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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013 · VOL. CXXXVI, NO. 58 · yaledailynews.com

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CROSS CAMPUS In other dimensions, other wonders. Wednesday was the

birthday of Benoît Mandelbrot, a former professor in the math department and a pioneer in the field of fractal geometry.

In honor of the anniversary, the University collaborated with IBM, where Mandelbrot previously worked, to create a fractal design using only the Yale ‘Y’. The image is currently Yale’s Facebook cover photo.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY YALE TO FACE TWO FOES AT HOME

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BUSINESS

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New show put on by School of Arch and School of Drama opens

J. PRESS FINDS ANOTHER HOME ON COLLEGE

Celebrity chef cooks vegan meal for over 100 students in Commons

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Divestment referendum passes

SCIENCE OUTREACH

Yale provides ‘pathways’ for high schoolers

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES AND WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After months of campus controversy around the issue, Yale students voted to divest Yale’s endowment from the fossil fuel industry.

2,369 students voted in favor of the referendum — which called for the University to phase out its endowment investments in fossil fuel companies — and 485 students voted against the referendum, while 64 students abstained and 2,512 students did not vote.

Sponsored by the Yale College Council, the online referendum was open for votes from Nov. 17 to Nov. 20. Because roughly 83 percent of voters supported divestment, the YCC will present a pro-divestment paper to the administration on behalf of the student body.

Baby botanophobia is

apparently a real affliction.

Yale psychologists Annie Wertz and Karen Wynn conducted a new study which found that infants displayed a reluctance to touch plants, a response that might have helped babies avoid toxins and thorns over the course of human evolution. How adorably paranoid.

Sigma Chi Luau? Not quite.

Last night was Sigma Phi Epsilon’s “3LAU’s HAUS.” Sig Ep hosted 3LAU for an “exclusive pre-party” before the group’s performance at Toad’s Wednesday night.

Confessions of an MIT drama queen. A recent post from

MIT Confessions suggests the poopetrator has spawned a disciple. A confession submitter said that he left an unsavory surprise in the drawer of a “friend.” Some advice from one campus to another: keep your friends close, keep your laundry closer.

Your regularly scheduled Clintons update. Sixteen

Americans were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Wednesday, including Yale Law School graduates Patricia Wald LAW ’51 and Bill Clinton LAW ’73. What are the chances that, as President Obama placed the medal around former president Clinton, he whispered, “Good luck at the Game this Saturday?”

A pie for a pie. A United Way

fundraising campaign from Yale ITS kicked off last week with a pie-throwing contest.

Employees were given the chance to throw pies at their bosses. Imagine if you had the chance to throw things at your teaching assistant or professor.

Pregaming Chocolat Maya.

Chocolat Maya may not have moved in yet, but Blue State is now carrying chocolate which comes in a “spiked eggnog” flavor.

The prize of prep. Among the items raffled off at a promotional event at the Yale Bookstore Wednesday night were 20 Vineyard Vines ties.

As if Yale needed twenty more preppy men’s accessories on campus.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1969 It is announced that Yale will have its first course on human sexuality in the spring semester. Topics will include pregnancy, relationships and sexual orientation.

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This extraordinary support … is a testament to the moral force of the argument for fossil fuel divestment.

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Pathways runs and coordinates programs for students to see science not normally seen in school.

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ince 2009, Yale’s Pathways to Science program has coordinated community science outreach initiatives across the University to New Haven area students. Now Pathways has started keeping track of the students it serves to chart the impact of its offerings. Results from one of Pathways’ core programs suggest the program is having a significant impact on college graduation rates and persistence in STEM majors.

JENNIFER GERSTEN reports.

Alumni commemorate AIDS victims

GABE LEVINE ’14 Policy coordinator, Fossil Free Yale

The question that lecturer Aida Behmard ’15 posed to her class in the basement of Leet Oliver Memorial Hall at last Saturday’s Resonance, a one-day science outreach program, was admittedly a tad “philosophical” for high schoolers: why do supermassive black holes exist, anyway? But when Behmard turned from the blackboard to face her students a moment later, it was to a roomful of raised hands.

The hand that had flown up

Two student groups, Fossil Free Yale and Students for a Strong Endowment, campaigned strongly over the past week to win student votes. While Students for a Strong Endowment argued that divestment from fossil fuel companies would render the endowment a political tool and harm the financial position of the University, Fossil Free Yale argued that an urgent need to address climate change should push Yale to take action.

“This extraordinary support, unprecedented among major university divestment campaigns is a testament to the moral force of the argument for fossil fuel divestment,” said Gabe Levine ’14, policy coordinator for Fossil Free Yale. “We are certain that both the administration and the [Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility] will take seriously the over-

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Student organization funds scarce

BY STEPHANIE SIOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Wednesday, Yale alumni officially launched the website of the Yale AIDS Memorial Project (YAMP) — a project dedicated to commemorating the lives of members of the Yale community who passed away from AIDS. To celebrate the launch, YAMP organizers hosted a celebration at the Rockefeller Center in New York City, an event that featured a keynote address by University President Peter Salovey, as well as a non denominational prayer led by University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and a performance by Low Strung, Yale’s undergraduate all-cello rock ensemble. The project itself was founded in 2011 by Christopher Glazek ’07, who began the initiative after learning that hundreds of members of the Yale community had died from the AIDS crisis.

“I hope it will give surviving friends and family an opportunity to collectively mourn and to make the epidemic palpable for a younger generation,” Glazek said, adding that he envisioned the project as a way to “participate in the burgeoning AIDS memory boom [in a way] that wasn’t simply an essay or a book.”

YAMP’s website currently features 14 individual profiles of AIDS victims, complete with photographs, biographies and poignant personal stories from friends and families.

Richard Espinosa ’10, YAMP’s director, said he was immediately inspired by the project when Glazek first pitched it to him.

“I wanted to be part of a community that honored its dead in a way that disavows stigma or shame, to extend Yale’s all-encompassing memorializing impulse,” he said. “I wanted to make something beautiful, and I feel we did.”

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Part of the problem with UOC funding is that the number of student groups has doubled over the past four years.

BY WESLEY YIIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This fall, the Undergraduate Organizations Committee has had to turn down more funding requests from leaders of student organizations than ever before.

The UOC distributes funding to registered student organizations, enabling them to plan events and activities. All registered student organizations are eligible to apply for up to $600 each semester, and new groups are eligible to apply for $300. But Ben Ackerman ’16, chair of the UOC, said there is not enough funding to accept many groups’ applications this semester. Though the UOC had $205,000 to distribute this year, student groups have already requested over $350,000

from the UOC, he said.

The money distributed to groups through the UOC comes from the Yale College Dean’s Office, the President’s Office and the annual $75 Student Activities Fee charged to students’ accounts.

John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources, attributed the shortage of funding to steady growth in the number of undergraduate student organizations.

Over the past four years, Meeske said the number of student groups has nearly doubled — from approximately 300 to nearly 600.

“The funding has increased a bit, but not very much — certainly not in proportion to the growth of student organizations,” Meeske said.

However, the number of registered student groups has recently plummeted, as nearly 300 groups failed to reregister or attend mandatory leadership workshops by the Oct. 31 deadline.

Meeske said the recent drop in the number of registered student groups may help alleviate the stresses on UOC funding, while Ackerman said that the new registration numbers will not dramatically affect funding because many groups are expected to register anew in the spring. Still, as new organizations, these groups will only be eligible to apply for $300 per semester rather than $600.

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OUR EXPERIENCES AREN'T LIMITED TO OUR RACES This statement may seem innocuous, but it is not. It is offensive. In the email I sent in response, I described how their attitude enforces the nefarious belief that our community self-segregates. This event was designed to educate our Dominican exchange students, as well as the greater Yale community, on what it is like to be a Latino here. Race and higher education are themes that have historically appealed to Yalies and they have ramifications that affect all of us. And there it was, in that UOC rejection: These struggles do not matter to people outside each of our ethnic communities.

After my email, I spoke on the phone with the student organizations director of the YCC, who seemed flustered and apologized profusely about the wording of the rejection — even while telling me that it didn’t “seem like the most offensive thing in the world.”

I swallowed my pride, resubmitted our application and got approved.

Then, I received an email

from the UOC member who read and rejected the application. In his email, he said, “Please understand that in reviewing grant applications, neither I nor the committee consider race, religion or ethnicity in our decisions ... the event must interest and have the potential to involve a significant portion of Yale undergraduates. Cultural events, by nature, can be targeted to specific communities within Yale, and therefore do not always fulfill this criterion.”

But I think race was clearly a consideration, given how racialized the rejection was.

This panel was not a cultural event. Cultural events are something more akin to the Día de los Muertos Dinner held every November at La Casa, or the Sabrosura show every semester. We never discussed culture in this event, because defining Latino culture is difficult, given how many ethnic and racial groups exist within that monolith. I recognize that our poster and email advertisements weren’t perfect, but was I just incredibly naïve to think that this event would appeal to at least a decent number of non-Latinos?

I love the community that we have built at La Casa Cultural.

I have spent much of my time at Yale in its halls studying for exams, bonding over Cena a las Seis with my peers and rummaging in its library for books.

I genuinely want to share this community with others on campus who may not have that same sense of belonging; La Casa Es Su Casa, as our campaign to increase La Casa’s profile last year declared. It takes a lot for us to invite people into our home — and we’re frustrated that our invitations have been repeatedly rejected.

