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Last pool party of the year.
Yalies on the West Coast waved goodbye to the summer of ’13 with the “last pool party of 2013” held on Saturday at the W Hotel in Westwood, Los Angeles. The event, sponsored in true Los Angeles style by Vita Coco Pure Coconut Water, catered to members of The Ivy Plus Society, which puts on networking and social events for alumni of select colleges. Swing vote. In case Yale was not already enough of a vegan paradise, Blue State is holding a Facebook voting contest to determine which one of three vegan food items — vegan hoisin seitan wrap, vegan tempeh reuben wrap, or vegan Mediterranean sandwich — will end up on the coffee chain’s fall menu. One vegan student interviewed said that between this latest voting contest and Blue State’s existing charityof-the-month voting campaign, the coffee shops seem to be “a little too obsessed” with promoting their democratic values. “But I guess it makes sense given that their thing is coffee served up with a dose of liberal guilt,” she said.
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Graduate Studies. These projects had been delayed several times due to the financial downturn, which caused the Yale endowment to lose nearly a quarter of its value in the 2009 fiscal year. The announcement
Jose Maria Islas is now safe from deportation and able to return to his family and work, announced La Unidad Latina en Acción at a rally Monday morning. The announcement came after a long, highly publicized struggle between immigrant advocacy groups in New Haven and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Islas has known since August that he has been granted a “stay of removal” which allows him to reside and work in the U.S. legally for one year, though he only made this information public on Monday. Islas was imprisoned for four months last year for a false accusation of bicycle theft and could not pay bail because of his undocumented status. He was detained at a Mass. jail with an ICE hold request authorized under the federal Secure Communities program. His case spurred a city-wide movement to free Islas and protect him from deportation. “I am delighted and gratified that the government has taken a step that is long overdue and clearly appropriate,” said Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73, who has openly supported Islas since May.
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After years in limbo, the construction of the new residential colleges is set to begin early 2015. BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER The construction of Yale’s two new residential colleges was postponed indefinitely because of the recession, but Provost Benjamin Polak announced Monday that the
university plans to break ground on the colleges in Feb. 2015. In a Monday email to the Yale community, Polak formally announced a target timeline for the construction of the new residential colleges, the new Yale Biology Building and the renovation of the Hall of
Staying hip ’n relevant. The
Yale press office has gone full Valencia. An Instragram photo contest has been organized for Inauguration weekend and includes ten creative and somewhat odd categories, each with unique prizes. The taker of the “most festive Fiesta Instagram” receives two tickets to the Yale Rep’s spring production while the “Best Brain Instagram” of the Cushing Center brains exhibit receives a portrait by the University photographer. A University photographer photo shoot will also be awarded to the participant who produces the “most divine instagram” but this time “on top of one of Yale’s towers during the academic year.” Here’s hoping Kline Biology Tower is not out of the question.
True town-gown spirit. The
Yale Club of New Haven is actively recruiting Yale and non-Yale members according to the New Haven Register. Unlike hundreds of other Yale Clubs around the world, the Yale Club of New Haven has opened its doors to Elm City natives, including those who work at Yale and local businesses. The typical Yale Club events, including financial literacy seminars and scotch tastings, will still be provided.
Nemerov’s ghost? Early 18th century art can be terrifying if accidentally seen in the wrong light. Capitalizing on that fact, the Yale Center for British Art has assembled a Flickr album of “creepy artworks” for Halloween. Pieces depict amorphous monsters spewing flames on Englishmen, a massive funeral procession, and various moonlit gardens. In an odd bias, the series contains multiple pictures of scenes from Macbeth. This day in Yale history, 1962.
David Pauker, headwaiter at Mory’s, turns 65.
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Rothman wins Nobel Prize BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND JENNIFER GERSTEN STAFF REPORTERS The phone call came at 4:30 in the morning on Monday. “I have to say, it made me feel awake,” said James Rothman ’71, a biomedical sciences, cell biology and chemistry professor. The caller wished to con-
gratulate Rothman on his latest laurel: a Nobel Prize. Rothman, who chairs the Cell Biology department, shares the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Randy Schekman, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Thomas Südhof, a professor at Stanford University. The three will split an award of 8 million Swedish krona, or roughly $1.2
million. The prize committee, which is based in Stockholm, cited Rothman, Schekman and Südhof for their “discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.” Together, the three recipients’ research pieces together how vesicles, which are cellular cargo packages, get to where
they need to go on time. Rothman’s individual contribution deals with the protein machinery that allows vesicles to dock at their destinations. Jonathan Bogan ’86, a professor of medicine and cell biology, said that Rothman’s seminal work was completed in the late 80s and early 90s, when Rothman was teaching biochemistry at Stanford.
All three of this year’s winners are affiliated with Stanford in some way — Südhof as a current professor, Rothman as a former professor and Schekman as a former doctoral student. Bogan said many of Rothman’s colleagues were expecting him to receive the award. SEE NOBEL PRIZE PAGE 10
Wood leaves aldermanic race
Charles Taylor dies at 84 BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER Charles Taylor ’50 GRD ’53 ’55, Yale’s provost from 1963 to 1972 who helped spearhead the diversification of the student body and the modernization of University health care, died of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease in Paris, France on Sept. 25. He was 84. Taylor served as Yale’s provost during a time of significant tumult, and also served as acting president for one academic semester when former University President Kingman Brewster took a sabbatical in 1971. Faculty and friends interviewed remembered Taylor as a compassionate and effective administrator who advocated for dramatic change within the Yale student body in a time of fiscal hardship and political turbulence, as he pushed for the integration of women and racially diverse students. “Charlie Taylor was my model for what a University leader should be,” said Jonathan Fanton ’65 GRD ’77 ’78, special assistant to the President from 1970 to 1973. “He had a laser-like instinct about people — he was a good judge of people and he cared very deeply about Yale.”
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Taylor’s colleagues recalled him as a bright and independent thinker, as well as a dedicated advocate of Brewster’s long-term plans for the University, which involved broadening the demographics of the student body, accepting women and minorities and generally opening up the realm of higher education to become more socially SEE CHARLES TAYLOR PAGE 10
Ella Wood ’15, who previously lost the Democratic primary election in September, has dropped out of the race for Ward 7 Alderman. BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Ella Wood ’15 has decided to drop out of the race for the Ward 7 seat on the New Haven Board of Aldermen, she told the News Monday evening, opting not to run as an Independent in the general election following her loss in September’s Democratic primary.
Wood’s decision effectively hands the election to incumbent Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, who fended off Wood’s primary challenge by winning 331 votes to Wood’s 232. The erstwhile candidate moved to the ward this summer in order to challenge Hausladen in what was previously an uncontested race. Pitching a message of broader SEE ELLA WOOD PAGE 4
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Teach financial literacy I
n the most recent meeting of my economics senior seminar, our topic of discussion was financial literacy. Our conclusion — perhaps obvious to anyone but economists — was that a high level of financial knowledge could, in part, lead to good financial outcomes. Conversely, low levels of such knowledge could in part explain some people’s poor financial outcomes — running out of money in retirement, being unable to pay off debt, losing a home. Our class’s discussion wasn’t abstract or academic. Rather, after discussing the types of financial questions many Americans struggle to answer, most of us realized that we were equally financially clueless. Now, it’s worth noting that Yale students, on average, tend to be in a strong financial position. Many will, upon graduating, earn salaries higher than the average income of an entire American household. Even for those of us pursuing less lucrative careers, Yale’s generous financial aid policies mean we will graduate with lower levels of student debt than many of our peers nationwide. Many Yale students come from highincome families, and all of us benefit from the Yale network. Still, even among senior Economics majors, many of us had very little idea how to go about financial planning post-graduation. I, for one, have heard from some people that it is worthwhile to apply for a credit card even if I won’t use it, just to build a stronger credit score. I’ve also heard that having such idle cards could damage my score. For those of us going to graduate school, how should we think about new student debt? How clear a sense do we need of our post-graduate school earnings in order to take on more debt? Or are subsidies for student loans generous enough that it makes sense for us to finance as much of our post-college education as possible through new debt? Will accumulating wealth right out of college help us pay for grad school down the road, or might it somehow reduce the levels of financial aid or fellowships for which we might otherwise qualify? Such questions are equally if not more important for Yalies going into high-earning jobs. Many students say they plan to work a high-paying job in finance, consulting or the technology industry for a couple years before pursuing entrepreneurship, government, nonprofit work, more school or some other lower-paying option. But once in a high-paying job, it can be hard to avoid spending as much as the other high earners around you. Many of us know friends who ended up staying on a particular career path for far longer than they originally intended. Only late in that process did many realize that doors they originally planned to walk
had closed on them. W h a t can Yale do about all this? Maybe not much; at some point, we will all HARRY learn to deal LARSON with financial tradeNothing in offs by facing the conParticular sequences of our financial decisions. Some Yalies, who have had to personally shoulder some portion of the cost of their education, have already learned such lessons by the time they arrived on campus. Still, we require that freshmen attend a series of workshops and educational sessions on alcohol and sexual safety, even though those are areas about which many freshmen already know, whether from personal experience or high school curricula. Would it be so unreasonable for Yale to require sessions on financial health for graduating seniors? UCS already provides some excellent information in its “Life After Yale” pamphlet on financial issues from taxes, to rent, to commuting cheaply. Still, the pamphlet doesn’t go into these or other issues with a great deal of depth. Required financial literacy sessions would work much better. Yale could require seniors to complete online sessions and subsequent quizzes — like what is required to participate in oncampus recruiting. While such a system wouldn’t require rigid time commitments from seniors, it would fail to easily facilitate follow-up questions. Physical classes would work better. Some could be taught by financial advisors or others with technical knowledge about taxes, interest rates, vehicles for saving and debt; others could be taught by recent graduates who have, perhaps, made poor decisions about credit card debt or student loans. In addition to attending — and completing an assessment showing they understood the material — students would be free to begin a back-and-forth discussion. Teaching financial literacy is no panacea for financial problems, and there is no doubt that any required classes eating into Yalies’ already busy schedules will attract a good deal of griping. Still, the stakes of many financial questions students will face immediately upon graduation are too high to be muddled through. Yalies have the ideas and the determination to achieve what they want to in life. It would be a shame if they were set back by the inability to manage their money. HARRY LARSON is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at harry.larson@yale.edu .
