyer and I can’t wait to hear what he has to say,” said Victoria Hall-Palerm ’15, a staff columnist for the News, moments before the talk started.

At the end of the talk, some students spoke individually with Breyer, shaking his hand and asking for pictures. Many thanked him for his candor.

“I enjoyed hearing his insights on the Constitution and I was pleasantly surprised by how jovial and engaged he was. It seemed like he really liked talking to us,” said Lauren Young GRD ’15. “It was nice to see that he wanted to share his knowledge.”

Michael Herbert ’16, president of the Yale College Council, said he appreciated Breyer’s suggestion that all students carry a copy of the Constitution with them.

Herbert remarked that he will purchase a Constitution for his pocket.

“I do have one in my backpack, but clearly it is time for me to step it up a notch,” he said.

Breyer was appointed to the Supreme Court by former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1994.

He is considered to be one of the Court’s more liberal members.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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“I’ve been a spy for almost all of my adult life — I don’t like being in the spotlight.”

EDWARD SNOWDEN AMERICAN WHISTLEBLOWER

Alders ask Project Longevity for data

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s Board of Alders convened a hearing on Tuesday to ask leaders of Project Longevity, a statewide anti-gang violence program, to produce efficacy data before the Board provides the program additional support.

Earlier this month, the New Haven branch of Project Longevity lost its New Haven director, William Mathis, after he resigned due to philosophical differences with other leaders. Though Mathis’ successor has yet to be named, Bridgeport director Charlie Grady has assumed Longevity’s state director spot after serving in its interim role for several months. Grady joined New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman, city Public Safety Commission Chair and Ward 29 Alder Brian Wingate and their colleagues in city hall on Tuesday night to set new initiatives and discuss statistics that demonstrate Longevity’s effectiveness in reducing violence in Bridgeport thus far.

“They came down with some stats from Bridgeport, but I want more information about New Haven,” Wingate said. “The meeting was called because we wanted to get the data since we have some

grants that we have to put forth and Project Longevity was in our minds this year. We wanted to find out what is really going on there.”

The program, founded in 2012, seeks to reduce violent crime in urban areas by allowing police to directly engage at-risk groups of people and hold entire communities accountable for a member’s crime. Longevity also hopes to affect long-term, positive change in the lives of the people it targets by offering services to connect them to work- and school-related opportunities.

Because of this, the program’s leaders chose to highlight metrics from a variety of areas to capture its success.

“I was encouraged by what I saw [out of Bridgeport],” Wingate added. “I do think that the program has had some form of impact, and we’re trying to measure that impact — is it that we’ve created more jobs? Is it that violence is down and shootings are down? I’m trying to measure it, and that’s the hard part about Project Longevity.”

At the hearing, Grady, who continues to oversee the program’s Bridgeport arm, distributed a report detailing the activity of 49 participants.

The numbers showed that, although only 13 have contin-

Ex-CIA agent reflects on spycraft

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Jack Devine shared stories about his life as a spy for the CIA and his opinions on current events.

BY SARA SEYMOUR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The life of a spy involves more planning than anything else, according to Jack Devine, a former Central Intelligence Agency agent who spoke at a Branford Master’s Tea yesterday afternoon.

Devine addressed a crowd of over 100 people in Linsly-Chittenden Hall in an auditorium that was packed full, with people sitting on the floor and crouching in the aisles. Devine is a 32-year veteran of the CIA who served in positions including acting director and associate director of CIA operations outside of the U.S., chief of the Latin American Division and head of the Afghan Task Force. The talk was cohosted by Branford and The Politic.

In his talk, Devine covered topics such as his distaste for the book and movie “Charlie Wilson’s War,” the ways in which Stinger missiles led to the end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, events surrounding the 1973 Chilean coup and modern-day covert action.

“There’s a fair amount of blocking and tackling,” Devine said of his spy days, adding that strategic planning for missions is key. “If you’re caught, it becomes a major international incident.”

When asked by Branford College Master Betsy Bradley about what a day in the life of a spy is like, Devine said that his days were primarily filled with writing and reading. Though he did share that he has “broken many laws … with the approval of the Department of Justice,” he stressed that months of planning were involved for each action-packed day.

The tone of the talk was conversational, filled with anecdotes and laughter. At one point, Devine spoke about the shifting nature of covert relationships, describing his working relationship with members of the Soviet KGB as more cordial than current spies’ relationships with their enemies.

