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October recess begins, of course. Still, some of us are counting down to the end of this week. “Parent’s Weekend” looms, promising some chaos before bittersweet Sunday, when heartfelt goodbyes will give way to much-anticipated, well-deserved rest and relaxation. Loud and clear?

well-loved for his ambition, but we have to question his reliability: The Washington, D.C. rapper’s New Haven concert, long scheduled for tonight at Toad’s Place, has been postponed to Dec. 10.

Float on. Well, on the subject of big-name performers, Modest Mouse is set to take the stage at the College Street Music Hall exactly one month from today. But, for the moment, we’re more interested in the “Float for Peace” dance party taking place this evening at 6 p.m.

Starting at the Women’s Table, the event invites attendees to dance to music playing in their own headphones for 90 minutes in what’s meant to be just one of several “silent discos” taking place around the globe at the same time.

“Harsh and unforgiving.” Such

is apparently the worldview that Dave Weigel of The Washington Post will be looking to share with audience members at his conversation with the Yale College Democrats this evening, according to a tweet he shared before making the trip up to New Haven last night. And we thought we were jaded.

Sweater weather. Fall officially begins on Wednesday, and the Yale College Council is jumping on a business opportunity, as a result.

An email sent to the undergraduate population on Friday promoted a special deal on those letter sweaters that all-too-many people will be wearing once the weather completely cools down.

“Order now so you don’t miss out!” the message ended, shamelessly attempting to tap into the FOMO that seems to come with not owning one.

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2009 The YCC — having just merged with the Yale Student Activities Committee — finalizes its fall agenda, including a “Homecoming” week before The Game and a “Party Train” excursion to New York City.

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Faculty critize latest standards

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Blue carpet. Nine Yalies were among last night’s Emmy nominees, including Yalein-Hollywood fixtures Claire Danes ’02 and Paul Giamatti ’89 DRA ’94 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, respectively. The night’s only Elis Emmy, however, was Frances McDormand DRA ’82, who took home the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie prize for her work in “Olive Kitteridge.”

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Eight months after faculty were asked to comment on a controversial draft document of faculty standards of conduct, the finalized standards were presented in the updated Faculty Handbook, sent to faculty in a Friday email from University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak.

Starting in January, faculty were given several weeks to submit comments on the draft document, which included provisions on teaching, scholarship and relationships with colleagues. At the time, many faculty objected to what they viewed as overly specific and controlling language.

Trumbull Master Margaret Clark, who chaired the committee responsible for authoring the document, said last semester that the committee would take into account all feedback. Notably, one particularly controversial section — which formerly declared that “if a faculty member’s behavior violates the faculty’s shared principles, he or she may be subject to sanction, whether or not the behavior is specifically described” — was toned down to state

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Tweaked aid form seeks to put students at ease

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER Earlier this month, the Obama Administration announced a series of changes to the Federal Application for Student Aid that could simplify the process of applying for financial assistance.

Beginning in 2016, the FAFSA will open on Oct. 1, instead of its past release date of Jan. 1.

Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said that in addi-

tion to giving students more time to complete the form, the earlier date will also allow students to use older tax information to fill out the FAFSA. The FAFSA — a form used by college students to determine their eligibility for financial assistance — has a reputation for being time-consuming and difficult to complete. In addition to deciding which students are eligible for Pell Grants, student loans and other forms of fed-

Yale looks to inspire female scientists

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER One hundred twenty-one rockets ascended in the air nearby Kline Biology Tower this Saturday, deploying parachutes as they drifted back to the cheering astrophysicists.

Those scientists were not Yale faculty members testing out their latest lab experiment.

They were middle school girls participating in the Girls’ Science Investigations, a free program, partially funded by Yale, meant to inspire more girls to develop an interest in science and to narrow the gender disparity in scientific fields.

The event kicked off the first of four full-day science workshops scheduled for the year, covering topics ranging from astrophysics to quantum mechanics to electromagnetics. These highly complicated fields are distilled by Bonnie Fleming, the program’s founder and co-director and a professor of physics at Yale, into accessible and engaging daylong workshops, said Dana Joseph, a high school junior in New Haven and alumna and now volunteer of the program.

“Bonnie does an incredible job of helping people connect

intricate topics to things they already understand,” Joseph said. “It’s so important for young girls to know they can do hard stuff, and this is rocket science — it doesn’t get more complicated than that.”

The 121 girls in the program started the day with a series of classes on rocketry, extraterrestrial life and physics. Each girl constructed a two-foot-tall rocket with a parachute in the nose of the rocket and a decorated telescope to watch the rocket.

Kelly Nowak, whose daughters have participated in the program, said she learned about the opportunity when her older daughter’s teacher nominated her for the program. As a patent attorney who uses scientific knowledge on a daily basis, she was excited to introduce her daughters to science, she said.

“We just have to get girls out there and interested in science,” she said. “Programs like this help you do it.”

Nowak added that she wished that the program could take place at times other than Saturday mornings to accommodate girls involved in sports. Her daughter, she added, is passionSEE GSI PAGE 4

eral aid, the FAFSA also determines how much tuition a student is responsible for paying to their university. But with over 100 questions and the expectation that students complete the form in the late winter or early spring — before most families file their taxes — the FAFSA has been criticized by students and higher education experts.

“The FAFSA is possibly the hardest and longest app for college,” Emma Goldrick ’17 said.

She added that filling out the form would be almost impossible if her parents did not have a working knowledge of English and steady jobs, which is not the case for many students applying for aid.

It is in recognition of this difficulty that the federal government is making modifications to the form. At a press conference on Sept. 14, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the government was announcing an

“easier, earlier FAFSA.” Currently, most students are expected to apply to college in the fall, and for financial aid in January, when the FAFSA is released.

This timeline makes it unlikely that students know the size of their financial aid package until long after they are admitted.

Another complication is that the current FAFSA requires an applicant’s tax information from SEE FAFSA PAGE 6

Experts square off on Iran deal

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Over 150 students attended the debate on the Iran deal held in Linsly-Chittenden Hall on Sunday evening.

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER More than 150 students gathered in Linsly-Chittenden Hall Sunday evening to watch two foreign policy experts spar over an issue that has drawn the praise of Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 and the ire of Henry Kissinger: the Iran deal.

Mark Dubowitz and Philip Gordon parsed the intricacies of the nuclear deal — an accord struck between Iran and an American-led coalition of six powers intended to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon — for nearly two hours. Although

the deal has generated an intensely partisan divide, the event was sponsored by five ideologically diverse student groups: The Yale Friends of Israel, the Yale College Democrats, the Yale College Republicans, the Politic and the Yale International Relations Association. Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a non-partisan think tank focused on nonproliferation, argued against the deal, which he called “fatally flawed.” Gordon, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who formerly worked as a special assistant SEE IRAN DEAL PAGE 6

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Master and its discontents P

rofessor Stephen Davis’ request that Piersonites stop calling him the “master” of Pierson College has started a debate about, basically, what a word really means and what the standards should be for changing symbols with nasty associations. Proponents of the change argue that the “racial and gendered weight” (Davis’ words) of the title is a sufficient reason to drop it.

While Davis is right about the word’s connotations, scotching “master” on this basis would set the precedent that reactions to a phrase divorced from the phrase’s intended meaning is reason enough to expunge it.

Speech would be chilled and debate suppressed, moving us further from the sort of open culture the argument’s proponents claim to desire.

Davis wrote in his email to the Pierson community that the title is “deeply problematic … I think there should be no context in our society … in which an African-American student, professor or staff member — or any person, for that matter — should be asked to call anyone ‘master.’”

Davis’ goal is laudable. It must be unpleasant for black students to be reminded constantly of slavery. This reminder may be particularly offensive because it recalls the personal relationship — between white masters and black slaves — that defined black subjugation and white supremacy. If Americans are working to purge themselves of the remnants of these shameful practices, why shouldn’t Yale nix a title redolent thereof?

IN NORMAL DEBATE, CONTEXT DETERMINES THE MEANING OF WORDS First, the spirit in which the title was introduced at Yale and in which it is kept has nothing to do with the bad associations.

As Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway wrote in an email to the News, “I see [the title] as nothing more than a legacy of the British Oxbridge system that Yale was blatantly trying to emulate when it created the residential college system in the early 1930s.” So far as I can tell, no one contests that Holloway’s account of the title’s history is correct.

And indeed, in normal discussion and debate, context determines the meaning of words. Two examples should illustrate the point: “I apprehend seeing my organic chemistry grade.” Basic grammar,

the other words in the sentence, k n o w l edge of the speaker (I suck at c h e m i s t ry) — these conCOLE ARONSON siderations would tell anyone lisNecessary tening that and proper “ a p p r e hend” here implies anxiety, rather than understanding or intent to arrest someone.

The warping of “master” is no different an error.

A second example proves the point differently: members of certain groups — religious, racial, gendered and other — use language among themselves that would normally be prohibited to an outsider. But imagine, say, a Jew and a Catholic who are best friends throwing language at each other that, outside of a context of understood intentions and mutual trust, would be off-limits. That would be coarseness, not bigotry. The benign origins of the title “master” should acquit it according to these standards.

The argument against “master,” if accepted, would be disastrous for open discourse. The fact that a word has an unsavory connotation even apart from its context and intended meaning would become a sufficient reason to ban it. This could be applied to any other sort of speech, shutting down debate and creating a culture of myopia instead of engagement. Here are just a few phrases that, in the new regime, would be proscribed: girl, American Dream, “hey guys,” Columbus Day, meritocracy, housewife, virtue, affirmative action, alien, “God bless America," hell, even “free speech.”

There are two ways to resolve this problem: We could defer to the clear intention of a speaker when judging her words. This does not mean speakers needn’t choose their words carefully, only that those words shouldn’t be intentionally misconstrued by listeners.

Or we could delineate which bad associations are grounds for changing the words we use, maybe stopping certain words or ideas from being expressed altogether. I do not know what such criteria would be, but whatever they are, they could be used to accuse anyone expressing a controversial idea of thought crime. A company of scholars cannot thrive, because truth cannot be pursued, if the rules of charitable discourse are replaced by such proscriptions.

Stand against fatalism B

ernie Sanders did something unusual last Monday. The most liberal candidate in the 2016 presidential race, he nonetheless took his message to Liberty University, a deeply conservative college founded by prominent evangelical Jerry Falwell. Unlike most politicians, he didn’t pander to his audience. He made no attempt to paper over his social liberalism, but he did try finding common ground around our nation’s ugly economic inequalities. While he may not have won over his listeners, he proved he’s willing to engage with every element of the electorate — a rarity in American politics today.

Bernie is a unique candidate in many respects. He rejects the charade that passes for politics nowadays. He relies on individual contributions and refuses to accept super PAC money. He neglects the niceties most candidates cultivate. His hair is unruly; his shirts are ruffled. His speeches, prolix and filled with specifics, are largely self-written. If he considers a reporter’s question ridiculously superficial, he says so. He isn’t one of those slickly dressed, focus grouptested candidates.

Departing from the mealy mouthed vacillation of establishment politicians, he calls things like he sees them. He defended gay rights in 1972, far before LGBTQ rights were mainstream.