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GUEST COLUMNIST MARIA WU
Respect Quinnipiac A
certain nearby university has been named among the nation’s best schools by U.S. News and World Report, and the research coming from its campus is widely read and nationally acclaimed. Students there proudly boast “Beat Yale” shirts at sporting events, taking our school rivalry quite seriously. No, the college we’re describing isn’t Harvard — it’s our other rival to the North, Quinnipiac University. Quinnipiac students use the abbreviation QU, but to Yalies it’s better known as Qpac — a nickname students there consider derisive. Some freshmen told me they’ve never heard of Quinnipiac and do not know that it is one of the best institutions of higher learning in the region. They do, however, know the insulting qualities implied by the term “Qpac girl.” I don’t blame these uninformed freshmen — I found out about QU a couple weeks into my freshman year when one of my male friends had to dress up as a Qpac girl for an initiation. Later that night I Googled the phrase, thinking it was an unfamiliar slang term for drag, and I promptly educated myself. It’s strange that we know so little about QU. Although its
campus is a mere twenty minutes away, our spheres only intersect at sports games or on Saturday nights at Toad’s Place. As a result, we end up filling in the gaps with extrapolations, usually in the form of Qpac girl jokes, all of which seem uncomfortably sexist and hypocritical. On any given weekend, it is hard for me to differentiate between the notorious Qpac girls and the Yale students stumbling down York Street in revealing clothing. To be fair, Yale students have probably been the butt of quite a few pinky-up-tea-drinking jabs at our elitism. But we have not suffered the same degree of disrespect as QU has. In one freshman seminar at QU, students are required to read a 2003 article published in the News that characterizes their school as “a world where beer flows like water and shortages of condoms [happen] due to overwhelming demand.” Even on the sports field, QU students seem to take Yale much more seriously than we take them. While Yalies focus attention on our rivalry with Harvard, QU students wear their “Beat Yale” shirts year round, even at nonYale sporting events. Their athletic director talks about how the Quinnipiac-Yale rivalry might
one day become just as big as the Harvard-Yale one. Beyond the façade of mock hatred, a rivalry between two schools indicates acknowledgment and respect, something that QU students feel that they’ve been snubbed of. Between their resentment and our dismissal, we don’t exactly have a healthy relationship with QU. At times, it has even escalated beyond the usual namecalling to fistfights at Toad’s. But a couple of weeks ago, things took a sickening turn when Chief Ronnell Higgins reported an alleged sexual assault of a QU student by a Yale student. Around the same time, a comment that was posted on the Facebook group Overheard at Yale read, “Qpac girls are so stupid. Like, I bet you could ask one of them ‘Would you like to fornicate?’ and she just wouldn’t understand you at all.” The Facebook post generated a lot of backlash, with Yalies connecting its derisive attitude to Chief Higgins’s report of the assault. But I wonder what the response would have been if that Facebook post had not happened so soon after the report of sexual violence. Would it have gotten lots of likes, with students commenting “lol” and “so true"? Chief Higgins’s
email was a chilling reminder that the grotesque caricatures we create of Qpac girls can impact our behavior, preventing us from seeing QU students as peers deserving of our respect. The problematic QU-Yale relationship stems from a lack of communication and interaction. At Yale it is easy to feel that we live in an isolated bubble, but with QU’s campus less than ten miles away, it cannot be too hard to bring Yalies and QU students together. Both schools frequently do research and community service in New Haven and the surrounding areas, and these sorts of activities are a great way for students to develop relationships built on something more substantive than stereotypes. We can also make an effort to attend more Yale-QU sports games, especially the ones that aren’t in our own arenas. It may take several years, but with both sides striving for cooperation and respect, we can develop a friendlier relationship. But not too friendly — they won’t go easy on us in the hockey rink, and neither should we. MARIA WU is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact her at maria.wu@yale.edu .
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Celebrating Winesday M
y friends and I have a weekly tradition we affectionately call Winesday. For the past couple years, every Wednesday night, regardless of any work that may be due the next morning, we take an hour or so and catch up over a bottle of wine. This weekly ritual has grown to be one of my most cherished memories at Yale. Last April, I found a summer internship posting on Undergraduate Career Services for Bottlenotes, the leading digital media company in the wine industry. After being offered the job and spending an eye-opening summer working at the company’s headquarters in California, I quickly learned how little I actually knew about this complex product with its centuries of rich history. After a number of visits to vineyards in Napa Valley, I came to understand the industry’s deep roots in Western society. Wine is the most celebrated expression of man’s relationship with the Earth, distilled into a consumable product. Wine allows you to travel the world and experience different cultures without leaving your barstool. I returned to Yale and Winesday with a newfound desire to savor wine as an art form. I am not trying to discount the benefits of wine’s inebriating effects. A nice game of slap the bag can liven up any lame party. But when we transition out of our lives as college students, it is important to recognize that wine has a place beyond our pregame coffee tables. Luckily, the best way to become a more seasoned wine drinker is also really fun — by drinking more wine. Drinking quality wine on a college budget may sound nearly impossible, but fortunately if you look around there are actually a number of opportunities for college students to drink free of charge. First off, wine stores will often provide periodic tastings of their products. The Wine Thief on Crown Street offers in-store wine tastings every Friday evening from 5:00 to 8:00. And once in a while, there will be opportunities to taste fine wine even on campus. Tuesday afternoon, for example, Pierson will be hosting a Master’s Tea with Bottlenotes’ CEO Alyssa Rapp and co-founder Kim Donaldson. Following the tea, Rapp and Donaldson will be guiding students 21 and over through a tasting of six different wines from around the globe. When you do venture into New Haven to buy a drink, know what you’re paying for. Restaurant mark-ups on wine are typically absurd. If you’re looking to split a bottle with friends, you’re usually better off bringing your own and paying the corkage fee than ordering one off the menu. Some-
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times New Haven restaurants do offer good deals, especially during happy hours. Barcelona has one of the richest wine menus in New Haven, and they offer tasting portions that allow you to try a number of selections without getting too tipsy. Their happy hour also features five dollar glasses accompanied by free bar snacks. Ordinary also has a wonderful international wine selection, and they offer a 50 percent discount on bottles every Tuesday night. If you decide to drink at home, put in a little extra effort to taste your wine properly. You’ve already spent money on buying the drinks, so it would really be a waste just to down the bot-
tle without any sort of consideration to its contents. You may consider investing in actual wine glasses, with stems and all the works. Regardless of how much you spend, I promise the wine will taste infinitely better coming out of a glass than out of a Solo Cup. Now that you’re properly equipped and ready to drink, take a moment to really observe the wine. What does it look like? How does it move in the glass? And most importantly, how does it smell? Wine experts claim that 85 percent of wine tasting is olfactory, so this step is crucial. Once you’ve completed this process, which doesn’t have to take more than a minute, then you’re ready
to actually drink. But in the end, I obviously do not want to take all the fun out of drinking wine. Although critics can pick apart the specific qualities of wine for hours, for our sake drinking wine is still a social practice and shouldn’t feel too much like academic work. Despite all the things I learned this summer, and the decades of wine experience I have yet to attain, there is one thing I know I had gotten right from the start: the best wine is served in the company of friends. BRYCE WIATRAK is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at bryce.wiatrak@yale.edu .
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Campus preps for party BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER In the midst of midterms, Yale is preparing for one of its biggest parties in recent memory. University President Peter Salovey will be officially inaugurated this weekend, marking the completion of Yale’s first leadership transition in two decades. Although he has occupied his office in Woodbridge Hall since July 1, Salovey will not formally hold the presidency until he is instated by Yale Corporation senior fellow Margaret Marshall LAW ’76. The ceremony will come at the end of a week-long series of festivities including events such as open houses, concerts and Inaugural Balls, most of which are open to the entire Yale community and to residents of New Haven. “President Salovey told the Inauguration Committee that he cared a great deal about making this event as inclusive as possible,” Special Assistant to the President Penelope Laurans said. “The Inauguration committee has tried hard to heed his wishes in its planning.” The week’s activities began Monday, with Salovey visiting 27 academic departments and other staff offices. For the first half of this week, Salovey will make up to 10 appearances per day. Daniel Harrison GRD ’86, a music professor and chair of the Inauguration Committee, said these visits, though low-profile, are among the most important events of the week because Salovey is interacting with both faculty and staff, many of whom are also residents of New Haven. With 10,000 residents of New Haven and the surrounding area working at Yale, the University inevitably has an impact on the city, Deputy Chief Communications Officer Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93 said. For Salovey, including the Elm City in the festivities was a fundamental concern, he said. “[Salovey] and his wife are deeply involved with, and committed to, Yale’s hometown,” Morand said, adding that Salovey “was clear from the beginning of planning that he wanted Yale’s neighbors, his home community, involved in the celebration.” Though there will be a celebration for faculty and staff on Tuesday and some invitation-only symposia with top Yale professors Friday afternoon, the more formal aspects of the inauguration will not commence until Friday evening. Woolsey Hall will play host to an invitation-only “Celebration Concert” hosted by Music School Dean Robert Blocker, who said the concert will “honor the new president and his wife with music that has meaning for them.” On Saturday, the University will
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University President Peter Salovey will be officially inaugurated this weekend, marking Yale’s first leadership transition in two decades. host a campus-wide open house, allowing Yale community members and New Haven residents to explore parts of the University, such as the residential colleges, that are typically restricted. Later that evening, students are invited to attend one of two “Inaugural Balls,” one in the Hall of Graduate Studies Courtyard for graduate students and the other on Old Campus for undergraduates. According to University Vice President Kimberly Goff-Crews ’83 LAW ’86, Salovey personally selected the bands playing at each event. His own band, the Professors of Bluegrass, will also perform. Still, the formal inauguration of Yale’s 23rd president on Sunday in Woolsey Hall will be by far the most traditional event. After Marshall presents him with the University’s symbols of authority, most notably the President’s Collar, Salovey will deliver an inaugural address. Most of the seats at the ceremony will be filled with distinguished faculty, presidents of Yale’s peer schools and other dignitaries, but each residential college was allotted five seats per class, which were distributed through lotteries. The University’s graduate and professional schools were also allocated tickets. For those unable to attend, the ceremony will be livestreamed online and satellite viewing locations will be set up in Battell Chapel and on Hillhouse Avenue. “Our ability to livestream events has allowed us to use current digital innovations to increase accessibility,” Goff-Crews said in a Monday email. “We no longer judge access by how many people we can get in a room. We have the capacity to
reach many more people by providing a live feed for everyone to view the event — on their own, in small groups and at special venues on and off campus.” Despite the University’s efforts to make the inaugural ceremonies accessible, many Yale students will still miss Salovey’s Sunday speech. Of 36 students interviewed, 21 said they did not plan to watch the ceremony. “I have other obligations that I feel are more pressing than these celebrations,” Hung Pham ’15 said. Following the ceremony in Woolsey Hall, the University will host a block party on Hillhouse Avenue. The party will be the final, and most inclusive, event of the inauguration week. Though administrators declined to comment on the exact cost of the inauguration festivities, Morand said the cost of the inauguration celebrations “is in line with other large-scale university events,” and Goff-Crews said the event will be entirely gift-funded. According to Harrison, much of that funding will come from contributions made by the 15 members of the Yale Corporation, the body responsible for appointing the president. “When the corporation turns over the president they pass the hat amongst themselves to help the community celebrate,” Harrison said. Yale’s former president Richard Levin was inaugurated Oct. 2, 1993. Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .
Though its rollout was not glitchfree, Connecticut’s week-old healthcare exchange website is functioning more smoothly than most others in the country established as part of the Affordable Care Act. Since Tuesday, Oct. 1, 175 insurance applications have been processed through the site, AccessHealthCT. com. At a discussion organized by the Yale College Democrats Monday evening in the Branford common room, AccessHealthCT CEO Kevin Coulihan joined Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. to talk about the next steps for New Haven and the state. The biggest challenge, Coulihan said, would be convincing people that they should sign up for health insurance on the exchange. “This is a sales job now,” Coulihan said. AccessHealthCT Chief Operating Officer Peter Van Loon told the News that 344,000 Connecticut residents are currently uninsured. The goal is to enroll at least 100,000 for health insurance, whether through Medicaid or private plans, by the end of the first year. As part of the efforts to persuade uninsured residents to use the exchange, Connecticut designated six cities, New Haven among them, as “navigators” to conduct outreach work and enroll people in insurance plans. New Haven will also be the site of one of two in-person assistance centers, a concept “totally ripped off from Apple stores,” Coulihan said. At the center, which will open on Church Street in two weeks, people will be able to receive guidance from trained counselors as they complete online applications for insurance. The site allows users to compare plan benefits and prices and see whether they qualify for a federal subsidy to purchase insurance. But DeStefano said the centers would be of little use to a significant proportion of New Haven’s 20,000 uninsured, because “they’re undocumented, which the Affordable Care Act doesn’t address.” DeStefano said he was concerned that barriers of culture and language would be a challenge in reaching out to uninsured
residents. Coulihan and DeStefano also noted that even with subsidies, health insurance in Connecticut is expensive. The state spends more on health care per capita than all but Alaska, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. “That’s a big barrier for us in New Haven,” DeStefano said. Even as AccessHealthCT was setting up the exchange site, it was beginning the work of advertising the exchange. Van Loon said time pressure had forced the organization to complete multiple tasks simultaneously “that in a perfect world would be done in sequence.” AccessHealthCT had a year to get the exchange up and running, a task Van Loon said ought to have taken two. “At the same time, we were trying to develop what standard plans to provide, we had to lock down how we were going to present the plans to the world,” Van Loon said. Coulihan said that AccessHealthCT had sponsored several concerts during the summer to target uninsured young people. Coulihan met Lil’ Wayne and Lil’ Wayne’s opening act, though Coulihan said he was so focused on the technical work of establishing the exchange site that he confused the opening act’s name. “I called him I.T.,” Coulihan said. “He said, ‘It’s T.I., man.’” In Connecticut, 9.6 percent of the population is uninsured. Critics of the Affordable Care Act charge that the relatively low number of completed applications signals that the law has not been successful. Coulihan said fully implementing the law will take time, and added that Connecticut and Kentucky have had smoother exchange rollouts than the other states. Residents of states that did not establish individual exchanges can buy insurance on a federal site called HealthCare. gov. During its first week, error messages prevented many users from creating accounts and viewing insurance plans. “Most of the country had a rough week,” Coulihan said. People who enroll in insurance plans via state or federal exchanges will receive coverage beginning in January 2014. Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .
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City Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. was among those discussing health care at an event in the Branford common room Monday evening.
One month from election, fundraising ramps up BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER In the final four weeks before Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Toni Harp ARC ’78 square off for the title of mayor of New Haven, every dollar will count — covering the costs of advertisements, mailings and food to nourish volunteers.
The numbers are an indication that my campaign is gaining momentum. JUSTIN ELICKER FES ’10 SOM ’10 Mayoral candidate The latest indication of where the candidates stand in the money race surfaced Monday evening, when the Elicker campaign released the details of its most recent campaign finance filing for the fundraising period ending Oct. 4. In the month following the Democratic primary — when he lost to Harp but pledged to stay in the election as an Independent — Elicker raised roughly $85,000, making this period the campaign’s strongest fundraising quarter to date, despite the fact that he is no longer receiving matching funds from the city through participation in the Democracy Fund. Though Harp’s filing dead-
line does not fall until Oct. 10, the campaign released a preliminary estimate of its sum total for the past month: $104,000, dwarfing Elicker’s by $19,000. Elicker said the numbers show his campaign has gained in strength since his loss in the primary. Westville resident Michael Pinto said in the campaign’s press statement that the slimming down of the choices to two candidates has led to significant gains for Elicker, primarily among people who “see Justin as the independent voice.” “The numbers are an indication that my campaign is gaining momentum, and part of that is because it’s now a twoway race,” Elicker said. “But it’s also because there is just in general greater excitement about my campaign in recent days, based on our strong position in the primary and the fact that Kermit Carolina endorsed me.” An erstwhile candidate for mayor, Carolina threw his weight behind Elicker at the end of September, asking voters to look beyond race when choosing between Elicker, who is white, and Harp, who is black. Though many of his donors are repeat givers — taking advantage of the clean slate for donations afforded by the general election — Elicker said he has also received donations from a fair number of former supporters of Carolina and Henry Fernandez LAW ’94, another former candidate who dropped out after a loss in the primary.
Harp Campaign Spokesman Patrick Scully said the Elicker campaign is “obsessed with fundraising” and added that Harp is instead focused on “policy” and “speaking to New Haven voters.” Elicker said the most important takeaway from his report is the breadth of local support for his campaign. Of the 405 donations he received from Sept. 4 to Oct. 4, 89 percent came from New Haven residents. More than half of the donors to his campaign gave $100 or less. Elicker was an early advocate of the New Haven Democracy Fund, the city’s public campaign finance system that limits individual contributions to $370 and prevents candidates from taking special interest or PAC money in return for public matching funds. As a petitioning candidate, Elicker is no longer eligible for the fund — nor bound by its rules. However, Elicker said he is still swearing off special interest money and only taking donations of $370 or less. Abstaining from the Democracy Fund throughout the campaign, Harp said the program is a drain on the city’s resources and a burden on taxpayers. During the primary, Harp led Elicker considerably in fundraising, but also vastly outspent him. At the close of the primary, the Harp campaign had a negative balance of $23,000, which Scully said they are in the process of paying back. Scully said Harp’s donations come from a range of supporters — both within and outside of the
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Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 raised $85,000 over the course of the last fundraising period. city — and added that the recent round of donations also indicate strong support from former Fernandez and Carolina supporters. “We have definitely seen a number of supporters of other
candidates come to our side,” he said. “We don’t break it down by who they used to support. That’s just not a good use of our time. We break it down how we’re required to by law, and then we focus on
policy.” The election is on Nov. 5. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.” MAHATMA GANDHI LEADER IN INDIAN NATIONALISM
ICE drops Islas case as activists face charges
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New Haven citizens protested deportation laws and the mistreatment of undocumented immigrants in the wake of the incarceration of Jose Maria Islas. IMMIGRATION FROM PAGE 1 ULA’s announcement came minutes before four activists went to trial at the New Haven courthouse for disorderly conduct, which they had planned in order to bring attention to the injustices immigrants face from the judicial system. On Feb. 21, the day Islas was given his final deportation order, these activists participated in civil disobedience by blocking an entrance to the Hartford federal courthouse. “It was a crisis,” ULA activist Megan Fountain ’07 said, who was among those charged. “We help those in crises.” All four defendants represented themselves yesterday and pleaded “not guilty.” The defendants said
that their demonstration was peacful, and they used security footage as evidence. The group of activists cross-examined each other and also the federal agents who arrested them to make their case. Fountain said their judge, Joan Margolif, was “unbelievably interested in what we had to say.” The activists are now awaiting their ruling. They had intended to use this case to demonstrate the right “to be treated with respect, dignity and due process,” according to Mark Colville, a founding member of Amistad Catholic Worker, a local service organization. “[Islas] didn’t have any of these things when he went to trial,” Colville said. Once the judge acquitted Islas,
he spent the next year in and out of various immigration facilities. While at home, he was monitored by GPS-tracking bracelet and visited weekly by ICE agents, Fountain said. The movement’s profile rose tremendously this summer when U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal wrote open letters to ICE asking for Islas’s release. Blumenthal said he was inspired to support Islas after seeing “how unwise and unfair the government has been in seeking to deport him without any real factual or legal basis.” ULA, along with other New Haven advocacy organizations, has demonstrated and petitioned ICE to return Islas to his family since his first incarceration. Jor-
dan Scruggs DIV ’15, who also stood on trial Monday, said that for awhile they had tried writing letters and petitions to politicians, but after seeing Islas and his family face a trying legal process and the possibility of deportation, she felt she had to “disrupt the narrative” of deportation. Though ULA publicly announced Islas’s safety at the rally Monday morning, he received the letter from ICE informing him of their decision in late August after his attorney, Danielle Briand ’01, called the office. The letter was dated Jul. 19. Briand, who has represented Islas since August, said that Islas is not totally in the clear and will have to reapply for this status annually. The trial has devastated the
Islas family, activists said. He has been unable to work due to his incarceration and lawsuit and has also suffered from trauma from being in jail for so long. Speaking through a bullhorn, ULA activist John Lugo said that in light of this victory, it is important to keep advocating and fighting for the thousands of individuals like Islas who face unjust deportation. “Politicians play with the hopes of millions of people by promising immigration reform,” he shouted. “We need to make direct actions to stop deportations.” But Sen. Blumenthal remains hopeful for immigration reform at the structural level once the government reopens.
“There are many others like [Islas] whom I am seeking to assist through legislative changes, as an advocate for immigration reform in Washington,” he said. “The results in this case show that intervention and advocacy for individuals can make a difference.” The “stay of removal” condition, similar to “deferred action,” is a result of a federal executive policy called “prosecutorial discretion,” which says that the government can and should drop a case if the person under investigation is not a dangerous criminal or otherwise a priority for removal. Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .
Wood bows out of race for Ward 7 ELLA WOOD FROM PAGE 1 community engagement and equitable economic development in New Haven’s downtown district, Wood drew the support of a contingent of progressive students on campus as well as organizers under the auspices of Yale’s Unite Here unions, Locals 34 and 35. “I spent the past couple of weeks talking to lots of the supporters and volunteers who were involved in this campaign,” she said. “And emerging from that conversations was a very strong sense that this incredible team of people is ready and excited about moving forward and continuing the fight, and that everyone was on board, but that the best way to continue the project that came out of this campaign was through me not running in the general election.” Rumors of Wood’s decision to withdraw from the race surfaced Monday afternoon following a Sunday meeting of the Yale Political Union’s Independent Party, which Wood chairs. A member of the Independent Party told the News that Wood had confided in the party’s executive board that
she would be dropping out of the race. As of Monday afternoon, Deputy City Clerk Sally Brown said she had received no documentation of Wood’s plans to drop out. Wood clarified her intentions Monday evening, releasing a letter addressed to City Clerk Ron Smith asking her name be removed from the ballot. Wood said the campaign taught her how to build connections and how to mobilize the “power” that comes from connecting to one’s neighbors. She said she does not know whether she will seek elected office in the city in the years to come, but added that she hopes to remain involved in community organizing in the ward and to convert energy from her campaign into a number of projects geared toward community building in the city. Hausladen said he is waiting for formal confirmation from the city clerk’s office before he assumes victory. “If this is the case, then I’m extremely proud to have earned one more turn at the Board of Aldermen,” he said. “The next phase of the campaign will shift from what would have been an
opposed campaign to an information and get-out-the-vote effort.” He said he would still be canvassing the ward to make sure his constituents vote and understand the two charter revision questions on the ballot: a hybrid Board of Education with some elected and some mayoral-appointed members and a omnibus question including changing the title “alderman” to “alder.” There are “a ton of positive takeaways” from the primary, Hausladen said, praising Wood’s campaign and her political ambitions. “Ella showed herself to be a truly competent and good campaigner,” he said. “She’s an excellent public speaker with good ideas and when she has made roots in a community, they will be lucky to have her if she decides to run again for elected office.” He said the primary was a “learning process” for him, as his campaign for alderman in 2011 was unopposed. Hausladen said his one regret of the primary was the way in which support for unions became a divisive issue in the ward. He said his involvement in Take Back New Haven — a slate of
aldermanic candidates seeking to counter the supermajority of union-backed candidates on the Board — was misinterpreted as an anti-union stance. “I heard from some constituents that they were no longer supporters of mine due to my supposed bashing of unions,” he said. “To me, supporting unions is supporting good jobs and contracts and worrying about fiscal health and pension funds.” Wood said her campaign was never about Doug, adding that she felt he was a hard worker for the city. “I hope that he will continue to put that kind of work into the projects he chooses to take on and I certainly hope that he has been listening to the concerns and vision that my supporters have been talking about,” she said. Brown said the city clerk’s office has not received news about developments in Ward 19, where Maureen Gardner lost to Mike Stratton but, like Wood, also filed to run as an Independent in the general election. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .
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Ella Wood ’15 praised Doug Hausladen ’04 for his hard work for the city.
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Days of government shutdown in 1995-’96
Budget conflicts between former President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress placed non-essentials on furlough and suspended services from Nov. 14 to Nov. 19, 1995, and from Dec. 16, 1995 to Jan. 6, 1996.
Government shutdown shutters CT Head Start program BY LIA DUN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Head Start preschool programs across Connecticut are facing the possibility of closure after the federal government shutdown last Tuesday. Head Start, a federallyfunded preschool program for low-income children ages 0-5, distributes funds to different cities on a scheduled basis. While New Haven received a five-year grant on July 1, the city of Bridgeport was due to receive funding on Oct. 1, the day the government shut down. Since Tuesday, Head Start was cut off for more than 800 children in Bridgeport. “We’re left with this mess of finding these kids some-
where to go,” said Mary Evette Brantley, city councilwoman for Bridgeport. “A lot of people have to leave their kids with people they don’t know. With Head Start and these nonprofit agencies that depend on government funding, you at least have licensed daycare facilities that follow guidelines.” For the more than 1,000 children who attend Head Start programs in Bridgeport, the programs’ temporary closure has meant their families have to look elsewhere for meals. Typically, these programs provide children two free meals per day. On Friday, children attending Head Start programs in Bridgeport received emergency food donations from the Connecticut Food Bank, which delivered
17,000 food items to children across Bridgeport. “We’re seeing a lot of desperation. It’s very disheartening,” said Bill Bevacqua, deputy director of Action for Bridgeport Community Development, a community organization that also houses one of Bridgeport’s Head Start preschools. “The government’s at this impasse, and we can’t expect anything soon.” Currently, there are less than 200 children in Bridgeport still attending Head Start preschools because the programs they attend are funded by the state of Connecticut. Across the other 11 programs that have been closed, 300 Bridgeport Head Start employees were furloughed as a result of the lack of
funding. “And these are people who don’t make a lot of money to begin with,” Bevacqua said. “They don’t have a lot of reserves.”
The government’s at this impasse, and we can’t expect anything soon. BILL BEVACQUA Deputy director, Action for Bridgeport Community Development Many parents with children in Head Start programs are “panicked,” he added, because they now have to find alternate
child care arrangements. Bevacqua said that his organization has contacted U.S. Congressmen Jim Himes about the current situation in Washington, but the congressman has not given them any indication that the situation will change soon. “It is absolutely unconscionable that, because of petulant behavior by a small minority of irresponsible Members of Congress, nearly a thousand Bridgeport children are denied an education,” Himes said in a statement. “It is time for the Tea Party to come to the table, leave their ridiculous demands at home, and act on a budget that fully funds the United States Government.” Bridgeport was the only
county in Connecticut scheduled to receive funding on Oct. 1, but other counties scheduled to receive their funding later in the year may also be affected if the shutdown continues. Since New Haven received a five-year grant to keep its current Head Start programs running, New Haven Public Schools Spokeswoman Abbe Smith said that the programs are in no immediate danger. “We don’t anticipate any changes in the immediate term,” Smith said. “Thankfully.” Last March, Connecticut permanently cut 730 Head Start spots due to mandatory budget cuts. Contact LIA DUN at lia.dun@yale.edu .
Emotional intelligence research center relaunched BY WESLEY YIIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Since its official opening on Oct. 1, the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence has been in a constant flurry of activity. The Center — a research institution located atop Science Hill that conducts studies on the emotional and social skills of children and adults — grew out of the former Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory, which was founded by University President Peter Salovey in 1986. After its relaunch this fall, the Center has looked toward a series of renewed projects such as an education program that focuses high school students on emotional and social reflection and a research partnership with Facebook. Susan Rivers, deputy director of the Center, said the rebranding of the HEB Lab as the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence has lent the institution a clearer and more precise mission. “We will be more focused in our research portfolio,” Rivers said. “Emotions are central to our mission and part of everything that we do.” According to Nicole Elbertson, research associate and project manager at the Center, the scope of the former HEB Lab’s research initially spanned across several different scientific fields, but it eventually narrowed down to emotional intelligence. The Center’s main project since its opening has been the
expansion of RULER, a program that teaches students to value emotional and social development alongside academic endeavors. According to Elbertson, the program uses four “Anchors of Emotional Intelligence” — which include a document that outlines how community members want to feel and how they can achieve these feelings, a graph that plots pleasure against energy to help students label their emotions, a series of questions that can be used to resolve interpersonal conflict by inspiring empathy, and an emotional technique that helps individuals to reflect on how best to channel their “most ideal self.” Elbertson’s most recent endeavor involves bringing RULER — which was previously only used in middle school and preschools — to high schools. She described the project as a yearlong “identity-forming class,” in which high school seniors are taught basic emotional and social values, alongside the management of personal well-being and the achievement of a mind-body connection. The initiative is now in its second year at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Penn., and is also looking to expand to other schools and cities. The program has been met with mixed responses from participants, Elbertson said, with some students calling it “lifechanging” and others — mostly males — demonstrating more resistance to speaking about their emotions.
“Ideally, we’d like to have something infused at every grade level,” she said, adding that the importance of emotional development is not restricted to any one grade of students. She also said that high school administrators have used the program as a “new language” through which to communicate with students. Aside from the RULER program, the Center is also partnering with Facebook to improve the “reporting flow” of the social media site, said Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, associate research scientist at the Center, who coleads the project along with Center Director Marc Brackett and Associate Director Robin Stern. The project aims to make adolescent Facebook users more comfortable reporting unwanted or inappropriate activity on the site by implementing more socially appropriate language into the interface. Overall, the Center aims to conduct research that relates to the development of emotional intelligence in individuals of all ages. “We know that just the act of labeling your emotional experiences can help you manage [them],” Ivcevic Pringle said. The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence also partners with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Born This Way Foundation, which was founded by Lady Gaga and her mother. Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .
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Director Marc Brackett stands in front of the relaunched Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.
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The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, located at 340 Edwards St., officially reopened its doors last Tuesday. The Center partners with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Born This Way Foundation.
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FROM THE FRONT
“If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it’s a failure.” DOUGLAS COUPLAND CANADIAN NOVELIST
Polak announces plans for major projects Approved in 2008 but stalled because of the recession, Yale’s two new residential colleges will allow the University to admit 200 additional students each year. Yale plans to break ground in February 2015 and complete construction by August 2017.
The Yale Biology Building, which some professors have been awaiting for decades, will replace facilities in the Kline Biology Tower. Yale plans to break ground in February 2017 and complete the new building in August 2019.
The Hall of Graduate Studies is “in critical need of repair,” according to Provost Benjamin Polak. The construction, which will occur in multiple phases and cost approximately $120 million, is slated to be finished by the end of 2019. FROM TOP GOING CLOCKWISE: HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR, MARIA ZEPEDA/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER, SARAH ECKINGER/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
CONSTRUCTION FROM PAGE 1 comes a week after the university received a $250 million donation toward the new residential colleges — the largest gift in Yale history. Polak said the two new residential colleges are scheduled to be completed in Aug. 2017, while the Yale Biology Building — which will replace Kline Biology Tower — will be finished exactly two years later. The renovation for the Hall of Graduate Studies will wrap up in late 2019. “I think that obviously everybody would like to be moving faster, but we have to be realistic and up front about the constraints facing us — namely, the ability to raise the remaining money and to solve our budget problem,” Polak told the News.
Polak said the target dates for the new residential colleges and the biology building were a function of the time the administration predicts it will take for the University to secure the necessary funding. The new residential colleges, which will be entirely giftfunded, still require the University to either raise an additional $80 million or cut the costs of the buildings, Polak said in the email. Polak told the News the university will have to borrow money to fund the construction of the biology building because administrators do not anticipate being able to raise the funds through donations. Before Yale takes on additional debt, Polak said he wants to make room in the operating budget so the University can afford the extra interest payments.
“If I thought we could afford it in the operating budget sooner, I would have used an earlier date,” he said. “The main reason I put a starting date as late as 2017 is I want to be confident we can get there in the operating budget — I don’t want to promise people things we can’t do.” Faculty members interviewed responded positively to the announcement, adding that new biology facilities are needed improvements to the university’s infrastructure. Biology professors interviewed said the new building will not only offer better laboratory space but will also increase faculty retention and improve recruitment for both graduate students and professors. Ronald Breaker, chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department, said
that the new building will make Yale a more attractive research institution to aspiring scientists. The current facilities, plagued by malfunctioning elevators and water leaks, are not suited to modern research, he said. Science professors interviewed said a new building has been desperately needed for some time and has been repeatedly postponed by the University. “We have been promised various dates of completion in the past, none of which were fulfilled,” biology professor Sidney Altman said in a Monday email. “Provost Polak has been concrete in what he plans to do and I hope he will come through on the date for the YBB. Six years from now is a long time.” Student reactions to the news of the Yale Biology Building and
the new residential colleges were mixed. Renita Heng ’16, an astrophysics major, viewed the new biology building as an unnecessary addition to the school. “Kline Biology Tower is a thing — why do they need another? I mean, it’s twelve stories, there’s a lot of room for biology in that tower,” Heng said. While some students said they supported the new residential colleges because the resulting growth of the undergraduate population will increase the student body’s diversity and make Yale more accessible to qualified candidates, others said they were conflicted about the new colleges because of their distant location — between Prospect, Canal and Sachem Streets — and because of the impending rise in Yale’s
admission rate. Political science professor David Cameron said Yale will have to increase classroom space and hire more faculty to meet the rising number of students. “If you look at the students who we don’t admit who are qualified but aren’t able to come because of the restricted number of places — there are incredibly talented students out there from all kinds of backgrounds,” Polak told the News last week. “Admitting 200 more a year — that’s pretty good.” The $250 million donation from Charles Johnson ’54 was announced on Sept. 30. Hayley Byrnes contributed reporting. Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
“God often gives nuts to toothless people.” MATT GROENING AMERICAN CARTOONIST
Research disproves ideas on motivation
Walnuts benefit waistline, heart BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New research out of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center shows why walnuts should play a prominent role in our diets. The study demonstrated that a diet rich in walnuts helped subjects with obesity shrink their waistlines and improve blood flow. The finding has implications for understanding weight control and reducing the risk for cardiovascular disease, said Director of the Prevention Research Center and the study’s lead author David Katz. The finding was published online in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition on July 25. “This study shows that in practical terms, incorporating walnuts into the diet corresponds with some improvement of risk factors for heart disease,” said Loma Linda University professor of nutrition Joan Sabaté, who was not involved with the study. The researchers recruited 46 obese participants with risk factors for cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes. The subjects were divided into two groups, and during the study, all subjects ate normally while one group received an additional 56 g of walnuts per day for eight weeks. After a four-week washout period where neither group ate additional walnuts, the initial control group started on the walnut-enriched diet. Throughout the study, researchers measured the elasticity of the right brachial artery in order to assess walnut’s effect on blood flow. Results showed walnuts slightly reduced blood pressure and vastly improved blood flow. Katz said one of the most intriguing results of the study was the walnut’s impact on waist circumference. While the presence of walnuts added about 350 calories per day to the subjects’ diets, subjects’ waist circumferences went down instead of increasing, though subjects did not actually lose weight.