While offensive, the UOC’s concerns were somewhat correct: The event, in the end, didn’t attract a large nonLatino audience. We actively try to engage the broader Yale community. And yet, we are continuously met with silence and absence. Maybe I’m just disappointed because this event could have taught everyone what it is like to be a QuisqueYalie. It’s not about pitying ourselves for being victims of racism and discrimination; it’s about understanding other people’s stories, knowing that many of us beat the odds to get here, like everyone else.

Last Thursday, for the Yale community, was a missed opportunity.

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uesday night, I was getting drinks with my friend when a new email appeared in both of our inboxes.

Sent from yale.thoughts@inbox. com and titled “A rant in your inbox! : P,” the message seemed at first to be either a prank or an inside joke on one of the fartoo-many panlists I still receive emails from.

Scrolling through, I caught snippets that seemed one part jargon, one part rambling: “yale tunnels into a protagonist mythical space,” “faux-communal mass gathering,” “capitalist mimicry forces.” By the time my scrolling reached the bottom of the piece — where I was invited to “create poetry, create radiance that emanates from every pore of our being” — I was feeling like I’d rather ask the bartenders at Rudy’s to create me another drink, instead.

My friend and I laughed at how ridiculous the message was, took a stab in the dark at who we knew that might’ve sent out the 4000-word diatribe and went back to our drinks.

My reaction, in retrospect, was exactly the sort of sentiment castigated in the email. Instead of engaging in any meaningful consideration of an essay that had obviously taken substantial

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tively) coherent manner, many of the issues relating to life at Yale that we have felt in some vague sense but found ourselves unable to vocalize.

At a basic level, the author criticized the culture that has developed on campus, one in which we leave little room for emotional processing and conversations between even the closest of friends are often ”only a performance of a character learned through the culture.” Yale is a place where we feel encouraged to overcommit and overspecialize — we devote the vast majority of our nonacademic lives to extracurricular activities to the detriment of personal and interpersonal development. Structural barriers exist that, the writer argues, make us “less than human,” though they can be torn down by “sincere thought and a force of will.”

The author, I felt, was onto something. Genuine relationships at Yale have seemed hard to find; conversations on topics beyond class or extracurriculars are exceedingly rare. The cult of busyness reigns supreme— just the other day, a friend showed me his full Google calendar beaming with pride.

We don’t even take the time to process earnest reflections

on our campus culture, like this week’s rant, delivered right to our inboxes. Some were too bored to read past the third paragraph, others cracked jokes about the terminology that permeated the piece. Most, though, just wrote it off as the procrastination activity of somebody on too much coffee and not enough sleep.

Clearly, there are other forums that could have proven more welcoming for the sort of conversation the author seemed to want to initiate. A panel discussion, a column in the News or, ideally, conversations with friends all could have effectively helped to bring the author’s ideas to bear on campus dialogue. But, arguably, none of these methods would have been quite as direct or as wide-reaching as the email blast.

Sure, we might like to think the author wrote the piece while on some sort of hallucinogenic.

But using that as an excuse to ignore the rant altogether only reinforces one of the author’s critiques and perpetuates the lack of genuine engagement on campus.

NICK DEFIESTA is a senior in Berkeley College and a former city editor for the News. Contact him at nick.defiesta@yale.edu .

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HEIDI GUZMÁN is a senior in Saybrook College. Contact her at heidi.guzman@yale.edu .

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time and thought, I brushed it off as something not worth my time.

Now clearly, the rant could have benefitted from some organization, both of argument and of the physical text on the page.

An occasional paragraph break would have been nice, and I wouldn’t complain if proper capitalization and grammar were thrown into the mix as well.

But the author gave readers a disclaimer addressing this criticism at the beginning of the piece: “Please, read this as fragments instead of a totality…. can’t currently bring myself to reformat raw thoughts.” One can argue that perhaps the author should have better structured the piece before blasting it to the student body, but to disengage entirely with its contents as a result is to do a disservice both to the author and to ourselves.

Thankfully, back in my apartment, a friend forwarded the essay to me, prompting me to give it another look. This time around, instead of considering the rant the work of a madman, I made my way through the piece.

While I didn’t agree with everything, for the most part I found myself nodding my head with the points the author made.

As a friend put it, the writer managed to describe, in a (rela-

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A racialized rejection ast Thursday, I facilitated a panel on the presence of Latinos in higher education as part of a weeklong series of events. The Global Dominican Academic Exchange Program, in which 10 wonderful college students from the Dominican Republic spend five nights at Yale, is hosted by Dominican-American students. I thought this panel would appeal to a lot of people. As I looked around the room, I saw some non-Latino faces, but I expected more Yalies to attend. I must admit — I was disappointed by the turnout.

When we had first decided to have a panel as part of the exchange program, we sought UOC Event Grant funding.

Given that the same people frequently attend La Casa events, we felt that this funding would help us attract a broader audience. When we received our application with a rejection, we saw these words highlighted in yellow: “We need more information explaining how this event will interest and involve the greater Yale community, not just Dominicans and Latino/as.”

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remember when I first came to visit Yale as a baby prefrosh at Bulldog Days and got the chance to explore the stacks and its many wonders. I remember that I had begun to feel the “it” factor, that strange sensation that occurs when you realize you’re where you’re meant to be.

And it was amplified in Sterling.

The library stood as a testament to Yale’s commitment to collecting centuries' worth of knowledge and providing it to students in a dynamic, allencompassing learning environment. I was so moved by all that I encountered; it reaffirmed that Yale was truly the place for me.

Later learning that the structure I was so enchanted by was actually built in 1924 took off some of that magic appeal. It was like the moment you discover that Santa Claus isn’t real. Acid was poured down the sides to make the building seem more worn: It isn’t actually centuries old — it’s an impostor! And so, the question arises as to what the continuance of Gothic revival architecture means in terms of community and modernity on Yale’s campus.

As any pep-in-step enthusiastic tour guide will tell you, the residential college system — the heart of the undergraduate experience — is based on similar systems at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Both of those uni-

versities have buildings constructed as early as the 13th century, when the Gothic movement represented the height of modernity. Fast-forward about six centuries later when neoGothic was first introduced at Yale through the construction of Dwight Hall in 1864. With the renovation of Old Campus in the early 20th century, many of the Georgian brick buildings were replaced with the now familiar flying buttresses, rose windows and towers. Collegiate Gothic was slowly but surely seeping into the architectural fabric of Yale’s campus.

The plan for the two new residential colleges unveiled in 2009 continues a now century-anda-half-old tradition of Gothic architecture at Yale. It’s one thing to be emulating Gothic architecture in the early- to mid20th century when the Gothic Revival movement was still going strong. But doesn’t it seem a little odd, a little contrived maybe, to be building yet another set of Gothic colleges in 2013? Robert Stern, dean of Yale’s School of Architecture and the architect of the new residential colleges, explained that Gothic style is “central to [Yale’s] DNA.” But isn’t innovation also central to Yale’s DNA? Shouldn’t we be at the forefront of developing a more modern aesthetic?

Designing a campus doesn’t

require total consistency. Those of us who do make it all the way up Science Hill are greeted with Gothic at Sloane Physics Lab, but does that mean that the colleges we pass along the way need to mimic this antiquated style? Architecture is about taking things into context. Yale as a whole has an abundance of Gothic buildings, but Prospect Street is also home to the Malone Center, the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design, Kroon Hall and Ingalls Rink. All of these structures surrounding the new residential colleges incorporate contemporary needs with an understanding of technological advancements. Curved steel frames, bold glass façades, shuttered windowpanes and a draping concrete frame: These buildings remind us of the architectural beauty possible through innovation. So why, then, are we letting our residential college system be stifled by custom and be steeped in tradition instead of creating something new?

Morse and Stiles, built in 1962, are admittedly considered the oddballs of the residential colleges. Indeed, architect Eero Saarinen said he was exploring “unchartered waters” with their design. So now, Yale has decided to return to charted territory with the new residential colleges.

Think of the message this return to tradition conveys: We tried

an experiment in design, but it didn’t quite work out. Why can’t we continue with more modernist structures? I want something that alludes to the traditional but also incorporates the contemporary and reflects what it means to be a student in the current generation.

After talking to fellow students, I realize half of them say it doesn’t really matter what the new colleges will look like because, realistically, we’re not the ones that are going to be on campus when they are unveiled.

But their design should matter to all of us, if only for the legacy these buildings will create. Do we really want to be known as the college that couldn’t come up with something new?

Maybe the concern is that the new residential colleges, because they are so far away, should mimic the architecture of most of Yale’s buildings to ensure they reflect a sense of community with the rest of our school. But I don’t believe that this sentiment and an attempt at modernity should be mutually exclusive. We can create a new legacy of design — there is no need to mimic the styles of the past. I think we should use these new colleges as a canvas of opportunity.

LUCIA HERRMANN is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact her at lucia.herrmann@yale.edu .

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“Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”

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CORRECTIONS

Transgender activists speak out

TUESDAY, NOV. 19

The article “All Our Kin launches new program” incorrectly suggested that All Our Kin developed the Circle of SecurityParenting model, when in fact they adapted a pre-existing program.

The article “University anticipates budget cuts” misstated the title of Alison Coleman. She is a special assistant to the Provost, not an administrative assistant to the Provost.

Drama meets architecture in exhibit

BY HAYLEY BYRNES STAFF REPORTER The School of Architecture and the School of Drama launched their first joint exhibition since 2007 on Wednesday.

The show, called “Stage Designs by Ming Cho Lee,” features theater set models designed by Lee, a noted set designer and chair of the School of Drama design department.