He opposed invading Iraq when

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most Democrats jumped on the bandwagon. He gave an epic, eight-hour filibuster in response to the Democratic Party leadership’s choice to extend the Bushera tax cuts. He has always worn the label “socialist,” long considered electoral suicide, with pride.

His fundamental message — that our society’s inequalities are immoral, that billionaires and large corporations threaten our democracy and that ordinary people must become politically empowered to defeat the economic royalists — hasn’t changed since he entered politics. Bernie is, in a word, authentic.

His proposals are substantive and progressive, united by a desire for social justice. To battle inequality, he would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, raise taxes on the rich and force corporate tax evaders to pay their fair share. To ensure that all Americans live a good life, he would increase Social Security benefits; institute universal healthcare; guarantee sick leave, family leave and paid vacation time for all workers; and adopt pro-unionization policies. To loosen Wall Street’s chokehold on our democracy, Bernie would bring back the Glass-Steagall Act and enact strong campaign finance laws. Although Bernie’s agenda is sweeping, his policies are financially sound. These policies would pay for themselves through massive savings reaped from overhauling our inefficient

healthcare and higher education systems.

Bernie speaks for our generation. His policies address our concerns and align with our views. He cares about global warming, LGBTQ rights and gender equality. He wants to lower student debt and totally eliminate tuition fees at public universities. To fight climate change, he favors a carbon tax and investment in green infrastructure. He is pro-choice and champions pay equity. According to a recent News poll of the freshman class, Bernie is leading at Yale with 38 percent of the vote. His closest rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, garnered only 23 percent — and this was before her email scandal deepened.

Despite Bernie’s stirring vision, he has faced four main criticisms. The first is that he’s too “populist” or “extremist.”

This lazy attack line leans heavily on his self-description as a socialist. But anyone who actually examines his policies finds they’re quite reasonable, and Bernie is no xenophobe.

The second criticism is that Bernie doesn’t focus enough on racism. At first, this was true. But Bernie has been very responsive to Black Lives Matter and has the most thorough plan to combat structural racism. He denounces institutional racism, police brutality and mass incarceration.

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on Drugs and abolish privatized prisons.

The third attack is that Bernie’s foreign policy isn’t very strong.

Admittedly, Bernie hasn’t discussed foreign policy much. But he wants to reduce profligate military spending and believes war is a last resort, in refreshing contrast to the trigger-happy hawks that advise the more “responsible” candidates in either party.

The final criticism is that Bernie is “unelectable.” I hear this often from disillusioned adults.

The past 45 years have taught them helplessness. They say they like Bernie, but he has no chance of victory. Maybe so, but fatalism has always been the enemy of reform. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

To defeat the oligarchs, we must believe again. Bernie is tapping into a groundswell of popular discontent. Americans are tired of the status quo, of a politics of cynical division and small thinking. It won’t be easy, but organized people can defeat organized money. If Bernie wins the Democratic nomination, he can build a movement that will transform America. The first step of the political revolution is for you to join him.

SCOTT REMER is a senior in Pierson College and a member of the executive committee of Yale Students for Bernie Sanders. Contact him at scott.remer@yale.edu .

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hen I reflect on my time at Yale, I will divide my education into equal halves: the universe that included my friends Luchang and Tyler, and the universe that no longer does. For me, their deaths form the deepest fissure in the contiguity of my life in New Haven, my unwilling relocation to the wrong side of a temporal chasm.

Campus is not the same for me anymore. Sometimes, while biking past the Taft apartments — the locus of my knowing Tyler, and the place of his passing — I’ll get the sensation that my bike gears have been turned all the way up and I’m struggling to pedal. A breeze on Science Hill might touch me in such a way that reminds me of the wind during a walk we once took. A silhouette on Elm Street in the evening from the corner of my eye may look like Luchang’s gait. Familiar places are loaded with unexpected meaning: classrooms turned into “classrooms Luchang had occupied” or doorways now “doorways where I waved goodbye to Tyler.”

When I pass through these

spaces, the air is heavier, the atmospheric pressure apparently greater, as though the molecules CAROLINE have taken upon them POSNER the weight of my memories Out of line and my grief.

Sometimes I see this heaviness in a friend’s face, or the shifted slope of her shoulders, and I know she is feeling the same.

How do we go on? The question seems less a belated extension of my grief than a permanent fixture of this new Yale, the inevitable challenge posed to a community disrupted by loss. The façade of normalcy bestowed upon campus by the arrival of the newest class belies the many ways in which we have yet to recover.

Among the bereaved, and pervading even in circles that did not know Tyler or Luchang, is an ethos of fragility, unique perhaps to those young people whose sense

of invulnerability was so abruptly shattered. We worry constantly — for ourselves and for each other.

We chalk up neuroses to our having “dead friends.” We are hesitant at bridges and tall buildings.

We ask frequently of one another’s mental health, alcohol consumption, support systems. If we had the luxury before of believing only our grades and our graduate school prospects were predicated on our well-being here, it now seems that our lives, too, hang in the balance. Friends take note of my moods with quasi-parental vigilance. In many ways, my relationships seem closer, safer, than they did before.

But there is also something unnatural about treading so delicately at all times. True, this cautiousness — a muddled expression of our sorrow and our anxiety — breeds a remarkable kind of compassion and intimacy. Yet it also perpetuates an existential edginess: a desire to qualify our own joy with reminders of grief, lest we be guilty of forgetting the departed; an omnipresent, repressive sensation of death’s proximity; a false ideal

of heroic responsibility for the well-being of others. I’d like to believe that we can maintain this same warmth and concern for our friends and our neighbors even as we attempt to shake the world-weariness we have inhabited these past months. To do so, rather than to bind ourselves in the anxiety of tragedy, would be a far more fitting monument to the lives of our friends. To offer our attention and concern is a kindness that reaches beyond our own community of loss. It is not conditional upon collective grief. It is a kindness worthy of their memory.

I’ve come to believe I was wrong about the air — that the heaviness is not grief, but my mind’s best attempt to convene my body with moments and people dearly missed. Though these instances are difficult, they are wondrous. They bring me briefly closer to Luchang and to Tyler. In this new, lesser universe, they will be cause for celebration.

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

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Students, faculty give thumbs up on new OCS requirements

BY MIRANDA ESCOBAR AND QI XU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER For the first time in recent memory, students were required to add courses to their personal Online Course Selection worksheets prior to the beginning of classes — a change that many agreed improved shopping period logistics.

In an effort to boost the quality of OCS course demand statistics, Yale mandated that students enter at least three course credits on their schedule worksheet before the first day of class.

Nearly all students — 99.2 percent, to be exact — did so, and those who did not were charged a $50 fine.

According to University Registrar Gabriel Olszewski, the policy improved the accuracy of course demand statistics, adding that he hopes to continue the requirement next semester.

Although most of the professors and students interviewed did not notice much change in shopping period behaviors as a result of the initiative, many believed that

requiring students to add at least three classes so early on made planning easier amid shopping uncertainty.

“I’m myself awfully grateful for the introduction of the new requirement,” English professor Leslie Brisman, who teaches the popular seminar “The Bible as Literature,” said in an email.

“Anything that gets students seriously planning before the first day of classes is a boon, and if even one student was able to get to work in courses earlier because of this requirement, then it is well worth the effort required of all.”

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs George Levesque said that as a result of the new requirement, instructors teaching lecture courses found their initial class rosters to be more reliable in predicting actual enrollment than in years past. Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Michael Koelle said the statistics were very helpful in determining the enrollment cap for his large biochemistry lecture class, in addition to finding an appropriate classroom and hir-

ing enough teaching fellows.

Although acknowledging that the new policy has improved the reliability of course demand data, some professors said they depended on shoppers rather than statistics to gauge interest.

In their view, the new policy did not make a noticeable impact on shopping period logistics.

Still, professors interviewed suggested that they did not see a dramatic shift in how students went about shopping classes.

“There’s a lot of other stuff that’s going on besides the policies,” said Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor Stephen Stearns ’67.

Stearns said he found that despite the OCS requirement, shopping period was still characterized by significant uncertainty on both the part of the instructor and the student. He further noted that his “Evolution and Medicine” class was initially very oversubscribed, and he was only able to reduce enrollment by articulating his own metrics for finalizing the class roster.

Even so, Stearns decided to create another section to accommo-

date all the interest.

Though Brisman praised the requirement because it forced students to plan their schedules earlier than before, he also noted that it did not lead to major changes in shopping behavior.

Despite the fact that students were required to submit preliminary course credits, Brisman found that the majority of shoppers in his seminar came to class unprepared, without having read the syllabus or even the full course description on Classes*v2.

Anything that gets students seriously planning before the first day of classes is a boon.

LESLIE BRISMAN Professor of English “There are still too many students who haven’t done their homework before the start of

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classes and who therefore make it difficult for both professors and more responsible students to get to work right away,” Brisman said. “There is still some expectation that the classes that take place the first few weeks aren’t ‘for real.’”

Compared to the faculty, students had more mixed opinions about the changes made to the course registration process. Of 22 students interviewed, 14 said that they used the course demand statistics while they were shopping classes.

For many students, the main benefit of the new requirement was that course demand statistics were accurate earlier during shopping period, serving as a valuable resource as they decided which classes to add to their schedules.

“I think [this policy] makes a big difference,” Irene Chung ’17 said. “I look at [the course demand statistics] when deciding which seminars to go to, when debating between two [classes], just to gauge the likelihood.”

She added that the requirement is a low commitment that

The New Haven Block Party featured beach balls and student bands from Yale and the University of New Haven.

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER With beach balls, cold-brewed coffee and live music, New Haven’s Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism hosted its first annual block party on the New Haven Green Saturday.

Food trucks — including Mr. Ice Cream, Ay Arepa and Lunch Box 23 — lined College Street, while four bands competed for a cash prize provided by sponsor Xfinity. The block party, attended by roughly 500 people, was followed by a “Back to School Indie Dance Party” at the College Street Music Hall and an after-party at Gotham Citi Cafe.

“This definitely is part of a larger initiative to make New Haven the cultural capital of Connecticut,” said Reed Immer, one of the coordinators of the block party and the marketing director for Junzi Kitchen, a new quick-service Chinese restaurant set to open on Broadway this fall.

Immer said that Andrew Wolf, director of Arts, Culture and Tourism in New Haven, approached him in June, asking him to throw a celebration to welcome students back to New Haven. Immer said he then reached out to local bands and

businesses to see if they wanted to get involved.

Four bands performed at the block party, including Yale student band Slam Dank as well as Psychoala from the University of New Haven, which took home the $1,000 Xfinity Crowd-Favorite Prize.

The winner was decided based on the number of likes each band’s designated picture received on Instagram.

Wolf said the block party is part of Mayor Toni Harp’s broader effort to make New Haven a more attractive place to work, play and, ultimately, live.

“We want to reach as many constituencies as we can,” Wolf said.

The event was marketed as an end-ofsummer attraction specifically for college students and young professionals.

Approximately 1,600 people responded “going” on the New Haven Block Party Facebook event, which was the main advertising tool used to attract students.

Still, the event drew well under that number of attendees.

Of the 84 people whom the News polled at theww block party, 23 said they were from outside of New Haven. Of the 61 from New Haven, 11 said they were affiliated with Yale either as an undergradu-

ate student or a graduate student, and one student came from Southern Connecticut State University.