Incorporating walnuts into the diet corresponds with some improvement of risk factors for heart disease. JOAN SABATE Professor of nutrition, Loma Linda University
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BY GEORGE SAUSSY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New research out of the Yale School of Management is the first to find that humans have a poor intuition of how incentives motivate performance. In the study, researchers found that subjects performed better in a letter-sorting task when wrong answers meant losing a reward
already granted than when a positive answer meant gaining a corresponding reward. In contrast, subjects in the study thought positive incentives would be more motivating than the negative one. The finding has implications for helping both business managers and individuals understand incentives and motivation. “There is so little work in how people’s predictions of what
motivates them may be [the] opposite of what actually motivates them. It wasn’t clear what to expect,” said Yale School of Management professor and study co-author Ravi Dhar in an email to the News. “I would say it was exciting to find the difference.” In the positively framed condition of the study, subjects received money for successfully
Choice rationality declines with age BY POOJA SALHOTRA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Older may mean wiser, but it also means declines in rational decision-making abilities, according to a new study from the Yale School of Medicine. The researchers found that adults between the ages of 65 and 90 were more risk-averse than younger adults when it came to choosing between two possible gains, but more riskseeking when choosing between losses. The elderly also showed less choice consistency than younger adults. The findings suggest these unique decisionmaking abilities should be considered in helping the elderly make choices in domains from health care policy to finance, study senior author and professor of comparative biology Ifat Levy said. “What we show in this study is that age matters a lot in decision-making,” she said. “These age-related patterns should really be taken into account when policy makers are deciding on policies.” To analyze how the decision-making function changes across the human life span, the researchers recruited 135 healthy subjects between the ages of 12 and 90 and had them make 320 choices between monetary gains and losses. In the gain tri-
als, subjects decided between a sure gain of $5 and a lottery of varying monetary gain, while in the loss trials subjects chose between a loss of $5 or a corresponding risky lottery. To test whether subjects were consistent in their choices, researchers also repeated each of the trials four times. The results showed that in gain trials, the elderly were more risk-averse than their midlife counterparts, but in the loss trials, elders were more risk-seeking — willing to gamble for the possibility of losing less money than taking a loss for certain. Levy and colleagues also found that older adults were significantly less consistent than younger adults, as they provided different answers to identical questions. Levy said that the difference in risk-taking between older and younger adults may stem from a transitioning outlook on life: The elderly are more willing to take a sure gain because they are satisfied with their lives, while they are happy to gamble to avoid losses because they are optimistic that the lottery will yield a favorable result. Director of Cornell University’s Human Neuroscience Institute Valerie Reyna offered an alternative explanation for the dissimilar risk preferences between older and younger
unscrambling letters. In the negatively framed condition, subjects started with the maximum possible amount of money from the positive condition and lost money for each unsolved anagram. The study design ensured that a given level of performance was equally compensated in both conditions. As the researchers expected, subjects spent more time work-
ing on the anagrams in the negative condition, signaling that the prospect of losing money they already had encouraged subjects to work harder. Researchers then interviewed a different set of undergraduate students about whether positive or negative framing would be more effective. Contrary to the experimental results, these subjects thought positive framing would be more
effective. “I was a little surprised that people thought they would be more motivated by positive framing,” said Yale School of Management professor Nathan Novemsky. “I hope this will stimulate more research in the area.” The study also found that the effect disappeared in the oldest group of the study, with positive
and negative conditions being roughly equally reinforcing. Dhar said this finding shows the importance of considering how age differences may drive findings in psychological research. The study was published on Sept. 23 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Contact GEORGE SAUSSY at george.saussy@yale.edu .
Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda. buckingham@yale.edu .
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adults. Reyna conducted a study where she found that experts in risky decision-making, such as intelligence agents, show the same decision biases that Levy noticed in the elderly. Specifically, as compared to college students, the experts are more riskaverse when choosing between gains, but more risk-seeking when choosing between losses. “Older adults, like experts in risky decision-making, have more experience in making decisions,” she said. “This experience actually seems to increase rather than decrease the bias.” Levy’s study shows that the elderly rely on emotional rather than computational reactions to risks when making decisions, a bias that has implications for helping the elderly make better financial choices, said Yale School of Management professor of marketing Nathan Novemsky. Levy said that this study was done in preparation for an fMRI study that will show which brain areas are involved in decisionmaking and how brain activation changes with age. The study, which was supported by the National Institute of Aging, appeared in the Sept. 30 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .
“What we think is going on here is that walnuts — nuts in general — but walnuts [in particular are] very satiating so they actually help bump other calories out of the diet,” Katz said. “So if you add walnuts, the benefit isn’t just what you’re adding but also what you’re bumping out.” Given the results of this study, incorporating walnuts into the American diet may help treat the obesity epidemic by reducing dependency on foods high in saturated fats, said study co-author and Assistant Director of the Prevention Research Center Valentine Njike in an email to the News on Thursday, adding that walnuts have been shown to bring benefits ranging from enhanced brain function to reduced stress. Walnuts
also have high amounts of alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 acid that has been proven to benefit the heart, he said. While snacking has been implicated in obesity, Katz said encouraging nutritious snacks like walnuts should be a key component in public health initiatives going forward. Sabaté said the public should exercise caution in adopting walnuts as “weight-control pills,” since they alone will not cure obesity. Katz is now leading another study to explore the longterm effects of walnut consumption on weight control and diet. The obesity rate in the United States is 31.8 percent, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
BY AARON LEWIS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Few people think Einstein is underappreciated. But applied physics professor A. Douglas Stone argues that Einstein contributed much more to the field of quantum physics than previously believed. In his new book, titled “Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian,” Stone sources many of Einstein’s early writings to uncover a picture of Einstein as a rebellious, irreverent genius who famously distanced himself from a quantum physics theory he helped create. Stone sat down with the News on Friday to discuss the things he learned about Einstein as he put this book together.
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Yale professor A. Douglas Stone with his recently published book on some of the less well-known aspects of Einstein’s genius.
I was doing some research in quantum physics that related to a paper of Einstein’s that isn’t so famous. For many years I’d heard about this paper, but I’d never read it. And finally at some point, a student and I were struggling and we said, “Let’s see if Einstein actually figured this out for us.” We found the paper, and it actually did a very good job of figuring out the thing we wanted, which was a simple explanation of what the problem was. By my standards, this was a really brilliant thing
that he had done. But it isn’t historic. It’s not something that has lived on in the field of physics that thousands of people still refer to, but it’s still really brilliant. I had no ambition to be an Einstein expert or biographer. I was more or less trying to explain this problem called quantum chaos, and I thought using Einstein would be a good way to get people’s attention. But I thought maybe, if really nobody knows this stuff, maybe it’s worth a book — because he’s Einstein. It’s like Shakespeare — if you find something out about Shakespeare that people don’t know, you’re asking yourself, “Why don’t they know it?” read a lot of Einstein’s letters QYou in researching this book. What was
Einstein’s personality like? What were some stories you found that you didn’t know about before?
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It was really fun to read his letters. He’s got a great sense of humor. I literally would find things and laugh out loud and then I’d call my wife and say, “Listen to this!” He was kind of an excitable guy, particularly when he was young. The thing that I thought I could shed a little light on in terms of his personality was that he’s sort of seen as this grandfatherly guy and this very modest, saintly figure. He says very modest things like, “I have no special talent, I’m just very curious.” He was really kind of a hellraiser, when he was younger at least, in
the sense that he really didn’t respect authority. Being a university professor, the thing that I found to be the most striking anecdote was in his lab course in college, they would hand out a little page of how you were supposed to do the experiment. Einstein would take the page and without looking at it he would drop it in the wastebasket and then just start doing the experiment by himself. He would skip classes and so on. In fact, he skipped all the advanced math classes, and later one mathematician said, “We were all so surprised by this Einstein, he was such a lazy dog in his student days. He wouldn’t even take any of our classes.”
[Einstein] was always arguing with the authority figures... but he wasn’t a bad student. A. DOUGLAS STONE
He was always arguing with the authority figures. All his contemporaries loved him and they were grateful to him. He was very generous and very funny. He was very unpopular with the faculty and the authority figures who could help him get a job, but he wasn’t a bad student. He was brilliant. Halfway through his college career, he
was the top student in his section of physics. Everybody knew he was the brightest guy there. And then, in his second two years he stopped going to class and started insulting people and causing explosions in the lab. And so they wouldn’t give him a job afterwards because he annoyed them, and they thought he wasn’t a hard worker. If you put the whole picture together, you imagine someone who was a leader, very charismatic, but also kind of a bane of the older generation. your book, you discuss EinQInstein’s role in developing quantum theory and how he ended up rejecting the theory later in life. Why didn’t Einstein ever accept the theory he helped develop?
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Most people who know about Einstein and quantum mechanics know about the rejection. That’s the thing they know about it. But this isn’t the rejection of someone who didn’t understand it, who was too stuck in his ways to understand his theory. This is the understanding of someone who developed most of the theory and then decided it just wasn’t good enough. And if you really go through what he did and how brilliant he was and how ahead of his time he was and none of the physicists in that time were thinking about this. That’s the main point of this book. Einstein decided that it wasn’t the full theory because there are certain things that it doesn’t
explain. Uncertainty in the macroscopic world — gambling, cards, dice, etc. — is based on the chaotic behavior of macroscopic objects. There’s no philosophical problem. We just don’t have enough information. In quantum mechanics, you have a different kind of ignorance or uncertainty. There is nothing to know. In other words, quantum mechanics says there is no answer to why this atom radioactively decayed. The world doesn’t have any cause for that. There’s no amount of information we can gather. The thing he didn’t like is that it then seems like physics can’t fully describe reality. He really felt that his mission in life was to lift the veil to objective reality — that’s what gave his life meaning. So therefore, he didn’t want to accept that this is the most physics can do.
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My hope is that it’s read by some reasonable fraction of laypeople who are not trained in physics. However, I’m also trying to tell this story to the science community because most scientists don’t know it. In fact, almost none of them know it. Anyone who’s interested in genius and how somebody can have out-of-thebox ideas would find this book interesting. Contact AARON LEWIS at aaron.lewis@yale.edu .
