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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.
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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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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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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.
FROM OXBRIDGE TO NEW HAVEN
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
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s Salovey speaks of the future, he must think bigger than Yale. A crucial issue that Salovey must consider as he charts the University’s course is Yale’s relationship with its city. Funding for programs like the New Haven Promise, while critical, cannot be a substitute for genuine engagement with the city. Levin unquestionably ameliorated tensions between New Haven and Yale, which had risen to near breaking point by the fall of 1993. Now, Salovey occupies the position to elevate that relationship, and we hope the same collaborative spirit that he shared with Levin will enable him to innovate alongside the city’s new mayor. The attitude requires more than a financial exchange between town and gown. Yale’s next era must see further integration of Yale faculty, students and alumni into Elm City life. Efforts such as the Homebuyer Program and partnerships with groups such as New Haven Reads and Elm City Squash are good beginnings. But it is time to build upon Levin’s foundations. Turning toward internal attitudes, Salovey has the pulpit to further incite discussions about socioeconomic inequality on campus, a topic he called our “last taboo” in his freshman address this August. His administration should seek to ensure that low-income students have the resources to apply to Yale and feel no discomfort upon arrival. Every inauguration is exciting. They do not come often, but they bring, in a small way, the opportunity for us to create our world over again. As Yale throws its grandest party in recent memory, Salovey will find a community willing to bear the collective burden of change, and eager to share in the promise of the occasion.
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The Ball in Salovey’s court
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The inaugural celebrations usher in the official start of the “Salovey Era.” President Peter Salovey, this weekend, will set the tone and chart the course of the next presidential term — the most recent of which lasted 20 years. So we celebrate Salovey together. Throughout this week, the community will convene, dance, eat, toast and play bluegrass music to honor our new, but familiar, leader. Salovey emerged as the default choice through a quick and relatively opaque search process. As provost and dean, he worked alongside President Richard Levin to establish Yale-NUS and respond to the Recession. Now, he seems freshly eager to connect with the community. The pomp and circumstance of this weekend will amplify Salovey’s celebrity. We only wish the traditional venue for the weekend’s most consequential event — the inaugural address — had a greater capacity to include a broader swath of the community. When the weekend is over, once the ribbons are swept away and the presidential collar tucked into safekeeping, Salovey will sit down in Woodbridge Hall and return to the real task of governing. This task will not involve soaring speeches and ardent admirers. It will involve mundane duties and days without recognition. It will also require the audacity to disagree — and sometimes disappoint. With the inauguration, Salovey has likely reached the peak of his likeability. But as president, Salovey will not be able to pursue every initiative or fund all worthy programs. Priorities must be set; tradeoffs made; some challenges tackled at the expense of others. He cannot please everyone.
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he invitations for tomorrow’s undergrad “Inauguration Ball” are written in ornate white script. The lettering is superimposed over a black-and-white photograph of Old Campus, then framed in gold. Tomorrow’s guests must don “elegant attire,” and the ball will be held in a large white tent, the kind that presides over society galas and high school proms. After hors d’oeuvres, University President Peter Salovey will take the stage himself. He and his band, the Professors of Bluegrass, will perform — his own elegant attire punctuated with a double bass. Inauguration weekend begins today, and everyone’s been putting on the Ritz. According to an email from my master, tomorrow night Morse students will celebrate with jazz, six kinds of truffles and champagne. Sunday afternoon, I can view the formal ceremony with other undergrads in Battell Chapel, where it will stream on large screens in real time. A public “block party,” held afterward on Hillhouse Avenue, promises fresh popcorn, live salsa and at least one balloon arch. Administrators have carefully cultivated this festive atmosphere. Special Assistant to the President Penelope Laurans told the News that President Salovey wanted ceremonies to be “as
inclusive as possible.” “It’s inauguration week; all are invited,” chirped the title of a Tuesday YaleNews by MARISSA feature Deputy Chief MEDANSKY C o m m u n i cations OffiLittle Fables cer Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93 — perhaps summing up the sentiment best. I hesitate to call this weekend’s inauguration a paradigm for inclusivity. Instead, the administration has spun its imperfect, yet benign ceremony into a shaky symbol for a democratic Yale. Consider the inaugural ball, planned by the YCC with what YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 called “complete” University oversight. With promotional materials that nod at Jay Gatsby and Justin Timberlake, the Ball embraces a big money, high privilege playbook. It’s a subtle endorsement for a lifestyle and universe inaccessible to many, and undermines the spirit of openness supposedly driving this weekend. My suitemate told me the swanky dress code concerns him; he worries he’ll be judged for wearing the clothes he can afford.
This isn’t the only event the administration has pitched as more inclusive than it actually is. The inauguration itself is ticketed, but Tuesday’s YaleNews article has a ready explanation: in Woolsey Hall. “the venue for this ceremony as it has been for six other presidential inaugurations,” seats “will be limited to dignitaries.” From that vantage point, providing undergrads alternate viewing space seems reasonable enough. But although the University suggests otherwise, the ceremony’s current configuration does not maximize inclusivity at all. First, Sunday’s Woolsey location was by no means a foregone conclusion; in the past, inaugural ceremonies were held at Center Church and Battell. More importantly, other Ivies played the location game one better, favoring outdoor venues that allowed for public proceedings. In September, Princeton installed new president Christopher Eisgruber in an open inauguration on Nassau Hall’s front lawn. That same month, Dartmouth inaugurated Philip J. Hanlon in a non-ticketed ceremony preceded by a campuswide cookout. Yale’s inauguration is the sole invitation-only event, but you wouldn’t know it from the way the administration has pitched this weekend’s events as the paragon of inclusivity.
At their core, inaugurations are about power. The guard may change, but the overall hierarchy is reinforced. It seems the University hopes to use this weekend as a public relations tool, but as much as they’d like the narrative to be diversity, a closer look reveals a foundation of institutional authority and one man’s starring role. Case in point: Inauguration Committee chair Daniel Harrison GRD ’86 says the Yale Corporation — which last year appointed Salovey in a process many students criticized as opaque — funds a large portion of the festivities. “When the Corporation turns over the president, they pass the hat amongst themselves to help the community celebrate,” he told the News. The process has come full circle — those who selected our leader will legitimize his authority in ritual. This weekend, toast to President Salovey and the promise of a new term. But remember the inaugural events, and institutional hierarchies, that remain beyond closed doors. The champagne in the Master’s House may be free, but we should end the weekend sobered. MARISSA MEDANSKY is a junior in Morse College and a former opinion editor for the News. Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .
GUEST COLUMNIST RAFI BILDNER
A president focused inward T
he first time I spoke with Peter Salovey, we talked bluegrass. It was at a Yale student reception several years ago when I was visiting my older brother, who was an undergrad at the time. I am an avid fiddler, a huge fan of old-time folk, and had somehow heard about Salovey’s band Professors of Bluegrass. I remember him recounting his favorite songs to me, regaling me with his double bass performances at various festivals. The fact that Salovey plays in an old-time string band says a lot about his character. He’s a warm presence whose passion outside of academics is a style of music that brings groups together, usually in dance. And even more consequentially, he’s part of a band that includes both students and faculty alike. He has established himself as someone who prioritizes community and interaction with students. Salovey’s academic work has also focused heavily on interpersonal interaction. Work he published in 1990 originated the study of emotional intelligence, which lays out the framework for how people identify and assess their own emotions, in relation to themselves and those around them. Salovey understands the fundamentals of human interaction — and he acts on it. The other day I was eating in Slifka’s Kosher kitchen when the President casually walked in to eat with students. This sort of personal involvement on campus will strengthen his ability to formulate policies based on student concern and input.
SALOVEY WILL BE A HANDS-ON PRESIDENT ANNELISA LEINBACH/ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR
As a sophomore still relatively new to Yale, it’s hard to talk personally about what President Richard Levin accomplished. That being said, all I have to do is look back to my freshman suite to see a small part of what President Levin wrought during his tenure: my suitemates were from China, Romania and Russia. Under President Levin, Yale evolved into a truly global institution, which I could see just by stepping into the doors of Welch Hall my freshman year. While Levin’s tenure was largely centered on Yale’s relationship with the outside world, my hope is that President Salovey will focus inward, on the Yale community. Yale certainly needed to expand its brand
— I have heard many stories from alumni who spoke of the dismal state of the University’s finances and its troubled relationship with New Haven before the Levin era. But our new president must focus his attention on the needs of students right here on campus. Seventy percent of those who responded to the Yale College Council’s presidential search survey said that it is very important for the president to be directly engaged with the student body — eating with students, more accessibility and transparency, attending student events. This is the right time in the life of the University to have a President focused on the day-to-
day life of students. Some have argued that it would have been in the University’s best interest to choose a president from outside of the Yale bubble so as to ensure that the new administration would have a fresh outlook on longterm vision and policy. But as I have discovered in just one short year, Yale is a complicated place, and to achieve progress here requires an intimate knowledge of the institution’s inner workings. President Salovey is familiar with the student body, the school administration and policymaking procedures — he will be able to officially begin his term on Sunday without a grace period, ready to enact change.
Salovey is an expert in the workings of Warner and Woodbridge, and he also understands the happenings on campus. He is uniquely capable of bridging that divide. From the first time I met him, I could tell he is a leader who knows how to connect with people and create community. After all, what kind of University president plans on playing his upright double bass for the student body during his own inaugural weekend? RAFI BILDNER is a sophomore in Davenport College. Bildner served on the undergraduate advisory committee to then Provost Peter Salovey. Contact him at rafi.bildner@yale. edu .
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THE BUDDHA “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
The Pregnant Girl I
wonder what it’d be like to be pregnant senior year. Not in the sense of — hm, would it be difficult to take a midterm with a fetus kicking in my stomach — but more in terms of life around campus. I’d hear strangers say in horror-struck tones, “The Pregnant Girl is in my section,” or “Did you see that The Pregnant Girl was at Box?” I would no longer be seen as a soccer player, a FOOT leader, a Branfordian, a writer. Instead, I would assume the all-consuming identity of The Pregnant Girl at Yale. Don’t worry — I’m not pregnant. Nor do I plan to be until I probably discover I’m infertile. I can barely look after my own toenails, not to mention a baby. But what if that weren’t the case? What if a baby was what I wanted — right here, right now? Would it be a sign of senility, a fiery red flag of failure, or The Worst Decision I Could Possibly Make in a life ostensibly geared towards future success? I used to think it was all three. But it’s funny, because you know who actually had a big baby belly when she was my age? Senior United States Senator Elizabeth Bossanova Warren. Senator Elizabeth Warren is
known for teaching at Harvard Law School. What she’s less known for is dropping out of college after two years to marry her high school TAO TAO boyfriend at age HOLMES 19. She started George WashingTaoisms ton University on a debate scholarship at age 16, but after moving with the young hubby to Texas, she enrolled in the University of Houston and earned a degree in speech pathology and audiology. For a year, she taught children with disabilities at a public school, but she got pregnant and decided to be a stay-athome mom, just around the age I am now: in the last months of my first year of legal drinking. Young, Tao Tao-aged Liz — future first female Senator of Massachusetts Liz — dedicated two whole years to being a full-time mom to her first daughter. Then, she enrolled at the Rutgers School of Law-Newark. She received her JD while pregnant with baby number two.