Several local attendees, such as Ed Natera and Ernest Bookert, said that they thought there should be more events like Saturday’s, particularly on the Upper Green. In addition, several attendees said they enjoyed the beach balls and the photo booth.

“I think it’s pretty cool that New Haven has something like this,” state Rep. Robyn Porter said. “It just feels good to be a kid again.”

Still, a few attendees expressed an expectation that the event would draw more visitors.

Keren Abreu ’15, who is a member of the band Slam Dank, said she wished that the turnout had been bigger on such a beautiful day.

“Maybe people don’t know about it,” Abreu said. “The people who are here seem to enjoy it, though.”

The event was sponsored by Xfinity, with additional support from Park New Haven and Gotham Citi Cafe.

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Mental health coalition aims to engage students

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all students can do to help everyone. Isra Syed ’16, who usually plans her classes before school starts, found the new policy extremely helpful. Having everyone submit a preliminary schedule helped her plan her shopping period beforehand, Syed said.

Other students, however, found that the pressure to submit three classes before the start of the term had the potential to create more stress than it eased.

This was especially an issue for many freshmen, who were just trying to navigate the process of shopping period for the first time.

Trinh Truong ’19 said that she knew many of her peers who were stressed and confused by the requirement to submit three classes online before the first day of classes.

“I didn’t really know how to use the Bluebook or anything until my FroCo was like, ‘here’s how you do it,’” she said.

On Sunday, 14 undergraduates gathered in a classroom on Hillhouse Avenue for the year’s first meeting of the Coalition for Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Their task: facilitate communication among different groups on mental health issues at Yale.

The coalition is the result of a report, commissioned by University President Peter Salovey in the months before his fall 2013 inauguration, on the University’s mental health culture and resources. According to the meeting’s moderators — Olivia Pollak ’16, Eli Feldman ’16 and Mari Kawakatsu ’17, who are members of the coalition’s steering committee — the coalition is currently focused on promoting open and transparent dialogue between students and administrators.

“The coalition’s goals are to facilitate communication and collaboration between different student groups … strengthen the student safety net and liaise with Mental Health & Counseling and Student Health,” Feldman said.

Pollak said the Yale College Council is in large part responsible for students’ recent increased involvement in mental health issues. The YCC compiled the report for Salovey by conducting a schoolwide survey in conjunction with in-depth interviews, Pollak said. A consensus became clear: Fundamental changes needed to be made to Yale’s culture and policies surrounding mental health.

That consensus spurred the creation of the coalition.

The heads of the group, formally known as the “steering committee,” attend monthly meetings — started in February 2014 — with representatives from Yale Health, Mental Health & Counseling and the YCC. The coalition also runs meetings exclusively for students.

After a round of brief presentations by the steering committee members, the meeting’s attendees dove into the issues.

First on the agenda was a discussion of Yale’s broader campus culture vis-à-vis mental health issues.

“If you could snap your fingers, what would you change about Yale’s mental health culture?” Feldman asked the group.

Several participants made similar complaints concerning Yale’s “culture of perfection.”

In a place as demanding and competitive as Yale, students often hide behind a pretense of ease and happiness because they do not want to be labeled as having failed in any sense of the word, participants noted.

Many students are unwilling to open up about internal struggles, thereby creating a “hushhush” attitude that dominates how Yale has historically treated

mental health issues.

Secondly, there was a call to address the fact that academic disorders and mental health issues are often inextricably intertwined. Students who suffer from ADD, ADHD, autism, dyslexia or other disorders are prone to develop mental health issues while trying to succeed in Yale’s high-pressure academic environment. Because academic disorders do not fall within the rigid confines of what is deemed to be a mental disorder, students with academic disorders may not be getting the mental health aid they need.

Lastly, the group discussed the need to change the definition of mental health. In particular, Feldman said there is a tendency to express mental disorders in black-and-white terms, instead of acknowledging that they actually lie on a spectrum.

“The dichotomy between people who have a mental illness versus people who are healthy … that’s not a real dichotomy.

There are plenty of people who don’t have a diagnosable disorder and could be healthier,” Feldman said.

Many of these same complaints appear in the 2013 report that the YCC published to call on Salovey to take action regarding mental health. Sreeja Kodali ’18, a participant at the meeting, noted that some of those complaints still remain proposals on paper. Kodali added that she believes this is because some of the cultural issues discussed at the meeting cannot be eradicated through policy changes alone. Instead, she suggested, they must be accompanied with active student engagement.

As the meeting drew to a close, committee members discussed upcoming efforts organized by the coalition, including the annual Mental Health and Wellness Weekend. Planned for the spring, the weekend comprises a slate of workshops and speaker series designed to foster constructive conversation about mental health at Yale and raise awareness of student groups working on relevant issues.

Although mental health has been a prominent issue on campus since early last semester, Pollak said that the coalition is struggling with lack of representation from the broader student body at its meetings. Still, Feldman said, there has been substantial progress. “[The way] that some people [at the meeting] shared their experiences struggling with mental health — this never would have happened three years ago,” Feldman said. “It would have been a big deal, it would have seemed very out there.”

Contact CHLOE KIMBALL at chloe.kimball@yale.edu and SARAH STEIN at sarah.stein@yale.edu .

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“Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.”

JEAN TOOMER AMERICAN POET AND NOVELIST

Yale hosts program to catalyze interest in science GSI FROM PAGE 1 ate about science but struggles to find opportunities to get involved in science that do not conflict with her hockey schedule.

At 12:50 p.m., the girls left Sloane Physics Laboratory and went out into the Science Hill quadrangle to fire the rockets.

“This is scary,” said one sixth-grader in line, watching the row of rockets connected by wires to the control panel. Each participant pressed the launch button for her own rocket.

“It shoots out fiery rainbows,” shouted a girl by her side.

[The program] reminds me that science really is exciting and offers so many possibilities.

DURGA THAKRAL ’12 GRD ’20 MED ’20 Another speculated that a rocket might lose control, spiral in mid-air and fly into the crowd of sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders, where it would explode in a fireball. Later in the day, one rocket did sputter out about 30 feet into the air and land near the crowd. There were no injuries, and no fireball appeared.

The more common concern, though, was that the parachutes on the rockets would work too well and the models would float away.

“This is Mission Control, Athena to Pilot: any last words?” asked one girl, bracing herself for the rocket’s risky journey.

“I feel so bad for all the tiny people,” she added. “They are good men, we have to believe in them. They have little tiny families!”

She later renamed Mission Control. It became known as Codename Glitter Crescent.

Durga Thakral ’12 GRD ’20 MED ’20, who has volunteered for the program since 2010, said she was excited to engage with the participants because of their boundless curiosity.

She particularly enjoyed delving into complicated topics like quantum mechanics, and answering the creative questions the girls asked.

“When you’re working in the lab and your experiments fail and you’ve had a week of no progress, it’s wonderful to come on a Saturday and share your enthusiasm with young girls,” she said. “It reminds me that science really is exciting and offers so many possibilities.”

Joseph, the alumna and volunteer, echoed Thakral’s statements, saying the program manages to bridge the gap between the exciting mechanics of, for instance, volcanoes and light, and their more technical explanations.

Kate Klemme, a participant in the program, attributed some of her passion for chemistry to Girls’ Science Investigations, which she has attended five times.

“My favorite part of science is chemicals,” said Klemme.

“It’s really cool how you can combine two things to make something new.”

The program began in 2007.

The next event will be “The E l e c t ro m a g n e t i c Wo rl d ,” offered on Nov. 14.

Contact BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu .

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The Girls’ Science Investigations program seeks to inspire middle-school students to develop an interest in science.

THE MACMILLAN CENTER

INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 4:00 p.m. The Arc of Post-­World War II Japanese Diplomacy: A Conversation featuring Ryozo Kato, Former Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.; Naoyuki Agawa, Keio University; Paul Kennedy, Yale University; and Koichi Hamada, Yale University. Hosted by East Asian Studies and supported by the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

4:30 p.m. Charleston and Its Aftermath: History, Symbols, Policy. A discussion panel with Edward Ball, Yale University; Jelani Cobb, journalist and University of Connecticut; Glenda Gilmore, Yale University; Jonathan Holloway, Yale University; and Vesla Weaver, Yale University. Moderated by David Blight, Yale University.

Sudler Hall, 100 Wall Street. Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center.

5:30 p.m. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Lecture featuring Nanno Ourania Marinatos, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Akrotiri at Thera and its Reception: A Brilliant Culture Buried by Post Modernism.” Sponsored by Hellenic Studies. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 4:30 p.m. Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs featuring David Mayhew, Yale University, “The Imprint of Congress -­ How to Think about It.” Sponsored by the MacMillan Center. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 12:00 p.m. Claire Pamment, Yale University, “Satellite Bhands: Playful Outsiders in Pakistan’s Television News.” Part of the Brown Bag Series sponsored by South Asian Studies. Room B012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

4:00 p.m. Johan Norberg, Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI), “Russian Military Capability and the War In Ukraine.” Sponsored

by European Studies. GM Room, Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue.

4:30 p.m. Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs featuring David Mayhew, Yale University, “The Imprint of Congress -­ The History.” Sponsored by the MacMillan Center. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

4:30 p.m. James McCann, Boston University, “Complexity, Silver Bullets, and the Spirits: The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia.” Part of the Fall Lecture Series sponsored by African Studies. Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 4:30 p.m. Kamal Sadiq, University of California, Irvine, “The Rise of the Standard Citizen and the Decline of Rights.” Part of the Fall Colloquium sponsored by South Asian Studies. Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

6:00 p.m. Film Screening of Omar, Directed by Hany Abu-­Assad (Palestine). In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. Introduction by Rosie Bsheer, Yale University. Part of the CMES Cinema Series sponsored

by Middle East Studies. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

For more information or to subscribe to receive weekly events email, please visit macmillan.yale.edu.

Faculty skeptical of new standards FACULTY FROM PAGE 1 “other behaviors may also violate the principles set forth here.”

The updated document also clarifies in a footnote that all University administrators with faculty appointments are governed by the same guidelines, a question that was raised last semester.

Still, beyond a few wording changes, the finalized standards are largely identical to the draft, and opinion still appears split on not just the standards themselves, but whether they should be codified at all. Computer science professor Michael Fischer, for instance, said that while the document has “considerably improved” in some places, many of his former objections still stand.

“I remain unhappy at what this new document portends for the future of the University,” Fischer said. “It seems designed primarily to protect the corporate Yale from possible liability resulting from actions of its faculty. But in trying to circumscribe what acceptable faculty conduct is, it runs the risk of limiting free speech and free inquiry.”

Similarly, French and African American Studies professor Christopher Miller GRD ’83 said that some of the most “egregiously misguided language” had been altered, but said he remains troubled by some sections. In particular, Miller took issue with the states “participating in behav-

ior that is intended to interfere with freedom of expression by preventing the orderly conduct of teaching or training” violates University standards. Raising an issue that also came up last semester, Miller noted that this rule could be used to ban protest demonstrations.

“As I asked in the spring: Who is going to determine the intentions here?” he questioned.

In their email, Salovey and Polak wrote that the commentary on the original draft was “largely positive and supportive,” a description some professors interviewed disputed.