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Senate Democrats want to raise the nation’s debt limit without the unrelated conditions Republicans have said they intend to seek.shutdown enters a second week. BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A possible national default loomed closer on Monday as the partial government shutdown lingered, rattling markets in the U.S. and overseas. A gridlocked Congress betrayed little or no urgency toward resolving either of the threats. Stocks got a case of the jitters on Wall Street, and halfway around the world China stressed the importance for the international economy of raising the U.S. debt limit. “Safeguarding the debt is of vital importance to the economy of the U.S. and the world,” Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. China holds $1.277 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds, second only to Japan. At home, the political rhet-
oric was unchanged — and generally uncompromising — while a new poll suggested Republicans are paying a heavier price than Democrats for the deadlock. President Barack Obama said the House should vote immediately on ending the partial closure of the federal establishment. He accused House Speaker John Boehner of refusing to permit the necessary legislation to come to the floor because he “doesn’t apparently want to see the … shutdown end at the moment, unless he’s able to extract concessions that don’t have anything to do with the budget.” Boehner, in rebuttal, called on Obama to agree to negotiations on changes in the nation’s health care overhaul and steps to curb deficits, the principal GOP demands for ending the shutdown and eliminating the threat of
default. “Really, Mr. President. It’s time to have that conversation before our economy is put further at risk,” the Ohio Republican said in remarks on the House floor. Obama said he would talk with the Republicans on those topics or virtually any others. But the White House has said repeatedly the president will not negotiate until the government is fully re-opened and the debt limit has been raised to stave off the nation’s first-ever default. White House aide Jason Furman told reporters that if Boehner “needs to have some talking point for his caucus that’s consistent with us not negotiating … that’s not adding a bunch of extraneous conditions, of course he’s welcome to figure out whatever talking point he wants that helps him sell something.”
WASHINGTON — The glitchridden rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care law has opponents crowing: “Told you so!” and insisting it should be paused, if not scrapped. But others, including insurance companies, say there’s still enough time to fix the online enrollment system before uninsured Americans start getting coverage on Jan. 1. After emergency repairs over the weekend, consumers in different parts of the country Monday continued to report delays on healthcare.gov, as well as problems setting up security questions for their accounts. The administration says the site’s crowded electronic “waiting room” is thinning out. Still, officials announced it will be down again for a few hours starting at 1 a.m. Tuesday for more upgrades and fixes. Despite the confusion, the insurance industry has held off public criticism. Alarmed that only a trickle of customers got through initially, insurers now say enrollments are starting to come in and they expect things to improve. The last major federal health care launch — the Medicare prescription program in 2006 — also had big startup problems. Government leaders who oversaw it say things could look very different in a couple of months for Obama’s law if the administration manages to get a grip on the situation. “There wasn’t enough time for testing, so the dress rehearsal became opening night,” said Michael Leavitt, who as President George W. Bush’s top health official, was responsible for the Medicare drug plan debut. “The moment of truth is going to come in the middle of November, when people want to see the real deal,” said Leavitt, who currently heads a consulting firm that advises states on the health overhaul. “If they don’t have this running smoothly by then, it’s going to be a bigger problem than we’re seeing today.” The insurance industry is calling for patience. “This is a marathon and not a sprint,” Karen Ignagni, head of the trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans, said in a statement. “We anticipate enrollments will continue to increase in the days and
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The stairs leading from the Capitol Visitors Center up to the Rotunda are empty as the government shutdown enters a second week. weeks ahead.” Obama’s law — also known as the Affordable Care Act — was designed to provide insurance for people who don’t have access to coverage on the job. Middle-class uninsured people can buy a government-subsidized private plan, while the poor and near-poor will be steered to Medicaid in states that agree to expand the safety net program. The online insurance markets were envisioned as the 21st century portal to an overhauled system. But when the health care markets went live last week, millions of curious Americans overwhelmed federal and state insurance websites. The level of interest could be read as a good sign, since polls just prior to the launch found most uninsured people unaware it was coming. Yet for many, the consumer experience was like a Saturday morning spent twiddling thumbs at the local motor vehicle department. Some prospective customers got a screen that told them to wait — and nothing happened, for hours. Others started to sign up and got trapped by a recurring glitch when they tried to set up security questions to protect their personal accounts. Some who got through all the way to the end found their sessions had timed out, and they had to start over. The federal website that serves 36 states wasn’t the only problem; several states also had a rough launch. As Republicans opposed to “Obamacare” showed they were willing to shut down the government in an effort to stop it, the administration seemed to be its own worst enemy. Technology experts say the problems are probably due to a
combination of factors: unexpectedly high demand, as well as possible software flaws and shortcomings in design. Sometimes a high volume of users can expose software problems that went undetected in testing, they said. The administration has mainly blamed high volume. The Health and Human Services department says it is adding servers — workhorse computer equipment — to the system to handle the volume of user requests. Official media releases have hinted at software and system design problems, without providing detail. For example, one referred to procuring “dedicated hardware” for an unnamed “specific component of the system that became over-stressed.” Problems caused by website overload should ease as more equipment is added. Software and design flaws are trickier to fix, meaning more overnight repairs. Monday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said officials would not release enrollment data on an “hourly or daily or weekly basis,” although outside experts say the administration is certain to have those numbers. Officials regularly report the number of unique visitors to healthcare.gov — they just don’t say how many get to the end of the application. Those numbers will be released at “regular monthly intervals,” Carney said. Mark McClellan, who ran Medicare during the bumpy prescription program rollout in 2006, said during that time he had detailed daily tracking stats, and he’s sure the Obama administration must have at least the same level of information.
Steubenville rape jury issues charges BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS, Ohio — An employee in the same district where two Ohio high school football players were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl was charged Monday with interfering with a criminal matter, the first charges brought by a grand jury investigating whether other laws we broken in connection with the rape case. The indictment announced by Attorney General Mike DeWine charges William Rhinaman with tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, obstructing official business and perjury. Without elaborating, DeWine said the charges are related to Rhinaman’s job as an information technology employee at the Steubenville City Schools. “The only thing I can is that the grand jury investigation continues,” DeWine said.
DeWine announced the grand jury March 17, the same day a judge convicted two Steubenville High School football players of raping the West Virginia teen after an alcohol-fueled party in August 2012 following a football scrimmage. Rhinaman, 53, of Mingo Junction, was arrested after the charges from Friday’s indictment were made formal, DeWine said. He was scheduled to make his first court appearance Wednesday. Rhinaman’s lawyer denied the charges against his client. “Our position is he did nothing wrong,” said attorney Stephen Lamatrice, who declined further comment. Steubenville schools Superintendent Mike McVey said Monday he was aware of the situation and promised to issue a news release Tuesday. Allegations of a cover-up dogged the rape case, despite charges being brought against
the boys shortly after the attack. Attention was fueled by online activists who said more players should have been charged. Three teens who saw the attacks, including two players, were granted immunity in exchange for their testimony. A key issue before the panel has been whether adults such as coaches or school administrators knew of the rape allegation but failed to report it as required by state law. The grand jury has worked off and on since beginning work April 30. That day, investigators searched Steubenville High School and the local school board offices. Investigators also searched Vestige Digital Investigations, a digital forensics storage company in Medina, in northeast Ohio. The company’s connection to the case was unclear, and it has denied it’s the subject of a criminal investigation.
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CHARLES TAYLOR FROM PAGE 1 inclusive. Kai Erikson, a former sociology professor and Trumbull College master during Taylor’s tenure, said Taylor was a “perfect partner” to Brewster, adding that the two shared a vision of a more “inclusive, diverse and meritocratic” Yale. Erikson added that Taylor was a strong advocate for the integration of female students into Yale College, as he believed that a Yale education should be made accessible to a larger population. According to Josephine Broude, Taylor’s executive assistant and the author of a history of the Yale Provost’s Office, Taylor was pivotal in the launching of Yale’s African-American Studies program. Erikson called Taylor a progressive thinker because he recognized the intellectual value of establishing a program centered around African-American students and history. In addition to his advocacy for a more inclusive admissions process, Taylor is also recognized for his founding role in the development of Yale’s current student health care system. Yale historian Gaddis Smith ‘54 GRD ‘61 said that Taylor streamlined the way in which University faculty and students accessed health care. The new system — which Taylor’s son Stephen Taylor ’73 called one of the nation’s first comprehensive health care insurance programs — fittingly received its own new building on Hillhouse Ave. “Before him, the health care building was basically a small house with nine rooms or something,” Smith said. “It was ridiculous.” Taylor was born in 1929 in Boston, Mass. He told the News in 1968 that his initial choice to attend Yale as an undergraduate was intended as a “minor
“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel prize.” RICHARD FEYNMAN THEORETICAL PHYSICIST
“It was just a question of which year,” Bogan said. The award cannot have come as a surprise to Rothman either. Among his previous accolades is the prestigious Lasker Award, often referred to as “America’s Nobel,” which he won in 2002. The same year, he also received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize. With his most recent award, Rothman has joined the 46 percent of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize recipients who have gone on to win the Nobel. The last time a Yale professor won a Nobel Prize was in 2009, when Thomas Steitz shared a chemistry citation “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.” Rothman is the fourth Yale professor to win a Nobel in Physiology or Medicine, following George Palade, another professor of cell biology, who shared the award in 1974.
What’s really striking about Rothman is that he’s not only super intelligent, but creative and innovative as well. DEREK TOOMRE Chairman, Department of cell biology
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Administrators remember Taylor as a progressive thinker who made a strong push to develop Yale’s health care system. protest” against his family, the majority of which had matriculated to Harvard. According to Stephen Taylor, this same “streak of independence” pushed Taylor to pursue academia as a career rather than join the family business at the Boston Globe. Although Taylor first joined the Yale faculty as an English professor, his work with administrative affairs started soon after, as he stepped into the roles of Director of Undergraduate Studies for the English department and
chairman of a student-faculty relations committee. After being appointed acting provost in 1963, Taylor remained in his administrative role for the next nine years before leaving his post to pursue a career interest in psychology. Taylor is survived by his two sons and two daughters, in addition to six grandchildren. A memorial service will be held on Nov. 11 in Dwight Chapel. Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .
Rothman said the paper that Palade coauthored inspired him to pursue his research on protein trafficking. Cell biology professor Derek Toomre said that Rothman’s work will “open up a world of understanding membrane trafficking.” Toomre said cells require membrane trafficking to conduct basic life processes such as transferring insulin to the pancreas. Membrane trafficking malfunctions can lead to diseases such as diabetes, he added. “What’s really striking about Rothman is that he’s not only super intelligent, but creative and innovative as well,” Toomre said. In 1993, Rothman discovered complexes of proteins called Soluble NSF attachment receptors, which are critical to the operation of the cellular signaling pathway. SNARE
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Dr. James E. Rothman learned Monday that he would be the recipient of a Nobel Prize in medicine. proteins recognize and “zip” onto the vesicles containing essential cellular signals and drive the vesicles to fuse with the membrane of their target location. In his current research, Rothman employed a number of original biological tests to understand SNARE protein function. One type of in vitro test that Rothman developed allowed him to track and identify the roles of these proteins in trafficking materials through the membrane. The Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced today. Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND JENNIFER GERSTEN at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and jennifer.gersten@yale.edu .