“You don’t have a drink with a terrorist — you have lots of drinks with Russians,” Devine said.

Devine also spoke about what he believes to be good and bad covert practices, adding that he believes in the just war theory — a doctrine that promotes morally justifiable

military actions. He specified that he believes that one must only fight an enemy that is intrinsically evil, and that only when all non-lethal possibilities have been exhausted can one justifiably come up with a lethal plan that has a reasonable prospect of success and will minimize bloodshed. He also shared that he is not good at picking locks.

Prompted by a question about covert action in today’s world, Devine said that he does not believe in interference with other countries’ internal political affairs when the people of that country have not explicitly asked for intervention.

“I’m not for nation-building — people have to want it for themselves,” he explained. “I just don’t think that’s practical.”

Devine also stressed that the infamous 1973 coup in Chile, in which he was involved, was not actually organized by the CIA. Though the CIA stirred the waters, the Chilean military revolted of its own accord, he said.

In terms of his feelings about U.S. action in the Middle East, Devine said he would be in favor of bombing the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria even though he would not be in favor of putting boots on the ground.

Students interviewed at the talk were excited about listening to someone who had such an extensive and unique experience in international affairs.

Hope Allchin ’18 said that although she wished he’d discussed more of his personal experiences, she was glad he spoke about Syria.

“He had a unique perspective that we should keep the dictators in power in the Middle East,” she said.

Justin Schuster ’15, a student who organized the event after working with Devine last summer, said he found it fascinating to “get a look under the cover of something that has only been depicted in Hollywood.”

Devine is currently president of the Arkin Group, a consulting firm that helps companies assess political situations and analyze international risks.

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ued with the program since joining call-in sessions in October and July — conference calls that connect them to law enforcement and Longevity staff — 45 of the 49 have complied with good behavior conditions set forth as a result of parole and probation agreements. Longevity has shown a program-wide recidivism rate of 8.8 percent.

Grady also reported that several participants have taken advantage of the job training, advanced education and substance abuse guidance resources made available to them, attracting 11, 9 and 3 people, respectively.

Grady did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday.

But even with the apparent success of the program in Bridgeport, Wingate and other alders at the hearing insisted that Longevity keep similar records for all cities, including New Haven, to inform public decisions on how to best support its initiatives.

“I think the role of the city is to keep everyone honest about what they’ve been able to accomplish — you have to bring stats,” Wingate said.

He added that Esserman has committed to providing similar data to the alders in the near future.

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said that such information would be particularly useful for the alders not on the Public Safety Committee who have not been as involved with Project Longevity, but who could vote on important issues surrounding its operation in the Elm City.

Though Esserman said that he believes Longevity to be at least partly responsible for the broader decrease in New Haven crime, he cited the NHPD’s commitment to its community policing model as equally important. He added that Longevity’s reach in New Haven could be expanded by supplementing the call-in system with in-home visits between police and

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program participants.

The push to increase data-sharing between branches touched upon a larger issue of communication among Bridgeport, New Haven and Longevity’s third city, Hartford. Tiana Hercules, who directs the Hartford branch, said that she was not in attendance at the hearing on Tuesday because she was not aware it was taking place.

She did, however, agree that keeping information accessible across cities is an important step in ensuring Longevity’s effectiveness.

As the newest branch of Project Longevity’s operation, Hartford has yet to accumulate the crit-

ical mass of participants to merit recording extensive statistics. Still, she said she is ready to share such data once it becomes relevant.

“It’s just a matter of time,” Hercules said. “We know who attends the call-ins and following up with everyone in a timely manner and trying to encourage them to come in and sit down so we can help them in the best way.”

Earlier this month, the state announced plans to commit $1 million in funds this year to support Project Longevity across the three cities.

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

Night with World Fellows inspires

BY STAPHANY HOU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Thursday night, 16 Yale World Fellows gathered with members of the Yale community for an evening of food and conversation at the AfroAmerican Cultural Center.

The World Fellows program brings a diverse group of professionals from around the globe to the University each year to participate in a global affairs seminar and interact with the Yale community.

At this week’s event, guests enjoyed upbeat music and delicious food while they mingled with the fellows and learned about their experiences.

The World Fellows each had their own table with a presentation board about their professional background. As guests walked around between the tables, the World Fellows gave brief presentations to small groups and conversed one-on-one with many students.

The fellows, who are living on campus from now until December, all brought their own expertise and ideas to the event.