I remain unhappy at what this new document portends for the future of the University.

MICHAEL FISCHER Computer science professor The email also promised to address one prominent faculty concern still lingering from last semester: the fact that procedures for addressing violations of these standards are not included in the document. The committee responsible for the document will now direct its attention to creating a draft of such procedures, the email noted.

Clark did not return request for comment.

While many faculty took issue with the standards, School of Public Health Dean Paul Cleary said he favored the document, especially given his administrative perspective.

“As a dean, I found it very, very useful to have this document,” he said. “You don’t want to get too bureaucratic, but I always think it’s useful to be explicit about what you think appropriate behavior is.”

Ecology and evolutionary biology professor Stephen Stearns ’67 echoed that sentiment, noting that the standards are clear and appropriate.

Last semester, several faculty members said the issue of faculty standards would best be taken up at least partially addressed by the newly formed FAS Senate.

“At this point, I can only hope that our senate will look into the new faculty standards of conduct,” American Studies and Film and Media Studies professor Charles Musser ’73 said.

Still, last semester, Marina Picciotto, a School of Medicine professor and member of the ad hoc committee, said because the standards apply to all University faculty, the document should not fall under the FAS Senate’s purview.

FAS Senate Chair Beverly Gage did not return request for comment.

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

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“There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.”

KEVIN JAMES AMERICAN ACTOR

2015 class list aims to keep Yalies connected

BY RACHEL SIEGEL AND SHUYU SONG STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Keeping in touch with recent graduates just got easier.

The class of 2015 class list became available to all Yale College students on Thursday through the Yale Office of Career Strategy. Graduates — 1,073, or 92 percent of whom joined the class list — have the option of including their post-graduation email, geographic location, employer or graduate school and Yale College major. Graduates have the option of joining the class list through the First Destination Survey, which is administered by OCS from the spring of the graduates’ senior year to November, six months after graduation.

“I was first introduced to the

concept of a class list while I was a director of the Career Development Office at Yale Law School,” said OCS Director Jeanine Dames.

“During my time there, I saw that it was an extremely powerful tool for recent graduates to stay connected with one another and also for current students to talk with recent graduates about their job search and their new positions.”

The Yale College class list within began with the class of 2013. All three lists — 2013, 2014 and 2015 — are housed behind password protection in the Document Library in Symplicity and are only viewable by the Yale College community, Dames said.

This year marks the first time graduates will also be invited to join OCS’ Yale Career Network, an alumni database available to current students to help facili-

tate alumni connections across all Yale schools.

Roughly 100 students who did complete the First Destination Survey chose not to enter their information into the class list, Dames said, adding that some students only chose to include the most basic information, like email and location. For these reasons, Dames said the class list is a poor way to pull aggregate data about the class of 2015.

“It is really a tool for networking purposes and a way for the class to stay connected with one another and current students at Yale,” Dames said.

As the First Destination Survey, which includes the class list, will not close until November, it is possible that the current class list will be updated over the coming weeks. The final class list for

2014 included 1,172 graduates — 95 percent of responders to the First Destination Survey, and the 2013 list included 997 graduates — 93 percent of responders.

I saw that [the class list] was an extremely powerful tool for recent graduates to stay connected.

JEANINE DAMES Director, Office of Career Strategy Of the seven graduates interviewed, all spoke positively about the class list as a way of staying connected to the broader Yale community. James Batchel-

der ’15 said he filled out the survey because he wanted to be able to answer questions and act as a mentor for students entering the tech field. However, Batchelder said he is generally suspicious of job placement efforts by OCS, particularly for those in the STEM fields.

Bo Malin-Mayor ’15 said that he filled out the survey because he started to realize the value of networking. But while the list might help some make useful connections, Malin-Mayor added that he feels the list is impersonal.

Moreover, he does not plan on referencing the list himself.

Anthony Fumagalli ’15 said that the class list did not help him find other Yalies after graduation or keep up with campus events and news. Fumagalli specifically said the list does not pro-

vide information that is specific enough.

“While it does list the names of Yalies and the state they will be in, it does not provide information on a specific area,” Fumagalli said. “This is problematic in states like Texas or California — where I live — as people in LA and San Francisco are separated by hours of driving. It would be better if the class list allowed us the option to provide a city.”

Fumagalli added that a brief email introduction from OCS to Yalies in a common area would have been beneficial.

The class list is alphabetized by graduates’ first names.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu and and SHUYU SONG at shuyu.song@yale.edu .

Pizza delivery app streamlines orders

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Students walking past the intersection of College and Wall streets this past Thursday afternoon were greeted with free pizza and the image of a pepperoni slice painted on a red Lamborgini.

Representatives from Push for Pizza, a pizza delivery app developed in August 2014, arrived on campus Thursday as a part of a promotional tour covering 70-plus colleges. The app, which recently launched in New Haven, allows students to use one platform to place delivery orders with five different New Haven restaurants — Wall Street Pizza, Avelino’s Pizza, Westville Pizza, Planet Pizza and La Vero. Founder Cyrus Summerlin said Push for Pizza partners with local pizzerias that already provide online delivery services.

But, students using the app can bypass online order forms and submit a delivery request with the push of a few buttons, Summerlin said. He added that the order would also cost the same to the student as before.

“Basically our app in theory is a competitor to the Domino’s app,” said Summerlin. “In theory, our app is much better and much simpler than [that] app and we get better pizza from local pizzerias.”

The Domino’s app allows users to customize and order their own pizzas from the pizza chain restaurant.

Summerlin added that Push for Pizza takes around eight to 15 percent commission on orders placed through the application, but the startup hopes to attract local pizza stores by simplifying the delivery process and, in doing so, boosting their delivery sales. Ahmed Mohamed, a manager at participating Westville Pizza, said his pizzeria chose to participate as means to connect to potential new customers.

Several students interviewed said they would consider downloading the app, but noted that several good pizza options —

notably BAR, Yorkside and Brick Oven — already exist within walking distance from most areas on campus. Sarah Cohen ’18 said she already has several preferred pizza locales in the Elm City. But, she added that she appreciates that the app aims to simplify a process that would have otherwise included phone calls or online forms.

Even though she said she might use the app, Marisa London ’18, a student living in Pierson College, noted that she does not find visiting a particular pizza parlor, such as BAR, inconvenient if she is craving a slice.

“I would love it if BAR delivered,” London said. “But I can normally walk to it when I want it.”

Other students interviewed also said that they would not be placing orders through the app because of convenient, pre-existing pizza preferences. Edward Maza ’18, an Ezra Stiles resident, said the quality and proximity of Yorkside and Brick Oven pizza made delivery unnecessary for him. Joel DeLeon ’18 stopped by the Lamborgini on Thursday afternoon for a free slice of pizza. He said he enjoyed the pizza and the presentation, but that he will continue ordering pizza from Papa John’s because of the 50 percent student discount that the chain restaurant offers Yalies.

While Summerlin is excited about the app’s presence in the Elm City, he acknowledged some significant challenges Push for Pizza could face — namely the popularity of many well-known New Haven establishments, most notably Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria, that do not deliver and thus could not be included as one of the options on the app. Sally’s Apizza in Wooster Square and Modern Apizza on State Street are two other wellknown, Zagat-rated pizza parlors that do not come under the app’s umbrella of restaurants.

Summerlin said he also found Yale’s policy restricting brand promotion on campus to be stricter than that of other col-

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Push for Pizza, a pizza delivery app developed in August 2014, came to campus Thursday as part of a promotional tour covering 70-plus colleges. leges. As a result, he said, Push for Pizza did not partner with any startup clubs on campus, as they did at the University of Maryland College Park, where he said the app found the most

enthusiastic student responses.

“At most campuses we partner with entrepreneurship centers on campus because they really like our story and that we are college-aged students,”

Summerlin said. “Yale has been around for a long time and they have a certain image that they have to uphold and I understand that.”

On any given day, 13 per-

cent of Americans will consume pizza, according to a 2014 USDA study.

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

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“How can anyone expect Iran to accept that it is right for Israel to have nuclear weapons while itself being disallowed?”

MARTIN JACQUES BRITISH JOURNALIST

Politically diverse groups host Iran debate

Obama Admin aims to simplify FAFSA FAFSA FROM PAGE 1 the prior year, although the form is due long before most families file their taxes, said Patricia Melton, executive director of New Haven Promise. It is imperative that students file their FAFSAs as early as possible, Melton said, but many procrastinate due to the tax issue.

According to National Public Radio, roughly 4 million students apply for aid each year before their families’ taxes have been filed, meaning they are unable to complete the FAFSA in its entirety.

WA LIU/PHOTGRAPHY EDITOR

Foreign policy experts Mark Dubowitz and Philip Gordon discussed complexities of the Iran nuclear deal on Sunday evening.

IRAN DEBATE FROM PAGE 1 to the president in the Obama administration, contended that the deal will make the world safer by closing off key pathways to an Iranian nuclear weapon. He described the deal as an imperfect but necessary alternative to the current situation.

“It is a fantasy to imagine that you could have it exactly like you want it,” Gordon said. “The deal we negotiated is good for America and good for the world.”

But Dubowitz countered that American negotiators surrendered valuable bargaining chips during the early stages of the talks, leading to a set of temporary provisions whose eventual expiration will pave the way to an Iranian bomb. He added that because of the deal, future American leaders will have to confront a fiercer, more economically stable Iran.

“This deal will make war more likely, not less likely. And when that war comes, Iran will be stronger, and the consequences will be more serious,” Dubowitz said. “The Obama administration got out-negotiated.”

As a solution, Dubowitz proposed three

amendments that he said would salvage the deal: physical inspections of every Iranian nuclear site, a prohibition against uranium enrichment beyond 3.5 percent and the removal of expiration dates from the agreement.

Gordon responded that an aggressive push for such concessions would have jeopardized the broader deal. If the deal had collapsed, he added, Iran would have moved forward with its nuclear program, narrowing the U.S.’s range of options.

But Dubowitz said that in fact the deal’s approval will have this precise effect: freed of economic sanctions, Iran will eventually resume its pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

During the question-and-answer session, Dubowitz summed up his central disagreement with Gordon — that the Obama administration should have pushed for further concessions.

“You think a bad deal is better than no deal. I think staying at the table, ratcheting up the pressure, would have resulted in a better deal,” he said.

All five students interviewed said they held strong views about the accord before

Ambassador Ryozo Kato

attending the debate.

Alexander Posner ’18 said he was impressed with both speakers but that the debate ultimately reinforced his longstanding support for the deal. Redha Qabazard SPH ’17 specifically praised Gordon’s ability to speak frankly about the reality of Middle East politics.

Richard Baker ’18 said that although he supports the accord, he was particularly impressed with Dubowitz’s proposals.

“Those three amendments sound very reasonable,” Baker said. “They don’t seem like they should be deal breakers.”

Gabby Deutch ’18, the Israel Chair of Yale Hillel, served as moderator. Deutch told the News she hoped the debate would promote measured, respectful discourse rather than furious name-calling — adding that she looked for speakers who would engage in a “civil conversation, without tearing each other apart.”

Last Thursday, President Obama announced that he will suspend all American nuclear sanctions on Iran on Oct. 18.