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WORLD Post-coup Egypt gripped by nationalist fervor BY HAMZA HENDAWI AND LEE KEATH ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — While riots turned the neighborhoods of Cairo into deadly battlegrounds this weekend, Egypt’s most powerful man — the head of the armed forces — enjoyed a star-studded show. In a sports stadium, celebrities and pop singers lavished praise on the military in a televised extravaganza complete with dancers and an elaborate fireworks display. The scene crystallized Egypt’s situation since the July 3 coup that ousted the country’s first freely elected president, Mohammed Morsi, and ended a year of rule by Islamists. The new leadership has seemingly taken a two-pronged approach to building the future: On one hand, it pumps up a pro-military, nationalist fervor, while on the other it tries to crush Morsi’s Islamist supporters and his Muslim Brotherhood. So far, the result has led to more turmoil. The scenario raises doubts about whether Egypt can progress toward the democracy that those who supported Morsi’s ouster say they want to achieve — or whether the leaders can tackle pressing issues like the damaged economy. Repeated bouts of violence since July have only worsened the slump in the vital tourism industry, amid high unemployment, low productivity and steep price increases. “It is a cycle of violence at the moment from which there is no way out in the near term,” said Michael W. Hanna, a Middle East expert from New York’s Century Foundation. “Where Egypt is now is where Egypt will be for a long time,” he said. A national holiday on Sunday commemorating the 1973 Mideast war was an occasion for authorities to further stoke the fervor for the military, which media and government officials have elevated to near-celestial status in their rhetoric. A personality cult has grown around the army chief, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who pushed out Morsi. Calls for elSissi to run for president next year are gaining momentum. The Muslim Brotherhood, in turn, used the occasion to accelerate its nationwide protests of the military. The result was mayhem, as demonstrators clashed with security forces and el-Sissi’s supporters, leaving at least 51 people dead and more than 200 injured. The latest toll adds to more than 1,000 Morsi supporters killed by security forces since the coup. The ongoing crackdown has also included the detention of at least 2,000 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including
most of its leaders, and a court order outlawing the group. The country is back under emergency laws that give police expanded arrest powers, and many cities, including Cairo, have been under curfew since mid-August. The military-backed government appears uninterested in negotiating a way out of the crisis. It promises to restore order and put the country back on a democratic path by pushing ahead with a road map that will rewrite the constitution promulgated under Morsi and lead to parliamentary and presidential elections early next year.
It is a cycle of violence at the moment from which there is no way out in the near term. MICHAEL W. HANNA Middle East expert, Century Foundation The Brotherhood has shunned talks, for now at least, demanding that Morsi be reinstated and pursuing a policy of confrontation: It has sent his supporters, some of them armed, into the streets for protests that security forces have used deadly force to crush. Its losses enrich a narrative of martyrdom that it promotes in its rhetoric, hoping that will bring popular support back to its side. At the same time, Islamic militants once allied to Morsi have waged a campaign of violence focused on the army and security forces. There were new attacks Monday, including a drive-by shooting and a suicide car bombing that killed six soldiers and three policemen, as well as an assault for the first time against key civilian infrastructure — Egypt’s main satellite communications facility. “The scene last night spoke of a nation with several peoples,” Mustafa el-Naggar, a former lawmaker and a Brotherhood critic, said of Sunday’s events. “We had people who came out on the streets to die, another happy and singing, and a third group watching everything from a distance.” Morsi was ousted after nationwide protests by millions of Egyptians who accused him and his Islamist allies of going beyond their election mandate and trying to monopolize power. Many who sought his removal saw the army as rescuing the country from the Islamists. They still see the military as a necessary protector against Islamists while expressing faith that it won’t seek power for itself.
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Raid targets terrorism suspects BY JASON STRAZIUSO AND ADAM GOLDMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. interrogators headed to an American warship in the Mediterranean to question a suspected Libyan al-Qaida operative linked to the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, as new details emerged Monday about plots planned by a Kenyan militant who escaped a U.S. raid in Somalia. The two operations, thousands of miles apart in Africa and approved by President Barack Obama, signaled an American readiness to go after militants in nations where authorities are unable to do so, even years later. The suspect captured in Tripoli is under U.S. federal indictment but was being held in military custody aboard the USS San Antonio in international waters detained under the laws of war as an enemy combatant. A computer expert known as Abu Anas al-Libi, he is accused of using an early-generation Apple computer to assemble surveillance photographs in Nairobi ahead of the deadly 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy, according to a former U.S. law enforcement official. The surveillance information was presented to Osama bin Laden, who approved the bombing, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak about the case. Meanwhile, a Kenyan intelligence report asserted the country had foiled attacks plotted by Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir, the Kenyan militant who eluded capture by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs in a pre-dawn raid in Somalia on Saturday. Also known as Ikrima, he was identified as the lead planner of a plot by the alQaida-linked al-Shabab mili-
tant group targeting Kenya’s parliament building and the United Nations office in Nairobi in 2011 and 2012. The report by Kenya’s National Intelligence Service, which was leaked to The Associated Press and other media in the wake of the Sept. 21 terror attack on Nairobi’s Westgate Mall that killed more than 60 people, lists Samantha Lewthwaite — a Briton dubbed the “White Widow” — as one of several “key actors” in the plot, which also targeted Kenyan military installations and top Kenyan political and security officials. Lewthwaite, who was married to one of the suicide bombers in the 2005 attack on London’s transit system, escaped capture when she produced a fraudulently obtained South African passport in another person’s name. Late last month, Interpol, acting on a request from Kenya, issued an arrest warrant for Lewthwaite. The report makes no mention of Abdulkadir in relation to the Nairobi mall attack, though in an entry dated exactly one year before the start of the four-day siege, it said al-Shabab operatives in Nairobi were planning to mount “suicide attacks on an undisclosed date, targeting Westgate Mall and Holy Family Basilica.” Frank Cilluffo, director of George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute, said the Navy SEALs operation in Somalia underscores the threat posed by the convergence of insurgent groups, particularly al-Shabab and the Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. While Ikrima may not be a household name, he said, “you have someone who is truly a go-between between al-Shabab, AQAP and probably alQaida central.” “What you’re seeing is some of the pooling of these vari-
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Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaeda leader wanted by the United States for more than a decade. Gunmen seized al-Libi Saturday. ous entities and between various organizations,” said Cilluffo. “And you are starting to see convergence of individual actors and of even planning and operations.” Cilluffo said the raid suggests that the U.S. is going after top-level terrorists who are targeting foreign and Western interests, rather than those focused on internal Somalia attacks. Obama approved both operations independently, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday, saying it was “a coincidence” they happened at the same time. As of Monday, the captured Libyan, al-Libi, had not been read his rights to remain silent and speak with an attorney. It is unclear when he will
be brought to the U.S. to face charges. The Obama administration has said it can hold high-value detainees on a ship for as long as it needs to. In 2010, a judge ruled the government could prosecute a terror suspect in New York, despite holding him for five years in CIA and military custody because the government has the authority to do this during wartime. Al-Libi was indicted in Manhattan federal court in 2000, accused of carrying out “visual and photographic surveillance” of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi before it was bombed in 1998. He also participated in possible planning of attacks on British, French and Israeli targets in Nairobi, according to the charges.
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Cantabs take down Elis
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boost heading into Saturday’s home matchup against Dartmouth (4–1–1, 1–1–0 Ivy). However, Mother Nature had other plans in mind, as Monday night’s tilt was postponed due to the threat of severe weather. The date of the make-up match has not yet been determined. As much as a win would have provided a morale boost heading into the weekend, the postponement and consequential extra day of rest may have been a blessing in disguise for the Elis. “We had a few players who were pretty banged up,” Meredith said. “We were going to be like the walking wounded out there so I guess Mother Nature liked me today.” Yale can now turn their full attention to Dartmouth, as the Bulldogs will host the Big Green on Saturday afternoon. Kickoff is slated for 4 p.m. at Reese Stadium.
and can decide to run with it, pitch it to the halfback, or hit a receiver down the field. Stopping an option-based offense requires advanced ability to read the quarterback as well as the rest of the attack. There are no shortcuts to reading plays — it requires practice. But the Yale defense has had plenty of experience against the option. The Elis also run an option-based, no-huddle offense that gives quarterback Henry Furman ’14 space to make decisions and often hand the ball off to standout tailback Tyler Varga ’15. Practicing against a speedy offense on a daily basis helped give Yale the split-second advantage in reading the play that allowed the defense to break through Cal Poly’s offensive line and sack Mustang quarterback Chris Brown twice for a total of 10 yards in losses. “The offenses are fairly different, but there are some philosophical similarities — namely causing misdirection that probably helped our defense on Saturday,” Furman said. “They have been facing the Cal Poly triple-option in scout period since camp, so they were prepared.” Outstanding individual performances also propelled the Yale defense, including an impressive 14 tackles, two interceptions and one fumble recovery from defensive back Cole Champion ’16. Not only did the Yale defense perform consistently throughout the contest, but it also made momentum-shifting plays when they were needed. After Furman threw his first interception of the season, the Mustangs set up their offense on their own 44-yard line. Instead of gaining momentum from the change of direction, however, Cal Poly was once again thwarted by the Yale defense. On the ensuing play, linebacker Victor Egu ’17 sacked Brown for five yards and forced a fumble that shook the Mustang attack. Hard-nosed individual efforts have brought the Elis big tackles such as this, but the stopping power of the defense comes as a unit. Yale has given up just 1072 yards this season for an average of just 357 yards per game. The offense has compiled 1460 yards in three games for an average of 487 yards, for a differential of +130 yards per game. Despite the early success both the Bulldogs and the defense in particular are having, the Elis are still focused on elevating their game throughout the season. “Yes we are 3–0, but the defense and the team in general still have so much to improve on,” Palin said. “We believe in our process of preparation, and plan to find ways to get better every day we step onto the field.” The Bulldogs will head to Hanover, N.H., on Saturday to face a hungry Dartmouth team, which is coming off an Ivy League-record 4OT game loss to Penn last week.