Director of Exhibitions at the School of Architecture Brian Butterfield ARC ’11 explained that the collaboration between the two schools was natural given the similarity between the disciplines of set design and architecture — both seek to construct an “architectural mood,” he said.

The exhibit, which opened yesterday, marks a departure from the school’s past shows, which have typically been produced by architects, according to administrators at the School of Architecture.

School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern ARC ’65 said Lee’s work is “exquisitely architectural” and unique in its attention to detail, adding that he expects most exhibit attendees to be members of Yale’s arts community.

Lee’s pieces embody a distinct sense of architectural space, Butterfield said, and display a deep knowledge of historical architectural styles. Butterfield said he thinks the architecture community — often the primary audience for shows organized by the school — would find Lee’s work relevant because of the designer’s exquisite craft and deft use of materials. Lee received a Tony award for Best Scenic Design in 1983 and a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the

Theatre earlier this year. He has designed sets for more than 20 Broadway productions since 1962.

“We are all each of us engaged in designing the settings for the drama of life,” Stern said, “We are creating environments for human action. [The exhibit] is a celebration of a talent — it doesn’t carry a message.”

The School of Drama, which does not have its own gallery space, initiated the joint project with the School of Architecture and Yale College to stage an overview of Lee’s work. Butterfield said the School of Architecture welcomes collaboration with other arts schools, citing a “rich interdisciplinary history” dating back to its origins as the School of Art and Architecture.

School of Drama Dean James Bundy DRA ’95 said he urges partnership among Yale’s arts schools, but added that he thinks collaboration between schools has been challenging given the University’s limited budget. The School of Architecture offers joint-degree programs with the School of Management and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, but has not collaborated with another graduate school since 2007.

Stern explained that the school has hosted classes at the Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art in an effort to take advantage of the University’s resources.

The show, which is based on a past exhibition of Lee’s works, is on view at the architecture gallery housed on the second floor of the Paul Rudolph Hall and will be on display through Feb. 1.

Contact HAYLEY BYRNES at hayley.byrnes@yale.edu .

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An exhibition co-hosted by the School of Drama and the School of Architecture examined the intersections between architecture and set design.

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Transgender rights activists and supporters marched from City Hall to the Women’s Table, where they held a candlelit vigil.

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYACK STAFF REPORTER Community activists gathered Wednesday afternoon by City Hall for a chilly, solemn speak-out event in commemoration of International Transgender Day of Remembrance. They then marched and chanted their way to the Yale Women’s Table for a candlelit vigil mourning transgender victims of hate crimes, part of Yale’s Trans/ gender Awareness Week.

Women Organized to Resist and Defend, a feminist advocacy organization in New Haven, planned the demonstration, which began with several transgender activists and allies giving speeches about violence and discrimination transgender people face through a bullhorn.

Transgender rights activist Al Riccio said that disturbing statistics, such as the attempted suicide rate of 41 percent among transgender Americans — compared to the national average of 1.6 percent — often result from transgender people’s alienation from their families. He stressed the importance of support from within the LGBTQ community.

“We need to be strong as a community, mourn our dead, and come together in solidarity to make a change,” Riccio said.

According to a fact sheet distributed by organizers, male-to-female transgender

people run a one in 12 risk of being murdered, and a vast majority of these victims are women of color.

Other activists raised issues of police brutality, lack of medical access and, above all, hate-motivated violence, which they said often goes underreported and underinvestigated. One activist said she had been assaulted four times, once by a police officer.

Other local organizations represented at the event included the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition, Seminarians for a Democratic Society, the People’s Arts Collective and the Food Not Bombs campaign.

The main organizer of the event, Ina Staklo, said she felt demonstrations for LGBTQ rights are often too passive to push for serious changes and wanted this demonstration to be more assertive and solemn.

“We’re hoping to spark an organized struggle to fight back and demand equal rights here in New Haven, which is and activist-rich community,” she said.

She said WORD got involved with the transgender day of remembrance after seeing parallels between transgender hate crime victims and rape victims.

A prevailing sentiment throughout the speak-out was that issues of sexism, racism and classism are intertwined with the struggle for transgender rights.

After several speeches and chants, the group marched down Elm Street to the Women’s Table on Cross Campus, where Yale Trans/gender Awareness Week participants joined them for an interfaith candlelit vigil for the 238 transgender individuals from around the world who were murdered this year. Participants held lit candles in a circle, sang an interfaith spiritual and listened to a secular sermon delivered by Reverend Ian Oliver from the Chaplain’s Office.

Angel Collie DIV ’14, who organized Trans/gender Week, said he and his coorganizers centered the week around this event to recognize the thousands of lives lost to hate and intolerance and to hope for a brighter future.

“It’s beautiful, but I wish we didn’t have to do it,” he said. “I pray for a day when we’re celebrating rather than mourning.”

The group then had dinner together in the Berkeley College dining hall to reflect on the event, followed by a workshop on nonbinary gender identity.

Trans/gender Awareness Week at Yale concludes today with a screening of a documentary entitled “Trans” at 6 p.m. in Room 351 at the Loria Center.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYACK at sebastian.medina-tayack@yale.edu .

Chapel street adds another pharmacy

BY LEO KIM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a David versus Goliath story, the new Chapel Street Pharmacy, which opened on Nov. 2, is attempting to carve out a place against larger chain pharmacies in the area.

Chapel Street is home to The Hospital of St. Raphael, now part of Yale-New Haven Hospital, and several pharmacies, including a Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid. Despite the competition, pharmacy manager at Chapel Street Pharmacy Muralikrishna Challagundla said the small business model will be able to appeal to the local community in a way that larger chains cannot.

“Everyone has their own way of doing things,” Challagundla said.

“There is competition but we can get business.”

Their tactic to deal with this competition, he said, is to foster a good relationship with the local community by providing a more

personal service to its customers.

One example of personalized attention is bilingual service, said Brenda Pizarro, who works at the pharmacy. The pharmacy hired bilingual workers, as opposed to an intermediary or a translator, because it will make Spanish speakers more comfortable, Pizarro said. Some of the older people in the community speak no English, Pizarro said, which means they require even labels to be in Spanish.

Working for the community involves reaching out to local professionals in the area, Challagundla said. The presence of numerous medical institutions on Chapel Street and in the nearby area is one of the locations’ benefits, he added. The pharmacy is attempting to form a positive relationship with the doctors and nurses at Yale-New Haven Hospital, he said.

Despite its primarily local focus, the business does not intend to restrict itself to the immediately

surrounding area, Challagundla said, adding that the pharmacy is currently delivering prescriptions to Fair Haven, East Haven, and Hamden.

After its first few weeks, Challagundla said he is neither excited nor dismayed by the pharmacy’s success.

“I don’t say that we are doing good, but I don’t say we are doing bad either,” he added.

Challagundla attributes this performance to the current lack of awareness regarding the pharmacy. Although it held a grand opening, many people have yet to learn about the pharmacy in the first few weeks, Challagundla said.

Yet, he added that in a couple of months, he believes business will pick up.

Out of 40 Yale students questioned, none knew about the pharmacy. However, several students expressed interest after learning about the business, saying that they would appreciate another local business.

“I think it’s a good opportunity for members of the community to be able to help each other with new jobs and opportunities,” Cesar Garcia ’17 said.

Since the pharmacy is not attempting to reach a particularly targeted demographic and may overlap with the demographic many of the chain pharmacies currently have, working and developing personal relationships with its customers will be a focus, Challagundla said.

The Pharmacy Managers of both Rite Aid and Walgreens said that they were legally unable to comment, redirecting the questions to those at their corporate offices.

Chapel Street Pharmacy is open on Mondays through Saturdays and operates from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on weekdays and 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays.

Contact LEO KIM at leo.kim@yale.edu .

NICK DEFIESTA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The newly opened Chapel Street Pharmacy will fight nearby bigbusiness competition.

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“If we had a consensus, we wouldn’t have to go to a referendum.”

GEORGIOS A. PAPANDREOU FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE

YCC to present divestment to administration DIVESTMENT REFERENDUM RESULTS ABSTAIN 1.18%

DIDN’T VOTE 46.26%

YES 43.63%

NO

8.93% BRIANNA LOO/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Students involved in divestment efforts gathered today to celebrate the cause.

DIVESTMENT FROM PAGE 1 whelming enthusiasm that Yale students have now shown for taking on the most serious global, systemic crisis of our generation.”

YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 cautioned against expecting that the University will immediately take action after Wednesday’s results. However, he added that the referendum proved an efficient way for students to vocalize their stances on larger University issues.

Students interviewed after YCC’s release of the result said they were surprised to hear that over 50 percent of the student body participated in the referendum.

“Most of the time, you can’t get 2,700 students to do anything,” said Alina Aksiyote ’16, who said she was excited by the results. She praised the leaders of Fossil Free Yale for their success, adding that she was impressed by how hard they worked over the past 10

months to create a strong campaign.

The result of the referendum could receive national attention, Levine said.

He added that the vote was not meant to pressure the administration, but instead to show University President Peter Salovey that divestment is “not a back-burner issue.”

I expect the Yale Corporation will make the right decision that’s … not for short-term gestures.

ALEX FISHER ’14 Founder, Students for a Strong Endowment Of 30 students interviewed, 19 said they voted to divest from fossil fuels.

Nine students interviewed said they did not vote, one student abstained and only one voted not to divest.

Several students who voted to divest

UOC funding insufficient UOC FUNDING FROM PAGE 1 is “not the solution we seek to the fiscal troubles organizations face,” Ackerman said.