Christopher Lockyear — a World Fellow from the United Kingdom who works for Médecins Sans Frontières asoperations manager for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and South Sudan — said he has enjoyed being at Yale and having the time to do more writing and research.

“I am very pleased to not be doing crisis management, which is what I do on a daily basis at home,” he said. “Being here really gives me a chance to think out of the box and to understand how what I do works with the world at large.”

Thora Arnorsdottir, who is Iceland’s leading journalist and ran for president while she was still pregnant, said she is at Yale on her own while her husband is at home working and taking care of the children.

When asked whether she believes that she “has it all” as a journalist and a mom, she said that she believes she does,

adding that she has been able to take advantage of her education and specialized skills.

“I believe that it is important for women to have a choice in what they want to do,” she said.

Many students from Yale and surrounding high schools attended the event, as well as members of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy from New London.

Guests interviewed said they were impressed by their interactions with the fellows.

Lisa Achoki ’18 said she found Biola Alabi — an African media expert — very inspiring.

“Being from Kenya, I know that there wasn’t much African entertainment available [until recent years],” Achoki said.

“Now, there is a lot more African television that is relatable.”

Another guest, Leslie Blatteau — a teacher at the Metropolitan Business Academy, a high school in New Haven — said she has assigned her students a project on the World Fellows and human rights for

a class called “International Issues.”

Pedro Martinez, a student from Puerto Rico who attends MBA, picked World Fellow Alejandro Pacheco of Spain for his important work on poverty reduction.

Martinez’ classmate, Grace Sawyer, is focusing on World Fellow Nandita Das, an Indian film actor and director.

“Das and her mission really resonate with me and my fellow classmates,” Sawyer said.

“Her ‘Dark is Beautiful’ campaign inspires me, as I am also interested in the arts.”

Alethia Moore, another student at MBA, said researching the World Fellows showed her that they “have so much courage in what they do.”

Yale students who serve as World Fellow liaisons were also in attendance last night. Liaisons help connect the fellows to Yale’s undergraduate student body, while also forming a strong relationship with their individual fellow.

“Thora has encouraged me to be a female leader,” said Helen Ren ’17, who is Anrnorsdottir’s World Fellow liaison.

“I love her passion for what she does.”

The World Fellows Program chose to hold the event at the Af-Am House in part because of its central location, said Communications Director Uma Ramiah.

Michael Cappello, Executive Director of the World Fellows Program said a primary goal of the program is to expose undergraduate students to the World Fellows.

“The program has been going on for 13 years, and this year, I believe, we’ve reached a pinnacle,” he said.

The World Fellows program will hold “Inspired” — a series of small discussion sessions with the fellows — at the New Haven Free Public Library beginning Sept. 25.

Contact STAPHANY HOU at staphany.hou@yale.edu .

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7:00 p.m. “A Gesar Bard’s Tale” (2013): Film Screening and Discussion. At the age of 13, Dawa acquired the gift of telling the epic story of Tibet’s King Gesar. He receives a salary from the Chinese government as a guardian of national cultural heritage and is regarded as a holy man by his community. When a devastating earthquake reduces his hometown to rubble, Dawa seeks healing from King Gesar and other divine protectors of the land. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 1:00 p.m. 2014 Football Season Kicks Off with Lehigh at the Bowl. The 142nd season of Yale football begins Saturday at 1 p.m. when the Bulldogs host Lehigh at the Yale Bowl. The game can be seen live on the Ivy League Digital Network and heard on the Yale Football Radio Network. Yale Bowl (81 Central Ave.).

8:00 p.m. Edmar Castaneda Trio: A Concert with Colombian Jazz Harpist. Colombia jazz harpist Edmar Castaneda performs with his trio and special guests, Andrea Tierra, vocalist; Marshall Gilkes, trombone; and David Silliman, drums. Presented by Yale Concert Bands and Creative Concerts, Inc. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 1:00 p.m. Beginning Your Set Design: Sets and Sound/UP Peer Mentor Hours. Interested in design? Join veteran student set designer Shoshi Bieler and sound designer Janine Chow for an inside look at what goes into sensory stage design at its first stages. Bieler and Chow will be sharing some of their early designs and then discussing questions about their design processes.

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SPORTS

“My heroes were always soccer players.”