In order to look after both jurisprudence and her tots, Warren started by practicing law out of her living room. This is what I will envision from now on when I hear the term working mom: 29-year-old Warren closing real estate deals and diaper straps at the kitchen table while simultaneously constructing both a property will and a cardboard fort. After a while of diapers and forts, deals and wills, Warren took up teaching positions at a number of universities before landing her gig at Harvard, where she focused on contracts, commercial law and bankruptcy. She divorced her high school boyfriend, got remarried, became a grandmother to some adorable halfIndian grandchildren, wrote a few books and then ran against a former underwear model for the Massachusetts Senate. In fall 2013, I find myself at latenight sushi with my seven-member suite discussing a punny theme for our next party. In fall 1971, 22-yearold Elizabeth Warren was at home taking care of a living, breathing, drooling baby. Maybe she had learned that prime baby-bearing age, evolutionary-biologically speaking, is between 20 and 24 or
so. (In other words, I’m in the smack dab middle of it slash it’s almost over.) Maybe the condom broke. Or maybe, she was just doing what she knew she needed to do to be happy. Some folks say that when you go down one path, you close certain doors. But no one says that any of the doors lock. Doors can be reopened. Senator Warren is proof of that — whether you support her as a politician or not. As we edge closer and closer to the end of our time at Yale, many of us tend to think of certain choices closing certain doors. I imagine that the choice to pop out a living, breathing, drooling baby would be seen as the most disastrously door-closing of them all. It certainly makes the decision between moving to Chicago or spending a year in Brazil seem pretty inconsequential. So as for The Pregnant Girl? Don’t rule her out. She might just end up as your first female senator, or even president. She might have no problems reopening closed doors — and neither should we. TAO TAO HOLMES is a senior in Branford College. Her column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact her at taotao. holmes@yale.edu .
GUEST COLUMNIST DENZIL BERNARD
Chance for Spring Fling D
o you like to dance? Do you enjoy endless good vibes? Do you appreciate unique, unrivaled talent? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’ll love Chance the Rapper. Even if you said no to all of these questions — well, I at least hope you like to dance — here's why you should bring him to Spring Fling. Last year, only a select few pockets of Yalies really knew Macklemore & Ryan Lewis when the Spring Fling Committee picked him. Many of you will find yourselves in the same position with regards to Chance. But as we saw, Macklemore rose in stature, and talent is talent. Once you get on the wave early, you can only ascend to higher heights. Chance is riding that wave, and I think we should be right up there with him. Rolling Stone named him 2013’s “Hot MC.” Chance has an indescribable energy, a positive, energizing vibe that permeates through the audience. He is a stubborn perfectionist developing and honing his craft, putting out music that both challenges and rewards its listeners. He surrounds himself with great management, great production, and a close circle of friends that keep him humble and striving for more. A meticulous wordsmith and creative prodigy, Chancellor Bennett hails from Chicago’s Southside, a home he reps fiercely and proudly. Chicago is one of Chance’s major inspirations for his music; he draws from Chicago’s deeply rooted Jazz influence and its startling socioeconomic reality. Very much aware of his circumstance, Chance invokes the passion of his city, and channels the energy into his art and performance. The culmination of his experiences come full force when he hits the stage.
WE NEED A TASTE OF CHICAGO AT OUR BIGGEST CONCERT
ANNELISA LEINBACH/ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR
GUEST COLUMNIST PHIL WILKINSON
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he school was hidden in the mountains of southern China. I stood there in front of 700 seniors from Qingyuan High School, trying to conjure up the inner John Gaddis in me as I lectured. I used the Chinese I had practiced over the summer to describe my life from high school dances to classes at Yale. I’ve been living in Asia since May 2013. While here, I have gone on a summer tour with my a cappella group, the Spizzwinks(?), participated in the Light Fellowship at the Harvard Beijing Academy, lead a Yale Building Bridges teaching excursion to the Zhejiang Province and visited Yale-NUS in Singapore. I’m spending the last leg of my Fellowship back in Beijing with Associated Colleges in China’s fall semester Chinese language program. Since my freshman year of high school, I had dreamed of living in Asia in the hopes of better understanding the Far East. Now I’m getting to do so, fully funded through Yale’s Light Fellowship. Living abroad is an experience every Yalie should seriously consider and, with the abundant sources of funding available, something we should start searching for early on in our college
Never don't go careers. Making the final decision to apply for a summer and semester leave of absence was not easy because of how deeply my first year at Yale had impacted me. I had found passionate, caring and like-minded friends, taken classes with worldrenowned professors, listened to famous speakers, played cello in the Yale Symphony Orchestra, given tours to prospective students and lived in dorms that rivaled those at Hogwarts. I struggled to think about putting any of this on hold, even for a semester. I started to change my mind when I had a discussion with my admissions officer who had studied abroad in China for a semester during his time at Yale. He told me a fully funded experience was something I shouldn’t miss out on. Though I had hesitated to make a decision that would prevent me from receiving my diploma with the class of 2016, my admissions officer and the upperclassman I spoke with assured me that would become less of a mental obstacle the older I get. Our motto in the Spizzwinks(?) is ”Never Don’t Go.” Though it is grammatically suspect, it is a mantra
that we hold dear during our three years singing together. The phrase instructs us to live for the moment and experience life to the fullest. With this little phrase in my head, I took the plunge and applied. I encourage everyone back at Yale, especially those who have just arrived, to do something unprecedented with your college career. Any experience abroad will deeply influence your perspective on the world in ways studying within the confines of Yale’s campus cannot. Yale gives us the resources and funding to enrich our perspectives through worldwide experiential education. Look into the Center for International and Professional Experience’s Fellowship database and inquire upperclassmen about their experiences abroad as early as possible. Deciding what path you want to take can require a long period of personal reflection. And while reflecting, it’s important to remember not to measure our personal successes against those of our peers. Everyone must find their own routes to fulfillment while in college. After we graduate from Yale, it will be difficult to find opportunities to travel abroad for the sole purpose
of enriching our studies without having to worry about where we’ll get the money to pay rent or buy coffee. Many Yale students decide to spend just one summer abroad, thinking that will suffice. But I'm so glad I decided to stay here for an entire semester — there's just too much to experience in China to stay here for only a period of two months. I’ll never forget what it was like to stand up behind that podium in Qingyuan High School in front of hundreds of students and share with them a bit of my life. I’ll never forget how they screamed my name, snapped my picture and asked for my autograph. I’ll never forget driving around to their houses and speaking with them and their families in Chinese. I’ll always hold on to the presents they gave me along with the cards and the emails they continue to write to me telling me how I inspired them. And I’ll never forget the mantra I followed this semester, and one I’ll pass on to all of my peers at Yale: never don’t go. PHIL WILKINSON is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College currently studying in Beijing. Contact him at phillip.wilkinson@yale.edu .
Chance performed his first show in New York this summer, and it was easily one of my fondest memories of the year. As the clock snuck closer toward his set time, the buzz of energy in the crowd slowly gave way to a vocal uproar: “We want Chance! We want Chance!” We were answered. Infectious church piano keys and booming bass screamed from the sound system as our eyes anxiously flitted about the room, searching for Chance. Then, after being escorted by a bodyguard, Chance all but skidded onto the set, and in one fluid motion began a resounding clap that we couldn't help but mimic. Like the first track on his acclaimed mixtape, Acid Rap, this was the “Good A-- Intro” we’d been waiting for, and he did not disappoint. As the evening flew by, his frantic dancing, lyrical aptitude and charismatic personality kept the party going. For an hour straight, he masterfully engaged the crowd, teaching us how to “Zan” while delivering clever lyrical content with much deeper underlying meaning. The experience was exhilarating, honest, moving and powerful, all wrapped in a neat package of Chicago soul. My money was more than well spent. Hundreds of thousands have experienced this phenomenon too, as Chance graced the stage of major concerts and festivals throughout the country — including South by Southwest and Lollapalooza. Chance has already performed with some of hip-hop’s most popular names, including Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, and most recently, with last year’s Spring Fling performers, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. He has even worked with the likes of James Blake and Skrillex, showing his true appreciation for music of all different forms and a willingness to engage them. “Acid Rap,” his second mixtape, was so successful that, unbeknownst to Chance, one clever scam artist decided to package and sell his free mixtape. The scam artist’s efforts led to the mixtape’s debut at number 63 on the Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop chart. Some standout tracks include the “Good A-Intro/Outro,” “Everybody’s Something,” and crowd-favorite “Cocoa Butter Kisses.” So what warrants this craze over the 20-year-old phenom? Is it his charismatic youth in contest with his old, jazzed-out soul? Is it his social awareness, as he displayed by interning for Obama’s first campaign for President? Or maybe it’s his crowd-pleasing tendencies and his desire to rage in unity? Whatever it is, we can use some of that flavor. So how about we make a little way for some Chicago soul in New Haven? Vote Chance the Rapper for Spring Fling. I promise you'll dance, you'll groove, and you'll have a "Good A--" time. Isn't that what Spring Fling is for? After all, everybody deserves a Chance. DENZIL BERNARD is a junior in Silliman College. Contact him at denzil.bernard@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.” VOLTAIRE FRENCH ENGLIGHTENMENT WRITER AND PHILOSOPHER
Ward 1 incumbent leads fundraising push
LEFT, NICK DEFIESTA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER, RIGHT, ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Paul Chandler ’14 and other Republicans seeking seats on the Board of Aldermen will face a stiff uphill battle FUNDRAISING FROM PAGE 1 one from a family friend. The largest donation, $250, came from William Curran, a retired partner at the investment firm Halsey Associates and a resident of Temple Street. All but nine of the donations came from current Yale students, said Chandler’s treasurer Tyler Carlisle ’15. 45 of the donations were of $10 or less. Curran said he donated to Chandler’s campaign in order to help break the Democratic hold on the Board, saying “we need a different opinion” in city government. At Thursday’s Republican Town Committee meeting, Melissa Papantones, who challenged Connecticut State Sen. and mayoral candidate Toni Harp ARC ’78 for her state senate seat in 2008, offered to make a small donation to Chandler’s campaign because Chandler is “willing to
go to battle for the Republican party,” she said.