Ackerman said student leaders have been understanding about the UOC’s financial situation. Still, he said that many rejected applicants have expressed frustration at what they see as negligence on the administration’s part. Without funding, many student groups are suffering, he said.

Though Charlotte Wang ’16, treasurer of the Vietnamese Student Association, had applied successfully for UOC funding before, she said her application this semester for one of the group’s biggest events — a 25th anniversary banquet — was rejected.

Wang said she understands the UOC’s predicament but wishes that the committee had been more transparent with student groups about its financial state and how funding decisions are made.

“If I had known that they would run out of funding before the last application cycle, I would have planned ahead and applied earlier to avoid a crisis in the end,” Wang said.

Ackerman and Meeske said they will continue working together throughout

the year to remodel the student organization funding system in an effort to resolve this issue. Meeske said student group funding will be a priority item on the agenda for meetings of the Undergraduate Organizations standing committee, which includes Meeske, Ackerman and other administrators.

Though students are currently able to opt out of paying the Student Activities Fee, Ackerman said one way to increase funding would be to make the Student Activities Fee mandatory. Yale College Dean Mary Miller rejected a proposal containing this recommendation earlier this year, though Ackerman said the UOC has since secured the support of a top-level University officer who may help revive the effort.

To resolve the larger structural issues of student funding, Ackerman said the Yale College Council will work with the administration to conduct a review of student organizations. The UOC also hopes to review guidelines for grant applications and publish statistics on grant requests to give students a better idea of the UOC’s capabilities, he said.

The last round of UOC funding applications this semester were due Nov. 8.

Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

said that they see the move for divestment as symbolic rather than outcomeoriented. But many students who either abstained or opted not to respond to the referendum cited the lack of information and ambiguity of each side’s position.

Adil Hakeem ’17 said he chose not to vote because he does not know the specifics of how the University invests its endowment. Hannah Gonzales ’16 said she did not vote because she still felt too removed from the divestment debate to make an educated decision on it, despite having many friends involved in the issue.

Alex Fisher ’14, founder of Students for a Strong Endowment, characterized his group’s campaign as “remarkably successful.” While he noted his group did not have the size or the resources of Fossil Free Yale, Fisher said he believes its existence has changed the campus discussion about divestment.

“Naturally, it’s a disappointing result,” he said. “As we’ve seen at other

universities, I expect the Yale Corporation will make the right decision that’s in the interests of the long-term financial stability of the University and not for short-term gestures.”

Moving forward on the issue, representatives from both pro-divestment and anti-divestment groups said they hope to continue a conversation on ethical investing at Yale.

The debate over divestment heated up on Nov. 8 when Students for a Strong Endowment was created to counter Fossil Free Yale, which was founded last year. On Nov. 12, campaigning from both sides officially began, and the two groups clashed in a town-hall debate the next day.

Though YCC referendums are not binding to the administration, they are intended to represent student opinion.

The YCC adopts the position of a referendum if at least 50 percent of undergraduate students vote, if a simple majority of those who vote choose to uphold the proposition and if the num-

ber of students who choose to uphold the proposition represents at least onethird of Yale College. Because all stipulations were met in this case, the YCC will present a pro-divestment paper to the administration on behalf of the student body.

Caroline Smith ’14, who voted in favor of divestment, said that regardless of the outcome, the referendum offered students an opportunity to learn more about Yale’s endowment. She added that the YCC’s presentation of a prodivestment paper to the administration will require administrators to respond with substantive answers.

Voting on the referendum closed at 9 p.m. on Wednesday evening. The YCC released the results of the referendum in an email to the student body at 11:35 p.m.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu and WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

Memorial project launched AIDS FROM PAGE 1 unteers, most of whom are recent graduates. Ilana Seager ’12 said she was intrigued by the history of AIDS since her time at Yale. As an active YAMP staff volunteer, she said she enjoys listening to the intimate stories friends and family members of the deceased share — especially as many were successful in their careers but died in their 20s before they had a chance to make more of a mark.

William Schwalbe ’84 recalled losing several friends to AIDS. Schwalbe wrote a piece for the project in remembrance of John Wallace ’82, who passed away at the age of 29.

“In one sense, it’s history, and history is important — in another sense, I think that they were extraordinary people. It’s important that their lives and achievements are celebrated,” Schwalbe said.

James Perlotto ’78 said he was motivated to join the project because of his role as a doctor who cared for all of Yale’s HIV- and AIDS-affected students from 1988 to 2013. Perlotto added that in the ’80s, many doctors were unsure about or afraid of caring for AIDS patients.

“I hope YAMP has the power to remind [people] that we must not forget the lives that were lost to this

terrible disease and how important it is to continue to work for equal rights for GLBTQ persons and persons with HIV,” he said.

Many young alumni attended the launch event, and Espinosa said he was especially excited by the “intergenerational conversation” that took place.

On campus, Yale community members said they are supportive and appreciative of the project’s goals. Yale professor George Chauncey ’77 GRD ’89, an advisor to the project since its early beginnings, said he was impressed by the commitment of the project’s organizers and volunteers as they embarked to memorialize a generation of people they never knew.

“It’s terrific that so many alumni and other supporters will come together to show their support towards [the project],” he said. He expressed hope that the project will heighten people’s awareness of the losses that the Yale community experienced from AIDS. Hannah Krystal ’17 said she finds it important to spread awareness of the disease, as the AIDS victims suffered not just from the disease but also from the stigmatization around the disease, which caused many efforts to raise research money or general social awareness for AIDS to be suppressed.

YAMP will continue to add profiles and content to its website for the foreseeable future. Espinosa said he will work with his team to effectively use money raised from the event — tickets for which cost anywhere between $125 and $5,000 — toward the project’s mission.

Looking ahead, YAMP organizers said their goal is to build a network of volunteers to ensure the project’s continuity and to provide a model for other universities and institutions to establish their own memorial projects.

Organizers and volunteers also noted that AIDS is still very much an existing issue.

“I hope that people will realize that this is happening now,” Schwalbe said. “There’s still a lot that needs to be done to remember the people who need to be memorialized.”

Espinosa added that he is excited about the launch of the site not because it marks a finish line or accomplishment but because it signifies a new beginning.

The event was co-sponsored by Yale alumni associations, including the Yale LGBT Alumni Association and Yale Alumni Association of New York.

Contact STEPHANIE SIOW at stephanie.siow@yale.edu .

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“It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such — such beautiful shirts before.”

DAISY BUCHANAN IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S “THE GREAT GATSBY”

J. Press relocates

Celebrity chef serves vegan dinner

BY REBECCA LEVINSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

DANA SCHNEIDER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Problems with building safety have forced J.Press clothing store to move from its historic York Street location.

BY J.R. REED AND POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER J. Press, a high-end clothing store that has been around Yale’s campus for years, has moved once again, as the scheduled demolition and renovation of its original building on York Street continues to stall.

Since February, J. Press has temporarily operated out of the storefront at 976 Chapel St., located next to Shake Shack and across from the New Haven Green.

On Wednesday, the store relocated to 260 College St., on the same block that houses the Shubert Theater and Claire’s Corner Copia. Although J. Press was slated to stay in the Chapel Street location for a few more months, Yale asked that it move to make way for a new store tenant that has yet to be determined, according to J. Press salesman Mike Sabino.

“They knew that we were going to be temporary given our construction,” Sabino said. “And they got a more permanent offer with a bigger space.”

Sabino added that recent restaurant additions, such as Shake Shack and Chipotle, have attracted great buzz to the Chapel Street area. He speculated that the space’s prime location attracted another business.

Beginning in 1902, J. Press operated out of the three-story building at 262 York St. next to Davenport College. But after a heavy snowstorm last February caused structural damage to the building, city officials declared the building unsafe, forcing the clothing store to move to the first temporary location on Chapel Street. In the months leading up to the snowstorm, the space was already beginning to deteriorate, with portions of the building and floors sagging, according to building official Andy Rizzo. University Properties assisted J. Press in relo-

cating to the site on Chapel Street, which had previously housed Chairigami and University event materials. After a new, more permanent tenant expressed interest in the property on Chapel, the University helped J. Press relocate to one of its other properties located next to Briq on College Street — another Universityowned storefront that has been unoccupied since the Irish-themed gift store Celtica closed down last February.

University Properties was happy to help J. Press relocate after the building was damaged, Director of Retail Leasing and Marketing for University Properties Carin Keane said in a Tuesday email.

Sabino said that the newest move will be beneficial to the company, as the location more closely resembles the York Street location — a quality he said would particularly appeal to alums.

“We’re very excited about the new space,” Sabino said. “It has much more of a J. Press look and feel to it, especially with the wood shelving and cherry-finished molding. This is very much more our style, and, even though it’s a little bit smaller, we’re going to work with it.”

The construction company has scheduled the demolition of the York Street building for January, after the winter holidays. The delay stemmed from an unwillingness to disrupt the Broadway shopping district during the holiday season, Sabino said. He added there are “a lot of people involved” in the demolition process to ensure a safe and effective procedure.

Sabino and Store Manager Jim Fitzgerald both underscored that J. Press hoped to renovate the building and prevent the demolition of the site — a building many local residents characterize as historic, according to Fitzgerald. However, three different structural engineers all agreed that the building needed to be knocked

down, and J. Press was left with no other choice.

J. Press plans to construct a building similar to the old one and is excited about the potential for a new building, Sabino said. Fitzgerald added that he believes it will be a “much more efficient building.”