RONALDINHO BRAZILIAN SOCCER PLAYER

Mountain Hawks to land in Bowl FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 On the other side of the football, the Yale attack will be buoyed by the return of a healthy running back Tyler Varga ’15. After receiving first-team all-Ivy accolades for his 2012 campaign, the Ontario native missed four games as well as the majority of the rivalry matchup with Harvard in 2013.

Both Varga and Reno said that Varga is running at 100 percent.

Reno added that a pair of runners, Candler Rich ’17 and Kahlil Keys ’15, will see carries as well. Last season, the two combined for 796 yards on 147 carries for a gaudy 5.4 yards per carry, including Keys’ school record 94-yard touchdown run against Columbia.

“Establishing the run will definitely be a key to success on Saturday,” Varga said in an email.

“Domination in the trenches is something we’ll need to see to get our ground game in rhythm. Our offense, however, is pretty multidimensional and success through the air will take pressure off the run as well.”

That aforementioned aerial assault will be led by new starting signal caller Morgan Roberts ’16.

The Clemson transfer saw action in seven games last year, including one start against Penn in which he completed 20 of 34 passes for 193 yards and two touchdowns.

But after a full offseason in the program, Roberts said he feels much more adjusted to Reno’s nohuddle offensive scheme than he

did a year ago.

“Last year, I came in from a totally different offense at Clemson. I tried to hit the ground running, but the number of reps [that I received] and seeing live bullets in practice wasn’t really enough,” Roberts said. “I didn’t have a good chance to understand what was going on in the offense and what the coaching staff wanted from me.”

Reno compared Roberts’ role in the offense to that of Marcus Mariota, the quarterback for the highflying Oregon Ducks, saying that when Oregon’s scheme is running effectively, Mariota simply has to get the ball to his receivers and running backs rather than making plays on his own.

And with the Bulldogs now in year three of Reno’s regime, the coach believes that the team is ready to embrace his fast-paced offense.

“You build your schemes around the players you have,” Reno said. “This year, [you will see] a lot more spread offense because of our personnel and understanding [of the plays].”

Saturday also marks the beginning of the Yale Bowl 100th Anniversary celebration, with all-era teams being released each week leading up to a reunion for the game against Princeton on Nov. 15.

Kickoff for Saturday’s game is at 1:00 p.m.

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

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The football team hosts Lehigh at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon.

Elis to compete at Fullerton Classic

M. soccer hosts Jaspers, Blue Devils

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Henry Albrecht ’17 (No. 14) has started all four of the Elis’ games this season.

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The volleyball team will take on Cal St. Fullerton, No. 22 UCLA and Georgetown in California this weekend.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 11 play against great competition and use it to make us better,” Johnson said. “We have been working extremely hard in preparation.”

Johnson and Rogers agreed that the travel schedule is especially difficult for the team this week because it is flying across the country. Johnson added that getting used to the time difference will be an added challenge.

“We are dealing with a time change, but we do our best to just focus on our game since that is an aspect we can fully

control,” Johnson said.

She noted that since every gym is different, the Bulldogs will have to adapt and learn to play in the new environment quickly in order to be in top shape for tonight’s match against Fullerton.

The team will face its first Ivy opponents of the season when it travels to Providence to face the Brown Bears on Sept. 26. After the weekend, the Elis will play a series of away matches against all seven Ivy opponents.

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

M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 11 that has allowed an average of just 1.25 goals per game this season. The Jaspers have scored three goals in their three games thus far, with Daniel Laguna Kennedy and Eugene Heerschap doing most of the damage for Manhattan, combining for 12 shots and two goals over a three-game stretch.

Having drawn blanks in their past two games, the Elis will also look to right the ship offensively and finally capitalize on their chances in the opposing third.

“Our game against Manhattan this Friday is a big must win for us, forward Cameron Kirdzik ’17 said. “Having an obviously sluggish start to the season,

winning this home game is huge to regain our confidence and to put us back on track. We have amended a few things, including changing our formation, which will be critical to our success on Friday.”

In Sunday’s game, CCSU is a clearcut favorite going into the showdown with Yale. The Blue Devils are 2–2, having won their last game against Massachusetts-Lowell. Furthermore, CCSU has already taken on a formidable Ivy League opponent this year, narrowly losing a 4–3 nailbiter against defending Ivy champion Penn. Having been picked to finish first in the NEC in the conference’s preseason coaches’ poll, the Blue Devils will prove a formidable foe for

a struggling Yale squad. Most pressingly for the Elis, the CCSU offense has been a force to be reckoned with in its opening four games, averaging 1.5 goals per game against some stout non-conference competition.