Naoyuki Agawa

Contact DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

Paul Kennedy

They need to fix the clutter that’s inherent about the [FAFSA] application. It’s difficult to fill out and kind of bland; they need to change the actual interface.

ISIAH CRUZ ’17 Storlazzi added that one useful component of the FAFSA is the “IRS data-retrieval tool,” through which parents and students can log onto the IRS through the FAFSA, and pre-fill the form with existing tax data. However, in past years, students who have not yet filed their taxes have been unable to use this tool, requiring them to fill out all of their information manually. Now, students can use tax information from two years prior to complete the FAFSA, guaranteeing that a family’s taxes will be filed by the time they complete the form and ensuring that all applicants can utilize the data retrieval tool.

“Does it mean that families

have to do the FAFSA earlier?”

Storlazzi said. “No. But they can, and it opens up the possibilities of all schools doing something earlier.”

Though Storlazzi did not foresee any issues with students applying for aid with older tax data — people tend not to double their income over the course of a single year, he said — he did anticipate Yale and other schools struggling to align their institutional analyses with the new FAFSA. The University uses the FAFSA to determine a student’s eligibility for Yale aid, Storlazzi said, and Student Financial Services will have to revise its process in conjunction with the use of prior-prior year tax data.

Though Isiah Cruz ’17 said he is encouraged by the recent changes to the FAFSA, he believes there is still work to be done in making college more accessible to lowincome students.

“They need to fix the clutter that’s inherent about the application,” Cruz said. “It’s difficult to fill out and kind of bland; they need to change the actual interface.”

Cruz added that while the changes create a more inclusive application process, they are primarily aimed at students who might be filling out the FAFSA, as opposed to their parents. Most of the time, Cruz said, parents take on the responsibility of completing the FAFSA for their child, since the form is confusing for students unfamiliar with tax terminology.

There needs to be a larger focus on parents, and on making sure the FAFSA is simpler for them to complete, he said.

International students are not eligible for federal aid, but may be asked to fill out the FAFSA so schools can determine their financial need.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

Koichi Hamada

The Arc of Post-World War II Japanese Diplomacy:

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This project is hosted by the Council on East Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center and supported by Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership.

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“But which is the stone that supports the bridge?” KUBLAI KHAN MONGOL EMPEROR

Long-awaited Q Bridge reopens

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTERS To the delight of commuters across the city and the state, the long-awaited Q Bridge is complete — and eight months ahead of schedule to boot.

A dedication ceremony on Saturday marked the conclusion of construction on the bridge, a major state-backed project designed to ease traffic into and out of the Elm City. The project, which began in 2008 under then-Gov. Jodi Rell, refurbishes the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, adding new southbound lanes. Together with new northbound lanes completed in 2012, the improved traffic arteries will reduce congestion for commuters who cross the Quinnipiac River every day and boost the region’s economy, according to city, state and federal officials.

“This is big — for residents, for the Greater New Haven region and for Connecticut,” Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a statement. “If we want to grow jobs, attract new businesses and improve quality-of-life in our state, then transforming our transportation system has to be a priority.”

Malloy, who has made transportation a priority during his second term, recently proposed an overhaul of the state’s transportation system — in the form of a “transportation lockbox” that protects funds designated for transportation.

Although legislators blocked Malloy’s lockbox plan in July, the Q Bridge is part of the state’s most ambitious and expensive transportation project in recent years. The New Haven Harbor Crossing Corridor Improvement Program — the broader, 18-year, $2 billion infrastructure improvement project — also aims to add lanes and rebuild

junctions on Interstate 95 in New Haven and towns along the shoreline to the east.

The new Q Bridge has five lanes and two full shoulders in each direction and can handle up to 140,000 cars a day. Originally intended to carry 40,000 cars each day when it was built in 1958, the old bridge was carrying roughly 120,000 vehicles prior to construction, creating frequent traffic bottlenecks. Additionally, the previous bridge was not fit to withstand an earthquake, city officials have said.

[Opening the Q Bridge] is big — for residents, for the Greater New Haven region and for Connecticut.

DANNEL MALLOY Governor of Connecticut The bridge’s unique design — a hybrid of short concrete towers and cable suspension called “extradoses” — permits airplanes flying in and out of Tweed Airport to pass over the bridge safely. The architectural style of the bridge, used widely in Japan, is the first of its kind in the United States, said Doug Hausladen ’04, the city’s transit chief, who added that the bridge has a century-long lifespan.

The construction of the bridge was largely financed by the federal government, which is paying for 87 percent of the project. State and federal legislators said the project demonstrates the power of cooperation among different levels of government in achieving infrastructure goals.

“This new bridge is a testament to federal and state collaboration — and shared com-

mitment to investment in our transportation systems,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 said in a statement.

But building the bridge was also a local endeavor that city leaders said will significantly impact New Haven — a city responsible for much of the region’s job growth, according to Hausladen. In the last 10 years, the city’s job base has grown by 11 percent, while the region saw a 4 percent decrease, he added. Hausladen said these numbers underscore the importance of easing commutes into the city.

New Haven, with a small airport, a deep-water port and an expanding railway line, is a transportation hub, Hausladen said, emphasizing the Q Bridge reconstruction’s importance to the region. When New Haven’s major throughways are under construction for so long, the local economy can suffer, Hausladen said. But he added that the construction proved not to be a problem and the city instead saw job growth, not stagnation.

The Q Bridge’s reconstruction is only one of many infrastructure projects in progress across Connecticut. The state is currently working on updating the rail lines connecting New Haven and Springfield, Massachusetts — a project that involves repairing 35 bridges and laying 27 miles of new track with the hope of eventually running 25 round-trip trains daily between the cities.

“Infrastructure is a defining competitive advantage of New Haven,” Hausladen said. “We’re going to be able to maintain this bridge for generations to come.”

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AROUND THE IVIES

“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”

HENRY A. KISSINGER AMERICAN DIPLOMAT

THE DARTMOUTH

College ends need-blind admission for international students

BY NOAH GOLDSTEIN AND ERIN LEE International applicants to the class of 2020 will be considered under a “need-aware” policy, as opposed to the “needblind” policy used for the past eight years, Dartmouth College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. The admissions office had been need-blind for international students from the class of 2012 through the class of 2019.

Under the need-aware policy, the financial need of international applicants will be taken into account “as one of many factors,” including academic achievement and community context, according to the admissions office. Dartmouth has been need-aware for international

students fo r m os t of its history, Lawrence wrote, and is needblind for DARTMOUTH U.S. citizens, permanent residents, applicants with refugee or asylum status in the U.S. and undocumented students in the U.S. This change follows two major administrative changes — Virginia Hazen, who had been director of financial aid since 1989, retired in July, and Maria Laskaris, who had been dean of admissions and financial aid since 2007, recently moved to the position of special assistant to the provost for arts and inno-

vation. At the time the policy was instituted, Hazen said that the policy would allow the college to attract a more diverse student body.

Interim dean of admissions and financial aid Paul Sunde wrote in an email that the revised aid policy is meant to help increase and sustain the international student population at Dartmouth. Reverting back to a need-aware policy, he wrote, is only one component of a larger effort to stabilize the variability of international admissions.

Sunde added that the admissions office believes being “more strategic throughout the entire cycle” will help the college do a better job of developing a “robust” and “stable” enrolling class.

Sunde wrote that he believes the issue is not “uni-dimensional,” but rather a part of a broader impetus to encourage international students to apply to Dartmouth and subsequently attend upon admission.

Lawrence also added that the college’s goals include enrolling a varied class. According to Lawrence, Dartmouth hopes not only to “increase and stabilize” the population of international students on campus, but also to enroll a class that is diverse in a variety of ways.

Lawrence also pointed out that only five schools — Amherst College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Yale University — are need-blind for international applicants.

International student Hassan Kiani, who hails from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, said the College did not inform international students currently attending Dartmouth about the change.

Prajeet Bajpai, an international student from New Delhi, India, said that the college’s need-blind policy distinguished Dartmouth from its peers during his college search. He added that he was not surprised that the college had failed to reach out to current undergraduates from other countries.

“I find it to be overall a horrible situation,” he said. “The justification that this policy will bring Dartmouth more in line with its peers makes no sense to me.”

Kiani also said he was disap-

pointed in the changed policy, adding that the shift will make Dartmouth’s community more exclusive.

“So many international students I know wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the need-blind policy,” he said.

Anwita Mahajan, social vice president of the International Students’ Association, wrote in an email that she believes needawareness will discourage international applicants.

“Dartmouth used to be in a select group of institutions that supported international applicants equally as U.S. residents, and that meant an honest college application process, as well as a stress-free time at college,” she wrote. “I fear that that may not happen henceforth.”

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

T H E B R O W N D A I LY H E R A L D

Sophomores court the Spee

Paxson unveils plan for “excellence”

BY NOAH DELWICHE Dozens of undergraduate men, and for the first time women, lined up outside a red door at 76 Mount Auburn St. early Thursday evening to participate in a decades-old Harvard College ritual: the final club selection process known as punch.

Students exit the Spee Club’s first punch event on Mount Auburn Street on Thursday evening. For the first time, the club invited women to punch this fall.

The Spee Club, one of the College’s eight unrecognized allmale final clubs, moved last week to go co-ed after more than 150 years, distributing invitations to its first punch event to both men and women. National media outlets quickly casted the move, first reported by The Crimson, as the dismantling of a significant gender barrier at Harvard.

By Thursday, when prospective members of the Spee visited its Mount Auburn Street property for receptions at 5 and 7 p.m., some of the campus’s original surprise seemed to have dissipated. It was replaced by festive anticipation, as men and women slipped into formal attire to take part in the competitive social selection process.

Alongside dresses in various shades of red stood navy blue blazers and khakis; the Spee’s flag waved in the warm wind. Smiling undergraduates exchanged quick greetings with Spee Club members before they made their way to the club’s courtyard. A second door, a direct entrance to the courtyard, stayed closed for most of the night, although members intermittently opened it to leave, offering a quick glimpse into the elite social scene.

For the prospective members who arrived late to the event, betraying a typical seven-minute

grace period iconic of the College, entry was more difficult.

T w o women in HARVARD purple-colored clothing apologized for their tardiness. Other stragglers followed what became a routine: attempting to swipe into the club but quickly realizing that, as they are not yet members, they do not have access to the club.

They had to knock on the door, try the building’s intercom system, and finally wait a few minutes to enter.

Shortly into the gathering, clangs of glasses and tableware, mixed at times with coordinated applause, reverberated over the sound of ongoing traffic on Mount Auburn Street.

Some passerby paused briefly as they passed the building or mentioned the club as they continued on. “Yeah, they’re under scrutiny,” one woman said as she passed, referencing the national media attention the club has attracted. “I know a guy who got punched,” another passerby commented.

Several students who attended the punch event declined to comment as they streamed out of the reception. One student, after he started to describe his experience to a reporter, asked if he was permitted to speak with The Crimson. To this, a middleaged man in a checkered shirt who did not identify himself said potential members would face automatic disqualification if they spoke to the press. With that, the sophomore departed.

Two women ate cookies out of a red solo cup, as others, likely hoping for a chance to return in a future round, departed the building.