Yale students expressed indifference to the relocation, and the majority of students interviewed said that the store is too expensive for the typical students’ modest budget. Of 18 male students interviewed, only three said that they had ever shopped at J. Press, and five said they had never heard of the store before.

Fitzgerald said the clothing store predominantly caters to businesspeople, and that college students only occasionally shop there. While Sabino also said the business caters primarily to young professionals, J. Press has launched a new line of clothing to appeal to college students. The new clothing line is called the York Street line and features more casual attire, such as sweaters.

He said that J. Press differentiates itself from other clothing stores in the area, because it does not “bend with the current trend” and tends to stay classic.

He also mentioned that J.Press receives a substantial amount of business during big events when alumni return to campus, like the upcoming Harvard-Yale weekend, or whenever major conferences take place in the Elm City.

“We’re hustling and trying to get this [move-in] done before the big game this weekend,” Sabino said.

J. Press expects to move back to its original location in one-and-a-half to two years.

Contact J.R REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu and POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

On Wednesday night in Commons, celebrity chef Tal Ronnen served over 120 Yale students a multi-course, meat-free meal.

Ronnen — who is best known as the chef who catered Oprah’s 21-day vegan cleanse and Ellen DeGeneres’ wedding — has founded restaurants across America and published a bestselling cookbook, “The Conscious Cook.” Over dinner and a cooking demonstration, Ronnen spoke about his career, shared his thoughts on the current state of the American food industry and advocated for contemporary, plant-based cuisine.

“Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to plantbased diets,” Ronnen said as he prepared faux-crab cakes with a heart of palm and chickpea base.

He described a recent meeting with Bill Clinton, who has become vegan, and said he has also heard that Mike Tyson consumes a plant-based diet.

Ronnen said the most exciting thing for him about plantbased food is the impact these diet choices can have on both personal health and on the environment. Vegans, or even vegetarians, have a significantly smaller environmental impact than those who eat meat, he said.

Ronnen, who has been a vegan for 14 years, said he first became a vegetarian in high school to impress a girl. However, Ronnen does not entirely eschew meat and other nonvegan options when designing menus for his restaurants.

“We have ‘Comforting Classics’ for that guy who doesn’t want to be [at a vegan restaurant],” Ronnen said. He added that he realizes that not everyone who visits his restaurants is vegan, and so he serves what he calls “transitional” food options to make every customer happy.

On the menu at his newest restaurant, Crossroads, for example, he serves items such as lasagna and pasta with bolognese sauce.

Ronnen, who has also developed menus for many restaurants, said these collaborations often begin when a restaurateur or developer approaches him with an idea. For example, when Steve Wynn, developer of the Encore and Wynn resorts in Las Vegas, went vegan, he asked

Ronnen to develop vegan menus for all of his restaurants. Ronnen said his vegan menus are now available alongside the traditional menus in all of the Wynn restaurants.

Some of Ronnen’s projects have also come out of a desire to make vegan food more accessible to all, he said, adding that he has partnered with Mike Roberts, a former president of McDonald’s, to develop faster vegan food at affordable prices.

Together, Ronnen and Roberts have opened a chain of restaurants called LYFE Kitchen that serves fare Ronnen calls “fast casual.” A meal at LYFE Kitchen typically costs $12, takes six minutes to produce and is a healthy 600 calories, he said. There are currently five LYFE Kitchen restaurants, and Ronnen said the chain plans to open 250 new locations in the next five years.

At Wednesday’s event, Ronnen served quinoa maki and focaccia for the appetizer, followed by tomato bisque with kale spanikopita, imitation crab cakes with apple and beet relish, oven roasted brussel sprouts and a belgian endive salad.

“For a non-meat meal, it is really good,” Olivia Walker ’16 said. She added that most of her meals revolve around meat, but Wednesday’s dinner was an exception.

All 20 students interviewed said this was the best meal they had eaten at Yale.

Despite Ronnen’s fame in the vegan world, most students interviewed said they had not known who Ronnen was prior to attending the event, and only a few knew that the dinner would be vegan.

Besides Ronnen, the only other vegan in the room was Anna Young ’16. Although Young was not familiar with Ronnen before the event, she said she was excited to learn that he was the chef behind Candle 79, a vegan eatery in Manhattan that she called her favorite restaurant.

“The food is amazing,” Young said, referring to the Wednesday dinner. “And he has some really good ideas about getting people to think about vegan diets.”

The first 12 students to arrive at Commons received autographed copies of Ronnen’s cookbook at the end of the event.

Contact REBECCA LEVINSKY at rebecca.levinsky@yale.edu .

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Celebrity chef Tal Ronnen spoke to and cooked for students in Commons on Wednesday.

New program to promote health entrepreneurship

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER Looking to occupy an unfilled niche in Yale’s health and entrepreneurial worlds, InnovateHealth Yale, or IHY, is slated to become the first health enterprise program on campus.

IHY, which has been in the planning stages for the past two years, intends to serve as a hub for those interested in developing innovative ideas to address the world’s most pressing health challenges. The program is based at the Yale School of Public Health and is led by profes-

sor Martin Klein ’86 SPH, associate dean for Development and External Affairs at the School of Public Health, but aims to unite students across all schools in the University with its academic offerings, internship opportunities and annual health innovation competition.

“We want to create a home at Yale for students interested in social entrepreneurship and health innovation,” said Aly Moore ’14, who recently began working with Klein on the program.

A number of entrepreneurship prizes already exist at Yale, but

none are specifically tailored to the health field, said Ruchit Nagar ’15, who is helping plan the first annual health innovation competition. Featuring a $25,000 prize, the competition aims to inspire students to come up with ideas and formalize existing ones, he added.

Klein said the criteria for the competition are intentionally broad, encompassing everything from innovative devices for personal health to public awareness documentaries. Klein added that entrants can even submit proposals for non-profit organizations or for-profit businesses

that tackle public health issues.

Regardless of form, all proposals should be financially sustainable, Klein said.

“That’s one of the things that’s going to be a challenge for these meritorious ideas — to be able to identify a funding source,” he added.

While the first three years of competition will be funded by a gift from Nathan and Margaret Thorne ’76 and ’77, Nagar said he hopes the publicity and success of the first three years will attract funding for future ones.

The initial deadline for the competition is Feb. 15, but Klein

said the date may be pushed back to allow participants more time to prepare their proposals.

Beyond the competition, IHY will offer a health entrepreneurship course starting in spring 2015, co-taught by School of Management and School of Public Health faculty. Beyond offering traditional lectures, the class will ask students to propose solutions to real issues in public health. Moore said she expects there to be significant competition for the 24 spots in the course, eight of which are designated for students from the School of Public Health, eight for the School of

Management, and eight for students from other schools.

IHY will also help Yale students identify health entrepreneurship internships, said Jessica Lopez ’15, who is working with Klein to scope out summer opportunities. Because many organizations in the field do not offer paid internships, IHY plans to fund students, Lopez said.

InnovateHealth Yale will host its first speaker, Ned Breslin, CEO of Water for People, on Dec. 5.

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

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STEM programs encourage high schoolers FEATURE FROM PAGE 1 fastest belonged to 10th grader Joseph Casarella.

“I’m not really learning anything in school about black holes,” he said later. “I definitely would want to find out more.”

At Resonance, Casarella, who wants to be a physicist, was in good company. When planning Resonance, Synapse, the outreach arm of the Yale Scientific Magazine, tapped the database of participants at Yale’s Pathways to Science initiative. Begun in 2009, Pathways aims to increase interest in STEM fields among students in New Haven, West Haven, and Amity district middle and high schools by running programs and coordinating others that expose students to cutting-edge science beyond what they would see in school.

Many universities offer science outreach programs. But Claudia Merson, director of public school partnerships at the Yale Office of New Haven and State Affairs (ONHSA), which manages Pathways, said Pathways is unique: to her knowledge, it is the only initiative in the country that keeps track of the students that its programs attract, from their first entry into any Pathways event through college graduation — a feature Merson dubs “No Child Left Unknown.”

In the years to come, the stillnascent Pathways will have collected enough data on student participation to study the effects of outreach programs on students’ post-high school careers, and better tailor the programs to students’ needs and preferences. The database, which currently comprises around 950 students, has already proved useful as a recruitment tool for events like Resonance, and for matching students to internships in which their database profiles suggest they might do well.

Maria Parente, coordinator of community programs in science at ONHSA, said that prior to Pathways, outreach programs at Yale were “beautiful flowers everywhere, but [with] no garden:” while members of the Yale scientific community were interested in running their own outreach programs, there was no coordination among those programs or means by which to measure their impact.

With Pathways, Parente said, those scientists are able to work smarter, and more efficiently.

“Pathways just makes sense,” she added. “It makes sense for the community, the district, the students, and everybody at Yale. It’s letting us get to know kids, find the holes in our programs, and make better decisions. It’s exciting, because it’s working.”

THE FIRST STEPS

There are many paths to becoming a Pathways student.

Some students apply after being nominated by a science or math teacher. Others enter Pathways automatically as part of a Pathways core program like EVOlutions, an after-school enrichment program run through the Peabody Museum, or SCHOLAR, a free, two-week summer science residency program held on campus.

Students can also effectively nominate themselves. Parente uses the database to find students who have attended five or more

events and invites them to apply based on their demonstrated interest.

“It’s more than just the high achievers,” Merson said. “It’s also the kid who stays too long at the sand and water table in class, or the kid who takes apart the vacuum cleaner for fun. It’s all sorts of people who are scientists.”