“For the moment, we are all focused on Manhattan this Friday and taking the season one game at a time,” defender Henry Flugstad-Clarke ’17 said. “[The game against Manhattan] should be a good contest and a hard fought game.”

Yale finished fifth in the Ivy League last season with a conference record of 2–3–2.

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

Keys to the game: Football

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER Yale opens its football season at home on Saturday against the Lehigh Mountain Hawks. In order to beat their Patriot League foe, the Bulldogs have to execute on both sides of the ball. That means keeping playmakers involved on offense, protecting the quarterback and preventing Lehigh’s signal-caller from racking up yards on the ground.

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Both head coach Tony Reno and quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 have compared the quarterback’s

role in Reno’s no-huddle approach to that of a distributor. Rather than being left alone to make plays and change the game, Roberts hopes to be more of a point guard, picking up assists in the form of quick passes and finding players in space.

That understanding requires the Bulldogs to have dynamic options both in the backfield and out wide.

The combination of captain Deon Randall ’15 and running back Tyler Varga ’15 could very well fit the bill.

Randall caught 85 passes last year and racked up 1,021 all-purpose yards, earning first-team All-Ivy honors. His versatility — he lined up in the backfield, in the slot and out wide last year — should cause matchup problems for the Moun-

tain Hawks.

Varga, meanwhile, has proven to be a dangerous runner when healthy. In 2012, he led the nation with 194.2 all-purpose yards per game, including 220 yards on the ground against Columbia. Before an injury derailed his 2013 campaign, he racked up 607 yards in just five games.

Other receivers, such as Grant Wallace ’15 and Robert Clemons ’17, will likely make their presence felt as well. Wallace finished with a receiver-best 13.6 yards per catch in 2013, while Clemons totaled 579 kick return yards and is now listed as a starter at receiver.

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Yale’s offensive line last year was the only unit in the Ivy League to have the same five starters for the entire season. With the graduation of two stalwarts — center John Oppenheimer ’14 and tackle Wes Gavin ’14 — and the shift of Luke Longinotti ’16 from guard to center, the Bulldogs will run their offense behind a new-look line.

That is potentially bad news for Roberts, Varga and the rest of the offense. Should the offensive line show any cracks, Roberts could find himself submerged in a flood of Mountain Hawk pass rushers.

Roberts, however, complimented the offensive line, saying that he expects the group to be very good this season. In order to vali-

date his faith, the line will need to limit or eliminate missed blocks, communicate well before the snap and keep Roberts standing long enough to complete his passes.

CONTAIN THE QUARTERBACK

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

The above quotation from Charles Dickens accurately describes Lehigh quarterback Nick Shafnisky’s 2014 season thus far. In the season opener, Shafnisky threw for 217 yards and ran for 121 more, earning a reputation as a dual threat.

But a week later, against No. 7 New Hampshire, Shafnisky was

largely rendered irrelevant, putting up just 106 passing yards on 28 attempts and mustering four rushing yards on 14 carries.

If the Elis hope to come away with a victory over the Mountain Hawks, the defensive front seven will have to contain Shafnisky and limit his ability to scramble. Rendering him one-dimensional will help the secondary, led by cornerback Foyesade Oluokun ’17 and safeties Robert Ries ’17 and Cole Champion ’16, focus on shutting down receivers rather than accounting for Shafnisky down the field.

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Football looks to soar past mountain hawks

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER With the preseason now in the rearview mirror, the Yale football team opens its season on Saturday in a non-conference matchup against Patriot League opponent Lehigh.

The Mountain Hawks (0–2, 0–0 Patriot) come in on a twogame losing streak. Last year, however, they finished 8–3, including wins over Columbia and Ivy League co-champion Princeton.

“We’re excited about the opportunity [to play] against Lehigh,” head coach Tony Reno said. “We want to play great teams in order to be a great team.”

Lehigh’s offense is centered around a pair of new starters: quarterback Nick Shafnisky and running back Brandon Yosha.

Following the graduation of allPatriot League quarterback Brandon Bialkowski, Shafnisky won the offseason quarterback battle over senior Matt McHale. In his first start of the season, and just his second career start, Shafnisky was named Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week after rushing for 121 yards and throwing for 214 yards and two scores, but the Mountain Hawks still fell to James Madison University 31–28.