Our fundraising efforts have been one part of our efforts to engage with the student community here. PAUL CHANDLER ‘14 Aldermanic candidate, Ward 1 Carlisle said the campaign’s goal is to receive donations from 100 students by Election Day and to raise a total of $2,500, matching Eidelson’s fundraising total from 2011. Eidelson said fundraising has not been as central to this year’s campaign as it was in 2011, when she was vastly outspent by her opponent Vinay Nayak ’14. As
in 2011, she said, her campaign has been funded from within New Haven, in addition to a few contributions from family and friends outside the city. Her largest contributions, of $250, came from family members in Pennsylvania. Of the 30 donations in the most recent filing period, roughly half were from current students, and the others were from recent alumni or family members, Sterling Johnson ’15, Eidelson’s treasurer, said. He said the campaign’s fundraising efforts are an extension of its canvassing efforts — and that most donors to the campaign are also volunteers, including Ward 1 co-chair Ben Crosby ’14, Nathan Campbell ’14 and former Ward 7 candidate Ella Wood ’15. “If you look at the students who donated to Sarah’s campaign, they are students who are really invested in the local
dynamic between Yale and New Haven,” Johnson said. Eidelson said she has also received funds from high school teachers and Yale professors, including her senior project adviser, graphic design professor Pamela Hovland ART ’93, who said in a Thursday email that she was moved to donate because of Eidelson’s “intelligence and integrity.” Campbell said he donated to Eidelson’s campaign because he has been supportive of her work on the Board of Aldermen, including her work as chair of the Board’s youth committee. In response to Chandler campaign allegations that she is
receiving special interest money and contributions from the city’s unions, Eidelson said those claims are disproved by her campaign finance filings. “We haven’t received any contributions from any entity that is not an individual. No PAC money, nothing like that, and we don’t plan to,” Eidelson said. Ben Mallet ’16, Chandler’s campaign manager, said he does not think all of Chandler’s donations were from self-identified Republicans. He said many students donated simply because they knew Chandler, who he said was a “familiar face on campus.” Hovland said Eidelson’s choice to stay in New Haven increases
her attractiveness as a candidate, writing that “She has made the choice to stay in [New Haven] to do this work when she has so many other options.” Eidelson has also outpaced Chandler in spending so far, both candidates citing campaign literature, t-shirts and other merchandise as their main expenses. As of the Oct. 10 filing deadline, Eidelson has spent $1,653 to Chandler’s $872. The general election is on Nov. 5. Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .
New Haven crime on the decline past two years.” Since he was appointed police chief in November 2011, Esserman has reinstated a communitypolicing strategy, requiring new officers to spend their first year on the job walking a beat in one of New Haven’s neighborhoods. T h e co m m u n i ty- p o l i c ing strategy aims to familiarize different neighborhoods with their dedicated officers, in the hopes that neighborhood residents would feel comfortable approaching an officer they trust to report situations that can potentially escalate into crimes. To that end, the police department has also increased the amount of block watches and is expanding the Police Athletic League Camp, a summer camp for New Haven children. These initiatives are meant to humanize officers, Esserman said. “The police are there to support the community and help empower the community to solve their [own] problems,” Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said. Other partnerships have also played a role in decreasing crime. On a macroscopic level, the New Haven Police Department works closely with departments on the state level, such as that of corrections, probation, and parole. Within the city of New Haven, Esserman cited bonds with schools, clergy and the Yale Child Study Center as essential in combatting crime. Esserman stressed that his collaboration with the Yale Police Department is especially significant in his department’s overall strategy. Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins told the News in an
email that the Yale Police Department’s participation in weekly NHPD CompStat meetings further unites the two departments. “The Yale Department is absolutely one of our strongest partners — we are joined at the hip,” Esserman said. Budget and policy have also positively affected the New Haven Police Department. Hausladen said that after the spike in homicides in 2011, the Board of Aldermen focused extensively on incorporating public safety issues in its legislative agenda. While crime as a whole declined, the cases of motor vehicle theft have significantly increased in the past year. Esserman attributed this spike in part to expensive possessions that might be within the cars, such as cell phones and computers. To combat this issue, the New Haven Police Department has undergone a series of successful raids of stolen electronic goods. “We really have a long way to go,” Esserman said. “The last thing we believe in in the New Haven police is patting ourselves on the back or resting on our laurels.” To that end, Andrew Papachristos, an associate professor of sociology at Yale, suggests a twopronged approach to curtailing crime. According to Papachristos, long-term crime reduction strategies include community interventions, such as combating issues with the current education system, employment opportunities and prison re-entry. In the short-term, he cites the merit of efforts such as Project Longevity, which seeks to reduce gangrelated violence through close monitoring of gang activity.
“I think a lot of the strategies that we see as promising in cities including New Haven are [those] that tend to focus on intervention and prevention efforts,” Papachristos said. While Papachristos noted general declining trend in vio-
lent crime, he cautioned against an over-reliance on statistics to reflect current conditions in New Haven. But Esserman emphasized that, no matter the current fluctuations in crime rates, each individual crime is still significant.
“I know well that behind every one of those statistics is a story — behind every one of those numbers on that chart is a name. And I know their names,” Esserman said. “And I know to a mother those statistics and those numbers mean nothing.”
The New Haven Police Department has hired 68 officers over the past 18 months and plans to hire around 100 officers in 2014. Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .
SHOOTINGS IN NEW HAVEN BY YEAR Shots fired Non-fatal shootings
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NEWS Dancerelated initiatives expanded BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER Starting this fall, the University is taking steps to accommodate students’ growing interest in the field of dance. The administration is expanding outreach initiatives geared towards students interested in pursuing dance at or after Yale, ranging from prospective applicants to outgoing seniors. The new initiatives include the opportunity for applicants to the Yale Class of 2018 to submit a dance portfolio as an arts supplement, as well as a new associate director position at the Undergraduate Career Services office which focuses on providing resources for students aiming to pursue arts-related professions, including careers in dance. The University has also continued to expand its curriculum in dance studies — an academic division of the theater studies program — by offering two new dance-related courses this academic year. “We are focusing on incoming and outgoing students,” director of Yale’s dance studies curriculum Emily Coates ’06 GRAD ’11 said. “We want to help prospective students with admissions to Yale as well as graduating seniors with finding careers in the arts.”
What I don’t want is students choosing to not pursue the arts because we weren’t being helpful enough. KATIE VOLZ Associate director for creative and performing arts, University Career Services
Katie Volz, the associate director for creative and performing arts at UCS, assumed her current position in August and is the first career advisor at the office to specialize in the performing arts. With the assistance of Elena Light ’13, who currently works as a marketing associate for Gibney Dance in New York City, Volz has been compiling a database of resources for students interested in summer internships and careers in dance, film and theater, which she said will likely be available by the end of October. Before such a system of information existed, Volz explained, most students had to discover dance-related opportunities by exploring on their own or through the help of faculty members. “What I don’t want is students choosing to not pursue the arts because we weren’t being helpful enough,” Volz said. “I believe and hope that [the] arts faculty will still support students but now the students will be supported holistically with help from UCS.” Volz highlighted the unique needs of students looking to pursue the arts professionally as a major impetus for UCS’s increased involvement in the creative and performing arts. She said that professional performers are often unable to support themselves solely on their starting sallaries after graduation, adding that UCS also offers opportunities for these alumni to supplement their income through jobs such as academic tutoring. The financial challenges faced by performers stem partly from the fact that many opportunities in arts are short-term projects that do not provide the level of financial stability that more permanent positions do. In addition to expanding resources for current students and alumni, Coates said the University is trying to make prospective applicants to Yale who show interest in dance aware that “[dance] is fully embedded within the liberal arts curriculum here.” Coates explained that college applicants have historically assumed that peer institutions such as Harvard and Princeton have more substantial offerings in dance studies. The goal of the increased outreach, Coates said, is to let these students know that they can find the same artistic breadth and vigor at Yale that they can find at other schools. Associate Director of Admissions Jessie Hill added that most students interested in pursuing dance as more than an extracurricular activity in college would not have applied to Yale eight years ago. Hill said the Admissions Office has begun to allow dance portfolio submissions on applications primarily due to growing student interest in dance on campus. She noted that though students who are truly passionate about pursuing dance as a profession typically attend conservatories, there exist students who are looking to simultaneously pursue their dance education and other academic subjects. “We are responding to the integration of dance into the liberal arts curriculum,” she said. “As there are more opportunities to pursue dance at Yale, that will be reflected in our applicant body.” The dance studies curriculum at Yale was established in 2006. Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .
“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them back in the family brokerage business.” LYNDON J. JOHNSON FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT
Shutdown hinders Fed job search BY RISHABH BHANDARI AND YUVAL BENDAVID STAFF REPORTERS With the recent government shutdown leaving many Washington, D.C. cubicles empty, Yale students interested in government positions are frustrated and confused by the now-unclear application process toward securing these jobs. Due to the suspension of all nonessential federal workers and services, several federal departments and agencies have canceled their on-campus outreach events in the last two weeks. Still, more than 20 students and administrators interviewed said the shutdown has not affected Yale students’ interest or ability to apply for government jobs and internships, as those interested can still apply online. Some students said the shutdown has caused inconveniences, such as depriving them of the opportunity to meet face-to-face with potential employers and drawing out an application process that is already dogged by tedious security clearance procedures. Neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor the U.S. Treasury Department have rescheduled their canceled information sessions, which were slated for Oct. 8 and Oct. 16, respectively. “Federal agencies have said they’re not stopping taking in applications,” said Undergraduate Career Services Director Jeanine Dames, adding that some agencies such as the CIA have emailed UCS to provide direct information as to how students can still apply for their internships online. In its weekly newsletter last week, UCS conveyed the CIA’s instructions to students, and the Oct. 11 newsletter clarifies that students can still apply for government internships, despite the
shutdown. Dames said that federal agencies consider Yale to be a steady and reliable pipeline for future public servants. These agencies have made special efforts to reach out to Yale students during this time of uncertainty, she added, citing that the CIA has requested that Yale students include Yale’s name in the subject line of their internship applications. Pointing to a UCS study on postundergraduate pursuits of the class of 2013, Dames added that Yale students seem to be perform well in public-sector hiring, even in times of political uncertainty. “12.4 percent of the class of 2013 has gone into government or other public sector employment,” she said, adding that this is an impressive number, because these seniors were hired during the federal sequester last spring. Dames said that though it was a “tough year for federal employment,” the high number indicates that Yale students “do very well even in times like this.” But despite UCS’s reassurances and outreach efforts to students in
the last two weeks, only seven of 21 Yale students interviewed knew that they could still apply for government internships during the shutdown. Dillon Lew ’16 said that although he is interested in interning at the U.S. Treasury Department, he assumed that the government shutdown had led to a freeze in hiring, and he has not yet pursued an application.