BY EMMA HARRIS President Christina Paxson offered a preview of the changes and initiatives that will shape Brown University’s next decade with the release of an operational plan Thursday.

The plan, “Operational Plan for Building Brown’s Excellence,” identifies four key areas that will guide Brown’s growth: integrative scholarship, educational leadership, academic excellence and campus development. A major undercurrent running through the plan is expansion, including that of the faculty, staff, buildings, programs and research.

Paxson released a long-term strategic plan, “Building on Distinction,” in September 2013. The 57-page operational plan translates the goals outlined in the 11-page strategic plan into concrete actions.

A capital campaign, set to launch in October, will finance the efforts. “The thrust of the plan … centers on the goals and key areas of emphasis that will require fundraising,” Paxson wrote in a community-wide email Thursday.

Paxson and Provost Richard Locke will solicit community feedback on the operational plan at a community forum Monday afternoon.

ATTUNED TO THE ARTS

The plan articulates a desire for Brown to “become the university of choice” for arts programs. One large investment will be in the Center for the Creative Arts, which will be located in the “heart of campus.” This 80,000-squarefoot building will boast a design concept making it “unique in higher education,” with space for large ensemble dance, music and theater performances.

Other spaces like the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts will be subject to “renovations and enhancements.”

The university is also launching Global Arts Hubs, a series of partnerships with arts communities all over the world that will pilot in Berlin. These partnerships will allow students and faculty members to travel abroad and work with leading scholars and artists in partnerships that could turn into degree programs. Similarly, planning for new dual degree programs is underway at the Rhode Island School of Design and local arts institutions and conservatories. The plan does not detail how these offerings would differentiate from the existing five-year Brown/RISD Dual Degree program.

WATCHING WATSON

The plan calls for the transformation of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs into a “top five school of its kind in the U.S.” This growth encompasses new faculty hires in Watson, the Political Theory Project and the Middle East Studies department, as well as funds allocated for postdoctoral and graduate fellowships in centers including the Watson Institute, the Center for Race and Ethnicity in America and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.

To accommodate this growth, and the recent integration of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy into the Watson Institute, renovations have commenced on 59 Charlesfield Street.

The plan also stresses the need for a permanent home for the CSREA, which is temporarily housed in Brown/RISD Hillel.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS

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Students exit the Spee Club’s first punch event on Mount Auburn Street on Thursday evening. Women were invited for the first time.

The plan outlines significant growth across scientific disciplines, accompanied by increases in the numbers of faculty members, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students.

A good deal of growth will occur in relation to the Data Sciences Initiative, which could “establish Brown as a leader” in the emerging field of data sciences. This growth will include a new

research program, undergraduate and master’s programs, Ph.D training program and the availability of “data fluency” courses for all Brown students.

BROWN The new programs demand a “physical center” for the Data Sciences Initiative, which the plan proposes will lead to “success in garnering sponsored research awards and corporate support for data science work.”

To make the Brown Institute for Brain Science a “top-10 research program,” the operational plan prioritizes researching how the brain produces “complex behaviors that make us human” and treatments for brain injuries and disease. “Significant investment in faculty” is a necessary step to realize the BIBS expansion goal, with the operational plan calling for recruitment in the areas of molecular neuroscience, neural systems, computational neuroscience and neuroengineering.

With the anticipated increase in the size of the faculty comes an associated increase in space — the plan calls for BIBS laboratories to be built in the Jewelry District and in the new engineering building.

Expanding upon the recent creation of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, the university’s plan indicates an increase in faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate support and staff at the institute, requiring “both endowment and current-use funds.” The plan also nods toward an opportune moment following the transformation of the former Hunter Lab building into the building that houses IBES — it notes that both the institute and the building present a “significant naming opportunity.”

Turning to the School of Engineering, the plan prioritizes faculty growth, focusing on increasing the diversity of faculty members — both by decreasing the gender gap and increasing the number of faculty members who identify as underrepresented minorities.

Engineering graduate program sizes are expected to increase, and along with that comes an additional 80,000 square feet in the new engineering building and renovations to the Geology-Chemistry Research building.

Finally, investments will be concentrated in evidence-based health care, health data science, early determinants of health and global public health. Proposed initiatives stemming from these areas, in collaboration with the Alpert Medical School and other centers, include an Institute for Health Care Delivery, a Health Data Science Center, a Child Health Innovation Institute and a new master’s degree in Global Health.

EMPHASIS ON EDUCATION

The plan proposes to improve upon students’ educational experiences by “enhancing the undergraduate curriculum,” “catalyzing entrepreneurial innovation” and “supporting innovative doctoral education.”

“Brown will make a significant investment in undergirding the acquisition of core competencies by expanding institutional support of writing, reading, data analysis, problem solving and communication skills” primarily through the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. The Sheridan Center currently lacks a director after Kathy Takayama stepped down from the post this summer.

The Learning Commons will combine the enlarged responsibilities of the Sheridan Center, serving as an educational space in which students learn skills from peers. The Sheridan Center and all its components — the Writing Center, Science Center and Tutoring Services — will be located in a renovated part of the Sciences Library.

The university will continue to support digital education through flipped

classrooms, blended courses and online courses, the plan states.

Investments in entrepreneurial innovation come in a few flavors — most importantly, the creation of a Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation. Though some peer institutions already have entrepreneurship centers, “the vision for the new center is unique within the constellation of entrepreneurship programs across the country.”

The launch of the center will entail several new hires, including an executive director. The center will need to be situated “on or close to campus.”

Last semester, graduate students — including those with the group Stand Up For Graduate Students — called for increased benefits including affordable housing, childcare, healthcare and dental insurance. Last spring, graduate students also protested against a perceived lack of support for sixth-year students. The plan responds to these concerns by noting that the university needs “to extend opportunities for sixth-year students … and enhance their summer stipends” as well as “offer competitive health insurance, dental care, enhanced childcare support and a funded parental leave policy.”

[The plan] serves as a roadmap for the next decade — one that allows us to be flexible and responsive to new opportunities...

OPERATIONAL PLAN FOR BUILDING BROWN’S EXCELLENCE

SUPPORTING STUDENT LIFE

On the financial aid front, the operational plan echoes the sentiments of the strategic plan, which primarily focused on increasing aid for low- and middleincome families.

The university does not currently have a need-blind admissions policy for international, transfer and Resumed Undergraduate applicants. Like the strategic plan, the operational plan makes no commitment to implementing universal need-blind admissions.

This fall, Brown is set to release a Diversity Action Plan, which will state “the university’s commitment to address the underrepresentation and barriers to broad participation of U.S. minorities (African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American and Asian American) and women across academic disciplines.”

Paxson has previously pledged to double the portion of faculty members who identify as underrepresented minorities. The plan builds off this pledge by announcing a “‘cluster hire’ of underrepresented scholars working on related topics or themes.”

Following the move of several administrative offices to South Street Landing in the Jewelry District, several buildings on College Hill will need to be renovated to serve new needs.

Former Provost Vicki Colvin, who stepped down June 30 after just one year in the position, named renovating the Sharpe Refectory as a priority during her tenure. The plan echoes her call for updating the facility, noting that the Ratty “no longer provides students with the dining options expected in a 21stcentury university.”

Looking ahead, the plan remains malleable. “It is also important to note that this is both a working document and a living document,” the plan states. “It serves as a road map for the next decade — one that allows us to be flexible and responsive to new opportunities that, like the ones contained in our plan, hold exceptional promise for Brown.”

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 4:00 PM Chinese Modern Dance: From Stalin and Mao to Now. Xiao Suhua, professor, Beijing Dance Academy, will give a talk in Mandarin, with English translation by Nicholas Frisch GRD ’20, about Chinese modern dance. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud. 6:00 PM Kathak Recital. Charting new paths, Guru Shovana Narayan is perhaps the only example of a person who has relentlessly pursued two parallel exacting professional careers, achieving distinction and great heights in both. She is not only India’s most celebrated Kathak guru and maestro of the present age but she has also become a living legend who has blazed a trail in Kathak. Off Broadway Theater (41 Broadway).

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ost known for its Gothic style, Yale’s architecture exudes tradition and history.

But hidden in the shadows of this impression are buds of the new. Intricately woven into Yale’s aged grandeur, modern art secretly nestles in unassuming corners. Students walk past Alexander Calder’s “Gallows and Lollipops” in the Beinecke Plaza every day, but few stop to actually take note of the bright red-orange piece.

Tucked away in college courtyards and small gardens, these pieces seamlessly blend in, and you’d be surprised at how many there are if you only stopped to look. KAREN YANG reports.

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ROB O’GARA ’16 ON THE FIRST TEAM The college hockey blog on SB Nation announced its preseason All-ECAC Hockey First Team, and there were a few familiar faces on the list. O’Gara, along with goaltender Alex Lyon ’17, were both named as members.

DAVID STEARNS FROM HARVARD TO THE BREWERS The Milwaukee Brewers are reportedly about to name the 30-year-old Stearns as their general manager. Stearns, who graduated from Harvard, would be the youngest GM in MLB, though Theo Epstein ’95 was just 28 when he was hired by the Boston Red Sox in 2002.

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“I knew we needed to get a big stop and there was no way he was going to be allowed to catch that ball.”

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Siragusa ’18 caps fourth-quarter comeback FOOTBALL

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Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 completed 29 of 41 passes for 293 yards and three touchdowns.

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER Despite a sloppy first-half performance, the Yale football team proved its mettle by overcoming a 14-point deficit and defeating Colgate 29–28 in a thrilling season-opening win in Hamilton, New York on Saturday.

The win, though not pretty and marred by costly turnovers

and penalties, clarified several questions about the Bulldogs (1–0, 0–0 Ivy), who lost several key players to graduation last year. Though the Bulldogs were unable to match last year’s Football Championship Subdivisionleading offensive production, they put up a respectable 365 total yards. On defense, the Elis stiffened in the fourth quarter and shut the Raiders (0–3, 0–0

Patriot) out to enable the comeback.

“I said to the staff at halftime, ‘I don’t think we could’ve made another mistake in a different area of the game, whether it’s offense, defense or special teams,’” head coach Tony Reno said. “I think the most important thing is how the team dealt with it. We talk at all times about expect[ing] excellence,

embrac[ing] adversity, and they did.”

The Elis rattled off 15 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to eke out a win over their Patriot League foes. After scoring a touchdown on its opening drive, Yale did not retake the lead until the 3:39 mark of the fourth quarter thanks to a bulldozing catch-and-run by receiver Michael Siragusa ’18.

Siragusa ended the day as Yale’s top receiver, catching seven balls for 82 yards and two touchdowns. Just behind him on the stat sheet were fellow wideouts Robert Clemons III ’17 and Bo Hines ’18 with six catches each, for 69 and 68 yards, respectively.

Hines, who left the field during the first half with an icepack on his right shoulder, was replaced in the slot by Myles Gaines ’17.

“Once Bo went down, I wasn’t worried at all … I knew someone would step in and make plays,” Siragusa said. “On offense, we rotate in practice and we rotate in games. We’re all on the same page and we’re all fluid.”

After the game, Reno said he expects Hines, a transfer from North Carolina State, to play SEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3

Cross country finishes sixth at Iona

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s cross country team came away from the weekend with another solid performance but only average results after its second meet of the season.