Yosha, meanwhile, is in his first year at Lehigh following his decision to transfer from the University of Miami, where he played in six games last season. Yosha leads

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the team with 178 yards and two rushing touchdowns this season.

Behind Yosha in the running back pecking order is senior back Rich Sodeke, who toted the rock 14 times in the opener against James Madison for 96 yards and a touchdown.

The Elis will attempt to counter the strong Lehigh running game with a defense heavily populated by underclassmen. According to Reno, there were times last year when eight of the 11 defensive players on the field were freshmen, and captain Deon Randall ’15 said that those players only improved in the offseason.

“Our biggest growth [since last year] comes from the defense,” Randall said.

That youth will continue over to this season. The Yale two-deep defensive depth chart includes eight sophomores and seven true freshmen, including two rookies listed as starters: defensive tackle Nick Crowle ’18 and outside linebacker Matthew Oplinger ’18.

Lehigh’s ability to spread the ball around, with 10 players having caught at least one pass this year, will test the Bulldogs’ secondary. All-Ivy selections Foyesade Oluokun ’17 and Cole Champion ’16 anchor the Yale defensive backs, with Dale Harris ’17, Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 and Robert Ries ’17 also expected to get playing time.

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Volleyball heads west

Elis hope to stop streak

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER After a triumphant victory against Villanova last week, the volleyball team hopes to notch wins at the Fullerton Classic at Cal State Fullerton this weekend.

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The volleyball team will travel to California this weekend to compete at the Fullerton Classic.

The Bulldogs (2–4, 0–0 Ivy) will battle their hosts, the Fullerton Titans (5–5, 0–0 Big West), on Friday before facing the No. 22 UCLA Bruins (6–2, 0–0 Pacific 12) and Georgetown Hoyas (6–4, 0–0 Big East) on Saturday.

“This is a big trip,” captain Mollie Rogers said. “We want to arrive in Fullerton ready to play.”

After her domination at the Villanova Classic, which included 34 kills and 23 digs, Rogers was named to the Ivy League honor roll and last weekend’s All-Tournament team.

Freshman teammate Kelsey Crawford ’18, a setter, also received Ivy League recognition.

Crawford totaled a deadly 81 assists in last weekend’s matches and was named this week’s Ivy League rookie of the week.

“It’s really hard to get an award when you go 1-2 on the weekend,” head coach Erin Appleman said. “So I’m really excited that she got this honor, and she’s been playing really great.”

Fellow setter Kelly Johnson ’16 earned the same honor twice her freshman year. Johnson said the team is excited to play against a top-25 team again this weekend.

Johnson said the women have been working in practice to play as a team in order to match up to UCLA’s high level of play.

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The men’s soccer team will host Manhattan College at Reese Stadium tonight.

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER Riding a disappointing three-game losing streak, the Yale men’s soccer team returns home this weekend in search of its first win of the young season.

MEN’S SOCCER The Elis (0–3–1, 0–0–0 Ivy) will look to build some momentum this weekend when they host Manhattan College (1–2–0, 0–0–0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) and Central Connecticut State University (2–2–0, 0–0–0 Northeast Conference) at Reese Stadium.

Yale had many chances last weekend, but was shut out in both of its losses, as the Elis were unable to convert chances into goals. With that in mind, head coach Brian Tompkins has adjusted his team’s training regimen going into this weekend’s games.

The mentality and focus of our group has been terrific and they are keen to do well.

BRIAN TOMPKINS Head coach, Yale men’s soccer

“The focus in this week’s training has been on sharpening our play in and around the penalty area so that we can capitalize on our goal-scoring opportunities,” Tompkins said.

“The mentality and focus of our group has been terrific and they are keen to do well so I expect a good performance from them.”

Having never played Manhattan, the Elis are bound to see new looks from their opponent and with Manhattan coming off of a 3–1 loss to Fordham itself, both sides will be itching to avoid another defeat. The Jaspers will look to kick their productive offense into high gear against a stout Bulldog defense SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 11

FOOTBALL GAMES PLAYED BETWEEN TEAMS FROM THE IVY LEAGUE AND THE PATRIOT LEAGUE AFTER THIS WEEKEND. Yale and Lehigh’s 1:00 p.m. matchup Saturday will be the 500th showdown.

The Ivy League leads the all-time series 256–237–3, but Yale is just 17–36 against the Patriot League.