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No. 18 Geneva Decker ’17 heads the ball on Saturday against Harvard. She recorded one shot on goal in the match. WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 14 front to play on the offensive side of the ball. The move was similar to the one that resulted in Speck assisting on the game-winning goal at Princeton in overtime two Saturdays ago. As has been the case much of the season, the Bulldogs came out of halftime looking rejuvenated, primed to play a much more productive second half. Forward Melissa Gavin ’15 recognizes that playing 90 minutes, rather than just 45, at full effort could be the difference between a championship and just another season. “We tend to be complacent in the first half and think we have a lot of time to make things happen,” Gavin said. “But if we play with more urgency from the start of the game I think we will be fine.” It was Gavin herself who scored on a spectacular corner kick in the 57th minute, curving the ball past Harvard goalkeeper Lizzie Durack without a single touch from any other player. The goal quite clearly
shifted the momentum of the game as the Bulldog faithful in attendance got noticeably louder, and Yale’s play on the pitch improved dramatically. For Gavin, it was her seventh goal of the season, which is the most in the Ivy League thus far. “I knew the sun was in the goalie’s face,” Gavin said, “so I took my chances and tried to curl it on top of her and luckily enough she tipped it in.” The Bulldogs continued to attack, finishing with twice as many shots in the second half as they produced in the first. They also went from allowing 10 Harvard shots in the first half to limiting the Crimson to just five in the second. However, an equalizer was not in the works for Yale. Instead, Harvard freshman sensation Margaret Purce extinguished any hope of a Yale comeback with a beautiful strike in the 84th minute, scoring after weaving directly through the Yale defense. It was the forward’s sixth goal of the season and left Meredith with no doubt as to the identity of the best player in
the Ivy League. “She’s the best player in the league, no question — and we had no answer for her,” Meredith said. “She’s clearly better than all the players we have.” Eli captain and defender Shannon McSweeney ’14, who entered the game at less than full-strength due to a nagging injury, was aware of the game’s implications for the Ivy League standings. McSweeney regretted the fact that the Elis would not have the opportunity to seek revenge against Harvard this year. “The unfortunate thing is you play each Ivy team once so you only get one shot,” she said. “This cannot be redone but they still have five more games and we have five more games so there’s plenty of time for us to turn things around.” McSweeney was ready to play on Monday when the Bulldogs were scheduled to take on in-state foe Central Connecticut State (3–7–0, 1–0–0 NEC). She saw the game as a great opportunity for a confidence
Strong finish for XC MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE 14 255 points from last year. In the two weeks following the Iona meet and leading up to the Paul Short invitational, the Bulldogs focused hard on their training. Rest and recovery also played a key role for the Elis this weekend, as they were competing for their first time in 14 days. “[This past week] we took more recovery time to prepare for such a big race on a pretty flat course,” Ivankovic said. “This course allows a lot of people to run quick times.” A third of the way through their season, each of the Eli runners has found his position on the team regarding pace and times. Workouts are now geared toward tight “pack” running, which will translate to the actual trail, ideally in the front of the field. Sticking together in groups throughout the race increases overall team scoring success, and as teammates in a pack push each other on, each individual’s drive to the finish is increased. “To be a successful cross-country runner you have to [be able to] push your body to the limit,” McGowan said. “This is a competitive team environment, and you are training every day with the same group of guys. When you doubt yourself, think about your teammates running next to you.” McGowan continued to explain how the Bulldogs consider the Paul Short Invitational as the beginning of their competitive racing season. “We start ramping up the workouts, setting a race pace speed,” he
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The Bulldogs won four out of their six doubles matches on Sunday against pairs from Boston College and Army. MEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 ANNA-SOPHIE HARLING/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
The men’s cross-country team finished seventh at the Paul Short Invitational on Saturday. said. “The first part of the season is [dedicated to] pace building, but now our workouts will be getting faster and more intense.” With six meets still ahead, including those that are the most important of the season in regards to being on the national scale, the Bulldogs will be seeing many of these teams again soon. That in mind, the goal is to beat the teams that beat them earlier in the season — such as Harvard, who defeated
the Elis at their season-opening duel meet. “In the end,” Dooney said, “it’s that Yale jersey you are wearing that you are working so hard for.” On Saturday, Oct. 12, both the men’s and women’s squads will be competing in the New England Championships at Boston’s Franklin Park. Contact RHYDIAN GLASS at rhydian.glass@yale.edu .
Faierman ’15, 9–8. “The most impressive part of the weekend was how we competed,” Dawson said. “The team’s energy and focus were at high levels on both days and I think that really allowed us to have the success that we did.” Following the doubles on Sunday, Yale swept a slate of seven singles matches against Army. Lu, Dawson, Krumholz and Faierman raced to two-set victories, while Hagermoser, Brown, and Photos Photiades ’17 put away their opponents in three. “Alex [Hagermoser] continued to impress, but I think Krumholz and Faierman were stellar,” Dawson said. “They
played high in the lineup and performed very well. Both continue to stick to their game plans which will be key when the spring season hits.” The Elis are peaking at the right time, as they head back to New Haven to host the United States Tennis Association (USTA) / Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Northeast Regional Championships. “Everyone is playing better each weekend,” Krumholz said. “We will continue to work hard and peak for our next big tournament: regionals.” The regional championships will be hosted at Yale starting Oct. 17. Contact NIKOLAS LASKARIS at nikolas.laskaris@yale.ed u .
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“We are always setting high standards to reach for our goals…Running is an objective sport, and we know we have to be faster than [our competitors].” KEVIN DOONEY ’16
IVY LEAGUE HONORS FOOTBALL Several Elis were honored by the Ivy League this week. Defensive back Cole Champion ’16 was named co-Defensive Player of the Week, placekicker Kyle Cazzetta ’15 earned Special Teams honors and cornerback Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 was the Rookie of the Week.
HENOS MUSIE ’16 MIDFIELDER, MEN’S SOCCER The Swedish transfer was named coPlayer of the Week and Rookie of the Week in the Ivy League for his play this weekend. Musie scored on a free kick in the 90th minute on Saturday to push Yale past Harvard 2–1.
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‘Stangs out of options
Harvard bests Bulldogs
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No. 5 Melissa Gavin ’15 scored her seventh goal of the season on Saturday, curling a shot in off a corner. BY JAMES BADAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Saturday afternoon, the women’s soccer team had an opportunity to establish itself as a bona fide Ivy League championship contender against Harvard, the conference favorite. But the team could not overcome Harvard at Reese Stadium, falling by a score of 3–1. A chance to bounce back on Monday against Central Connecticut State was halted by inclement weather that resulted in the postponement of the match.
WOMEN’S SOCCER In the meeting of rivals on Saturday, Yale (5–4–0, 1–1–0 Ivy) spoiled any chance it had at its first 2–0 Ivy League start since 2009. Harvard (6–3–1, 2–0–0 Ivy) jumped out ahead in the first half with a pair of goals separated by less than two minutes.
The Bulldogs simply found themselves overmatched and outplayed. Head coach Rudy Meredith said he feels as though this Harvard team might be a special one. “That’s the best Harvard team I’ve seen in about six years,” Meredith said. “I think they can run the table. There are no weaknesses on their team.” In the 32nd minute, Crimson defender Marie Margolius squeaked a header inside the near post past goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 off a corner kick from midfielder Peyton Johnson. Harvard struck again in the 34th minute behind a strike from forward Karly Zlatic, who streaked down the middle of the field before finding the back of the net. At halftime, Meredith elected to replace Ames with Elise Wilcox ’15, and also chose to move defender Meredith Speck ’15 up SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 13
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Cal Poly was averaging 278 rushing yards per game through its first four games, but Yale held the Mustangs to just 225 yards on the ground. BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Sports analysts often claim that offense wins games but defense wins championships, and last weekend the Bulldogs proved them right. Offense has often helped the Bulldogs win individual games in the past, but consistent defense has brought Yale back from a 2–8 record last year to a three-game winning streak to start the 2013 season. In Saturday’s matchup in San Luis
Obispo, Calif., the Bulldogs held the FCS No. 19 Cal Poly Mustangs to just 10 points. By contrast, in contests against San Diego and Portland State, the Mustangs racked up 38 points per game on offense. Cal Poly, which developed a reputation for secondhalf comebacks earlier in the season, was shut out by the Eli defense in the third and fourth quarters. “Defending the triple option is all about discipline[d] defense and pursuit to the football,” captain Beau Palin ’14 said in a message to the News.
Tennis slams foes BY NIKOLAS LASKARIS STAFF REPORTER Following an inauspicious start to the fall season at the Princeton-Farnsworth Invitational, the men’s tennis team looked to build momentum through the remaining tournaments of the fall season. After finishing match play at the West Point Fall Quad this Sunday, the Elis have reason to be pleased with their progress.
After a strong showing at the Iona Meet of Champions and a weekend of rest and recovery, the men’s cross-country team continued to prove its strength and capabilities Saturday at the Paul Short Invitational, hosted by Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.
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The Men’s Tennis team swept Army 7–0 in singles matches at the West Point Fall Quad on Sunday. our doubles. We all know that is the area where we need to keep improving.” The Elis did just that on Sunday, winning four of six doubles matches combined against Boston College and Army. Chase and Lu beat Michael McGinnis and Philip Nelson of Boston College, 8–5, Brown and Hagermoser took down another Eagles
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pair, Aiden McNulty and Jonathan Raude, 8–3 and the Elis took two of three from Army in the afternoon. The Elis almost made it five of six on the day for doubles, but the Eagles team of Kyle Childree and Matt Wagner edged Krumholz and Daniel SEE MEN’S TENNIS PAGE 13
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Five Elis hit personal bests BY RHYDIAN GLASS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
MEN’S TENNIS Alex Hagermoser ’17, Tyler Lu ’17 and Zach Krumholz ’15 went undefeated in singles, Jason Brown ’16, Patrick Chase ’14 and captain Kyle Dawson ’14 did not drop a match in the doubles bracket, and the Bulldogs cruised to a 24–7 aggregate record over the weekend at the West Point Fall Quad tournament, hosted by Army. Yale opened the weekend with singles and doubles matches again St. Bonaventure University, sweeping the singles slate and taking three of four doubles matches from the Bona Wolves. Following their matchup with St. Bonaventure, the Bulldogs faced a formidable Boston College squad in singles play. Hagermoser and Krumholz were sharp in knocking off Michael McGinnis and Aiden McNulty, while Lu defeated Phil Nelson of the Eagles 6–2, 6–4. “We went about preparing for this weekend just as we have in the past,” Dawson said. “That being said, a major goal heading into the weekend was to improve
The cornerstone of the Mustang offense was the triple option: a running play in which the quarterback has the choice of running the ball, handing it off to the fullback or pitching the ball to the halfback. The essence of the triple option is that when the quarterback starts the play, he reads the defensive end and if he feels pressure from the outside, hands it off to the fullback. If the defensive end instead goes to the inside, the QB keeps the ball
Ten Bulldogs ran in the “gold” race, competing against 47 other schools including Ivy rivals Harvard, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth and Cornell The Bulldogs finished seventh overall, placing behind only Indiana, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Harvard, Iowa State and La Salle, respectively. “We continue getting better week to week,” Kevin Dooney ’16 said. “In our workouts we are building up and prepping for the big teams. We are always setting high standards to reach for our goals … Running is an objective sport, and we know we have to be faster than [our competitors].”
Yale also faced USTFCCA top 20 nationally ranked Georgetown, Indiana and Iona. Five Bulldogs set personal records in this race. This included top five Yale finishers Dooney, who lead the Bulldogs in 29th overall with a time of 24:38, John McGowan ’15 in 38th in 24:44 and Duncan Tomlin ’16, who placed 64th in 25:01. Outside Yale’s top five, but also setting personal bests, James Randon ’17 placed 71st in 25:07, and Andre Ivankovic ’17 recorded a time of 25:21 for 92nd. Filling out the Bulldogs’ top five were Alex Connor in 57th with a time of 24:55 and Isa Qasim in 69th at 25:06. After making a considerable improvement from a 19th place finish in 2011 to seventh in 2012, the Bulldogs entered the Paul Short Invitational this year looking to hold or exceed their position from last season. They nearly did just that: the squad equaled its seventh place finish from last year, just two points shy of its total of SEE MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY PAGE 13
THE NUMBER OF POINTS THAT THE FOOTBALL TEAM RECEIVED IN THE MOST RECENT FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES COACHES’ POLL. The Bulldogs received the 31st-most votes in the FCS. Harvard (31 points) is the only other team from the Ivy League to receive votes.