More than half of all Pathways students are eligible for free and reduced-price school lunches, and half would be the first in their families to graduate from college.

Racially, the program is representative of its students’ hometowns in New Haven and surrounding cities: 31 percent of students are white, 25 percent are black and 21 percent are Hispanic.

But all participants assume a common identity at the Pathways kickoff. This year, as Yale undergraduates, graduate students, professors, staff and families looked on from tables in Commons, 285 students joined Pathways and became the youngest faces of Yale’s scientific community.

“Their stereotypes about what Yale scientists and Yale students are like just break down,” Parente said. “They learn that [scientists’] laboratory doors are literally open to them at some of these events.

It’s easy for them to see that volunteers are there because they want to be there for them, and that’s a great thing to feel.”

CHARTING A COURSE

Merson said that once students join Pathways, they are “bombarded” with opportunities as numerous as the topics they will soon be studying. The website ONSHA, dedicated exclusively to science outreach at Yale, features 25 programs — Girls Science Investigations, the Yale University Physics Olympics and the science offerings at Yale Splash, to name a few — all of which are coordinated

by Pathways.

“Giving back is practically a part of scientists’ DNA,” Merson said. “But they have day jobs — research to do, and classes to teach. What [Pathways] does is make giving back easy for them.”

Science on Saturdays, a daylong program run by Synapse that holds science demonstrations and lectures by Yale and guest professors three times a semester, is among the programs that has tapped into Pathways to expand its reach.

Synapse chair Naaman Mehta ’16 said Pathways worked with her to plan Science on Saturdays, helping to coordinate administrative details and advertise the program to its student database.

While Synapse was planning Resonance, Pathways used its database again to help Mehta and her team recruit students from the local community. It worked — last Saturday, students who had come to know Mehta through Science on Saturdays recognized her behind the sandwich platters, wearing a Resonance T-shirt.

SCHOLAR, a Pathways-run initiative that Merson calls its “signature” flagship program, selects 120 applicants from students enrolled at Hill Career Regional High School in New Haven and the database of Pathways students. SCHOLAR students live on campus for free during their freshman, sophomore

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Pathways scholars are exposed to many opportunities; one of this year’s goals is to increase the number of students interning with researchers. and junior summers, where they take intensive science classes and receive training and mentorship in the sciences from Yale students and faculty.

But SCHOLAR, begun prior to Pathways in 1998, might be as much a beneficiary of Pathways as it was a catalyst for its development. Like Pathways does now, it kept records on its admitted students not only during their time in SCHOLAR, but until after their graduation from college.

What those records reveal, Merson said, is “extraordinary:” Approximately 75 percent of SCHOLAR students graduated from college within six years, compared with the only 23 percent from New Haven public high schools at large.

Most importantly, Merson said, 39 percent of those students persisted in STEM majors, compared with a national average of 15 percent. Merson said that the statistics demonstrate why longitudinal tracking is important: to measure the impact of SCHOLAR and programs like it, it is necessary to look at whether students’ interest in the sciences continues after the program ends.

Parente said the larger Path-

ways database will be ready in about two years. But short-term studies using the database have been just as useful to the Pathways team. With the database as it is, Parente has been able to evaluate, among many other aspects of Pathways’ offerings, the type of programs students prefer and potential barriers to participation.

Although black and Hispanic males have become members of Pathways, Parente has noticed that they have lower rates of participation in Pathways programs than other students. She plans to use the database to find out why, and is currently in conversation with William Genova ’15, a member of the Latino fraternity Lambda Upsilon Lambda, about starting programs that bring the Latino Pathways community closer.

As more and more students join Pathways, its impact will become even clearer. Merson said Pathways will use the results to improve existing programs, and chart courses for new programs that more precisely match what students want to see.

“In this day and age, there are few opportunities where it’s just win, win, win,” Merson said.

“[Pathways] is a win for the institution of science, it’s a win for the community, and it’s a win for the future. We’re helping the kids with the fire in their bellies, [and] we’re helping to create the next generation of scientists.”

PAVING THE FUTURE

This year, Merson and Parente wanted to increase the number of Pathways students interning with Yale researchers. By using the database to match students to positions in which they are likely to succeed, Parente said Pathways has now placed over double the number of students in previous years at internships.

For Parente, affording students in the community the opportunity to participate in cutting-edge science is critical.

“Just knowing and seeing what research is is so powerful,” she said. “[Yale] is a machine of research creating the things that these students are going to be living through, and we’re giving students the resources to explore them. It shows the community that it’s not us versus them, it’s just us.”

Merson said that interest in further expanding Yale’s science

outreach offerings has been on the rise since Pathways began.

Given a swelling national need for STEM professionals, those offerings will become all the more significant if they can make real their participants’ dreams to one day pursue careers in the sciences. It is an evaluation they will be able to make, in time.

Mehta said she plans to hold Resonance again next year, hoping to give students the opportunities to get excited about science that she never had in high school.

“The purpose of being in an environment with so many resources is being able to share them,” she said. “It’s not just you that benefits, it’s the whole community.”

Tenth grader Paris Mceachem, a Pathways student since middle school, said she talked about nanotechnology and cancer in her Resonance classes — just what the doctor ordered for this budding pediatrician.

“I feel like I can do things and be the one to make things happen,” she said afterwards. “It makes you want to be curious.”

Contact JENNIFER GERSTEN at jennifer.gersten@yale.edu .

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Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh talks to a reporter in his office at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013.

BY ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Trouble inside the Air Force’s nuclear missile force runs deeper and wider than officials have let on.

An unpublished study for the Air Force, obtained by The Associated Press, cites “burnout” among launch officers with their fingers on the triggers of 450 weapons of mass destruction. Also, evidence of broader behavioral issues across the intercontinental ballistic missile force, including sexual assaults and domestic violence, has surfaced.

The study, provided to the AP in draft form, says that court-martial rates in the nuclear missile force in 2011 and 2012 were more than twice as high as in the overall Air Force. Administrative punishments, such as written reprimands for

rules violations and other misbehavior, also were higher in those years.

These indicators add a new dimension to an emerging picture of malaise and worse inside the ICBM force, an arm of the Air Force with a proud heritage but an uncertain future.

Concerned about heightened levels of misconduct, the Air Force directed RAND Corp., the federally funded research house, to conduct a three-month study of work conditions and attitudes among the men and women inside the ICBM force. It found a toxic mix of frustration and aggravation, heightened by a sense of being unappreciated, overworked, micromanaged and at constant risk of failure.

Remote and rarely seen, the ICBM force gets little public attention. The AP, however, this year has documented a string of missteps that call into question the management of a force that demands strict

obedience to procedures.

The AP was advised in May of the confidential study, shortly after it was completed, by a person who said it should be made public to improve understanding of discontent within the ICBM force.

After repeated inquiries, and shortly after AP filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a PowerPoint outline, the Air Force provided it last Friday and arranged for RAND officials and two senior Air Force generals to explain it.

Based on confidential small-group discussions last winter with about 100 launch officers, security forces, missile maintenance workers and others who work in the missile fields — plus responses to confidential questionnaires — RAND found low job satisfaction and workers distressed by staff shortages, equipment flaws and what they felt were stifling management tactics.

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NEW YORK — An undercover New York City police detective pleaded not guilty Wednesday to gang assault in a motorcyclist-SUV highway melee captured on amateur video, as prosecutors said they continued to look for additional participants.

Wojciech Braszczok was lead in and out of Manhattan state Supreme Court by his lawyers, with his hood over his head and a plaid scarf covering his face.

Inside court, he said two words: “Not guilty,” during the short arraignment before putting the getup back on and heading back out. His lawyer John Arlia had no comment.

The Sept. 29 encounters on a Manhattan highway and side street were partly caught on a helmet-camera video posted online.

After the Range Rover SUV driver bumped a bike that had slowed in front of it, motorcyclists surrounded and converged on it, according to investigators.

The SUV driver fled in fear for the loved ones riding with him and ran over a biker, and motorcyclists chased him, pulled him from the vehicle and attacked him, police and prosecutors say.

The SUV driver, Alexian Lien, has not been charged with any crime.

Prosecutors have said Braszczok shattered the SUV’s back window.

Braszczok was off duty at the time. Prosecutors said he did nothing to stop the assault or summon help, didn’t report having been there to his superiors for a few days, and wasn’t straightforward when he did.

The detective was stripped of his gun and badge after inter-

nal affairs investigators discovered he saw at least part of the confrontation. He initially told authorities and his union that he didn’t intervene in the attack partly because he works undercover.

Arlia has said that the window Braszczok is accused of breaking already had a sizeable hole in it.

The detective didn’t know other participants in the rally, which was organized online, and he pursued Lien only to prevent his flight after the SUV ran down and seriously injured motorcyclist Edwin Mieses Jr., Arlia said previously.

You can search every stone in the city of New York, you won’t find any evidence […] of his ties to any of these other codefendants.

RAYMOND COLON Three other suspected participants also pleaded not guilty Wednesday. One, Clint Caldwell, is trying to sever his case from the other 10 charged in the incident. His lawyer, Raymond Colon, said his client is seen on video clearly stepping away, and did not participate in the attack.

“You can search every stone in the city of New York, you won’t find any evidence whatsoever of his ties to any of these other co-defendants,” he said.

Assistant District Attorney Josh Steinglass said there may be more arrests. Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley asked that defense attorneys not copy the video evidence handed over in the case.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 2:00 p.m. Guided tour of the Cushing Center The center features more than 400 specimen jars of patients’ brains and tumors and original surgical illustrations and photographs that belonged to Dr. Harvey Cushing. Sterling Hall of Medicine (333 Cedar St.), Cushing Medical Library.

