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CROSS CAMPUS Dog solving crimes. The New Haven Police Department’s newest officer is a chocolate German shepherd named Henry, who is now the partner of Officer Jonathan Wenzel. The NHPD’s tradition of K-9 officers goes back decades to the original “Officer Spider” in 1981. Portland-native Henry was sworn in Monday — after a graduation ceremony from Basic Police Canine Academy, he had his picture taken, signed a document with his paw and received an official NHPD photo ID. However, it is unclear whether he understands his new job within the Elm City’s law-enforcing institution.
DANCE AT YALE NEW YALE DANCE INITIATIVES
GOVERNMENT JOBS
REPUBLICANS
INFANT MORTALITY
Shutdown impacts students seeking federal work opportunities
ELM CITY CONSERVATIVES PREPARE FOR RACE
Race shown to impact infant deaths nationally and in New Haven
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For live dispatches, photos and videos of Inauguration Weekend, start checking inauguration.yaledailynews.com at 10 a.m. this Saturday.
STAFF AND FACULTY MINGLE WITH SALOVEY
BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER
Buried alive? For students
fond of late-night strolls in cemeteries and walking among the dead, the New Haven Museum is now offering Lantern Tours of Evergreen Cemetery. The 85-acre labyrinth of a burial ground has been an Elm City resting spot since 1848 including multiple former governors of Connecticut and U.S. Congressmen. Even the cemetery’s founder now lies beneath its tombstone maze. Tour descriptions warn to watch out for “Midnight Mary” …
’Tis the season. Fall is in full
swing — leaves are changing, as are cocktail menus. The seasonal drink menu at Duffy’s Tavern, an Irish pub at 241 Campbell St., has been rolled out with a number of special autumn drinks. The main item on the list is the Pumpkin Martini, concocted with pumpkin-infused vanilla vodka and vanilla cream. Also on the menu are a Cinnabon Martini, a Caramel Apple Martini and a Spiced Pumpkin Coffee. Pomp and circumstance.
With Inauguration Weekend looming on the horizon, administrators have once again taken the University’s golden, 24-pound mace out of its casing. The 47-inch club was introduced as a symbol of the president and Yale Corporation’s authority over 100 years ago in 1904. The gilded-silver staff features four winged figures, representing art, science, law and theology, surrounding a blue globe, and the shaft is engraved with the names of Yale presidents. Typically, the enigmatic ceremonial mallet is only seen at during Commencement. Treasure hunting. New Haven locals will be running frantically around the downtown district tomorrow in extravagant costumes, solving clues and searching for items. The Urban Scavenger Race in New Haven kicks off this weekend, with the starting line being, fittingly, Geronimo Southwest Grill and Tequila Bar. Teams of two to four will be competing for fastest time, best costume and glory. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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Eidelson leads in funds
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CELEBRATIONS KICK OFF University President Peter Salovey has spent the week before his Inauguration rushing across campus to 27 departmental and staff events. Salovey and his wife, Marta Moret SPH ’84 — pictured together here under the tent on Old Campus — have made the stops together in hopes of seeing as many faculty and staff as possible before the ceremonies this weekend.
Crime declines in Elm City
Less than a month before Election Day, a look into the campaign war chests of the two candidates for alderman in Ward 1 reveal that incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12 has raked in more funds than her Republican challenger, Paul Chandler ’14, but from fewer people. Campaign finance reports filed Thursday show Eidelson with a moderate lead in the money race, with a total of $2,085 since her fundraising efforts began in the early summer. She raised $1,135 in the most recent fundraising period ending Oct. 10. While Chandler got off to a later start — this month’s deadline the first for his campaign — he reported raising a total of $1,510. Both campaigns said they are focusing on raising money from within New Haven, primarily from Yale students. Though a third of Chandler’s funding comes from a $500 donation from the city’s Republican Town Committee, his campaign received contributions from a greater number of individuals than did Eidelson’s, 59 to 46, and in a much shorter span of time. Eidelson’s average donation was $45, while Chandler’s was $25. “Our fundraising efforts have been one part of our efforts to engage with the student community here,” Chandler said. “We did a big push to try to get students to donate, and 95 percent of donations are from people in the city and the vast majority are from students in Ward 1.” Three of Chandler’s donations from outside the city came from Yale graduates and
DEANSHIP AND MASTERSHIP
Mastering the college experience
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Thanks in part to new initiatives conducted by the NHPD, crime has seen a recent decrease in the Elm City. BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Crime is on the decline in Elm City: Since the end of 2011, homicides and shooting incidents have fallen by nearly 50 percent. According to new data released late last week by the New Haven Police Department, homicides in the Elm city dropped 46.2 percent during the January-October period from 2011 to 2013. During the same time span, the incidence of nonfatal shooting victims fell by 49 percent, and the number of shots fired fell by 44.1 percent. Experts interviewed said the marked decline in crime is likely due to several major factors, including effective leadership within the New Haven Police Department, an increase in police presence and a community-oriented focus. “My marching orders from the mayor and the Board of Aldermen [were] to focus on the violence and to bring community policing back to every neighborhood of this city,” said New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman. “And that’s what we’ve been working very hard on now for the SEE CRIME PAGE 4
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ast month’s announcement of the departures of two deans and one master sparked discussion about the role, the history and the impact of these figures within Yale’s residential college system. While masters and deans have unique opportunities to interact with students outside of the classroom and shape their colleges’ environments, their positions require significant responsabilities and sacrifices, both professionally and personally. MARISA LOWE reports. BY MARISA LOWE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
On the back wall of Pierson College’s dining hall hang the portraits of three distinguished-looking men, each sporting colorful attire against a dark background. Trumbull College’s dining hall features a single picture of a man, looking over the wooden tables from above the carved stone arches. Students in Berkeley College face a series of vibrant-colored portraits as they enter the dining hall. In Davenport College, the pictures of four old men watch students as they exit. All of these portraits immortalize the faces of the masters of Yale’s past, although hardly anyone eating in those halls today knows their names. At the end of this aca-
demic year, three more professors will join the ranks of former masters and deans: Last month, Calhoun Master Jonathan Holloway GRD ’95, Timothy Dwight Dean John Loge ’66 and Silliman Dean Hugh Flick announced they are leaving their posts in 2014. Students’ reactions ranged from frustration to optimism. TD student Shreaya Ghei ’16, for instance, said she was upset when she heard about Dean Loge’s departure. Others, like Jonathan Adler ’17, are hopeful that “they are going to find a wonderful replacement.” For most students interviewed, though, the news of these departures have raised questions about the role of deans and masters, their presence within an ever-expanding residential college system, and the
gains and sacrifices that these positions entail.
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From the beginning of the residential college system, Masters were tasked with “setting the social and intellectual tone of the college,” according to Jay Gitlin ’71 MUS ’74 GRD ’02, a history professor who teaches the seminar “Yale and America.” After the number of Yalies spiked from 1,200 students in 1899 to over 3,000 in the 1920s, the growth of the student body threatened to diminish the sense of community that traditionally structured and united undergraduate students, Gitlin explained. In response, the administration imported the residential college model from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, opening its first seven residential colleges in 1933 — Davenport, Pierson, Branford, Saybrook, Jonathan Edwards, Trumbull and Calhoun. In accordance with the Oxbridge tradition, each college was established with its own dining hall, library and activities, and was assigned a master to oversee the life of its students. At the time, freshmen were not associated with a specific college but had to apply at the SEE MASTERS PAGE 6