Federal agencies have said they’re not stopping taking in applications. JEANINE DAMES Director, Undergraduate Career Serivces
Still, even students who are aware that the application processes are still open said they have encountered difficulties. Rachel O’Connell ’15 said that
although she had submitted applications to several federal employers “around the day of the shutdown,” she still has not heard back about interview requests — a delay that she partly attributed to the government shutdown. Uriel Epshtein ’14 added that the already-long application process for government jobs could now be extended by months, making the job hunt “more stressful and uncertain.” He said that students hoping for government jobs may have to wait until spring, or even the beginning of summer, to find out whether their applications have been successful. Epshtein added that the complications caused by the government shutdown have emphasized the easier and more streamlined nature of applications to jobs in the private sector for some students. The U.S. federal government entered the shutdown on Oct. 1. Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu and YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval-ben.david@yale.edu .
SHUTDOWN AFFECTS RECRUITING SESSIONS
Sept 30 State Department information session postponed
U.S. government enters shutdown Oct 1
Oct 8 CIA information session cancelled
U.S. Treasury Department information session cancelled Oct 16
Oct 29 Rescheduled State Department information session
Application deadline for State Department internships Nov 1
Republicans Prep for Election Day
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At its last meeting before Election Day, the Elm City’s Republican Town Committee gathered to ready its slate of candidates. BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER At its last meeting before Election Day, the Elm City’s Republican Town Committee gathered to ready its slate of candidates who will go head-to-head with Democrats in four aldermanic races. Ward 1 hopeful Paul Chandler ’14, who is running to unseat incumbent Democrat Sarah Eidelson ’12, was joined at Thursday’s meeting by two other Republican candidates and one Independent. All are backed by the RTC and, if elected, would join a 30-member Board of Aldermen currently made up entirely of Democrats. In 2011, not a single Republican ran in an aldermanic race. In addition to Chandler, Wooster Square activist and registered Independent Andy Ross is running in Ward 8 against Democrat Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18. In neighboring Ward 6, Republican Frank Lobo MED ’92 is challenging incumbent Dolores Colon. Both attended Thursday’s meeting and reported positive engagement with voters in their neighborhoods. “People know me,” Lobo said. “I’ve lived in my neighborhood for
23 years.” The fourth candidate — Republican Ward 10 hopeful William Wynn — did not attend the meeting. He is squaring off against Anne Festa, a lifelong East Rock resident who has the backing of the Ward’s incumbent alderman: Independent mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10. Richter Elser ’81, the committee’s chairman and a prominent voice for Republicans in a city dominated by Democrats, was also not in attendance. Chandler and his campaign manager, Ben Mallet ’16, said initial canvassing efforts have been successful and added that students have been responsive to face-toface contact in the residential colleges. Mallet said the campaign was heartened by Elicker’s success among Yale students in Ward 1. In the Democratic primary, Elicker took the ward with 108 of 223 total votes, more than double won by his Democratic opponent, Connecticut State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78. “We see Elicker winning as a positive sign,” Mallet said at the meeting. “Even the Democrats on campus are moderates.”
Chandler said he has worked to engage students about the issues that matter to them on campus. He said those discussions have been dominated by concerns about public safety and the ability to “walk around the city at night.” After the meeting, Ross said he has been surprised by the amount of voter contact he has been able to make, adding that many in Ward 8 — particularly less affluent voters — have been receptive to his canvassing efforts. Ross said public safety, affordable housing and “quality of life issues” have dominated his discussions with ward residents. He said he does not see his party affiliation as particularly relevant in addressing those issues. “I consider myself a centrist,” he said. “I’m socially compassionate and fiscally conservative. I have an accounting background, and I think we need to stop borrowing more money to pay back old money.” Eidelson said Thursday that issues before the Board of Aldermen do not necessarily split down the same ideological lines as they do on the state or national level. Still, she said a Republican faces an uphill battle in Ward 1 — and in the
city as a whole. “I think that the vast majority of students share a more progressive vision of our neighborhood,” she said. “I definitely am proud to be a Democrat and always have been, but it doesn’t feel like my role on the Board is about party politics.” Still, she said New Haven’s role as a “leader on big national issues like immigration reform” means that “if you have to label New Haven, it’s a Democratic city.” William Curran, a Republican and Ward 1 resident, said the city’s heavily Democratic leaning is what makes a Republican candidate attractive. “We need a different opinion,” he said at Thursday’s meeting. In Elser’s absence, the meeting was led by Republican Deputy Registrar of Voters Marlene Napolitano, who offered advice to candidates on Election Day strategy and get-out-the-vote efforts. The current balance of the Republican Town Committee is $6,581.16. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“College is a refuge from hasty judgment ROBERT FROST AMERICAN POET
College administrators say farewell
Left, John Loge ‘66 Lecturer in the English Department Loge has been serving as Dean of Timothy Dwight College since 1991. Top, Hugh Flick Lecturer in Religious Studies Flick has been serving as Dean of Silliman College since 1988. Right, Jonathan Holloway GRD ‘95 Professor of History, American Studies and African American Studies Holloway has been serving as Master of Calhoun College since 2005.
FROM TOP, GOING CLOCKWISE: JACOB GEIGER/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER, IHNA MANGUNDAYAO/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER, SAGE ROSS/CREATIVE COMMONS, ALLIE KRAUSE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
FEATURE FROM PAGE 1 end of their freshman year, Gitlin said. The master of the residential college held the power in selecting their new members, which led to many of the colleges became segregated and homogeneous spaces, according to Yale historian Gaddis Smith ’54 GRD ’61. “Davenport was populated by members of the Social Register, Jonathan Edwards by artists, Calhoun by athletes, Silliman and Timothy Dwight by the slide rule set, and Pierson by Daily News types and student leaders,” Smith said. It was only in the 1950s, under University President Alfred Whitney Griswold ’29 GRD ’33, that this cultural separation of the student body across residential colleges was first recognized as an issue. As a result, Yale began to randomly assign freshmen to residential colleges in 1962. In the same year, the University established the position of a residential college dean to complement the duties of the Master and help students deal with the challenges of academics at Yale. “Before that time, academic problems — and perhaps other problems — were brought to the central Dean’s Office,” Gitlin said, adding that the introduction of residential college deans helped alleviate the administrative burdens of the Yale College Dean’s Office.
A SCHOOL FOR DEANS AND MASTERS?
As residential college deans began to emerge as the linchpins of students’ academic welfare, it became clear that professors aspiring to that position had to receive extensive training, according to Paul McKinley DRA
’96, who serves as the director of strategic communications at the Dean’s Office. Since 1988, the University has established a so-called “Dean’s School,” a year-long training program aimed at acquainting prospective deans with a vast range of topics — from academic regulations to personal advising and emotional support for undergraduates. McKinley, who was dean of Saybrook College from 19972003, described the training as an “excellent process that is very thorough so that deans are comfortable coming in to their positions.” He also added that, whenever a new residential college dean is appointed, this training process gives academic support a continuity that is critical to maintain. Whereas deans are expected to be well versed in the University’s ever-changing academic regulations, masters seem to enjoy greater freedom in shaping their position as head of the residential colleges. Just a few years ago, there was no formal training process for incoming masters, and only recently did Yale College Dean Mary Miller GRD ’81 introduce a shorter equivalent to the “dean’s school” for masters: a one day deep-immersive workshop to train future masters in their responsibilities as chief administrative officer in each residential college. Rather than a formalized training program, new masters do not reach out to more experienced masters in other colleges but are connected, establishing what Pierson Master Stephen Davis GRD ’98 called “mentorprotégé relationships.” Davis, who was appointed to the position in April, said such relationships with other residential college masters have been
helpful to him in the past three months. “Something might happen where I just feel like I need feedback, and I’ll just shoot them an e-mail or give them a call,” he said. The lack of a more established training process for masters can be explained by one of the main differences between deans and masters, according to Holloway. “Masters have a lot of freedom, whereas deans have to be on the same page with academic regulations and rules,” Holloway said, adding that masters are in charge of setting the preferences and priorities of their respective residential college. Other masters interviewed, including Morse Master Amy Hungerford, echoed Holloway’s views. “Each Master will want to experiment with new programming and new approaches as they also work to learn the college’s established ways of doing things,” Hungerford said. Historically, the position of residential college master was an honorary title given to esteemed professors who were often approaching retirement, Holloway explained, adding that there were no term limits for Masters. However, former University President Richard Levin established a three-term limit, so that masters can usually serve for two five-year terms and for three only under “exceptional circumstances,” Holloway said. For Hungerford, who also serves as the Chair of Council of Masters, re-appointments for a second or term have proven to be particularly “healthy for the college,” as they give students a sense of continuity and allow the Master to grow and develop in the position. Unlike masters, deans serve three-year terms and are
reviewed for re-appointment in their second year, McKinley said. No term limits have been set for deans: some can hold the positions for decades —such as Christa Dove GRD ’76 who served as Dean of Pierson College from 1983 to 2005. Others only stay for one term, like former Branford Dean Daniel Tauss, who only held the position from 2007 to 2010.