5:45 p.m. “Colors of Math” Screening of 2013 film and Q&A session with Yuri Tschinkel, professor at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The film’s director, Ekaterina Eremenko, will also be available for comments on the work. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud. 6:00 p.m. Harvard Spoof 2013. A five-minute spoof on Harvard as an institution that will be released a couple of days before The Game. If focuses on a “Harvard Awareness Club” — a fictional Harvard club whose primary goal is to remind the world of its greatness. Old Campus.

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THE GAME

“Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.”

RONALD REAGAN 40TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

A true champion on defense

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Defensive back Cole Champion ’16 leads the Ivy League with four fumble recoveries this season.

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER Sitting at the heart of a tenacious Bulldog defense is strong safety Cole Champion ’16. The Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. native has been near the top of Yale’s leader board in tackles in both of his seasons with the Elis. Going into The Game, the sophomore leads the team with three interceptions and leads the Ancient Eight with four fumble recoveries. Champion also leads all Yale defensive backs with 69 tackles. Champion ranks sixth in the Ivy League in tackles per game.

“Whatever challenge comes his way he meets it,” captain Beau Palin ’14 said. “He prepares the details during the week as far as knowing the tendencies of the offense and then, because he feels prepared, he just cuts it loose on Saturday. He’s not the biggest guy out there, but he’s fast and he hits really hard because he’s going all

out.”

This season, Champion had his best game to date on Oct. 5 against the then nationally-ranked Cal Poly Mustangs. The defensive back had 14 tackles, a fumble recovery and two interceptions, in Yale’s 24–10 upset.

It is not unusual to see Champion’s name at the top of leaderboards. Going back to his high school days at St. Thomas Aquinas, Champion was a three-year starter and a two-time defensive MVP. He left the school as the career leader in tackles, all while helping his team to two state championships and two national championships.

Champion got his start in football due to his athletic-minded family.

“I have an athletic family, so I’ve played pretty much every sport at some level,” Champion said. “I’ve played tackle football since I was seven.”

His father played football at

New Hampshire, and his sister played lacrosse at Tufts. Champion also played lacrosse, playing on four district championship teams, but was eventually forced to choose between which of the two sports to pursue — and found football the easy answer.

The usually soft spoken, though tough, tackling defender said that he models his game on the New York Jets’ Ed Reed, but said his favorite player is former Notre Dame standout Tommy Zbikowski. Coming out of the prestigious football program at St. Thomas Aquinas, Champion was courted by several BCS schools, but chose Yale because of the high priority he placed on academics.

Champion came into a Yale defense dominated by seniors, but quickly established himself as a key figure in head coach Tony Reno’s defense.

“At times [adjusting to college football] was difficult, but last year’s senior defensive backs like

John Powers ’13 and Kurt Stottlemeyer ’13 helped me a lot in the transition,” Champion said. “I came in wanting to work as hard as I possibly could to give myself the best chance to play. I was fortunate enough to have some success early.”

After claiming a starting spot four games into last season, Champion played a key role in the Bulldog defense. Champion enters the year as Yale’s leading returning tackler and is one of the most experienced members of a defensive unit dominated by freshmen. The Elis feature four starting freshman and nine rookies on the two-deep depth chart.

Despite the unit’s relative inexperience, the Bulldogs possess one of the most fearsome red-zone defenses in the nation, ranked third and allowing their opponents to score on just 65.5% of their plays inside Yale’s 20-yard line.

“The best part about our

freshmen is that they don’t play like freshmen,” Champion said.

“Coach Reno does a great job recruiting guys who are going to compete for spots right away.

Because of that I don’t feel any added pressure.”

The Elis hope that this defense, paired with a fast paced offense, will allow the Bulldogs to snap Harvard’s six-game win streak in The Game on Saturday. Last year in Cambridge, Yale led with just 7:07 left, but the Crimson came back to win 34–24.

Champion had six tackles in that game, but has not placed emphasis on last year’s game or any other game as a rallying point for the team heading into Saturday’s matchup.

“We’re focused on this year and our captain Beau Palin ‘14 has preached a ‘one team’ mentality, which includes playing one play at a time [and] executing our game plan regardless of who we are playing,” Champion said. “I

think our fans did a good job of traveling last year, but we’re definitely excited to play at home on our field with our fans.”

The Yale Bowl is expected to be near capacity for the 130th installment of The Game, and the Bulldog faithful will hope that Cole can champion a Yale victory by helping to stymie the Harvard offense, which ranks first in the Ivy League in total offense.

Champion has averaged 7.7 tackles per game this season and will be in the teeth of the Bulldog bite on Saturday.

He is one of the most dependable guys on the field,” quarterback Hank Furman ’14 said.

“Coming from the offense, I have complete trust when Cole is on the field at safety.”

Yale kicks off against Harvard at 12:00 p.m. this Saturday at the Yale Bowl.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

Oppenheimer the center of attention

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER On Saturday, offensive lineman John Oppenheimer ’14 will emerge from the tunnel and enter the Yale Bowl in front of thousands of fans.

The News sat down with Oppenheimer to discuss the emotions and energy that accompany playing in The Game. does The Game mean to QWhat you?

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The Game means a lot to every guy on the team, especially the senior class. Just knowing the tradition behind it. It’s an honor to be playing in it on either side. This is the game that each side is looking forward to all year. It means a lot to every single player … It means so much to our seniors to go out on top.

has your football career QHow evolved at Yale and what has the journey been like?

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I started playing on the defensive line my freshman year and moved over to the offensive line [and then] to center in the spring of my freshman year. It’s started to mean more and more each year knowing that I will have less football to play each year. Realizing how many snaps I have left — it really doesn’t hit you until the end of your junior year — but it’s surreal how your career is coming to an end. I just had my last full practice today and it makes me want to leave everything on the field and since I’ve grown so close to my teammates it just makes me want to play that much harder for the team.

will it be like to walk out QWhat into the Yale Bowl for the last time playing the Crimson?

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It will be very emotional. It is senior day on Saturday.

Knowing that we are playing our last game, it will be a crazy game.

On Sunday we will no longer be

football players and we will never play another snap in our lives, so we want to leave everything on the field. are you looking forward QWhat to most about The Game 2013?

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The thing I’m looking forward to the most is heading out of the tunnel with the seniors for the last time. You get 20 shots to play in the Bowl and there is nothing like it. I’m excited to play in front of 50,000 people for the last time in the Yale Bowl.

is your best Yale football QWhat memory?

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This year when we beat Cal Poly. They were No. 18 in the country and no one was giving us a chance. We flew across the country to play a team that has consistently been ranked. We beat them up in all three aspects of the game and really sent a message with that game.

We really embraced the underdog mentality most and played every play like it was our last. It’s been our model for what we are trying to do this year and for years to come.

is your favorite part QWhat about the O-Line?

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The guys. We are really close.

We spend so much time together and our effectiveness depends on our cohesiveness. We have a lot in common and like to joke around, and I just love to be around these guys. Everyone on the team is close together, but you spend more time with your position than anyone else. I’m sure everyone has it, but it’s definitely evident on the O-line.

Oppenheimer is an economics major in Berkeley College. Upon graduation, he will be moving back to the Bay area, where he will work in marketing for a technology company.

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

MARIA ZEPEDA/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Center John Oppenheimer ’14 started his Yale career on the defensive line before switching to the offensive line.

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SPORTS

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”

ERMA BOMBECK AMERICAN HUMORIST

Dooney moves on to nationals CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE 12 message to the News.

Racing on a 10K course, three Bulldog men placed in the top 50 overall. Kevin Dooney ’16 paced the Elis, finishing 11th overall in 30:28.40, less than 17 seconds behind the race’s winner. Dooney received All-Region honors by placing in the top 25.

We were happy to end the season on a positive note even though we are not necessarily satisfied.

KIRA GARRY ’15 Also in the top 50 for the Bulldogs were John McGowan ’15 and Duncan Tomlin ’16, who finished 35th and 46th overall, respectively. Isa Qasim ’15 and James Randon ’17 rounded out the Bulldog top five, placing back-to-back in 54th and 55th overall, respectively.

While no Eli finisher from the women’s team nabbed a spot in the top 50, three Yale runners placed among the top-60 athletes. Garry led the way for the Bulldogs, covering the 6k course in 21:31.40. The junior’s performance was good for 54th overall, and she was followed closely by teammates Melissa Chapman ’14 and Meredith Rizzo ’17, who placed 57th and 60th overall, respectively.

Chandler Olson ’17 and Anna Demaree ’15 also finished in the Eli top five, recording overall finishes of 106th and 111th, respectively.

“I thought that as a team we were happy to end the season on a positive note even though we are not necessarily satisfied with our season,” Garry said. “I think people stepped up well and we put everything out there.”

Harvard’s Maxim Korolev won the men’s race with a time of 30:11.60, and Dartmouth’s Abbey D’Agostino capture the women’s individual title in 19:48.30.

Because neither of the Yale teams’ performances was good enough to qualify for nationals, Saturday’s action marked the conclusion of the cross-country season for almost all of the Bulldog runners — for every Bulldog, that is, except Dooney. Dooney qualified for the Division I NCAA National Championship meet as an individual by recording one of the four fastest times as a runner on a non-qualifying team at his regional meet.

“It’s a pretty great honor to be representing Yale at nationals.