CROSS COUNTRY In their third appearance at the 21st annual Br. John “Paddy” Doyle/Iona College Meet of Champions, the Bulldogs competed against 10 other teams from across the country. Despite solid performances from runners new and old, the team placed sixth in the field of 11 teams.

“I thought [Saturday] went well,” Grace Brittan ’16 said. “A lot of people had good performances and built on what they did last week. People just competed really hard at the finish and persevered the hills at the end. It’s another solid meet going in the right direction.”

In her first race in a Yale uniform, Ellie Atkinson ’19 led the Elis, finishing first for her team and 14th overall with a time of 23:00, a time that put her on pace with many of the Princeton runners, members of one of the strongest programs in the Ivy League. Melissa Fairchild ’18 and Allie Forman ’19 ended the race in 34th and 36th place, respectively, with times separated by just two seconds. The Bulldogs’ top five was rounded out by Brittan and Chandler Olson ’17. who finished 40th and 46th, respectively, less than a minute behind Eli leader Atkinson.

Many of the team’s runners did not compete on Saturday, instead resting for sigSEE CROSS COUNTRY PAGE B2

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The top-five Yale runners from this weekend all finished in the top third of a field of 150.

STAT OF THE DAY 9

THE NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE SEASON OPENERS THE YALE FOOTBALL TEAM HAS WON. The streak began with a 28–14 victory over Georgetown in 2007, though it pales in comparison to Yale’s 59-game winning streak in openers from 1872–1931.

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“I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round.” MUHAMMAD ALI BOXING CHAMPION

Yale splits series at home FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 “We didn’t let their goals affect our game and we rallied to tie it up after the first half and then ultimately pull ahead by the second half.”

The Bulldogs did not get a rest after the game against Bryant. On Sunday, the Elis took on No. 2 Syracuse (5–0, 1–0 Atlantic Coast).

Still, the Bulldogs were unfazed by playing twice in a weekend. According to Wells, because the field hockey season is full of weekend games, the team rarely plays only one game per weekend.

“This kind of two-game weekend schedule is something that we take into consideration during our normal trainings on the turf, track and in the weight room,” Wells said. “[The team] prioritizes quick recovery rates and high endurance so that we can power through a weekend like this one.”

But the Elis were unable to come away with a win in their second game of the weekend.

Playing against Syracuse, Yale could not contain the Orange’s strong offensive play, and the game ended in a final score of 5–0 in favor of Syracuse.

The Elis also struggled to assert themselves offensively, finishing the second half with only six shots — in comparison, Syracuse totaled 36 shots.

Senior forward Emma Russell scored Syracuse’s third goal, making her Syracuse’s alltime leading scorer. She has scored a total of 48 goals in her career — with six goals in seven games this season alone.

Despite their loss, the Bulldogs are looking ahead to the future. Sunday’s game was the Elis’ last game before starting Ivy play against rival Harvard.

“Over the next week we’ll continue to look to build on the great strides we’ve been making to bring the energy and intensity we have been playing with,” forward Alyssa Weiss ’17 said.

Yale will host the Crimson this Saturday.

The game is set to start at 1 p.m.

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Saturday’s contest against Syracuse proved difficult for Yale — in the second half the Elis had six shots in comparison to the Orange’s 36.

Elis claim first win in 10 games

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

Yale runs at Meet of Champions

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Yale went into halftime against the Bobcats with a 2–0 lead, giving up just four shots in 45 minutes and ultimately winning 3–2.

MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 ever play.

Nucifora was right — the momentum shifted in the second half and Schipper was tested almost continuously by the Quinnipiac attack, which fired off 12 shots. Despite making three crucial saves, Schipper was unable to stop Quinnipiac defender Tobias Esche from slotting in a penalty kick in the 70th minute — Esche struck the ball to the right, while Schipper dived to the left.

Yale reclaimed its two-goal lead six minutes later off of a corner kick from Archie Kinnane ’18. Onderdonk-Snow, one of four players to have started all games this season thus far, struck the cross into the net.

“I didn’t think it was going to be the game-winner because I thought we were pretty comfortably up,” OnderdonkSnow said. “It would have felt different if we had been tied 2–2, but it still felt amazing.”

For the remainder of the game, Yale continued with its settled defensive approach and recorded no shots. But, just when it seemed that the Bulldogs had the match under control, Quinnipiac was able to put one past them with less than 25 seconds remaining on the game clock.

“We should never be giving up a goal when there’s 30 seconds left on the clock,” Schipper criticized. “It’s a bad goal to give up and it should have been a game that we won 3–1 or 3–0.”

Still, despite this mistake, things are looking up for the Bulldogs. In one game, they managed to more than double the goal tally from the previous four matches by finally converting shots on goal into points.

“We got three great goals from Ollie, Josh and Dylan, and I think our execution in the final third was really what made the difference,” Kinnane said.

“We’ve been getting good chances before but just haven’t been getting them in the back of the net. Those three guys did a great job of doing that this game.”

With this improvement comes a natural lift in the mood in the locker room.

Onderdonk-Snow said there was a palpable shift in the players’ disposition immediately after the game. According to Onderdonk-Snow, players felt relieved and happy.

The Bulldogs will next face off against Iona in an away game on Wednesday.

Kickoff is set for 4:30 p.m.

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

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The Iona Meet of Champions course, Van Cortlandt Park, is where the Ivy Heptagonal meet will take place later this season.

CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE B1 nificant meets coming up later in the season and giving some of the younger runners a chance to gain experience.

“I’m happy with how everyone’s doing,” said Brittan. “We have a strong pack of girls. [There’s] a lot of improvement from last year.”

The course of the Iona Meet of Champions, located in the Bronx, is a six-kilometer path through Van Cortlandt Park, a significant route for the Elis. This season’s Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, scheduled for Oct. 30 and a major meet for post-season positioning, will also be run at Van Cortlandt.

Saturday’s race was an opportunity for runners to familiarize themselves with this notoriously challenging course, known for long uphill stretches, in addition to working on the extra distance. The first meet of the season, the Harvard-Yale-Princeton race, is a five-

kilometer race instead of the standard collegiate six-kilometer route for women. For many of the freshmen, this was their first competition with that mileage.

Next weekend, the 10 members of Yale’s team will journey to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the University of Virginia’s Panorama Farms Invitational.

“The Virginia Panorama Farms Invitational draws a lot of really strong teams,” Kate Raphael ’18, a member of the team, said. “We’ll be up against a much bigger, deeper, more competitive field, so I think this will be a great opportunity to mix it up with some of these top competitors and see how high we can finish. I think our team is in a position to finish really well and to surprise some people who may not be expecting a lot out of Yale.”

Raphael said the Virginia Invitational is a major stepping stone for the team, helping to prepare them for the kind of competition they

will face in the Ivy Heptagonals and championship races.

The men’s team, originally scheduled to compete at Iona as well, will join the women in Virginia. Captain Kevin Dooney ’16 said the men’s team chose to sit out the Iona Meet of Champions in order to rest and recover before the Virginia race.

Dooney also sees Virginia as a significant race for the team.

“Virginia is our first major race of the year,” Dooney said. “It is the first chance we have to score points for our spot at the national championships. Our main goal is to get as many points as possible this week.

We’re bringing 10 athletes down so with a big squad we’ll have a chance to get some experience at top competition as well.”

The Virginia Panorama Farms Invitational will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday.

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

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“He don’t know what it is to lose, so I’ve got to teach him something that he doesn’t know yet.” ROY JONES JR. PROFESSIONAL BOXER

Bulldogs win season opener again this year and the team was just being conservative. However, Reno did not specify a timetable for his return.

But Hines’ absence was hardly felt after halftime, a sign of Yale’s depth at the wide receiver position. In 2014, two senior receivers — all-Ivy performers Grant Wallace ’15 and Deon Randall ’15 — accounted for 62.1 percent of Yale’s catches. On Saturday, quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 adjusted by spreading the wealth, finding seven different receivers on Saturday and completing 29 of 41 attempts for 293 yards and three touchdowns.

While the major surprise of the game was the emergence of the young wide receivers, Yale’s experienced defense also showed off its strength. Colgate finished the day 7–17 on third-down conversions and only three-for-five in red zone conversion opportunities. The secondary also prevented dualthreat quarterback Jake Melville from succeeding in the downfield passing game, as he finished with just 6.7 passing yards per attempt.

However, the defense did not force a turnover against Colgate while the offense committed two. Roberts threw an interception and fumbled a ball that was returned 55 yards for a touchdown. Both turnovers occurred in the first half, which also saw Yale penalized seven times for 41 yards.

Yale flexed its offensive power on its first possession of the day, driving 70 yards before handing the ball off to running back Candler Rich ’17, who barreled into the end zone from a yard out.

The Bulldogs initially moved the ball at will, thanks in part to an offensive line that allowed time for Roberts and created lanes for Rich.

Though Rich made several key third-down conversions, Yale’s running game was noticeably weaker than it was last year. In the absence of Tyler Varga ’15, who now plays for the Indianapolis Colts in the NFL, Rich and

fellow running back Deshawn Salter ’18 earned 95 yards on 28 carries. Rich, who got the bulk of the snaps, averaged 3.5 yards a carry.

The Raiders responded to Yale’s strong opening with three straight touchdowns. On the backs of the speedy Melville and bruising running back John Wilkins, Colgate ran for 82 yards and two touchdowns in the first half. The Bulldogs were unable to tackle the quick Melville behind the line, and although members of the defensive line often got their hands on Wilkins, they were unable to bring him down at first contact.

“We knew going into halftime that we weren’t playing well,” defensive back and kick returner Jason Alessi ’18 said. “They were playing pretty good but we were hurting ourselves. They didn’t earn anything in that first half.

We just dug deep that second half, kept battling, and came out tough.”

Yale came out after the intermission looking more like the team that started the game rather than the one that allowed 21 unanswered points. Though Colgate started the second half with the ball, it was unable to convert a 14-play, 53-yard drive into points after its drive ended with a field goal attempt bouncing off the outstretched hand of safety Foye Oluokun ’17. It was Oluokun’s second blocked field goal of the day.

The blocked field goal gave Yale the momentum it needed to drive 62 yards and score the team’s first touchdown in the second half. Thanks in part to back-to-back 15-yard penalties called on Colgate, Roberts was able to find Siragusa in the back of the end zone from four yards out.

The Raiders, who began alternating carries between Wilkins and James Holland, came right back with seven of their own points on a long 14-play drive that ate up 7:43 of the clock.

At this point, down 28–14 with 10 minutes to play, Yale unveiled an aerial attack that answered any remaining ques-

On Saturday, the Ivy League kicked off its 2015 season two weeks after the majority of Division I programs. Every Ancient Eight team played an out-of-conference foe in its debut, with half walking away with a win. Interestingly, last season’s top four teams — Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale and Princeton — won, while the bottom four opened with losses.

Brown (0–1, 0–0 Ivy) defeated

by Bryant, 20–16

The Bears’ offense outgained the Bulldogs’ by 128 yards, thanks to quarterback Marcus Fuller’s 403 yards, but handed Bryant the game. Though leading by 10 by the end of the first quarter, the Bears’ three lost fumbles, along with two interceptions, proved crucial.