THE DEPARTED
Former masters and deans interviewed mentioned a variety of reasons that factored into their departures. Words like “family,” “a new [career] direction” and “academic work” all point towards the toll which the positions of master and dean take on their professional and personal lives. Holloway, for instance, admitted that “scholarship suffers when you are a master,” because of the time and effort devoted to supervising the residential college. Steven Smith, who was master of Branford from 1996 to 2011, agreed that the deanship and mastership are very time-consuming positions, adding that “time spent in the college is time not spent on other things.” Additionally, living in the residential college provides a peculiar environment for masters and deans to raise a family or simply reside. According to Davis, residential college masters and deans have to be comfortable with share their living space with all the undergraduate students in their college. On a similar note, Holloway described living in the Calhoun College with his wife Aisling Colon and his two children as a safe yet challenging experience. “It’s hard to be a master and have a young family — it’s hard to
have young kids in itself,” he said. Still, all masters and deans interviewed agreed that their work in the residential colleges helped them establish a deeper connection with undergraduate students. “I thought I knew the students as an engaged professor,” Holloway said. “But when we moved into the college, I was amazed at all I didn’t know about the students: Getting to know these young, impressive people was incredibly gratifying.” Similarly, Smith said that the opportunity to live so closely with students provides masters and deans with a unique Yale experience. “There aren’t very many positions that you can have a lot of fun in doing: Being a master was really fun for me,” Smith said. In spite of this, Smith said there is a time when Deans and Masters realize that leaving their posts might be the best decision for them, their family and their college. For him, that time was in 2005, after holding the position of Branford Master for 15 years. “Fifteen was enough,” he said. “It was time to give someone else the opportunity to have that experience.”
A NEW ERA?
As the new Pierson master this year, Davis has just embarked on this experience. He smiled as he remembered the day in April when he was greeted by the Pierson community: Students broke into overwhelming applause as Davis walked into the dining hall, surrounded by the portraits of the college’s past masters. As Davis has learned, the transition from an old dean or master to a new one is an exciting but challenging moment for the residential college. For upperclassmen like Emily
Hong ’14, the departure of former Pierson Master Harvey Goldblatt last semester was particularly worrisome. While Hong said Davis eventually exceeded her expectations, she and her fellow Piersonites “were all a little nervous about having a new master.” Other students interviewed looked for the silver lining. After hearing the announcement of Loge’s departure, TD student Daniel Judt ’17 said he is looking forward to “a new dean, a new ceremonial process [and] a new way to bring the TD community together.” Hungerford agreed with Judt, adding that the process of appointing a new dean or master brings a “natural energy” that is beneficial to the community within the residential college. Smith added that the arrival of a new master or dean is a particularly transformative time for the entire residential college, as they have the opportunity to “put [their] imprint on and set a tone for the college.” As Calhoun, Silliman and Timothy Dwight still await the appointment of new deans and masters, the announcement of two brand-new residential colleges set to open in 2017 provides new deanship and mastership openings — positions that will be critical to shaping the culture of the two still-unnamed colleges. Despite the sacrifices that come with the job, the positions of dean and master receive great respect from the Yale community and these openings may already have contenders. “By the way, if they’re looking for people to be masters of the new colleges, I volunteer,” Gitlin said. Contact MARISA LOWE at marisa.lowe@yale.edu .
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NEWS
“Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.” ROBERT NEELLY BELLAH AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST
Yale expands leadership workshops BY WESLEY YIIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This fall, Yale has expanded mandatory leadership training for directors of student organizations to offer more sessions on a greater variety of topics. This year’s workshops, which began last week, boast titles such as “Financial Essentials for Student Organizations,” “Tweeting, Tumbling, Pinning and Posting: The Perks and Perils of Using Social Media to Spread Your Organization’s Message” and “No Organization is an Island: Leveraging and Mastering Collaboration.” Though the sessions are open to all students, registered student organizations are
required to send at least three representatives to a workshop, and organizations that either host events or hold initiations for their members must attend two specific workshops on event planning and hazing. The workshops, which all take place in the Swing Space Activity Room, are led by deans, directors and fellows of the Office of Student Affairs. “The workshops [on hazing and hosting events] are part of a broader effort to promote a respectful, safe campus climate,” Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry said in a Sept. 27 email to presidents and treasurers of student organizations. “On a practical level, they are designed to
help you host your events successfully, particularly with an eye toward welcoming your newest members and keeping everyone safe.” Gentry said in a Thursday email to the News that similar workshops have been held in previous years. But he added that students requested that this year’s workshops be expanded in scope to include “many more topics relevant to a wider array of student organizations.” Students can pick from several time slots for the workshops on hazing and hosting events, Gentry said. “We [made] available many workshops with smaller enrollments, so there can be more
Elm City combats infant mortality BY CAROLINE WRAY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER From 2003–2009, 12 out of every 1000 babies born in New Haven died, and a higher percengtage of those deaths were African American children, according to the Community Health Index recently published by DataHaven. The Index also reported that three times as many African American mothers as white mothers are experiencing infant mortality. This, however, is not unique to New Haven, but is rather a nationwide trend, according to executive director of DataHaven Mark Abraham, and epidemiologist and Yale School of Public Health lecturer Dr. Amanda Durante, who worked with Abraham to publish the maternal health section of the report. Many researchers in New Haven, at Yale and nationwide are working to solve the mystery behind this disparity. An established cause of many infant deaths is premature birth and low birth weight, which seems to be more common to black women. African American babies tend to be born smaller not due to poor care of the mother or the baby, Durante has found, adding that the reason remains unclear. Durante’s research also involved analysis of low birth weight in African American women, focusing specifically on modifiable risk factors, such as smoking and non-modifiable risk factors, like a chronic disease. Their major findings were that pre-existing chronic conditions in the mother such as chronic hypertension or diabetes, as well as smoking during pregnancy, increased the risk of low birth weight. “Smoking seems a modifiable factor,” she said. “But what is it about these chronic health conditions that might predispose women? Are these conditions not being managed well? We don’t know.” Dr. Megan Smith, a Yale Medical School psychiatry professor and the director of the New Haven Mental health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership, believes that stress affects pregnancy. Her program, MOMS, works to promote the mental health of mothers in New Haven. They published a survey of mothers across the city that found that mothers felt they needed more support to prevent and control stress. Stress, she said, would perhaps help to explain the source of higher infant mortality rates amongst African American women. A study reported that black women experience higher level of stress than white women or Hispanic women, Smith said. Previously, many believed that the higher death rates of African American infants were due to socioeconomic factors, but new stud-
ies seem to indicate that even African American women of the highest socioeconomic bracket are at increased risk for low birth weight, which indicates that race specifically plays a powerful role, said Maria Damiami, the director of women’s health at the New Haven Health Department. But it is still unclear why African American women are at a greater risk. “It’s not acceptable that there’s such a big difference, but we just don’t really know how to fix it,” Durante said. “We’re continuing to work on it.” Despite the frustration of trying to solve what seems to be a medical mystery, New Haven has made progress in terms of infant mortality rates. In the 1980s, one out of every 59 babies born to a New Haven resident perished, according to a 1988 article in the New York Times. The article said that this was 70 percent higher than the national average, and higher even than many underdeveloped countries. Since the 1990s, programs like MOMS and New Haven Healthy Start have been working in New Haven to combat this problem and the infant mortality rate now matches the rest of the nation. Damiami believes that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” will make a huge positive impact. She said the expansion of Medicaid in Connecticut will insure more women and provide them with increased general healthcare which will lead to healthier pregnancies. Martha’s Place, a shelter for single women and families, also works directly with pregnant women. The shelter has a voluntary service that works to set women up with healthcare providers and provide a means of getting to their appointments, as well as a general support net for their pregnancy. “They might not be leaving our shelters with a multi-million dollar home, but they will have a space of their own and they will be educated on what they can do, where they can go, what they’re entitled to, and what their rights are,” Yaritza Roman, a case manager for Healthy Start and Martha’s Place said. The city faces a general lack of housing and employment opportunities for homeless women, in addition to a dearth of mental health resources, she said. Despite the improved numbers, the deaths of infants are very real losses. “Each infant death marks a huge loss to someone,” Abraham said. According to the Community Health Index, one out of every 10 babies born inside of New Haven has a low birth weight. Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .
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opportunities for students to ask questions,” he said. Gentry and Yale College Dean Mary Miller first announced this year’s workshops in an Aug. 31 email to the student body. Though the workshops are targeted specifically for junior and senior representatives from student organizations, they are also available to freshmen and sophomores. The workshops are also designed to give leaders tools and resources to help them manage their responsibilities. Interest in these workshops has been generally low among the undergraduate student body. Of 31 students interviewed, only one had already attended a leader-
ship workshop so far. Seven students said they were interested in attending the workshops, and three said they planned to attend not out of interest but because they are required to as student leaders. The remainder said that they were not interested in the workshops and had no plans to sign up for them. Juliet Ryan ’16 said she attended one of the hazing workshops as a representative of United Against Infectious Diseases, an undergraduate nongovernmental organization. Ryan said the session was “not very helpful,” especially because her club does not hold initiations. Juli Cho ’15 said the event
planning workshop was interesting at first, but she added that the last 30 minutes of the session, during which the group discussed alcohol,“felt too staged.” Still, she said the emphasis on alcohol and safety “made sense from an administrative viewpoint.” Gentry said workshop facilitators have reported that sessions have been productive. “Student participants have been attentive and have asked good questions,” he said. There are 44 registered undergraduate arts organizations within Yale College. Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .
Mansions to be used as swing space
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Evans Hall will be the new home of the Yale School of Management starting in January. BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER Many of the historic mansions on Hillhouse Avenue will lose their occupants when the Yale School of Management moves to the new Evans Hall campus in January. The vacated buildings on Hillhouse, which currently house SOM faculty offices, will likely become general classrooms, offices and “swing space” that can be used when the University renovates the Hall of Graduate Studies, according to Provost Benjamin Polak. Though SOM students said they primarily spend time in the SOM building at 135 Prospect St. and do not frequent the Hillhouse mansions, SOM professors said they may feel some nostalgia for the buildings they have occupied for years. Still, professors and students alike said they are awaiting the relocation to the new SOM campus with great excitement. Stanley Garstka, a SOM professor who is overseeing the construction of the new campus, said in a Thursday email that it will be difficult to vacate the mansions that some SOM faculty members have taught and researched in for almost 40 years. The mansions have unique features that cannot be recreated in a modern space, SOM associate Dean David Bach said. “I have a fireplace in my office,” Bach said, “I know I’ll have to give that up.”
Provost Polak said most classrooms in the Hillhouse mansions will retain their current format and may be used by Yale College or the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The office spaces will temporarily house faculty members from the Hall of Graduate Studies who are displaced during the HGS renovation, he said.