It’s great to have a season’s worth of hard work pay off and to get a chance to run against the very best,” Dooney said in a message to the News.

Nationals will be held in Terre Haute, Ind. this Saturday. The gun will go off for the men’s race at noon.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

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Three runners for the women’s cross-country team finished in the top 60.

Hockey faces off with gophers WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 very talented up front, and a very fast and skilled team,” Tomimoto said.

Yale is no stranger to tough competition, however, as four of the team’s eight games thus far have been against ranked opponents.

The Elis opened their season with losses to No. 7 Boston College and No. 9 Boston University by just one goal each game, but a week later they fell 7–0 to No. 8 Clarkson.

Haddad said that the team became

too comfortable with its performance after the games against BC and BU and that the wins last weekend indicated a return to intense play.

“We took this weekend to really recollect ourselves and prepare for this coming weekend,” Haddad said.

Despite Yale’s recent success in the win-loss column, the team has seen a decline in its discipline on the ice. Last Sunday, the Elis faced 25 penalty minutes, leading to three Union power play goals.

The Bulldogs will play back-to-

Advanced stats show simple truth

back games against the Gophers on Saturday and Sunday, a common scheduling format in the WCHA. Tomimoto said that the consecutive games will be a good opportunity for Yale to get a victory.

“We’ll be able to get a sense of them playing on Saturday, and that will only be to our advantage on Sunday,” she said.

Haddad noted, however, that the fast pace may cause more fatigue on Sunday.

The Bulldogs took Tuesday off from practice in order to rest their

legs in preparation.

“Having to play that type of game two nights in a row definitely takes a toll on your body, but that’s also something we’re anticipating and preparing for,” Haddad said. “Everyone knows that there’s no chance we’re going to win if we don’t show up to play.”

The two teams will face off at Ingalls Rink on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. and Sunday at 12:00 p.m.

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

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Defenseman Madi Murray ’15 (No. 22) has played in all eight games for the Bulldogs so far this season.

writers and pundits have debated whether the refs blew the call. But I want to talk about something different. I think the Patriots lost the game long before Brady’s end zone interception, and I think that before the Bulldogs take the field against Harvard on Saturday, head coach Tony Reno and his players should take note of the lesson that New England learned the hard way on Monday.

Let’s rewind. With six and half minutes left in the game and the score tied 17–17, the Patriots faced fourth-and-one on the Panthers’ eight-yard line. Here, head coach Bill Belichick faced a dilemma: kick the field goal and hope that his defense could stop the Panthers or go for it and keep the drive alive.

Belichick chose the former option, which backfired on him when the Panthers scored the go-ahead touchdown with under a minute to go.

In hindsight, I wonder if the Patriots should have gone for it. Conventional wisdom argues that in a close game, taking the sure points from a field goal is preferable to risking a turnover on downs.

But this logic is flawed in many ways. In a close game, a touchdown increases the probability of winning more than a field goal. Even if the Patriots had failed to gain a first, the Panthers would have had terrible field position to start their drive. Moreover, when an offense settles for a chip-shot field goal instead of going for it on fourth down, it often has to try and convert a more difficult play later on in the game. This is exactly what happened on Monday night. Needing a touchdown to win the game, Brady drove to the Panthers’ 18-yard line, but could get no further.

YALE CAN ILL AFFORD TO BE CONSERVATIVE …

AND HOPE NOT TO LOSE Some people argue that in fourth-andshort situations, the defense can expect that the offense will most likely run the ball. In response, the defending team can stack the box and prevent the rush. While this may be true, it depends on the offense’s personnel.

Some teams excel in short-yardage situations, while others don’t. The Patriots possess two excellent running backs, Stevan Ridley and LeGarrette Blount, but they are not the Patriots’ biggest threats on short-yard plays. During his regular season career, Tom Brady has converted 88 of 91 short-yardage plays (third or fourth downs, 1-2 yards to go) for an astounding conversion rate of 96.7 percent.

Still not convinced? Take a look at what advanced statistics tell us. The website “Advanced NFL Stats” uses the win probability (WP) model to estimate the likelihood that a team will win a game based on score, time, down, distance and field position. The WP model shows that the Patriots should go for it if they could convert the fourth down 64 percent of the times. Given what we know about Brady’s prowess in short-yardage situations, the likelihood of a Patriots’ conversion was probably above 64 percent.

The WP model also reveals that, had the Patriots converted the fourth down, they would have had an 81 percent probability of winning the game. Had they failed, the win probability takes a significant drop to only 50 percent. But this doesn’t give us the complete picture. Even with a field goal, the Patriots’ win probability is only at 68 percent. Thus, the drop in win probability from a failed conversion is much smaller than it would appear.

Even advanced statistics can only take us so far. We have no way of knowing what would have happened if the Patriots went for it. But we do know that by not going for it, Belichick put the Patriots in an unfavorable position.

Strange as it may seem, the Patriots were actually the underdogs heading into the game (Las Vegas had the Panthers as a three-point favorite), and the Panthers showed us why.

Throughout the night, the Patriots failed to make plays on offense in critical situations and struggled to contain Carolina quarterback Cam Newton, who proved far too elusive for an injury-depleted Patriots defense.

Though the referees made a bad call on that last play, the Panthers were simply the better team. Underdogs can’t afford to take the conventional path and go for the “sure points.”

This Saturday, Yale will take on Harvard in the 130th edition of The Game. And once again, the Crimson are the favorite. If the Patriots–Panthers game has taught us anything, Yale can ill afford to be conservative on game day and hope not to lose. The Bulldogs have already shown on multiple occasions this season that they are not afraid of going for trick plays and high-risk gambles. Saturday is the time to pull out any tricks we have left in the bag and try to surprise the Crimson.

JIMIN HE is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at jimin.he@yale.edu .

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ALL-IVY HONOREES MEN’S SOCCER Five Elis earned All-Ivy honors for their work this season. Nick Alers ’14 was named to the first team, Cameron Kirdzik ’17 and Henos Musie ’17 were named to the second team and Max McKiernan ’14 and Philip Piper ’16 were named honorable mentions.

SARAH HALEJIAN ’15 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The junior from Wyckoff, NJ was named to the Ivy League honor roll this past week for her performances in the Bulldogs’ games against UMass-Lowell and Sacred Heart. Halejian tallied 29 points this week and added eight rebounds and against UMass-Lowell.

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“It’s a pretty great honor to be representing Yale at nationals.”

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Bulldogs take on No. 1 WOMEN’S HOCKEY

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The women’s hockey team will travel to Minnesota this weekend to skate against the No. 1 Gophers, who have won 13 of their 14 games so far this season.

BY GREG CAMERON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Much of the focus this weekend will be on The Game at the Yale Bowl, but the women’s hockey team will also be on campus playing in two games that

have important implications.

This Saturday and Sunday, the Bulldogs will get a chance to prove themselves against the number one team in the country, Minnesota (13–1–0, 11–1–0 WCHA). The Gophers had won 62 consecutive games before

their 3–2 loss to North Dakota last Sunday.

“We know it’s definitely going to be a battle,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said. “Minnesota is not just going to hand it to us.

I don’t think we’re going to be shocked at all.”

While the Gophers are hoping to rebound with a win, the Bulldogs (2-5-1, 2-3-1 ECAC) are looking to continue their momentum. They won their first two games of the season this past weekend against Rensselaer and Union and had earned their first

point the weekend before by tying Quinnipiac 0–0.

Both Haddad and captain Tara Tomimoto ’14 said that the Elis are expecting a faster pace of hockey than what they saw this past weekend.

The Eli defense will need to

Cross-country strong at regionals

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER

SEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 10

JIMIN HE

Fourth and a long shot

On Nov. 2, members of the men’s and women’s crosscountry teams toed the starting line at West Windsor Fields in Princeton, N.J., waiting for the gun to go off for the beginning of the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship meet. But when the race did start, the two squads had mixed results: The men finished in fifth, good for their strongest performance since 2006, while the women dropped to eighth, last place in the conference.

CROSS COUNTRY But both teams were strong this past Friday at the NCAA Regional Championships. Held at the cross-country mecca of Van Cortlandt Park, in the Bronx, N.Y., regionals saw the Eli men finish in seventh — behind only three Ivy foes — and the women place 13th — fifth among Ancient Eight finishers.

“Things really clicked for the team at the end of the season which just shows us that the best is to come in the track season,” Kira Garry ’15 said in a SEE CROSS COUNTRY PAGE 10

curb the attack of Gopher forwards Hannah Brandt and Rachael Bona, who are tied for fourth in the nation with 20 points each. “[Minnesota is] going to be

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Three runners finished in the top 50 when the Bulldogs competed at the NCAA Regional championship this weekend.

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The Monday Night Football game between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers ended on a controversial note. Down 24–20 with just three seconds left on the clock, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was intercepted in the end zone on a pass that fell short of Rob Gronkowski, his intended target.

There was just one problem: Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly bear hugged Gronkowski as the pass sailed through the air, preventing the 6’6” tight end from making a play. The referee immediately threw a flag, seemingly giving the Patriots another chance.

Then something strange happened. The flag was picked up, the head referee declared there was no penalty, and just like that, the Panthers won. For the last few days, sports SEE HE PAGE 10

NUMBER OF PLAYERS ON THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM WHO SCORED IN DOUBLE DIGITS AGAINST SACRED HEART TUESDAY. All five starters scored at least 10 points, and guards Javier Duren ’15 and Nick Victor ’16 led the team with 16 as Yale won its home opener over SHU 80–65.