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Columbia (0–1, 0–0 Ivy) defeated by Fordham, 44–24

Quarterback Jake Melville, who totaled 59 rushing yards, scored his lone touchdown on this 20-yard scamper in the second quarter. tions about the young receiving corps’ abilities. Three players — tight end Sebastian Little ’16, Siragusa and Gaines — caught passes on the drive before Roberts lofted a 30-yard touchdown pass down the right sideline to a fourth target, Clemons.

Now behind by eight points, Reno made the unorthodox decision to go for a two-point conversion rather than kick an extra point. The team lined up in an unusual formation, and after the Colgate defense appeared unprepared, linebacker Matthew Oplinger ’18 took the direct snap and carried the ball into the end zone.

“We tried that formation in the first half, that was something we put together,” Reno said. “We like that formation a lot and we wanted to see how they lined up to it again. Sometimes they don’t

line up the same way twice, and they didn’t, so we just took advantage of it.”

On the ensuing Colgate possession, Yale tightened its defense. The Raiders moved the ball only four yards before the Eli offense retook the field with five-and-a-half minutes left and a six-point deficit.

Yet Roberts and company needed only 1:54. Aided by a holding call against the Raiders, Yale quickly moved the ball into the red zone before Roberts found Siragusa on a quick slant.

Siragusa ran through two Raiders, dragging one of them into the end zone with him.

“I just caught the ball and [the Colgate defender] hit me low,” Siragusa said. “During practice, we do a ball security [drill] where we run and every five yards put a hand down. I think that helped.”

The Lions have not won a game since Nov. 10, 2012, and Saturday did not break that streak. Al Bagnoli’s first career contest as Columbia’s coach was marred by a poor showing from his secondary. Despite Florida transfer quarterback Skyler Mornhinweg completing 84 percent of his passes, the Lions were unable to find the end zone. Still, there is reason to celebrate in Morningside Heights: last season, Fordham won, 49–7.

The defense sealed the win by holding Colgate to five yards on its final possession. The defensive line continued to stuff the run, and the Raiders’ hope at a comeback ended when cornerback Spencer Rymiszewski ’17, back after sustaining a spinal concussion in a game against Penn last season, batted down a pass on a key third-and-seven in Colgate’s final drive.

“I knew we needed to get a big stop and there was no way he was going to be allowed to catch that ball, so I read it and made a play,” Rymiszewski said.

The Bulldogs face their next test on Saturday when they welcome Cornell to the Yale Bowl for Yale’s first home game of the season. Kickoff is at 1 p.m.

Cornell (0–1, 0–0 Ivy) defeated

by Bucknell, 19–14 Cornell lost

a heartbreaker to Bucknell on Saturday when the Bison, down by four, scored nine points in the last two minutes of the game to shock the Big Red. The gamewinning touchdown came when Bison quarterback R.J. Nitti found a wide receiver in the end zone on fourth-and-10 with 1:59 to play. Cornell quarterback Robert Samborn then threw an interception on the ensuing drive.

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Innovative offense key to win

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Though the Yale football team did not look completely polished in its 29–28 win over Colgate on Saturday, the Bulldogs executed just enough plays, both offensively and defensively, to erase a

14-point deficit and secure a 1–0 start to the season. Two of those plays, a two-point conversion by linebacker Matt Oplinger ’18 and the game-winning touchdown reception by wide receiver Michael Siragusa ’18, involved interesting play calls and were absolutely critical to the ulti-

mate victory.

RISK AND REWARD

After a touchdown reception by wideout Robert Clemons III ’17 with 7:19 remaining in the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs were down 28–20. A successful extra point from kicker Bryan

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The Big Green’s three captains — quarterback Dalyn Williams, wide receiver Ryan McManus and linebacker Will McNamara — gave the Hoyas a solid beating. Williams was the game’s leading rusher; McManus lead Dartmouth receivers with 65 yards while racking up 102 yards on just three punt returns; and McNamara tallied an interception and six tackles.

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That final touchdown came shortly after a stop by Yale’s defense on a 13-yard reception by Siragusa. The sophomore, now serving as a starting wide receiver, led receivers with seven receptions for 82 yards after catching that many passes throughout the entire 2014 season. Siragusa was effective at gaining ground after his catches Harvard (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) throughout the game, and that ability was a key to the gameover Rhode Island, 41–10 winning score late in the fourth Crimson quarterback Scott Hosch, named the starter on quarter.

Wednesday after challenger Joe Siragusa’s catch was the result Viviano broke his foot, passed of a three-pronged option play for 336 yards and three scores in in which a shotgun run, quarhis seventh career start. With its terback bootleg and screen pass 15th consecutive win, Harvard were all threats to the defense. extended its FCS-leading With running back Candler Rich winning streak. The victory was ’17 lined up to his left, Roberts not surprising, as Rhode Island took the snap and immediately has not ended a season above began reading the left side of the 0.500 since 2002. defensive line.

Roberts elected to fake the handoff to Rich, who cut to the Penn (0–1, 0–0 Ivy) defeated right of the line, leaving himself with the option of taking the ball

by Lehigh, 42–21 Penn was the only Ivy team to himself around the left tackle play a future Yale opponent, as or passing. Roberts moved forthe Bulldogs travel to take on ward just enough to keep Colon Oct. 3. Lehigh held gate’s left end on his toes, leav- Line ofLehigh scrimmage the ball for 13 more minutes ing Siragusa open for a quick than the Quakers and made the screen pass to the left. Siramost of its time of possession, gusa had two defenders to avoid racking up 495 yards on on his side of the field, one of last season’s sixth-ranked whom was blocked successfully defense in the Ivy League. The by tight end Stephen Buric ’16.

Mountain Hawks also rushed Colgate defensive back Chris 50 times for 245 yards and three Morgan attempted to tackle Sirtouchdowns. agusa down low, but this was not enough to get more than Siragusa’s hand on the ground.

Siragusa continued advancing Princeton (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) over toward the end zone and evenLafayette, 40–7 tually bowled over safety Keyon With its victory over the Leopards, Princeton won its Washington into the end zone. opening game for the first Following an extra point from time in eight years. The Tigers Holmes, Yale needed just one moved the ball at will against defensive stop to seal the vicLafayette, running for 308 tory. The defense took care of its yards en route to an Ivy Leaguerole in the final minutes, allowleading 573 yard day on offense. ing the Bulldogs to walk away Quarterback Chad Kanoff made with a win in their first game of an impressive collegiate debut, the season. going 20-for-31 for 256 yards and a score.

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Holmes ’17 would have ensured that another touchdown would tie the score. That was certainly an option that Yale was considering at the time, but the swinging gate formation, which head coach Tony Reno has made a consistent part of Yale’s special teams strategy, allowed for a better play.

The swinging gate formation, often used in extra point situations, involves an unconventional positioning strategy in which many blockers on the field goal unit initially line up off to the side, isolating just two or three players behind the long snapper. The eligible receivers near the sideline force the defense to cover that part of the field heavily, to avoid an easy passing conversion, while it must also defend against a direct snap rush from those behind the ball. With proper planning, the defense can align its players appropriately in order to protect against both threats. In such cases, the offense has its kicker and holder on the field and can switch to a proper field goal formation, as Yale has done numerous times under Reno.

The Raiders managed to position themselves correctly when the Elis used the formation once in the first half, but after Clemons’ fourth quarter touchdown, Yale saw something different. With Oplinger and defensive end Marty Moesta ’17 lined up in the backfield behind three blockers, Colgate had just three players at the line. Left guard Mason Friedline ’17 snapped the ball directly to Oplinger, who dashed easily into the end zone for two points. The three-man offensive line provided wellexecuted blocking to guarantee the score, while the other six players for Yale and eight for Colgate were eliminated completely from the play.

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“I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.” MIKE TYSON BOXING CHAMPION

Men’s soccer earns first win of season

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

MEN’S SOCCER

After four losses, the Yale men’s soccer team notched its first win of the season this weekend in a 3–2 victory over Quinnipiac.

Both teams came into the season having lost their last four games this season. In fact, the Bulldogs — who endured one of the toughest seasons in recent memory last year — had not won a game in their last 10 attempts.

Their record now stands at 1–4– 0.

The Bulldogs got off to a strong start, scoring twice in the first half — with both goals coming within five minutes of each other. Ollie Iselin ’18 hit the net first by capitalizing on an error by the Quinnipiac (0–5–1, 0–0–0 Metro Atlantic) goalkeeper, Tristan Henry, who ran out of his box. Coming off of a long pass from Tyler Detorie ’16, Iselin lobbed the ball over Henry, and it bounced into the net before a Quinnipiac defender could clear the ball.

Shortly thereafter, Josh Totte ’18 doubled the lead with a strong, curling strike that hit the right post before deflecting into the goal, just out of Henry’s reach.

The Bulldogs’ defense also put in a good first-half performance, limiting the Bobcat offense to just four shots, none of which were on target. Yale went into halftime with a 2–0 lead, but knew maintaining that margin would be a difficult task.

“A 2–0 lead is a notoriously hard lead to keep,” said Dylan Onderdonk-Snow ’17, a midfielder. “It was pretty hard in general to replicate the first half, especially because [Quinnipiac] came out a lot tougher and harder in the second half.”

The second frame was particularly challenging for goalkeeper Kees Schipper ’19, who was awarded his first start in Saturday’s match. Before the game, goalie coach Drew Nucifora told Schipper that the first 20 minutes would likely be some of the toughest moments of soccer he would SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2

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The men’s soccer team pulled out its first win in 10 games this weekend with a 3–2 victory over Quinnipiac.

Yale splits against Bryant, No. 2 Syracuse

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER After an impressive comeback and a win on Friday over Bryant, the Yale field hockey team fell to No. 2 Syracuse on Sunday, coming away from the weekend with a split record.

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The Bulldogs came back against Bryant on Friday from a 2–0 deficit to win 3–2.

On Friday, Yale (2–3, 0–0 Ivy) pulled off an impressive turnaround to win its fourth game of the season. For Bryant (1–7, 0–0 Metro Atlantic), this was their third game against Ivy League foes, having previously lost to Harvard and Brown. The match against Yale would prove to be no better for the team from Bryant.

While Bryant started off playing well, scoring two goals within two minutes of each other during the first half, the Elis were able to turn the momentum to their advantage and pull out a 3–2 victory.

“The most challenging part of the game on Friday was seeing Bryant score two goals nearly two minutes within each other,” said Nicole Wells ’16, a staff reporter for the News. “That should not have happened. We came back easily and ended up finishing with three goals.”

Victoria Danby scored Bryant’s first goal at 16:10, making this the seventh match in a row she has scored for her team. At 17:25, just one minute and 15 seconds later, Emily Perryman scored, putting Bryant up 2–0. The Elis, however, were resilient, and responded with three goals of their own.

Roughly five minutes after Bryant’s second goal, Carol Middough ’18 — who at the time accounted for all of Yale’s goals for the season — scored for the Elis, cutting Bryant’s lead in half. Yale went on to tie the score before the end of the first half with a goal by Evagelia Toffoloni ’19, the first of her career.

“The best part of our performance against Bryant was our relentlessness,” Middough said.

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