We already have worldclass faculty and students. Now we need a world-class facility. ANTHONY LYNN MBA ’14 “When we renovated the English Department, we rented massive space in a building downtown, but we’d rather not do that,” Polak said. “[The mansions] are all very nice, so my slight worry is that if we move people in as swing space, they’re not going to want to leave.” Since SOM students spend most of their time at 135 Prospect St., they said they will not miss the Hillhouse mansions. Peter da Silva Vint MBA ’14 said that he only went to the mansions two or three times this year to drop off assignments. The current SOM campus — which is split between 135 Prospect St. and the Hillhouse mansions — is not well organized
because it keeps students and faculty separated, SOM professor Andrew Metrick said. Garstka said the campus is also too small and does not have enough space for the growing SOM community. The opening of the new campus, which is scheduled for January, will bring students and faculty together in one larger and newer space, SOM senior associate Dean Anjani Jain said. Bach said faculty and student reactions to the construction of the new SOM campus, which has been in the works for a decade, have been largely positive. Seven out of ten students interviewed all said that they think the new campus, which will have more space and better technology, will help Yale SOM improve its position in business school rankings. “We already have world-class faculty and students,” Anthony Lynn MBA ’14 said. “Now we need a world-class facility.” Da Silva Vint said the new campus will also help the SOM administration in its efforts to recruit people from more diverse backgrounds and students who want to specialize in the financial and consulting fields at SOM. SOM Dean Edward Snyder could not be reached for comment. Yale broke ground on the new SOM campus in April 2011. Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .
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These winners include Barack Obama (2009), Al Gore (2007), Cordell Hull (1945), Frank Kellogg (1929) and Elihu Root (1912). Nobel prizes are also awarded annually in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine and Literature.
Lack of aid angers Egyptians BY HAMZA HENDAWI ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO. Washington’s decision to withhold millions of dollars in mostly military aid to Egypt is fueling anti-U.S. sentiment and the perception that Washington supports Mohammed Morsi, the Islamist president the military ousted in a July coup. That could boost the popularity of the military chief, Gen. AbdelFattah el-Sissi, whom the U.S. is trying to pressure to ensure a transition to democracy and ease the fierce crackdown on Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood. The aid freeze could also embolden Morsi’s supporters to intensify their campaign of street protests in the belief that the military-backed government is losing the goodwill of its top foreign backer. The protests, met by a fierce response by security forces that has left hundreds dead, have kept the new government from tackling Egypt’s pressing problems after 2 1/2 years of turmoil. Still, Egypt’s military-backed government is unlikely to abandon the road map it announced when Morsi was removed in a July 3 coup - to amend the nation’s Islamist-tilted constitution and put the changes to a nationwide vote before the end of the year, and hold parliamentary and presidential ballots in early 2014. “Egypt is not so desperate that it needs to compromise on its political agenda,” the U.S.-based global intelligence firm, Stratfor, wrote this week. “The United States will be the one to eventually readjust to the old reality of backing unpopular regimes that can preserve U.S.
influence in the Nile River Valley.” Warnings that Washington might cut off aid were met with a defiant response in the Egyptian media. “Let American aid go to hell,” screamed the banner headline of Thursday’s edition of Al-Tahrir, an independent daily that is a sworn critic of the Brotherhood and the United States. Egyptian newspapers and television have for weeks taken a deeply hostile line toward the United States, portraying Washington as unhappy to see Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood lose power and lambasting it for allegedly meddling in Cairo’s affairs. The U.S. announced it was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, most of it meant for the armed forces, as a show of displeasure over Morsi’s ouster and the subsequent crackdown on his Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist allies. Washington said the aid would be restored if “credible progress” was made toward setting up an inclusive, democratically elected government. In its announcement Wednesday, the U.S. State Department did not provide a dollar amount of what was being withheld, most of it linked to military aid, but officials in Washington said it included 10 Apache helicopters at a cost of more than $500 million, M1A1 tank kits and Harpoon antiship missiles. The U.S. also is withholding $260 million in cash assistance to the government. The U.S. had already suspended the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets and canceled biennial U.S.-Egyptian military exercises. In Egypt’s first official reac-
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, center, speaks with Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, at a military base in Ismailia, Egypt. tion, the Foreign Ministry said the U.S. move raised questions about Washington’s commitment to supporting the Arab nation’s security goals at a time when it is facing terrorist challenges. That was a reference to a burgeoning insurgency by Islamic militants, some with al-Qaida links, in the strategic Sinai Penin-
sula, as well as scattered attacks in other parts of the country. In its statement, the Foreign Ministry said Cairo was keen to maintain good relations with Washington, but will independently decide its domestic policies. It also said Egypt will work to secure its “vital needs” on national security, a thinly veiled threat that
it would shop elsewhere for arms and military hardware. One official said the military was considering stripping U.S. warships of preferential treatment in transiting the Suez Canal or curbing use of Egypt’s air space by U.S. military aircraft. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to
discuss the issue with the media. Cairo has built close ties with Washington in the 34 years since Egypt became the first Arab nation to sign a peace treaty with Israel. The aid has long been seen as Washington’s reward for Egypt’s commitment to peace after it fought four wars against Israel between 1948 and 1973.
Buzz surrounds peace prize candidates BY MARK LEWIS ASSOCIATED PRESS STAVANGER, Norway. All we know is this: a record 259 candi-
dates, including 50 organizations, have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. With no clues from the judges in Norway, speculation about the front-runners for
Friday’s announcement is primarily based on the committee’s previous choices and current events. Here’s a look at some of those getting the most attention:
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
The Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban last October for advocating education for girls is the bookmakers’ favorite to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year. Since recovering from her injuries, she has toured the world, becoming a global celebrity. Now 16, she would be the youngest winner of any Nobel. On Thursday, she won the Sakharov Award, the European Parliament’s 50,000-euro ($65,000) human rights award. Concerns that a Nobel Prize might pile too much pressure on her young shoulders were somewhat assuaged by the mature speech she gave to the U.N. this summer.
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Malala Yousafzai, center, poses for photographs on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, in New York.
The Congolese surgeon, a powerful advocate for women, has treated thousands of gangraped women at the Panzi Hospital he set up in Bukavu in 1999. Last year he lashed out at the international community for its inaction on his country’s vicious civil war. The result: He is now hiding in Europe following an assassination attempt last October. Giving him the Nobel could give world attention to the con-
flict — but it might come too soon after 2011, when two African women and one Yemeni were honored with the peace prize for their work for women’s rights.
RUSSIAN ACTIVISTS
With the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics around the corner, the Nobel committee could be tempted to shine its spotlight on human rights activists in Russia. Svetlana Gannushkina and the Memorial rights group she heads have been seen as top candidates for several years. Another potential candidate is Lyudmila Alexeyeva, an 84-year-old former Soviet dissident and a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin’s regime. The committee has broadened its concept of peace work to include things like human rights and climate change, so it could also choose to honor those fighting the antigay legislation recently passed in Russia.
SISTER MAGGIE GOBRAN
The Egyptian computer scientist chucked in her academic career to become a Coptic Christian nun and has been running the Stephen’s Children charity since 1989. The group reaches
out across religious boundaries to help the disenfranchised in Cairo’s slums. With the Arab Spring revolutions and politics in Egypt taking a more threatening turn, the committee might seek to reward someone seen as untainted by sectarianism and violence. Lawmakers in the U.S. and Norway have nominated her.
CHELSEA MANNING
Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the American soldier convicted of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks in one of the biggest intelligence leaks in U.S. history, is considered an outsider for the award. She is serving 35-year prison sentence for sending more than 700,000 documents to the anti-secrecy website. Awarding her the prize would not go down well with the U.S. government, but the fiercely independent Norwegian Nobel Committee is not afraid of riling powerful nations. Its 2010 peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo deeply angered the Chinese government. NSA leaker Edward Snowden is also getting attention in online betting, but that is wasted money. The deadline for nominations was Feb. 1, months before he became known.
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Local law enforcement officers secure an area in front of the Federal Buildng in Wheeling, W.Va., on Oct. 9, 2013. BY VICKI SMITH ASSOCIATED PRESS WHEELING, W.Va. — The expolice officer who opened fire on a federal courthouse in West Virginia was a trained shooter who knew how to kill, yet federal officials said Thursday that he waved people away moments before he started spraying bullets into the glass facade and was later shot dead by law enforcement. Neither the FBI nor federal prosecutors would discuss the motive for 55-year-old Thomas J. Piccard’s assault. But two possible theories emerged as investigators gathered evidence and neighbors revealed that Piccard had recently told them he was dying of cancer. U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld said the building being the target and other evidence he wouldn’t specify indicates Piccard “had an anti-government bias.” However, he said, Piccard did not appear to target either individuals or a particular office in the federal building just a few blocks from the Wheeling Police Department where he once worked. Nor was Piccard the target of any active federal investigation. But acquaintance Mahlon Shields said the thin, sickly looking man who lived across the street had recently told several people in the Presidential Estates trailer park in Bridgeport, Ohio, that he was dying of stomach cancer and planned to spend his final days in Florida. “I don’t think he wanted to hurt people. I think he was afraid to commit suicide,” said Shields, whose community is about 5 miles from the courthouse, just across the Ohio River. “I believe it was suicide by cop.” An autopsy will be done as part of the investigation, FBI special supervisory agent John Hambrick said, but he wouldn’t confirm whether Piccard was sick. When asked if there was any-
thing about Piccard’s behavior to suggest he might have wanted an officer to shoot him, Hambrick said only, “The possibilities, I’m sure, are numerous. I’m not prepared or qualified to answer that question.” Wheeling Mayor Andy McKenzie said police told him that Piccard had left the force in 2000 after serving more than 10 years. McKenzie said he didn’t know the circumstances behind Piccard’s departure, but that he didn’t have enough service to qualify for retirement. Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger said Piccard was armed Wednesday with a rifle and a handgun, but authorities refused to identify the weapons by model or caliber. Hambrick said only that the rifle “easily could be characterized as an assault rifle.”
There was nothing in my relation with him … to cause me to think anything like this would happen. WILLIAM IHLENFELD U.S. Attorney Nor would they say how much ammunition Piccard carried as he stood in a parking lot across Chapline Street and fired as many as two dozen shots, reloading at least once. Schwertfeger did not say whether Piccard used both weapons during the assault or identify which law enforcement officer returned fatal fire. But he said that officer is being closely looked after, and that all of those involved in the shooting will get counseling. Hambrick said officials convened the Thursday afternoon news conference mainly to assure the public there is no evidence of a conspiracy and no continuing threat to the community. “We feel it’s a reasonable conclusion he acted alone,” Ham-
brick said. Hambrick declined to answer dozens of questions from reporters and suggested there may not be much more information to share until sometime next week. “We owe it to the investigation to do it in a sterile environment,” he said. “We’re not going to put evidence out there piecemeal.” The courthouse was technically open Thursday, but security was tight and traffic was light. Workers moved extra metal detectors in and one judge held court, but U.S. marshals would let no one beyond the lobby without an appointment. Ihlenfeld said he hopes the building will be operating as usual by sometime next week. Ihlenfeld said he knew Piccard from 1997 until the officer left the force. He said he had no reason to believe his office was targeted. About 40 percent of his staff has been furloughed under the partial government shutdown, so many weren’t working when the glass began to shatter. “There was nothing about my relation with him or anything that I observed in dealing with him … to cause me to think anything like this would happen,” he said. In the neighborhood where Piccard lived, people wandered past his white and maroon trailer, one panel of metal siding ripped out and tossed aside as broken glass glittered in the grass. Authorities won’t say what prompted them to evacuate the community Wednesday night, but the experience left Lori LeMasters jittery. “I was shaking,” she said. “There could have been a bomb in there. It could have gone off while we was here.” LeMasters had cut Piccard’s grass over the past two summers and got paid $10 each time because he didn’t have a lawnmower. He wasn’t talkative, she said, but he was friendly. “It’s kind of scary. You just don’t know what to think anymore,” she said. “What’s going on in this world?”
DENVER — Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit the Earth, was guided by two instincts: overcoming fear and quenching his insatiable curiosity. He pioneered his way into the heights of space and the depths of the ocean floor. “Conquering of fear is one of life’s greatest pleasures and it can be done a lot of different places,” he said. His wife, Patty Barrett, said Carpenter died Thursday in a Denver hospice of complications from a September stroke. He lived in Vail. Carpenter followed John Glenn into orbit, and it was Carpenter who gave him the historic sendoff: “Godspeed John Glenn.” The two were the last survivors of the famed original Mercury 7 astronauts from the “Right Stuff” days of the early 1960s. Glenn is the only one left alive. In his one flight, Carpenter missed his landing by 288 miles, leaving a nation on edge for an hour as it watched live and putting Carpenter on the outs with his NASA bosses. So Carpenter found a new place to explore: the ocean floor. He was the only person who was both an astronaut and an aquanaut, exploring the old ocean and what President John F. Kennedy called “the new ocean” — space. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said Thursday that Carpenter “was in the vanguard of our space program — the pioneers who set the tone for our nation’s pioneering efforts beyond Earth and accomplished so much for our nation. … We will miss his passion, his talent and his lifelong commitment to exploration.” Life was an adventure for Carpenter and he said it should be for others: “Every child has got to seek his own destiny. All I can say is that I have had a great time seeking my own.”
Curiosity is a thread that goes through all of my activity. Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind fear. SCOTT CARPENTER Astronaut
The launch into space was nerve-racking for the Navy pilot on the morning of May 24, 1962. “You’re looking out at a totally black sky, seeing an altimeter reading of 90,000 feet and realize you are going straight up. And the thought crossed my mind: What am I doing?” Carpenter said 49 years later in a joint lecture with Glenn at the Smithsonian Institution. For Carpenter, the momentary fear was worth it, he said in 2011: “The view of Mother Earth and the weightlessness is an addictive combination of senses.” For the veteran Navy officer, flying in space or diving to the ocean floor was more than a calling. In 1959, soon after being chosen one of NASA’s
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Scott Carpenter gestures prior to being shot into orbit at Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 24, 1962. pioneering seven astronauts, Carpenter wrote about his hopes, concluding: “This is something I would willingly give my life for.” “Curiosity is a thread that goes through all of my activity,” he told a NASA historian in 1999. “Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.” Even before Carpenter ventured into space, he made history on Feb. 20, 1962, when he gave his Glenn sendoff. It was a spur of the moment phrase, Carpenter later said. “In those days, speed was magic because that’s all that was required … and nobody had gone that fast,” Carpenter explained. “If you can get that speed, you’re home-free, and it just occurred to me at the time that I hope you get your speed. Because once that happens, the flight’s a success.” Three months later, Carpenter was launched into space from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and completed three orbits around Earth in his space capsule, the Aurora 7, which he named after the celestial event. It was just a coincidence, Carpenter said, that he grew up in Boulder, Colo., on the corner of Aurora Avenue and 7th Street. His four hours, 39 minutes and 32 seconds of weightlessness were “the nicest thing that ever happened to me,” Carpenter told a NASA historian. “The zero-g sensation and the visual sensation of spaceflight are transcending experiences and I wish everybody could have them.” His trip led to many discoveries about spacecraft navigation and space itself, such as that space offers almost no resistance, which he found out by trailing a balloon. Carpenter said astronauts in the Mercury program found most of their motivation from the space race with the Russians. When he completed his orbit of the Earth, he said he thought: “Hooray, we’re tied with the Soviets,” who had completed two manned orbits
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SPORTS
“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.” TED WILLIAMS HALL OF FAME OUTFIELDER
Elis aim to spike Ivy foes
On the road again
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The Elis boast the best scoring defense in the Ivy League and the third-best scoring offense in the conference. FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12
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At 3–0, Yale Women’s Volleyball is the only team in the Ivy League with a perfect conference record. VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 loss of the season. “Both [Penn and Princeton] have had success in the past,” libero Tori Shepherd ’17 said. “They know what they’re doing and they know how to win.” For Shepherd, this weekend’s matchup with Penn presents a special opportunity. Her sister, Dani Shepherd, is a libero for the Quakers. Shepherd said she is used to cheering her sister on, but it will be interesting being on the other side of the net this time around. Last year Yale beat Penn in straight sets, but the length of the match hardly indicated its competitiveness. Penn pushed Yale to the brink in the match, leading several times throughout the first set before losing 26–24. In the second set, Penn held an 18–12 lead before libero Maddie Rudnick ’15 stepped up to serve and the Elis went on an improbable 13–1 run for the comeback win. The final set was even at 15-all before Yale pulled away behind a series of kills and attack errors by Penn. The final score was 25–17. “They’re all-around a very strong team,” Polan said. “I don’t think they rely on just one player; they all contribute. I think it’ll be a really good match.” Princeton presents another challenge for the Elis. During Yale’s undefeated season last year, Princeton managed to grab second place in the
conference. The Tigers have proven themselves to be a top team in the competitive Ivy League conference. “Princeton is always really good,” Rudnick said. “We definitely want to play our best against them.” It took Yale’s best to put Princeton away last season. In their first matchup of 2012, Yale prevailed over the Tigers in four sets behind triple doubles from both Polan and setter Kelly Johnson ’16. Three of the four sets were within three points. After dropping the first set by a score of 25–22, Yale scored a comeback victory in the second set to even it up at 1–1. The Elis prevailed with their largest margin of victory in the third set, winning by a score of 25–19. In the fourth and final set, Yale was able to overcome a strong effort by Princeton to pull away late and win 25–22. Since coach Erin Appleman took over the team in 2003, Yale has been a perennial Ivy League powerhouse. “Yale volleyball is not defined by taking points off,” Rudnick said. “We’re never lacking in motivation or focus. We try to get everyone to play as a cohesive unit in order to succeed.” Yale will play Penn tonight at 7 p.m. in Payne Whitney Gym. Contact DIONIS JAHJAGA at dionis.jahjaga@yale.edu .
Bulldogs host alumni day MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 On the other end of the field, defender Nick Alers ’14 has played every minute of the season. Alers has started every game he has played over his four years at Yale. In the midfield, captain McKiernan has also started every game he has played for the Bulldogs in his career. The veteran showed some offensive spirit in the match against Albany, scoring only the second goal of his career with a sublime 30-yard effort in the first half. Henry Flugstad-Clarke ’17 has stepped up in his first campaign for the Elis at wingback, playing in all but one game this season. Classmates Tyler Detorie ’16 and Philip Piper ’16 have also featured heavily for the Elis in defense this season. Ryan Simpson ’17 got the first start of his young Yale career on Tuesday, deputizing for Blake Brown ’15, who looks set to return to the Bulldog net against Dartmouth. Brown has 20 saves this season and has played in both of the Elis’ wins so far. Dartmouth comes into Reese Stadium on the back of its first defeat of the season, which came last weekend to Ivy opponent Princeton.
The Big Green have a tough defense that has surrendered only eight goals on the season. A big reason for this success is the quality of the team’s goaltenders, James Hickok and Stefan Cleveland, who have the two highest save percentages in the conference. The two have been splitting time this season, featuring in four and five games, respectively. The goaltenders have helped Dartmouth to three shutouts this season. On the offensive end, the Big Green are led by Alex Adelabu, who was a First Team All-Ivy selection last year. The forward has 10 points, including four goals, on the season and will be Dartmouth’s main scoring threat on Saturday. The Bulldogs are accustomed to tight contests this season and will be expecting another close game against Dartmouth. The Elis are tied for second-to-last in both goals scored and goals conceded in the Ivy League this year, but can change the outlook of their season with a big home win against the Big Green. Yale takes on Dartmouth on Alumni Day, Saturday at 7:00 p.m. Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .
be a great football game.” The Bulldog defense must continue to prove its mettle facing the talented Dartmouth offense. Sophomore quarterback Dalyn Williams is fifth in the FCS in yards-per-game and can run with the ball as well as throw it. In 171 plays, he has racked up 1076 yards. He gained 793 of those yards through the air. “Dartmouth has a very good offense — a solid run game and a talented quarterback,” captain and defensive end Beau Palin ’14 said. “We must stop the run to make them one dimensional and win the turnover battle.” Although Yale will need to continue to battle on defense, it has a new offensive weapon that was missing from last season’s Dartmouth contest: AllAmerican candidate Tyler Varga ’15. The tailback was held out of last year’s game against the Big Green after concerns arose about Varga’s eligibility. He was able to return to the field the next
week, but was listed as a sophomore from then on. He played his freshman year at the University of Western Ontario. Varga is the only running back in the top 50 FCS players for rushing yards that has only played three games. He ranks third in the FCS in yards per game. With Varga in the backfield for the Bulldogs, Yale will have the opportunity to continue to run a versatile offense managed by Furman’s quick thinking on the field. “[Furman] is making really good decisions,” head coach Tony Reno said about his senior signal caller. Furman has thrown five touchdown passes to just one interception while completing 69 percent of his passes for 678 yards. While the Bulldogs are 3–0 on the season, players on the team said that they are not getting ahead of themselves. Instead, the Elis have continued to push themselves in practice to gear up for more Ivy competition. “We’re just trying to polish
our entire operation,” Furman said. “We’ve had a good start, but that means nothing if we look too far down the road. This week we’re focused on a huge league game in Hanover.” Yale started its season ranked second-to-last in the preseason Ivy polls, but has since demanded respect for its impressive start. Palin attributed the continued success and development of the team to the team’s nose-to-the-grindstone work ethic. “It is essential that we improve on executing in all phases of the game this Saturday — offense, defense and [the] kick game,” Palin said. “A team is only as good as how much they improve week to week.” The Yale-Dartmouth and Harvard-Cornell games will be the only Ivy League contests this weekend. The Bulldog-Big Green matchup will kick off at 1:30 p.m. and will be covered live on FOX College Sports Central. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
Yale faces Marist WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 Yale forward Melissa Gavin ’15 continues to dictate the offensive punch for the Bulldogs, as she is tied for the conference lead with seven goals. Additionally, she is the most efficient scorer in the league on a pershot and per-game basis. Also at the stop of the stat column is midfielder Frannie Coxe ’15, whose six assists top the Ancient Eight. For head coach Rudy Meredith, though, offense has not been the issue — at least in the second half. Falling behind early and failing to score in the first half have plagued the Bulldogs this season. “One of our biggest concerns is not giving up a goal in the first half because we’ve been giving those away like they’re Halloween candy,” Meredith said. “Our first goal is to get to halftime not being down a goal.” He noted that the team has been more able to score in the second half, as 12 of the team’s 15 goals have come in that period. In fact, the team has not scored a first half goal since the fourth game of the season, a 4–3 vic-
tory over Towson on Sept. 15. When the Bulldogs have scored in the first half, they are 3–0. Recently, however, the team has made a habit of entering halftime with a deficit to overcome. Whereas Dartmouth has only allowed one goal in its past six games, Yale has allowed five in just two Ivy League games so far. “It is tough when you’re chasing in Ivy games,” Meredith said. “You most likely lose when you give up two goals in Ivy play.” Coxe said that she recognizes this trend must stop and that the Elis must play an energized first half if they want to come away with the win. For Yale to earn its third consecutive victory over Dartmouth, Coxe emphasized the importance of effort paired with execution. “We need to come out strong in the first half and stick to our game plan,” Coxe said. “We need to continue working on and off the ball, always making sure to communicate and transition into the attack.” The Bulldogs will enter play with a couple of game-time lineup decisions. Goalkeepers
Rachel Ames ’16 and Elise Wilcox ’15 are still battling it out in practice to determine who earns the starting spot. Midfielder Speck is also a question mark: she will play, but where she will play on the pitch this Saturday is still up for debate. Speck has been moved around quite a bit recently, as the midfielder has done great work both on defense and on offense the past few games. It was Speck herself who set up the winning goal against Princeton on Sept. 28 after playing defense for much of the game. Win or lose, Yale will have a chance to either continue its momentum, or pick itself up, when the team travels to take on Marist (6–6–2, 4–2–0 MAAC) Monday night. The Red Foxes are led by senior midfielder Rycke Guiney and her teamleading five goals. For now, however, all the focus for the Bulldogs is on Dartmouth. Kickoff against the Big Green is slated for 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoon at Reese Stadium. Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .
SCHEDULE FRIDAY OCT. 11 Volleyball
vs. Penn
7 p.m.
Yale All-Access
Baseball
vs. SCSU
12 p.m.
City Series
Football
@ Dartmouth
1:30 p.m.
FOX College Sports Network
Field Hockey SUNDAY OCT. 13
@ Cal
4 p.m.
w. Soccer
vs. Dartmouth
4 p.m.
Yale All-Access
Volleyball
vs. Princeton
5 p.m.
Yale All-Access
M. Soccer
vs. Dartmouth
7 p.m.
Yale All-Access
Baseball
UNH or Quinnipiac
TBD
City Series
Field Hockey
@ Stanford
3 p.m.
SATURDAY OCT. 12
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SPORTS PRESEASON RANKINGS MEN’S BASKETBALL The results are in, and the college basketball experts have spoken: Yale figures to be a force in the Ivy League this year. In five different preseason Ivy League rankings, the Elis were predicted to finish second in the Ancient Eight twice and third three times.
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JUSTIN SEARS ’16 AND ANTHONY DALLIER ’17 MEN’S BASKETBALL Keep an eye on these Bulldogs. Sears was named to the preseason All-Ivy second team by Lindy’s Sports Annuals and the preseason All-Ivy third team by College Sports Madness. College Sports Madness tabbed Dallier as its preseason Ivy League freshman of the year.
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Football heads to Hanover FOOTBALL
Yale hosts Penn and Princeton BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER It has been almost two years since the Yale women’s volleyball team lost a conference match. This weekend Yale hosts two longtime rivals who are eager to break that record. The Bulldogs (9–3, 3–0 Ivy) will face Penn (7–7, 1–2) today and Princeton (6–7, 2–1) on Saturday in their last pair of home games before starting a five-game road trip next week.
VOLLEYBALL
teams,” quarterback Hank Furman ’14 said. “We have a bone to pick with the entire league after last year, and Dartmouth can’t take another Ivy loss this early in the year. It will
The Elis are sitting atop the Ivy League as the only undefeated team in the conference. They are also the only team with an overall record above 0.500. Cornell, Brown and Princeton sit in a three-way tie for second, waiting for the Elis to fall. Penn is tied for fifth with Harvard and Columbia, but it boasts a 6–4 record over its last 10 games. As always, the Ivy League conference is competitive from top to bottom, captain Kendall Polan ’14 said. “All eight [schools] are pretty equal,” Polan said. “I think anyone is capable of winning.” Today Yale takes on the Quakers. Penn comes in having eked out a victory on the road over the Big Red last weekend, handing Cornell its first
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SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 11
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The football team will aim for its first 4–0 start since 2007 this Saturday against Dartmouth. BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Last week’s 24–10 victory at No. 18/19 Cal Poly last week improved Yale football’s record to 3–0, its best start to a season since 2007. Yale
will put that winning streak on the line against Dartmouth tomorrow. The Elis returned home this week from an almost 3000-mile trek to face the Cal Poly Mustangs, but will hit the road again to face Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. The Big Green
Elis seek rebound
enter the contest on Saturday 0–1 in the Ivy League after a heartbreaking and record-breaking quadruple overtime loss to Penn last weekend. For both teams, there is a lot on the line. “It’s a must win game for both
Bulldogs look to pounce on Dartmouth BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER Despite slipping up against Albany on Tuesday, the men’s soccer team will look to continue its undefeated Ivy League campaign against Dartmouth during Alumni Day — when former players return to campus — on Saturday. The Bulldogs (2–7–0, 1–0 Ivy) will face a stiff test against the Big Green (4–1–4, 0–1 Ivy), who have conceded the second fewest number of goals in the conference this season.
MEN’S SOCCER
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The women’s soccer team will look to move above .500 in conference this weekend at home against Dartmouth. BY JAMES BADAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Coming off a disappointing loss to Harvard this past Saturday, the women’s soccer team is seeking to jump back above .500 early in this year’s Ivy League season. The Bulldogs try to do just that when they host fellow Ivy contender Dartmouth on Saturday before making a trip to Marist on Monday night for a non-conference showdown.
WOMEN’S SOCCER Yale (5–4–0, 1–1–0 Ivy) is in dire need of a confidence boost, especially considering the fact that the team’s victory over defending Ivy League champion Princeton to open conference play is beginning to seem a bit less impressive. Princeton has struggled thus far, producing an 0–2–0 record in the Ivy
League, with the Tigers’ second loss coming to none other than Dartmouth (4–4–2, 1–1–0). To maintain their Ivy League title aspirations, the Bulldogs cannot afford any more slipups. “If we want a shot at the title, it’s very important that we win out the rest of our games,” midfielder Meredith Speck ‘15 said. “Our season isn’t nearly over, and anything can happen on any given day, but we need to keep up the mentality that there is no other option but to win.” Forward Emma Brush has been the primary catalyst on offense so far for the Big Green, leading the team in goals (5), points (12) and game-winning goals (2). Meanwhile, goalkeeper Tatianna Saunders bolsters the defense for Dartmouth, as herfour shutouts are tied for second-most in the Ivy League. SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 11
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The Bulldogs opened their Ivy League schedule in style last weekend with a thrilling 2–1 comeback against Harvard. The team will look to replicate its success at home, where Yale is 1–2 on the season. The Elis will be facing a stingy Big Green defense on Saturday, but are accustomed to tight games as only two of their contests this season have featured a margin of two
goals or greater. The Bulldog offense has started to click, scoring five goals in their last five matches after being shut out in three of its first four games. “We need to pass the ball quickly and have good movement off the ball,” captain Max McKiernan ‘14 said. “Dartmouth is going to make us earn any chances we get.” The match against Dartmouth represents only the second time in six years that Yale has had the opportunity to start 2–0 in the Ivy League. In 2011, their last 2–0 start, the Elis beat Harvard and Dartmouth to begin the season and went on to finish 4–3 in the conference. Both the senior and freshman classes have been making a large impact for the Bulldogs this season. On the offensive end, four of the top five point-getters, as well as the top five players generating shots this season, come from the classes of 2014 and 2017. “Our seniors are the custodians of the team’s competitive culture,” head coach
Brian Tompkins said. “They continue to be fantastic leaders in every respect, on and off the field. The newcomers are settling in well and have been getting a lot of on-thejob training in challenging circumstances. They are still learning from the veterans and will only get better as the season goes on.” Forward Peter Jacobson ’14 leads the team in points with nine, and is second in the Ivy League in goals with four. His partner up front, Cameron Kirdzik ’17, leads the team in shots with 24 — good for second in the conference — and has scored twice this season. Wingers Jenner Fox ’14 and Cody Wilkins ’14 have featured prominently in every game so far this season, each providing an assist. Midfielder Henry Albrecht ’17 has started in all but one game this season and has the second highest shots on goal percentage this season (.833), as he has put five of his six shots on frame. SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 11
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The men’s soccer team will look to carry its momentum after a thriling comeback win over Harvard last Saturday.
THE RANKING OF THE MEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY TEAM IN THE NORTHEAST REGION. The Bulldogs finished seventh at the Paul Short Invitational last weekend in Bethlehem, Pa. Kevin Dooney ’16 finished in 29th place with a time of 24:38 to lead Yale.